Updates.

To ensure that the most current terrorism-related information is available to the American public, the FBI continually evaluates, and, when investigation warrants, updates terrorism statistics presented in Terrorism in the United States. In this issue, three previous acts have been added to the chronological summary of terrorist incidents occurring in the United States between 1990 and 1999:

MARCH 1, 1994 Terrorist Shooting:

New York, New York

On March 1, 1994, an assailant fired repeatedly from his vehicle into a van on the Brooklyn Bridge in which 16-year-old Ari Halberstam and several other Hasidic youths were riding. The attack left Halberstam dead and three other young men injured. On November 30, 1994, the Supreme Court of New York found Rashid Najib Baz guilty of one count of murder in the second degree, 14 counts of attempted murder in the second degree, and one count of criminal use of a firearm in the attack. On January 18, 1995, Baz was sentenced to more than 140 years in prison.

Evidence presented at Baz's trial showed that, during his adolescence in Beirut, Lebanon, Baz belonged to a militia and fought against the Israeli Army and other opponents. Psychiatric experts testified that in the days directly preceding his attack on the Brooklyn Bridge, Baz was extremely agitated about a firearms attack in Hebron, in which Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinians praying in a mosque, killing 29 and injuring many others. After the February 25, 1994 attack in Hebron, Baz transferred two firearms to the passenger compartment of his car from the trunk. Evidence presented at the trial suggests that Baz perceived the Hasidic youths in the van as the enemy. Evidence also strongly suggests that the earlier attack in Hebron, precipitated his firearms attack on the Brooklyn Bridge ...