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Op donderdag 11 september 2025 18:34 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:[..]
Een lijstje van dodelijkste domestic terrorisme in de VS zijn praktisch allemaal rechts-extremisten en islamisten. Niet dat het verder een wedstrijdje is, maar dat misschien dat er wat in je bubbel ontbreekt over hoe dat zit in de VS.
Oklahoma City Bombing (1995)
• Motive: Anti-government extremism (revenge for Waco & Ruby Ridge)
• Perpetrators: Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols
• Deaths: 168
• Injured: 680
Orlando Nightclub Shooting (Pulse, 2016)
• Motive: Islamist-inspired extremism (pledged allegiance to ISIS)
• Perpetrator: Omar Mateen
• Deaths: 49
• Injured: 53
El Paso Walmart Shooting (2019)
• Motive: White supremacist, anti-immigrant ideology
• Perpetrator: Patrick Crusius
• Deaths: 23
• Injured: 23
San Bernardino Attack (2015)
• Motive: Islamist-inspired extremism (pledged loyalty to ISIS)
• Perpetrators: Syed Rizwan Farook & Tashfeen Malik
• Deaths: 14
• Injured: 22
Fort Hood Shooting (2009)
• Motive: Islamist-inspired (linked to Anwar al-Awlaki, anti-U.S. military views)
• Perpetrator: Nidal Hasan
• Deaths: 13
• Injured: 30
Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting (2018)
• Motive: Antisemitism, white supremacist conspiracy theories
• Perpetrator: Robert Bowers
• Deaths: 11
• Injured: 7
Buffalo Supermarket Shooting (2022)
• Motive: White supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory
• Perpetrator: Payton Gendron
• Deaths: 10
• Injured: 3
Charleston Church Shooting (2015)
• Motive: White supremacist, hoped to spark a race war
• Perpetrator: Dylann Roof
• Deaths: 9
• Injured: 1
Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting (2012)
• Motive: White supremacist/neo-Nazi beliefs
• Perpetrator: Wade Michael Page
• Deaths: 6
• Injured: 4
Dallas Police Ambush (2016)
• Motive: Black separatist/anti-police extremism, anger over police shootings
• Perpetrator: Micah Johnson
• Deaths: 5 police officers
• Injured: 9
Overland Park Jewish Center Shooting (2014)
• Motive: Neo-Nazi, antisemitism
• Perpetrator: Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.
• Deaths: 3
• Injured: 1
Baton Rouge Police Shooting (2016)
• Motive: Anti-police extremism, aligned with sovereign citizen rhetoric
• Perpetrator: Gavin Eugene Long
• Deaths: 3
• Injured: 3
Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
• Motive: Islamist-inspired jihadist ideology
• Perpetrators: Tamerlan & Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
• Deaths: 3
• Injured: 264
Knoxville Unitarian Church Shooting (2008)
• Motive: Right-wing extremism, hatred of liberals & Democrats
• Perpetrator: Jim David Adkisson
• Deaths: 2
• Injured: 7
Tallahassee Yoga Studio Shooting (2018)
• Motive: Misogynist/incel ideology
• Perpetrator: Scott Beierle
• Deaths: 2
• Injured: 1
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Islamic extremism • September 11, 2001
• New York City: Hijackers fly two commercial jets into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and 2,606 more when the towers collapse. Over 6,000 are injured.
• Arlington County, Virginia: 5 hijackers crash a Boeing 757-223 into the Pentagon, killing 64 aboard and 125 on the ground.
• Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania: Passengers attempt to retake control of United Flight 93; hijackers crash it, killing all 44 aboard.
• June 1, 2009: Little Rock recruiting office shooting – Soldier killed inside recruiting center.
• November 5, 2009: Fort Hood shooting – 13 unarmed soldiers killed.
• April 15, 2013: Boston Marathon bombing – 3 killed, several lose limbs.
• September 25, 2014: Vaughan Foods beheading incident – Woman beheaded.
• July 16, 2015: Chattanooga shootings – 5 soldiers killed at naval center.
• November 4, 2015: University of California, Merced stabbing attack.
• December 2, 2015: San Bernardino attack – 14 killed at Christmas party.
• January 7, 2016: Shooting of Jesse Hartnett – Police officer ambushed, attacker pledged allegiance to ISIS.
• February 11, 2016: Ohio restaurant machete attack.
• June 12, 2016: Orlando nightclub shooting – 49 killed, 58 injured (largest U.S. mass shooting at the time).
• November 28, 2016: Ohio State University attack – Car ramming and knife attack, 11 injured.
• October 31, 2017: New York City truck attack – 8 killed, 12 injured.
• December 6, 2019: Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting – 3 killed, 8 wounded.
• May 21, 2020: NAS Corpus Christi attack – Terrorism-related, one officer shot (saved by vest).
• January 1, 2025: New Orleans truck attack – 14 killed, 57 injured.
Left-wing and anti-government extremism • September 6, 1901: Assassination of President William McKinley by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
• November 24, 1917: Milwaukee police station bombing – 9 officers and 1 civilian killed.
• April–June 1919: Galleanist anarchist bombings targeting politicians, officials, businessmen, journalist, and church.
• September 16, 1920: Wall Street bombing – 30 killed immediately, 10 later died, 143 injured.
• 1969–1977: Weather Underground commits dozens of bombings.
• August 7, 1969: Marine Midland Building bombing – 20 injured.
• September 18, 1969: Federal Building bombing, NYC.
• October 7, 1969: Armed Forces Induction Center bombing, NYC.
• November 12, 1969: Manhattan Criminal Court bombing – 5 radicals arrested.
• 1971–1975: New World Liberation Front conducts nearly 50 bombings in San Francisco Bay Area.
• March 1, 1971: Weather Underground bombs U.S. Capitol.
• January 2–4, 1973: Bombings at Navy and Army recruiting centers in Portland, OR.
• June 13, 1974: Gulf Tower bombing, Pittsburgh (no injuries).
• May 31, 1975 – 1978: George Jackson Brigade bombings.
• January 26, 1980: Firebombing of Vietnamese journalist’s home and car.
• November 7, 1983: U.S. Senate bombing by Armed Resistance Unit.
• May–June 1984: Earl Steven Karr pipe-bomb spree (20+ bombs, 1 injury).
• May 19, 2012: Chicago raid – pipe bomb materials and weapons found, 3 men arrested.
• June 14, 2017: Congressional baseball shooting – 4 wounded, including Rep. Steve Scalise.
• July 4, 2025: Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club ambush on immigration detention facility – 1 officer wounded, 16 arrested.
Palestinian and anti-Israel militancy • June 5, 1968: Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan.
• March 4, 1973: Failed Black September car bombings in NYC during Golda Meir’s visit.
• June 1, 1973: Yosef Alon, Israeli Air Force attaché, shot dead in Maryland.
• July 1, 1973: Israeli diplomat shot dead in Maryland.
• February 26, 1993: First World Trade Center bombing – 6 killed, 1,000+ injured.
• 1994: Brooklyn Bridge shooting targeting Jewish schoolboys.
• February 23, 1997: Empire State Building shooting – 7 shot, attacker killed himself.
• January 5, 2002: Cessna 172 stolen and crashed into Tampa building – attacker inspired by 9/11.
• July 4, 2002: Los Angeles International Airport shooting – 2 killed, 4 injured.
• July 28, 2006: Seattle Jewish Federation shooting – 6 shot, 1 killed.
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