a collection of terrorist attacks, apr-1982 to nov-1990 by cpact

Date City Country PerpetratorWeapon InjuriesFatalitiesDescription27-Apr-82 Athens Greece Revolutionary

People'sStruggle(ELA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. The car owned by a U.S.secretary (Walenka Stanislas),responsible for issuing visas, wasfirebombed in her private garage ather Athens apartment. TheRevolutionary People's Struggle tookresponsibility for the attack.

27-Apr-82 Beirut Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded in theentrance of a French news agency inBeirut. The attack is blamed on therecent string of anti-French violenceand believed to be the work of theFront for the Liberation of Lebanonfrom Foreigners.

28-Apr-82 LaCeiba

Honduras Other Firearms0 0 HONDURAS. Four gunmen hijacked adomestic airliner (Dash-7 SAHSA)which was making an internal flightfrom La Ceiba to Tegucigalpa,carrying 48 people aboard, including13 Americans, one of whom wasGregory Bascom, an executive withStandard Fruit Company. The metaldetector at the La Ceiba airport failedto detect weapons and explosiveswhich were smuggled inside acanvas knapsack. The hijackers,members of the Lorenzo ZelayaPeople's Revolutionary Forces (FPR),released 14 people at ToncontinAirport in Honduras. Theythreatened to kill the executive ofthe U.S.-owned banana companyunless the Honduran governmentfreed 20 alleged political prisoners.They also requested $150,000 andthe publication of a manifesto. About100 policemen surrounded the plane.On the fourth day, May 1, the captainmanaged to open the emergencydoor and nine hostages and GregoryBascom escaped, six U.S. citizensand three Hondurans, including thepilot and copilot of the hijackedplane. The hijackers finally ceaseddemanding the release of politicalprisoners when the governmentdisavowed any knowledge of them.SAHSA offered to pay them 100,000to 200,000 lempiras for them toleave for Cuba. The hijackers finallyreleased all remaining hostages andboarded an Electra plane in order toleave the country--its destination,Cuba, by way of Mexico. After thehijackers left the Dash-7, policefound one dynamite bomb andanother small explosive.

28-Apr-82 Madrid Spain Unknown Firearms0 0 SPAIN. Two gunmen fired on theSyrian cultural attache in his car inMadrid. The gunmen fired severalpistol rounds at Hassan Dayoub, whoreturned the fire and escaped. Noone was injured.

28-Apr-82 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

JewishDefenseLeague(JDL)

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedat 2 am outside the offices ofLufthansa airlines in the center ofManhattan. There were no injuriesbut there was considerable damage.The Jewish Defense League claimedresponsibility for the attack.

30-Apr-82 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A U.S. embassy officialhad his car hijacked by gunmen inthe largely Moslem west Beirut area.

30-Apr-82 ThessalonikaGreece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded at theAmerican Express Bank inThessaloniki. Many windows wereshattered.

2-May-82 Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Renaldo Franceschi of Waco,Texas, was kidnapped by Kurdishrebels and held for almost fivemonths. He and a Canadian co-worker were kidnapped whilesupervising the construction ofhospitals for Atco, Ltd., of Calgary,Canada. The Canadian was releasedon September 19; Franceschi wasfreed on October 2 with the help ofthe Iranian government and left forSwitzerland en route home. Nomotive has been put forward; themen were apparently well treated.

2-May-82 TuebingenFederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb attack was carried out againstthe German-American Institute inTuebingen. In a letter to a localnewspaper, Revolutionary Cellsclaimed responsibility for the attack,stating that it was in protest againstPresident Reagan's forthcoming visitto the Federal Republic. There wereno injuries but substantial damage tothe building was incurred.

3-May-82 VientianeLaos Other Explosives0 0 LAOS. Soldiers ringed the Sovietculture center today after attackersbelieved to be anti-Communistguerrillas blew up part of the three-story building in downtown Vientiane.No casualties were reported and theextent of the damage was notdisclosed.

3-May-82 RomanssurIsere

France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb wrecked a nearly-completed mosque at Romans-sur-Isere. Basque nationalists weresuspected although no group claimedcredit.

4-May-82 SumervilleUnitedStates

JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. Police sought theArmenian assassin who shot NewEngland's honorary Turkish consulgeneral in Sumerville, Mass. OrhanGunduz, whose import shop inCambridge was the target of aprevious attack, was shot by a mandressed in a jogger's outfit, as he satin his car. The Justice Commandos ofthe Armenian Genocide claimedcredit for the attack through a phonecall to the media. President Reaganordered an all-out manhunt for thekiller.

9-May-82 Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives16 0 IRAN. A car laden with explosivesblew up outside the Syrian embassyin Tehran, destroying the four-storybuilding and injuring 16 passers-by.None of the embassy employeeswere in the building at the time. TheSyrian ambassador to Iran blamedthe attack on Iraq and elements ofimperialism and Israel. Attacks onforeign missions have escalated inTehran, especially those whosegovernments maintain friendlyrelations with the Islamicgovernment of Iranian leaderAyatollah Khomeini.

10-May-82

Geneva SwitzerlandWorldPunishmentOrganization

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. An Armenian groupcalling itself the World PunishmentOrganization claimed responsibilityfor explosions at two Geneva banks,which caused considerable damagewithout injury.

10-May-82

Geneva SwitzerlandWorldPunishmentOrganization

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. An Armenian groupcalling itself the World PunishmentOrganization claimed responsibilityfor explosions at two Geneva banks,which caused considerable damagewithout injury.

11-May-82

RamsteinFederalRepublicofGermany

Red ArmyFaction(RAF)

Explosives20 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded on the grounds of U.S. Air Force headquarters inRamstein, injuring 20 people.Responsibility was claimed by theRed Army Faction, the name adoptedby members of the extremist gangonce led by the late Andreas Baaderand Ulrike Meinhof.

12-May-82

Lisbon Portugal Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 PORTUGAL. The Rev. Juan MariaFernandez Krohn was charged withattempted murder against Pope JohnPaul and ordered held for trial. Theaccused, a Spanish Roman Catholicpriest who lives in France, rushed atthe Pope with a bayonet as the Popewas climbing an altar of a church inLisbon. Investigating police statedthat the attack probably had areligious motivation, perhaps relatedto the fact that the attacker had hadhis ecclesiastical education at aseminary founded by Msgr. MarcelLefebvre, who was suspended byPope Paul for supporting traditionalRoman Catholicism in opposition tothe changes of the Second VaticanCouncil. Father Fernandez lived inthe suburbs of France andadministered to a small group offollowers of Msgr. Levebvre.Witnesses reported that the manshouted Down with the Pope anddown with Vatican . At his trial inOctober, Krohn stated that he actedbecause the pontiff betrayed thechurch and encouraged communismthrough compromise with Soviet-Bloccountries. He said he got the ideawhen he saw the assassination ofEgyptian President Anwar Sadat ontelevision.

12-May-82

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaOther Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GUATEMALA. A group of about 20leftists and Indian peasants seizedthe Brazilian Embassy in GuatemalaCity, holding as hostages theBrazilian ambassador and at leastseven other people in which theycalled a protest against repression byGuatemala's military regime. Theintruders, saying they were armedand ready to die, demandedpublication of their complaints in themedia and referred to massacres,torture, rape, and burning of cropsand ranches by government securityforces battling guerrillas. The rebelsidentified themselves as members ofthree groups-- the Jan. 3l PopularFront, the Committee for PeasantUnity, and the Robin Garcia StudentFront. The government rejected theirdemands.The Brazilian governmentsent an official delegation to meetwith Guatemalan officials who wereauthorized to negotiate with theleftists. Finally, on May 14, theinsurgents turned over their weaponsat the air force base, after releasingthe hostages, except for the Brazilianambassador, Antonio Carlos de Abreue Silva, the principal hostage. Apress conference was held in whichthey blamed the army for the recentmassacres in Guatemala. Theweapons they had were nine Molotovcocktails, two guns, and a largequantity of ammunition. Eventually,Mexican authorities gave permissionfor a plane to land in Mexico with thedissidents.

17-May-82

UnionCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Almacen ElEspanol in Union City, New Jerseywas bombed for the fourth time byOmega-7.

18-May-82

SantaCruz

Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A powerful bomb explodedat the U.S. Consulate in Santa Cruz.The explosion caused seriousdamage to the diplomatic mission aswell as to neighboring houses. U.S.Ambassador Edwin Corr had just leftthe consulate where he had met withU.S. consulate officials to discuss theaid program for the victims of floodsin the area.

18-May-82

JerusalemIsrael Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. Two firebombs were thrownat a military vehicle on the easternoutskirts of Jerusalem, damaging thevehicle but causing no injuries. Theattack came a day after the IsraeliCabinet reportedly decided to avoida confrontation with Palestinianguerrillas along the Lebanese border.

21-May-82

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Saboteurs cut a fencingwire with shears and crossed overinto Ellinikon base , an Americanairbase near the Athens airport,planted a bomb made out of apropane cylinder at a milk plant onthe facility, and escaped. The forceof the blast damaged a coolingsystem and blew a hole in the dairy'swall. There were no injuries. Severalother cylinders with the same fuelwere thrown but did not explode. Notrace of the culprits was found.

23-May-82

Tirana Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 ALBANIA. Two bomb explosionscaused structural damage to theYugoslav Embassy annex in Tirana.

24-May-82

Beirut Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Remote-detonatedexplosive

22 14 LEBANON. An automobile packedwith 77 pounds of highly explosivematerial was detonated by remotecontrol just inside the gates of theFrench embassy in West Beirut,killing fourteen people and injuring22 others, according to an embassyofficial. The device was apparentlyvery sophisticated and unlike anypreviously used in Lebanon. Thebombing was the latest in a recentwave of anti-French violence inBeirut involving French nationals andinstitutions. The victims in this casewere mainly Lebanese nationalslining up outside the embassy's visasection, but four of the victims wereembassy staff workers, including thewoman who owned the car. TheFront for the Liberation of Lebanonfrom Foreigners claimedresponsibility for the attack.

25-May-82

Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. The Red CrossInternational Committee reportedthat one of its Swiss nurses, Marie-Jose Burnier, was kidnapped byarmed individuals during an attackon a Red Cross convoy in theKatchungo region. In September, thepro-West, UNITA forces released thenurse. The Red Cross latersuspended most activities in Angola'scentral plateau because of thedanger.

26-May-82

FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs exploded in two Yugoslavcultural centers in West Germany, aday after the second anniversary ofthe death of Tito. No one wasinjured.

26-May-82


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs exploded in two Yugoslavcultural centers in West Germany, aday after the second anniversary ofthe death of Tito. No one wasinjured.

26-May-82

LosAngeles

UnitedStates

ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Los Angelesoffices of the Swiss Bank Corporationwere bombed. Suspected wasVicken Tcharkhutian, a seniordesigner for Fluor, a major SouthernCalifornia engineering firm, and hisalleged accomplices, HratchKozibioukian and his wife Stranoucheof Van Nuys, and Varant Chirinian ofGlendale. All are accused ofinvolvement in the Armenian SecretArmy for the Liberation of Armenia.Federal investigators identify thegroup as a Marxist-Leninistorganization headquartering inLebanon and responsible forbombings in Europe, Canada, and theUnited States. Tcharkhutian fled toFrance who refused to extradite himto the United States; he then fled toLibya. His accomplices face trial inDecember. (See 5/30/82 incidentalso attributed to this group.)Tcharkhutian was arrested at LosAngeles International Airport inOctober, 1987. In November headmitted in federal court to hisinvolvement in a series of bombingsin the U.S.

28-May-82

Paris France ActionDirecte

Firearms0 0 FRANCE. A gunman fired threebullets through the plate-glass doorof a branch of the Bank of America inthe Place Vendome in Paris. No onewas injured. The leftist group DirectAction claimed responsibility.

28-May-82

Athens Greece Other Unknown0 0 GREECE. An Air Maroc jet with ninecrew members and 91 passengerswas hijacked by a Moroccan religiousfanatic, Hamid Alaoui, 30, on a flightfrom Athens to Morocco. The planewas diverted to Tunis, Tunisia, whereAlaoui surrendered to authoritiesafter reciting religious preceptsurging governments and citizens toabide by Islamic principles.

28-May-82

Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. Several American-associatedbusinesses were bombed but therewere no injuries. The Pan-AmericanAirways office and offices of aninsurance company associated withITT in Rome were damaged. A bombfound at a store that sold Americanpublications was defused by apoliceman who threw water on it.

28-May-82

Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. Several American-associatedbusinesses were bombed but therewere no injuries. The Pan-AmericanAirways office and offices of aninsurance company associated withITT in Rome were damaged. A bombfound at a store that sold Americanpublications was defused by apoliceman who threw water on it.

30-May-82

LosAngeles

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Three members ofan Armenian terrorist group, theArmenian Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia, were arrestedand accused of placing an explosivedevice in front of the Air Canadacargo building at Los AngelesInternational Airport. The bomb wasdefused by members of the LosAngeles Police Department's bombsquad. The arrests, made later in theday, were the culmination of fourmonths of joint investigation by theFBI, Los Angeles Police Departmentand the Los Angeles County Sheriff'sOffice of a series of local bombingsdating back to 1980. The threeaccused are Hratch Kozibioukian, hiswife Stanouche Kozibioukian, andVarant Barkev Chirinian. Policebelieve this latest bombing may havebeen retaliation for the arrest ofArmenians in Canada two weeks ago.A fourth member, VickenTcharkhutian, was discovered inFrance. The U.S. request for hisextradition was refused by a Frenchcourt on grounds that the 1909Franco-American extradition treatydoes not cover bomb fabrication.France did expel the Armenian,however, who left for Cyprus, andthence to Libya.Tcharkhutian wasarrested at Los Angeles InternationalAirport in October, 1987. InNovember he admitted in federalcourt to his involvement in a series ofbombings in the U.S.

1-Jun-82 FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Explosive devices planted near theentrances of the InternationalBusiness Machines Corp. and ControlData Corp. did extensive damage tolobby areas. Responsibility wasclaimed by the Red Army Faction,formerly the Baader-Meinhof gang.



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Explosive devices planted near theentrances of the InternationalBusiness Machines Corp. and ControlData Corp. did extensive damage tolobby areas. Responsibility wasclaimed by the Red Army Faction,formerly the Baader-Meinhof gang.

1-Jun-82 BambergFederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs exploded in four separate U.S. military facilities causing morethan $180,000 in damage but noinjuries. The facilities were atBamberg, Hanau, Gelnhausen, andFrankfurt. There were no immediateclaims for responsibility. Theexplosions came just a day beforePresident Reagan arrived in Europeon his first visit since taking office.Tens of thousands of Europeansopposed to the deployment of new U.S. missiles in Europe were expectedto rally in capitals the President willvisit. The Revolutionary Cells,believed to be an offshoot of the RedArmy Faction, or Baader-MeinhofGang, claimed responsibility for theattacks, stating the bombings werejust a prelude.

1-Jun-82 Hanau FederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs exploded in four separate U.S. military facilities causing morethan 180,000 dollars in damage butno injuries. The facilities were atBamberg, Hanau, Gelnhausen, andFrankfurt. The explosions came justa day before President Reaganarrived in Europe on his first visitsince taking office. Tens of thousandsof Europeans opposed to thedeployment of new U.S. missiles inEurope were expected to rally incapitals the President will visit. TheRevolutionary Cells, believed to bean offshoot of the Red Army Faction,or Baader-Meinhof Gang, claimedresponsibility for the attacks, statingthe bombings were just a prelude.

1-Jun-82 GelnhausenFederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells


1-Jun-82 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells


1-Jun-82 WestBerlin


RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. InWest Berlin, police defused a bombplanted at the foot of a radiotransmitter for the American ForcesNetwork, after receiving ananonymous tip. The RevolutionaryCells are believed responsible.

3-Jun-82 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. In Athens, theRevolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)took responsibility for burning threecars belonging to foreign diplomaticmissions. One belonged to JohnBung, an American serving with theIraklion base in Crete. An ELAstatement said that the multinationalHoneywell-Bull Company has mergedwith ITT. It is believed that ELA wasunder the impression that all the carsbelonged to American militarypersonnel.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. In Athens, theRevolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)took responsibility for burning threecars belonging to foreign diplomaticmissions. One belonged to RadomirNikolic, cashier at the YugoslavEmbassy. An ELA statement said thatthe multinational Honeywell-BullCompany has merged with ITT. It isbelieved that ELA was under theimpression that all the cars belongedto American military personnel.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. In Athens, theRevolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)took responsibility for burning threecars belonging to foreign diplomaticmissions. One of the bombsdestroyed the car of Bulgarian GeorgiGeorgiev. An ELA statement said thatthe multinational Honeywell-BullCompany has merged with ITT. It isbelieved that ELA was under theimpression that all the cars belongedto American military personnel.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. In Athens, theRevolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)took responsibility for planting twobombs at the entrance to theHoneywell-Bull Company in Athens.The bombs exploded, breakingwindowpanes and causing minordamage. No one was injured. An ELAstatement said that the multinationalHoneywell-Bull Company has mergedwith ITT.

3-Jun-82 London UnitedKingdom

Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. IsraeliAmbassador to Britain Shlomo Argovwas shot and critically wounded inthe head while leaving a banquet inLondon by an assailant wielding asubmachine gun and aided byaccomplices. The Palestine LiberationOrganization denied having anythingto do with the attack but Israelwarned of retaliation. Five weekslater, Israeli planes bombardedLebanese PLO targets and Israelitroops moved in and was taken intocustody. Three Arabs--twoJordanians and one Iraqi-- were laterarrested and charged. The threebelong to a dissident Arab terroristgroup named Black June that nowoperates out of Syria and is openlyhostile to PLO leader Yasser Arafat.The shooting of Argov was a criticalevent in the sequence leading toIsrael's invasion of Lebanon. On June10, a dissident Palestinian groupcalled al-Asifa, which split from thePLO in the early 1970s, claimedresponsibility for the assassinationattempt. Argov regainedconsciousness on July 14.

4-Jun-82 NewDelhi

India Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 1 INDIA. The first secretary of theKuwaiti Embassy in New Delhi waskilled by gunfire in front of hisresidence. Recent attacks againstKuwaiti diplomatic offices have beenattributed to a radical Palestiniangroup, under the leadership of AbuNidal.

4-Jun-82 Paris France ActionDirecte

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at theAmerican School of Paris in suburbanSt. Cloud. The blast damagedwindows but caused no injuries.Responsibility for the bombing wasclaimed by a small French extremistleftist group called Direct Action.

5-Jun-82 Paris France ActionDirecte

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at theoffices of the International MonetaryFund and the World Bank, blowingout windows at the facility in Paris aswell as neighboring buildings.Responsibility for the bombing wasclaimed by a French extremist groupcalled Direct Action.

7-Jun-82 Lisbon Portugal Other Firearms0 2 PORTUGAL. Erkut Akbay, anadministrative official at the TurkishEmbassy in Lisbon, was assassinatedas a result of an armed attack. Hiswife, Nadid Akbay, a secretary at theembassy, was seriously injured.After eight months in a coma, shedied in January 1983. A man lay inwait for them at the door of theirhome, shot both with a 9mmrevolver, which he left at the scene,and fled. A clandestine Armenianterror organization assumedresponsibility for the attack. No onehas been apprehended.

8-Jun-82 Essen FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Nine firms in Essen, Hochum,Duesseldorf, and Muenster which arepartly U.S.-owned, received letterscontaining incendiary devices. Allletters were opened safely. Theletters were mailed fromHagen/Westfalen. In the paddedenvelopes were an alarm clock, a flatbattery and a cigarillo packet filledwith a plasticine-like substance,which initial examination showed tobe inflammable but not explosive. Amessage read In the next war no onewill be innocent. Stop the madness.We wish mister president and hisfriends a hot reception.







8-Jun-82 MuensterFederalRepublicofGermany



8-Jun-82 DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Nine firms in Essen, Hochum,Dusseldorf, and Muenster which arepartly U.S.-owned, received letterscontaining incendiary devices. Allletters were opened safely. Theletters were mailed fromHagen/Westfalen. In the paddedenvelopes were an alarm clock, a flatbattery and a cigarillo packet filledwith a plasticine-like substance,which initial examination showed tobe inflammable but not explosive. Amessage read In the next war no onewill be innocent. Stop the madness.We wish mister president and hisfriends a hot reception.

8-Jun-82 Hochum FederalRepublicofGermany



12-Jun-82 Austria Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A bomb exploded at thehome of Nazi-hunter SimonWiesenthal who was not at home atthe time. There was some damagebut no injuries. On August 4 policearrested a West German forquestioning about this and otherrecent bombings perpetrated againstJews.

13-Jun-82 Paris France Unknown Explosives1 0 FRANCE. Two bombs explodedoutside Jewish-owned cafes a fewblocks from Paris city hall, slightlywounding one person and causingminor damage. Both bombs wereplaced on the sidewalk outside theclosed cafes. No group tookresponsibility.

17-Jun-82 Manzini SwazilandOther Explosives0 2 SWAZILAND. A representative of theANC was killed by a bomb explosionin the town of Manzini. PetrosNyawose, who was the ANC deputychief representative, and his wifeJabu were both killed when a bombexploded in their car. Several peoplewere injured. The murders followseveral attacks on South Africanpolitical exiles in Swaziland. SouthAfrican agents are suspected.Note:Number of injuries is approximate.

17-Jun-82 Rome Italy JewishDefenseLeague(JDL)

Firearms0 1 ITALY. Nezeyk Matar, 32, a Lebanesemedical student and a PLOsympathizer, was killed by severalgunmen in an ambush outside hishome in Rome. The murder tookplace following an anti-Israeli marchorganized by the PLO and Italianleftists. Matar had gone to themarch with Nemer Hammad, thehead of the PLO's semiofficial Romeoffice. The murder was claimed by acaller from the Jewish ArmedResistance of the Jewish DefenseLeague who said the killing wastimed to coincide with the invasion ofLebanon by the Israeli government ofPrime Minister Begin.

17-Jun-82 Rome Italy JewishDefenseLeague(JDL)

Explosives1 1 ITALY. Kamal Hussein, 33, aJordanian who was deputy chief ofthe PLO office in Rome, rushed to thescene of the murder of Nezeyk Mataron the street in Rome. Several hourslater, he himself was killed when ashrapnel-loaded car bomb explodedas he drove his car from his garageoutside of Rome. A woman passerbywas injured in the blast. The PLOoffice in Rome blamed the killings onterrorist squads of Prime MinisterMenachem Begin who have a freehand in Rome and are trying toannihilate the political cadres of thePalestine people. An Israeli Embassyspokesman in Rome denied thecharges, but a man claiming torepresent the Jewish ArmedResistance of the Jewish DefenseLeague, telephoned the AssociatedPress in New York and said theorganization was responsible for thekillings. He stated that theassassinations were timed tocoincide with the Israeli invasion ofLebanon.

18-Jun-82 France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 CORSICA. Three bombing attackswere committed against the homesof two Moroccan residents of theisland and against a car belonging toanother Moroccan. There have beennumerous attacks against Moroccansin recent months.





18-Jun-82 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside theItalian-Israeli Chamber of Commercein central Rome. There were nocasualties and only slight damage.

18-Jun-82 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside theHebrew Immigrant Aid Society incentral Rome. There were nocasualties and only slight damagesustained.

18-Jun-82 Ankara Turkey Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Two men and two womenset fire to the Pan American Airlinesoffice in Ankara in protest againstIsrael's invasion of Lebanon. Therewere no casualties, although therewas extensive damage. Theperpetrators drove awayunhampered.

19-Jun-82 Paris France Unknown Explosives2 0 FRANCE. An Iranian student studyingarchitecture in France, was severelyinjured by a booby-trapped packagehe had just picked up at a post officein Paris. A passerby was also slightlywounded. The student, HusseinPour, has been in Paris for over ayear, with no history of politicalactivity.

24-Jun-82 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A time bomb explosiondestroyed a car in a parking lot atKarachi airport at a spot where PrimeMinister Dom Mintoff of Malta was toget into a car. Mintoff, on his way toChina, arrived three hours late, butthe bomb exploded at his scheduledarrival time.

26-Jun-82 Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A bomb exploded at thehome of Alexander Giese, a well-known Jewish-Austrian journalist andtelevision commentator, causingheavy damage but no injuries. Amember of the Austria-Israeli society,Giese has been outspoken in favor ofIsrael.

27-Jun-82 Bombay India Other Firearms0 0 INDIA. General Mobutu, head ofstate of Zaire, escaped an attempton his life as he landed in Bombay onhis way home from a recent trip toChina. An armed Palestinian (asreported) was caught attempting toenter the presidential plane, and heldby security forces. The attack wasbelieved to be due to Arab discontentwith Zaire's diplomatic relationshipwith Israel.

28-Jun-82 Elat Israel al-Fatah Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A Palestinian attempted anattack on workers at a salt plant inElat, but he was subdued andarrested. Officials reported that hewas recruited and equipped by Fatahheadquarters in Damascus andcrossed from Syria into Jordan, thenIsrael. He was equipped with 2Kalashnikovs, 16 handgrenades, 6dynamite sticks and 2 kgs. ofexplosives.

30-Jun-82 IslamabadPakistan Unknown Unknown2 0 PAKISTAN. The French ambassadorand his first-secretary were attackedon the outskirts of Islamabad. In aletter to the French Embassy a weeklater, the attack was claimed by theMoslem Commandos, an unknownorganization, which stated that theattack on the two officials wasmerely an initial protest against thewithdrawal of two French nucleartechnicians at the beginning of theyear. The Moslem terroristsdemanded that France complete theChasma nuclear plant.

2-Jul-82 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. The Paraguayanambassador to El Salvador, JuanAlberto Llanes, escaped an explosionthat demolished his car severalminutes after he had left it in front ofhis residence. There were nocasualties or injuries. He refused tosuggest any explanation, stating thathe felt the perpetrators thought hewas a Salvadoran official.

3-Jul-82 San Jose CostaRica

Other Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb destroyed themain office of Honduran Air Servicesin the downtown section of San Jose.The explosion also affected nearbyestablishments. No group claimedcredit for the attack, but thegovernment of Costa Rica accusedthree Nicaraguan diplomats of takingpart in the bombings, and demandedthat they leave Costa Rica. On July10, a dozen members of the rightwing Nicaraguan DemocraticMovement were jailed in San Josewhen authorities linked them to theblasts and confiscated a pile ofdocuments in their headquarters. OnJuly 29, the Costa Rican governmentexpelled three Nicaraguan diplomatsafter accusing them of complicity inthe airline office bombing. Two CostaRican diplomats were expelled fromManagua and recognition of a CostaRican consul was withdrawn inretaliation.

3-Jul-82 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Revolutionary PopularStruggle assumed responsibility forthe bombing of an American ExpressBank branch in Athens. It caused theentrance to the bank to be shatteredwith glass. The bomb washomemade with a clockwork device.This and the following attacks inGreece were in protest against theIsraeli invasion of Lebanon and whatunidentified callers describe asAmerican support for it.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Revolutionary PopularStruggle assumed responsibility forthe bombing of the entrance to theChase Manhattan Bank in Athens,causing shattered glass. The bombwas homemade with a clockworkdevice.

3-Jul-82 KholargosGreece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Revolutionary PopularStruggle assumed responsibility for abomb explosion at the entrance to asales agency for Amcor-Israel SolarEnergy heaters in Kholargos. Thebomb was homemade with aclockwork device.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Revolutionary PopularStruggle assumed responsibility for abomb placed at the Gladstone Street(Athens) entrance to the AtlanticTravel Agency of a Jewish person.The bomb was discovered by acleaner and was disarmed by amilitary expert.

4-Jul-82 Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Iranian Charge d'AffairesMohsen Mousavi, disappeared alongwith three aides after entering anarea controlled by the LebaneseChristian Phalangist militia. Iranaccused the Phalangists of abductingMousavi but the Phalangists deniedit.

4-Jul-82 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb rippedthrough a Yugoslavian travel agencyin Queens, New York, destroyingabout 50 percent of the shop. Theowner of the agency, Anthony Frian,said it was the second time a bombhad exploded at his agency. No onewas injured. Police suspect Croatiannationalists who have been active inthe past in terrorizing Yugoslavianbusinessmen and diplomats.


UnitedStates

Other Explosives1 0 UNITED STATES. Explosions within afew minutes of each other rockedthree telephone booths in New York,injuring one woman slightly. Theblasts followed the discovery of twopipe bombs at Yugoslavian offices inQueens and Manhattan. Croatiannationalists were suspected.


UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A ticking gasolinebomb was removed from thedoorway of Yugoslav Airlines near St.Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Thebomb was described as awesome inits potential and authorities statedthat if it had exploded, thedevastation in life and propertywould have been tragic. The bombwas later disassembled at the policedetonating range. Croatiannationalists are believed responsible.

7-Jul-82 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Customs agents discoveredthree pounds of plastic explosivesbeneath the false bottom of asuitcase at Orly Airport. The bag'sowner, an Iranian, told authorities hehad intended to use the explosives tomurder the exiled former presidentof Iran, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. Theman was suspected of being part ofan assassination team.

14-Jul-82 Lyon France AffischeRouge(Red Bill)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two bombing attacks werecommitted during the night againsttwo businesses in Lyon--Lesieur aVaise and the General SugarCompany. Both companies haveextensive international contracts.The attacks were claimed by theAffiche Rouge (Red Bill) through acommunique left in a metro stationlocker. The text denounced theoppression of the people of the ThirdWorld and included a map of Francedenoting the names and locations ofseveral companies with internationalbusiness.

14-Jul-82 Lyon France AffischeRouge(Red Bill)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two bombing attacks werecommitted during the night againsttwo businesses in Lyon--Lesieur aVaise and the General SugarCompany. Both companies haveextensive international contracts.The attacks were claimed by theAffiche Rouge (Red Bill) through acommunique left in a metro stationlocker. The text denounced theoppression of the people of the ThirdWorld and included a map of Francedenoting the names and locations ofseveral companies with internationalbusiness.

19-Jul-82 Beirut Lebanon Amal Firearms1 0 LEBANON. Unidentified gunmenkidnapped David Dodge, the actingpresident of the American Universityof Beirut, as he was walking homefrom his office. Witnesses reportedthat at least two men armed withpistols threatened the educator,struck him when he resisted, forcedhim into a red automobile, and spedaway. Dodge had lived in Beirut forthree decades. Lebanese officialsstated that Dodge is almost certainlyheld by Iranian Embassy officialshoping to exchange him for anIranian envoy who may have beenkidnapped earlier in the month.(Iranian Charge d'Affaires MohsenMousavi: 7/04/82). But on August 3,Lebanese security sources statedthat Dodge was being held by asplinter group of the pro-Iranianmilitia Shiite Moslem Amal, seekingthe freedom of an Iranian diplomatand aides kidnapped by Christianmilitiamen in East Beirut. He wasstill unconscious from the blow hereceived on the head when he wasabducted.Dodge was freed by hisabductors in July of 1983 in goodphysical and mental condition. Nodetails were made available.

20-Jul-82 Paris France ActionDirecte

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombers struck two Parisbuildings linked with Israeli businesstransactions. There was lightdamage at a building used by theGanco import-export firm and twobombs broke windows at offices ofthe Bank Leumi near the opera. Noone claimed responsibility for theblasts but pro-Palestinian paperswere left at the bank. Action Directeis suspected because of similaritieswith other attacks.


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombers struck two Parisbuildings linked with Israeli businesstransactions. There was lightdamage at a building used by theGanco import-export firm and twobombs broke windows at offices ofthe Bank Leumi near the opera. Noone claimed responsibility for theblasts but pro-Palestinian paperswere left at the bank. Action Directeis suspected because of similaritieswith other attacks.

21-Jul-82 RotterdamNetherlandsArmenianRed Army

Firearms1 0 NETHERLANDS. Shots were fired atthe car of the Turkish consul general,Kemalettin Demirel, by fourassailants, one of whom wascaptured after the incident, whichoccurred in Rotterdam as the car wasapproaching the consulate. None ofthe shots hit its mark and the consulgeneral was taken into protectivecustody by Dutch guards. The policeset about an intensive search for thethree other attackers. Anunidentified person called a newsagency in Beirut and said that theArmenian Red Army, an unknownorganization, was responsible for theattack. Penyemin (Benjamin)Evingulu, a Turkish national ofArmenian descent, who had fired asubmachine gun during the attack,was sentenced to six yearsimprisonment for his part in theattack.

21-Jul-82 Paris France OrlyOrganization

Explosives16 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded near acrowded cafe in the Place Saint-Sevrin (Latin Quarter of Paris),injuring 16 people. An Armeniannationalist group (Orly) tookresponsibility in a phone call to theFrench news agency, asserting thatthe bomb was in protest for theFrench government's failure to keepa promise to grant political asylum tofour members of the ArmenianSecret Army for the Liberation ofArmenia, arrested in the takeover ofthe Turkish consulate in Paris onSeptember 24, 1981.

21-Jul-82 Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded outside athird-floor Left Bank Paris apartmentformerly occupied by Regis DeBray, aFrench leftist activist, writer, and aspecial adviser to President FrancoisMitterrand. In an anonymous phonecall, a person claimed that thebombing was the responsibility of theRevolutionary French Brigades, butpolice feel it was the responsibility ofArmenians, in retaliation for theFrench government's failure torelease the four Armenians held in aFrench jail.

23-Jul-82 Paris France JewishDefenseLeague(JDL)

Explosives1 1 FRANCE. Fadl Dani, deputy directorof the Palestine LiberationOrganization and the organization'sNo. 2 man in France, was killed in acar bombing attack outside his homein Paris. There were conflictingreports from witnesses; someclaiming three men threw a bombinto Dani's car and then fled inanother vehicle. Dani had recentlytold French police he no longerneeded them to guard him; hebelieved only the director of thePLO's office would be in danger.Ibrahim Souss, the director, blamedIsrael for the assassination; the Israelembassy in Paris denied Israeliagents were to blame. A telephonecall to the Agence France-Presseclaiming that the extremist JewishDefense League was responsible washeld in doubt by the French police.

23-Jul-82 ZimbabweOther Unknown0 6 ZIMBABWE. Troops from Hararelaunched a massive manhunt for sixtourists, two Americans, twoAustralians, and two Britons,kidnapped by guerrillas demandingfreedom for jailed aides of formercabinet minister Joshua Nkomo, whowas fired from the coalitiongovernment in February for allegedlyrefusing to follow Minister RobertMugabe's government. The touristswere being held hostage in thesouthern Matabeleland area. Thetourists were seized at a roadblockmade from felled trees along themain road between Bulawayo andVictoria Falls, one of Zimbabwe's toptourist attractions. The governmenthas stepped up the search for the sixkidnapped, and has offered a$13,000 reward for informationleading to their safe recovery.Follow-up on various rumors ofsightings of the tourists in the areahave been fruitless. The politicalprisoners in question are expected tobe brought to trial on January 10,1983. The bodies of the six touristswere found in March 1985 and weredetermined to have been killed threedays after their abduction. Fivepeople were convicted of themurders and were hanged for thecrime on April 7, 1986.

