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)
“Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies
are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.”
—Silius Italicus (26–101)