Yeah sure:
December 15, 1981. The
Islamic Dawa Party's suicide
car bombing of the Iraqi
embassy in
Beirut, killing 27.
May 24, 1982. Car bomb attack on French Embassy in Beirut killing 12 and wounding 27. Islam Jihad is one of several groups taking responsibility. Anger over France's providing of arms to Iran's enemy
Iraq is thought to be the motivating factor.
April 18, 1983.
Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Detonated in a delivery van driven by a suicide bomber, carrying about 2000 pounds of explosives. The bomb killed 63 people, 17 of them Americans, including 9 CIA agents in Beirut for a meeting.
October 23, 1983.
MNF barracks bombing in Beirut. Two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut housing U.S. and French members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon, killing 241 American servicemen and 58 French paratroopers. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.
December 21, 1983. The MNF was targeted again by bombs on December 21, with a truck bomb killing a French soldier and 14 Lebanese outside a French military base and a bomb killing four at a Western bar.
December 12, 1983.
1983 Kuwait bombings. Suicide bomber on truck attacked US embassy. Other car bombs exploded at French embassy, Kuwait's main oil refinery, water desalinization plant, the control tower at the
Kuwait International Airport, the Electricity Control Center and the living quarters for American employees of the
Raytheon Corporation. Only 6 Arab citizens killed + 1 suicide bomber.
January 18, 1984.
Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University in Beirut (AUB),
assassinated near his office. Had replaced AUB president
David S. Dodge, who was kidnapped six months earlier. Dodge "spent the next three months in the infamous Evin jail, where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard had executed hundreds of the Shah's followers in the wake of Khomeini's Islamic Revolution. Whenever he was interrogated, he was asked for information about the missing Iranians." Dodge was released on the first anniversary of his abduction, reportedly because Syrian President Assad was "enraged by Iran's role in the abduction". Dodge "was taken out of his cell, given back the clothes he had worn on the day of his abduction, and driven back to the airport by an official of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
March 16, 1984.
William Francis Buckley, the Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy, was kidnapped by the
Islamist group
Hezbollah. The Islamic Jihad Organization later released to a Beirut newspaper a photograph purporting to depict his corpse. Press reports stated that Buckley had been transferred to Iran, where he was tortured and killed.
September 20, 1984.
American Embassy Annex in Christian East Beirut is bombed by suicide van bomber with 3000 pounds of explosives. 14 were killed, including 2 Americans, dozens are injured.
December 3, 1984, a
Kuwait Airways flight from
Kuwait City to
Karachi Pakistan was hijacked by four
Lebanese Shi'a hijackers and diverted to
Tehran. The hijackers demand was the release of the Kuwait 17, which was not met. During the course of the standoff women, children and
Muslims were released and two American officials from the
U.S. Agency for International Development,
Charles Hegna and
William Stanford, were shot dead and dumped on the tarmac.
June 14, 1985,
TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by
Lebanese Shia Islamists en route from
Athens to
Rome. The aircraft with its passengers and crew endured a three-day intercontinental ordeal during which one passenger, a
U.S. Navy diver, was murdered.
April 12, 1985.
1985 El Descanso bombing. The IJO claims a bombing of a Spanish restaurant aimed at American military personnel. The bomb killed 18 Spaniards and injured 82 others, including 11 American servicemen.
May 25, 1985.
Attempted assassination of Kuwaiti ruler (Emir) Sheikh
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, by suicide car bomber attack of the Emir's motorcade. Two bodyguards and a passerby are killed. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility and again demands the terrorists release.
February 10, 1986, the Islamic Jihad Organization released a photograph that claimed to show the body of French sociologist Michel Seurat, who had been kidnapped earlier. On 5 March 1986 Islamic Jihad claimed it had executed Seurat. His fellow hostages revealed on their release that Seurat had died of hepatitis. His body was found in October 2005.
February 17, 1988
William R. Higgins was captured and taken hostage by Hezbollah while serving on a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon. A year and a half after his capture, a videotape was released by his captors showing his body hanging by the neck. On December 23, 1991, his body was recovered from a Beirut street where it had been dumped.
March 17, 1992.
1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires. A suicide truck bomber smashes into the front of the Israeli Embassy
destroying the embassy, a Catholic church, and a nearby school building. 29 are killed and 242 wounded, mostly Argentinian civilians, many of them children.
July 18, 1994.
AMIA bombing. 85 killed, the majority of them were Jewish (although many non-Jewish people were also killed). More than 300 others were wounded.
June 25, 1996. Khobar Towers bombing. individuals identified as members of Hezbollah Al-Hejaz (Party of God in the Hijaz) by the United States, exploded a sewage truck packed with explosives adjacent to Building #131 in the housing complex. This eight-story building housed United States Air Force personnel from the 4404th Wing (Provisional), primarily from a deployed rescue squadron and deployed fighter squadron. In all, 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi were killed and 372 of many nationalities were wounded.
Iran and Hezbollah were first to introduce suicide terror.
