The terrorism events listed below are in chronological
order. Click on the links provided to learn more about these
terrorist incidents.
December 25, 2009. Christmas Day Airplane Bomber. A
Nigerian citizen boarded an airplane in Nigeria, transferred onto an
airplane in Amsterdam, and then attempted to blow up the airplane while it
was in the air on final approach in Detroit. He was unsuccessful.
Read more in Christmas
Day Airplane Bomber.
November 5, 2009. Fort Hood
Massacre. A U.S. Army Major of Arab background killed 13
people and 29 were injured or wounded during a shooting spree at Fort
Hood, Texas. The Soldier, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, opened fire at a
Soldier Processing Center. He was an Army psychiatrist. He was
radicalized by Islamic web sites on the Internet and had been
corresponding with a radical Muslim cleric in Yeman.