Terrorism
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In 1972, terrorists attacked the Olympics in Munich, Germany. In 1974, Carlos the Jackal, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), threw a hand grenade into a drugstore in Paris. In 1980, 6 Islamic terrorists seized the Iranian embassy in London. In April 1983, Hezbollah suicide bomber with the support of Iran and Libya crashed a pickup truck full of explosives into the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. In 1993, a car bomb exploded at 5:12 PM on the second level of parking basement in the World Trade Center, killed seven and injured hundreds. The bombers also left behind a device designed to release cyanide gas to kill emergency response crews and area residents, but the fire destroyed the cyanide. In 1996, The Taliban militia conquered the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan. On September 11th, 2001, the largest attack that most know of took place when four American Airlines flights were hijacked, two of which were crashed into the World Trade Centers I and II in New York City, another of which crashed into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the other crashed into land in southwestern Pennsylvania...