“We should remember it because it was one of the first acts of serious domestic terrorism”
Muslim terror hit Washington DC city hall 40 years ago this week
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By Matthew Vadum —— Bio and Archives March 11, 2017
—BombThrowers: Long before Osama bin Laden’s lieutenants flew a hijacked commercial airliner into the Pentagon on 9/11, Muslim terrorists carried out an attack in the heart of Washington, D.C.
This week in 1977 armed Islamic militants invaded three Washington, D.C. buildings and took almost 150 people hostage, radio station WTOP reminds us. During the three-day siege that took place on March 9, 10, and 11, a few weeks after Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the nation’s new president, Hanafi Muslims killed two men and nonfatally wounded another. (More information on Hanafi Islam is available here.)
WHUR reporter Maurice Williams and security guard Mack Cantrell were killed. A stray shotgun pellet wounded then-D.C. Council Member Marion Barry (D) who recovered. Barry was subsequently elected mayor, sent to prison on drug charges, reelected as mayor, then reelected as a Council Member, a position he held until he died Nov. 23, 2014 at the age of 78.
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