24-Jul-82 Paris France Unknown Explosives2 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at thePub Saint Germain in Paris, injuringtwo people slightly. No groupclaimed responsibility for the attack;but an Armenian terrorist group hasclaimed responsibility for severalrecent explosions, vowing tocontinue attacking French targetsuntil France releases four of itsmembers from jail.

24-Jul-82 Lima Peru Other Explosives3 0 PERU. Terrorists threw two dynamitebombs at the U.S. embassy buildingin Lima, wounding three policemenon guard there and breakingwindows on the second floor of thebuilding. Two other bombs left in apark opposite the embassy buildingwere found and defused. Policedetained several persons suspectedof being involved in the attack.

24-Jul-82 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Terrorists threw dynamitebombs at the Coca Cola plant inLima. Minor damage was incurred.

24-Jul-82 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Terrorists threw dynamitebombs at the office of the AlphaRomeo car dealer in Lima. Minordamage was incurred.

24-Jul-82 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Terrorists threw dynamitebombs at the office of Quimica Suizain Lima. Minor damage was incurred.

26-Jul-82 Lima Peru Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 PERU. Some unknown persons threwdynamite sticks at the residence ofthe British ambassador in Lima,Charles Wallace. There were noinjuries reported but the residencesuffered considerable damage.

28-Jul-82 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. Hagop Yenikomshian, alocal Dashnag party leader, wasnearly killed when two persons, saidto have been Armenian youth, threwan explosive at the car in whichYenikomshian was riding throughMoslem and Palestinian controlledWest Beirut. The Dashnag leadermanaged to survive the attemptalthough his assailants escaped. Themotive for the attack is puzzlingauthorities because the victim'sbrother is far more prominent, beingone of the top leaders of theArmenian Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia (ASALA).Hagop has been a local leader foryears, providing extensive service toArmenians. His brother Alex gainedprominence when he lost hiseyesight in an accidental explosionas he was assembling an explosivedevice in a hotel room. After hisrelease from a Swiss jail, he movedto Lebanon where he openly plays akey role as a leader of ASALA.

28-Jul-82 Salzburg Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A bomb exploded outsidea Jewish-owned business in Salzburg.Antisemitic leaflets were foundscattered nearby. There were noinjuries but a great deal of brokenglass from shattered windows innearby buildings.

31-Jul-82 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives7 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb hidden in a suitcase of anIsraeli passenger exploded at apassenger check-in station in MunichAirport for El Al flights. Seven peoplewere injured by the blast, two ofthem policemen, another a securityofficer for the airlines. Four hundredpeople were in the area but no onewas directly beside the suitcase.

31-Jul-82 SantiagoTexacuangos

ElSalvador

Unknown Unknown0 1 EL SALVADOR. Bernard Dewerchin, aBelgian architect overseeingconstruction of a hospital for the SanSalvador archdiocese, was killed byunidentified gunmen in SantiagoTexacuangos.

31-Jul-82 London UnitedKingdom

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A pro-Iraniangroup claimed responsibility for abomb attack on the London office ofa Saudi Arabian newspaper. Thebomb smashed the windows of thepro-Western Jeddah-based Asharq al-Awsat.

1-Aug-82 Nairobi Kenya Other Unknown0 0 KENYA. The Government of Kenyahas confirmed that two Kenyansoldiers facing charges of hijackingan aircraft of the Kenya Air Forcefrom Nairobi to Dar es Salaam willface kidnapping only if they arereturned to Kenya. Sergeant OteyoOkumu and Private Hezekiah Ochukaare alleged to have kidnapped MajorsNick Leshani and Jack Marende fromthe Eastleight Air Force base inNairobi and taken them to Dar esSalaam. The charge of hijackingincurs a charge of treason. Theaccused claimed that their act had apolitical element. The matter isunder advisement.

1-Aug-82 Vienna Austria Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRIA. A firebomb was throwninto a private bank's display windowin Vienna, causing material damagebut no injuries. The incendiarydevice opened a seven and one-halfinch hole in a glass panel outside thebank. The owners of the bank areJewish but authorities refused tospeculate on whether the attack waslinked to other previous incidentsagainst Jewish property.

1-Aug-82 Paris France ActionDirecte

Firearms0 0 FRANCE. Direct Action tookresponsibility for themachinegunning of a parked carowned by an employee of the Israeliembassy. There were no injuries.

3-Aug-82 Schwaebisch-GmundFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Atime bomb ignited several cans ofgasoline that burst into flames anddestroyed two U.S. Army jeeps anddamaged an Army truck outside thebarracks of the 56th Field ArtilleryBrigade near Schwaebisch-Gmund inWest Germany. A second bombfailed to go off. No injuries werereported and no group claimedresponsibility. German militants aresuspected.

4-Aug-82 Limon CostaRica

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives1 0 COSTA RICA. Luis M. Medina Perez, aCuban exile, is said to be one of fivepersons injured in an explosion in theCaribbean port of Limon. CostaRican police officials state that hehad apparently been the target ofSalvadoran rightists who believed hewas smuggling arms to leftistSalvadoran guerrillas. The bombingvictim told police he lived in Miamibut maintained a home in Costa Rica;he disappeared after leaving thehospital. Luis Medina was apparentlya fugitive from Florida where heescaped from jail and a sentence of15 years for murder. The convictedkiller was a known anti-Castromilitant, said to have fought in theBay of Pigs invasion. He closelyresembles Medina Perez who enteredCosta Rica 11 months ago fromPanama and is attempting to applyfor residency. He has never soughthelp from the U.S. Consulate in SanJose.

4-Aug-82 Kabul AfghanistanOther Unknown2 0 AFGHANISTAN. Rebels attacked theSoviet Embassy in the Afghan capitalof Kabul wounding two governmentsoldiers protecting the embassy andcapturing two others. The embassyattack followed several attacks inKabul against the Soviet forcesoccupying Afghanistan sinceDecember 1979. A diplomatic sourcespeculated that some of theincidents are being sparked by aconscription drive launched in July bythe Soviet supported Babrak Karmalregime to press recruits into theAfghan Army.

4-Aug-82 Miami UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. Alpha 66 offices inMiami were torched. Gasoline hadbeen dumped on walls and desks andset afire.

4-Aug-82 TegucigalpaHonduras Other Explosives10 0 HONDURAS. In the capitalTegucigalpa, bombs exploded in thedowntown Pan American LifeInsurance building housing theoffices of International BusinessMachine Corporation, Air Florida andthe Salvadoran Taca airline, injuringat least 10 people. The blastscaused serious damage to the officesof the two American companies andthe El Salvador-based CentralAmerican Air Transport. All threeoffices were closed and the victimswere apparently outside when theexplosions occurred. A relativelynew leftist group calling itself theLorenzo Zelaya PopularRevolutionary Forces claimed creditfor the attack. The group hasclaimed credit for several earlierattacks on embassies to protest thepresence in Honduras of rightistNicaraugan exiles opposed to theManagua government.

5-Aug-82 Karlsbad FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Attackers set a firebomb at the U.S.base in Karlsbad. The blast at anofficer's club ripped off a door.German militants are suspected.

7-Aug-82 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A powerful bomb heavilydamaged a bank patronized byJewish residents in the east of Paris;a bank official theorized that theblast was connected with the Israeliinvasion of Lebanon. The bomb left awrought-iron security rail on awindow shattered, together withshattered windows and facadesthroughout the neighborhood. Thebank was once owned by theprominent Jewish Rothschilds family.

7-Aug-82 Ankara Turkey ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives78 9 TURKEY. Armenian terroristsattacked the Ankara EsenbogaAirport. Nine people were killed and78 injured in the bomb and machine-gun shootout between the Armeniansand Turkish security forces. Thedead included an American and aWest German passenger. TheArmenian Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia (ASALA)claimed responsibility for the attackand stated that the attack wasagainst the Turkish fascistoccupation of our land, and warnedof suicide attacks in the UnitedStates, Canada, England, Sweden,and Switzerland unless 85 prisonersheld in those countries were notreleased within seven days. TheSecret Army is one of two Armenianterrorist groups responsible for theassassination of 22 Turkish officialsand members of their family since1973. A caller to the press statedthat the operation was staged byMartyr Kharmian Hayrik SuicideSquad. Hayrik was not furtheridentified.An Armenian terrorist wasapprehended and put on trial at theAnkara Martial Law Command 3dMilitary Court on September 8.Levon Ekmekjian, a French nationalof Lebanese extraction, waswounded during the attack andadmitted that he had an accomplicein the killing and that it had beenplanned for some time. When hewas on the stand, he said I camehere motivated by belief, however,after this incident understand howridiculous and wrong that beliefwas.... Ekmekjian was sentenced todeath, but was expected to appealthe sentence.Claims later made byASALA maintained that there weretwo assault teams and that the firstunit struck the headquarters of theTurkish military police near theairport and then took over thepassenger terminal. ASALA claimedthat there were more than 30fatalities and 102 injuries in the twooperations.

8-Aug-82 Madrid Spain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A small bomb explodedoutside the Bank of America inMadrid. Police officials speculatedthat the bomb was set by aPalestinian group angered by the U.S. position in the Beirut conflict.

8-Aug-82 BarcelonaSpain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A small bomb explodedoutside the Sears department storein Barcelona. Police officialsspeculated that it was the work of aPalestinian group angered by the U.S. position in the Beirut conflict.

8-Aug-82 Paris France OrlyOrganization

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Police managed to defusean explosive device that was set togo off near a telephone centerlocated in the 17th section of Paris.An unidentified person claiming torepresent the Orly Group took creditfor the blast in a telephone call; heapparently was unaware that thebomb had been defused. The groupappears to protest the arrest of VikenCharkhoudian, an Armenian fromIraq, who had been arrested in LosAngeles two months ago as anaccomplice in an attempt to bombAir Canada facilities.

9-Aug-82 Paris France Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives22 6 FRANCE. Four men firingsubmachine guns burst intoGoldenberg's restaurant in Paris aftertossing grenades through thewindows. The terrorists burst intothe kosher butcher shop and sprayedthe room with bullets, killing the manbehind the counter; they then rushedinto the restaurant where theysprayed machinegun fire at thediners. Six people were killed and 22wounded in what French Jews havecalled the worst postwar anti- Semiticviolence. Two of the dead wereAmerican. The terrorists fled downthe street, indiscriminately firing atpassersby. Action Directe claimedresponsibility but later disclaimed.Because of similarities in weapons,Black June is suspected.


Explosives1 0 FRANCE. A woman walking her dogwas seriously wounded when a bombexploded outside a firm in Paris thatimports Israeli produce. Theexplosion came from a bomb placedoutside a street-level window of aneight-story commercial buildinghousing the citrus fruit import firmGMBI. Direct Action has takenresponsibility for three of the recentattacks, stating that the bombingwas in retaliation for Israel's two-month-old invasion of Lebanon torout the PLO. However, Direct Actiondenied that it was responsible for thebloodbath at Goldenberg'srestaurant, which took place onAugust 9.

11-Aug-82

Paris France Movementof IslamicAction ofIraq

Explosives6 0 FRANCE. A powerful car bombexploded outside the Iraqi embassycomplex. The Movement of IslamicAction of Iraq telephoned a Frenchnews agency to claim responsibilityfor the bomb that set fire to the Iraqicultural center and injured sixpeople. The car was blown apart andtwo cars parked nearby becamecharred hulks as they caught fire andtheir gas tanks exploded. The callerwho claimed responsibility for theattack said the Shiite Moslem factionnamed the operation Khaled AlIslambouli in honor of the chief of thecommandos that assassinatedEgyptian President Anwar Sadat inOctober 1981. The bombing wasmeant to warn French authoritiesagainst furnishing military aid to Iraq.

11-Aug-82

France GroupBakuninGdanskParisGuatemalaSalvador(BGP

Unknown0 0 FRANCE. A little-known anarchistBakunin-Gdansk Group claimedresponsibility for an attack on theSouth African citrus fruit company.

11-Aug-82

UnitedStates

PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives14 1 UNITED STATES. An explosion rippedthrough the interior of a PanAmerican World Airways Boeing 747jetliner as it approached Hawaii fromTokyo with 285 persons aboard,killing a teenager of 14, Toru Ozawa,and injuring 14 other persons. Theexplosion went off under the seat ofOzawa, killing him and injuring 14Japanese nationals. The explosionblew a hole one by three feet wide inthe floor of the plane beneath thevictim's seat. The loss of cabinpressure forced the plane down to10,000 feet from 21,000 but it wasable to land safely in Honolulu. Aninvestigation determined that abomb, probably using nitroglycerin ordynamite, caused the explosion. Ateam of federal agents investigatingthe explosion has not determinedhow the bomb was built ordetonated, or who was responsible.The investigation is continuing.InJune, 1988, a Palestinian, MohammedRashid, identified as a member of aradical PLO faction known as theHawari group, was arrested in Athensin connection with this attack. OnJanuary 8, 1992 he was sentenced to18 years in prison after being foundguilty. His conviction sent a clearmessage that Greece would nolonger be a haven for internationalterrorists. He was released inDecember 1996.

12-Aug-82

France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown at the offices of theAssociation of France and Arabcountries, causing slight damage.There was no claim of responsibility.

12-Aug-82

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. Unidentified assailantstossed bombs at the Israeli embassyand the country's only synagogue inGuatemala City in apparent protestof the Jewish state's support for theGuatemalan military government anda condemnation of Israeli forces whoinvaded Lebanon on June 6. Theembassy police opened fire at thebombers' getaway car but it escaped.The bomb blast at the embassyshattered windows but no one wasinjured. The bomb thrown at thesynagogue failed to explode.

12-Aug-82

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. Unidentified assailantstossed explosives at the Israeliembassy and the country's onlysynagogue in Guatemala City inapparent protest of the Jewish state'ssupport for the Guatemalan militarygovernment and a condemnation ofIsraeli forces who invaded Lebanonon June 6. At the embassy policeopened fire at the bombers' getawaycar but it escaped. The bomb blastat the embassy shattered windowsbut no one was injured. The bombthrown at the synagogue failed toexplode.

12-Aug-82

FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb attached to the wheel of anAmerican soldier's car in Frankfurtblew up, causing minor damage butno injuries. The attack as claimed bythe Revolutionary Cells.

12-Aug-82


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Asmall bomb exploded in a U.S.military housing area in Frankfurt,causing minor damage. Unsignedletters expressing sympathy for thePalestine Liberation Organization andhostility toward Israel were foundnear the blast.

13-Aug-82

MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Explosives0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. The MozambiqueNational Resistance Movement saysit has blown up the oil pipelinebetween the port of Beira and therefinery at Mutare in Zimbabwe. Theflow of oil was cut after an attackbetween Inchope and Vila Machado,in Mozambique's Manica e SofalaProvince. The MNR is waging aguerrilla campaign against theMarxist regimen Maputo.

13-Aug-82

Paris France Unknown Firearms0 0 FRANCE. An unidentified gunmanriding in a speeding car fired atpolice guarding a Turkish travelagency in Paris. No injuries werereported, but police said the 22mmrifle shot missed the guards andsmashed a hole in a nearby window.The travel agency is part of acomplex of buildings housing officesof Middle Eastern governments. Theupsurge of international terrorism inFrance has led to calls for restrictionof France's traditionally liberalpolicies on political asylum .

13-Aug-82

Uganda Other Unknown0 2 UGANDA. The National ResistanceMovement (NRM) opposed toPresident Milton Obote's regime hasclaimed responsibility for the deathsof two North Korean military officers.It was the second time that NRM hasattacked foreign forces in Uganda,and it warned the foreign friends ofPresident Obote against sendingmilitary assistance. Militaryinstructors from Commonwealthcountries have been training Ugandaofficers and junior officers.

14-Aug-82

Lebanon RedBrigades

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The Italian Red Brigadesand the West German BaaderMeinhof group said in a communiquethat they had kidnapped five Israeliofficers whom they were holding tobe exchanged for two members ofthe extremist groups allegedlyarrested recently in Lebanon. Thehandwritten note said that Israeliintelligence services have only twodays to free the arrested memberswho are being held in East Beirut.The Israeli Army denied that any ofits officers were missing in Lebanonand that it would be highly unlikelythat such an incident could gounnoticed by friends or journalists.

14-Aug-82

Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A Jewish synagogue wasbombed in Paris apparently inretaliation for the invasion ofLebanon by Israeli soldiers. Thesynagogue was unoccupied at thetime for summer holidays; therewere no injuries but fire badlydamaged the interior, gutting themeeting hall and burning books andfurniture. A note addressed to thepolice was marked with a swastikaand a Star of David; the writing wasnot decipherable.

15-Aug-82

Portugal ZionistActionGroup

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A hitherto unknownZionist Action Group claimed bombattacks on Air France and WestGerman Lufthansa airline officeswhich left heavy damage but nocasualties. The group, in a call to thePortuguese ANOP news agency, saidthe attacks were in protest againstFrench and West Germangovernment policy towards Israel.

15-Aug-82

Portugal ZionistActionGroup

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A hitherto unknownZionist Action Group claimed bombattacks on Air France and WestGerman Lufthansa airline officeswhich left heavy damage but nocasualties. The group, in a call to thePortuguese ANOP news agency, saidthe attacks were in protest againstFrench and West Germangovernment policy towards Israel.

16-Aug-82

Bastia France Unknown Explosives0 0 CORSICA. A bomb seriouslydamaged the office of Morocco'snational airline, Royal Air Maroc, inBastia.

16-Aug-82

Bastia France Unknown Explosives0 0 CORSICA. A bomb damaged theMoroccan diplomatic mission inBastia.

17-Aug-82

Maputo MozambiqueOther Explosives3 1 MOZAMBIQUE. Ruth First, leader inexile of the ANC, was killed by aletter bomb at the Center for AfricanStudies in Maputo, where she wasworking. Three other people wereslightly wounded. South Africanagents are suspected.

18-Aug-82

Paris France JewishDefenseLeague(JDL)

Unknown8 0 FRANCE. The Jewish Defense League(JDL) claimed responsibility for anattack on the Air France offices inParis, as a retaliation for the recentattacks by French terrorists onbusinesses linked to Israel.

18-Aug-82

Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded at a Fordautomobile showroom, damagingseveral cars, shattering windows,and destroying showroom furniture.

20-Aug-82

HeidelbergFederalRepublicofGermany

Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Baader-Meinhof terrorist gangtried to blow up a radar antenna atthe airfield of the U.S. ArmyHeadquarters in Heidelberg, but thebomb malfunctioned.

21-Aug-82

Bombay India Other Explosives0 1 INDIA. A lone hijacker, identified asMuseebad Singh, armed with a pistoland a hand grenade, hijacked aBoeing 737 on a scheduled flightfrom Bombay to New Delhi carrying69 persons. The hijacker demandedthat political power in India'snorthwestern state of Punjab betransferred immediately to the Sikh-dominated Akali Dal party and thatSikh extremists jailed during recentdisturbances be released. When thehijacker appeared at the open doorof the plane after it landed at theSikh holy city of Amritsar, securityforces hid under the aircraft andopened fire, killing him. None of the63 passengers and six crewmembers was injured.

21-Aug-82

Paris France LebaneseArmedRevolutionaryFaction(LARF)

Explosives0 2 FRANCE. A bomb was planted underthe car of Roderick Grant,commercial advisor to the U.S.Embassy in Paris. The bombexploded while it was beingdismantled, killing one bomb disposalexpert, Bernard Le Dreau, andseverely injuring a second, BernardMauron, who died later onSeptember 7. French police aretaking seriously a call from anextremist group claimingresponsibility for the attack. Thespokesman claimed to represent theLebanese Armed Revolution Factionsand added that the attack was anti-imperialistic. Direct Action alsoclaimed responsibility; then denied it.Grant, whose tour of duty in Francewas just ending, left the country withhis family for the United States.

22-Aug-82

Vienna Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A bomb attempt at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Vienna-Alsergrund failed when the fusefailed. The bomb was found on thewindowsill of the building. Sprayedon the building were the words, U.S.imperialism--no good. Bang.

23-Aug-82

KuwaitCity

Kuwait Other Firearms1 0 KUWAIT. A man posing as ajournalist and carrying a Jordanianpassport wounded the charged'affaires at the embassy of theUnited Arab Emirates. MohammedIbrahim al-Juwayad was shot in bothhands and jaw. The gunman wasarrested. Iran claimed that Iraq wasresponsible for the incident; Iraqretorted that Iran was up to its usualcampaign of attempting to createtension in the area and to cover upits own terrorist practices byaccusing others to divert attentionfrom the facts. Iraq repeated that ithas taken an unswerving standagainst international terrorism.However, the man arrested wasPalestinian, recently arrived fromBulgaria.

26-Aug-82

Miami UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Pan AmericanWorld Airways planes are beingsubjected to random searches, andsecurity has been increased since acleaning woman discovered a bombon a Pan Am jet on its arrival in Riode Janeiro from Miami. The book-sizedevice was removed. No threat wasreceived. Pan Am and Delta Airlinesstarted spot checks on their planes.

27-Aug-82

MozambiqueOther Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Guerrillas, backed bySouth Africa, said they took sixBulgarian civil engineers hostage inan effort to win the release ofpolitical prisoners and to isolate theMarxist government of PresidentSamora Machel. Five men and onewoman were seized on a roadconstruction project in Zambeziaprovince. The rebels offered to freethem in exchange for an unspecifiednumber of anti-Communist politicalprisoners who were believed to beheld in the government-runreeducation camps.

27-Aug-82

Ottawa Canada JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Firearms0 1 CANADA. Turkey's military attache inCanada, Colonel Atilla Altikat, 45,was shot to death in a hail of gunfirethat hit his car at a stoplight inOttawa. Armenian terrorists claimedresponsibility for the slaying; in a callto a news agency in Montreal lessthan an hour after the attack, a manwith a heavy accent said the JusticeCommandos of the ArmenianGenocide was responsible for killingAltikat.

28-Aug-82

SanPedroSula

Honduras Other Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. The RevolutionaryPeople's Front (FPR) has claimedcredit for the explosion of a powerfulbomb at the offices of the U.S.-owned Rosario ResourcesCorporation, a mining company inSan Pedro Sula. The FPR's LorenzoZelaya Commando issued acommunique stating that the actionwas carried out to protest thegovernment's policy of selling out tothe transnational companies. Thebombing caused severe damage. TheHonduran Congress was in the midstof discussing a bill to exempt themining company from paying taxessince it had threatened to fire 1000employees due to operating losses.

2-Sep-82 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An explosion rippedthe Venezuelan consulate offices indowntown Miami. No injuries werereported at the nearly vacantbuilding, although an office wall wasbadly damaged. Omega 7, a groupof militant Cuban exiles, claimedresponsibility. A caller to radio WINZsaid the bomb was in retaliation forthe Venezuelan government'streatment of Orlando Bosch, an anti-Castro militant who has been jailed inVenezuela for six years.

2-Sep-82 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A quarter-pound ofTNT was found on the driveway ofthe Yugoslavian Embassy inWashington, D.C., but no detonatorwas attached. No one claimedresponsibility for its presence.

4-Sep-82 Beirut Lebanon August23Movement

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The joint forces issued astatement in Damascus saying thateight Israeli soldiers had beencaptured by joint forces' elementsand that the International Committeeof the Red Cross had been informed.The Combined Forces of thePalestinian and Lebanese LeftFighters announced they wereholding the soldiers as prisoners ofwar in the Bhamdun area south ofBeirut. An unknown group callingitself the August 23 Movement alsoclaimed responsibility for thedisappearance of the Israeli soldiers.An anonymous caller told theLebanese daily As-Safir that thekidnapping operation was inresponse to the election on August23 of Christian Phalangist leaderBashir al-Jumayyil (Gemayel) aspresident of Lebanon and to thecrimes he had committed during thepast six years against the Lebaneseand Palestinian masses. He said thegroup planned to keep up operationsagainst the Israeli occupier and itsagents until the fall of the tyrant andthe definitive withdrawal of Israelitroops from Lebanon.

5-Sep-82 ZimbabweOther Firearms0 0 ZIMBABWE. Not far from the site ofan earlier kidnapping, in the south ofZimbabwe, two Swiss tourists onsafari were intercepted and held byarmed dissidents. A military patrolhappened on the scene and engagedthe militants in gunfire freeing thetourists.

5-Sep-82 Bern SwitzerlandPolishRevolutionaryHomeArmy

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Terrorists callingthemselves anti-Communistrevolutionaries seized the PolishEmbassy in Bern and held 13diplomatic hostages. The group'sleader, who identified himself asColonel Wysocki of the PolishRevolutionary Home Army,threatened to bomb and completelydestroy the embassy and everyonein it unless martial law was abolishedin Poland, all political prisoners werereleased, all prison camps in Polandwere shut down, and repressionagainst the Polish people was halted.He told police that they had 55pounds of explosives in the embassyand gave the Warsaw government 48hours to comply with their demands.After the siege had gone on for 24hours, the gunmen freed threepersons including a pregnant woman.Five more hostages were releasedthe following day at which time theterrorists also delayed the deadlineuntil Friday the 10th. A ninthhostage escaped.On Thursday the9th, Swiss police stormed theembassy after laying out barbed wirearound the rear of the building. Teargas was used, apparently hidden in abox of food passed into the building.When it exploded, the police rushedthe building. Eventually the fivehostages were released and theterrorists were captured andarrested. The gunmen haddemanded a car and safe passageout of the country, which had beenrefused by the Swiss government.Earlier, a diplomat who had hidden inthe attic was rescued through a top-floor window after police scaled thebuilding.In November, Switzerlandrejected a request from Poland forthe extradition of the four men,stating that they themselvesintended to try the men in 1983 intheir highest court. The four men areFlorian Kruszyk, 42, KrystofWasilewski, 33, Miroslaw Plewinski,23, and Marck Michalski, 20.

8-Sep-82 Chicago UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Omega-7 bombed abookstore in Chicago which itaccused of selling communist booksand literature.

9-Sep-82 Burgas Bulgaria ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms0 1 BULGARIA. A masked gunman shotand killed Bora Suelkan,administrative attache at the Turkishconsulate in Burgas. He was shot atthe entrance to his house.Bystanders chased the assailant buthe escaped. A piece of cloth foundnearby carried the writing, We shotdead the Turkish diplomat: combatunits of Justice Against ArmenianGenocide. An anonymous caller alsotelephoned the AP office in Beirutand claimed responsibility for thekilling in the name of the ArmenianSecret Army for the Liberation ofArmenia.

11-Sep-82 Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A grenade was hurled at anIsraeli vehicle on the Trans-Samariaroad. There were no casualties. Themilitary authorities closed off a roadsection after stones were thrown atIsraeli vehicles on many occasions. Ablockade was imposed on threevillages in the area.

13-Sep-82 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. It is not known if the RedBrigades or related far-left groupswere behind the minor explosion inRome which damaged the offices ofSIMA, an international airlinesagency which books cargo shipmentsfor several airlines. The attack mayhave been related to Arab terroristorganizations which are known to betargeting Rome for future attacks.

16-Sep-82 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms1 0 PAKISTAN. Unknown gunmenopened fire on the Kuwaiti ActingConsul Hammad Saleh al-Jutaili, inKarachi, as he drove in his car. Nomotive is known.

16-Sep-82 WestBerlin


RevolutionaryCells

Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.No group claimed responsibility forthe attack against the West Berlinoffices of Sperry Rand, but it isbelieved to be the work of the RZ(local revolutionary cells) which hasbegun terrorist activity against U.S.data processing companies.

16-Sep-82 Madrid Spain Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms1 1 SPAIN. The first secretary of theKuwait Embassy, Najeed Sayed Al-Refaia was killed and his chauffeurwounded when a gunman fired ontheir car in Madrid. The assailantwas captured by police. He identifiedhimself as Ibrahim Nasser Hamdan,28, a Palestinian belonging to theextremist faction of the PalestineLiberation Organization known as theAbu Nidal group. He claimed he hadbeen in Spain four months planningan attack on the Kuwaiti ambassadorbut shot the first secretary bymistake.

17-Sep-82 Paris France LebaneseArmedRevolutionaryFaction(LARF)

Explosives48 0 FRANCE. Terrorists booby-trapped acar with Israeli diplomatic licenseplates, seriously injuring an official ofthe Israeli arms procurement missionin Paris. Three other people werealso seriously injured, and more than44 others were injured from flyingglass, including school childrenattending a school nearby. DiplomatAmos Man-El, Zoltan Mandel-Schmidt, and his wife, Veronica, werebadly injured. There have been over20 terrorist attacks in Paris againstIsrael, Palestine LiberationOrganization, Iraqi, Iranian, Syrian,Lebanese, and American targets inthe last month. The Armed Factionsof the Lebanese Revolution tookresponsibility for the bombing.

18-Sep-82 Brussels Belgium BlackLebanon

Unknown0 0 BELGIUM. An organization callingitself Black Lebanon claimedresponsibility for an attack on theIsraeli intelligence center in Brussels.The organization was quoted in theLondon-based newspaper Al-Arab assaying that the successful operationwas the beginning of war againstevery Zionist all over the world inretaliation for the massacresperpetrated by Zionist forces inLebanon's Sabra and Shatila camps;the organization intended to confrontterrorism with violence.

18-Sep-82 Brussels Belgium Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms4 0 BELGIUM. A lone attacker shot andwounded four people in front of themain synagogue in Brussels. Guardsin front of the synagogue were takenby surprise and the gunmanescaped. Police believe aninternational terrorist group isresponsible for the attack, possibly agroup headed by Abu Nidal, adisaffected former member of thePalestinian Liberation Organization.His group calls itself theRevolutionary Council of Fatah.

18-Sep-82 NeustadtFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. ATurkish club in Neustadt wasbombed.

18-Sep-82 Honduras CinchonerosPopularLiberationMovement

Unknown0 0 HONDURAS. Approximately 10guerrillas of the Cinchonero NationalLiberation Movement, which isclosely linked to leftist rebels inneighboring El Salvador, stormed theChamber of Commerce building,taking 105 people hostage. Twentywere released and three escaped.The hostages included two Cabinetministers and about 80 of thecountry's top business leaders.Although their hostages includemembers of the richest families inthe country, all the terrorists' knowndemands are political rather thanmonetary. The guerrillas demandedthe release of about 60 Salvadoran,Honduran, and other Latin Americanleftist activists believed to be in jailor to have disappeared after beingdetained by government forcesduring the last two years, as well asthe removal of U.S. military advisersbased here. In addition, they askedthat Honduras be withdrawn from thenewly formed anticommunist CentralAmerican Democratic Communityand that an antiterrorist law berepealed. The spark for the takeoverappears to have been the reportedarrest on August 22 of Salvadoranguerrilla commander AlejandroMontenegro.Officials stated that theywere offering nothing but safeconduct in exchange for the saferelease of the hostages. OnSeptember 23, the guerrillasreleased 20 more hostages. Finallyon September 28, the hostages wereall released and the guerrillas wereflown to Havana.

20-Sep-82 Lima Peru Other Unknown0 1 PERU. A policeman was killed bythree terrorists who attacked him ashe was on guard duty at the GDREmbassy in west Lima. The terroristsstole his submachine gun.

20-Sep-82 HongKong

HongKong

Unknown Explosives1 0 HONG KONG. A bomb exploded inthe Japanese-owned Matsuzakayadepartment store a few blocks fromVictoria Park where about 10,000people were protesting the treatmentof Japanese wartime atrocities intextbooks. A saleswoman receivedminor injuries when she triggered theexplosion by removing a book from ashelf. Japanese have recently agreedto amend the textbooks.

21-Sep-82 Madrid Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Police reported a verypowerful bomb exploded in Madrid atan Iraqi cultural center a few hoursbefore the opening of a photo exhibiton the war between Iraq and Iran.There was great damage but nocasualties. The pictures weredestroyed.

21-Sep-82 MavumbaMozambiqueOther Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Five Christianmissionaries were kidnapped byantigovernment rebels in Mavumba.The five comprised an Italianmissionary, three Italian nuns, and aBrazilian nun.

22-Sep-82 Rabat Morocco Unknown Unknown0 0 MOROCCO. The first secretary of theSoviet Embassy in Rabat, AnatoliBogaty, together with his wife andtwo children, have been missingsince the diplomat's car was found inthe Rabat outskirts. No informationhas come to light.

22-Sep-82 Vienna Austria IraqiDemocraticFront

Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A terrorist group callingitself the Iraqi Democratic Frontclaimed responsibility for a bombattack on the Iraqi Embassy and theIraqi airlines building. The identity ofthe perpetrators is not known andthe anonymous caller did not give amotive for the attack.

22-Sep-82 Vienna Austria IraqiDemocraticFront

Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A terrorist group callingitself the Iraqi Democratic Frontclaimed responsibility for a bombattack on the Iraqi Embassy and theIraqi airlines building. The identity ofthe perpetrators is not known andthe anonymous caller did not give amotive for the attack.

23-Sep-82 Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives2 0 COLOMBIA. A dynamite attackagainst the Israeli Embassy in Bogotacaused an explosion in the front partof the residence where AmbassadorHayin Aharon had his office. Therewere no casualties; the ambassadorwas out of town. A vehicle sped pastthe embassy at the time of theexplosion machinegunning thebuilding. M-19, the Colombian 19April Movement, claimed credit forthe bombing and for the two peoplewho were injured, one of whom wasthe ambassador's wife. Ananonymous spokesman for M-19stated that the bombing was an actof solidarity with the Palestinianskilled in Beirut.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An unexplodedbomb planted by Omega-7 wasdiscovered in front of the NicaraguanConsulate in Miami.

27-Sep-82 BenGardan

Tunisia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TUNISIA. At Ben Gardan, rioterslooted and torched the homes andshops of Jewish residents. Severalpeople were arrested in connectionwith the incident, which mirrored anearlier attack on Jews in Zarzis.

27-Sep-82 Paris France Unknown Firearms0 0 FRANCE. Paris police reported that ashot was fired and rocks thrown at aNATO office in suburban Rueil-Malmaison. Bullets were found in thewall of the building; three windowswere broken. No group claimedresponsibility and there were noinjuries.

27-Sep-82 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives1 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Aman was killed and a womanseriously injured by a dawn bombingin front of the offices of the Jordanianairline, Alia, in Frankfurt.

27-Sep-82 FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Offices of Pan American Airlines andtwo West German travel agencieswere bombed overnight. Policebelieve the bombs were directedagainst Israel and the agencies weretargeted because they arrangeflights to that country.


RevolutionaryCells

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Afirebomb attack blew out thewindows in the building housing theWest German branch of Sperry Rand,a U.S. computer company. It was thesecond time the building had beenfirebombed, the first 11 days ago.The Revolutionary Cells aresuspected.

