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1992 The Bijlmerramp
(Dutch for 'Bijlmer disaster') was an airplane
crash. On October 4, 1992,
a Boeing
747 crashed into a block of flats in the Bijlmer
neighbourhood (part of Zuidoost) of Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.
A total of 43 people were killed, including 5 on board the plane, and
others were injured.
1995 Project Bojinka was exposed in
January 1995 when Philippine police arrested and tortured Abdul Hakim
Murad in a Manila apartment where bomb-making equipment was found. He
told them of plans to plant timed explosive devices on 11 US airliners
simultaneously, and to crash-land an airplane into CIA headquarters in
Langley, Virginia. The preparations were so far advanced that Murad
detailed the specific flights targeted, most of them trans-Pacific
flights that would explode over the ocean. Murad had attended flying
schools in the United States, earned a commercial pilot’s license, and
told investigators he was to fly the plane into CIA headquarters.
Another Islamic fundamentalist was to fly a second plane into the
Pentagon. (Source: Washington Post, September 23, “Borderless
Network of Terror, Bin Laden Followers Reach Across Globe,” by Doug
Struck, Howard Schneider, Karl Vick and Peter Baker)
1996 FBI learns that al-Queda
members are taking jumbo jet flying lessons.
9/11/2001 al-Queda crashes jumbo
jets into the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center.
9/12/2001 FBI says no one
could have foreseen a terrorist using a jumbo jet to crash into a
building.
Cliff Lazar 5/10/03 |