#

Date

Type

Dead

Injured

Location(s)

Details

Perpetrator

6

4

1

9

7

0

s

Bombing

5

69

+

 
New York City
/ 
Chicago
, 
Illinois

The most active perpetrators of terrorism in New York City were Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), a Puerto Rican separatist group, responsible for 40 NYC attacks in this decade. The 
Jewish Defense League
 (JDL), which engaged in attacks against targets it perceived to be anti-Semitic, launched

2

7 attacks during this period, none deadly. Both the Independent Armed Revolutionary Commandos (CRIA), another Puerto Rican separatist group, and 
Omega 7
, an anti-Castro Cuban organization, were also each responsible for 16 attacks during this period.
[51]

Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional

65

April

19

70

Riot

Unknown

 
Stanford, California

At 
Stanford University
, over a period of several nights, bands of student radicals systematically set fires, broke windows and threw rocks.
[47]

Left-wing student radicals

66

May

197

0

Firebombing

 
Fresno, California

In reaction to the 
U.S. invasion of Cambodia
, 
Kent State shootings
, and 
Jackson State killings
, a 
Fresno State College
 computer center is destroyed by a firebomb. While reaction to these three events was massive, most were peaceful.
[47]

67

August

24

, 1970

3

 
Madison, Wisconsin

Sterling Hall bombing
: Sterling Hall at the 
University of Wisconsin–Madison
 is bombed in protest of the Army Mathematics Research Center and the 
Vietnam War
, killing one. Bombers Karleton Armstrong, 
Dwight Armstrong
, 
David Fine
, and 
Leo Burt
 claimed the death of physicist 
Robert Fassnacht
 was unintentional but acknowledged that they knew the building was occupied when they planted the bomb.

Karleton Armstrong
, 
Dwight Armstrong
, 
David Fine
, and 
Leo Burt

6

8

November 21, 1970

 
Portland, Oregon

Bombing of the City Hall of 
Portland, Oregon
 in an attempt to destroy the state’s bronze 
Liberty Bell
 replica. The late night explosion destroyed the display foyer, blew out the building doors, damaged the council hall, and blew out windows more than a block away. The night janitor was injured in the blast. The crime remains unsolved, though a number of local anti-war and radical leftist groups of the era remain the primary suspects.

Left-wing extremists (suspected)

 
New York City
, 
New York

The 
Jewish Defense League
 was linked to a bomb explosion outside of 
Aeroflot’s
 New York City office in protest of the treatment of 
Soviet Jews
.

Jewish Defense League

19

71

The 
Jewish Defense League
 was linked to a detonation outside of 
Soviet
 cultural offices in Washington, D.C. and rifle fire into the Soviet mission to the United Nations.

March 1, 1971

 
Washington, D.C.

The radical leftist group 
Weatherman
 exploded a bomb in the 
United States Capitol
 to protest the U.S. invasion of 
Laos
.

Weatherman

72

June 1, 19

73

Shooting

 
Chevy Chase, Maryland

Yosef Alon
, the Israeli Air Force attache in Washington, D.C., was shot and killed outside his home in 
Chevy Chase, Maryland
. The Palestinian militant group 
Black September
 was suspected, though the case remains unsolved.
[52]

Black September
 (suspected)

June 24, 1973

Arson

32

15

 
New Orleans, Louisiana

The UpStairs Lounge arson attack occurred on June 24, 1973 at a 
gay bar
 called the UpStairs (or Up Stairs) Lounge located on the second floor of the three-story building at

141

Chartres Street in the 
French Quarter
 of 
New Orleans
, 
Louisiana
, in the United States.
[

53

]
 Thirty-two people died as a result of fire or smoke inhalation. The official cause is still listed as “undetermined origin”.
[54]
 The most likely suspect, a man named Roger Nunez who had been ejected from the bar earlier in the day, was never charged and took his own life in November 19

74

.
[55]

[56]

[57]
 No evidence has ever been found that the arson was motivated by hatred or overt homophobia.
[57]

Roger Dale Nunez (suspected; never charged)

June

13

, 1974

 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The 29th floor of the 
Gulf Tower
 in 
Pittsburgh
, Pennsylvania, was bombed with dynamite at 9:41 pm resulting in no injuries. The radical leftist group 
Weatherman
 took credit, but no suspects have ever been identified.
[58]

75

Summer 1974

Bombings

36

 
Los Angeles, California

“Alphabet Bomber” Muharem Kurbegovic bombed the 
Pan Am
 Terminal at 
Los Angeles International Airport
, killing three and injuring 36. He also firebombed the houses of a judge and two police commissioners as well as one of the commissioner’s cars. He burned down two 
Marina Del Rey
 apartment buildings and threatened Los Angeles with a gas attack. His bomb defused at the 
Greyhound Bus
 station was the most powerful the 
LAPD
 bomb squad had handled up until that time. His personal vendetta against a judge and the commissioners grew into demands for an end to immigration and naturalization laws, as well as any laws about sex.
[59]

[60]

Muharem Kurbegovic

76

January 24, 1975

50+

A bomb was exploded in the Fraunces Tavern of New York City, killing four people and injuring more than 50 others. The Puerto Rico nationalist group FALN, the Armed Forces of Puerto Rican National Liberation, which had other bomb incidents in New York in the 1970s, claimed responsibility. No one was ever prosecuted for the bombing.

FALN

77

December 29, 1975

11

LaGuardia Airport Bombing
: killed 11 and injured 75. The bombing remains unsolved.
[61]

78

September 11, 1976

Aircraft hijacking, bombing

 Airspace

Croatian terrorists hijacked a 
TWA airliner
 and diverted it to 
Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador
, and then Paris, demanding a manifesto be printed. One police officer was killed and three injured during an attempt to defuse a bomb that contained their communiques in a New York City train station locker.
[62]
 Zvonko Bušić who served 32 years in prison for the attack, was released and returned to 
Croatia
 in July

200

8. In September

201

3 Bušić 
shot himself
 and was given a hero’s funeral by the Croatian government.
[63]

Zvonko Bušić
 and co-conspirators

79

September 21, 1976

Assassination

, bombing

Orlando Letelier
, a former member of the 
Chilean
 government, is 
killed by a car bomb
 in Washington, D.C. along with his assistant Ronni Moffitt. The killing was carried out by members of the Chilean Intelligence Agency, 
DINA
.

DINA

80

March 9–11, 1977

Hijacking

149

hostages

1977 Washington, D.C. attack and hostage taking

: Hanafi Muslim gunmen seize three buildings in Washington, DC and hold hostages for three days, in revenge for the 
1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre
 carried out by a 
Nation of Islam
 faction.

