Terrorism
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Terrorism
Although some of the events discussed do not specifically involve terrorist activity within or against the U.S., their outcomes and effects on the U.S. warrant inclusion in this analysis. The specific milestone events covered in this report are:
Salad Bar Poisoning in The Dalles, Oregon
Bombing of Pam American Flight 103
Exxon Valdez Oil Spil
1990 to 1992
Operation Desert Storm and the Kuwait Oil Fires
World Trade Center Bombing
Sarin Gas Attack on Tokyo Subway
Bombing of the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City
Crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800
Bombing Incident at Atlanta Olympics
September 11 Terrorist Attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon
The attack on Kuwait by Iraq caused the United Nations Security Council to pass several resolutions to shut off Iraq from international trade. The Security Council called upon Hussein to remove his troops from Kuwait and to destroy his non-conventional weapons. Following the Gulf War, Iraq was forced to disclose its chemical and biological weapons programs, to admit that it had had acquired missiles with the intent of it to attack neighboring countries (in particular, Israel) with these weapons, and had tried to develop a nuclear bomb. In the cease fire of 1991, Saddam Hussein agreed unconditionally to give up his weapons of mass destruction. Much information about Iraqs weapons of mass destruction is in the public domain from UN reports and from Iraqi defectors. (See for example Issue Brief for Congress at