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Time Line

This is a quick compilation of the historical time line and where the books fit inside this framework.

Firewall: The Terror Wars Book 1

1979
  • Embassy takeover Tehran
  • Soviets launch invasion into Afghanistan.
  • 1980
  • Failed rescue mission
  • Iran/Iran War begins
  • 1981
  • Ronald Reagan begins his first term
  • America begins to support Contras in Nicaragua.
  • 1982
  • Israel invades southern Lebanon.
  • Iran forms Hezbollah.
  • America and France introduce peace keepers into Lebanon.
  • Western hostages begin to be taken in Beirut.
  • 1983
  • First bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut.
  • Bombing of the Marine Barracks Beirut
  • 1984
  • Iran proposes arms-for-hostages deal.
  • Second bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut.
  • 1985
  • TWA 847 hijacked to Beirut
  • Achille Lauro Hijacked
  • Two aborted attempts to trade arms for hostages.
  • 1986
  • Iran/Contra becomes public.
  • 1987
  • DCI Bill Casey dies
  • 1988
  • Iranian airliner shot down over Persian Gulf by USS Vincennes.
  • Pam Am 103 bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland.
  • 1989
  • George Bush begins his first term.
  • Berlin Wall comes down.
  • American invasion of Panama.
  • 1990
  • Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait
  • Scorched Earth: The Terror Wars Book 2

    1991
  • The first Gulf War.
  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
  • 1993
  • Bill Clinton begins his first term.
  • First World Trade Center Attack
  • Assassination attempt of George Bush
  • Blackhawk Down incident in Mogadishu.
  • 1994
  • KGB spy Aldrich Ames arrested.
  • Operation Bojinka uncovered in the Philippines
  • 1995
  • Oklahoma City Bombing
  • Sell Out: The Terror Wars Book 3

    1996
  • Commerce Secretary Ron Brown dies in air crash.
  • Khobar Towers bombing.
  • TWA 800 goes down over Long Island Sound.
  • Point of Honor
  • 1997
  • Rising tensions between America and Iraq over weapon inspections.
  • 1998
  • Osama bin Laden issues Fatwah condemning the west.
  • Operation Desert Fox.
  • Blood Covenant
  • 1999
  • America hands over Panama Canal to Panama.
  • Reap the Whirlwind
  • Rogue State
  • 2000
  • Chinese shipping conglomerates assumes management of the Panama Canal
  • Bombing of the USS Cole.
  • Cold Rage: The Terror Wars Book 4

    2001
  • 9-11 attack on America
  • America invades Afghanistan
  • 2002
  • China caught selling WMD to Middle eastern countries.
  • Indian/Pakistani tensions threaten to erupt in limited nuclear exchange.
  • Bali terror bombing.
  • 2003
  • The Second Gulf War.
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    Point of Honor
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    Firewall
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