Hamaas Abdul Khaalis
 and allies

Location

81

June 3,

198

0

Bombing of the 

Statue of Liberty

: At 7:30 pm, a time delayed explosive device detonates in the Statue of Liberty’s Story Room. Detonated after business hours, the bomb did not injure anyone, but caused $18,000 in damage, destroying many of the exhibits. The room was sealed off and left unrepaired until the Statue of Liberty restoration project that began years later. FBI investigators believed the perpetrators were Croatians seeking media coverage of the living conditions of Croats in Yugoslavia, though no arrests were made.

Croatian nationalists
 (suspected)

82

July 22, 1980

 
Bethesda, Maryland

Ali Akbar Tabatabai
, an 
Iranian
 exile and critic of 
Ayatollah Khomeni
, is shot in his 
Bethesda, Maryland
 home. 
Dawud Salahuddin
, an American Muslim convert, was apparently paid by Iranians to kill Tabatabai.
[64]

Dawud Salahuddin

Iran

83

March 21, 1981

Lynching
, 
Cross Burning

Mobile, Alabama

In response to a black man not being found guilty of murdering a white man, three members of the KKK burned a cross on the courthouse lawn. They then picked a black person at random, 
Michael Donald
, who they abducted, beat, strangled and killed; they left his body hanging from a tree. It is one of the few times white perpetrators have been tried and found guilty of a lynching. It is sometimes called the “Last Lynching in America”, although it was not the last random racial murder by a white supremacist in the United States, and despite the fact that Michael Donald was not abducted from a jail or courthouse, as was the case with historical lynchings.

Ku Klux Klan

84

December 7, 1981

Kidnapping attempt

James W. von Brunn
, who would go on to commit the 
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting
 in 
Washington, D.C.
 in 2009, served 6 years in prison for attempting to kidnap members of the 
Federal Reserve
 at their headquarters in 1981. He testified his motive was to raise awareness of alleged “treacherous and unconstitutional” acts by the Federal Reserve.
[65]

James W. von Brunn

85

January

28

, 1982

Assassination, shooting

 
Los Angeles
, 
California

Kemal Arıkan
, the Turkish Consul-General in Los Angeles, was killed by members of the 
Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide
.

Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide

86

May 4, 1982

 
Somerville, Massachusetts

Assassination of Orhan Gündüz
: Turkish Honorary Consul Orhan Gündüz is assassinated in his car in 
Somerville, Massachusetts
 by the 
Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide
.

87

November 7, 1983

U.S. Senate bombing
: The Armed Resistance Unit, a militant leftist group, bombed the 
United States Capitol
 in response to the U.S. 
invasion of Grenada
.
[66]

May 19th Communist Organization

88

June 18, 1984

 
Denver, Colorado

Alan Berg
, Jewish-American lawyer and talk show host, is shot and killed in the driveway of his home on Capitol Hill, Denver, Colorado, by members of a 
neo-Nazi
 and 
white separatist
 group called 
The Order
 led by terrorist 
David Lane
 (the creator of the slogan ”
Fourteen Words
“). Berg had stridently argued with a member of the group on the show earlier who was convicted in his murder.

The Order

August – October 1984

Food poisoning

751

The Dalles, Oregon

1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
: In what is believed to be the first incident of 
bioterrorism
 in the United States, the 
Rajneesh movement
 spreads 
salmonella
 in salad bars at

10

restaurants in 
The Dalles, Oregon
, to influence a local election. The plan backfired, as suspicious residents came out in droves to prevent the election of Rajneeshee candidates. Health officials say that 751 people were sickened and more than 40 hospitalized. All but one of the establishments attacked went out of business. Investigators believed that similar attacks had previously been carried out in 
Salem
, 
Portland
 and other cities in Oregon.
[67]

Rajneesh movement

90

October 11, 1985

 
Santa Ana, California

Alex Odeh
, a prominent 
Arab-American
, was killed by a bomb in his office in 
Santa Ana, California
. The case is unsolved, but it is thought the 
Jewish Defense League
 was responsible.

Jewish Defense League
 (suspected)

91

December 11, 1985

 
Sacramento, California

Computer rental store owner, 
Hugh Scrutton
, was the first fatality of the 
Unabomber
‘s 
neo-luddite
 campaign.

Ted Kaczynski
 (Unabomber)

92

March 1, 1989

1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press
: The 
Riverdale Press
, a weekly newspaper in 
the Bronx
, New York, was firebombed one week after publishing an editorial defending author 
Salman Rushdie
‘s right to publish 
The Satanic Verses
, which questioned the founding story of Islam.
[68]

[69]

93

November 5,

199

0

Assassination of Meir Kahane
: 
El Sayyid Nosair
, a member of an Islamist terror cell led by Sheik 
Omar Abdul-Rahman
, disguises himself as an 
Orthodox Jew
 in order to assassinate politician and Rabbi 
Meir Kahane
 leader of the 
anti-Arab
 and 
anti-Islamic
 
Kahanism
 movement and its political party in Israel Kach and Kahane Chai by shooting Kahane at point-blank range. Nosair is acquitted of Kahane’s murder, but convicted of other crimes. In prison, Nosair admits to Kahane’s murder.

El Sayyid Nosair

94

January 25, 1993

 
Langley, Virginia

CIA Shooting

: Pakistani Mir Qazi (a/k/a Mir Aimal Kansi), outraged by U.S. policy toward Palestinians, opens fire on cars stopped at a traffic signal outside CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He kills 2 and injures 3, then escapes to 
Pakistan
. He is subsequently apprehended, confesses, is tried and executed.

Mir Qazi

95

February 26, 1993

Truck bombing

104

2

World Trade Center bombing
: 
Ramzi Yousef
, a member of 
Al Qaeda
, masterminds the truck-bombing of the World Trade Center. The bomb is meant to destabilize the foundation of the building, causing it to collapse and destroy surrounding buildings, leading to mass casualties. It failed to do so, but the detonation killed six people and injured more than 1,000.
[70]

[71]

[72]

[73]

Al Qaeda

96

March 10, 1993

 
Pensacola, Florida

Murder

of David Gunn
: 
Army of God
 member

Michael F. Griffin

ambushes and shoots gynecologist 
David Gunn
 three times in the back outside the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services clinic. Before murdering Gunn, Griffin shouts, “Don’t kill any more babies!”

March 1, 1994

Brooklyn Bridge Shooting
: 
Lebanese
-born 
Rashid Baz
 ambushes and shoots up a van full of Jewish students returning from a visit with Rabbi 
Menachem M. Schneerson
. One student dies, 3 are injured.

Rashid Baz

July 29, 1994

Army of God
 member Rev. 
Paul Jennings Hill
 murders gynecologist 
John Britton
 and Britton’s bodyguard James Barrett with a shotgun at close range, outside the 
Ladies Center
 clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Hill admits to the murder, is tried, convicted, and executed by lethal injection.

