A common bond

The following all have the same common bond:

1968 Senator Robert F Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles.

1969-1984 237 airliners are hijacked throughout the world.

1972 8 Israeli athletes die in Munich at the Olympics.

1983 241 US Marines die in their barracks as part of a peace-keeping force in Beirut.

1985 A handicapped and wheelchair bound American Jew is shot and pushed overboard on the SS Achille Laurel, a cruise liner in the Mediterranean Sea.

1988 Pan American flight 103 blows up and falls out of the sky in Lockerbie, Scotland.

1993 A truck bomb explodes in the basement garage of the World Trade Center.

1996 An apartment complex called Khobar Towers in Daharan, Saudi Arabia is erased from existence.

1998 3 US Embassies in Africa are simultaneously bombed.

2000 The USS Cole is attacked and crippled in Yemen.

2001 NYC, Washington DC, and a Pennsylvania field become infamous.

2002 A nightclub in Bali explodes

Sooooo...What caused all these events to happen? Ohhhhh, shoot. You guessed it.

The answer of course, is the US Invasion of Iraq in 2003!

And I thought I was going to fool you with this one. You're too sharp for me, boys and girls.