28-Sep-82 Eilat Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Two terrorists armed withAK-47, 16 hand granades, 2 kg.explosives, 6 demolition bricks,electronic detonators, mines andkatyusha missiles planned toinfiltrate into Eilat and commit masskilling. One of the two hadwithdrawn before crossing theborder. The other crossed the borderand threw a grenade at an Israeli car(no one hurt). He then entered theDead Sea Factories and opened fireat workers. Fire was returned andthe terrorist was captured. (AM -Fatah)

28-Sep-82 HeidelbergFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Afirebomb exploded near a radarantenna at the U.S. Armyheadquarters near Heidelberg, WestGermany. Firemen extinguished theblaze and disarmed a second andlarger device before any damage wascaused. Flight operations were notdisrupted and there were no injuries.No group claimed responsibility.

29-Sep-82 Giessen FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Terrorists detonated a bomb under atrain carrying consumer goods andsupplies to a U.S. Army depot nearGiessen. The blast ripped up thetracks and a signal box. No groupclaimed responsibility.

30-Sep-82 Milan Italy NucleiArmatiComunista

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded in front ofthe Jewish community center inMilan, causing light damage and noinjuries. Police said the blastshattered windows and the maindoor of the building. The attack wasclaimed by a group identifying itselfas the Communist Armed Group incalls to the media. Communitycenter leaders said they havereceived threatening letters and callssince the massacre of Palestinianrefugees in Israeli- occupied Beirut.

2-Oct-82 GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Unidentified gunmenshot and killed an Americanbusinessman, Richard Kehagy, anddumped his body in Villaneuva, atown 18 miles outside the capitalcity. The U.S. Embassy said Kehagyhad lived in Guatemala for 20 yearsand was married to a Guatemalanwoman.

4-Oct-82 Alayh Lebanon PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives11 6 LEBANON. An Israeli Army bustransporting soldiers back to Israelon leave was ambushed in the townof Alayh (close to Beirut). Theattack, carried out with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) andmachine guns, left six Israelis deadand 11 wounded. It is believed thatthe operations are being carried outby terrorist teams penetrating Israelioccupied areas from Syrian-controlled Al-Bika valley. Aspokesman for the Popular Front forthe Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)stated that his organization is goingto confront any Israeli move on theAl-Bika valley.

9-Oct-82 Rome Italy RedBrigades

Explosives34 1 ITALY. Unidentified gunmen threwhand grenades and fired submachineguns at worshippers leaving a Romesynagogue at the conclusion ofSabbath services. A 2-year-old boywas killed and 34 people werewounded, some seriously. Althoughan offshoot of the Red Brigadesclaimed responsibility for this attack,Arab radicals are generally believedto be responsible.

9-Oct-82 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb ripped through the DrakeEdwards U.S. Army housing area.The explosive was packed into a carand was detonated outside themilitary apartment complex inFrankfurt. There was considerabledamage. Red Army Faction (RAF) issuspected. On October 28, WestGerman police arrested six people inStuttgart suspected of carrying outthe wave of firebombing attacks onU.S. and West German militaryinstallations that began July 20. Thethree men and three women werethought to be sympathizers of theradical Red Army Faction. Writtenmaterial was discovered in theirhomes linking them with the attacks.

9-Oct-82 MozambiqueOther Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Seven Portuguesecitizens were kidnapped byMozambique rebels in the province ofManica. They were released onNovember 9 on the Zambabweanside of the Mozambique border. Noreason was given for theirkidnapping.

10-Oct-82 FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Ahigh-powered explosive device wasdiscovered concealed in a fireextinguisher in the basement of a 25-story U.S. military apartmentbuilding. The device was defusedbefore it could explode. A similardevice totally destroyed a U.S. Armyintelligence center in Geissen in1981.

14-Oct-82 Toronto Canada DirectAction

Explosives10 0 CANADA. A bomb explosion caused$50 million in damage to a LittonIndustries plant near Toronto. Theplant manufactures guidancesystems for the controversial cruisemissiles that the United States isplanning to deploy in Western Europethrough NATO. The plant has beenthe site of various anti-nuclear anddisarmament protests. A groupcalling itself Direct Action tookresponsibility for the attack. Therewas initial speculation that they maybe members of the French ActionDirecte. Terrorist demolition teamswere suspected of entering Canadafrom Europe and possibly obtainingthe explosives and other logisticalsupport from local radical groupssuch as remnants of the Front for theLiberation of Quebec (FLQ), some ofwhose members were recentlytraining in PLO camps in Lebanon.This is the second attack claimed inCanada by this group, the last beingMay 31 of this year.NOTE: DirectAction was a Canadian group ofmilitant activists. The fivemembers received prison sentencesfor this bombing and were releasedafter serving or being granted parole.There was no connection to anyforeign groups.

18-Oct-82 SwitzerlandOther Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SWITZERLAND. A firebomb explodedat the Swiss Embassy(?), causing noinjuries or damage. An Hungarianexile claimed responsibility for theattack in a telephone call, statingthat he wanted to attract attention tothe refugee problem. Adam Paragh,an Hungarian who tried to hijack aPortugese airliner in 1978, issuspected of this incident. He wasreleased in Lisbon in 1978 becausethe court considered him notdangerous to society.

18-Oct-82 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An anonymous group claimedresponsibility for the arson attackson four American cars (military) inFrankfurt, in which damage totalingDM7,000 was caused. A lettermarked with a five-pointed black starwas sent by the group to a Frankfurtdaily newspaper. The group claimedsolidarity with the Red Army Faction(RAF) and stated that their actionswere meant to commemorate 18October 1977, the day when AndreasBaader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan CarlRaspe committed suicide inStammheim Prison in Stuttgart.

18-Oct-82 CochabambaBolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. An Israeli club was bombedin Cochabamba City. No injurieswere reported.

20-Oct-82 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. A Roman Catholicarchbishop, Alexandre doNascimento of Lubango, Angola, waskidnapped while visiting the provinceof Cunene on the border with South-West Africa. Rebels fighting theAngolan government reported thekidnapping on October 25. Ninenuns and 15 Red Cross workers werekidnapped in the same area shortlyafter the above incident. Aspokesman for the National Union forthe Total Independence of Angolasaid they wanted to contact theVatican to arrange the release of thearchbishop, claiming he had beenkidnapped by mistake on theassumption that he was agovernment official disguised as achurchman. The Luanda governmentreported that the South African Armyand rebel forces have controlledmost of Cunene province since amajor South African invasion inAugust 1981.

20-Oct-82 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives1 0 ITALY. A bomb seriously damagedthe Lebanese Embassy in Rome, onthe eve of a visit by President AminGemayel. A bypasser was injured byglass, and there was considerabledamage to the building. No groupclaimed responsibility for the attackwhich came less than two weeksafter a raid on Rome's mainsynagogue.

21-Oct-82 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. An anarchist organizationcalling itself Autonomy warned that itwould place bombs in various pointsof Athens, in particular those of U.S.interest, such as the American Union.The organization's leaflets, in whichthe plot was mentioned, were foundbehind the statue of ElevtheriosVenizelos. Unidentified people alsophoned newspaper offices about theplot, at which time the newspapersinformed the police who discoveredthe bombs only at the AmericanUnion. The motive was apparentlyrevenge because pre-electionannouncements regarding theabolition of American bases fromGreece, Greece's withdrawal fromNATO, etc., had not beenimplemented. The bomb at theAmerican Union was disarmed byexperts.

21-Oct-82 Karlsbad FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Unidentified vandals scrawled Deathto American Imperialism and U.S.Pigs on 23 American-owned cars andslashed their tires outside twomilitary apartment buildings inKarlsbad. The attack prompted atightening of security in the housingareas.

22-Oct-82 UnitedStates

Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 UNITED STATES. Daniel Jordan, aleader in the Bahai faith fromCalifornia may have beenassassinated by Iranian anti-Bahaiterrorists, police said. Jordan's bodywas found in a Stamford, Conn.parking lot, dead of a single stabwound in the neck. Jordan was deanof education at National University inSan Diego. Followers of the religionhave been executed in Iran underorders of the Ayatollah RuhollahKhomeini.

22-Oct-82 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaOther Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. Police announced thatthe Turkish Consulate in GuatemalaCity had been attacked twice byterrorists. A group of unidentifiedmen drove past the Consulate andmachinegunned the building. Thegroup repeated its action atmidnight, when it also threwpropaganda leaflets attributed toseveral leftist organizations. Thepolice did not reveal anyidentification of the perpetrators. Nocasualities occurred, and materialdamage was minor.


GuatemalaOther Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. Police announced thatthe Turkish Consulate in GuatemalaCity had been attacked twice byterrorists. A group of unidentifiedmen drove past the Consulate andmachinegunned the building. Thegroup repeated its action atmidnight, when it also threwpropaganda leaflets attributed toseveral leftist organizations. Thepolice did not reveal anyidentification of the perpetrators. Nocasualities occurred, and materialdamage was minor.

22-Oct-82 Kabul AfghanistanOther Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. Rebels fired rocketsinto the Soviet Embassy in Kabul, theAfghan capital, in the first majorattack against the compound sincethe Soviet Union intervened militarilyin Afghanistan in December 1979.Two missiles exploded inside theembassy compound, but there wasno report of injuries or damagesustained. The rebels claimed theydamaged the eastern wall and brokewindows. (see August 4, 1982)

26-Oct-82 PhiladelphiaUnitedStates

JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Five youngArmenians were charged withconspiring to blow up the offices ofthe Turkish consul general inPhiladelphia with a dynamite timebomb. The plan was to have itplanted at the Philadelphia offices ofHonorary Turkish Consul GeneralKanat Arbay, according to thecomplaint filed in Los Angeles federalcourt. The five defendants, all fromthe Los Angeles area, were arrestedon charges of conspiracy to murderan innocent man ...because he is aTurk. The government papersmentioned the Justice Commandosfor the Armenian Genocide, a groupof militants sworn to avenge theslaughter of over a million Armeniansin 1915. The bomb was found inBoston in a suitcase at the Bostonairport. It was made up of five sticksof dynamite, a small Timexwristwatch, and various wires andscrews, a toggle switch, an H-shapedblock of wood, a volt/ohm meter, andtwo C batteries.Steven Dadaian, theCanoga Park, California residentcharged with transporting explosives,was set for trial on the possessioncharge; both he and the other fouryouths are attempting to raise thehuge bails set for them.

26-Oct-82 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms0 0 PERU. The residence of U.S.Ambassador Frank Ortiz in Lima wassubjected to a hit-and-run automaticweapons assault. Sendero Luminoso(SL) was believed responsible.


Unknown0 1 PERU. Sendero Luminoso (SL) isbelieved responsible for the killing ofa civil guard posted outside theIndian Embassy in Lima. The guard'sgun and submachine gun werestolen.

28-Oct-82 Rome Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Terrorists hurled Molotovcocktails at a building housing asmall synagogue and Jewishcommunity center in Rome. Noinjuries were reported. An obscuregroup called the CommunistMetropolitan Front claimedresponsibility; a band of 8 to 10youths were seen hurling the Molotovcocktails at the building.

31-Oct-82 Giessen FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded in a U.S. militaryhousing area in Giessen, destroying20 cars and breaking windows.There were no reported injuries, butpolice estimated damage at up to$157,000. No group claimedresponsibility, but the homemadedevice concealed inside a propanegas tank resembled other devicesused by the RAF.

1-Nov-82 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A small bomb slightlydamaged an Israeli-Ecuadorangoodwill association near the Quitosynagogue on the Jewish new year.No group claimed responsibility.

1-Nov-82 Paris France GroupBakuninGdanskParisGuatemalaSalvador(BGP

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb nearly demolisheda Soviet-owned watch and jewelrystore in Paris. No one was injured inthe store which sells articles made bythe Slava factory in Besancon,southern France, and is 90- percentowned by the Soviet Union. Ananonymous caller to a news agencyled police to a message which saidthe Group Bakounine-Gdansk-Guatemala-Salvador was responsiblefor placing the bomb. It attackedSoviet bureaucratic order andAmerican imperialism.

1-Nov-82 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives3 0 LEBANON. A booby-trapped carexploded close to U.S. Marinepositions on a Beirut beach in whatpolice described as a direct attack onthe American peacekeeping troops inLebanon. Two Lebanese civilianswere seriously wounded and aMarine was grazed by debris thatshowered the beach after theexplosion.

3-Nov-82 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany

Dev Sol Unknown5 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Nine armed terrorists belonging tothe Turkish Dev-Sol RevolutionaryLeft organization occupied theTurkish Consulate General inCologne, taking a reported 80hostages in a storm of gunfire. Fivepeople were injured by flying glass asemployees of the consulate andvisitors attempted to escape. Aboutan hour after the consulate wasrushed, a red banner was unfurledbearing the slogan No to the Juntaconstitution in Turkey in bothGerman and Turkish. The bannerwas emblazoned with a hammer andsickle and white star, and bore thename Devrimci Sol, or RevolutionaryLeft. Dev-Sol is one of the mostmilitant Marxist-Leninist groups andhas been operating in Turkey beforegenerals seized power in Ankara inSeptember 1980. Currently 781members of the group are on trial inTurkish martial law courts.Afternearly 16 hours of negotiation duringwhich the terrorists released most oftheir hostages, they demanded acomprehensive political manifesto bebroadcast over radio stations, andreiterated their opposition toTurkey's military regime, the gunmensurrendered to local authorities whenthe latter promised to review theirbid for political asylum.

4-Nov-82 AfghanistanOther Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. AnticommunistAfghan guerrillas blew up thepipeline from the Soviet Union twicein three days. They hit the pipelinenear Bagram Air Force Base north ofKabul Nov. 7 and three days earlierat Dasht-e-Qalagai in northernSamangan Province bordering theSoviet Union. Several workmen werekilled at Dasht-e-Qalagai when theystepped on landmines planted closeto the damaged pipeline. Theinterruption of the pipeline's flowforced a reduction in Soviet militaryactivity.

5-Nov-82 AmsterdamNetherlandsDev Sol Unknown0 0 NETHERLANDS. A group of about tenmilitants belonging to the TurkishDev-Sol (Revolutionary Left)movement occupied the Turkishinformation office in Amsterdam.The militants held the director of thecenter and a female employee. Themembers said they were protestingagainst the constitution of theAmerican-influenced fascist junta inTurkey. The center was cordoned offby police.

5-Nov-82 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Angolan rebels of theNational Union for the TotalIndependence of Angola (UNITA)captured two Brazilian techniciansduring a rebel attack on a town 150miles south of Luanda. Angolanauthorities received a communiquethe following week from the rebelsdeclaring the kidnapping in the nameof UNITA.

7-Nov-82 AfghanistanOther Explosives0 3 AFGHANISTAN. AnticommunistAfghan guerrillas blew up thepipeline from the Soviet Union twicein three days. They hit the pipelinenear Bagram Air Force Base north ofKabul Nov. 7 and three days earlierat Dasht-e-Qalagai in northernSamangan Province bordering theSoviet Union. Several workmen werekilled at Dasht-e-Qalagai when theystepped on landmines planted closeto the damaged pipeline. Theinterruption of the pipeline's flowforced a reduction in Soviet militaryactivity.

12-Nov-82

Utrecht NetherlandsOther Firearms0 1 NETHERLANDS. Nubar Yalemian, anArmenian youth born in Turkey andliving in the Middle East and Europe,was gunned down in the Dutch townof Utrecht where he had recentlymoved; he was employed as aninterpreter. Certain Turkish sourcesclaimed that Yalemian was affiliatedwith the Armenian Secret Army forthe Liberation of Armenia and waskilled by a recently created Turkish-anti-Armenian group huntingArmenian extremists. He was amember in ASALA, and an activemember in the Turkish CommunistParty which is outlawed in Turkey butflourishes in Europe among themillions of Turks who live there.Yalemian was killed by a handgunequipped with a silencer. Astatement issued by ASALAattributed the killing to Turkish hitsquads out to discredit the Armenianrevolution.

13-Nov-82

TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. An unidentified groupthrew a homemade bomb at theoffices of a U.S. airline, Air Florida, inTegucigalpa, without causing anyinjuries or damage.

15-Nov-82

EschbornFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.About 3,000 residents, most of themAmericans, were evacuated from a26-story apartment building inEschborn while experts destroyed atime fuse set to trigger a 12-poundbomb in the building's basementgarage. Residents alerted the U.S.military police after they discoveredwires protruding from a fireextinguisher packed in a plastic bagnear the cars parked next to thebuilding's main gas pipes. The bombwas homemade. No one claimedresponsibility, but German militantswere suspected.

16-Nov-82


Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. The MozambiqueNational Resistance fighters (MNR)claim to have destroyed the Beira-Zimbabwe pipeline.

16-Nov-82

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. A rowdy bar inLittle Havana was sprayed withgunfire by gunmen claiming tobelong to Omega-7. The bar wasattacked because it had Americanand Cuban flags painted on its door.Anonymous callers had earlierthreatened to attack the bar if theflags were not removed.

19-Nov-82

NewDelhi

India Unknown Explosives0 0 INDIA. A hand grenade was throwninto the residential compound of theSoviet Embassy during the night,shattering windows and damaging adoor. A Soviet diplomat reported thathe was walking behind the embassywhen he saw two persons riding amotorcycle near the building. Heheard the explosion immediatelyafter.

20-Nov-82

Kwangju Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. A homemadeexplosive was tossed onto the roof ofthe American Cultural Center inKwangju in an unsuccessful attack onthe U.S. facility. No damage wasreported. Two guards rushed to theroof when they heard the explosionand extinguished the flames. Thebomb was made of a beer bottle anda newspaper fuse.

26-Nov-82

Mkuze SouthAfrica

AfricanNationalCongress(SouthAfrica)

Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. Police areinvestigating a possible link betweenthe attack on the fuel depot at Mkuzein Northern Zululand on Monday andthe explosion at a Paulpietersburgfuel depot earlier this year. Limpetmines were believed used in theexplosion. A spokesman for theMobil Oil Company which owns theMkuze depot, said the company waswaiting for a full insurance reportbefore releasing any details. Thoughno one has claimed responsibility forthe blasts, the ANC is believedresponsible.

26-Nov-82

Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives1 3 ECUADOR. A bomb hidden inside abriefcase that had been left by ayouth on the floor of the IsraeliEmbassy in Quito exploded while apoliceman was carrying it from thebuilding. The explosion killed him,another policeman standing nearby,and a woman, who was blownthrough a window. Several peopleon other floors of the building weretaken to the hospital in shock; apasserby was also reported injuredby the blast. Because of thesophistication of the bomb, said to bea time bomb hidden under a falsebottom of the briefcase, diplomaticsources said no local sources wereunder suspicion for the attack. ThePLO condemned the attack, accusingIsraeli secret police for attempting toundermine relations between LatinAmerica and the PLO.

2-Dec-82 Bangkok Thailand Other Explosives17 1 THAILAND. A powerful bombexplosion destroyed the former Iraqiconsulate (Embassy?) in Chinatown,killing the police department's topbomb disposal expert and injuring sixpolicemen and eleven civilians.According to employees in theformer consulate, a tall, thin,mustached Arab wearing sunglassesand carrying a brown Samsonitebriefcase entered the building atabout 1pm. He left later leaving thebriefcase behind. The employeesbecame suspicious and after aboutan hour called for help. The bombexploded at near 4 in the afternoonas it was being dismantled.Authorities suspect that the motivewas political and probably related tothe ongoing war between Iran andIraq. The attack was claimed severaldays later by a Shi'ite Muslim groupcalling itself the April 20 Group,supporters of Iran.

3-Dec-82 Medellin Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. A synagogue in the cityof Medellin was attacked by twelvearmed militants who harrassed theworshippers and burned Torahscrolls, U.S. and Israeli flags. Themilitants, three of whom werewomen, wore masks over their faceswith the letters PLO inscribed onthem. The attackers pushed theworshippers against the wall andspilled red ink on them. The attacklasted about 20 minutes.

5-Dec-82 Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb explosion blew outthe windows of Travel-Master Ltd., atravel agency serving two Arabairlines, Gulf Air and North YemenAirlines. There were no injuries andno group claimed responsibility.

7-Dec-82 Kampala Uganda Unknown Firearms2 0 UGANDA. Unidentified gunmen shotand wounded two employees of theIndian High Commission in Kampalaas they left their car in front of thecommissions's offices this morning.The wounded persons were Indiannationals. Witnesses said there wereat least two gunmen and they firedwith automatic weapons.

8-Dec-82 Greece ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 1 GREECE. Two youths riding amotorbike threw a bomb at theKuwait Airline office. The SaudiArabian Airlines office was nearbyand also suspected of being thetarget. The bomb missed the officeand hit an electricity pole andexploded, killing one of the youths.The other youth, Vaheh Kontaverdianfrom Iran, was arrested but hasrefused to give any information topolice, though he did admit that heand his companion did throw thebomb. Greek authorities laterreported that ASALA had claimedcredit for the attack and declared itwas to protest Saudi Arabian supportfor Turkey.Two days later, anunknown person called AFP claimingto represent ASALA, and stated thatthe two young men were victims ofan attempted assassination byTurkish agents operating in Athens.ASALA denied that neither itscommando, Karnig Vahradian whowas killed, nor Vahig Khoudaverdianwho is an ASALA supporter wereinvolved in any attack against anyairline office.

14-Dec-82

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaOther ChemicalAgent

0 0 GUATEMALA. The 33-year oldphysician daughter of HonduranPresident Roberto Suazo Cordova,was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas asshe was leaving the hospital inGuatemala City where she worked.The kidnappers demanded thepublication of a political manifesto inMexican and Central Americannewspapers. Dr. Xiomara SuazoEstrada was a Guatemalan citizenand has lived in that country for 20years. The kidnappers warned thather life would be in danger unless theGuatemalan government publishedthe manifesto by 8:30pm onDecember 17. The guerrillas did notidentify themselves for tacticalreasons. Armed military patrolssearched buildings and vehicles inthe capital's streets but securityofficials said they found no clues tothe whereabouts of the kidnappeddoctor. The Guatemalan governmentstood by its policy of not negotiatingwith terrorists, and the deadline forthe publication of the group'smanifesto passed. In a finalcommunique from the kidnappersthe deadline was extended. Finally,on December 22, fourteenGuatemalan, Mexican and CentralAmerican newspapers printed theguerrilla manifesto. The messagefrom the kidnappers identified themas members of the Pedro DiasCommand of the Ixim (Mayan wordfor food) People's RevolutionaryMovement. They included the I.D.card of Dr. Suazo. On December 23,at sundown, after their only demandhad been granted, the guerrillasreleased the woman, unharmed. Thepublished communique condemnedU.S. imperialism in Central America.Dr. Suazo told reporters that she hadbeen treated well and kept alone in asmall room. She had been injectedwith a drug when she was firstseized. Her captors remainedmasked throughout the nine-dayordeal and provided her withCommunist literature to read.

14-Dec-82


RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. AU.S. serviceman, Spec. 4 George J.Mitchell, narrowly escaped injurywhen he discovered a bomb underthe seat of his car parked at a U.S.facility in a Frankfurt suburb. Policesaid he felt the battery as heprepared to sit down. He lifted theseat cover and discovered the bomb.

14-Dec-82


RevolutionaryCells

Explosives1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. AU.S. serviceman, Spec. 5 Ricky Seiussuffered burns when his car explodedas he sat in it. His car had beenparked at a military facility outsideFrankfurt and was totally destroyed.

15-Dec-82

DarmstadtFederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The third car bombing attack in 48hours seriously injured a Capt.Howard Bromberg, 27, a U.S. soldierin Darmstadt. The explosive devicedetonated as the soldier got into thedriver's seat of his car at a militaryinstallation. The car was completelydestroyed by fire. Similar attackshave recently targeted U.S.personnel in Germany. The policeattributed the attack to theRevolutionary Cells, a loose-knitleftist terrorist group seeking to forcethe withdrawal of American troopsfrom West Germany. However, noone claimed responsibility for thebombing.

16-Dec-82

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A powerful bombdamaged a suburban IBM officebuilding during the evening, just fourhours after a bomb caused extensivedamage to a South African transportoffice on Long Island. An anonymouscaller told an editor of a White Plainsnewspaper that both actions wererelated, but declined to give anindication of what, if any, groupinstigated the bombings. A callbefore the IBM bombing warned thata huge bomb would go off in 30minutes, saying We did South AfricanAirways. The call was repeated in fiveminutes and the bomb exploded at 7:40pm. Damage to the building wasextensive, but all personnel had beenevacuated in time. IBM, which hasextensive operations in South Africa,has been a leading target of groupscritical of U.S. investments in SouthAfrica.The earlier Long Island blasttook place at the South AfricanRailways Procurement Office. Policesaid the bomb went off only minutesafter the four-story building wasevacuated and after a bomb squadthrew a blast blanket over the deviceto contain the explosion.

16-Dec-82

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A powerful bombdamaged a suburban IBM officebuilding during the evening, just fourhours after a bomb caused extensivedamage to a South African transportoffice on Long Island. An anonymouscaller told an editor of a White Plainsnewspaper that both actions wererelated, but declined to give anindication of what, if any, groupinstigated the bombings. A callbefore the IBM bombing warned thata huge bomb would go off in 30minutes, saying We did South AfricanAirways. The call was repeated in fiveminutes and the bomb exploded at 7:40pm. Damage to the building wasextensive, but all personnel had beenevacuated in time. IBM, which hasextensive operations in South Africa,has been a leading target of groupscritical of U.S. investments in SouthAfrica.The earlier Long Island blasttook place at the South AfricanRailways Procurement Office. Policesaid the bomb went off only minutesafter the four-story building wasevacuated and after a bomb squadthrew a blast blanket over the deviceto contain the explosion.

21-Dec-82

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bomb wasdiscovered under the car of an Italiandiplomat parked near the SovietMission to the United Nations. Policespeculate the target was actually theSoviet Union.

22-Dec-82

Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Italian soldiers of themultinational peacekeeping forcefound two time bombs made fromanti-tank mines in two U.N. schoolsfor Palestinian refugees. The fuse onone of the bombs had gone off butfailed to detonate the explosivecharge. It was set to go off justbefore school started. The sound ofthe fuse drew attention to thedevice, and guards from a nearbyItalian guardpost were summoned.The second bomb of similarconstruction was found in a stairwellof a nearby U.N. school after asearch.

22-Dec-82

Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Italian soldiers of themultinational peacekeeping forcefound two time bombs made fromanti-tank mines in two U.N. schoolsfor Palestinian refugees. The fuse onone of the bombs had gone off butfailed to detonate the explosivecharge. It was set to go off justbefore school started. The sound ofthe fuse drew attention to thedevice, and guards from a nearbyItalian guardpost were summoned.The second bomb of similarconstruction was found in a stairwellof a nearby U.N. school after asearch.

23-Dec-82

Sydney Australia Other Explosives2 0 AUSTRALIA. A bomb ripped througha building housing the Israeliconsulate in Sydney, injuring twopeople, and four hours later twomore bombs exploded at a Jewishclub, but caused no injuries. Theattacks were claimed by a groupcalling itself the Organization for theLiberation of Lebanon fromForeigners, a group which haspreviously attacked foreign interestsin Lebanon. Israeli officials blamedthe PLO but the PLO deniedinvolvement.

23-Dec-82

Sydney Australia Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. A bomb ripped througha building housing the Israeliconsulate in Sydney, injuring twopeople, and four hours later twomore bombs exploded at a Jewishclub, but caused no injuries. Theattacks were claimed by a groupcalling itself the Organization for theLiberation of Lebanon fromForeigners, a group which haspreviously attacked foreign interestsin Lebanon. Israeli officials blamedthe PLO but the PLO deniedinvolvement.

24-Dec-82

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An eight-inch pipebomb was found beneath anautomobile parked on Third Avenue.The car belonged to the GambianMission to the United Nations.Anonymous telephone callers tonews organizations said the bombwas to protest the continueddetention in the Soviet Union ofAnatoly Shcharansky. The policesaid the car had apparently beenmistaken for a Soviet diplomaticvehicle.

24-Dec-82

Lebanon Other Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Minas Bedros Simonian,an Armenian youth, was killed in anassassination attempt attributed toagents of Turkey, according to theLondon branch of the ArmenianPopular Movement for the ArmenianSecret Army for the Liberation ofArmenia (ASALA). The statementalso reported that another memberwas gravely wounded in the attackbut managed to escape. While nodetails were given in the statement,the killing of Simonian raises thenumber of ASALA commandos orsympathizers allegedly killed byTurks or agents of Turks to three.

29-Dec-82

AmsterdamNetherlandsUnknown Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. A gasoline bombwent off at the Amsterdam office ofthe Soviet airline Aeroflot during thenight causing extensive damage, butno injuries.

1-Jan-83 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA guerrillas knockedout power at the Alto-Catumbela-Lumaun Dam, the second largesthydroelectric facility in Angola, andkidnapped two members of thePortugese team that had beenmanning the dam.

2-Jan-83 BalabakkLebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. An assassination attemptwas carried out at the al-Jalil campnear the city of Ba'Labakk against amember of the Fatah CentralCommittee, and several seniorleaders of the Fatah movement. Theincident took place after a rally heldon the 18th anniversary of thePalestinian revolution.

5-Jan-83 Mazar-e-Sharif

AfghanistanOther Unknown4 4 AFGHANISTAN. 16 Soviet advisorswere kidnapped during a bus ridethrough Mazar-i-Sharif, a provincialcapital 35 miles south of the Sovietborder. February 7 rescuers wereable to free 12 of the Russians, theremaining four had been mutilatedand killed. Four were injured. TheSoviet rescuers killed the guerrillaswho had kidnapped their advisors.Two separate Afghan resistancegroups claimed responsibility for thekidnapping.

5-Jan-83 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Explosives0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Mozambican rebelshave again blown up a section of thevital pipeline supply to Zimbabwe.Just days before the 188-mile oilpipeline from the Mozambican port ofBeira to Mutare in eastern Zimbabwewas scheduled to reopen afterrepairs to petroleum tanks that weresabotaged a month ago, rebels blewa hole in the line. Mozambiqueblamed South African forces whilethe Mozambique National ResistanceMovement claimed responsibility.

11-Jan-83 Tel Aviv Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives12 0 ISRAEL. The PLO claimedresponsibility for a grenade attack ona Tel Aviv bus. A PLO communiquerelated that the attack had beenmade against troops along a militaryroad leading to Tel Aviv. It said thatthe attack had resulted in the killingor wounding of all of the occupantsof the bus. Israeli spokesmen,however, had said the attack hadbeen mounted on a civilian bus in TelAviv and that 12 civilians wereinjured. No deaths were reported.

11-Jan-83 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. OMEGA 7 set threebombs in Miami. The bombing of acigar factory in Little Havana sectioncaused minor damage; a travelagency involved in booking trips toCuba suffered more extensivedamage and a third bomb wasdefused. The bombings occured latein the night. They were claimed bythe anti-Castro group in a call to aSpanish-language station.


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Anti-CastroCubans


12-Jan-83 UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The offices ofRepublica Magazine was againbombed by Omega-7 because of itsalleged sympathy towards the Castroregime.

13-Jan-83 KualaLumpur

Malaysia Other Firearms0 0 MALAYSIA. Window panes of theSoviet Embassy building wereshattered by gunshots. A gun foundon the lawn was similar to one seizedby a man from a guard on duty at thePenang governor's residence aboutten days ago. An obscure Moslembrotherhood organization hasclaimed responsibility for theshooting. In a message for Moscow,the group said, Get out ofAfghanistan or the next time we willkill the ambassador or any of theembassy employees. The group callsitself the International MuslimBrotherhood Organization.

13-Jan-83 Limassol Cyprus Other Firearms1 0 CYPRUS. A Lebanese merchant ofArmenian descent was shot andseriously wounded while getting outof his car to enter his house in theAgios Nikolaos area of Limassol.Taking part in the attempt againstthe merchant were four people ofArab descent; three were arrestedand are being interrogated by police.

21-Jan-83 Anaheim UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Nine sophisticatedpipe bombs were removed from anArmenian bakery in Anaheim,California after the detanator fromone of the bombs malfunctioned andcaused a small fire. The owner,Hagop Avedisian, told police he hadreceived no threats. A small bombexploded at a Carpeteria store in1981, and the owners werethreatened with more violence unlessmoney was paid to the ArmenianSecret Army for the Liberation ofArmenia. At the time the owner ofCarpeteria had denied any politicallymotivated reason for the bombing.

22-Jan-83 Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Armenian Secret Armyfor the Liberation of Armenia hasclaimed responsibility for theexplosion of hand grenadesdetonated by two men in a TurkishAirlines office in Paris. There were noinjuries but the office was badlydamaged. One person was arrested.A man arrested at the scene waslater identified as AbrahamTovmasian, a Lebanese national. Hewas sentenced to 30 months in jail.

22-Jan-83 Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Police were able to defusea bomb which was left near theTurkish Airlines counter at OrlyInternational Airport outside of Paris.The Armenian Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia claimedresponsibility.

23-Jan-83 Nice France Unknown Explosives0 1 FRANCE. A bomb blast at theSpanish consulate in Nice killed onewoman. No responsibility claimed.

24-Jan-83 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. An attack was carried outagainst the hotel where Lebanese-Israeli-U.S. negotiations were beingconducted in the Beirut suburb ofKhaldah.

25-Jan-83 UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. The Soviet travelagency, Intourist, was the recipientof a letter bomb. The letter was leftunopened until police arrived todismantle it.

25-Jan-83 London UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. The Soviet airlineAeroflot in Piccadilly was therecipient of a letter bomb. The letterwas opened by a secretary but failedto go off.

27-Jan-83 BarcelonaSpain Unknown Explosives1 0 SPAIN. A bomb blast at the Frenchconsulate in Barcelona wounded apoliceman. No group immediatelyclaimed responsibility for theexplosion.

27-Jan-83 NewDelhi

India Unknown Explosives1 0 INDIA. Shortly before midnightbombs shredded the New Delhioffices of Iraq Airlines and Air France.Glass fragments wounded a guard atthe Iraqi office; the windows andinteriors of the offices were damagedby the explosions in the ConnaughtCircle district.

27-Jan-83 NewDelhi

India Unknown Explosives0 0 INDIA. Shortly before midnightbombs shredded the New Delhioffices of Iraq Airlines and Air France.Glass fragments wounded a guard atthe Iraqi office; the windows andinteriors of the offices were damagedby the explosions in the ConnaughtCircle district.

28-Jan-83 Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives15 45 LEBANON. A car bomb set off anexplosive chain reaction in abasement ammunition dump in thesecurity headquarters of the Al Fatahbranch of the PLO. Forty five died inthe explosion and at least 15 wereinjured. In phone calls to Beirut newsorganizations, the Front to LiberateLebanon from Foreigners claimedresponsibility for the attack.

29-Jan-83 Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. A rocket grenade struck atroop truck of the French militarycontingent, wounding one Frenchsoldier.