Paul Jennings Hill

December 10, 1994

 
North Caldwell, New Jersey

Advertising executive Thomas J. Mosser is killed by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber (
Ted Kaczynski
). Mosser is the second person murdered by Kaczynski.

100

December 30, 1994

 
Brookline, Massachusetts

Anti-abortion activist 
John C. Salvi III
 shoots and kills 2 employees and injures 5 others in a rampage attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, Massachusetts. Salvi escapes and drives to Norfolk, Virginia, where 
Army of God (United States)
 spokesman Rev. 
Donald Spitz
 resides.

John C. Salvi III

101

December 31, 1994

 
Norfolk, Virginia

Salvi attacks the Planned Parenthood clinic in Norfolk, Virginia. A security guard returns fire and Salvi flees. Salvi is apprehended shortly after, and has in his possession 
Army of God (United States)
 spokesman 
Donald Spitz
‘s name and unlisted telephone number.

102

April 19, 1995

168

680+

 
Oklahoma City
, 
Oklahoma

Oklahoma City bombing
: 
Timothy McVeigh
 and 
Terry Nichols
 park a truck bomb in front of the 
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
 in downtown 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
 which explodes, killing 168 people, including 19 children. McVeigh and 
Terry Nichols
 are convicted in the bombing, motivated by their outrage over the FBI’s handling of the 
Waco Siege
.

Timothy McVeigh
 and 
Terry Nichols

103

April 24, 1995

Timber industry lobbyist 
Gilbert P. Murray
, is killed in the third and final mailbomb attack by the 
Unabomber
.

July 27, 1996

111

 
Atlanta, Georgia

Centennial Olympic Park bombing
: 
Army of God
 member and adherent of the anti-Semitic and racist 
Christian Identity
 movement 
Eric Robert Rudolph
 places a three pipe bombs in a backpack, which he leaves in busy Centennial Olympic Park. The bomb is discovered by security guard 
Richard Jewell
 who raises an alert. One person is killed and 111 others are wounded in the explosion. Rudolph escapes and becomes a fugitive for 10 years. Rudolph’s bomb is intended to force the cancellation of the 
1996 Summer Olympics
 in 
Atlanta, Georgia
 due to his outrage over legal abortion.

Eric Robert Rudolph

105

January 16, 1997

 
Sandy Springs, Georgia

Army of God
 member 
Eric Robert Rudolph
 bombs a 
women’s health clinic
 in Sandy Springs, Georgia. There are two bombs; the first meant to kill people inside the clinic, the second bomb placed in the parking lot and time-delayed to kill first-responders. No one was harmed by the first bomb, but six people were injured by the second.
[74]

106

February 21, 1997

Army of God
 member 
Eric Robert Rudolph
 bombs the Otherside Lounge, a 
gay bar
 in Atlanta, Georgia. There are two bombs; the first left on the outdoor patio, the second bomb left in the parking lot, time-delayed to kill first-responders. The initial explosion injures five, the second bomb is discovered and disposed of by the police bomb squad. Rudolph’s motive for this bombing was his outrage over the existence of 
homosexuality
.
[75]

107

February

23

, 1997

1 (+1)

1997 Empire State Building shooting
: Palestinian 

Ali Hassan Abu Kamal

108

July 31, 1997

Police raid, planned suicide bombings

1997 Brooklyn bombing plot
: Two 
Palestinian
 
illegal immigrants
 are shot and arrested in a police raid that found two 
pipe bombs
 in a 
Brooklyn
 apartment. The bombs had been planned for suicide attacks in the 
New York City Subway
 the same day, and 
Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer
 was sentenced to life for the plot.
[77]

[78]

[79]

Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer

109

January 29, 1998

 
Birmingham, Alabama

Army of God (United States)
 member 
Eric Robert Rudolph
 bombs a women’s clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 1 and critically injuring another.

110

June 7, 1998

Jasper, Texas

Three white men drag 
James Byrd Jr.
 to his death behind their truck and leave his body in front of an African-American church.

Shawn Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, John King

June 18, 1999

Brothers

Matthew and Tyler Williams

, inspired by the 
Christian Identity
 movement and anti-Semitic literature, set fires to 
Congregation B’nai Israel
, Congregation Beth Shalom, and Knesset Israel Torah Center in 
Sacramento, California
. The fires cause more than $1 million in damage.
[80]

[81]

112

July 1, 1999

 
Happy Valley, California

Murders of Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder
: The Williams brothers murder gay couple Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder in Happy Valley, California.

113

July 2, 1999

The Williams brothers set fire to the Country Club Medical Building in 
Sacramento County, California
, which houses an abortion clinic.
[82]

114

July 2–4, 1999:

Shootings

2 (+1)

/ 
Illinois
 and 
Indiana

Neo-Nazi 
World Church of the Creator/Creativity
 member 
Benjamin Nathaniel Smith
 goes on a two-state shooting spree in 
Indiana
 and 
Illinois
. Starting on July 2, Smith wounds nine Orthodox Jews in drive-by shootings in Chicago. Smith then shoots and kills former college basketball coach 
Ricky Byrdsong
, an African-American man, in Skokie, Illinois. On July 3, Smith travels to Decatur, where he wounds an African-American minister. On July 4, he kills Won-Joon Yoon, a 26-year-old Korean graduate student, in Bloomington, Indiana. Along his route, he shoots at and misses another nine people. He kills himself in a chase with police on July 4.

Benjamin Nathaniel Smith

115

August 10, 1999

Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
: 
Neo-Nazi
 
Aryan Nations
 member Buford O. Furrow Jr., armed with an Uzi-type sub-machine gun, walks into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, California and begins spraying bullets, wounding five. Furrow then flees, later killing Filipino-American postal worker Joseph Ileto for being a minority and a federal employee.
[83]
 Furrow surrendered himself to the FBI, and pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.

