Incidents on American soil after the events in New York 14 years ago
October 2002
Over a period of three weeks, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and critically injured three others in Washington DC, Baltimore, and Virginia. The pair were also suspected of earlier shootings in Maryland, Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, and Washington state. While their motives remain a mystery, evidence presented at the trial showed Muhammad and Malvo were in possession of images related to jihad.
March 2006
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar injured six people when he drove an SUV into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill “to avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world”. He turned himself into police shortly after the attack. He pleaded guilty to nine counts of attempted first degree murder, and in 2008 was sentenced to 33 years in prison.
June 2009
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot and killed one soldier and injured another in a drive-by shooting at a military careers station in Little Rock, Arkansas. Muhammad, a convert to Islam, had visited Yemen for 16 months where he spent time in prison and became radicalised. He said he was part of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and was upset over the US killing Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2011 he pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
March 2006
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar injured six people when he drove an SUV into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill “to avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world”. He turned himself into police shortly after the attack. He pleaded guilty to nine counts of attempted first degree murder, and in 2008 was sentenced to 33 years in prison.
June 2009
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot and killed one soldier and injured another in a drive-by shooting at a military careers station in Little Rock, Arkansas. Muhammad, a convert to Islam, had visited Yemen for 16 months where he spent time in prison and became radicalised. He said he was part of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and was upset over the US killing Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2011 he pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
November 2009
Maj Nidal Malik Hasan of the US army opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 people and wounding at least 30. In 2013, Hasan was convicted by a military tribunal. He defended himself and took responsibility for the attack saying his motive was jihad, to fight “illegal and immoral aggression against Muslims”. The US government has not called the shooting a terrorist attack, characterising it as one of “workplace violence”. Hasan was sentenced to death.
April 2013
Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260. After the bombing, they shot and killed an MIT campus police officer while he was sitting in his squad car, before hijacking an SUV and fleeing to nearby Watertown, Massachusetts. A huge police chase ensued, resulting in a shootout during which several IED’s were thrown by the brothers.
Tamerlan was shot and killed at the scene. The younger Dzhokhar was later discovered inside a boat parked in a driveway less than three blocks away. He was taken into custody after another exchange of gunfire and arraigned on federal terrorism charges. A note written by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, on the boat where he was captured, said the bombings were in retaliation for US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan against Muslims. In 2015 he was found guilty on all 30 counts related to the bombing and shootout with police, and sentenced to death.
Read more:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/05/terrorist-attacks-by-islamists-in-the-us-since-911