1-Feb-83 Syria Unknown Unknown0 2 SYRIA. Two Soviet experts wereassassinated on the Euphrates Damroad. The Syrian authorities havetaken stringent precautions andmeasures against the Palestinians.They have imposed strict restrictionson the movements of thePalestinians and have banned theirtravel except with special permitfrom the Interior Ministry.Meanwhile, reserve men have beencalled up in the various Syriangovernorates.

1-Feb-83 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A new ETA-linked groupcalled Iraultza is being blamed forthe bombing of the Rank/XeroxCorporation offices in Bilbao in mid-February.

2-Feb-83 UnitedStates

Unknown Firearms1 0 UNITED STATES. The commander ofBrigade 2506, Domingo Carmenate,was shot by an unknown assailant.After treatment for a minor wound,he was released from the hospital.

2-Feb-83 Brussels Belgium NewArmenianResistance

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. New Armenian Resistancebombed Turkish airline offices inBrussels.

3-Feb-83 London UnitedKingdom


Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Experts defuseda letter-bomb sent to the SovietEmbassy in Kensington district. Thedevice was in a white envelopeapproximately 6 inches by 3 incheswith an illegible postmark. The JDL(Jewish Defense League), apredominantly U.S.-based Zionistgroup claimed responsibility.

3-Feb-83 UnitedKingdom


Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Experts defuseda letter-bomb sent to offices of thenewspaper Soviet Weekly. Thedevice was in a white envelopeapproximately 6 inches by 3 incheswith an illegible postmark. No groupclaimed responsibility.(See record#3447)

4-Feb-83 Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb wrecked thevacant offices of the Syrian ArabNews Agency, SANA, in the latest in aseries of bombing attacks. A groupclaiming to represent the martyrs ofSaad Sayel, better known as AbulWalid, a PLO military commanderkilled in central Lebanon severalmonths ago, phoned the office of anews agency in Bahrain to claimresponsibility.

4-Feb-83 Madrid Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. An anti-tank grenade wasfired at the American Embassy froma homemade cardboard bazooka butfell short of its target and blew up acar parked in front of the building.There were no injuries and the onlydamage to the embassy was crackedglass above the main door. Theattack is being attributed to ETA.

5-Feb-83 Beirut Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives136 20 LEBANON. A car-bomb explosionturned the Palestine Research Centerand the Libyan Embassy into roaringinfernos, killing 20 people andwounding 136. The Front for theLiberation of Lebanon fromForeigners claimed responsibility.

7-Feb-83 Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded in theoffice of Air France. No one claimedresponsibility.

7-Feb-83 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives2 0 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded inBrussels outside the FrenchEmbassy, shattering rows of windowsand slightly injuring two people.

10-Feb-83 AmsterdamNetherlandsOther Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. An attack againstthe French Consulate in Amsterdamseriously damaged the building butresulted in no casualties. The actionwas claimed by someone in thename of the Dutch MilitantAutonomous Front. It wassupposedly meant as a protestagainst French participation inEuropean defense and the arms race.There was skepticism about theclaim, however, and some witnessesthought a car which screeched awayfrom the building moments beforethe explosion bore French licenseplates.

11-Feb-83 NewDelhi

India Unknown Explosives0 0 INDIA. A portion of the U.S. Embassyin New Delhi was damaged when abomb-like object was hurled at it. Noone was injured in the incident.

11-Feb-83 Charre MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Three Spanish nunswere kidnapped in Charre by theMNR. They were released March 16.

14-Feb-83 RotterdamNetherlandsOther Unknown0 0 NETHERLANDS. The Dutch MilitantAutonomous Front was reportedlyinvolved in the violent takeover of aU.S. military construction site nearRotterdam. No use of weapons wasreported, but 42 anti-wardemonstrators stormed andtemporarily occupied the site.Certain of the individuals arrestedfollowing the incident hadconnections to the Dutch group.

15-Feb-83 Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 3 LEBANON. Gunmen attacked anIsraeli patrol at the southernapproach of Sidon, firing rockets andkilling three Israeli soldiers.


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Five letter bombswere discovered in Britain and ananimal rights group protesting seal-hunting and the killing ofexperimental animals is believed tobe responsible. One of the letterscontaining the incendiary device wasreceived by the Canadian Embassy inLondon, another by the agriculturalminister's office, a third by a furdealer in Manchester and theremaining two by medical andveterinary research centers in Bristoland Cambridge. Officials believe theAnimal Rights Militia to beresponsible.

15-Feb-83 Bangkok Thailand Unknown Explosives0 0 THAILAND. A bomb exploded at theoffices of Iraqi Airways, causingextensive damage but no injuries inthe second attack on Iraqi offices inBangkok in three months.

17-Feb-83 Glasgow UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives0 0 SCOTLAND. A letter bomb arrived atthe Glasgow City Hall shortly beforePrincess Diana was to arrive. Thedevice flared up in the mail.

17-Feb-83 UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb shatteredglass doors in the offices of AeroflotSoviet Airlines and shook a nearbyhotel. No injuries resulted. TheSoviet Embassy building is less thana block away. Jewish DefenseLeague claimed responsibility.

20-Feb-83 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded outsidethe Congo embassy.

21-Feb-83 Oyarzun Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. In Oyarzun a Michelinwarehouse used to distributecorporation products throughoutnorthern Spain was attacked.Damage was set at $1,000,000.

22-Feb-83 Karachi Pakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Several French targetswere the victims of bomb explosions.A bomb hit the home of the Frenchgeneral consul in Karachi. Anexplosion hit the Air France bookingoffice in a Holiday Inn. Anotherexplosion hit the Air France Cargooffice and another hit the AllianceFrancaise cultural center in Karachi.An Iraqi dissident group, the IraqiMujahidin later claimed responsibilityfor these attacks on French targets inPakistan and said that it wouldcontinue to hit French interests allover the world as long as Francesupported Iraq in its war against Iran.






Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. The AmericanEmbassy received a mail bomb whichwas detected in the mailroom anddefused. The Jewish Defense Leagueclaimed credit, but the claim wasgenerally discounted.

23-Feb-83 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb was defusedoutside the Indian embassy inBrussels.

23-Feb-83 Ireland ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 0 IRELAND. Twelve Irish RepublicanArmy guerrillas seized a British cargovessel in a sea inlet, cast its crewadrift in a lifeboat and blew up theship. No one was hurt in the incidentin Lough Foyle, an inlet thatseparates the Irish Republic from theBritish-ruled province of NorthernIreland. The outlawed I.R.A.Provisionals claimed responsibility.

24-Feb-83 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. An anti-Soviet group callingitself Autonomous Resistance set offa bomb near a restaurant in centralAthens where top-level Greekofficials were dining with visitingSoviet Prime Minister NicoloiTikhonov. The group had carried outseveral previous bombings againstSoviet and Polish interests during thepast year to show Solidarity with thePolish trade unions movement.

26-Feb-83 Marseille France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Marseille. A bomb wasdiscovered which had been set toexplode during Jewish festivities forPurim, attended by Gaston Deferreand wife.

28-Feb-83 DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb blast destroyed the Dusseldorfoffices of Standard Electric, anAmerican owned firm. The bombwas planted outside the offices.

28-Feb-83 Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives4 1 FRANCE. One person was killed andfour others wounded in an explosionat a Turkish tourism agency. Twentyminutes after the blast, an English-speaking man with a Middle-Easternaccent claimed responsibility in thename of the Armenian Secret Armyfor the Liberation of Armenia(ASALA). The one casualty was ayoung French woman, in no wayassociated with the Turkish/Armeniansituation.

28-Feb-83 LuxembourgCity

LuxembourgUnknown Explosives0 0 LUXEMBOURG. A bomb made ofsticks of dynamite connected to abattery by electrical fuse wasremoved from the outside of theresidence of the Turkish Embassy'scharge d'affaires and detonated in aquarry. No one was injured and noone claimed responsibility.

1-Mar-83 Honduras Other Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. The bombing of theGuatemalan Consulate was claimedby the Lorenzo Zelaya PopularRevolutionary Forces (LZPRF) whichhas perpetrated several terroristincidents in Tegucigalpa and SanPedro Sula. It was carried out toprotest the execution of a guerrillaleader in Guatemala. The LZPRF isclosely advised and supplied by theSalvadoran FMLN.

1-Mar-83 Arequipa Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Outside AyacuchoDepartment, Sendero Luminosobombed the Peruvian-NorthAmerican Cultural Center inArequipa.

2-Mar-83 Kabul AfghanistanOther Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. Afghan guerrillasrocketed the Soviet Embassy inKabul.

3-Mar-83 London UnitedKingdom

Other Other 1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. The chief of theLondon bureau of Gunesh, a Turkishdaily, was wounded when threemasked men stormed the Turkishoffices with baseball bats, destroyingfurnishings and files in the offices.He was able to injure one of theterrorists (described by ScotlandYard as Armenian extremists) with apair of scissors. The perpetratorsescaped.

6-Mar-83 Baghdad Iraq Other Explosives0 1 IRAQ. The manager of Air France'soffice was killed in a bombing.Several staff members and clientswere injured in the explosion, whichis being blamed on Iran and Syria.

6-Mar-83 Baghdad Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAQ. The state news agency inKuwait quoted Minister of StateAbdul Aziz Hussein as saying that abomb found in the offices of KuwaitiAirways Corp. in Baghdad had beendefused. Mr. Hussein gave no furtherdetails.

8-Mar-83 Marseille France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Marseilles. Two men werekilled when a car carrying explosivesblew up near a Marseilles synagogue.It appears that the men werepreparing to attack the synagogue.They were found dead near the car.

8-Mar-83 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.No one was injured in a bombexplosion which broke the PhilippineEmbassy windows and damagednearby houses in Bonn. A woman'sterrorist group called Rotezora, orRed Zora, claimed responsibility forthe attack later in the month. Thisgroup is allegedly part of theRevolutionary Cells. The bombattack coincided with the celebrationof International Women's Day toexpress their opposition to thedegrading trafficking of women. Theletter claimed that the PhilippineEmbassy was attacked because thegovernment allegedly supports andpromotes this business of selling thecountry and its people to enrichitself.

9-Mar-83 Belgrade YugoslaviaJusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Firearms2 2 YUGOSLAVIA. Turkish AmbassadorGalip Balkar died of wounds receivedwhen two gunmen shot him in anambush in central Belgrade. Anarmed clash between the terroristsand police ensued and one of theterrorists was wounded. Bothterrorists, who claim to belong to anArmenian terrorist group, wereeventually apprehended. A Yugoslavpasserby was killed during the clash,while a female student and aYugoslav officer who was trying tocapture the assailants werewounded. The Justice Commandos ofthe Armenian Genocide claimedcredit for the attack.

9-Mar-83 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms1 0 LEBANON. The PLO has accused theMossad of being responsible for theabortive assassination attempt onthe life of the PLO office director inBeirut, Tawfiq as-Safadi, when his carcame under a hail of bullets as hewas returning home. As-Safadi wasstruck once in the head by a bullet.

14-Mar-83 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. The Union for the TotalIndependence of Angola (UNITA)announced that it had captured 64Czechoslovaks and 20 Portugueseand offered a swap to obtain therelease of convicted Britishmercenaries imprisoned by the leftistgovernment in Luanda.On July 1,1983 a group of 55 Czechoslovak andPortuguese men, women andchildren arrived in Johannesburgafter having been held captive forthree months. The hostages, whoserelease was negotiated by theInternational Red Cross, did notinclude all of the original hostages.The rest were being held for furthernegotiations.The guerrillas hadforced their hostages - civiliantechnicians and their families - tomarch and ride by truck hundreds ofmiles across rugged bushland toareas they control in southernAngola.

15-Mar-83 UnitedKingdom

Other Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A letter-bombexploded in the U.S. navalintelligence building, slightly injuringone person. Ukrainian anarchists arethought to be resonsible for thebomb. Two days later an Argentinegroup called the Second of April (thedate of Argentina's invasion of theFalklands) claimed responsibility forthe blast. According to a messagereceived by The Guardiannewspaper, None of us are ofUkranian origin.


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A letter-bombaddressed to the Prime Minister at 10Downing Street was interceptedduring routine sorting of mail. AnArgentine group called the Second ofApril (the date of Argentina'sinvasion of the Falklands) claimedresponsibility for the blast.

16-Mar-83 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Explosives5 0 LEBANON. In an attack claimed byIslamic Holy War someone pitched agrenade from the window of abuilding south of Beirut. Fivemembers of a Marine patrol deployednear the airport were wounded.

17-Mar-83 Lebanon Unknown Explosives9 1 LEBANON. There were two rocketattacks against Italian military patrolvehicles. Nine Italians were woundedand one was killed.

17-Mar-83 Lebanon Unknown Explosives9 1 LEBANON. There were two rocketattacks against Italian military patrolvehicles. Nine Italians were woundedand one was killed.

17-Mar-83 Japan Other Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Police discovered a gasolinebomb timed to explode under a U.S.military ammunition store to protestthe arrival of the nuclear-poweredaircraft carrier Enterprise. The bombwas found at the Sasebo U.S. NavalBase, 800 miles southwest of Tokyo.An anonymous telephone callerwarned of Molotov cocktail attacksagainst the base. They claimed thebombing campaign name of theKansai Regional Revolutionary Army.

17-Mar-83 Madrid Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Madrid. A small bombexploded harmlessly outside theLibyan diplomatic mission. Thebomb was left just under the closedcircuit security camera about 20meters from the entrance to thebuilding.

18-Mar-83 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The French contingentwas targeted for attack. No one wasinjured when an attacker lobbed apair of grenades at a French post inthe Chiyah section of the capital.

19-Mar-83 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A military expertrendered harmless explosives thathad been placed in two bags on theground floor of the Libyan Embassybuilding in Beirut.

19-Mar-83 Haiti HectorRiobeBrigade

Explosives0 1 HAITI. A bomb damaged a downtownauto agency connected to the rulingfamily, killing a night watchman. Ahalf dozen earlier acts of violenceduring the past 14 months have beenattributed by Haitian and U.S.officials to two Miami-based exilegroups with little following in Haiti.The Hector Riobe Brigade hasmounted a series of attacks designedto undermine Duvalier's authorityand rally potential cohorts.

21-Mar-83 Uganda Other Firearms0 1 UGANDA. Suspected NationalResistance Army of Uganda membershave shot to death a Canadianengineer at his home. It was the firstattack on a foreign worker resident inUganda since guerrillas issued a finalwarning earlier this month advisingforeigners to leave the country orface serious reprisals.

21-Mar-83 France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Police successfully defuseda bomb attached to a car driven bythe spokesman of an Armeniannationalist movement which was,until recently, at least nominallylinked with the Armenian SecretArmy for the Liberation of Armenia(ASALA).

21-Mar-83 Kuwait Other Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. A man purported to be anIsraeli agent and member of the Al-Haj Hasan clan, was arrested at aroadblock immediately after hehurled a handgrenade at the U.S.marines.

22-Mar-83 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Brazilian Embassy washit with one bomb.

23-Mar-83 BuenosAires

ArgentinaOther Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Two bombs were foundin British schools in Buenos Aires anddeactivated before they could go off.The bombs were found at the SaintJohn School and at Saint Patrick'sSchool. Last week an anonymouscaller representing the 2 April Group,the Captain Giacchino Commnandwarned British schools to stop theiractivities in Argentina before the endof March. The group said its aims areto recover the Malvinas Islands byany means and claim to have beenresponsible for the letter bombs sentto Margaret Thatcher and a U.S.Navy building in London last week.

24-Mar-83 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Garabed KrikorPashabezian, once a prominentArmenian communist leader, wasmurdered under mysteriouscircumstances at his home in Beirut.Although no one has claimedresponsibility for the incident, it ispresumed that he was a victim ofTurkish counter-terror.

27-Mar-83 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. The MozambiqueNational Resistance guerrillasattacked the Beira-Mutare pipeline,leaving it destroyed in the Tica area.

28-Mar-83 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives2 1 LEBANON. One IDF soldier was killedand two soldiers were wounded bybazooka fire in an ambush on an IDFpatrol that was moving east of Beirutin the region of the hamlet of Kahlah.

29-Mar-83 Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb found inside a bagin the yard of a Libyan cultural centerin Nicosia was defused beforecausing damage.

1-Apr-83 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. The People's RevolutionarySolidarity Organization has claimedcredit for a recent bombing attack atPsikhikon, a suburb of Athens. Theyclaim that Saudi Arabian diplomatshad been the targets.

4-Apr-83 TegucigalpaHonduras Other Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. The FPR bombed theGuatemalan embassy. There wereno casualties.

4-Apr-83 Quito Ecuador Unknown Firearms0 0 ECUADOR. The Israeli Embassy wasstrafed by machine gun fire. Thesame diplomatic mission was thetarget of a high-powered bombinglast December. No one claimedcredit for the attack.

6-Apr-83 NicaraguaUnknown Unknown0 1 NICARAGUA. A team of assassinskilled a ranking Salvadoran guerrillacommander in her home. NelidaAnaya Montes, known as CommanderAna Maria, of the Salvadoran rebels'Marxist Popular Liberation Forces,was one of five top Salvadoran rebelcommanders.

9-Apr-83 France Unknown Firearms0 0 FRANCE. A 22-year-old Polish manadmitted to the shooting of theSoviet Consulate (13 bullet holes andbroken windows). No motive wasgiven for the attack.

9-Apr-83 France Unknown Firearms0 0 FRANCE. A 22-year-old Polish manadmitted to the shooting of theAerflot office. No motive was givenfor the attack.

10-Apr-83 Albufeira Portugal Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 1 PORTUGAL. Isam as-Sartawi, whoserved as Palestine LiberationOrganization chief Yasir Arafat'spersonal political advisor, wasgunned down in Albufeira, Portugal,where he was attending a SocialistInternational conference. TheRevolutionary Council of the Fatah, aPalestinian faction opposed to thePalestine Liberation Organization,issued a statement takingresponsibility for the assassination.The Palestinian faction, which isbased in Syria and in Iraq, is alsoknown as the Abu Nidal faction, aswell as Al-Assifa.The previouslyunknown Antiterrorist IberianCommand also claimed responsibilityfor the attack.

13-Apr-83 Athens Greece Other Explosives4 0 GREECE. A rented car, packed withexplosives, detonated near the SaudiArabian Embassy as an Embassyvehicle carrying Saudi Arabia's FirstSecretary passed by it. Theexplosion was very powerful, causingserious damage to the Saudi officialvehicle and wounding the FirstSecretary, his driver and two others.People's Revolutionary SolidarityOrganization (PRSO) claimed creditfor the explosion. Since a groupusing a similar name, People'sRevolutionary Struggle, has claimedprevious bombings in recent monthsagainst the U.S. Embassy, this groupsent a xeroxed copy of the booby-trapped car's rental agreement. Thegroup accused Saudi Arabia of beingagents of North Americanimperialism, supporting the criminalsof the Turkish military state andfinancing the Zionists of the IsraeliArmy.

14-Apr-83 Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives2 0 COLOMBIA. The Honduran Embassyin Bogota was bombed by the M-19.Two people were seriously injured.

15-Apr-83 ReykjavikIceland Unknown Explosives0 0 ICELAND. A bomb exploded outsidethe U.S. Embassy. Only minordamage was caused and no injuriesreported. It was the first bombattack on a U.S. target in Iceland. Nogroup has claimed responsibility, butobservers noted that generalelections are scheduled for April 23and there is strong opposition to thepresence, since 1949, of a U.S. baseat Keflavik near the capital.

16-Apr-83 Athens Turkey Dev Sol Unknown0 0 TURKEY. A Turkish hijackersurrendered to antiterroristauthorities in Athens, Greece aftercommandeering a Turkish domesticflight with 114 passengers who werenot hurt. Hijacker appeared to bementally disturbed; he threatened toset the plane on fire unless he wasgiven safe passage to Sydney,Australia. According to authorities,the man belonged to the Turkishleftist group, Dev Sol.

18-Apr-83 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Explosives100 60 LEBANON. A powerful bombshattered the U.S. Embassy in Beirut,killing at least 57 people (17 of themAmericans) and wounding at least100. A car filled with 200-500pounds of dynamite rammed thefront of the embassy, resulting in theblast, killing the driver as well. TheIslamic Jihad Organization (IslamicHoly War), a pro-Iranian group,immediately claimed responsibility;however, two other groups alsoclaimed responsibility for the blast.There are indications, but no proof,that Jihad is linked with the IslamicAmal force, breakaway members ofthe Amal militia, a Shiite Moslemforce in Lebanon. The Islamic Amalforce is based in and around Baalbek,a Lebanese town under Syriancontrol 45 miles east of Beirut whereseveral hundred IranianRevolutionary Guards have taken upresidence. Last month, a large wallinscription in central Baalbek, nearposters of Khomeini, proclaimed,Death to the Americans, death toIsrael, death to the Russians.

22-Apr-83 Korem Ethiopia TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront(TPLF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Ethiopian guerrillas havekidnapped 10 foreign relief workers,including an American, apparently towin publicity for drought victims,diplomats in Addis Ababa, theEthiopian capital, disclosed. Theysaid the foreigners, seven of themwomen, were taken in a raid lastThursday by the Tigre People'sLiberation Front at Korem. Thehostages included four Britons, anIndian, two Irish nurses, an Americanpriest and nuns from Italy andEthiopia.On June 9 the ten foreignrelief workers were set free inKhartoum, the Sudan. The guerrillassaid the relief workers were notcaptives but guests invited to viewconditions of their province.

24-Apr-83 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. An Italian engineerwas kidnapped by MNR guerrillas andreleased July 4.

25-Apr-83 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. An Argentine boobytrapconnected between two cars wasfound and deactivated by Britishtechnicians. The civil policeimmediately started an investigationand warned British military units toinspect their vehicles but no otherbombs were found. The highlyexplosive fragmentation bomb wasconnected between two jeepsbelonging to a British agriculturalexpert by the fuse and would haveexploded when one of the vehicleswas put in motion.

25-Apr-83 Grenada Unknown Firearms1 0 GRENADA. The 10-year old daughterof the Venezuelan charge d'affairswas wounded in the leg by a rifleshot while she and her family werewalking up the steps to theirsuburban home. An investigationwas underway.

1-May-83 Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Two artillery rockets werefired directly over the roof of the U.S.Ambassador's residence as Secretaryof State George P. Shultz and otherkey officials slept inside. The rocketsbarely cleared the roof and justavoided causing serious damage tothe structure. American andLebanese officials speculated thatthe rockets might have been fired bySyrian-backed Druse forces who hadartillery exchanges the eveningbefore with Christian forces in theShuf Mountains east of Beirut.

9-May-83 Amman Jordan JordanianRevolutionaryandMilitaryCommittee(MO

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. Two low-powered bombsexploded at the offices of U.S.concerns in Amman. They caused nocasualties and damage was minimal.The first target was Amideast, acounseling service for Jordanianstudents wanting to attenduniversities in the U.S. The AmericanLife Insurance Co. was also bombed.The group claiming responsibility forthe bombings identified itself as theJordanian Revolutionary and MilitaryCommittee (MOUAB). MOUAB is apreviously unheard of group whichhas very likely been formed throughthe radical Syrian-controlled factionsof the PLO to target U.S. interests inJordan and possibly local targets aswell.

9-May-83 Amman Jordan JordanianRevolutionaryandMilitaryCommittee(MO

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. Two low-powered bombsexploded at the offices of U.S.concerns in Amman. They caused nocasualties and damage was minimal.The second bomb exploded outsidethe American Life Insurance Co.Amideast, a counseling service forJordanian students wanting to attenduniversities in the U.S., was alsotargeted. The group claimingresponsibility for the bombingsidentified itself as the JordanianRevolutionary and MilitaryCommittee (MOUAB). MOUAB is apreviously unheard of group whichhas very likely been formed throughthe radical Syrian-controlled factionsof the PLO to target U.S. interests inJordan and possibly local targets aswell.

17-May-83

Athens Greece Group forMartyredIsam as-Sartawi

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A hitherto unknownorganization calling itself the Groupfor Martyred 'Isam as-Sartawi (thePLO leader assassinated in Portugallast month) claimed responsibility fortwo overnight bomb attacks in anorthern suburb of Athens. Policesaid one of the bombs explodedunder a car belonging to the SyrianEmbassy - destroying it completely -and the other near a school attendedby children of Lebanese diplomats.There were no casualties. A phonecaller said that the bombs were aresponse to oppressive elements inSyria and Lebanon. A group calledThe Army for Iran's NationalLiberation also claimed responsibilityfor the bomb saying they placed thebombs to punish Khomeyni's allies.

17-May-83

Athens Greece Group forMartyredIsam as-Sartawi

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A hitherto unknownorganization calling itself the Groupfor Martyred 'Isam as-Sartawi (thePLO leader assassinated in Portugallast month) claimed responsibility fortwo overnight bomb attacks in anorthern suburb of Athens. Policesaid one of the bombs explodedunder a car belonging to the SyrianEmbassy - destroying it completely -and the other near a school attendedby children of Lebanese Embassydiplomats. There were no casualties.A phone caller said that the bombswere a response to oppressiveelements in Syria and Lebanon. Agroup called The Army for Iran'sNational Liberation also claimedresponsibility for the bombs sayingthey placed the bombs to punishKhomeyni's allies.

24-May-83

Brussels Belgium ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. Two bombs planted bysuspected Armenian terrorists rockeda Turkish tourism office and a Turkishtravel agency in Brussels, injuringone person. In Paris, the Frenchnews agency said it received a callfrom ASALA claiming credit for theattacks. The caller said the attackswere carried out by a branch ofASALA called the Pierre Gulumiangroup. Mr. Gulumian, 23, a Frenchnational born in Beirut, was killed inthe explosion of a self-made bomblast year.

24-May-83

Brussels Belgium ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives1 0 BELGIUM. Two bombs planted bysuspected Armenian terrorists rockeda Turkish tourism office and a Turkishtravel agency in Brussels, injuringone person. In Paris, the Frenchnews agency said it received a callfrom ASALA claiming credit for theattacks. The caller said the attackswere carried out by a branch ofASALA called the Pierre Gulumiangroup. Mr. Gulumian, 23, a Frenchnational born in Beirut, was killed inthe explosion of a self-made bomblast year.

25-May-83

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

People'sLiberationForces(FPL)

Firearms0 1 EL SALVADOR. Lt. CommanderAlbert Schaufelberger was the firstAmerican U.S. military advisor to diein El Salvador. He was killed by atwo-man assassination team as hesat in his car in a parking lot acrossfrom the Central AmericanUniversity. He was waiting to pick upa friend who works as a receptionistat the University. According towitnesses, Schaufelberger wastalking on or listening to his vehicleradio when a blue van pulled up nextto the car. Two young men,approximately 25 years of age,descended from the van and walkedunhurriedly toward the U.S. officer'scar. Reaching it, one of the twothrust a pistol through the car ventwing window and shotSchaufelberger in the head andchest. Not long after the incident,Radio Venceremos (the officialtransmitter of the guerrilla'sFarabundo Marti National LiberationFront [FMLN]) broadcast the followingmessage: One of our units in themetropolitan command, the ClaraElizabeth Ramirez commando,assassinated on 25 May the secondin command of the North Americanmilitary advisors. We advise theother North American advisors that ElSalvador will become a Yankee tomb.Another broadcast subsequent to theshooting indicated the operation wascarried out by members of thePopular Liberation Forces (FPL), oneof the several groups comprising theFMLN.

27-May-83

Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso launchedan incursion into the nation's capitalof Lima. At 6:20pm, during themiddle of the evening rush hour, theentire city was blacked out for onehour by coordinated bombings whichknocked down ten high tensionpylons. In the ensuring darkness andconfusion, SL units positioned in Limaproceeded to detonate some 40bombs, targeting, among otherthings, offices near the U.S.Embassy, the Sheraton Hotel and theBayer Chemical Corporation's mainindustrial plant. The Bayer factorycomplex (which is a West Germanfirm) that produces acrylic fiber isreported to be the single largestindustrial operation in Peru. Anestimated $300 million in damagesresulted from fires which largelygutted the plant following theexplosion of several incendiarydevices within the complex. It issignificant to note that in a similarattack last year, when SL cut hightension electrical lines beforeproceeding with a wave of bombingsagainst government and corporateinstallations within Lima, the officesof Bayer and other chemicalcompanies were targets.

27-May-83

Osaka Japan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. Three molotov cocktails werethrown by a young man into theSoviet Consul General in ToyonakaCity, Osaka. The explosives hit awall of the building and burst intoflame but quickly went out. The manfled on foot. Police suspect the manto be a member of a rightist group.

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29-May-83

Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. At the same time as aseries of bombs were exploding inFrench Caribbean territories, twobombs went off in Central Paris,injuring two, and Caribbeanseparatists are suspected. One ofthe explosions took place at anemployment agency for workers fromFrance's overseas territories.

29-May-83

Paris France Other Explosives2 0 FRANCE. At the same time as aseries of bombs were exploding inFrench Caribbean territories, twobombs went off in Central Paris,injuring two, and Caribbeanseparatists are suspected. One ofthe explosions took place at anemployment agency for workers fromFrance's overseas territories.

29-May-83

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives2 0 UNITED STATES. The vice chairmanof a bank that was bombed inMiami's Little Havana Cubancommunity had been the target ofnumerous death threats by anti-Castro terrorists, police said. Twoofficers were injured in the blastwhich was claimed by the groupOmega 7. The vice chairman,Bernardo Benes took an active role ininitiating talks with Cuban PresidentFidel Castro in 1978. Born in Cuba,Benes' connections with LatinAmerican leaders have earned himthe nickname of the Cuban HenryKissinger.

30-May-83

Lebanon LebaneseNationalResistanceFront

Unknown3 2 LEBANON. Palestine LiberationOrganization guerrillas ambushedtwo Israeli military vehicles in theShouf Mountains of Lebanon, killingtwo soldiers and wounding threeothers. A group called the LebaneseNational Resistance Front claimedresponsibility for the ambush 10miles southeast of Beirut. The front isa shadowy group believed to bemade up of Lebanese leftist partieswho have fought alongside PLOguerrillas.

30-May-83

Lebanon Other Firearms0 1 LEBANON. PLO leader Yasser Arafatnarrowly escaped an assassinationattempt on the Syrian-Lebaneseborder. The report of this attemptwas carried on the Voice of Lebanon,radio station of the Falangist Party,longtime enemy of the PLO.According to the broadcast, Arafatand his driver were ambushed bygunmen on the border in the earlyhours Monday. Arafat was not hit butreportedly his driver was killed. Thereport came amid a wideningrebellion in Syria and easternLebanon by PLO members of Fatah,Arafat's own guerrilla faction, whoare opposed to his leadership.

1-Jun-83 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Over 20 Czechoslovakswere kidnapped by the group UNITA.In December 1983 Angolan rebelssaid that they were freeing all oftheir foreign captives exceptCzechoslovaks as a good-will gesturefor Christmas. The release of about20 Czechoslovaks was being held upbecause of attempts to exchangethem for prisoners held by theAngolan regime.

5-Jun-83 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms1 0 LEBANON. Libya's highest-rankingdiplomat in Lebanon was shot seventimes in an assassination attempt ata Beirut hotel. He was listed inserious but stable condition. ASyrian agent arrested later,confessed to the attempt and saidhe'd been told to do it in order to stirup trouble.

6-Jun-83 Oyarzun Spain Other Unknown0 0 SPAIN. In Oyarzun, a newly rebuiltMichelin warehouse used todistribute corporation productsthroughout northern Spain wasattacked for the second time in sixmonths. The earlier attack (inFebruary of 1983) caused damagesexceeding $1,000,000 and totaldestruction of the building. The Junebombing caused similar damage andalso destroyed the newlyreconstructed facility. A left-wingorganization called the AutonomousAnti-Capitalist Commandos claimedresponsibility.

8-Jun-83 Beirut Lebanon LebaneseNationalResistanceFront


5 2 LEBANON. Two Israeli soldiers werekilled and five Lebanese civilianswounded when a remote-controlledcar bomb was detonated next to anIsraeli Army patrol entering EastBeirut. The Lebanese NationalResistance Front claimedresponsibility.

8-Jun-83 BarcelonaSpain Unknown Firearms1 1 SPAIN. A Syrian student was killed inBarcelona by a single gunman usinga pistol. The student had close tieswith a Palestine LiberationOrganization leader who was in hispresence at the time of the incidentand was seriously wounded in theaction.

14-Jun-83 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 3 LEBANON. Three guerrillas with 220pounds of TNT in the fuel tank oftheir car blew themselves up as theywere on their way to car-bomb Israelitroops south of Beirut.Possiblesuicide mission.

14-Jun-83 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb of mediumpower exploded in front of thebuilding which houses the U.S.Marines in charge of guarding the U.S. Embassy offices in Buenos Aires,but there were no casualties. Theexplosives were placed in the rightrear side of a mini bus parked infront of the building. The vehicle wascompletely destroyed and thewindowpanes of this and many othernearby buildings were broken.

16-Jun-83 Istanbul Turkey ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives27 2 TURKEY. Five bombs were explodedin front of the Grand Bazaar inIstanbul and two men shot into acrowd killing two people andwounding 27. One of the attackerswas also killed. ASALA claimed creditfor the incident which coincided withthe anniversary of a 1970 workers'revolt in Turkey.

20-Jun-83 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. The Sheraton Hotel in Limawas one of several businessesbombed by the Sendero Luminoso.The amount of damage to theproperty has not yet been estimated.There were no casualties.

20-Jun-83 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Bank of America inBilbao was bombed by ETA. Acampaign against banks andfinancial institutions specificallytargets those which have refused topay a revolutionary tax to ETA.Substantial damage was incurred.

20-Jun-83 Lebanon Other Firearms2 0 LEBANON. Gunmen failed in anassassination attempt against a topmilitary aide to PLO chairman YasserArafat and a PLO official blamedmutinous guerrillas who havechallenged Arafat's leadership. Theaide, Col. Ezzedin Sherif, known asAbu Iyad, was wounded in the legsand one arm at a Palestinian campjust outside of Damascus. His sonwas also wounded in the incident.

20-Jun-83 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 7 LEBANON. Unidentified guerrillasdetonated a roadside bomb as twojeeploads of Syrian troops travelednear the Christian town of Anfah onthe coastal highway about 40 milesnorth of Beirut. Seven members ofthe Syrian Army patrol were killed,including two colonels.

20-Jun-83 Rome Italy Other Unknown0 0 ITALY. The 15 year old daughter of aVatican messenger disappeared inCentral Rome. Men claiming to havekidnapped her have demanded therelease from prison of Mehmet AliAgca, the Turk who shot Pope JohnPaul II in 1981. An anonymoustelephone call to a Rome newspaperstrengthened the theory thekidnappers belong to an internationalgang, probably linked with theTurkish Gray Wolves. A man with aforeign accent confirmed that a letterthe newspaper received fromFrankfurt West Germany wasauthentic. In the letter, thekidnappers threatened other punitiveactions if papal assailant Mehmet AliAgca is not freed. The 24-year oldTurkish terrorist is known as a formermember of the Gray Wolves, a right-wing extremist organization. Turkishpolice believe the organizationhelped Agca make a sensationalescape from an Istanbul jail in 1979.

