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The worst terrorist attacks in US history 2:35
(CNN) - Several notable terrorist attacks have rocked American soil leaving hundreds of dead since the late 1970s.
Among these are several against the World Trade Center in New York, being that of September 11, 2001, the most sadly remembered and deadly in the country's history.
1978-1995 - Three people died and 23 others were injured after a series of mail bombings carried out by Ted Kaczynski. The "Unabomber," as he is also known, is serving eight life sentences for murder. He was not accused of terrorism, but the bombing series is considered a terrorist case.
Kaczynski, 68, was arrested in 1996, pleaded guilty in 1998 and is now serving his sentences in the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado. The FBI nicknamed it the "Unabomber", as an abbreviation of its initial objectives: universities and airlines.
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February 26, 1993 - A bomb exploded on the second underground level of the public parking lot of the Hotel Vista, under building 2 of the World Trade Center in New York. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured. Six suspects were convicted of participating in the attack. The seventh suspect, Abdul Rahman Yasin, is still free.
April 19, 1995 - A bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and injuring nearly 700. Timothy McVeigh was convicted on federal murder charges in 1997, and was executed in 2001 .
July 27, 1996 - A bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during half a concert during the Summer Olympics. One person died from the attack, another person suffered a heart attack and 111 others were injured. The bombing suspect was Eric Robert Rudolph is arrested in North Carolina in 2003, after being charged in 2000 for the Atlanta attack and other attacks, including one in an abortion clinic where one person died. Rudolph is serving four consecutive life sentences plus 120 years for the attacks.
September 11, 2001 - Nineteen members of al Qaeda hijack four US passenger planes. Two arrived at the Twin Towers in New York, one crashed in the Pentagon and another crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside after passengers attempted to snatch control of the plane to avoid an attack on the United States Capitol. On the World Trade Center site, 2,753 people were killed; 184 in the Pentagon; and 40 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. A total of 2,977 people were killed in these attacks, the deadliest in US history.
April 15, 2013 - Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring at least 264 more. A suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died in a meeting with the Police. His brother, the suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and accused of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction that resulted in the death of people and a charge of malicious destruction of property through an explosive device resulting in death. . He received the death penalty on June 25, 2015.
Tsarnaev is in the USP maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, where other criminals such as Ramzi Yousef, who planned the attack on the World Trade Center, are located in 1993; Zacarias Moussaoui, conspirator of the attacks of September 11, 2001; Ted Kaczynski and Richard Reid, the "shoe terrorist" who wanted to blow up a commercial flight with an explosive hidden in his shoes.
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July 16, 2015 - Mohammad Abdulazeez opened fire on a military recruitment center and a Navy reserve facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four US Marines and a Navy sailor. FBI director James Comey said later that Abdulazeez's actions were "motivated by the propaganda of foreign terrorist organizations," adding that it is difficult to determine which terrorist group might have inspired him.
December 2, 2015 - Married couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire at a Christmas party that took place at the Inner Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, and killed 14 people. Investigators believe the couple self-radicalized.
June 12, 2016 - Omar Mateen, a US-born man who had promised loyalty to ISIS, killed 49 people and wounded several people in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the second most deadly mass shooting in the recent US history UU., And the worst terrorist attack in the country since September 11.
August 12, 2017 - One person died and 19 were injured when a high-speed car crashes into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a demonstration of white nationalists, "Unite the Right", and other organizations of far right, to protest against the city's decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. James Alex Fields Jr., suspected of driving the vehicle, was charged with 30 charges, including a hate crime that resulted in death and bodily injury. He was also accused of violent interference on racial grounds with "activity protected by the federal government" of using public streets. On September 14, 2017, President Donald Trump enacted a "joint resolution of Congress condemning violence and domestic terrorist attack" that took place in Charlottesville.
October 31, 2017 - Eight people died and nearly a dozen were injured when a 29-year-old man in a rented truck drove down a bicycle path near the World Trade Center in New York. The suspect was identified as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov. Authorities found a note near the truck used in the incident, alleging that the attack was carried out on behalf of ISIS, a senior police official said.
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August 3, 2019 - Twenty-two people were killed in El Paso, Texas, after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in a case that was treated as domestic terrorism. Police said they found an anti-immigrant document that defends white nationalist and racist views, which they believe was written by suspect Patrick Crusius, 21. Crusius may face charges of hate crimes in addition to capital murder charges.
December 10, 2019 - Two armed people attacked a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey, killing three people inside the store. New Jersey attorney general Gurbir S. Grewal said later that the murders were being investigated as internal terrorism, "driven by beliefs both anti-Semitic and against the application of the law." Before committing the murders in the store, the attackers killed a police detective near a cemetery in Jersey City. The attackers, David N. Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, died in a confrontation with the police.
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