Buford O. Furrow Jr (
Aryan Nations
)

116

December 31, 1999

 
East Lansing, Michigan

Four members of the 
Earth Liberation Front
 start a fire in 
Michigan State University’s
 Agriculture Hall causing $1 million in damage.
[84]

[85]

Earth Liberation Front

1

17

October 10, 2000

2000 New York terror attack
: Three young men of Arab descent hurled crude 
Molotov cocktails
 at a synagogue in 
The Bronx
, New York to “strike a blow in the Middle East conflict between Israel and Palestine”.
[68]

Mazin Assi and co-conspirators

118

October 13, 2000

 
Syracuse, New York

Firebombing of 
Temple Beth El (Syracuse)

Ramsi Uthman

119

May 21, 2001

 
Seattle, Washington

University of Washington firebombing incident
: The Center for Urban Horticulture at the 
University of Washington
 is 
burned
 by the 
Earth Liberation Front
. The replacement building costs $7 million ($10,107,000 today). Earth Liberation Front members pled guilty.
[86]

[87]

120

September 11, 2001

Aircraft hijackings, suicide attacks

2,977 (+19)

6,000+

 
New York City
, 
New York

 
Arlington County, Virginia

 
Shanksville, Pennsylvania

September 11 attacks
: Aircraft hijackings and suicide attacks carried out against the United States by the al-Qaeda Network, killing 2,507 
civilians
, 343 
firefighters
, 72 
law enforcement officers
, 55 
military personnel
, and 19 perpetrators. Four domestic commercial airliners were 
hijacked
 simultaneously while flying within the 
Northeastern United States
; two flew directly into the Twin Towers of the 
World Trade Center
 in 
New York City
, the third into 
the Pentagon
 in 
Arlington County, Virginia
, and the fourth (thanks to the revolt by the passengers and crew members) into a field near 
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
, during a failed attempt to destroy its intended target in 
Washington, D.C.
, either the 
White House
 or the 
United States Capitol
. The Twin Towers collapsed, and the Pentagon received extensive damage in the western side of the building. 
Building 7
 of the World Trade Center was also destroyed in the attack, though there were no casualties.

al-Qaeda

121

December 12, 2001

Attempted Bombing

Culver City
, 
California

2001 JDL plot in California
: 
Jewish Defense League
 leader Irv Rubin and member 
Earl Krugel
 were charged with planning a series of bomb attacks against the 
Muslim Public Affairs Council
 in Los Angeles, the King Fahd Mosque in 
Culver City
, and the 
San Clemente
 office of Arab-American Congressman 
Darrell Issa
, in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
[88]

122

September 18 – November, 2001

Bioterrorism

 United States

2001 anthrax attacks
: Letters tainted with 
anthrax
 killed five across the U.S., with politicians and media officials as the apparent targets. On July 31, 2008, 
Bruce E. Ivins
, a top 
biodefense
 researcher, committed suicide.
[89]
 On August 6, 2008, the FBI concluded that Ivins was solely responsible for the attacks, and suggested that Ivins wanted to bolster support for a vaccine he helped create and that he targeted two lawmakers because they were Catholics who held pro-choice views.
[90]
 However, subsequent evaluations have found that the FBI’s investigation failed to provide any direct evidence linking Ivins to the mailings.
[91]

Unknown, 
Bruce Edward Ivins
 named as perpetrator by FBI

123

December 22, 2001

 
Miami, Florida

2001 failed shoe bomb attempt
: An al-Qaeda operative attempted to detonate a bomb concealed in his shoes while on board a plane from Paris to Miami. He failed to detonate it and was apprehended by passengers and crew.
[92]

Richard Reid

124

May 8, 2002

Dirty Bomb

 
Chicago
, 
Illinois

Abdullah al-Muhajir was arrested for planning to use a radiological bomb.
[93]

Abdullah al-Muhajir

125

July 4, 2002

2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting
: 

Hesham Mohamed Hadayet

126

February 16, 2002 – October 24, 2002

 
Montgomery County, Maryland
 
Beltway, Virginia
 
Washington, D.C.

Beltway sniper attacks
: During three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo shot and killed 10 people and critically injured three others in the cities of 
Washington D.C.
, 
Baltimore, Maryland
 and the state of 
Virginia
. The pair were also suspected of earlier shootings in 
Maryland
, 
Alabama
, 
Arizona
, 
Georgia
, 
Louisiana
, and 
Washington
. At the 2006 trial of Muhammad, Malvo testified that the aim of the killing spree was to kidnap children for the purpose of extorting money from the government, even though no one was kidnapped.
[96]

John Allen Muhammad
 and 
Lee Boyd Malvo

127

March 19, 2003

Sabotage

Iyman Faris

was arrested for plotting to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge.
[97]

128

August 2003

 
West Virginia

2003 West Virginia sniper
: Three people were killed in a series of sniper shootings in 
West Virginia
.

Shawn Lester

was arrested and convicted for the shootings in 2011.

129

December 8, 2003

Shootout

0 (+1)

 
Abbeville, South Carolina

2003 Abbeville right-of-way standoff
: Two police officers were killed in a shootout with three “sovereign citizens”.

Arthur, Rita and Steven Bixby

130

March 3, 2006

Vehicle assault

 
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

UNC SUV attack
: 

Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar

131

March 25, 2006

6 (+1)

Capitol Hill massacre
:

Kyle Aaron Huff

entered a rave afterparty in the southeast part of 
Seattle
‘s 
Capitol Hill
 neighborhood and opened fire, killing six and wounding two. He then killed himself as he was being confronted by police on the front porch of 2112 E. Republican Street.
[99]

132

July 28, 2006

Shooting, hostage taking

Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
: Naveed Afzal Haq, an 
American citizen of Pakistani descent
, killed one woman and shoots five others at the Jewish Federation building in Seattle. During the shooting, Haq told a 911 dispatcher that he was angry with American foreign policy in the Middle East.
[100]

Naveed Afzal Haq

133

October 26, 2007

A pair of improvised explosive devices were 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 were investigating the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.
[101]

134

March 3, 2008

 
Woodinville, Washington

Street of Dreams arson fires
: Four luxury woodland houses near 
Woodinville, Washington
 were torched, leaving behind a message crediting the 
Earth Liberation Front
.
[102]

135

March 6, 2008

Times Square bombing
: A homemade bomb damaged an Armed Forces Recruiting Office in Times Square.
[103]
 In June 2013, The FBI and New York City police offered a $65,000 reward for information in the case and revealed that ammunition used for the bomb is the same as is used in the Iraq and Afghanistan war zones.
[104]
 On April 15, 2015, the F.B.I increased the award to $115,000 and said they have 
persons of interest

[105]

136

May 4, 2008

 
San Diego, California

Multiple pipe bombs exploded at 1:40 am at the 
Edward J. Schwartz United States Courthouse
 in San Diego causing “considerable damage” to the entrance and lobby and sending shrapnel two blocks away, but causing no injuries. The FBI is investigating links between this attack and an April 25 explosion at the 
FedEx
 building also in San Diego.
[106]

Rachel Lynn Carlock and Danny Love Sr.

137

July 27, 2008

 
Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting
: 58-year-old Jim David Adkisson opened fire on a Universalist church because he wanted to kill 
Democrats
 and 
Liberals
.

Jim Adkisson

138

August 24, 2008

Barack Obama assassination plot in Denver
: Three men (

Cousins Tharin Gartrell, Shawn Adolf and Nathan Johnson

) attempted to assassinate then 
Democratic 2008 presidential candidate
 
Barack Obama
 at the 
Democratic National Convention
 in Denver, Colorado but were later arrested with narcotics and weapons.