23-Jun-83 NetherlandsUnknown Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. A bomb was foundand detonated outside the Soviettrade delegation.

23-Jun-83 Athens Greece Amal Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two Lebanese teenagershijacked a Libyan Boeing 707 overthe Mediterranean and latersurrendered, freeing their 32hostages unharmed but leaving atime bomb ticking in their luggage.Airport security found the bombrigged inside a Polaroid-type camerawhen they searched the hijackers'luggage hours after their surrenderat the Larnaca airport. Bomb expertssuccessfully dismantled the bombminutes before it would haveexploded. The Libyan Arab Airwaysjet was hijacked shortly after thetakeoff from Athens and the ordealcontinued for some 20 hours. Thetwo hijackers, who had demanded tobe flown to Tehran, were identifiedas Radja Aref Akmed, 19, and HasanMahti Saadoun Hajj, 17. One of thehijackers was brandishing a pistol inthe air. The hijackers are believed tobe Lebanese Shiite Moslemssearching for their missing religiousleader, Imam Musa Sadr whodisappeared in Libya in August 1978.Followers of Sadr have carried outseven hijackings since hisdisappearance. The two claim to bemembers of the Black Berets.

24-Jun-83 Sudan Other Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Secessionist guerrillasabducted five Western aid workers,including two Americans, a Canadian,a West German and a Dutchman,from a park in southern Sudan. Thefive were freed a week later bySudanese troops. The governmenttroops killed 18 of the rebels duringthe operation and lost one of theirown men while freeing the hostages.

24-Jun-83 DusseldorfSwitzerlandUnknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Dusseldorf police clamped tightsecurity around U.S. companies aftera time bomb was found in a caroutside an American firm, 24 hoursbefore Vice President George Bushwas to arrive. The bomb did notexplode and no group claimedresponsibility. It was believed thatthe bomb had been set in connectionwith Bush's eight-hour visit Saturday.The bomb was discovered in a rentedcar parked in front of Litton BusinessSystems early Friday morning.

24-Jun-83 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. The police have arrested aman whom they accused of trying todynamite the AmericanAmbassador's residence in Lima.The sources said the man wascarrying the dynamite when he wasarrested by a policeman on duty. Hewas detained after a struggle withpolice. No details on the suspect.

24-Jun-83 Chad Other Unknown0 0 CHAD. The leader of the rebels innorthern Chad said that he washolding an American, Mark Frohardt,32 years old, of Colorado Springs,Colo., and said he was a spy for theCIA. The French humanitarianorganization Doctors without Borderssaid Mr. Frohardt was the technicalcoordinator for its medical teams inChad.He was released on August 2,1983 after government forcescaptured the town he was being heldin.

25-Jun-83 Chad Other Unknown0 5 CHAD. Anti-government rebels inChad killed a Canadian RomanCatholic priest and four young menaccompanying him to a mass, aspokesman for the Capuchin-Franciscan religious order reported.

28-Jun-83 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

People'sLiberationForces(FPL)

Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Marxist guerrillasclaimed responsibility for an attackon the U.S. Embassy. No casualtieswere reported.

30-Jun-83 Maseru Lesotho Other Unknown0 2 LESOTHO. Ten guerrillas on amission to assassinate Chief LebuaJonathan, the prime minister ofLesotho, have been killed in twobattles with paramilitary police nearJonathan's home. Two policemenalso died in the fighting. Themutilated bodies of the guerrillaswere on display at a governmenthospital. The police statementquoted a captured rebel as saying hisgroup had been recruited, trained,armed and assigned by the SouthAfrican Army to assassinate thePrime Minister.

30-Jun-83 San Jose CostaRica

Other Explosives1 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb exploded inthe parking lot in front of the InteriorMinistry Building. The car containingthe bomb had Nicaraguan plates andone of the terrorists killed in the blastwas Rodrigo Cuadra, an activemember of the DemocraticRevolutionary Alliance (ARDE) ananti-Sandinista group. The otherseriously wounded individual isFrancisco Morales Leal, also amember of ARDE. A Costa Rican wasalso injured by the blast whichshattered windows in the buildingsnearby.

30-Jun-83 BacaramangaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A pro-Cuban guerrillagroup, the National Liberation Army(ELN) claimed credit for threedynamite attacks against entitieslinked with the United States in thecity of Bacaramanga, in thenortheastern region of Colombia.The explosions caused materialdamage but no victims at theColombo-American Cultural Institute,the International Bank of Colombia,affiliated with Citibank, and theMormon Church. Flyers that the ELNdistributed, stated that the attackswere carried out with the purpose ofsupporting the heroic struggle of ourCentral American brothers againstYankee imperialism.





1-Jul-83 BucaramangaColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Bombing operations inBucaramanga targeted theColombian-North American BilingualInstitute among other businesses.

4-Jul-83 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A Katyusha rocket was firedfrom Jordanian territory into an Israeliborder settlement on July 4. It wasthe first rocket attack on Israel fromJordanian territory since a similarincident in April 1981.

6-Jul-83 Shiraz Iran Other Unknown0 0 IRAN. Hijackers seized an Iranianjetliner with 371 passengers onboard and forced it to fly to Kuwaitwhere the plane was refueled fortakeoff to France. The hijackersapparently boarded the planedisguised as volunteer soldiers andchecked passengers' boarding cardsand identity documents. Thehijackers surrendered at OrlyInternational Airport in France aftertalking to another Iranian dissidentleader by radio. They claimed theywere Moujahedeen guerrillasopposed to the rule of the AyatollahKhomeini. They said they simplywanted to let the world know that inIran there were 100,000 politicalprisoners and 30,000 executions byofficial account. France may grantthe hijackers asylum.

6-Jul-83 Yokota Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. Radicals hurled Molotovcocktails and planted homemade firebombs at three U.S. military bases inan apparent protest against nextmonth's port call of the USS NewJersey. No injuries or damage wasreported and no one immediatelyclaimed responsibility. At 9 p.m. twoyouths on a motorbike sped past theU.S. Naval Base at Yokosuka andhurled two Molotov cocktails at thegate. At approximately the sametime, a fire on the Yokota U.S. AirForce Base grounds was linked to theburned remains of a knapsackcontaining an incendiary bomb with atiming device. Another smallfirebomb was discovered at the U.S.Army camp at Zama. All three basesare about 30 miles from Tokyo.(See11/1/1983)

6-Jul-83 Zama Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. Radicals hurled Molotovcocktails and planted homemade firebombs at three U.S. military bases inan apparent protest against nextmonth's port call of the USS NewJersey. No injuries or damage wasreported and no one immediatelyclaimed responsibility. At 9 p.m. twoyouths on a motorbike sped past theU.S. Naval Base at Yokosuka andhurled two Molotov cocktails at thegate. At approximately the sametime, a fire on the Yokota U.S. AirForce Base grounds was linked to theburned remains of a knapsackcontaining an incendiary bomb with atiming device. Another smallfirebomb was discovered at the U.S.Army camp at Zama. All three basesare about 30 miles from Tokyo.(see11/1/1983)

6-Jul-83 YokosukaJapan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. Radicals hurled Molotovcocktails and planted homemade firebombs at three U.S. military bases inan apparent protest against nextmonth's port call of the USS NewJersey. No injuries or damage wasreported and no one immediatelyclaimed responsibility. At 9 p.m. twoyouths on a motorbike sped past theU.S. Naval Base at Yokosuka andhurled two Molotov cocktails at thegate. At approximately the sametime, a fire on the Yokota U.S. AirForce Base grounds was linked to theburned remains of a knapsackcontaining an incendiary bomb with atiming device. Another smallfirebomb was discovered at the U.S.Army camp at Zama. All three basesare about 30 miles from Tokyo.(See11/1/1983)

7-Jul-83 Medellin Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. In AntioquiaDepartment, Medellin, members ofthe pro-Cuban National LiberationArmy (ELN) bombed the SalvadoranConsulate. Explosive devices werealso found at the Chilean Consulatebut these were detected anddeactivated.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. In AntioquiaDepartment, Medellin, members ofthe pro-Cuban National LiberationArmy (ELN) bombed the SalvadoranConsulate. Explosive devices werealso found at the Chilean Consulatebut these were detected anddeactivated

8-Jul-83 France Other Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Armenians attacked theBritish Council (official UK culturalagency) protesting against Londonterrorist trial.

9-Jul-83 UnitedStates

Other Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. The wife of ElSalvador's former ambassador to theUnited States, Clelia Quinonez, waskidnapped by five men and twowomen while on her way home fromwork. Mrs. Quinonez was held for sixdays, during which time thekidnappers demanded $1.5 million inransom from her husband, claimingthat this was to be considered a wartax for various guerrilla groups in ElSalvador. The State Department hassaid that the kidnapping seems tohave been criminal in nature andthat it is doubtful whether it waspolitically motivated. She wasrescued by the FBI on July 14 and theseven kidnappers were taken intocustody. Although prosecutorsalleged that the abduction was partof an international terroristkidnapping scheme, other authoritiesinvolved said they had come to nodefinite decision on whether themotive might have been money,politics or some other factor.

14-Jul-83 NicaraguaOther Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. A group of heavilyarmed persons hijacked a smallNicaraguan airplane and forced thepilot to take them to Costa Rica. A10-person commando group arrivedat La Ponderosa farm, Nicaragua,and forced pilot Cristobal Sierra totake 4 of the rebels to Honduras.However, the flight had to bechanged to Costa Rica due to lack offuel. The four anti-Sandinists, threemen and a woman, landed at LlanoGrande Airport, Liberia, in northwestCosta Rica. They were carrying threerifles, two pistols, and threehandgrenades. According to the firstreports, the hijackers are membersof the Nicaraguan Democratic Force,FDN, which fights the Managuagovernment on the Honduran border.

14-Jul-83 Brussels Belgium ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Unknown0 1 BELGIUM. A Turkish Embassyattache in Brussels was assassinated.(This occurred 24 hours before theOrly Airport bombing by ASALA.)Three Armenian groups claimedresponsibility. Two Armenian groupsthat have claimed responsibility forprevious such attacks, the ArmenianSecret Army for the Liberation ofArmenia and the Justice Commandosof Armenian Genocide, and a thirdgroup, the Armenian RevolutionaryArmy, each told news agencies thatit is responsible. It is generallybelieved that the ArmenianRevolutionary Army was, in fact,responsible.

15-Jul-83 Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives56 7 FRANCE. A 29-year old Syriannational of Armenian extractionconfessed to planting the bomb atOrly Airport that killed seven peopleand wounded 56. VaradjianGarbidjian also claimed to be thehead of the French branch of theArmenian Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia (ASALA). Mr.Garbidjian said that he gave asuitcase containing the bomb to apassenger on a flight scheduled totake off for Istanbul. He told thepassenger he had too much luggageand paid him about $65 to check thebag for him. The bomb wassupposed to have gone off once theplane had taken off. Instead, itexploded as the suitcase made itsway up a baggage ramp.



Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb similar tothe one that went off at Orly Airporton this same day, was found anddefused before it could go off. ASALAclaimed credit.

20-Jul-83 Beirut Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives2 3 LEBANON. A large explosiontargeted a beach hotel resortcomplex near West Beirut which isknown to be frequented byforeigners and wealthy Lebanese. Atleast three people were killed andtwo Italian soldiers were injured inthe blast, which supposedlyoriginated from within the resortcomplex. There was extensivedamage to the installation which islocated in an area presently underItalian control. Although no groupclaimed responsibility, it is believedto have been carried out by thegroup Front to Liberate Lebanon fromForeigners.

20-Jul-83 Lyon France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. ASALA threatened moreattacks against French territory andgovernment organizations. ThePerrache railway station in Lyons wasevacuated following a bomb threatby a telephone caller who said hewas part of the terrorist group.It isunclear whether or not a bomb wasfound but most probably not.

21-Jul-83 VenezuelaNationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. A Venezuelan rancherwas kidnapped by the Colombianterrorist group ELN. He was releasedSeptember 21.

22-Jul-83 Santiago Chile Unknown Firearms0 0 CHILE. The building housing theoffices of the Honduran Embassy inSantiago, Chile, was shot at byunknown persons. The attackoccurred shortly before the arrival ofa high-level government mission thatwent to Chile to inform the regime ofHonduras' position in the CentralAmerican crisis. The shots broke awindow and damaged interior wallsof the building where the HonduranEmbassy is located.

22-Jul-83 Tehran Iran ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 IRAN. Bomb attacks have beenmade on a French Embassy buildingand the Air France office in Tehranbut no one was hurt. ASALA claimedcredit for the attacks, saying the OrlyGroup had carried out the action.

22-Jul-83 Tehran Iran ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 IRAN. Bomb attacks have beenmade on a French Embassy buildingand the Air France office in Tehranbut no one was hurt. ASALA claimedcredit for the attacks, saying the OrlyGroup had carried out the action.

25-Jul-83 Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. M-19 terrorists abductedan advisor to President Betancur,Italian national Paolo Lugari.Retained by the ColombianGovernment to advise it on thereconstruction of Popayan (destroyedin 1983 by an earthquake), Lugariwas kidnapped from his residence byfour M-19 members dressed aspersonnel of the government's StateSecurity Service. He was held untilJuly 27 when he was released with apersonal message from M-19 for theColombian president. Lugarimaintains that during his captivity,the M-19 questioned him at lengthabout the reconstruction project.The M-19 cell that took him identifieditself as the Julio Pena squad of theWilliam de Jesus Parra group.

27-Jul-83 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb explosion tookplace in front of the ArmenianCultural Center near Paris in theearly hours of the morning. No onewas injured by the bomb whichcaused some damage to the buildinglocated in Alfortville which has alarge concentration of Armenians.No group claimed responsibility.

27-Jul-83 Lisbon Portugal ArmenianRevolutionaryArmy

Firearms2 2 PORTUGAL. A band of Armenianterrorists shot their way into theTurkish ambassador's residence,then blew themselves up (suicide) ina fiery sacrifice to the altar offreedom. The explosion also killed atop diplomat's wife and a Portuguesepoliceman. The woman's 17-year oldson was seriously wounded and herhusband was slightly wounded in theattack. The Armenian RevolutionaryArmy claimed credit for the attack.Portuguese Interior Minister EduardoPereira said the government beefedup security at the Turkish Embassybecause the day before two men hadattempted to enter the Embassy onthe pretext of obtaining visas.However, they left when they wereasked to produce their passports.Police said the cars used by the twomen were similar to one of the carsused the next day in the ARA attack.Police said the cars used by the ARAmembers had been rented in asuburb of Lisbon. The two cars werefilled with food and explosives whichcaused the authorities to speculatethat the guerrillas planned for a longsiege. They said two men withLebanese passports rented the cars.The guerrillas spoke Turkish.

29-Jul-83 Portland UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A would-be bomberbelonging to the American-basedSunni Muslim group led by aCaucasian convert to Islam, knownas Julani, attempted to bomb aRajneesh (the Bagwan, of a dozenRolls Royce fame) hotel in Portland.He had already planted two suitcasebombs and was attending to anotherexplosive device lodged in abathroom medicine chest when itaccidentally detonated, blowing offboth of the bombers' hands andblinding him. The Juliani disciplesdon't like the Rajneeshis because thelatter unceasingly displays theBagwan's photograph everywhere - asin in the eyes of Muslim.

3-Aug-83 Ethiopia TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront(TPLF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Ten Swiss citizensworking for an aid organization werekidnapped by guerrillas. Four womenand six men were seized near Jariwhere the aid group Terre desHommes (Land of Man) operates avillage for orphans. The only demandby the Tigre People's Liberation Frontwas to have someone from theorganization pick up the 10 captives.He said the motive apparently waspublicity for the liberationmovement.

5-Aug-83 PortStanley

FalklandIslands

Other Explosives0 0 FALKLAND ISLANDS. Anultranationalist Argentine groupcalled the Artigas-Giachino commandclaimed responsibility for anexplosion that took place on boardthe Danish ship Kraka moored in PortStanley, capital of the FalklandIslands. The explosion caused a fireon board the ship which wasunloading granite blocks that were tobe used to build a monument toBritish soldiers who died in theArgentine-British conflict over theislands.

8-Aug-83 Hahn FederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs shattered windows andcaused $80,000 damage at a U.S. AirForce officers club but no one wasinjured. Five bombs, two of whichwent off, were hidden in fireextinguishers in the club at Hahn, 40miles southeast of Bonn.Revolutionary Cells later tookresponsibility, although a note whichclaimed the protest was against U.S.Central American, third world andrearmament policies contained a redstar symbolic of the Red ArmyFaction.

8-Aug-83 Detroit UnitedStates


Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. The Secretary ofthe Ahmaddiya Movement in Islam(AMI) was shot and killed at hisresidence in Detroit, Michigan.Authorities believe the group Fuqua,which is a rival Islamic sect, to beresponsible even though JewishDefense League claimed credit.



Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. The Treasurer ofthe Ahmaddiya Movement in Islam(AMI) had two molotov cocktailsthrown through the front of hisresidence in Detroit, Michigan. Theincendiary devices failed to explode.Jewish Defense League claimedcredit, but authorities attributed theattack to Fuqua, which is a rivalIslamic sect.



0 2 UNITED STATES. A fire was set at theAhmaddiya Movement in Islam (AMI)Mosque, located in Detroit, Michigan.Two people killed. The group Fuqua,which is a rival Islamic sect, is beingblamed.

9-Aug-83 Marseille France CharlesMartelGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb heavily damagedan Air Algeria office in Marseilles butcaused no injuries. In a telephonecall to a news agency, the rightist,anti-immigrant Charles Martel groupclaimed responsibility. The grouphas a record of violence againstNorth African property in France.

10-Aug-83

Tehran Iran ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 IRAN. ASALA detonated a car bombat the French Embassy in Tehran.There were no injuries reported.

11-Aug-83

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb left at the AirFrance office in Beirut malfunctionedThursday, producing a smallexplosion that caused no damage orinjuries. The bomb's detonator wentoff but failed to explode the 3.3-pound TNT charge in a small attachecase at the main entrance of theairline's west Beirut office. Therewas no immediate claim ofresponsibility.

12-Aug-83

Lourdes France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. 20 people were arrestedfor blowing up a bronze life-sizestatue of Pontius Pilate at Lourdes.The anti-clerical group called StopThe Priests said it set off the blast toprotest the Pope's visit to the shrinewhich was to begin in two days.

16-Aug-83

Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. A grenade exploded at theJapanese embassy.

17-Aug-83

Tehran Iran ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms1 0 IRAN. ASALA failed in anassassination attempt against a localrepresentative of Air France. Therepresentative was only slightlywounded when the car that he wasdriving in Tehran came underautomatic fire.

19-Aug-83

Moscow USSR Unknown Explosives0 0 SOVIET UNION. A man in his early30s roared past Soviet guardsoutside the British Embassy inMoscow and drove a car containing ahomemade bomb into the diplomaticcompound. The Russian guardsfollowed him into the embassycourtyard and dragged the man out.The explosive device was removedwithout incident.

20-Aug-83

Kabul AfghanistanOther Unknown0 0 AFGHANISTAN. Afghan rebelskidnapped three or four Sovietadvisors and killed an undeterminednumber of Afghan Governmentofficials in an attack south of Kabul.In return for a Soviet assurance tonot bomb the area during theharvesting period, the elders were toagree to let Government and Sovietmilitary convoys pass through theregion without rebel attacks. Whilethe talks were going on, insurgentsattacked the meeting place, killedthe Government officials andkidnapped the Soviet advisors. Theattack was said to have beenfollowed by heavy bombing.

20-Aug-83

Athens Greece Other Firearms2 1 GREECE. A senior PLO militaryofficial was shot to death on a busystreet in Athens. The official's driverand four year old son were reportedwounded. The victim, Lt. Col.Mamoun Muraish was very close toPLO leader Yasser Arafat. PLOofficials accused Israeli agents ofcarrying out the killing. An Israeligovernment source denied thecharge and implied that the killingmight have been connected with therecent mutiny within Arafat's ownFatah guerrilla faction of the PLO. AKuwaiti newspaper claims that agroup identifying itself as a Fatahgroup, The Corrective Movement,called up to claim the attack. ThePLO organization has dismissed asridiculous this claim, however.

21-Aug-83


Unknown0 2 MOZAMBIQUE. South African-backedMozambique National ResistanceMovement rebels overcamegovernment militia forces in a dawnraid on the Morrua mine inMozambique's populous ZambeziaProvince, killing two Soviet miningtechnicians and capturing two dozenother Soviets.After nineteen days incaptivity, the Mozambique guerrillasagreed to free the Soviet hostages ifthe Soviet Union hands over to SouthKorea the pilot who shot down aKorean jet with 269 people aboard.The unusual offer was the firstdemand from the rebels. The chiefof the resistance movement wasprofoundly shocked at the cold-blooded Soviet attack and makes thisoffer in good faith.

21-Aug-83

London UnitedKingdom


0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An AmericanExpress office in London wasdamaged when a device believed tobe a firebomb exploded. No one washurt and no group claimed to haveplanted the bomb. Windows wereblown out in the building. Managerof the branch said that some sort ofincendiary device may have beenpushed through the letter box. It isspeculated that the target of theexplosion could have been Bank El-Saud of Saudi Arabia located in anannex to American Express.

25-Aug-83

Ceiba Honduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. Standard FruitCompany offices in Ceiba weretargeted by a bomb blast.

25-Aug-83



Explosives23 2 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb blast ripped through thebuilding housing the FrenchConsulate offices, killing two peopleand injuring 23 others. ASALAclaimed responsibility. In February1996 Johannes Weinrich went on trialfor his part in the bombing. He is akey lieutenant of Carlos the Jackal.

25-Aug-83

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives3 0 LEBANON. A bomb ripped throughthe Air France offices in East Beirut,injuring three Lebanese.

27-Aug-83

Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. The PhilippineEmbassy in Washington D.C. wasshaken by molotov cocktails over theweekend. Damage was very minorand no one was hurt.

29-Aug-83

Vienna Austria Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A French jetliner leavingVienna was hijacked to Tehran. Thehijackers, who at one pointthreatened to blow up the aircraftwith 17 hostages, traveled onTunisian passports and appeared tobe members of a radical Palestiniangroup. They demanded terminationof French military involvement inChad as well as Iraq and Lebanon.They also demanded the release ofterrorist prisoners from France.According to RISKS, those prisonersincluded members of the LebaneseArmed Revolutionary faction whichoperated together with AD in Parisattacks, having mainly targeted U.S.and Israeli interests. That group alsoderived from extremist factions inthe PLO. That the hijacked flightoriginated in Vienna suggests thatthe Abu Nidal group was involved inthe operation since Vienna has longbeen a focus of Abu Nidal'stransnational activities. Abu Nidaland other Palestinian factions arealso involved with ASALA.

31-Aug-83


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Bombs werealmost simultaneously detonatedoutside the homes of a Jewishdiamond merchant and an Americanconstruction executive in theKnightsbridge section. In the case ofthe American, however, it seems thatthe intended target had actuallybeen meant for a prominent Jewishbusinessman connected with theDiamond Trading Co. of the Anglo-American Corporation of SouthAfrica.

31-Aug-83


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Bombs werealmost simultaneously detonatedoutside the homes of a Jewishdiamond merchant and an Americanconstruction executive in theKnightsbridge section. In the case ofthe American, however, it seems thatthe intended target had actuallybeen meant for a prominent Jewishbusinessman connected with theDiamond Trading Co. of the Anglo-American Corporation of SouthAfrica.

31-Aug-83


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb went offat Israel's Leumi Bank located nearOxford Circus. No one was injuredand no one claimed responsibility.

1-Sep-83 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The CaribbeanRevolutionary Alliance, a clandestinegroup seeking independence forFrench territories in the Caribbeanexploded bombs outside twomunicipal offices, causing damagebut no injuries.

1-Sep-83 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The CaribbeanRevolutionary Alliance, a clandestinegroup seeking independence forFrench territories in the Caribbeanexploded bombs outside twomunicipal offices, causing damagebut no injuries.

1-Sep-83 Chiclayo Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. Molotov cocktails were thrownat the residence of Edward Shindeir,the Federal Republic of Germanyconsul in Chiclayo. Only minordamage was reported. It is believedthat Sendero Luminoso wasresponsible for the attack.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedat the Venezuelan consulate in Miamiand a telephone caller said that ananti-Castro group, Omega 7, claimedresponsibility. No one was injuredwhen the bomb exploded in thedoorway of the office on the 14thfloor of the building. The attack wasclaimed as retaliation for thetreatment of imprisoned terroristOrlando Bosch in Venezuela.

5-Sep-83 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA claims that theycaptured 27 Spaniards, Braziliansand Portuguese. On September 28they released 21 Portuguesehostages.

6-Sep-83 Japan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. A firebomb was thrown at theSoviet consulate afterdemonstrations against destructionof Korean airliner on September 2.

8-Sep-83 Chiclayo Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. Unidentified persons,presumably members of the ShiningPath, threw molotov bombs at thehouse of Ricardo Guerra Quintin, theNetherlands deputy consul in the cityof Chiclayo. The bombs had beenhurled from a car. There was slightdamage to the building.

9-Sep-83 Tehran Iran ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Fire orFirebomb

2 0 IRAN. Firebombs were thrown intotwo French Embassy cars in Tehranby ASALA. Two embassy staffmembers were slightly injured by thefirst firebomb.

11-Sep-83 SanPedroSula

Honduras CinchonerosPopularLiberationMovement

Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. Pan Am offices in SanPedro Sula were the target of a bombattack by the Cinchoneros (MLP).

11-Sep-83 Honduras CinchonerosPopularLiberationMovement

Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A Costa Rican airlineoffice was the target of a bombattack by the Cinchoneros (MLP).

12-Sep-83 SouthAfrica


Explosives1 0 SOUTH AFRICA. The ANC claimedcredit for the bombing of the CiskeiConsulate. Ciskei is one of fourhomelands declared independent bythe Pretoria government. One manwas injured in the blast which wascaused by a limpet mine.

22-Sep-83 Taegu Korea,South

Unknown Explosives5 1 SOUTH KOREA. A bomb rippedthrough the U.S. cultural center inthe city of Taegu, 150 milessoutheast of Seoul, killing one personand injuring five others.

23-Sep-83 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Unknown Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. A Haitiancommunity leader and editor of aweekly newspaper that opposed thegovernment of Jean-Claude Duvalierwas shot and killed near his Brooklynhome. The son of the slain mancharged that his father, FirminJoseph, had been a victim of apolitical assassination. TribuneD'Haiti, founded a month ago, wasthe newest of a number of citypublications opposing thedictatorship of Duvalier, who rulesthe Caribbean country. The man hadfled Haiti in 1956 during the regimeof Papa Doc Duvalier. The shootingfollowed the publication by thenewspaper of an article detailing atelephone threat to him.

29-Sep-83 Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two U.S. Army soldierswho made a wrong turn into a ShiiteMoslem neighborhood were abductedand held for two hours until thegroup Amal negotiated for theirrelease with the Lebanese Army.

30-Sep-83 San Jose CostaRica

BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Firearms0 0 COSTA RICA. The home of the BritishAmbassador to Costa Rica was firedupon by three gunmen, dressed incombat fatigues, who stood at adistance, then got back into thevehicle they were driving and spedaway. The attackers wereaccompanied by a second car whichwas carrying half a dozen other men.It is assumed that ETA was involvedin this attack, since Summerscalesaid he had been warned byauthorities of a possible kidnapattempt or some other action by anETA command. The motive for theattack could have been to obtainhostages in order to gain thefreedom of a militant of ETA arrestedin Costa Rica, according to theAmbassador.

1-Oct-83 Marseille France OrlyOrganization

Explosives26 1 FRANCE. Marseilles. One man waskilled and 26 people were injuredwhen a bomb destroyed theAmerican, Soviet and Algerianpavilions at an international tradefair in Marseilles. An Armenianguerrilla group that calls itself Orlyclaimed credit for the destruction ofproperty in France. The CharlesMartel group and Lebanese ArmedRevolutionary Factions (LARF)claimed credit for the blast as well.

6-Oct-83 Tehran Iran OrlyOrganization

Explosives2 0 IRAN. The Orly Armenian groupclaimed responsibility for a bombattack against a French Embassyvehicle in Tehran that injured two ofits passengers. The blast occurred100 yards from the embassybuilding.

9-Oct-83 Rangoon Burma(Myanmar)

Other Explosives48 21 BURMA. At least 21 people, includingtwo leading advisers to PresidentChun Doo Hwan of South Korea andfour of his Cabinet ministers, werekilled Sunday when a bomb explodedas they prepared for a wreath-layingceremony in Rangoon, Burma. Forty-eight were wounded, many seriously.President Chun, who was on anofficial visit to Burma, escaped harmbecause his car was delayed in trafficand he arrived five minutes late atthe site of the ceremony. Seoul isblaming North Korean terrorists forthe attack. In December 1983 twoNorth Korean army officers weresentenced to die for the bombing. Inthe confession of one of the men, hesaid that he and two other colleagueswere ordered by senior North Koreanarmy officers to assassinate Chun.

10-Oct-83 Corinto NicaraguaOther Explosives10 0 NICARAGUA. Guerrillas inspeedboats rocketed fuel storagetanks in Corinto, causing anestimated $3 million in damage tofacilities of Esso, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Exxon.

13-Oct-83 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. A grenade was thrown atthe U.S. embassy. One marine waswounded.

14-Oct-83 Medellin Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Police defused a verypowerful bomb planted byunidentified individuals in one of thewindows of the Venezuelan consulatein Medellin. The ELN was responsiblefor the act in retaliation forVenezuelan-Colombiancounterinsurgent operations againstthat group following its lateSeptember attack against aVenezuelan police post at Cutufi.

17-Oct-83 Burma(Myanmar)

KarenNationalUnion

Unknown0 0 BURMA. A French engineer and hiswife were kidnapped by members ofthe Karen National Union, a Karenseparatist group openly strugglingagainst authorities in Rangoon thepast 3 years. No immediatedemands were made for the couple'srelease, but in the claim for thekidnapping, the group announcedthat the victims were safe andsound.

17-Oct-83 Rome Italy Anti-ImperialistPatrolsforProletariatInternati

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A group called the Anti-Imperialist Patrols for ProletariatInternationalism claimed credit for abomb which exploded at a U.S.agricultural research laboratory inRome.

19-Oct-83 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A medium-sized bombexploded in an empty lot in front ofthe U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa.The police anti-bomb squad hadpicked up some fragments of thebomb and were investigating itscomposition. There were no injuriesor material losses.

21-Oct-83 BucaramangaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The National LiberationArmy (ELN) which is the most die-hard and doctrinaire of the Marxistgroups operating in Colombia,attacked the Dowell-SchlumbergerOil Co., a U.S. and French drillingconsortium, in Bucaramanga. A five-member team forced their way intothe company's headquarters andplaced five bombs inside thepremises. An estimated $5 milliondamage was reported. Equipmentand some sensitive documents werealso stolen from the site, indicatingthat the ELN is in the process ofcollecting sensitive intelligence onthe industry for a protractedoffensive against oil interests. Acommunique claimed credit for theact.

22-Oct-83 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives12 5 PERU. The RalstonPurina FoodFactory was among several facilitiestargeted with bombs by SenderoLuminoso. Other targets included abank and a theater. The PurinaCompany was stormed by 30guerrillas who very carefully placedtwelve bombs which did quite a bit ofdamage.

23-Oct-83 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Explosives81 241 LEBANON. The buildings housing theU.S. Marines' peacekeeping force inBeirut was destroyed by a suicide-mission car full of explosives. Most ofthe dead had been asleep in theirbunks when the 6:20a.m. explosionoccurred. U.S. officials have saidprivately that the bombing was thework of a militant, pro-Iranian ShiiteMoslem group known as Hezbollah,the Party of God, a breakaway groupfrom the main Shiite Amal, withheadquarters in a Syrian-controlledpart of Lebanon. The breakawaygroup's Lebanese leader, HusseinMussawi, has praised the attacksagainst U.S. and French forces butdenied responsibility. 1000 kilos ofexplosive material similar to TNTwere used in the blast.

23-Oct-83 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Explosives15 59 LEBANON. A few minutes after theexplosion took place at the U.S.compound, the building housing theFrench peacekeeping troops was hitin the same manner. An estimated500 kilos of explosive materialsimilar to TNT were used in the blast.

25-Oct-83 NewDelhi

India Other Firearms1 0 INDIA. An unidentified man firing asubmachine gun critically woundedthe Jordanian ambassador to Indiaand escaped as the diplomat laybleeding in front of his home.Ambassador Mohammad Ali Kourmewas described as being in deepshock after surviving seven bulletwounds. The assailant waspurportedly a Mid-Easterner, not anIndian.Gunmen attacked Jordan'sambassador to Italy the next day.That attack was claimed by the Frontfor syrian Struggle.

26-Oct-83 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A terrorist attack waslaunched against the PeruvianEmbassy in La Paz. Dynamite waslaunched at the diplomatic missionseriously damaging the structure butinjuring no one.

26-Oct-83 Rome Italy Other Firearms2 0 ITALY. Gunmen shot and seriouslywounded Jordan's ambassador toItaly, Taysir Alaedin Toukan, and hisdriver, one day after a similar attackon the Jordanian envoy to India. Theassailants escaped after a gun battlewith the ambassador's twobodyguards, who were following inanother car. Police said they found27 shells at the scene. Ananonymous caller to the Italian pressagency ANSA said a group called theFront for Syrian Struggle wasresponsible for the shooting.

26-Oct-83 Toulouse France CommitteeforLiquidationofComputers

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. The Committee forLiquidation of Computers (CLODO)claimed responsibility for anincendiary attack against the Sperry-Univac Company in Toulouse. Themessage left by the group indicatedthat the attack was made in protestto the U.S. invasion in Grenada andconsidered Sperry-Univac to bemultinational and in complicity.

27-Oct-83 Bolivia Other Unknown0 0 BOLIVIA. Leftist mobs protesting theU.S. military action in Grenadastormed U.S. consular offices as wellas those of the Bolivian-AmericanCenter, destroying office equipmentand furniture.

29-Oct-83 ValparaisoChile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded at the U.S.-Chilean Cultural Center in Valparaiso.There was structural damage but noinjuries.

29-Oct-83 Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Three people approachedthe home of the Turkish Ambassadorin a car at 9:30am. One of themthrew a hand grenade that explodedon a stairway leading to theembassy. Security guards capturedthe man who got out of the car tothrow the grenade while those in thecar escaped. ASALA claimed creditfor the attack. In recent months, theambassador carried out his dutiesfrom his home since the embassy islocated near the Beirut airport.


