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Brooklyn Bridge shooting  

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  • A 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting case, in which Rashid Baz, a Lebanese national, was convicted of shooting at a van of Jewish students, was reopened by the FBI in 1999 and reclassified as an act of terrorism. Just before 10:30 am on March 1, 1994, Baz, then a 28-year-old livery car driver, attacked a van on the Brooklyn Bridge that was carrying 15 Hasidic boys from Manhattan to Crown Heights, Brooklyn. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Brooklyn Bridge Shooting]

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