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25 Years After 9/11: A Look Back at Decades of Terror Attacks on America

The retrospective traces 9/11’s 2,996 deaths and earlier attacks that killed Americans at home and abroad, from Beirut to Oklahoma City.

  • As the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, The Center Square revisits the history of terrorism against Americans at home and abroad.
  • The 1980s saw a rise in Islamic-inspired terror targeting Americans overseas, beginning with the April 18, 1983, bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed 63 people.
  • In 1993, a car bomb at the World Trade Center injured 1,000, while the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing killed 168 people, marking a deadly decade of domestic terror.
  • Before the September 11 attacks, al-Qaeda targeted U.S. embassies in East Africa on Aug. 7, 1998, and the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, on Oct. 12, 2000, killing 17 American sailors.
  • The September 11, 2001, attacks killed 2,996 people, fundamentally reshaping America's political, security, and cultural landscape more than two decades after the tragic events occurred.
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It is the day that changes everything forever: on September 11, 2001, the US will be the target of several devastating terrorist attacks carried out by the Islamist network Al-Qaeda of Osama bin Laden. Almost 3000 people die. How could tragedy come about?

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25 years after 9/11: A look back at decades of terror attacks on America

(The Center Square) – The U.S. was no stranger to terror attacks before Sept. 11, 2001, both at home and abroad, but none shaped America and the world quite like the attacks on 9/11, which occurred 25 years ago Friday.

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