Unknown0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso attackedthe Sheraton Hotel in Lima where theInteramerican Press Association wasscheduled to open a conference.

31-Oct-83 Medellin Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The Ernesto CheGuevara unit of the NationalLiberation Army (ELN) has claimedcredit for the bombing of theColombian-American Center inMedellin, Colombia. Although thebuilding sustained over $1 million indamage, there were no injuries. Thebombing was meant to protestYankee intervention in CentralAmerica and the Caribbean, and as ameans of showing solidarity with theGrenadian people.

1-Nov-83 Tokyo Japan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. An unmanned vehicle riggedwith a fire bomb crashed into thegates of a U.S. Yakota Air Force baseoutside of Tokyo. Only some minordamage and no casualties werereported.

1-Nov-83 Iwakuni Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Other 0 0 JAPAN. The U.S. militarycommunication station at Iwakuniwas the target of minor destruction.Iron posts and wire ropes proppingup a radio reflecting plate on anearby mountain were cut off with achain saw, causing it to collapse. Agroup called the Central Core factionclaimed responsibility. This samegroup is responsible for a series ofminor incendiary attacks carried outagainst U.S. military bases in Japanlast July.

1-Nov-83 Fort deFrance

MartiniqueUnknown Unknown0 0 MARTINIQUE. An attack has takenplace in the center of Fort-de-France,Martinique, against a buildinghousing the offices of the ChaseManhattan Bank and the AmericanConsulate. There were no casualtiesand damage is slight. Threats to U.S.interests in Martinique followed theU.S. military invasion of Grenada.

2-Nov-83 France Unknown Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Facility attack against U.S.business. (RISKS).

2-Nov-83 RancaguaChile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Chilean-U.S. culturalinstitute in Rancagua was bombed.The Chilean-U.S. cultural institute inValparaiso had been bombed10/29/83.

3-Nov-83 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A powerful bomb exploded atthe Citibank branch located in theProvidencia neighborhood. Theexplosion caused serious damage tothe building but there were noinjuries. No one claimedresponsibility.

4-Nov-83 Tyre Lebanon Amal Explosives0 39 LEBANON. A dawn suicide car bombattack destroyed an Israeli militaryintelligence headquarters in Tyre,killing 39. Shiites were responsible.

5-Nov-83 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaOther Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. U.S. AmbassadorFrederick Chapin's home inGuatemala City was scarred bybullets. The PGT claimed credit forthe operation, saying that it servedas a form of retaliation for the U.S.invasion of Grenada.

6-Nov-83 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA captured fiveBritons and twelve Portuguese ineastern Angola.

7-Nov-83 FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded outside a Turkishbank.

7-Nov-83 France Unknown Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Facility attack againstIranian business.

7-Nov-83 NewDelhi

India Unknown Unknown0 0 INDIA. An Iranian business wasattacked in New Delhi.

7-Nov-83 Athens Greece Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms1 1 GREECE. A gunman killed anadministrative official of theJordanian Embassy and seriouslywounded another in central Athens.The assailant managed to escapeafter shooting both men in the head.The men had been standing outsidea store selling jewelry and Greek folkart. No group has claimedresponsibility for the attacks againstJordanian officials in Athens or NewDelhi, but the Front for SyrianStruggle claimed responsibility forthe attack in Rome. This attack isattributed to Abu Nidal's group.

10-Nov-83

Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A Honduran Consulate wasthe target of a bomb attack. (RISKS)

10-Nov-83

Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A parcel containingexplosives planted near the offices ofthe Saudi Arabian Airlines wasdefused by police.

12-Nov-83

Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A high-powered car bombwas found near the British Embassyin Amman. It contained about 100pounds of TNT attached to liquifiedgas cylinders. It was dismantled.

12-Nov-83

Iran Partisansof theIranianPeople ofHormuzgan

Explosives0 0 IRAN. The living quarters of anItalian utilities company was bombedand claimed by Partisans of theIranian People of Hormuzgan.

15-Nov-83

Sudan Other Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Sudanese army commandosfreed two British oil workers in anattack on a rebel base in southernSudan. Seven French and twoPakistani workers, also abducted,were freed later. The rebels hadthreatened to kill their hostageswithin 48 hours if the pro-U.S.government of President JaafarNumeiri did not meet their demandsto halt work on canal and oil pipelineprojects in the area. Numeiri blamedthe abductions on Libya and Ethiopia.All of the Frenchmen and the twoPakistanis were released a weeklater.

15-Nov-83

Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Firearms0 2 GREECE. The left-wing extremistgroup 17 November RevolutionaryOrganization (R17N) claimedresponsibility for the murder of U.S.Navy Captain George Tsantes and hisGreek driver. The men were killed asthey waited for a green light in theircar by two men on a motor scooter.It was reported that the gun, a .45-caliber magnum, appears to be thesame gun used in the assassinationof CIA station chief Richard Welch onChristmas Day, 1975.

15-Nov-83

Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Bank of America and theRank Xerox Corporation were bothbombed.

15-Nov-83

Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Bank of America and theRank Xerox Corporation were bothbombed.

20-Nov-83

Paris France Unknown Explosives30 0 FRANCE. One of two men on amotorcycle hurled a bomb into apacked restaurant on the edge ofParis, slightly wounding 30 diners.Although there was no immediateclaim of responsibility for the attack,the owner of the restaurant, aTunisian-born Jew, believed that itmay have been connected withevents in Lebanon.

20-Nov-83


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Honeywell computer factory wasbombed.

22-Nov-83

Monteria Colombia PopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The son of the honoraryconsul of France in Monteria waskidnapped as he drove toward LaCeiba Farm in Tierra Alta Municipalityby a group of about 20 guerrillasbelonging to the Popular LiberationArmy (EPL).

23-Nov-83

Vitoria Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Seven bombs exploded incompanies affiliated with the U.S.Targets were National Cash RegisterCompany offices in Vitoria and SanSebastian, Coca Cola offices inPamplona and San Sebstian, aTexaco office in Victoria, and IBMoffices in Bilbao. Also bombed werethe offices of the Hispanic-AmericanCultural Association in Bilbao.Damages were reported assignificant to NCR offices in Vitoriaand the IBM offices in Bilbao.

23-Nov-83

SanSebastian

Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Seven bombs exploded incompanies affiliated with the U.S.Targets were National Cash RegisterCompany offices in Vitoria and SanSebastian, Coca Cola offices inPamplona and San Sebstian, aTexaco office in Victoria, and IBMoffices in Bilbao. Also bombed werethe offices of the Hispanic-AmericanCultural Association in Bilbao.Damages were reported assignificant to NCR offices in Vitoriaand the IBM offices in Bilbao.

23-Nov-83

Vitoria Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Seven bombs exploded incompanies affiliated with the U.S.Targets were National Cash RegisterCompany offices in Vitoria and SanSebastian, Coca Cola offices inPamplona and San Sebstian, aTexaco office in Victoria, and IBMoffices in Bilbao. Also bombed werethe offices of the Hispanic-AmericanCultural Association in Bilbao.Damages were reported assignificant to NCR offices in Vitoriaand the IBM offices in Bilbao.

23-Nov-83

Bilbao Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Seven bombs exploded incompanies affiliated with the U.S.Targets were National Cash RegisterCompany offices in Vitoria and SanSebastian, Coca Cola offices inPamplona and San Sebstian, aTexaco office in Victoria, and IBMoffices in Bilbao. Also bombed werethe offices of the Hispanic-AmericanCultural Association in Bilbao.Damages were reported assignificant to NCR offices in Vitoriaand the IBM offices in Bilbao.

23-Nov-83

PamplonaSpain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Seven bombs exploded incompanies affiliated with the U.S.Targets were National Cash RegisterCompany offices in Vitoria and SanSebastian, Coca Cola offices inPamplona and San Sebastian, aTexaco office in Victoria, and IBMoffices in Bilbao. Also bombed werethe offices of the Hispanic-AmericanCultural Association in Bilbao.Damages were reported assignificant to NCR offices in Vitoriaand the IBM offices in Bilbao.

23-Nov-83

SanSebastian

Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Seven bombs exploded incompanies affiliated with the U.S.Targets were National Cash RegisterCompany offices in Vitoria and SanSebastian, Coca Cola offices inPamplona and San Sebstian, aTexaco office in Victoria, and IBMoffices in Bilbao. Also bombed werethe offices of the Hispanic-AmericanCultural Association in Bilbao.Damages were reported assignificant to NCR offices in Vitoriaand the IBM offices in Bilbao.

23-Nov-83

Bilbao Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Seven bombs exploded incompanies affiliated with the U.S.Targets were National Cash RegisterCompany offices in Vitoria and SanSebastian, Coca Cola offices inPamplona and San Sebstian, aTexaco office in Victoria, and IBMoffices in Bilbao. Also bombed werethe offices of the Hispanic-AmericanCultural Association in Bilbao.Damages were reported assignificant to NCR offices in Vitoriaand the IBM offices in Bilbao.

25-Nov-83

Dublin Ireland IrishNationalLiberationArmy(INLA)

Unknown0 0 IRELAND. Four armed men posing aspolice kidnapped a top supermarketexecutive in Dublin after pulling himover with a flashing light while hewas driving his daughter to school.The girl was released unharmed. Theabduction of Don Tidey, English-bornvice president of the Weston Groupof supermarkets, came three monthsafter an INLA gang was foiled in itsattempt to abduct Tidey's boss,Canadian grocery chain owner GalenWeston. Five men were convictedNovember 3 of firearms charges aftera shootout with police at the Westonestate.

2-Dec-83 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A security guard founda bomb wrapped like a Christmaspresent at a U.S. Embassy annex.The bomb was safely defused hoursbefore it was to have gone off. Policesaid the bomb was similar in designto ones used by Moslem guerrillas inthe southern Philippines because itconsisted of several Belgian-madeantipersonnel mines in a boxcrammed with 3-inch nails. Althoughpolice have been on alert in Milan forpossible Moslem terrorist activitiessince last week, there was noconnection with Moslem dissidentsmade with this attack at the time.

2-Dec-83 Dohok Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Three French techniciansemployed by a French electronicscompany have disappeared in Iraq.A French television station reportedthat the Democratic Kurdish Party ofIraq said the three had beencaptured by Kurdish guerrillas andthat they were in good health. Aspokesman for the party's Paris officedenied the report and declinedfurther comment. In a statement inParis, the Democratic Party ofKurdistan said it captured theemployees of the French electronicsfirm Thomson in the western Iraqitown of Dohok. The rebels alsodemanded as ransom the release of57 Kurds held by the Iraqis. Therebels also demanded that Iraqreturn to their homes 8,000 Kurdishfamilies that were resettled insouthern Iraq.

6-Dec-83 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives43 6 ISRAEL. A bomb demolished aJerusalem bus, killing six people andinjuring 43 others, some of themcritically. Responsibility for theattack was claimed both by YasserArafat's wing of the PLO and by anti-Arafat PLO rebels.

12-Dec-83

KuwaitCity

Kuwait Hizballah Explosives52 6 KUWAIT. The terrorist group IslamicHoly War says it was responsible fora suicide attack on the U.S. Embassyin Kuwait in which 7 people werekilled and at least 37 injured. Theterrorists crashed a truck loaded withexplosives through the main gate ofthe U.S. compound and detonatedtheir lethal cargo. The group alsoclaimed credit for remote-controlledcar-bombings at five other locationson the same date (12/12/83) inKuwait, including one at the airportwhere an Egyptian technician waskilled. The Kuwait news agency saidthat the overall toll from therampage was seven dead, 62 injured.The terrorists' other targets were theFrench Embassy, an industrialcomplex 30 miles south of thecapital, an electric power station, anda residential area where manyAmericans live.

12-Dec-83

KuwaitCity

Kuwait Hizballah Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 1 KUWAIT. An Islamic Holy Warclaimed credit for a remote-controlled car bomb at the KuwaitiInternational Airport that killed anEgyptian technician.

12-Dec-83

KuwaitCity


0 0 KUWAIT. The terrorist group IslamicHoly War claimed responsibility for aremote-controlled bomb attack at theFrench Embassy.

12-Dec-83


10 0 KUWAIT. The terrorist group IslamicHoly War claimed responsibility for aremote-controlled bomb attack on anelectrical power station.

12-Dec-83

San Jose CostaRica


Firearms0 0 COSTA RICA. A two-man terroristteam attempted to assault the U.S.Embassy in San Jose, opening fire onCosta Rican police guards whorepelled the attack. There areindications that the incident couldinvolve members of the Basqueseparatist group ETA, who have beencontracted by Nicaragua to mounturban guerrilla activities in CostaRica. The existence of an ETA cell inSan Jose surfaced as a result of thearrest of one of its members as heprepared to assassinate anti-Sandinista leader Eden Pastora lastSeptember. Costa Rican authoritiesbelieve that an additional 12-15 ETAmembers continue to operate inCosta Rica.

20-Dec-83

Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Turkish police found a carloaded with high explosives in aparking lot near U.S. and Frenchfacilities in Izmir. The car wasdiscovered abandoned about 100yards from the U.S. officers' club anda seaside hotel frequented byAmerican servicemen.

21-Dec-83

Beirut Lebanon BlackHand

Explosives30 15 LEBANON. A truck packed withexplosives blew up outside a Frencharmy barracks, killing a Frenchparatrooper and 14 Lebanesecivilians. Nearly 30 people wereinjured. The driver of the truckjumped out and escaped before theexplosion. Minutes after the blast, asecond explosion in downtown Beirutrocked a hotel that is patronized byforeigners, killing four people andinjuring about a dozen others. Agroup called the Black Hand claimedresponsibility for both explosions in atelephone call within an hour of theblasts. Past terrorist attacks onforeign installations in Lebanon havebeen attributed to Shia Muslimssupported by the revolutionarygovernment of Iran.

21-Dec-83

Beirut Lebanon BlackHand

Explosives12 4 LEBANON. In a second explosion indowntown Beirut at a hotelpatronized by foreigners, four peoplewere killed and a dozen injured.Minutes before that blast, a truckpacked with explosives blew upoutside a French army barracks,killing a French paratrooper and 14Lebanese civilians. Nearly 30 peoplewere injured. The driver of the truckjumped out and escaped before theexplosion. A group called the BlackHand claimed responsibility for bothexplosions in a telephone call withinan hour of the blasts. Past terroristattacks on foreign installations inLebanon have been attributed toShia Muslims supported by therevolutionary government of Iran.

21-Dec-83

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms1 0 LEBANON. A member of the U.S. AirForce was slightly wounded when hewas hit by a sniper's bullet near theruins of the U.S. Embassy.

24-Dec-83

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaCounterrevolutionarySolidarity(SC)

Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A group calledCounterrevolutionary Solidarity (SC)has claimed credit for hurling a handgrenade at the Nicaraguan Embassyin Guatemala City. No casualtieswere reported.

25-Dec-83

Valetta Malta Unknown Firearms1 0 MALTA. The Israeli charge d'affairessaid that a gunman fired five shots ather as she sat in her car outside aflorist's shop in Valetta. She sufferedminor cuts from flying glass. Shesaid she chased the attacker's car,but lost it in traffic. She attributedthe attack to the fact that she is thehead of the Israeli mission here.

25-Dec-83

Tripoli Libya Amal Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LIBYA. Police link an arson attackagainst a French high school inTripoli to Islamic extremists becauseof threats against French and U.S.foreign policy in the Middle East. Noone was injured.

26-Dec-83


Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives2 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb plantedin a garbage can exploded outsidethe Marks and Spencer departmentstore, slightly injuring two people.Scotland Yard believes that the samePIRA gang that left the car bombnear Harrods on December 17, wasresponsible for this explosion also.However, a Tunisian arrested in 1986claims to have planted the bombwhile serving as a highly-paidrepresentative of Abu Nidal. (Marks& Spencer is a Jewish-owneddepartment store.) In December,1989 Habib Muaamar was sentencedto life in prison for his participation in[this incident as well as for] thebombing of a Marks & SpencerLondon store in 1983. Muaamar is amember of the Iraqi-based ArabOrganization May 15, led by Husseinal-Umari (Abu Ibrahim). It is asplinter group from the PFLP-SpecialOperations group led by WadiHaddad.

27-Dec-83


Explosives0 0 PERU. Five men each threw bombs atthe Peoples Republic of ChinaEmbassy in Lima. No casualties werereported. Sendero Luminoso, whohas stated that the current regime inChina consists of traitorousrevisionists, is being blamed for theattack.

28-Dec-83

Saint-Jean-de-Luz

France Anti-terroristLiberationGroup(GAL)

Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A guerrilla of the separatistgroup ETA died in a Bordeauxhospital after being shot outside hishome in Saint-Jean-De-Luz. He waswanted for 23 murders in Spain.Responsibility for the attack wasclaimed by the Anti-terroristLiberation Group, a shadowyorganization vowing revenge on ETAin the French Basque region, wheresome 700 separatists live in exile.Basque politicians have accused theSpanish government of involvementin Liberation Group's actions.

30-Dec-83

Madrid Spain Unknown Firearms1 1 SPAIN. An employee of the JordanianEmbassy was shot to death andanother seriously wounded by anassailant who fired a submachinegun into their car at a Madrid streetcorner. Police said the attacker, whoappeared to be an Arab in his mid-20s, escaped after the attack. Nogroup immediately claimedresponsibility.

31-Dec-83

Marseille France Other Explosives0 2 FRANCE. Two people were killed andscores more injured when bombswent off in the Marseille railroadstation and aboard a speeding train120 miles north. The internationalterrorist known as Carlos sent aletter taking responsibility for bothbombings. The letter was signed bythe Arab Armed StruggleOrganization but West Germanspecialists concluded that thehandwriting was that of Carlos, aVenezuelan whose real name is IllichRamirez Sanchez.UPDATE 4 Jan1995. Carlos was charged withcarrying out the bombings.

31-Dec-83

France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two people were killed andscores more injured when bombswent off in the Marseille railroadstation and aboard a speeding train120 miles north (See 12/31/83). Theinternational terrorist known asCarlos sent a letter takingresponsibility for both bombings.The letter was signed by the ArabArmed Struggle Organization butWest German specialists concludedthat the handwriting was that ofCarlos, a Venezuelan whose realname is Illich Ramirez Sanchez.UPDATE 4 Jan 1995. Carlos wascharged with carrying out thebombings.

1-Jan-84 Tripoli Libya Other Explosives0 0 LIBYA. Terrorists bombed the Frenchcultural center in Tripoli. Policelinked the bomb attack to threats byIslamic extremists against Frenchinvolvement in the Middle East. Thebomb destroyed the center butcaused no injuries.

3-Jan-84 AyacuchoPeru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso has beenattacking the mining industry in theAndes. The Cobriza copper mine inAyacucho, an operation run jointly byNorth American companies and astate-run Peruvian consortium wasthe latest facility to come underattack.

8-Jan-84 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms2 1 LEBANON. A United States Marinewas killed when he and at least adozen of his comrades were fired onby unidentified assailants as they gotout of a helicopter on the edge ofdowntown Beirut. Two LebaneseArmy soldiers were wounded. Thehelicopter took off as the attackbegan and flew to safety.

9-Jan-84 Uganda Other Unknown0 0 UGANDA. National Resistance Armyguerrillas abducted 11 InternationalRed Cross workers, including fourSwiss citizens. The workers, riding intwo Red Cross vehicles, wereambushed as they were on the wayto conduct a census in camps forpeople displaced during agovernment offensive against rebelslast March. Nine of the workers werereleased but two hostages, a Frenchphysician and an unidentifiedUganda staff member were still beingheld.

9-Jan-84 Tunisia Unknown Unknown1 0 TUNISIA. A guerrilla team from Libyainfiltrated Tunisia, sabotaging asection of an oil pipeline runningthrough the country. The groupreportedly returned to Libyafollowing the assault.

10-Jan-84 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Ahomemade bomb exploded near theentrance to the South AfricanEmbassy in Bonn. The bomb was adevice with a pipe-like constructionwhich was being examined byexperts. There was no damage.

15-Jan-84 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ARGENTINA. A firebomb was thrownat the papal nunciature, the Embassyof the Vatican, in Buenos Aires.There was no major damage and noinjuries. Apparently the bomb was inprotest of plans mediated by PopeJohn Paul II for Argentina and Chile tostart work on a treaty to end theirterritorial dispute over the islands ofthe Beagle Channel near Cape Horn.

15-Jan-84 Zigey Chad Unknown Unknown0 0 CHAD. Two Belgian doctors werecaptured in Zigey.

17-Jan-84 Syria PalestineLiberationFront(PLF)

Unknown0 0 SYRIA. Leaders of the PalestineLiberation Front, a small guerrillagroup, were reported kidnapped in amove apparently related to the splitin Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Aspokesman blamed anti-Arafatmembers who opposed theleadership's decision to remainneutral on the issue.

17-Jan-84 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Islamic Jihad kidnappedthe consul of the Saudi ArabianEmbassy, Hussein Farrash. He wasabducted on his way to work by asix-member terrorist team using twovehicles that neutralized hischauffeur and bodyguard.

18-Jan-84 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility for the assassination ofMalcolm Kerr, President of theAmerican University of Beirut. Theincident took place in his campusoffice building.

18-Jan-84 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives1 0 PAKISTAN. An in-flight explosioncaused by saboteurs forced a Paris-bound Air France jumbo jet with 261passengers aboard to return toPakistan and make an emergencylanding. Two Pakistani nationals andtwo Europeans were detained forquestioning.It was reported that theexplosion was an act of carelessnesswith a combustible material by aPakistani family and not a bombing.

21-Jan-84 Rome Italy Al BorkanLiberationOrganization

Firearms1 1 ITALY. The Libyan Ambassador toItaly was shot and critically woundedin an ambush. [He died in earlyFebruary, 1984.] The attack tookplace in the garage of his residence.The two attackers shot their victim atclose range hitting him in the head,abdomen, and shoulder. Anunknown group, calling itself AlBorkan, which in Arabic means thevolcano, has claimed responsibilityfor the attempt. The official Libyannews agency blamed PLO leaderYasser Arafat of masterminding theattack, but PLO officials denied anyinvolvement.

22-Jan-84 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Afirebomb was thrown through thewindow of the commissary at the U.S. McGraw Army Barracks in Munich.The Revolutionary Cells aresuspected, although no one claimedcredit. The building sustainedsubstantial damage due to fire.

25-Jan-84 France MartyrsofBaalbek

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The laboratory where theExocet missile was developed wasdestroyed by an explosion andMoslem extremists claimedresponsibility. No one was hurt butthere was extensive damage to thetactical division of French AerospaceIndustries. The bomb was claimed inthe name of the Martyrs of Baalbek.

27-Jan-84 MontpellierFrance Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. The Moroccan Consulate inMontpellier was the target of fourMolotov cocktails. The bombs, whichwere thrown very early in themorning, caused a fire in thebuilding. The attackers sent amessage to the local newspaperprotesting the silence of the Frenchpress over the alleged bloodyrepression of the recent riots inMorocco.

30-Jan-84 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Police found explosives onTemple Mount after what sourcesdescribed as an attempt by a fanaticJewish group to blow up the twomajor Islamic mosques at the site ineast Jerusalem.

2-Feb-84 Sudan Other Firearms7 3 SUDAN. A Chevron Oil Companycomplex was overrun by guerrillas.Three foreign workers were killedand seven others, including anAmerican, were wounded. About 20attackers penetrated the lightly-guarded facility and stormed houses,occupied by workers, firing automaticweapons. A note left at the scenesaid, We have warned you, and nowwe are striking. The mostly Christianguerrillas want independence forsouthern Sudan from the Moslem-dominated government.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two French banks weredamaged by bombs in Bilbao. Theywere probably planted by Basqueseparatists as part of their continuingcampaign to extort money fromforeign and domestic companies asrevolutionary taxes.

3-Feb-84 BirminghamUnitedKingdom

Other Unknown0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. Just hours afterthe press was advised of theabductors' demands, the body of thekidnapped second ranking officer inthe Birmingham Indian Consulatewas found. The Kashmir LiberationArmy claimed credit for kidnappingRaninda Hareshwar Mhatre while hewas waiting for a bus. The group haddemanded payment of one millionsterling ($1.4 million) and the releaseof ten so-called Kashmiri politicalprisoners in India. Birmingham hasthe largest Asian population inEngland outside London and peoplefrom every part of India and Pakistanreside there. Political violence flaredin Kashmir last month betweensupporters of Prime Minister Gandhiand locals seeking autonomy orunion with Pakistan.

4-Feb-84 Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Kurdish guerrillas kidnappedtwo Swiss technicians and wereholding them in the Iraqi Kurdistanmountains.

6-Feb-84 Paris France Hizballah Firearms0 2 FRANCE. The former Iranian Chief ofStaff of the late Shah of Iran'sregime, Gholam Ali Oveissi, was shotdown on a fashionable street in Paris.The Butcher of Iran was shot in theback of the head and died instantly.Also executed was his brother, aformer army colonel. Oveissi wasconsidered responsible for theSeptember 8, 1978 massacre whentroops fired into an anti-Shah crowdkilling and wounding severaldemonstrators. He also was a leaderof pro-Royalist Iranian exiles trying tooverthrow the current government ofAyatollah Khomeini. The IslamicJihad claimed credit for the attackand indicated they will seek out anddestroy enemies of AyatollahKhomeini wherever they are located.In Washington, a group called theRevolutionary Iranian Organizationfor Liberation and Reform claimedresponsibility.

8-Feb-84 Paris France Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 1 FRANCE. The Ambassador to Francefrom the United Arab Emirates,Khalifa Abdel Aziz Al-Mubarak, wasshot and killed as he left his Parishome. A lone gunman fired one shotinto the ambassador's head. A call toa Paris newspaper claimed theassassination in the name of theArab Revolutionary Brigades becauseof links his country has with theUnited States. The group is believedlinked to Abu Nidal.

8-Feb-84 France Anti-terroristLiberationGroup(GAL)

Unknown0 2 FRANCE. The Spanish-based Anti-Terrorist Liberation Group (GAL) tookcredit for killing two Spanish BasqueETA members.

9-Feb-84 Hendaye France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A Basque demonstration inHendaye to protest the killing of twoETA members by the Spanish-basedAnti-Terrorist Liberation GroupFebruary 8, became violent. Besidesoverturning cars and firebombingpolice who tried to restore order, thegroup shattered windows of aSpanish Bank.

10-Feb-84 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Two gunmen forced FrankRegier, an American professor ofelectrical engineering, into a car nearthe university. No one claimedresponsibility, but there isspeculation that the Islamic Jihad isinvolved. He was released unharmedApril 15, 1984.

11-Feb-84 Sudan Other Unknown0 1 SUDAN. Guerrillas struck the CCICompany, a French firm, andescaped with seven hostagesincluding two Frenchmen, a Britonand a pregnant German woman. AnAustralian pilot was killed before theraiders were driven off. The pregnantwoman and her son were releasedMarch 12, 1984 but the men werestill being held.

14-Feb-84 Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. The Philippine consulgeneral was killed in an ambush ashe was entering his home. No oneclaimed responsibility.

15-Feb-84 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A joint cell ofRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) and NationalLiberation Army of Colombia (ELN)members hit a camp operated by aU.S. petroleum (oil) firm locatedabout 40 km. from the border.Before sabotaging some of thefacilities, the guerrilla lined up thelocal employees and lectured themabout working for Americans.

15-Feb-84 Rome Italy RedBrigades

Firearms0 1 ITALY. Leamon Hunt, retired U.S.diplomat who had been serving asthe ranking civilian of themultinational force monitoring theSinai Accord, was assassinated inRome. Although Hunt arrived at thegate of his residence in a chauffeur-driven armored car, a few menjumped out of a blue Fiat car andpoured automatic weapon fire intothe reinforced rear window until theywere able to penetrate the windowand strike Hunt in the head. TheFighting Communist Party (linked tothe Red Brigades) claimed credit,denouncing the Sinai Pact anddemanding that the U.S. get out ofLebanon, Italy get out of NATO andthat there be no U.S. nuclear missilesdeployed in Sicily. LARF (LebaneseArmed Revolutionary Faction) alsoclaimed credit from Lebanon. Thedescription of the individual whofired the AK-47 rifle which killed huntfits that of an Arab or Middle Easterntype. This may have been a jointoperation mounted with remnants ofthe Red Brigades that are indesperate need of outside support torevive guerrilla operations in Italy.

15-Feb-84 Syria ArabOrganizationof May 15

Explosives1 0 SYRIA. A letter bomb was sent to theIranian Ambassador to Syria. AliAkbar Muhtashimi was seriouslyinjured while opening his mail by abomb located in a book. A calleradvised the French wire service inBahrain that the Arab Organization of15 May was responsible. The callerclaimed the Iranian envoy to Syriawas a major planner of terroristoperations involving Iranians inKuwait, Syria and the Arab states ofthe Persian Gulf. The unidentifiedcaller stated further that attacksagainst the Iranian regime ofAyatollah Khomeini will occur. Theconversation concluded with theremark, We shall hit their men andinstallations wherever they exist untilthey stop their aggression againstthe Arab nation. The Iranian Ministryof Foreign Affairs has accused theUnited States and Zionist agents ofsending the letter.

15-Feb-84 Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A French engineer waskidnapped and held at the samelocation as American ProfessorRegier. Jihad was believedresponsible. The American andFrenchman were rescued by Shiitemilitia.

15-Feb-84 France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Basques on the French sideof the border sabotaged a stretch oftrack which caused a Paris-MadridExpress train with 110 aboard toderail at 60 miles per hour. Therewere no serious injuries.

18-Feb-84 Tripoli Libya Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LIBYA. Jordan has claimed thatdemonstrators set fire to its embassyin Tripoli, and that Libyan policewatched without trying to stop themob. Jordan has accused Libyanauthorities of transporting between200 to 250 Chadian mercenaries andworkers, Libyan police and securitymen and Qaddafi's femalebodyguards to the JordanianEmbassy to burn it down. They saythat 100 Libyan security men at theembassy participated in ransacking itand threatened to kill AmbassadorSami Shamayleh and his staff, whohad locked themselves in one of therooms.

24-Feb-84 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Bombs were tossedover a fence surrounding the Sovietresidential compound in the Bronx,New York. There were no injuries buta car was burned. Ten minutes afterthe attack the militant Jewish DirectAction took credit, however; later inthe day a spokesman for JDA deniedany involvement by the group. InMay 1987 three JDL members werearrested in connection with thisattack.

24-Feb-84 Kafunfu Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA (National Union forthe Total Independence of Angola)kidnapped 77 foreign techniciansincluding 16 British and 46Portuguese nationals. The attacktook place at the state-owneddiamond mine at Kafunfu. Somefighting occurred and casualties weresuffered on both sides. A spokesmanfor UNITA said the foreign hostageswould be marched south and anyattempts to interfere would haveserious repercussions on thecaptives.Eighty-nine men, womenand children were released April 26,1984. 37 others were left behind ata guerrilla camp in the Angolan bush.A large number of this group hadbeen captured during the February24 raid. Sixteen more prisoners werereleased May 14, 1984.

26-Feb-84 Idaux-Mendy


Firearms0 1 FRANCE. The Anti-TerroristLiberation Group (GAL) claimedcredit for the death of a Basquerefugee from Spain who was killedwhen gunmen in an automobileopened fire on a vacation camp atIdaux-Mendy along the Spanishborder. GAL has specifically targetedETA operatives on the French side ofthe border and has conducted fiveassassinations in the last threemonths.

28-Feb-84 JerusalemIsrael DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives21 0 ISRAEL. Two hand grenadesexploded outside a clothing store ona busy commercial street inJerusalem injuring 21 people. TheDemocratic Front for the Liberationof Palestine (DFLP) claimedresponsibility.

1-Mar-84 Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Unknown0 0 GREECE. During March, theNovember 17 Organization (N170)attempted to assassinate a U.S.Army sergeant.[NOTE: Exact date isunknown]

5-Mar-84 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb made of dynamitewas hurled from a passing vehicle atthe U.S. Embassy in La Paz,damaging the building.

7-Mar-84 Ashdod Israel Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives9 3 ISRAEL. Three people were killedand nine wounded when a bombripped through a civilian passengerbus in the Israeli port city of Ashdod.Abu Nidal claimed responsibility. Thebombing followed an attack theprevious week on an Arab bus on theIsraeli-occupied West Bank of theJordan River in which six Arablaborers on their way to work werewounded by submachine gun fire.

7-Mar-84 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Jeremy Levin, the newlyarrived bureau chief for Cable NewsNetwork, disappeared in Beirut andwas believed kidnapped. There isspeculation that the Islamic Jihad isinvolved. Levin escaped and gainedhis freedom on February 14, 1985.The journalist spent most of hisconfinement in isolation and couldprovide no hard evidence regardingthe fate of the four remainingAmericans in the hands of the IslamicJihad.

10-Mar-84 Chad Other Explosives25 0 CHAD. A French aircraft with 100people aboard was destroyed by twobombs (planted in the luggagecompartment) which went off withintwenty minutes of each other. 25people were injured in the blastswhich occurred while the plane wasparked on the runway. If the plane'sdeparture had been on time, theexplosions would have taken place inthe air. Chad's Ambassador toFrance accused Libya of carrying outthe bombings to protest France'smilitary presence in Chad to combatLibyan-backed rebels.


Other Explosives23 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb explodedin a nightclub catering to Arabsinjuring 23 people, minutes after adevice blew up at an Arabnewsstand. Police warned that theblasts may have been set by Libyanhit squads hunting expatriates. Noone was injured in the newsstandincident.Two bombs destroyed a carand injured a couple and their childin an attack that came less thantwenty four hours after the bomb inthe nightclub.As of 3/14/84 oneLibyan businessman was being heldon conspiracy charges in thebombing blitz and 22 other Libyanswere being detained. Thegovernment of Libya has denied anyinvolvement, however.


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb explodedin a nightclub (just off BerkeleySquare in Mayfair, one of London'smost fashionable districts) cateringto Arabs injuring 23 people, minutesafter a device blew up at an Arabnewsstand on Queensway. Policewarned that the blasts may havebeen set by Libyan hit squadshunting expatriates. No one wasinjured in the newsstand incident.Two bombs destroyed a car andinjured a couple and their child in anattack that came less than twentyfour hours after the bomb in thenightclub.As of 3/14/84 one Libyanbusinessman was being held onconspiracy charges in the bombingblitz and 22 other Libyans were beingdetained. The government of Libyahas denied any involvement,however.Police said the terroristsplanted 5 bombs, each consisting of2 pounds of explosives tied to atimer. Besides the two bombsabove, police detonated three otherdevices outside newspaper shops,one more in Queensway and twooutside a shop in Kensington.


