9/11, anthrax, the shoe bomber, the DC sniper.....

[scheming daemons]

...but according to Giuliani, "we had no domestic terror attacks under George Bush".


I named 4.


Maybe in Giulianiville... 4 and 0 are the same number.

[NJmaverick]

1. Nice list!

[Sanity Claws]

2. Also there were two different waves of anthrax attacks

not just one.

[niceypoo]

3. Several domestic attacks took place under Bush in addition to 9-11

2001 Anthrax attacks. A March 2004 State Department report on "Significant Terrorist Incidents, 1961-2003" quotes then-Attorney General John Ashcroft saying of the letters containing anthrax mailed to various targets: "When people send anthrax through the mail to hurt people and invoke terror, it's a terrorist act." Five people were killed as a result of those letters in the autumn of 2001.

2001 shoe bomber attempted attack. In June 2008, then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff described Reid's December 2001 attempt "to blow up a trans-Atlantic plane with a shoe bomb" as an attempt to "carry out terrorist operations for Al-Qaeda."

2002 attack against El Al ticket counter at LAX. In July 2002, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet opened fire at an El Al Airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport killing two people and wounding four others before being shot dead. A 2004 Justice Department report stated that Hadayet's case had been "officially designated as an act of international terrorism."

2002 DC-area sniper. The state of Virginia indicted Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad -- along with his accomplice, a minor at the time -- on terrorism charges for one of the murders he committed during a three-week shooting spree across Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Muhammad was convicted, sentenced to death, and subsequently executed for the crime.

2006 UNC SUV attack. In March 2006, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill graduate Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove an SUV into an area of campus, striking nine pedestrians. According to reports, Taheri-azar said he acted because he wanted to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world." Taheri-azar also reportedly stated in a letter: "I was aiming to follow in the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohammad Atta, one of the 9/11/01 hijackers, who obtained a doctorate degree."

[Ian David]

4. See also

12. Don't forget the Anthrax attacks, Beltway Snipers, Ed & Elaine Brown... Oh, let me go google shit...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7421403&mesg_id=7421476

[nykym]

5. I went to the source to find out

about terror attacks since 9/11 here's the list form the experts (LOL). 20 count 'em 20.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335500,00.html

[liberal N proud]

6. They would never call the DC sniper a terrorist

Even though he inflicted terror, the right would not call him a terrorist because he was an American.

[gateley]

15. But wasn't he Black? That must have posed a conundrum for them... nt

[liberal N proud]

16. I get it - Black = muslim

I have never figured out how that equated with the fundies calling Obama a muslim. Was it because he is black?

Considering the right is primarily a bible belt club, the bible bangers of the group should know that there are a very large number of black churches through out the land that are indeed Christian.

But they were just doing as they were told by the talking heads.

[mzmolly]

18. Malvo said they were on a jihadi mission. There were two "terrorists" involved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks

[butterfly77]

20. That was the point..

throughout the campaign and it was hyped up even more when Sarah Palin came on the scene.

[mzmolly]

17. I disagree.

I think the R/W would not only call him a terrorist but blame ACORN. ;)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks

:shrug:

"While imprisoned, Malvo wrote a number of erratic diatribes about what he termed "jihad" against the United States.<19> "I have been accused on my mission. Allah knows I'm gonna suffer now", he wrote.<19> Because his rants and drawings featured not only such figures as Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, but also characters from the film series The Matrix, these musings were dismissed as immaterial.<19> Some investigators reportedly said they had all but eliminated terrorist ties or political ideologies as a motive.<20><21><22> Nonetheless, in at least one of the ensuing murder trials, a Virginia court found Muhammad guilty of killing "pursuant to the direction or order" of terrorism.<23>

At the 2006 trial of Muhammad, Malvo testified that the aim of the killing spree was to kidnap children for the purpose of extorting money from the government and to "set up a camp to train children how to terrorize cities",<24> with the ultimate goal being to "shut things down" across the United States.<25>"

[Renew Deal]

7. I wouldn't call the Shoe Bomber "domestic terrorism"

And it's debatable whether the DC sniper was terrorism. That said, using terrorism as a political tool is outrageous.

[valerief]

8. He can't think straight without his wig and his pearls. nt

[City Lights]

11. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[Bragi]

9. I fear this logic plays into the Repugs hands

The more we continue to personally blame Bush for every act of terrorism during his administration, the more credibility we give the right when they blame every new attack (and yes folks, there will be new attacks) on Obama.

[damonm]

12. Wrong on a couple of counts...

The rethugs are saying "there were no domestic attacks under Bush"; the OP refutes this with these stubborn things called facts.
No one has blamed Shrub for them - merely saying they happened on his watch.

[DrToast]

10. The LAX shooter

Another one.

[mzmolly]

13. "9/11, anthrax, the shoe bomber, the DC sniper....."

Absolutely right!

[mzmolly]

23. Curiously WIKI has no mention of the date the shoe bomber attempted his attack?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid_%28shoe_bomber%29

Also no mention of who was President at the time. Someone with a WIKI account care to adjust the record? ;) Thanks in advance.

[mzmolly]

14. Adding the right wing terrorist who shot people in church

pews.

[Gregorian]

19. Conservatism is not reality based.

Even imaginary numbers in mathematics are more real than the conservative logic.

They only have distortion on their side. That, and force.

[Blue Owl]

21. what kind of bizarro world

do these Bu$h-apologist douchebags live in?

[bigwillq]

22. It's amazing what one says

when they're no longer relevant.