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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sebastian show" data-source="post: 13043325" data-attributes="member: 388298">ISLAMIC Terrorist AttacksISLAMIC Terrorist AttacksBombing of USS Cole<img src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/uss-cole-570x427.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Fatalities: 17; Injuries: 39 Terrorists usually pursue what are termed “soft targets”.  These are areas or property (including people) that offer little in the way of security or threat to the terrorist themselves.  It’s rare, therefore, that acts of terror are carried out on military targets.  Such, was the case, however, on October 12, 2000, when suicide bombers attacked the American warship, USS Cole.  The Cole was in port at Aden, Yemen to take on fuel.  Incidentally, this was the same port in which Al Qaeda attempted a suicide attack on the USS The Sullivans earlier in the year.  Without any warning to the contrary, security around the warship was light.  A small motorboat, laden with explosives, sped up to the anchored ship and exploded on the port side.  The small boat contained 400-700 pounds of explosives that caused a 40×40-foot rupture in the Cole’s hull.  The explosion occurred near the galley of the ship, where sailors were gathering to eat. Al Qaeda, in the ongoing efforts directed against America, claimed responsibility.  US Naval forces, as a result, increased port security measures, but the damage was already done.  Al Qaeda, according to intelligence reports, realized a significant rise in recruitment and financing as a result of this success against an American military target Truck Bombing of U.S. Embassies<img src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/embassy-truck-bombing-523x600.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Fatalities: 303; Injuries: 4,954Prior to 9/11, acts of terror against the U.S. centered largely on targets on foreign soil.  Such was the case with the 1998 bombings of the U. S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  Truck bombs, carrying up to 17 tons of high explosives, were detonated within minutes of each other at the site of each embassy.  While the intended targets were American property and personnel, the vast majority of the casualties were indigenous civilians.  Twelve Americans were killed, and both embassies were heavily damaged.  So-called collateral damage was widespread in the neighborhoods adjacent to the embassies, and several thousands of civilians were injured or killed.The attack was linked to an extremist group call The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ).  The group claimed it was retaliating for American involvement concerning the torture and extradition of four members of the EIJ.  Both Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri came to American attention as a result of the attack</blockquote>

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