Other Explosives3 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb explodedin a nightclub catering to Arabsinjuring 23 people, minutes after adevice blew up at an Arabnewsstand. Police warned that theblasts may have been set by Libyanhit squads hunting expatriates. Noone was injured in the newsstandincident.Two bombs destroyed a carand injured a couple and their childin an attack that came less thantwenty four hours after the bomb inthe nightclub.As of 3/14/84 oneLibyan businessman was being heldon conspiracy charges in thebombing blitz and 22 other Libyanswere being detained. Thegovernment of Libya has denied anyinvolvement, however.

13-Mar-84 Athens Greece Other Firearms0 0 GREECE. Alert police arrested aPalestinian carrying a Moroccanpassport while he was loitering nearthe Israeli envoy's home. At leasttwo others believed to beaccomplices escaped by car. Theindividual confessed the followingday to plotting to assassinate thehead of the Israeli diplomatic missionin Athens. At the time of his arrestthe Palestinian was carrying a Czechrevolver. The attack was designed tocoincide with the current visit of aGreek cultural mission to Israel.

16-Mar-84 OmduranSudan Other Explosives0 5 SUDAN. The Sudanese presidentaccused Libya of responsibility for abombing attack which wasapparently aimed at the mainSudanese radio station. The raid onthe Sudanese city of Omdurman wascarried out by a Soviet-built TU-22bomber which dropped five bombswithout encountering any resistancefrom Sudanese forces. The bombsmissed the radio station andtransmitter but hit neighboringbuildings, killing five people. U.S.and Sudanese officials said thebomber was based at an airfield inKufra, Libya. Libya denied thecharges.

16-Mar-84 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 1 LEBANON. An American diplomat,William Buckley, was kidnapped bythree armed men as he left hisapartment in West Beirut to drive tothe U.S. Embassy. Buckley wasserving as a political officer for theForeign Service and it is believed hemay have been part of the U.S.intelligence establishment in Beirut.Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.Buckley was murdered on October 3,1985. Israel had just attacked a PLOcamp in Tunisia and Jihad claimedthat his murder was in retaliation forthat attack.

17-Mar-84 France Unknown Explosives2 0 FRANCE. A small bomb explodedoutside the Armenian Youth ofFrance Center, injuring two personspassing by. No group claimedresponsibility.

19-Mar-84 Biarritz France Anti-terroristLiberationGroup(GAL)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The anti-Basque group GALdynamited cars owned by ETAmembers in Biarritz.

20-Mar-84 PuertoSandino

NicaraguaOther Explosives5 0 NICARAGUA. The NicaraguanGovernment claims that it was U.S.-backed mercenaries who placed anexplosive device at the entrance tothe Port of Sandino which damaged aSoviet oil tanker and wounded 5sailors.

21-Mar-84 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. At least six bombs explodedduring the evening just after thegovernment declared a state ofemergency on the eve of a generalstrike protesting the economicpolicies of President Belaunde. Twoof the explosions took place by the U.S. Embassy and the Sheraton Hotel

21-Mar-84 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. At least six bombs explodedduring the evening just after thegovernment declared a state ofemergency on the eve of a generalstrike protesting the economicpolicies of President Belaunde. Twoof the explosions took place by the U.S. Embassy and the Sheraton Hotel.

24-Mar-84 Biarritz France Anti-terroristLiberationGroup(GAL)

Unknown0 1 FRANCE. The brother-in-law of a topETA leader was assassinated inBiarritz. The Anti-Terrorist LiberationGroup (GAL) claimed credit.

24-Mar-84 Amman Jordan Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A bomb targeted theIntercontinental Hotel in centralAmman. It is believed to have beenintended as a move to sabotage ascheduled visit by British QueenElizabeth. Abu Nidal, which is veryactive in Jordan, is interested intargeting Britain due to its continuingimprisonment of group members whoattempted to assassinate IsraeliAmbassador Argov in London in1982. They are thought to beresponsible.

25-Mar-84 Sumbe Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Four Bulgarian and 10Portuguese technicians werekidnapped by UNITA.

25-Mar-84 UnitedStates

BlackLiberationArmy

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A hijacking of aPiedmont flight was carried out by aman claiming to be LieutenantSpartacus of the Black LiberationArmy. He had placed explosivesaboard the aircraft. The flight endedin Cuba where passengers were ledinto the airport shopping area.

27-Mar-84 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms1 0 LEBANON. While the evacuation ofFrench troops from Lebanon wasunderway, a carload of unidentifiedgunmen shot and seriously woundeda French cultural attache on a westBeirut street. The envoy had beenwalking to work when the gunmendrew up alongside him and openedfire with silencer-equipped pistols.No one took responsibility for theshooting.

27-Mar-84 Baghdad Iraq Hizballah Explosives0 0 IRAQ. A bomb exploded at theBritish Consulate in Baghdad. Theattack is believed to be the work ofthe Islamic Jihad which hasthreatened British and other Westerndiplomatic missions throughout theMiddle East recently.

27-Mar-84 StrasbourgFrance LebaneseArmedRevolutionaryFaction(LARF)

Firearms1 0 FRANCE. Lebanese ArmedRevolutionary Faction (LARF) hasclaimed responsibility for theassassination attempt against U.S.Consul General Robert Onan Hommein which Homme was slightly injured.LARF claims that Homme wasworking for the CIA. Homme was in acar on his way to work when theshooting incident occurred.ADDINFO: In February 1987 GeorgesIbrahim Abdallah was found guilty ofhaving planned and ordered theassassination of American militaryattache Charles Ray in 1982, theassassination of an Israeli diplomat in1982 and the attemptedassassination of Homme. He wassentenced to life in prison. LARF hadcarried out several bombingcampaigns in France prior to the trialin order to secure Abdallah's release.

28-Mar-84 Athens Greece RevolutionaryOrganizationofSocialistMoslems

Firearms0 2 GREECE. A gunman killed a Britishcultural attache and his companion,a British employee, in Athens. Agroup calling itself the RevolutionaryOrganization of Socialist Moslemsclaimed responsibility, saying thatWhitty's killing was in response toBritish attempts to resume formercolonial rule in the world byspreading colonialist culture under anew guise. Whitty, who ran theBritish Council--a government agencythat promotes British interestsabroad--was slain by a lone gunmanwho fled on foot.

28-Mar-84 Tehran Iran ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms1 0 IRAN. Two Turkish diplomats wereshot and wounded in separateattacks as they left their homes forwork. The Armenian Secret Army forthe Liberation of Armenia claimedresponsibility for the synchronizedattacks in a phone call. On April 2,1984 an unidentified person,speaking on the behalf of ASALA,called the officials of Iran's Shuhedahhospital and said that hisorganization would blow up thehospital if it did not terminate thetreatment of Turkish Deputy MilitaryAttache Ismail Pamukcu. A similarthreatening call was also received byretired Col. Osman Aras, who servesin the Turkish embassy in Tehran.An unidentified caller told Aras thatthe attacks will continue. Newsecurity measures were takenaround the Turkish embassyfollowing these threats, and anembassy security guard was placedaround the clock at the door ofPamukcu's room in the hospital.

28-Mar-84 Tehran Iran ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms1 0 IRAN. Two Turkish diplomats wereshot and wounded in separateattacks as they left their homes forwork. The Armenian Secret Army forthe Liberation of Armenia claimedresponsibility for the synchronizedattacks in a phone call. On April 2,1984 an unidentified person,speaking on the behalf of ASALA,called the officials of Iran's Shuhedahhospital and said that hisorganization would blow up thehospital if it did not terminate thetreatment of Turkish Deputy MilitaryAttache Ismail Pamukcu. A similarthreatening call was also received byretired Col. Osman Aras, who servesin the Turkish embassy in Tehran.An unidentified caller told Aras thatthe attacks will continue. Newsecurity measures were takenaround the Turkish embassyfollowing these threats and anembassy security guard was placedaround the clock at the door ofPamukcu's room in the hospital.

28-Mar-84 Iran ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 IRAN. An Armenian was killed in theearly morning when the bomb hewas attempting to plant in the car ofthe Turkish assistant commercialcounselor exploded.

31-Mar-84 Corinto NicaraguaOther Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. As of March 31, a totalof 11 ships had been damaged orsunk as a result of mine layingoperations by the NicaraguanDemocratic Force (FDN) and theDemocratic Revolutionary Alliance(ARDE). Vessels affected includedthose of Soviet, Panamanian, Dutch,Liberian and Nicaraguan registry.Mining in Corinto, Bluefields and ElBluff apparently was carried out byARDE and in Puerto Sandino by theFDN (reportedly backed by the CIA).

31-Mar-84 BluefieldsNicaraguaOther Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. As of March 31, a totalof 11 ships had been damaged orsunk as a result of mine layingoperations by the NicaraguanDemocratic Force (FDN) and theDemocratic Revolutionary Alliance(ARDE). Vessels affected includedthose of Soviet, Panamanian, Dutch,Liberian and Nicaraguan registry.Mining in Corinto, Bluefields and ElBluff apparently was carried out byARDE and in Puerto Sandino by theFDN (reportedly backed by the CIA).

31-Mar-84 El Bluff NicaraguaOther Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. As of March 31, a totalof 11 ships had been damaged orsunk as a result of mine layingoperations by the NicaraguanDemocratic Force (FDN) and theDemocratic Revolutionary Alliance(ARDE). Vessels affected includedthose of Soviet, Panamanian, Dutch,Liberian and Nicaraguan registry.Mining in Corinto, Bluefields and ElBluff apparently was carried out byARDE and in Puerto Sandino by theFDN (reportedly backed by the CIA).

31-Mar-84 NicaraguaOther Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. As of March 31, a totalof 11 ships had been damaged orsunk as a result of mine layingoperations by the NicaraguanDemocratic Force (FDN) and theDemocratic Revolutionary Alliance(ARDE). Vessels affected includedthose of Soviet, Panamanian, Dutch,Liberian and Nicaraguan registry.Mining in Corinto, Bluefields and ElBluff apparently was carried out byARDE and in Puerto Sandino by theFDN (reportedly backed by the CIA).


31-Mar-84 PuertoSandino

NicaraguaOther Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. As of March 31, a totalof 11 ships had been damaged orsunk as a result of mine layingoperations by the NicaraguanDemocratic Force (FDN) and theDemocratic Revolutionary Alliance(ARDE). Vessels affected includedthose of Soviet, Panamanian, Dutch,Liberian and Nicaraguan registry.Mining in Corinto, Bluefields and ElBluff apparently was carried out byARDE and in Puerto Sandino by theFDN (reportedly backed by the CIA).


1-Apr-84 SouthAfrica


Unknown0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. The African NationalCongress mounted an extensivesabotage operation targeting an oilstorage facility in an area ofTransvaal near the border withMozambique. Five fuel tanks weredestroyed and ensuing firesdamaged several tankers. Thestorage installation is run by a U.S.oil company.

1-Apr-84 ManchesterUnitedKingdom

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Libyan-backedterrorists set off bombs inManchester targeting residences ofalleged opponents of the Qadhafiregime. The attacks came soon afterthe Libyan Embassy in London cameunder the control of a People'sBureau set up by a pro-Qadhafistudent committee in London.

1-Apr-84 Bor Sudan Other Unknown0 1 SUDAN. A British employee of anAmerican surveying firm was killed inlate April by armed attackers nearBor. The Sudan People's LiberationMovement (SPLM) which is veryactive in the region has deniedinvolvement in the incident. Thekilling took place only two days afterthe company, Geosource, hadstarted a seismic survey for theFrench oil company, Total. Rebelshave warned foreign firms they riskreprisals for supporting the Western-oriented government.

2-Apr-84 JerusalemIsrael DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives48 0 ISRAEL. A five-man Palestinianterrorist team staged a middaymachine gun and grenade assault inJerusalem's main shopping area,wounding 48 shoppers. Unprotectedcivilian targets are the focus ofterrorist operations currently beingmounted in Israel. A dispatch fromDamascus by the Democratic Frontfor the Liberation of Palestineindicated that Israel's Ministry ofTourism was the actual target of theoperation, which had as its objectivethe taking of hostages. Apparently, ifthis was the case, the terrorists feltthat the building was too wellsecured and so proceeded againstthe shopping area instead. AbuNidal's Fatah Revolutionary Councilalso claimed credit for the assault.The Czech-made submachine gunsused by the terrorists conform to thetype usually used by Abu Nidal.

3-Apr-84 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Firearms1 0 GREECE. Two masked gunmen on amotorcycle shot and wounded a U.S.Army sergeant near an Americanairbase on the outskirts of Athens.Master Sergeant Robert Judd waswounded in the hand and lung bytwo .45 caliber bullets as he waitedfor a traffic light to change. Juddmanaged to drive away after at leastthree shots were fired through therear window of his station wagon.The November 17 group claimedresponsibility for the attack. Itattacked Judd to protest the GreekGovernment's failure to remove fourU.S. bases in Greece. On November15, 1983, U.S. Navy Captain GeorgeTsantes was shot to death in Athensby November 17, which also said itassassinated Richard Welch, CIAstation chief in Athens in 1975. Theattack came two days after Secretaryof Defense Weinberger visitedAthens for discussions.

4-Apr-84 BloemfonteinSouthAfrica


Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. The armed wing ofthe African National Congress (ANC)set off a bomb at the TranskeiConsulate in Bloemfontein. Transkeiis a black tribal homeland which iscooperating with Pretoria to curtailANC infiltration into South Africa.

5-Apr-84 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two bombs causedextensive damage to the Manhattanoffice of Israeli Aircraft Industries.Red Guerrilla Resistance claimedresponsibility for the blasts whichwent off in the early morning hours,blowing two steel doors off theirhinges, shattering windows andtwisting partitions. A night porterhad received a call about 15 minutesbefore the explosion. He saw onepackage resting against the steeldoor but didn't notice the second.About five minutes after the blast, acaller to UPI played a tape whichsaid, This is the Red GuerrillaResistance. This country will nolonger be a safe haven for Israeliwarmongers. Victory to the PLO,death to Zionism and Imperialism.The attack bore no resemblance toany other recent bombings in NewYork.

6-Apr-84 GuatemalaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GUATEMALA. A large group of menentered the farm of a North Americancitizen and set fire to large tracts ofland. The American and his workerswere unable to prevent the men fromsetting the fire because theythreatened them with death.

10-Apr-84 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A high-powered bombwent off at the Salvadoran Embassyin Honduras. The explosive deviceapparently was thrown at thebuilding from a passing car. No onewas injured in the blast and no oneclaimed responsibility.

12-Apr-84 Madrid Spain Hizballah Remote-detonatedexplosive

82 18 SPAIN. An 8-kilo explosive device,placed under a radiator, wasdetonated by a wrist watch timer in arestaurant catering to U.S.servicemen. 18 Spaniards werekilled, and among the 82 wounded,15 of them were Americans. Thethree story building located nearMadrid collapsed. Islamic Jihadclaimed responsibility for the attack.A Palestinian group called Wa'd,meaning promise, also claimedresponsibility for the attack.According to a Spanish weekly,Cambio 16, Spanish police reportedlyidentified two Palestinians who wereinvolved in the bombing of therestaurant. They had entered Spaincarrying false passports a few daysbefore the explosion and rented anapartment in the vicinity of Madrid.Another Palestinian, carrying aforged Moroccan passport, wasarrested in Frankfurt Airport on2/19/85 with 10 kg of explosivecharges. He told his investigatorsthat he had been told to transfer theexplosives to Madrid where theywould be used in order to attackAmerican interests.

13-Apr-84 Lebanon LebaneseNationalResistanceFront

Explosives0 6 LEBANON. National resistance menrammed an Israeli position with anexplosive-filled truck, destroying twotanks and killing their crews. Israeladmitted that six soldiers were killed.

15-Apr-84 France Unknown Firearms2 1 FRANCE. A submachine gun attackagainst a Tunisian restaurant killedone man and wounded two others.No group is known to have claimedresponsibility, but it is believed thatthe incident is Libyan-related.

15-Apr-84 Namibia South-WestAfricaPeople'sOrganization(SWAPO)

Explosives4 3 NAMIBIA. Two American diplomatswere killed by a blast as theytraveled through Namibia. DennisKeough and Lt. Col. Ken Crabtree,members of the U.S. liaison office inWindhoek, stopped at a gas stationand a bomb went off as they waitedfor a receipt. SWAPO has bombedgas stations at random in the pastand the site of this bombing was hit ayear ago. It is believed that thedeaths of these particular peoplewere coincidental rather thanintentional. One Namibian was killedand four others wounded in the blast.SWAPO denied responsibility for thisblast and, in turn, is blaming SouthAfrica.

18-Apr-84 London UnitedKingdom

Other Firearms0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. In the mostblatant act of Libyan state-sponsoredterrorism ever recorded in Europe, aQadhafi-ordered hit man, who hadrecently been assigned to the LibyanEmbassy in London, fired asubmachine gun into a crowd ofdemonstrators who had gatheredoutside the mission building in St.James Square. Several anti-Qadhafiprotestors were wounded and aBritish policewoman was killed. Acrisis followed in which the Britishlaid siege to the Libyan Embassy inLondon while the Libyans retaliatedby taking similar action against theBritish Embassy in Tripoli. Bothgovernments finally broke diplomaticrelations and withdrew theirrespective representatives followingbrief negotiations. Upon entering theabandoned embassy in London,following the departure of the Libyanrepresentatives, British authoritiesuncovered traces of the arms cachewhich had been kept at theinstallation.

20-Apr-84 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A terrorist groupprotesting U.S. policy in CentralAmerica and war games in theCaribbean claimed responsibility fora bomb blast that ripped through theOfficers Club at the Washington NavyYard a dozen blocks from the Capitol.The bomb caused extensive damageto the lobby and first floor of thebuilding. The Guerrilla ResistanceMovement, a group claimingsolidarity with Salvadoran rebels tookresponsibility for the bombing. Thegroup claimed affiliation with theFarabundo Marti National LiberationFront (FMLN) the largest of five leftistguerrilla groups fighting theSalvadoran government.


Unknown Explosives22 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Twenty-twopeople were injured when a bombblast ripped through a holiday crowdat Heathrow Airport. The explosiondevastated the baggage claim areaof one of Heathrow's three mainterminals. Police were trying todetermine if there were any linksbetween the blast and recent tensionbetween England and Libya. Nogroup claimed responsibility.

24-Apr-84 Paris France Other Explosives1 0 FRANCE. A man claiming to belongto a Japanese anarchist grouptelephoned a Paris news agency thathe had carried out two bombings onJapanese targets to support demandsfor the release of an anarchistcondemned to death in Japan. Oneperson was wounded in an explosionat Sony's French headquarters andanother was wounded at anotherJapanese firm, Sonauto.

24-Apr-84 Paris France Other Explosives1 0 FRANCE. A man claiming to belongto a Japanese anarchist grouptelephoned a Paris news agency thathe had carried out two bombings onJapanese targets to support demandsfor the release of an anarchistcondemned to death in Japan. Oneperson was wounded in an explosionat Sony's French headquarters andanother was wounded at anotherJapanese firm, Sonauto.

25-Apr-84 Milan Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside theItalo-Israeli Chamber of Commerce inMilan, causing minor damage but noinjuries. Shortly after the explosion aman telephoned an Italian newsagency claiming responsibility;however, the man spoke so quicklythat it was unclear what organizationhe was claiming the act for.

28-Apr-84 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Authorities announced that20 Jewish extremists had beenarrested on suspicion of plotting toblow up Arab-owned buses inJerusalem. Bombs weighing over 6-1/2 pounds each had been placed onfour buses. The bombs were timed togo off during rush hour.

29-Apr-84 Tehran Iran ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms0 1 IRAN. A Turkish businessman whosewife is a secretary at the TurkishEmbassy was shot in the head as heand his wife were on their way towork. He died of his wounds a fewdays later. ASALA claimed credit.The attack occurred shortly beforeTurkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozalwas to arrive in the Iranian capital onan official visit.

2-May-84 France Anti-terroristLiberationGroup(GAL)

Unknown1 1 FRANCE. A Spanish Basque memberof ETA who was in exile in Francewas killed by members of the self-styled Anti-Terrorist Liberation Group(GAL). Another member of ETA wasalso wounded when the two menwere driving in the village of St.Martin-d'Arrosa when two individualson a motorcycle opened fire on theircar.

3-May-84 Nicosia Cyprus Other Firearms0 1 CYPRUS. A gunman shot and killed aPalestinian journalist reportedlyopposed to PLO Chief Yasser Arafatin Nicosia. Hanna Moqbel, secretaryto the Beirut-based Arab Journalistsand Writers Union, was a passengerin a car driven by his secretary whichhad stopped at an intersection whenan Arab looking man opened fire.The PLO blamed agents of Zionistintelligence but Libya's official newsservice reported Arafat's clique wasbehind the assassination.

3-May-84 Paris France Anti-ArmenianOrganization

Explosives13 0 FRANCE. Three bombs exploded in aParis suburb where a monument wasrecently erected to Armenians killedby Turks during World War I. Theblasts left 13 people injured. A groupcalling itself the Anti-ArmenianOrganization took responsibility forthe bombing. The first exploded atthe monument itself, the second at acafe in the Armenian section of town,and the third at a school near themonument.

3-May-84 Paris France Anti-ArmenianOrganization


3-May-84 France Anti-ArmenianOrganization


4-May-84 Italy InternationalCommunistGroup

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded at theItalian-U.S. Office for CulturalExchanges. The explosion caused noinjuries and only slight damage. TheInternationalist Communist Groupclaimed responsibility.

4-May-84 Rome Italy InternationalCommunistGroup

Explosives1 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded at theentrance to the Honduran Embassyinjuring a secretary and causingminor damage. The InternationalCommunist group claimedresponsibility.

4-May-84 SanSebastian

Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. A gasoline bomb was hurledat a French school in San Sebastianin apparent reaction to the killing ofa suspected Basque guerrilla insouthern France.

6-May-84 SaoPaulo

Brazil Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BRAZIL. Forty-eight hours after itsinauguration, the office of AmnestyInternational in Sao Paulo was brokeninto and fire set to files, documents,and information literature. Thepolice had no clues to the vandalism.

6-May-84 ElSalvador

FarabundoMartiNationalLiberationFront(FMLN)

Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. FMLN guerrillas firedat two helicopters carrying ThomasPickering, the U.S. ambassador to ElSalvador, and a group ofinternational newsmen. There wasno damage and no casualtiesresulted.

7-May-84 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms0 0 PERU. A terrorist team of SenderoLuminoso engaged in a shootout withpolice outside the residence of the U.S. Ambassador in downtown Lima. Itappears that the terrorists wereattempting to launch an attack onthe facility with the possibleobjective of either assassinating theambassador or holding him hostage.

10-May-84

Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. An American minister,Benjamin Weir, was kidnapped byIslamic Jihad while walking to hisoffice at the Near East School ofTheology. Reverend Weir wasreleased on September 14, 1985, 16months after his capture. He wasinstructed to carry a message to theU.S. government from his captors. Inessence his captors indicated unlessthe 17 terrorists being held in Kuwaitfor the bombings of the U.S. andFrench embassies there in December1983 were not released, moreAmericans will be kidnapped andsome may be killed.

11-May-84

SriLanka

LiberationTigers ofTamilEelam(LTTE)

Unknown0 0 SRI LANKA. An American couple waskidnapped by the People's LiberationArmy, an obscure splinter group ofthe Eelam Tigers, an undergroundorganization fighting for a separateTamil nation in northern Sri Lanka.They threatened to kill the coupleunless the Government paid aransom of $20 million and freed 20imprisoned rebels. Even though thedemands were not met, the couplewas released on May 15.

13-May-84

Nicosia Cyprus IslamicActionOrganization

Explosives4 0 CYPRUS. A bomb blast near the IraqiAirways office in Nicosia slightlyinjured four people. Responsibilitywas claimed in Syria by a groupcalled Islamic Action Organizationand in Iran by a group calling itselfthe Mujaheddin of the IslamicRevolution of Iraq.

13-May-84

Durban SouthAfrica


Explosives2 3 SOUTH AFRICA. The African NationalCongress (ANC) was responsible for arocket attack against an oil refineryin Durban run by the Mobil OilCorporation. Four terrorists werekilled in the gunfight which followed,as well as three civilians caught inthe crossfire. Two police officerssuffered injuries.

15-May-84

Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. 40 bombs exploded inSantiago within 36 hours ofenactment of a new anti-terroristlaw. Targets in Santiago includedpower poles and the destruction ofthe Compania Minera Disputada delas Condes, which is reportedlyowned by a U.S. oil firm.

22-May-84

SouthAfrica


Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A high-powereddevice ripped through the officecomplex of a gold mine run by theAnglo American Corporation, 150miles southwest of Johannesburg.The ANC were responsible, anddamage to the facility was extensive.

23-May-84

Bogota Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Nine bombs aimed at U.S. and Honduran targets exploded inBogota and Cali, killing two peopleand injuring 11. Two bombsexploded near the U.S. Embassy, anda car bomb heard five miles awayexploded 200 feet from the U.S.ambassador's residence. TheRevolutionary Armed Forces claimedresponsibility for the bombings in atelephone call. All the casualtiesoccurred in one incident, when abomb exploded in the downtownoffices of the Honduran airlineSAHSA. The two dead and three ofthe injured were among a group ofyoung people that brought the bombinto the office.

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23-May-84

Cali Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)


24-May-84

Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The People's StruggleOrganization (ELA) claimed credit fora dynamite explosion at a branch ofCitibank in a suburb in Athens.

24-May-84


Explosives0 0 GREECE. The People's StruggleOrganization (ELA) and Black June, abranch of the PLO claimed credit forthe bombing of a local restaurant inAthens.

29-May-84

Limassol Cyprus Al-Sa'iqa Firearms0 1 CYPRUS. A Palestinian man wasfound shot dead near Limassol in thethird attack on Arab residents inCyprus over the past month. ThreeSyrians were seized for questioning.A Palestinian source said the slainman had been a member of theSyrian-backed Saiqa guerrilla groupand had gone over to Yasser Arafat'sfaction of the PLO.

30-May-84

NicaraguaOther Explosives27 5 NICARAGUA. Nicaraguan rebelleader Eden Pastora was woundedwhen a bomb exploded during anews conference he was holding justinside of Nicaraguan territory nearthe border with Costa Rica. Fivepeople were killed, including a U.S.newswoman. A total of 27 peoplewere injured. No group claimedresponsibility but there wasspeculation that members of theBasque group ETA were involved.According to the London Times,8/13/93, the bomber was VitalRoberto Gaguine who was a memberof a secret unit of Sandinistaintelligence.

1-Jun-84 Angola AfricanNationalCongress(SouthAfrica)

Explosives0 2 ANGOLA. A parcel bomb killed thewife and child of a key operative ofthe African National Congress (ANC)residing in Angola in late June. It isreported that the bomb was intendedfor Mr. Marius Schoon, who is theleader of the intelligence network ofthe ANC's urban guerrillaunderground. Mr. Schoon is of theopinion that South African securityforces sent the parcel bomb. SouthAfrican authorities maintain that acommunist faction within the ANCcarried out the operation againstSchoon because he was suspected ofbeing a double-agent for the BritishIntelligence Service.

1-Jun-84 Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. An Austrian citizen waskidnapped by Kurdish rebels. He wasreleased July 22, 1984 along with aGerman, three French citizens, and aTurk. All were unharmed.

1-Jun-84 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. An extremely well-designed time-bomb failed toexplode in a Marks and Spencerclothing store in Brussels, because ofa handling error by the person whoplanted it. Authorities seem to agreethat the bomb was characteristic ofan Arab group, but not the PLO orIslamic Jihad.

1-Jun-84 UnitedKingdom

ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 0 NORTHERN IRELAND. Police in theIrish Republic foiled a plan to launcha mortar bomb attack across theborder on a British Army base inNorthern Ireland. Shortly beforemidnight, police intercepted a truckcontaining mortar bombs and a firingdevice on a road near the borderwith Northern Ireland's CountyArmagh. He said officers believethey foiled a terrorist plan to driveacross the border and attack theBritish Army base at Middletown.

5-Jun-84 NicaraguaOther Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. Seven Nicaraguancounterrevolutionaries, five men andtwo women, were arrested in CostaRica for commandeering a boat thatis the property of the NicaraguanGovernment. The hijackers used FALrifles and hand grenades to threatenthe boat's captain and crew.

5-Jun-84 Cairo Egypt Egypt'sRevolution

Firearms1 0 EGYPT. Unknown assailants in aspeeding car opened fire on an Israelidiplomat in a Cairo suburb, woundinghim in the hand and shoulder. Theattack was the first on an Israeli inEgypt since the two countries signeda peace treaty in 1979 andexchanged diplomats in 1980.Egyptian Revolution sent atypewritten Arabic statementclaiming responsibility to the officialSoviet news agency Tass.

6-Jun-84 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A branch of the SaudiEmbassy in Beirut was damaged by abomb and propelled grenade.Islamic Jihad was responsible.

6-Jun-84 VancouverCanada Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 CANADA. Two saber-wielding Sikhsburst into the Indian consulate inVancouver and ransacked offices.The men, brandishing two foot longcurved ceremonial swords, smasheda glass door, several pictures andsome furniture before they werearrested. The men were upset overthe use of troops against Sikhmilitants in the Indian state ofPunjab. They gave up without astruggle.

6-Jun-84 Lebanon Unknown Firearms1 1 LEBANON. Snipers killed one Frenchtruce officer and wounded a secondin what was reported to be an attackon an observation post along theGreen Line dividing Beirut's Moslemand Christian sectors.

8-Jun-84 Lebanon ArabRevengeOrganization

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A group calling itself theArab Revenge Organization claimedcredit for the bombing of the BritishCultural Center. The Center wasbadly damaged in the blast. Thegroup claims it will continue to attackBritish targets to bring about theclosure of the British Embassy, whichit claims is an espionage center.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bomb experts found anexplosive charge aboard thecommercial airliner scheduled tocarry former president Isabel Peronhome to Spain. A one pound chargeof high explosive was found aboardthe Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing747 several hours before departure.The bomb was removed withoutincident.

13-Jun-84 Oyarzun Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Several individuals of ETA setfire to a French truck at Oyarzun inthe Basque province of Guipuzcoa.

14-Jun-84 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA rebels seized 11foreigners, including some Americansduring an attack in which 210government soldiers were killed.UNITA claimed that the hostageswere American, Portuguese andColombian.

20-Jun-84 Upsal Sweden Other Firearms0 1 SWEDEN. A 26-year old Kurd, EnverAta, was shot and killed by anunknown assailant on a street inUpsal, in full view of passersby. Hisdeath is attributed to inter-groupdisputes among Kurdishorganizations.

20-Jun-84 Vienna Austria ArmenianRevolutionaryArmy


5 1 AUSTRIA. A bomb exploded in thecar of a Turkish Embassy employee,killing him and wounding five others.The car had been parked in front ofthe embassy in Vienna and the blastwas apparently triggered by remotecontrol. A woman caller in Parisclaimed responsibility for the blast inthe name of The ArmenianRevolutionary Army. She said thatVienna had been chosen for its ...Symbolic value, because those whoavenge the genocide struck there forthe first time in 1975. The womanwas referring to the assassination ofthe Turkish Ambassador at theAustrian Embassy by the JusticeCommandos of the ArmenianGenocide in that year.

21-Jun-84 Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. On June 21-22 four guerrillasslipped off a merchant ship charteredby PLO members loyal to Arafat, andattempted to launch an attack inIsrael. The attack failed and theterrorists apparently went back toTripoli. Israeli gunboats seized aLebanese ship that was involved inthe Palestine Liberation Organizationattempt to land terrorists in Israel fora mass murder attack. The militarycommand said Israeli gunboatsstopped a 750-ton merchant ship offthe Lebanese port of Tripoli. Themilitary command said the boat, amerchant ship flying a Lebanese flag,was chartered by a group of PLOmembers loyal to Yasser Arafat,chairman of the guerrilla group.

22-Jun-84 Athens Greece Other Firearms0 0 GREECE. A Libyan hit teamoperating in Athens shot a politicalopponent of Muammar Qadhafi ,prompting a revenge killing the nextday against a Libyan reported to beworking for Qadhafi.

23-Jun-84 Greece Other Firearms0 1 GREECE. A Libyan hit teamoperating in Athens shot a politicalopponent of Muammar Qadhafi,prompting a revenge killing the nextday against a Libyan reported to beworking for Qadhafi.

23-Jun-84 Paris France Other Explosives2 0 FRANCE. Two people were slightlyinjured when a bomb exploded at anArmenian center at a university insouthern Paris. The attack was laterclaimed in the name of Turkishnationals. The bomb went off at thedoor of the center where about 40people were gathered. There waswidespread damage.

23-Jun-84 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. The Austrian consul inBeirut was assassinated. Theincident was not claimed.

23-Jun-84 Beirut Lebanon Amal Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The group Sadr Brigadeskidnapped Libyan diplomat,Mohammed Moghrabi, and claimedhis life was in danger unless allLibyan diplomats left Lebanon andthe fate of the Lebanese Shi'iteleader, for whom the group wasnamed, was revealed. Shi'itemilitiamen stormed the kidnappers'hideout in West Beirut two days laterand freed him. Two of the militiamenwere wounded in the battle.

25-Jun-84 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A car belonging to aLebanese secretary at the FrenchEmbassy was blown up in front of herWest Beirut home in the latest of aseries of attacks against thediplomatic corps in the Moslemsector of the city. The explosion wasnot claimed.


ArgentinaOther Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The fuel tanks of twotankers, presumably the PeritoMoreno and the Belgrano, (belongingto Shell Oil Company) exploded inBuenos Aires, setting off a large firein the area. The Sargento CisnerosCommando claimed credit forblowing up the vessels because theenterprise (Shell) collaborated withthe British during the Malvinas war.Approximately ten crew memberswere missing. Officials are denyingthat sabotage was involved.


ArgentinaOther Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The fuel tanks of twotankers, presumably the PeritoMoreno and the Belgrano, (belongingto Shell Oil Company) exploded inBuenos Aires, setting off a large firein the area. The Sargento CisnerosCommando claimed credit forblowing up the vessels because theenterprise (Shell) collaborated withthe British during the Malvinas war.Approximately ten crew memberswere missing. Officials are denyingthat sabotage was involved.

1-Jul-84 Tokyo Japan Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. Radicals recently mounted aseries of arson attacks on Japaneseand U.S. targets to protest thescheduled visit of South KoreanPresident Chun. During a ninety-minute period, nine separatefirebombings occurred including sixin Tokyo and two against U.S.military facilities. A militarycommunications facility at Kariya inAichi Prefecture and one atYokohama were hit. The incidentwas claimed by a radical group whichidentified itself as partisan.

1-Jul-84 Tokyo Japan Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. Radicals recently mounted aseries of arson attacks on Japaneseand U.S. targets to protest thescheduled visit of South KoreanPresident Chun. During a ninety-minute period, nine separatefirebombings occurred including sixin Tokyo and two against U.S.military facilities. A militarycommunications facility at Kariya inAichi Prefecture and one atYokohama were hit. The incidentwas claimed by a radical group whichidentified itself as partisan.

