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Originally posted by bilmore
Raise and call:

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1990s
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 Failed New York City landmark bomb plot
1994 Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 86 and wounds 300. Eight days later the Israeli Embassy in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed. 20 are wounded. All three incidents are blamed on Hezbollah.
1994 Alas Chiricanas bombing
1994 A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack.
1995 Operation Bojinka is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment.
1995 Islamist terror bombings in France by a GIA unit (Khaled Kelkal being one of the operational leaders)
1995 Bombing of military compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1996 Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.
1996 Khobar Towers bombing
1997 Islamic terrorists attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 71 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers.
1997 A terrorist opened fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claimed this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine".
1998 U.S. embassy bombings
1999 Gunmen opened fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people injuring 25.
1999 Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the US-Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
1999 Indian Airlines Flight 814, which just took off from Kathmandu, Nepal for Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India is hijacked, one passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released

2000s
2000 The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks
2000 USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors
2001 September 11, 2001 attacks ("9/11") kill thousands in New York City, New York, and hundreds in Arlington, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
2001 Paris embassy terrorist attack plot foiled
2001 December 13, 2001 Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
2001 Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb
2002 Singapore embassies terrorist attack plot foiled
2002 Ghriba Synagogue Attack in Tunisia
2002 Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen
2002 Bali car bombing of holidaymakers
2002 Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines
2002 Moscow theatre siege
2002 Most deadly year of Palestinian terror campaign against Israel, including the Passover Massacre in which 30 people are killed - see Terrorism against Israel in 2002.
2002 Kenyan hotel bombing
2003 Chechen militants carry out several deadly suicide bombings across Russia and nearby provinces, killing more than 250 people.
2003 Riyadh Compound Bombings--bombings of United States expat housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160. Al-Qaeda blamed.
2003 Casablanca Attacks in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead. The attack involved 12 bombers and 5 targets. The targets were "Western and Jewish". Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.
2003 Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq kills 22 people including the top UN representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
2003 Istanbul Bombings: Within five days, truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey.
2004 Bomb on Moscow subway kills 41.
2004 Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500.
2004 Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160.
2004 March 9, 2004 attack of Istanbul restaurant
2004 Bombing of Spanish commuter trains kills 191 people and injures more than 1,400.
2004 21 April 2004 Basra bombs
2004 April 21 bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5.
2004 Islamic militants seize hostages at a compound housing foreign oil workers in Saudi Arabia; at least 22 are killed.
2004 Islamic terrorists explode two Russian airliners in flight killing 89 people.
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I've omitted all Israel-related events. I'd argue for their inclusion, but the list is long enough anyway.

Point is, our idiotic fundie movement can't hold a candle to the pros.

No limit terrorist poker? You would try to buy the pot Bilmore.