139

October 22, 2008

 
Brownsville, Tennessee

Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee
: Two 
neo-Nazi
 
white power skinheads
 and members of the Supreme White Alliance (SWA) Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart attempted to assassinate 
Barack Obama
 followed by a killing spree of 88 (a reference to the Nazi slogan 
Heil Hitler
) African-Americans of which 14 (a reference to 
The Fourteen Words
) were to be 
beheaded
 many of whom were young students at an unidentified school and rob a gun store for additional weapons and commit home robberies. The two would be arrested later with several weapons in possession.

Paul Schlesselman
 and 
Daniel Cowart

140

April 8, 2009

Cyberattack

, sabotage

According to a report in the 
Wall Street Journal
, intruders left 
malware
 in power grids, water, and sewage systems that could be activated at a later date. While the attacks which have occurred over a period of time seem to have originated in 
China
 and 
Russia
, it is unknown if they are state-sponsored
[107]
 or errors in the computer code.
[108]

[109]

May 25, 2009

17-year-old

Kyle Shaw

set off a crude explosive device at a 
Starbucks
 at 
East 92nd Street
 on the 
Upper East Side
 of 
Manhattan
, shattering windows and destroying a bench at the coffee shop. There were no injuries. The attack was a “bizarre tribute” of the movie 
Fight Club
, in an attempt to emulate “Project Mayhem”, a series of assaults on corporate America portrayed in the film. Shaw took a 
plea agreement
 and was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in November 2010.
[110]

[111]

142

May 31, 2009

 
Wichita, Kansas

Assassination of George Tiller
:

Scott Roeder

shoots and kills Dr. George Tiller in a 
Wichita, Kansas
 church. Roeder, an 
anti-abortion extremist
 who believes in 
justifiable homicide
 of abortion providers, was arrested soon afterward. Roeder was convicted of the crime and sentenced to 50 years in prison in 2010. Tiller, who performed late-term abortions, had long been a target of anti-abortion extremists; his clinic was 
firebombed
 in 1986 and Tiller was shot and wounded five times in 1993 in a shooting attack by 
Shelley Shannon
.
[112]

[113]

143

June 1, 2009

 
Little Rock, Arkansas

Arkansas recruiting office shooting
: Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot and killed one military recruiter and seriously wounded another at a 
Little Rock, Arkansas
 Army/Navy Career Center in an act of 
Islamic extremism
. Muhammad, a convert to Islam, had visited Yemen for sixteen months where he spent time in prison and became radicalized. Muhammad, said he was part of 
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
 and was upset over the U.S. Army’s murder of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, like the 
Kandahar massacre
 and the 
Abu Ghraib prison scandal
.
[114]

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad

144

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting
: Elderly 
neo-Nazi
, 
white supremacist
 and 
Holocaust denier
 James von Brunn, who had previously attempted to kidnap Federal Reserve employees in 1981, shot and killed a black police officer at the 
United States Holocaust Museum
 before being wounded by other officers.

James Wenneker von Brunn

145

November 5, 2009

32 (+1)

 
Killeen, Texas

2009 Fort Hood shooting
: Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army Major serving as a Psychiatrist, opens fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 29. On August 23, 2013 Hasan was convicted by a Military tribunal. Hasan acted as his own attorney and took responsibility for the attack saying his motive was jihad to fight “illegal and immoral aggression against Muslims”.
[115]
 On August 28, Hasan was sentenced to death.
[116]

Nidal Malik Hasan

146

December 25, 2009

 
Detroit
, 
Michigan

Northwest Airlines Flight 253
: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 using plastic explosives sewn into his underwear while en route from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

147

February 18, 2010

Suicide attack

 
Austin, Texas

Austin suicide attack
: Andrew Joseph Stack III, flying his single engine plane, flew into the Austin, Texas IRS building; killing himself and one IRS employee and injuring 13 others. Stack left a suicide note online, comparing the IRS to Big Brother from the novel 
1984
.

Joe Stack

148

March 4, 2010

2010 Pentagon shooting
:

John Patrick Bedell

shot and wounded two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the 
Pentagon station
 of the 
Washington Metro
 
rapid transit
 system in 
Arlington County, Virginia
.

May 1, 2010

 
New York City

2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
:

Faisal Shahzad

ignited an explosive in Times Square. The bomb failed to go off, and he was later arrested on a flight leaving for Dubai.
[117]
 Sentenced to life in prison on October 5, 2010 after pleading guilty to a 10-count indictment in June, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
[118]

150

May 20, 2010

2 (+2)

 
West Memphis, Arkansas

2010 West Memphis police shootings
: Two West Memphis police officers were killed by a father and son who supported the 
sovereign citizen movement
 during a traffic stop. The suspects were later killed by other officers.

Jerry and Joseph Kane

151

September 1, 2010

Hostage taking

 
Silver Spring, Maryland

Discovery Communications headquarters hostage crisis
:

James J. Lee

, armed with two 
starter pistols
 and an explosive device, takes three people hostage in the lobby of the 
Discovery Communications
 headquarters in 
Silver Spring, Maryland
 before being killed by police. After nearly four hours, Lee was shot dead by police and all the hostages were freed without injury. Lee had earlier posted a manifesto railing against population growth and immigration.
[119]

[120]

152

October 2010

 
Virginia

Farooque Ahmed

153

October 29, 2010

Cargo planes bomb plot
: Two plastic explosive bombs were discovered on two cargo planes destined for two synagogues in Chicago. They were discovered at East Midlands Airport and Dubai International Airport while en route.
[122]

al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

154

October 17, 2010 – November 2, 2010

Bombing and Shooting

Northern Virginia military shootings
: A series of shootings took place at the five military buildings including the National Museum of the Marine Corps and the Pentagon. The perpetrator also attempted to bomb and damage 
Arlington National Cemetery
.
[123]

Yonathan Melaku

155

November 25, 2010

2010 Portland car bomb plot
:

Mohamed Osman Mohamud

attempted to detonate what he thought was a car bomb at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
[124]

156

January 17, 2011

 
Spokane, Washington

Spokane bombing attempt
: A radio-controlled-
shaped
 
pipe bomb
 was found and defused in 
Spokane, Washington
 along the route of that year’s 
Martin Luther King Jr.
 memorial march.

