here's a timeline of al-qaeda attacks. read the links for details of the attacks
www.usatoday.com...
Aug. 7, 1998: U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya
Oct. 12, 2000: USS Cole off Yemen
Dec. 30, 2000: Manila strike a train, a bus, the airport, a park near the U.S. Embassy and a gas station
Sept. 11, 2001: World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
April 11, 2002: bombing with a gas truck at Tunisian synagogue on the resort island of Djerba
June 14, 2002: U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Oct. 2, 2002: Zamboanga, Philippines Four more bomb attacks in October
Oct. 6, 2002: French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen
Oct. 12, 2002: bombings in a nightclub Indonesian island of Bali.
Nov. 28, 2002: Suicide bombers at an Israeli-owned beach hotel in Kenya and two missiles narrowly miss an airliner
Dec. 30, 2002: A gunman kills three American missionaries at a Southern Baptist hospital in Yemen.
May 11, 2003: market in a southern Philippine city
May 12, 2003: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia