Terrorism: Major Cases Past and Present

Wall Street Bombing

Terrorism is nothing new in the United States; we’ve been investigating and helping to prevent terrorist attacks since the 1920s.

Below are some of our most significant cases; you can find more described in the various Terrorism publications covering from 1996 to 2005 posted on our Reports and Publications webpage.

More recent information on terrorist incidents can be found in the National Counterterrorism Center's Worldwide Incidents Tracking System. You can also search for terrorism incidents and significant dates in a database maintained by the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.

2009

• Liberty Six City Convictions
• Kassir Material Support Conviction
• Ali Al-Marri: Guilty plea | Podcast
  

2008

• Holy Land Foundation
• Hassan Abu-Jihaad
• Jose Padilla
• Torrance Plot: Story | Guilty Plea

2007

• Derrick Shareef
• Fort Dix Plot
• Hamid Hayat
• New York Airport Fuel Tanks Plot
• Nuradin Abdi

2006

• Operation Backfire
• International Drug-for-Weapons Program
• Sami al-Arian
• Operation ‘White Terror’
• Ahmed Omar Abu Ali
• Ali Asad Chandia and Mohammed Ajmal Khan
• Gale Nettles, Homegrown Terrorist
• Uzair Paracha

2004

• Abdurahman Alamoudi: Story | Press release
• Matthew Hale
• Operation Pop Concert

2003

• Earnest James Ujaama
• Iyman Faris
• Lackawanna Six
• Hamant Lakhani: Story | Press release
• Maher Hawash
• Portland Seven
• Virginia Jihad

2002

• Beltway Snipers: Part 1 | Part 2

2000-2001

• 9/11 Investigation
• Anthrax/Amerithrax
• Richard Reid
• USS Cole bombing

1990s

• 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
• East African Embassy Bombings
• Eric Rudolph: Part 1 | Part 2
• Millennium Plot/Ahmed Ressam
• Oklahoma City Bombing
• The Unabomber

1980s

• Fawaz Younis: The Yachted Terrorist
• Judge Vance Mail Bomb Murder
• Pan Am 103
• TWA Flight 847

1970s

• Symbionese Liberation Army
• Weather Underground

1920s

• Palmer Raids
• Wall Street Bombing

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