On March 9, 2011, the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation
 (FBI) arrested

Kevin William Harpham

, 36, of 
Addy, Washington
. On December 20, 2011 he was sentenced to 32 years in prison for the attempted bombing.
[125]

157

May 25, 2011

 
Bowling Green, Kentucky

Two Iraqi immigrants were arrested for sending money and weapons to Iraq while residing in Bowling Green, Kentucky, as well as participating in attacks while in Iraq and plotting to kill American soldiers on their return.
[126]

Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan

158

December 6, 2011

 
Fort Stewart
, 
Georgia

Killing of Michael Roark and Tiffany York

: 19-year-old Michael Roark and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Tiffany York members of the terrorist organization FEAR were found by two fishermen near a rural road in southeastern Georgia. It was believed that Roark was killed for his part in giving information to 
Fort Bliss
 authorities in 
El Paso
.[
citation needed
]

FEAR

159

August 5, 2012

 
Oak Creek, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting
: Six people were killed and three others were injured, including a police officer who was tending to victims at a 
Sikh temple
 in 
Oak Creek, Wisconsin
. The gunman, 40-year-old

Wade Michael Page

a 
neo-Nazi
 
white power skinhead
 and member of the Hammerskin Nation/Hammerskins, killed himself after being shot by police.
[127]
 The shooting is being treated by authorities as an act of 
domestic terrorism
.
[128]

[129]
 While a motive has not been clearly defined, Page had been active in 
white supremacist
 groups.
[127]

160

August 15, 2012

Floyd Lee Corkins II

161

February 3–12, 2013

4 (+1)

 
California

Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt
: Former 
LAPD
 officer Chris Dorner goes on a killing spree targeting police officers and their families throughout Southern California. Dorner was eventually killed in a shootout and fire in 
Big Bear Lake, California
. Dorner stated he committed the shootings in response to police brutality.

Chris Dorner

162

April 15, 2013

Bombings, shootout

280 (+1)

 
Boston
, 
Massachusetts

Boston Marathon bombing
: Two bombs detonated within seconds of each other near the finish line of the 
Boston Marathon
, killing 3 and injuring more than

180

people.
[138]

[139]
 On the evening of April 18 in 
Cambridge, Massachusetts
, an 
MIT
 campus police officer was shot and killed while sitting in his squad car. Two suspects then carjacked an 
SUV
 and fled to nearby 
Watertown, Massachusetts
, a suburb of Boston. A massive police chase ensued, resulting in a shootout during which several 
IED
‘s were thrown by the suspects. A Boston transit police officer was critically wounded and suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a Russian immigrant of 
Chechen
 ethnicity, was killed. The second suspect, Tsarnaev’s younger brother 
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
, escaped. A ”
Shelter in place
” order was given for Boston, Watertown, and surrounding areas while house-to-house searches were conducted, but the suspect remained at large. Shortly after the search was called off Tsarnaev was discovered hiding inside a boat parked near the scene of the shootout. He was taken into custody after another exchange of gunfire, treated for injuries received during his pursuit and capture, and arraigned on federal terrorism charges.
[140]

[141]

[142]

[143]
 Preliminary questioning indicated the Tsarnaev brothers had no ties to terrorist organizations.
[144]
 A note written by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the boat where he was captured said the bombings were retaliation for US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan against Muslims.
[145]
 On April 8, 2015, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts related to the bombing and shootout with police.
[146]
 On May 15, 2015, Tsarnaev was sentenced to death.
[147]

Dzhokhar
 and Tamerlan Tsarnaev

163

April 16, 2013

April 2013 ricin letters
: Two letters, sent to 
Mississippi
 
Republican
 
Senator
 
Roger Wicker
 and president 
Barack Obama
, were tested positive for ricin. Each letter contained the message “I am KC and I approve this message”. On April 27, 2013, a man named Everett Dutschke was arrested.

Evertt Dutschke

Metcalf sniper attack
: Multiple gunmen damage electrical transformers at 
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
‘s Metcalf Transmission 
Substation
 in 
Coyote, California
. The attack caused $15 million in damage but no perpetrators were ever identified.

164

November 1, 2013

2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting
:

Paul Anthony Ciancia

entered the checkpoint at the 
Los Angeles International Airport
 and fired his rifle, killing one 
Transportation Security Administration
 officer and injuring six others. The motivation behind the attack was Paul’s inspiration of the anti-government agenda, such as believing in the 
New World Order conspiracy theory
, and stating that he “wanted to kill TSA” and described them as “pigs”.

165

December 13, 2013

Bombing attempt

2013 Wichita bombing attempt
: 58-year-old avionics technician, identified as

Terry Lee Loewen

, was arrested on December 13, 2013, for attempting a suicide bombing at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, where he was employed. Loewen became radicalized after reading extremist Islamic material on the Internet. He was arrested while driving a vehicle into the airport with what he believed to be an active explosive device. Later sentenced to 20 years in Federal prison.
[148]

166

April 13, 2014

 
Overland Park, Kansas

Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting
: A pair of shootings committed by a lone gunman occurred at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, in 
Overland Park, Kansas
. A total of three people died in the shootings. One suspect, identified as 
Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.
, a former member of the Carolina Knights of the 
Ku Klux Klan
 and its offshoot the White Patriot Party and a 
neo-Nazi
 
Odinist
 
pagan
, was arrested and charged with capital murder, first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and aggravated assault.

Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

167

April 27, 2014

Ali Muhammad Brown shot and killed a man who was walking home from a store. This killing was part of a series of terrorism related killings in the states of Washington and New Jersey.
[149]

Ali Muhammad Brown

June 1, 2014

Ali Muhammad Brown shot and killed two men outside a Seattle gay nightclub. These killings were part of a series of terrorism related killings in the states of Washington and New Jersey.
[149]

169

June 8, 2014

3 (+2)

 
Las Vegas
, 
Nevada

2014 Las Vegas shootings
: Two police officers and one civilian died in a shooting spree in the 
Las Vegas Valley
 committed by a couple, identified as

Jerad and Amanda Miller

, who espoused anti-government views and were reportedly inspired by the outcome of the 
Bundy standoff
. The Millers both died during a gunfight with responding police; Jerad Miller was fatally shot by officers, while Amanda Miller committed suicide after being wounded.

170

June 25, 2014

 
West Orange, New Jersey

Ali Muhammad Brown shot and killed a man who was driving home from college while stopped at a traffic light. This killing was part of a series of terrorism related killings in the states of Washington and New Jersey.
[149]

171

September 12, 2014

 
Blooming Grove, Pennsylvania

2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack
: Two 
Pennsylvania State Policeman
 are shot in a sniper attack nearby a police barracks, one dies. 
Eric Frein
 is arrested for the shooting after a 48-day manhunt.

