9/11-related Plots and Attacks Within The US
Thwarted attacks include:
- A similar al-Qaeda plan to crash airplanes into the US Bank Tower (aka Library Tower) in Los Angeles and in other buildings elsewhere in the US as part of a 'Second Wave' of aircraft hijackings by martyr (suicide) squads to be in the spring or summer of 2002
- The 2003 plot by Iyman Faris to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City
- The 2004 Financial buildings plot which targeted the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, DC, the New York Stock Exchange and other financial institutions
- The 2004 Columbus Shopping Mall Bombing Plot
- The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot which was to involve liquid explosives
- The 2006 Sears Tower plot
- The 2007 Fort Dix attack plot
- The 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot
- The 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
Successful attacks include:
- The October 2002 sniper attacks in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Ten people were killed and three others were critically wounded in those shootings.
- The June 1, 2009, Little Rock recruiting office shooting. One person was killed and another was wounded.
- The November 5, 2009, Fort Hood shooting in Texas. 13 people were killed and 30 others were wounded.
Read more about this topic: Aftermath Of The September 11 Attacks
Famous quotes containing the words plots and/or attacks:
“‘O opportunity! thy guilt is great,
‘Tis thou that execut’st the traitor’s treason;
Thou set’st the wolf where he the lamb may get;
Whoever plots the sin, thou point’st the season;
‘Tis thou that spurn’st at right, at law, at reason;
And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him,
Sits Sin to seize the souls that wander by him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)