Talk:Timeline of al-Qaeda attacks

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As known most wikipedia editors are American, and there in lays my concern. onthe box of the 'al-Qaeda terror campaign' box 9/11 is in bold i find this unneeded and it also belittles those who have died in other attacks so i think it should be not bold. Cj105 11:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 OPM-SANG 2 POV 3 Military targets 4 Pagemove? 5 Requested move 5.1 Survey 5.2 Discussion 6 Khobar Towers Removed 7 Operation Bojinka 8 Madrid attacks

[edit] OPM-SANG

What about OPM SANG? OPM SANG predated Khobar towers, and was an al-Qaeda operation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.114.66.241 (talk) 22:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV

This article's infobox seems quite biased to the US and a bit innacurate (George W. Bush as an al-Qaeda commander?) Is there something here you all know about and I don't, or is that vandalism?? --S.O. E-L-I-Z-A (YB3) ^T@lk/_contribs 00:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Military targets

Military targets are included in this list (USS Cole bombing, USS The Sullivans plot). Terrorism involves non-combatant targets, which these were not. Either these entries should be removed or the page should be renamed to reflect that more than terrorism activities are included here. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 01:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

And the attack agains Pentagon at 911. Also a military strike. Reko 11:12, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

This is no longer an article of just attacks targeting civilians, but rather a timeline of all al-Qaeda attacks ... it can include both military and civilian targets. -- Black Falcon ^(Talk) 17:10, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pagemove?

I think we should have an alternate name for this page, such as Timeline of al-Qaeda attacks, History of al-Qaeda attacks, or something similar. Comments?

P.S. Shouldn't this article go back at least to the 1993 WTC bombing? Why is Khobar Towers taken as the start? I am not overly familiar with the history of this and the main al-Qaeda article, so I will undertake no changes for now. Thanks, Black Falcon 01:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Al-Qaeda terror campaign → Timeline of al-Qaeda attacks — It seems more neutral. SeiteNichtGefunden 11:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

Add  * '''Support'''  or  * '''Oppose'''  on a new line in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~. Since this is not a vote, please explain the reasons for your recommendation.

[edit] Discussion

Y Done. I felt that the move was sufficiently uncontroversial so as not to require consensus-building. -- Black Falcon ^(Talk) 17:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Khobar Towers Removed

I've removed the references to the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing as being an al Qaeda attack both here and in the KT main article (in which the word al Qaeda didn't appear for good reason).

Here the KT bombing was included with the description that al Qaeda is often "cited" as being as suspect and that the attack is often "ascribed" to them. This is generally called "ignorance" and isn't generally something you cite as supporting information.

As this was a serious matter involving people getting killed, it got investigated and was found to have been carried out by a different group without any known involvement of al Qaeda . There's an indictment, a description of what the investigation found and all the known players cited in the KT's own article.

The infobox still includes "1st Khobar Towers" as a listed attack which I don't know how to correct, so if you do, please remove it from there too. Attriti0n 02:49, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Operation Bojinka

I understand it was in the planning stages, but I was wondering if there was information about when it would have been executed. Brian Pearson 14:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Madrid attacks

I have removed the claim that Interpol and the Spanish government believe that Spanish Police was involved in the attacks. It is false and unsupported by the quoted sources.

--Larean01 10:42, 8 October 2007 (UTC)