Terrorist Attacks In The U.S. Under Bush's 2nd Term (Bush Got Lucky Too)

[berni_mccoy]

The next time some jackass repuke exclaims to you that Obama's policies aren't keeping us safe and that he got lucky with this latest failed attempt in NY, give them this list.

From 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_2008
March 4: New York. A bomb goes off outside an empty military recruiting station in Times Square. (funny that incident didn't get the attention this latest one did, oh, and they never caught the guy)

April 25: San Diego. A pipe bomb exploded inside a Federal Express distribution facility in San Diego. The blast did little damage to the building a second pipe bomb was found the parking lot and was safely defused. No one was killed or injured in the blast.

July 27: Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting, Jim David Adkisson kills 2 people and injures 7 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

December 12: Woodburn, Oregon. Woodburn police Capt. Tom Tennant, and Oregon State Police bomb technician Bill Hakim were killed, and Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell was critically injured after a bomb exploded at the West Coast branch of Wells Fargo in Woodburn. Customer Service Manager Laurie Ann Perkett was taken, and later released from the hospital after being hit by shrapnel. The explosion happened just before 5:30 p.m. while Hakim and Tennant were trying to open the bomb, which Hakim felt confident was not a bomb. Officers were on the scene investigating a bomb threat called in to the bank at 10:19 a.m., when the explosion occurred. Joshua Turnidge and his father, Bruce Turnidge were charged with the murders.


From 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_2007
February 12: A teenage gunman kills five bystanders and wounds four more in a popular shopping center before being shot dead by police in the Trolley Square shooting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

October 26: A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police investigate the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.


From 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_2006
March 3: United States: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.

August 30: United States: An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.

December 22 : United States: Federal Agents disrupt Derrick Shareef’s attack on an Illinois shopping mall planned for December 22nd. His intent was to commit “violent jihad” just before Christmas.


From 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_2005
United States, October 1: Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma killing himself in the process.