March 19, 2004
Mar. 2 - Multiple attacks on Shiite commemoration of Ashura in Iraq.
Mar. 4 - Abdul Raouf Naseeb captured in Yemen.
Mar. 4 - Abdurahaman Khadr admits family closely connected to al Qaeda
Mar. 4 - Sunni and Shiite clerics march together in Iraq to protest terrorism.
Mar. 4 - Insurrection in Iran. Mar. 4 - Abdurahman Khadr says he was a CIA agent in Bosnia.
Mar. 5 - Palestinian civil war begins?
Mar. 8 - Interim Iraq Constitution signed
Mar. 8 - Int'l Women's Day march in Iran attacked by security forces
Mar. 9 - North Korea issues rhetoric, withdraws from meaningful talks
Mar. 9 - Abu Abbas dies
Mar. 11 - Terrorist attack in Spain.
Mar. 12 - Millions of Spaniards demonstrate against terrorism
Mar. 13 - Uprisings in Iran
Mar. 14 - Elections in Spain, appeasers voted in.
Mar. 14 - Two terrorist attacks in Ashod, Israel, kills 10
Mar. 15 - Israel retaliates
Mar. 15 - New Spanish government announces they will withdraw from Iraq.
Mar. 15 - Polish government says Fine, we'll carry on without Spain
Mar. 15 - Uprisings in Syria, Iran.
Mar. 15 - Vandals in north Toronto target homes of Jewish citizens with anti-Semitic graffiti.
Mar. 16 - Abu Hazim al-Sha'ir (aka Kahlid Ali Hajj, "The Poet") killed in Saudi Arabia
Mar. 16 - Group with possible Chechen links threaten French over head-scarf ban
Mar. 17 - Mount Lebanon Hotel in Baghdad hit by car bomb
Mar. 17 - Renewal of violence in Kosovo.
**Mar. 17 - Spain goverment received communique dated Mar. 15 claiming to be from al Qaeda which declared a cease-fire with Spain.
Mar. 18 - Pakistan troops heavily engaged in battle in north, may have surrounded al Zawahiri.
Mar. 18 - Additional troops go into Kosovo in response to renewed violence.
Mar. 18 - British announce additional 650 (+-) British troops to be deployed to Kosovo which will be augmented by US and Italian forces.
**Mar. 18 - Second communique claming to be from al Qaeda threatens further attacks in retaliation for death of Khaled Ali Hajj (aka Abu Hazim al-Sha'ir, The Poet) in Saudia Arabia.
**Mar. 18 - Attempted assassination of Jose Murat, Governor of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Mar. 19 - President and Vice-President of Taiwan shot by would-be assassins and a FARC plot to assassinate the president of Columbia has been thwarted.
Mar. 19 - First of British troops land in Kosovo; an additional 600 German troops are also to be deployed.
Mar. 19 - French restaurant in Bahrain stormed by Islamists angered by alcohol served. Cars of restaurant patrons hit with Molotov cocktails.
**Mar. 19 - Car bomb in Basra kills 3 people, angry residents catch bomber and kill him:
A man who left the vehicle shortly before the blast was caught by passers-by and stabbed to death, said police Lt.-Col. Ali Kazem. Two others spotted getting out of the vehicle were caught by members of the public and later arrested.Three Iraqi journalists killed, nine wounded in by drive-by shooting, three US soldiers killed by mortar fire.
Mar. 19 - Plans for the Pakistan-India cricket match remain firm. (I see a major political message in this sports event.)
I left some things out, including the letter purporting to be from al Qaeda declaring a cease-fire in Spain and today's bomb threat targeting DC schools.
Do you suppose the seeming simultaneity is what Sec. of State Colin Powell meant when he used the expression a nexus of terrorism to describe the link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein during his UN presentation last year?
These events may be linked on purpose or they may have inspired one another, but anyone who understands that we are at war might also believe that terrorists are being flushed out into the open.
Others will doubtless say that the events are a direct result of US intervention in Iraq, but there were so many events which preceeded that war that I don't think it an adequate explanation.
**late additions to list
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