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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
1945
February
President Roosevelt meets King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard USS Quincy in the Suez Canal, forging an alliance said to guarantee US access to Saudi oil.
1948
May
State of Israel declared.
1953
August
CIA-assisted coup in Iran.
1979
December
Islamic revolution in Iran.
USSR invades Afghanistan.
1980
September
Iran-Iraq war starts (ends August 1988).
1989
February
Last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan.
1990
August
Iraq invades Kuwait. US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia for first time.
1990–91
January–February
Gulf War. US-led ‘Operation Desert Storm’ expels Iraq from Kuwait. Saddam Hussein remains in power.
1993
February
Islamist terrorists bomb World Trade Center.
July
Foreign Affairs publishes Huntington's ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’.
1996
August
Osama Bin Laden declares jihad against the US.
1998
February
Bin Laden and co-signatories issue ‘World Islamic Front’ declaration of jihad against ‘Jews and Crusaders’.
May
Brenner's ‘The Economics of Global Turbulence’ published in New Left Review.
August
Al-Qaeda bomb US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
1999
June
US closes six embassies in Africa due to bin-Laden related threats.
August
UN report says 500,000 Iraqi infants killed by sanctions on Iraq since Gulf War.
2000
March
Chalmers Johnson's Blowback.
September
Second Intifada begins.
October
Blum's Rogue State.
Suicide bombers attack USS Cole.
2001
August
Bush receives CIA report entitled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Attack America’.
September
9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Bush tells Congress al-Qaeda hates America's ‘way of life’. here is new york opens.
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