Eric Frein

172

September 24, 2014

Stabbing

 
Moore, Oklahoma

Vaughan Foods beheading incident
:

Alton Alexander Nolen

aka

“Jah’Keem Yisrael”

attacked two employees at Vaughan Foods, beheading one and stabbing the other before being shot and injured by Vaughan Foods’ Chief Operating Officer.[
citation needed
]

173

October 23, 2014

Melee attack

2014 New York City hatchet attack
:

Zale Thompson

injured two 
New York City Police Department
 (NYPD) officers, once critically at a 
Queens, New York City
 shopping district by striking them with a 
hatchet
. Four officers were posing for a photograph when Thompson charged them. The police opened fire killing Thompson and injuring a civilian. Thompson, who converted to Islam 2 years before the attack, posted “anti-government, anti-Western, anti-white” messages online.
[150]

174

December 2014

“The Guardians of Peace” linked by the United States to North Korea launched a cyber attack against 
SONY
 pictures. Embarrassing private emails were published and the organization threatened attacks against theaters that showed 
The Interview
, a satire which depicted the assassination of North Korean leader 
Kim Jong Un
. Following the refusal of theater chains to show the movie, SONY Pictures withdrew release of the movie, a decision that was criticized by President Obama and others. Obama said the USA will respond. North Korea denied responsibility for the attack and proposed a joint investigation with the U.S.
[151]

[152]

[153]

“The Guardians of Peace”
North Korea
 (suspected)

175

May 3, 2015

0 (+2)

 
Garland, Texas

Curtis Culwell Center attack
: Two gunmen opened fire outside the 
Curtis Culwell Center
 during an art exhibit hosted by an anti-Muslim group called the American Freedom Defense Initiative in 
Garland, Texas
. The center was hosting a contest for cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Both gunmen were killed by police. A Garland Independent School District (ISD) police officer was injured by a shot to the ankle but survived. The attackers, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were motivated by the 
Charlie Hebdo shooting
 in France and the 
2015 Copenhagen shooting
 in Denmark earlier in the year. The 
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
 claimed responsibility for the attack through a Twitter post.
[154]

Elton Simpson, Nadir Hamid Soofi, and Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem

176

June 2, 2015

 
Boston, Massachusetts

Police investigating a planned Islamic terrorist attack on police confronted Usaama Rahim to question him. He pulled out a military knife, and was eventually shot and killed by police as he approached them with the knife. David Wright was later arrested and charged with planning a terrorist attack with Usaama Rahim.
[155]

Usaama Rahim and David Wright

177

June 17, 2015

 
Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston church shooting
: Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, opened fire on 
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church
 in Charleston, South Carolina killing 9 African-Americans including South Carolina state senator Clementa Pinckney.

Dylann Roof

178

July 16, 2015

5 (+1)

 
Chattanooga, Tennessee

2015 Chattanooga shootings
: 

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez

179

November 4, 2015

 
Merced, California

University of California, Merced stabbing attack
:

Faisal Mohammad

, armed with a hunting knife, stabbed four people at the University of California before being shot and killed by police.
[157]

November 27, 2015

 
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting
: Robert L. Dear, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, opened fire at a Colorado Springs 
Planned Parenthood
 clinic. Two civilians and one police officer were killed, while four civilians and five police officers were wounded before the suspect surrendered. Dear told police “No more baby parts” after being taken into custody.
[158]

Robert Dear

181

December 2, 2015

1

4 (+2)

 
San Bernardino, California

2015 San Bernardino attack
: A mass shooting occurred at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, with 14 dead and 22 injured. Two suspects, 
Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik
, fled in an SUV, but were later killed.
[159]

[160]

[161]

[162]

Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik

182

January 7, 2016

 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A man shot at a police officer in his cruiser multiple times, injuring him in the process. The officer returned fire injuring the assailant. The assailant later pledged allegiance to ISIL, citing it as his reason for the attack.
[163]

Edward Archer

183

February 11, 2016

 
Columbus, Ohio

Ohio restaurant machete attack
: Four people were injured in a restaurant when a man with a machete attacked them at random. After a car chase, the assailant, who was from the West African nation of Guinea, was killed by police.
[164]

Mohamed Barry

184

June 12, 2016

49 (+1)

 
Orlando
, 
Florida

Orlando nightclub shooting
: 49 people were killed and 53 were injured in a terrorist attack at a 
gay nightclub
 in 
Orlando, Florida
 by 
Omar Mateen
, an American-born citizen with Afghan immigrant parents who was later killed.
[165]
 In a 
9-1-1
 call during the attack, Mateen pledged 
allegiance
 to 
ISIL
 and its leader 
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
, called himself an “Islamic soldier” and referenced the 
Boston Marathon bombers
.
[166]
 He posted similar messages on Facebook the day of the attack.
[167]
 Although inspired by ISIL, Mateen had no apparent actual link to any organized terrorist group, and was apparently 
self-radicalized
 via the Internet.
[168]
 A characteristic of ISIL terrorism “is to permit anyone who so chooses to use its name to advance mutual goals, regardless of any actual ties to the group.”
[166]
 There was no evidence that Mateen targeted Pulse because it was a gay club or that he was specifically motivated by anti-LGBT hate.
[169]

[170]

Omar Mateen

Micah Johnson

185

August 20, 2016

Stabbings

 
Roanoke, Virginia

On August 20, 2016,

Wasil Farooqui

stabbed a man and a woman in a random attack at an apartment complex.
[171]

186

September 17, 2016

 
St. Cloud, Minnesota

St. Cloud mall stabbing
: On September 17, 2016, a mass stabbing occurred at the Crossroads Center shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Ten people were injured, and the attacker was shot dead inside the mall by an off-duty law enforcement officer.
[172]
 ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack through its Amaq media agency, claiming Adan “was a soldier of the Islamic State”.
[173]

Dahir A. Adan

187

September 17–19, 2016

34 (+1)

 
New Jersey
 and 
New York City

2016 New York and New Jersey bombings
: Four bombings or bombing attempts occurred in the 
New York metropolitan area
, specifically in 
Seaside Park
, 
New Jersey
; 
Manhattan
, 
New York
; and 
Elizabeth, New Jersey
. Thirty-one civilians were injured in one of the bombings.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi

was identified as a suspect in all of the incidents and apprehended on September 19 in 
Linden, New Jersey
, after a shootout that injured three police officers.
[174]
 According to authorities, Rahimi was not part of a 
terrorist cell
, but was motivated and inspired by the 
extremist Islamic ideology
 espoused by 
al-Qaeda
 founder 
Osama bin Laden
 and al-Qaeda chief propagandist 
Anwar al-Awlaki
.
[175]

188

November 28, 2016

Vehicle attack, stabbing

Ohio State University attack
: A 
car ramming attack
 and mass stabbing occurred at 9:52 a.m. EST at 
Ohio State University
 (OSU)’s 
Watts Hall
 in 
Columbus, Ohio
. The attacker, 
Somali
 refugee

Abdul Razak Ali Artan

, was shot and killed by the first responding OSU police officer, and 11 people were hospitalized for injuries. According to authorities, Artan was inspired by terrorist propaganda from the 
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
 and radical Muslim cleric 
Anwar al-Awlaki
.
[176]

