10 domestic terrorist attacks since the Oklahoma City bombing - WKBW-TV
In the two decades since the Oklahoma City bombing, there have been at least 10 other major acts of domestic terrorism. Atlanta Olympics bombing (2 deaths, July 27, 1996). The FBI considers the "Amerithrax" mailings to be the worst biological attacks in U. S. history. One week after the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, letters laced with anthrax were mailed to media organizations and politicians, killing five and injuring 17. . U. S. Army microbiologist Bruce Edwards Ivins was suspected of the attacks. Ivins worked for decades at the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, where he grew and tested anthrax spores. The investigation concluded nearly 10 years after the mailings and found that Ivins had a history of mental illness that should have excluded him from working at a biodefense laboratory. The DC snipers (10 deaths, Oct. 2, 2002, two men terrorized the Washington, DC area by shooting 13 people with a sniper rifle. The suspects, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, modified a 1990 Chevrolet Caprice so that a sniper could shoot from a hole in the trunk, concealed by the license plate. The snipers were captured after the car was connected with Muhammad and its description was shared with the public. Source: www.wkbw.com
