Of this list, only the non military targets can be considered terrorists attacks.

Reading about the USS Cole, they had plenty of time to machine gun the the bomb-laden boat into swiss cheese, but the engagement protocols prevented them from firing without the captain or first mate's permission. Very odd.

>Prior to 9/11, many were complaining that the U.S. did not retaliate in any sufficient manner to terrorism. It was stated over and over. Please correct me if I am wrong:
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>April 1983 U.S. embassy in Beirut bombed, killing 63.
>October 83 U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut bombed, killing 241.
>December 83 U.S. embassy in Kuwait bombed, killing 6.
>January 84 Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, assassinated.
>April 84 Hezbollah attacks the environs of a U.S. airbase in Spain, killing 18 servicemen.
>September 8: U.S. embassy in Beirut again bombed, killing 16.
>December 84 Two Americans murdered on a hijacked plane in Tehran.
>June 85 U.S. seaman killed on a hijacked plane in Beirut.
>World Trade Center bombing of February 93
>2 attacks on U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia in 95 and 96
>2 U.S. embassies blown up in East Africa in August 98
>USS Cole bombed in Yemen in October 2000
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>Nearly 600 Americans lost their lives to due to terrorisim before 9/11.
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>All of these were highly publicized incidents, yet the U.S. government neither attacked the enemy nor changed policies.