189

March 20, 2017

Stabbing by sword

Stabbing of Timothy Caughman
:

James Harris Jackson

, 28, traveled from his home state of 
Maryland
 to 
New York City
 with the “sole purpose of stalking and killing black men for a statement-making media spectacle” according to police. On March 20 he allegedly attacked Timothy Caughman, 66, in 
Midtown Manhattan
 with a 
sword
, killing him. Jackson was allegedly a reader of the infamous 
neo-Nazi
, 
alt-right
 website 
The Daily Stormer
.
[177]

190

May 26, 2017

2017 Portland train attack
:

Jeremy Joseph Christian

fatally stabbed two people and injured a third on a MAX Light Rail train, after he was confronted for directing what the Portland Police Bureau’s report later said “would best be characterized as hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions” at two women on a Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) light-rail train. A witness reported that Christian used anti-Muslim slurs and “was screaming that he was a taxpayer, that colored people were ruining the city, and he had First Amendment rights”.
[178]

191

June 14, 2017

(1)

 
Alexandria, Virginia

2017 Congressional baseball shooting
: During a practice session for a charity baseball game involving 24 Republican members of Congress,

James Hodgkinson

a 
Bernie Sanders
 supporter and a registered 
Democrat
 opened fire, shooting and injuring six people. The Virginia Attorney General concluded it was “an act of terrorism…fueled by rage against Republican legislators”.
[179]

192

August 5, 2017

 
Bloomington, Minnesota

On August 5, 2017, an explosive device shattered windows and damaged an office at the mosque, which primarily serves people from the 
area’s large Somali community
.
[180]

Michael McWhorter and Joe Morris

193

August 12, 2017

Vehicle-ramming attack

 
Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville car attack
: On August 12, 2017,

James Alex Fields Jr.

a member of the neo-Nazi group 
Vanguard America
 intentionally drove his car into a group of counter-demonstrators at the 
Unite the Right rally
 in Charlottesville, Virginia killing a woman named Heather Heyer in the process. The Charlottesville mayor called it “an act of domestic terrorism”.
[181]

194

September 24, 2017

7 (+1)

 
Antioch, Tennessee

The 
Burnette Chapel shooting
 occurred On September 24, 2017, a gunman opened fire at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in 
Antioch, Tennessee
, part of the 
Greater Nashville
 Area, killing one person and injuring seven others. The perpetrator was targeting 
White American
 churchgoers and was prompted by the 
Charleston church shooting
 two years ago in 2015.

Emanuel Kidega Samson

195

October 31, 2017

11 (+1)

2017 New York City truck attack
: On October 31, 2017, an ISIS-inspired man drove a rented 
Home Depot
 flatbed pickup truck in a vehicle-ramming attack on cyclists and runners along 1 mile (1.6 km) of a bike path alongside 
West Street
 in 
Lower Manhattan
, killing eight people and injuring at least 11 others. The attack took place several blocks north of the 
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
. Authorities found a note near the truck used in the incident which claimed that the attack by the 29-year-old was made in the name of ISIS.
[182]

Sayfullo Saipov

196

January 10, 2018

 
Orange County, California

Murder of Blaze Bernstein
: A 19 year old gay Jewish 
University of Pennsylvania
 student named Blaze Bernstein was murdered by

Samuel Woodward

a former classmate and member of the neo-Nazi terrorist organization Atomwaffen Division.

October 22–November 1, 2018

 Several states

October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts
: In late October 2018, at least 12 packages containing 
pipe bombs
 were 
mailed
 within the 
U.S. Postal Service
 system to several prominent critics of 
U.S. President
 
Donald Trump
, including various 
Democratic Party
 politicians (
Hillary Clinton
, 
Barack Obama
, 
Joe Biden
, 
Eric Holder
, 
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
, 
Maxine Waters
, 
Cory Booker
), actor 
Robert De Niro
, billionaire investor 
George Soros
, former CIA Director 
John O. Brennan
, and former Director of National Intelligence 
James Clapper
.

Cesar Sayoc Jr.

October 24, 2018

Shooting

 
Jeffersontown, Kentucky

Jeffersontown Kroger shooting
:

Gregory A. Bush

Killed two African-Americans outside a Kroger grocery store. He also got into a shootout with armed civilian bystanders.

October 27, 2018

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
: Robert Bowers committed a 
mass shooting
 at the 
Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha Congregation
 in the 
Squirrel Hill
 neighborhood of 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 on October 27, 2018, while Shabbat morning services were being held. Eleven people were killed and seven were injured. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.

Robert Bowers

March 24, 2019

Arson

 
Escondido, California

California mosque fire
: The Dar-ul-Arqam mosque’s parking lot was broken into at around 3:15 AM, with the arsonist using a flammable liquid to catch the mosque on fire. Seven people inside the mosque woke up and put out the fire with a fire extinguisher, with no injuries and no major damage. The arsonist left behind graffiti referencing the 
Christchurch mosque shootings
 in New Zealand. The gunman who committed the 
Poway synagogue shooting
 claimed responsibility for the arson attack in a manifesto.

John T. Earnest

April 27, 2019

 
Poway, California

Poway synagogue shooting
: John T. Earnest, an armed gunman motivated by 
antisemitism
, his belief in the 
white genocide conspiracy theory
, and inspiration by the 
mosque shootings
 in 
Christchurch, New Zealand
, and the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, entered the 
Chabad of Poway
 synagogue during 
Sabbath
 services and opened fire, killing one and injuring three before fleeing. He was quickly apprehended.

202

July 13, 2019

Shooting and bombing

 
Tacoma, Washington

2019 Tacoma attack
:

Willem van Spronsen

attacked a Ice facility with guns and fire bombs, he burned a car and was killed when he attempted to light a propane tank on fire. His friends described him as an anarchist and anti-fascist.

203

August 3, 2019

 
El Paso, Texas

2019 El Paso shooting
: Patrick Crusius of 
Allen, Texas
, an armed gunman inspired by the Christchurch mosque shootings and beliefs in the 
Great Replacement
 conspiracy theory and a supposed ”
Hispanic
 invasion of 
Texas
“, attacked a 
Walmart
 store, killing 23 people and injuring 23 others.

Patrick Crusius

204

December 6, 2019

8 (+1)

Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting
: A Saudi aviation student killed three U.S. Navy sailors and wounded eight others after opening fire at the 
Naval Air Station Pensacola
. The attack, motivated by a jihadist ideology, was directed by 
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
 leaders.

205

December 10, 2019

 
Jersey City

2019 Jersey City shooting
: Two people,

David Anderson and Francine Graham

, members of the 
Black Hebrew Israelites
, killed a police officer in a cemetery. They then attacked a kosher grocery store, killing three. The attack was ended with a prolonged gun battle with police, ending in the death of the two suspects.