Previous anti-US attacks in Middle East

. November 13th, 1995: A car bomb exploded in Riyadh in front of a Saudi national guard building where US advisers were working…

. November 13th, 1995: A car bomb exploded in Riyadh in front of a Saudi national guard building where US advisers were working. Five US and two Indian nationals were killed and about 60 others wounded.

. December 21st, 1988: A Pan Am Boeing 747 was blown up above the Scottish, village of Lockerbie, killing a all 259 aboard, including 189 Americans, as well as 11 people on the ground. Washington believes Libya was responsible for the attack.

. November 14th, 1987: Seven people were killed and 37 others wounded when explosives hidden in a chocolate box exploded at the American University, Hospital in Beirut.

. April 2nd, 1986: Four Americans were wounded when a bomb exploded under a seat on a TWA Boeing 727 flight heading from Rome to Athens. Nine other passengers were wounded. A Lebanese national is suspected of carrying out the attack.

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. December 27th, 1985: Attackers fired and hurled grenades at the TWA and El Al ticket counters at Rome's international airport, killing 16 people, including four Americans, and wounding 80 others. At about the same time, a similar attack at Vienna airport killed four people, including two members of the Palestinian terrorist group Abu Nidal. 47 people were wounded.

. September 20th, 1984: A car bomb blew up an annex of the US embassy in Beirut, killing 16 people and wounding 96.

The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.

. December 12th, 1983: Shi'ite extremists set off car bombs in front of the US and French embassies in Kuwait City, killing five people and wounding 86 others.

. October 23rd, 1983: A truck bomb exploded inside the US Marine compound in Beirut in a suicide attack that killed 241 US troops.