List of terrorist incidents in Seattle
List of terrorist incidents

List of terrorist incidents in Seattle

Section Title: List of terrorist incidents
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Name	Date	Outcome	Group	Motive	Means	Description

Ole Hanson Mail Bomb	April 19, 1919	Not successful	Galleanists	Anarchism	explosives	A mail bomb sent to Mayor Ole Hanson, part of a nationwide bombing campaign, failed to detonate.

Theater bombings	1928 (various dates)	Successful	none (lone wolf)	Labor unrest	explosives	Six movie theaters were bombed over the course of a year.

Sniper attack	July 30, 1968	Successful	Black Panther Party	Black nationalism	firearms	Two police officers were injured after their vehicle was hit by sniper fire. In riots that followed, snipers injured two additional police officers and three civilians.

UW Administration Building bombing	June 29, 1969	Successful	unknown	unknown	explosives	The University of Washington Administration Building (later renamed Gerberding Hall) was bombed, causing an estimated $300,000 in damages. There were no casualties and no claims of responsibility.

Clark Hall bombing attempt	January 1970	Not successful	Seattle Weather Collective	Communist revolution	explosives	Silas and Judith Bissell attempted to bomb the University of Washington's Clark Hall, the campus ROTC building. They were arrested after the explosives failed to detonate.

First 1975 Safeway bombing	September 14, 1975	Not successful	George Jackson Brigade	Black nationalism	explosives	Ralph Patrick Ford, a suspected George Jackson Brigade member, was killed when the explosives he was trying to plant at a Safeway grocery store detonated prematurely.

Second 1975 Safeway bombing	September 17, 1975	Successful	George Jackson Brigade	Black nationalism	explosives	Seven people were injured in the bombing of the same grocery store in a failed attack on September 14.

Laurelhurst City Light bombing	December 31, 1975	Successful	George Jackson Brigade	Black nationalism	explosives	The Laurelhurst sub-station of Seattle City Light was bombed by the George Jackson Brigade as part of a string of regional attacks that included bombing two different Safeway properties in Bellevue, Washington.

John Sherman escape	March 10, 1976	Successful	George Jackson Brigade	Black nationalism	firearms	Mark Cook, a member of the George Jackson Brigade, ambushed and shot a police officer escorting John Sherman, another Brigade member arrested previously following a shoot-out with police in Tukwila, Washington.

anti-Pahlavi theater attack	December 1, 1983	Not successful	none (ad hoc)	Iranian Revolution	arson	A group of anti-Pahlavi students planned to lock the doors to a theater in which 500 pro-Pahlavi Iranians and Iranian-Americans had gathered, prior to setting it on fire.

The Order armored car robbery	April 23, 1984	Successful	The Order	White supremacism	firearms, explosives	Seven members of the white supremacist group The Order stole $536,000 from an armored car at the Northgate Mall. Prior to the robbery, a diversionary bombing at a nearby business was staged.

Jamaat ul-Fuqra bombings	June 17, 1984	Successful	Jamaat ul-Fuqra	Islamic extremism	explosives	The Integral Yoga Society, a Hindu religious institution, and the Vendanta Society were bombed. Stephen Paster, a Jamaat ul-Fuqra member, was later arrested and convicted of the attacks.

Millennium Bombing	December 31, 1999	Not successful	Al Qaeda	Islamic extremism	explosives	Authorities believed a Montreal-based terrorist cell connected to Osama bin-Laden planned to destroy the Space Needle during New Year's Eve celebrations.

University of Washington firebombing incident	May 21, 2001	Successful	Earth Liberation Front	Eco-terrorism	explosives	A firebomb detonated at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture resulted in between $1.5 and $4.1 million in damages.

McDonald's arson	January 20, 2003	Successful	Earth Liberation Front	Eco-terrorism	arson	A New Jersey man, who was later arrested, set fire to the McDonald's corporate logo on the roof of a McDonald's restaurant near the Space Needle.

Molly Norris hit	July 11, 2010	Not successful	Al Qaeda	Islamic extremism	unknown	Anwar al-Awlaki issues a call for the killing of Seattle-based cartoonist Molly Norris. As of 2015, Norris remains in hiding.

MEPS attack	July 5, 2011	Not successful	none (ad hoc)	Islamic extremism	explosives, firearms	Two men planned to attack the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) on East Marginal Way in Seattle on July 5, 2011.

Sentence(s)

On April 23, 1984, a seven-man force of The Order attacked an armored car at the mall, after first staging a diversionary bombing.

final_sentence: On April 23, 1984, a seven-man force of The Order attacked an armored car at the mall, after first staging a diversionary bombing.