4-Jul-84 Athens Greece NationalFront fortheSalvationof Libya

Firearms0 2 GREECE. Two young Libyan studentssaid to be supporters of Qadhafi werefound slain in Athens. The pair wasscheduled to return to Libya thatday. Both had been shot in the head.This attack brings to four the numberof Libyans shot in Greece in the pastmonth. The National Front for theSalvation of Libya claimed credit forthe assassinations.


Other ChemicalAgent

0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A former NigerianCabinet minister who is a leadingopponent of his country's six-month-old military government waskidnapped in London. The official,Umaru Dikko, was later founddrugged but alive in a crate labeleddiplomatic baggage in an airportcargo terminal. Two other men, oneof them dead, were found in similarcrates at Stansted Airport. Dikkowas freed at the airport by the Britishantiterrorist police minutes beforethe Nigerian Airways plane wasabout to leave for Lagos. Dikko wasconsidered a most wanted man inNigeria and apparently was beingsent back to stand trial. Seventeenpeople, including a Nigeriandiplomat, have been arrested inconnection with the kidnapping.

6-Jul-84 Pakistan Other Firearms0 0 INDIA. An Indian Airlines Airbus washijacked by eight Sikhs in apparentretaliation for the Indian Army's June5 attack on the Golden Templecomplex, the Sikhs' holiest shrine,after armed Sikh terrorists fortified it.The hijackers had demanded thatIndia pay $25 million in reparationsand release Sikh captives. Thehijackers surrendered in Pakistan andfreed more than 260 hostages. TheSikhs stabbed the flight purser andforced him to open the door to thecockpit. Inside, the flight engineerwas shot in the back and stabbedtwice in the forehead and in theshoulder. They reportedly beatmany of the passengers and crew.The hijackers had gotten throughtight security checks because a Sikhsecurity man at the airport was inleague with them.

8-Jul-84 Vienna Austria Other Unknown0 0 AUSTRIA. An attempt by a Pakistaniterrorist team to stage a hostageseizure of Ford Motor Companyemployees attending a conference inVienna was foiled by Austrianauthorities. Nine Pakistani nationalswere arrested in connection with theincident. The operation involvedfollowers of the deposed, executedPresident of Pakistan, Ali Bhutto, yetothers undoubtedly played a role.Some training occurred in India, finalplans were drawn up in Syria, andthe state-of-the-art weapons werebrought in by middlemen throughSwitzerland and West Germany. Ithas been suggested the operationwas sponsored by Libya which didnot want to become directlyinvolved. It is also believed thatAustria may not have been theprimary target, but factors, includingthe incompetency of the team,dictated a secondary target beselected.

9-Jul-84 Egypt Hizballah Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Mines placed in the SuezCanal have struck 19 ships since July9 but in most cases the damage hasbeen minor. A Soviet vessel wasreportedly the first ship damaged bythe mines. Two other Soviet shipswere damaged in later incidents.During the weekend of July 28, threeships including two freighters and anoil rig belonging to Amoco (whoseparent company is Standard Oil ofIndiana), were damaged. On August5th the Liberian-registered tanker,Olympic Energy, was severelydamaged by an explosion. Therewere reports that the vessel wassinking, but no casualties had yetbeen reported. On August 15 theengine room of a Cypriot cargo shipwas severely damaged by a mine.On September 20 a Saudi passengership on its way to pick up Moslempilgrims in Saudi Arabia was rockedby an explosion. The ship wascarrying no passengers at the timeand there was no major damage tothe vessel. This was the firstexplosion involving shipping in thearea since August 15. Some of theother nationalities of ships reportedlydamaged were Greek, Turkish, EastGerman, Polish, Danish, Chinese, andJapanese. On July 31 the Islamic Jihadreleased a communique claimingthat it had laid 190 accoustic minesin the Gulf of Suez and the southernentrance to the Red Sea to punishimperialists for encouraging anexpansion of the Iran-Iraq war. It isbelieved doubtful that this terroristgroup could conduct such anoperation without direct support of asympathetic nation, and isconsidered a cover for Libyan-statesponsored terrorism.


11-Jul-84 Beirut Lebanon Amal Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 LEBANON. A gang of gunmenstormed the Libyan Embassy, forcedthe guards outside and used aremote-control bomb to blow up thebuilding. A Shia faction called theSadr Brigades took responsibility forthe blast.

11-Jul-84 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives1 0 SPAIN. ETA attacked five Frenchtrucks near the Spanish/Frenchborder. Small explosive devices wereplaced in the motor compartmentswhich when they exploded ruined theengine but did not destroy the truck.One driver who was asleep in the cabof his truck was injured.

14-Jul-84 ChimboloAngola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Explosives0 10 ANGOLA. The National Union for theTotal Independence of Angola(UNITA) claimed responsibility for abomb blast at a Gulf Oil Companypipeline that killed ten people. Theattack occurred in the city ofChimbolo in oil-rich northern CabindaProvince. The attack took place atnight and in addition to damage tothe pipeline a house where a familywas sleeping was destroyed. UNITAclaims the casualties were muchhigher.

17-Jul-84 Lebanon Sons ofthe South

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Pro-Israeli gunmenkidnapped Sheik Mohammed HassanAmin, a Shiite Moslem religiousleader in southern Lebanon, andforced him to leave the region,apparently because he wassuspected of inciting attacks againstIsraeli occupation troops. Tengunmen broke into Amin's house inSidon and abducted him and tworelatives. They were taken to anIsraeli interrogation center. Therelatives were released but Amin wastaken outside the region and orderednot to return to southern Lebanon. Agroup calling itself Sons of the Southclaimed responsibility. Policedescribed them as Israeli-backedLebanese militiamen.

19-Jul-84 Brussels Belgium Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. Kadafi is being accused bythe U.S. State Department of beingbehind an attack against Air Zaire inBrussels. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown into the offices of thecompany, causing no injuries.

21-Jul-84 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Moslem extremists fired arocket at the Soviet Embassycompound in Beirut. The rocket wasfired from a rooftop 100 yards away.A caller said the target was theSoviet espionage center.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The pro-Castro Army ofNational Liberation (ELN) bombed theChilean Consulate in Medellin.

24-Jul-84 BarcelonaSpain Amal Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Martyrs of the IslamicRevolution bombed the FrenchConsulate in Barcelona.

28-Jul-84 PeshawarPakistan Unknown Explosives12 4 PAKISTAN. A booby-trapped carexploded outside the headquarters ofa major Afghan rebel group in thePakistan frontier town of Peshawar,killing 4 people and wounding 12.The fundamentalist party issued astatement accusing the Soviet K.G.B.of planting the bomb. The party'sstatement, telephoned to reporters,said Islamic warrior groups wouldsoon retaliate with a heavy attack ona military target in Soviet territory.

29-Jul-84 Caracas VenezuelaOther Firearms0 0 VENEZUELA. Gunmen hijacked aVenezuelan airliner shortly aftertakeoff from Caracas. They initiallydemanded weapons, then asked for$5 million and a helicopter. Thehijackers freed six passengers fromamong their 85 hostages at Curacaoairport where it had landed. On July31, Venezuelan commandos stormedthe jetliner killing two hijackerswithout injuring any of thepassengers. The hijackers wereidentified as a Dominican nationaland a former Haitian Army captainbelieved to have links with elementstrying to oust Haiti's PresidentDuvalier. The hijackers hadapparently poured gasoline down theaisle and tried to set the planeablaze as the commandos enteredthe aircraft.

31-Jul-84 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso terroristsclaimed responsibility for thebombing of the Soviet commercialairline office Aeroflot in Lima.Senderistas are well-known Maoists--natural enemies of Sovietcommunism.

31-Jul-84 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Guardsmenof Islam

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Guardsmen of Islam claimedresponsibility for hijacking an AirFrance 737 jet to Tehran. The groupdemanded the release of fiveIranians being held in France for anassassination attempt on formerIranian Prime Minister ShapurBakhtiar in Paris in 1980. Thehijackers managed to smuggle asmall quantity of plastic explosivesonto the aircraft in Frankfurt withwhich they threatened to blow it upunless the pilot shifted coursetowards the Middle East. In Tehranautomatic weapons, ammunition andgrenades were brought on board forthe hijackers for withstanding anyrescue attempt to recover theaircraft. Negotiations between theFrench and Iranian governmentsprevented a major tragedy. Theterrorists released the hostages onAugust 1, limiting themselves toblowing up the cockpit of the aircraftas a protest for their demands notbeing met. Apparently there was atleast some local backing from officialsources in Iran in carrying out thisincident.

1-Aug-84 Madrid Spain Unknown Firearms1 0 SPAIN. An Arab carrying a SouthYemeni diplomatic passport wascritically wounded by gunmen on amotorcycle in Madrid. There wassome confusion over the identity ofthe individual. Originally he wasidentified as a South Yemen diplomatvacationing in Spain. The attack tookplace about one hundred yards fromthe entrance of the office of the ArabLeague in Spain. Later informationsuggested the victim in fact was amember of the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine (PFLP). AKuwaiti report claims the attack wasmounted by pro-Iranian Islamicrevolutionaries but a statementreleased by the PLO claims thatIsraeli intelligence carried out theattack.

1-Aug-84 Luanda Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Explosives0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA has claimed creditfor a major sabotage attack againstthe harbor of Luanda. Two freightersanchored at the facility wereseverely damaged by what weredescribed as U.S.-made mines. Thevessels were identified as an EastGerman ship carrying food, andaccording to UNITA, a Cuban shipcarrying military equipment.

1-Aug-84 Luanda Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Explosives0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA claimed credit fordamaging a Cuban ship carryingmilitary equipment in the harbor ofLuanda.

1-Aug-84 Egypt Hizballah Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Mines placed in the SuezCanal have struck 19 ships since July9 but in most cases the damage hasbeen minor. A Soviet vessel wasreportedly the first ship damaged bythe mines. Two other Soviet shipswere damaged in later incidents.During the weekend of July 28, threeships including two freighters and anoil rig belonging to Amoco (whoseparent company is Standard Oil ofIndiana), were damaged. On August5th the Liberian-registered tanker,Olympic Energy, was severelydamaged by an explosion. Therewere reports that the vessel wassinking, but no casualties had yetbeen reported. On August 15 theengine room of a Cypriot cargo shipwas severely damaged by a mine.On September 20 a Saudi passengership on its way to pick up Moslempilgrims in Saudi Arabia was rockedby an explosion. The ship wascarrying no passengers at the timeand there was no major damage tothe vessel. This was the firstexplosion involving shipping in thearea since August 15. Some of theother nationalities of ships reportedlydamaged were Greek, Turkish, EastGerman, Polish, Danish, Chinese, andJapanese. On July 31 the Islamic Jihadreleased a communique claimingthat it had laid 190 accoustic minesin the Gulf of Suez and the southernentrance to the Red Sea to punishimperialists for encouraging anexpansion of the Iran-Iraq war. It isbelieved doubtful that this terroristgroup could conduct such anoperation without direct support of asympathetic nation, and isconsidered a cover for Libyan-statesponsored terrorism.Note: Date isapproximate.

1-Aug-84 Egypt Hizballah Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Mines placed in the SuezCanal have struck 19 ships since July9 but in most cases the damage hasbeen minor. A Soviet vessel wasreportedly the first ship damaged bythe mines. Two other Soviet shipswere damaged in later incidents.During the weekend of July 28, threeships including two freighters and anoil rig belonging to Amoco (whoseparent company is Standard Oil ofIndiana), were damaged. On August5th the Liberian-registered tanker,Olympic Energy, was severelydamaged by an explosion. Therewere reports that the vessel wassinking, but no casualties had yetbeen reported. On August 15 theengine room of a Cypriot cargo shipwas severely damaged by a mine.On September 20 a Saudi passengership on its way to pick up Moslempilgrims in Saudi Arabia was rockedby an explosion. The ship wascarrying no passengers at the timeand there was no major damage tothe vessel. This was the firstexplosion involving shipping in thearea since August 15. Some of theother nationalities of ships reportedlydamaged were Greek, Turkish, EastGerman, Polish, Danish, Chinese, andJapanese. On July 31 the Islamic Jihadreleased a communique claimingthat it had laid 190 accoustic minesin the Gulf of Suez and the southernentrance to the Red Sea to punishimperialists for encouraging anexpansion of the Iran-Iraq war. It isbelieved doubtful that this terroristgroup could conduct such anoperation without direct support of asympathetic nation, and isconsidered a cover for Libyan-statesponsored terrorism.Note: Date isapproximate.


Explosives6 0 FRANCE. A powerful bomb explodedin a secondary entrance to theEuropean Space Agency's Parisheadquarters just before midnight,slightly injuring six people. ActionDirecte claimed responsibility.

3-Aug-84 Madras India LiberationTigers ofTamilEelam(LTTE)

Explosives19 31 INDIA. A powerful bomb killed atleast 31 persons and injured 19 inthe international arrivals lounge atthe airport in the southern Indian cityof Madras where tensions have risenduring the past year between theIndian government and Tamilseparatists seeking an independentstate in Sri Lanka. The bomb wentoff shortly after an Air Lanka flightleft Madras' Meenanbakkam airportbound for Colombo, Sri Lanka. Twopieces of unidentified baggage werefound in the departure lounge shortlyafter the flight left and were movedby customs agents to the adjacentarrivals area while procedures werestarted for opening them for aroutine customs check. Unofficialsources were quoted as saying thatat least three anonymous telephonecalls were made to the airportauthorities earlier, informing them ofthe presence of a bomb, but thatsecurity personnel were not informedwhile customs officials took steps toopen the bags.

4-Aug-84 Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives2 0 JORDAN. A bomb went off under a U.S. Embassy water truck in Amman,injuring two people in a passing taxi.No one claimed responsibility.

5-Aug-84 Egypt Hizballah Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Mines placed in the SuezCanal have struck 19 ships since July9 but in most cases the damage hasbeen minor. A Soviet vessel wasreportedly the first ship damaged bythe mines. Two other Soviet shipswere damaged in later incidents.During the weekend of July 28, threeships including two freighters and anoil rig belonging to Amoco (whoseparent company is Standard Oil ofIndiana), were damaged. On August5th the Liberian-registered tanker,Olympic Energy, was severelydamaged by an explosion. Therewere reports that the vessel wassinking, but no casualties had yetbeen reported. On August 15 theengine room of a Cypriot cargo shipwas severely damaged by a mine.On September 20 a Saudi passengership on its way to pick up Moslempilgrims in Saudi Arabia was rockedby an explosion. The ship wascarrying no passengers at the timeand there was no major damage tothe vessel. This was the firstexplosion involving shipping in thearea since August 15. Some of theother nationalities of ships reportedlydamaged were Greek, Turkish, EastGerman, Polish, Danish, Chinese, andJapanese. On July 31 the Islamic Jihadreleased a communique claimingthat it had laid 190 accoustic minesin the Gulf of Suez and the southernentrance to the Red Sea to punishimperialists for encouraging anexpansion of the Iran-Iraq war. It isbelieved doubtful that this terroristgroup could conduct such anoperation without direct support of asympathetic nation, and isconsidered a cover for Libyan-statesponsored terrorism.

5-Aug-84 Antwerp Belgium BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb damaged thePalace of Justice in Antwerp andBasque separatists are suspected.Last month Belgium extradited twomembers of the ETA movement toSpain. Since then members of themovement have threatened reprisalsagainst Belgium. Minutes before theblast, the Red Cross received atelephone warning from a womanwith a Spanish accent.

7-Aug-84 ValparaisoChile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front, a Communist-ledguerrilla movement, claimed creditfor the dynamite and nitroglycerineblast at a U.S. government culturalinstitute in Valparaiso.

7-Aug-84 Valdivia Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A Coca-Cola distributor'soffice was bombed by the ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front in Valdivia.

11-Aug-84

Brussels Belgium Other Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A makeshift grenadeexploded in a car parked in front ofthe Zairean Embassy in Brussels.The car was badly damaged but noone was injured. According to the U.S. State Department, Kadafi issuspected of being behind theattack.

13-Aug-84

Lyon France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A small home-made bombexploded in a coin-operated locker atthe central railway station in Lyons,but a defect in the bomb casinglimited the extent of damage andprobably prevented casualties.Responsibility for the blast wasclaimed by ASALA. The bombconsisted of about 200 grams ofexplosive packed into a metal tube,the end of which was welded shutwith a plug containing an electronicdetonator. The weld on the plugapparently came loose with theexplosion, appreciably reducing theforce of the blast. Responsibility forthe blast was also claimed by thegroup M-5, which is trying to extortthe government for over $3 milliondollars in return for their ceasingbombing efforts.

14-Aug-84


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. ETA activists hurled agasoline bombs into three Renaultshowrooms in Barcelona and Madrid.

14-Aug-84

Madrid Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA activists hurled agasoline bombs into three Renaultshowrooms in Barcelona and Madrid.

14-Aug-84

BarcelonaSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. ETA activists hurled agasoline bombs into three Renaultshowrooms in Barcelona and Madrid.

15-Aug-84

Egypt Hizballah Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Mines placed in the SuezCanal have struck 19 ships since July9 but in most cases the damage hasbeen minor. A Soviet vessel wasreportedly the first ship damaged bythe mines. Two other Soviet shipswere damaged in later incidents.During the weekend of July 28, threeships including two freighters and anoil rig belonging to Amoco (whoseparent company is Standard Oil ofIndiana), were damaged. On August5th the Liberian-registered tanker,Olympic Energy, was severelydamaged by an explosion. Therewere reports that the vessel wassinking, but no casualties had yetbeen reported. On August 15 theengine room of a Cypriot cargo shipwas severely damaged by a mine.On September 20 a Saudi passengership on its way to pick up Moslempilgrims in Saudi Arabia was rockedby an explosion. The ship wascarrying no passengers at the timeand there was no major damage tothe vessel. This was the firstexplosion involving shipping in thearea since August 15. Some of theother nationalities of ships reportedlydamaged were Greek, Turkish, EastGerman, Polish, Danish, Chinese, andJapanese. On July 31 the Islamic Jihadreleased a communique claimingthat it had laid 190 accoustic minesin the Gulf of Suez and the southernentrance to the Red Sea to punishimperialists for encouraging anexpansion of the Iran-Iraq war. It isbelieved doubtful that this terroristgroup could conduct such anoperation without direct support of asympathetic nation, and isconsidered a cover for Libyan-statesponsored terrorism.

15-Aug-84

WiesbadenFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Other 0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Aseries of harassing acts have beentaking place at the military airfield atWiesbaden-Erbenheim, operated bythe U.S. Army. Air traffic controlequipment valued at over $20,000was destroyed. The cables feedingthe approach lighting systemsoutside the base have been cut andnumerous landing lights have beensmashed. A previously unknowngroup, Anarchio Scene, has claimedresponsibility for the damage inletters to newspapers in Weisbadenand Frankfurt. The group is made upof anarchists and describes theincidents as a small step towardresistance against the NATO autumnexercises which are now starting.

15-Aug-84

JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Israeli police defused apowerful time bomb minutes beforeit was set to explode in a car parkedoutside the headquarters of PrimeMinister Yitzhak Shamir's Herut Partyin Jerusalem. No one immediatelyclaimed responsibility for the bomb,but Palestine Liberation Organizationguerrillas were suspected because ofslogans painted under the car's hood.

15-Aug-84

Gijon Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The French Consulate in Gijonwas bombed by ETA.

15-Aug-84

LaCoruna


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A French bank was virtuallydestroyed in the Atlantic seaport ofLa Coruna by ETA.

17-Aug-84

Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A U.S. cosmetics companywas damaged by dynamite chargeshurled by unknown individuals. Noone claimed responsibility for thepredawn attack.

18-Aug-84

TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. Two bombs wereplaced in the TegucigalpaInternational Airport. An anonymousphone call to the airport securitypersonnel resulted in bomb disposalpersonnel locating and deactivatingboth devices.

21-Aug-84


Unknown Unknown0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A Libyanbusinessman who was facing trial inconnection with a series of bombingsagainst anti-Qadhafi Libyans wasfound murdered in a Londonapartment. Police believe he waslured to the apartment and killed byan assassin. The victim, Ali-el-Giahour, was charged withconspiracy to cause explosions afterfive bombs exploded at Arab targetsin a crowded nightclub. He wasbelieved connected to the LibyanIntelligence Service.

21-Aug-84

Paris France M-5 Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded shortlybefore midnight outside an Israelibank on a crowded boulevard linedwith cafes. The blast damaged thefacade of the Bank Leumi of Israeland shattered windows in adjacentbuildings. No one was injured. Thebomb was described as relativelysmall and not designed to inflictheavy damage. A new group callingitself M-5 claimed responsibility forthe blast as well as for several otherswithin the last several days. Thegroup is demanding $3.75 million tocease its attacks. The politicalorientation of the group is unknown.

24-Aug-84

Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Other 0 0 LEBANON. About 150 members ofthe Pro-Iranian Hizballah Partystormed the Saudi Arabian Embassyin Beirut, smashing windows,destroying documents and burningportraits of Saudi monarchs. Theattackers pasted up posters ofKhomeini.

24-Aug-84

India Other Explosives0 0 INDIA. Seven Sikh hijackers betweenthe ages of 16 and 22, demanded anIndian Airlines jetliner on a domesticflight be flown to the United States.The hijackers were armed withbombs, pistols and daggers.Negotiations between the Sikhs andSheik Mohammed bin RashidalMaktoum, the Defense Minister ofthe United Arab Emirates, were heldin the airport control tower at Dubai.Among the demands of the hijackerswere the creation of a separate Sikhstate, the release of 14 Sikhsimprisoned in Pakistan for twoprevious hijackings and thewithdrawal of the Indian Army fromthe predominantly Sikh state ofPunjab. The incident endedpeacefully shortly after thenegotiations.

25-Aug-84


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. During a 48-hour period ofETA/Basque protests, a Frenchcouple's home was burned andseveral French cars were burned.These actions were in protest toFrench court actions which will returnETA terrorists to Spanish jurisdiction.

25-Aug-84


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. During a 48-hour period ofETA/Basque protests, a Frenchcouple's home was burned andseveral French cars were burned.These actions were in protest toFrench court actions which will returnETA terrorists to Spanish jurisdiction.

29-Aug-84

Lebanon RevolutionaryOrganizationofSocialistMoslems

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A group calling itself theRevolutionary Organization ofSocialist Moslems claimed credit forkidnapping a British journalistworking in Lebanon for Reuters. Thecorrespondent managed to escapefrom his captors on September 21 bysqueezing through a ventilation holenear the ceiling of his cell.

30-Aug-84

Guecho Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA terrorists bombed aFrench Peugot auto dealership inGuecho. The explosion causedsubstantial damage.

1-Sep-84 Tehran Iran Other Explosives1 0 IRAN. Armenian terrorists havebegun attacking various Turkishfirms operating in Iran. These firmsfirst receive threatening letters andthen are attacked by explosives. Thefirst attack was launched against theoffices of the Sezai Turkes-FevziAkkaya firm. An explosive wasthrown into the company's Tehranoffice. A Turkish employee was hurtwhile trying to put out the ensuingfire.

1-Sep-84 Amberes Belgium BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. Basque terroristsassociated with ETA detonated apowerful bomb in the office of theresident of the Superior CommercialCourt located on the third floor of agovernment building in Amberes.The act was a protest against theBelgian Government's July 14extradition to Spain of two ETApersonnel who had been arrested inAmberes during 1983.

1-Sep-84 Montreal Canada Other Explosives29 3 CANADA. A bomb exploded in theMontreal main railroad station onLabor Day, killing three Frenchtourists and wounding 29 others. Arambling, barely coherent note hadbeen turned over to police threedays earlier by a ticket agent at thestation. The letter threatened the lifeof the Pope who is due to visitCanada in mid-September. Shortlyafter the bomb detonated ananonymous caller warned a secondbomb had been planted in therailroad station. A search failed tolocate a second bomb. An Americanfrom Rochester, New York, wasordered held in connection with thebombing.

2-Sep-84 Lebanon Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 LEBANON. A remote-controlledbomb exploded near a passing Israelipatrol in southern Lebanon. Therewere no reports of casualties butseveral military vehicles weredestroyed.

3-Sep-84 Istanbul Turkey ArmenianRevolutionaryArmy

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Two Lebanese were killedin a car bomb explosion at a parkinglot near the Topkapi Palace inIstanbul. The ArmenianRevolutionary Army claimedresponsibility for the blast.Authorities speculate the two diedwhen the bomb they were trying toplant exploded prematurely. Thepair entered Turkey from Syria toconduct a sabotage operation.

4-Sep-84 Bentiu Sudan SudanPeople'sLiberationArmy(SPLA)

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Rebels believed to belong tothe Sudan People's Liberation Armyraided the oil town of Bentiu andkidnapped three priests, including anAmerican, during the raid.

5-Sep-84 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillasdynamited a U.S. cultural center indowntown Lima.

10-Sep-84 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Two Italian engineerswere kidnapped by anti-governmentguerrillas. The Italians had beenworking on the Corumana Dam, 150kilometers from Maputo whenguerrillas of the MozambiqueNational Resistance Front abductedthem. Authorities believe they willbe released shortly unharmed.

11-Sep-84 AmsterdamNetherlandsOther Explosives1 0 NETHERLANDS. A bomb exploded inAmsterdam at a monument to thecountry's former colonial army inIndonesia. One person was injured,but losses could have been heavierhad three other bombs at the samesite exploded. The group Koetoh Rehclaimed responsibility for thebombing in a letter. It said the attackwas to protest alleged racism in theNetherlands and Dutch ties with thegovernment of General Suharto ofIndonesia. Koetoh Reh said it took itsname from an Indonesian villagewhere it alleged the Dutch armymassacred 460 people in 1904.

13-Sep-84 Madrid Spain Al BorkanLiberationOrganization

Firearms1 0 SPAIN. Gunmen wounded a LibyanEmbassy employee in Madrid. Thegunmen, carrying Lebanesepassports, were arrested by policeshortly after the attack. An anti-Qadhafi Libyan exile group in Londoncalled Al borkan claimedresponsibility for the attack.

14-Sep-84 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A powerful homemadebomb exploded inside the Tower ofthe Englishman in a downtownBuenos Aires plaza, damaging thefront door of the tower but causingno injuries. Police found pamphletsscattered around the tower criticizingthe visit to Argentina of BritishParliament members, who weretrying to start talks on the disputedFalkland Islands.

14-Sep-84 Marbella Spain Hizballah Unknown1 1 SPAIN. A Saudi Arabian engineerdied from wounds suffered while hesat at a cafe in Marbella. One of histwo Saudi companions was alsoinjured. The Islamic Jihad recentlypromised to carry out attacks againstundisclosed Saudi targets in Europe.

15-Sep-84 Cyprus Other Unknown1 0 CYPRUS. Airline security guards shotand killed at least three armedhijackers trying to commandeer anIraqi Airways 737 over Jordan. Aguard was also reported wounded.The plane was carrying 100passengers and crew on a flight fromCyprus to Baghdad. The three mencarried false Iraqi passports and hadbeen sent to avenge Iraq's recentconfiscation of three hijacked Iranianaircraft. The move to seize theairliner was the first such attempt toseize an Iraqi plane since hijackingsof Iranian aircraft began in June.

17-Sep-84 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Authorities found ahomemade bomb planted in a flowerbox outside the Japanese Embassyand detonated it after cordoning offthe area. No one was injured.

19-Sep-84 AfghanistanOther Unknown0 0 AFGHANISTAN. A French televisionjournalist was missing in Afghanistanafter his four-man crew wasambushed soon after entering thecountry.

20-Sep-84 Egypt Hizballah Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Mines placed in the SuezCanal have struck 19 ships since July9 but in most cases the damage hasbeen minor. A Soviet vessel wasreportedly the first ship damaged bythe mines. Two other Soviet shipswere damaged in later incidents.During the weekend of July 28, threeships including two freighters and anoil rig belonging to Amoco (whoseparent company is Standard Oil ofIndiana), were damaged. On August5th the Liberian-registered tanker,Olympic Energy, was severelydamaged by an explosion. Therewere reports that the vessel wassinking, but no casualties had yetbeen reported. On August 15 theengine room of a Cypriot cargo shipwas severely damaged by a mine.On September 20 a Saudi passengership on its way to pick up Moslempilgrims in Saudi Arabia was rockedby an explosion. The ship wascarrying no passengers at the timeand there was no major damage tothe vessel. This was the firstexplosion involving shipping in thearea since August 15. Some of theother nationalities of ships reportedlydamaged were Greek, Turkish, EastGerman, Polish, Danish, Chinese, andJapanese. On July 31 the Islamic Jihadreleased a communique claimingthat it had laid 190 accoustic minesin the Gulf of Suez and the southernentrance to the Red Sea to punishimperialists for encouraging anexpansion of the Iran-Iraq war. It isbelieved doubtful that this terroristgroup could conduct such anoperation without direct support of asympathetic nation, and isconsidered a cover for Libyan-statesponsored terrorism.

20-Sep-84 Rome Italy Other Other 0 1 ITALY. A Libyan was strangled in asmall Rome hotel by theOrganization of MauritanianNationalists. The group accused theLibyan of being a member of theLibyan intelligence service and asource of funds for theirrevolutionary group. The victim hadlived in Italy for the last two yearsand claimed to be an opponent ofQadhafi.

20-Sep-84 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Explosives70 23 LEBANON. Islamic Jihad terroristspenetrated the incomplete defensesof the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirutand detonated a truck carrying amassive amount of explosives. Atleast 23, including two U.S.servicemen, died in the blast andabout 70 persons were injured.

20-Sep-84 SanMartindePorres

Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Unknown0 0 PERU. The Purina plant in San Martinde Porres was attacked. TupacAmaru guerrillas are suspected.

21-Sep-84 Nicosia Cyprus Other Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. Police defused a bombdiscovered in the garden of theLibyan Embassy cultural center inNicosia. The bomb consisted of twogas cylinders tied to a wad ofexplosives and a timer. Pro and anti-Qadhafi elements have beenengaged in attacks on each other onCyprus for some time.


UnitedStates

UnitedFreedomFront(UFF)

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A powerful blastcaused damage in a mid-Manhattanoffice tower on Park Avenue housingthe South African Consulate.Considerable property damageresulted. A call was received in thecomplex ten minutes before the blastadvising them to vacate thepremises. The Guerrilla ResistanceMovement claimed responsibility forthe blast. The group is reportedlyaffiliated with the United FreedomFront.

28-Sep-84 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Firearms0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillas rakedthe U.S. Embassy with bullets fromautomatic weapons shatteringwindows but causing no casualties.


Other Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. A controversialChinese author, Liu, was shot todeath in the garage of his Daly City,California home. He was shot twicein the stomach and once in the head.The author had recently written abook critical of the administration ofTaiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo.Two Asian males wearing hoods hadbeen riding bikes in the area on twoconsecutive days. The bikes werefound abandoned nearby after themurder. Prosecutors later issued amurder warrant charging the reputedkingpin of the international BambooGang in the killing of the Chinatownjournalist.In March of 1988 TungKuei-sen, a Taiwanese gang memberwas found guilty of first-degreemurder in the Liu assassination.During the trial Kuei-sen confessed tohaving acted on orders given by theTaiwanese government, ordersdirectly approved by the son of thenation's president.

1-Oct-84 Spain Other Unknown0 1 SPAIN. A Kuwaiti governmentadvisor was assassinated andofficials believe an Iranian hit squadwas responsible.

1-Oct-84 Cyprus Other Unknown0 1 CYPRUS. An Iranian hit squad wasresponsible for the assassination of aclose advisor to the KuwaitiGovernment. Kuwaiti officials areprime targets of Iranian terroristteams operating in southern Europe.Another Kuwaiti government advisorwas recently assassinated in Spain.

1-Oct-84 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. The Sears store in Lima wasbombed by Tupac Amaru guerrillas,believed to be connected withSendero Luminoso.

1-Oct-84 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillasbombed the Japanese-owned Mitsuimine in Huanuco Departmentresulting in property damagesexceeding $2 million. The mineshalted lead and zinc production.

2-Oct-84 Brussels Belgium CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb heavily damagedthe offices of Litton BusinessSystems, a subsidiary of the U.S.firm, Litton Industries in Brussels. Noone was injured. Responsibility forthe blast was claimed by theCommunist Combatant Cells whocontacted a news agency shortlyafter the explosion. The police haveno previous record of such a group.Litton is involved in military contractsand the development of weapons.

3-Oct-84 Lebanon Unknown Explosives3 0 LEBANON. A roadside bombexplosion wounded three Israelitroops patrolling north of Israel'sfront lines in southern Lebanon. AnIsraeli armored column crossed theAwali River and was attacked withthe bomb near the village ofShheem.

3-Oct-84 Belgium CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. The German firm M.A.N.,which builds the transporters for thePershing nuclear missile, wasbombed by the CommunistCombatant Cells (CCC).

4-Oct-84 Nicosia Cyprus Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives1 0 CYPRUS. A bomb-laden car explodedin the unguarded parking lot of abuilding housing the Israeli Embassyand a pro-Syrian PLO group laterclaimed responsibility. One personwas slightly injured by flying glass.

4-Oct-84 Sidon Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 5 LEBANON. Pro-Syrian PLO guerrillasambushed a car in the city of Sidon,killing all the occupants, including anIsraeli intelligence agent.

5-Oct-84 IndonesiaOther Explosives16 2 INDONESIA. Islamic terrorists arebelieved responsible for the bombingof financial institutions in Indonesia'sChinese community. The Bank ofCentral Asia was bombed, leavingtwo dead and 16 injured.

8-Oct-84 Brussels Belgium CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. The Honeywell facilitynear NATO headquarters wasbombed by the CommunistCombatant Cells (CCC).

10-Oct-84 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. The Spanish Ambassadorto Lebanon was kidnapped in front ofhis embassy. According to theambassador, the two armedkidnappers stopped the chauffeur-driven car less than 300 yards fromthe chancery. They allowed thechauffeur to go free and drove offwith the ambassador. The IslamicJihad was responsible. They freedthe Ambassador four days later whenLebanon's largest Moslem militia, theAmal, intervened.

11-Oct-84 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A West German oilengineer, his driver and aninterpreter have been kidnapped bya group of leftist guerrillas in thenortheastern region of Arauca. Thepolice believe the National LiberationArmy (ELN) to be responsible. TheELN is the only major rebel groupwhich has refused to sign a trucewith the government.



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb attack on offices of the Frenchbank Credit Lyonnaise is believed tobe the work of supporters of ETA. Adetonator planted outside thebuilding exploded damaging anoffice, but it failed to set off a petrolcanister, which was blown clear. Noone was injured.

14-Oct-84 Rio deJaneiro

Brazil Unknown Unknown0 0 BRAZIL. A Saudi general visiting Riode Janeiro with the country's defenseminister has disappeared. A policespokesman said that GeneralMohammed Khalifa, who came toBrazil with Saudi defense ministerPrince Sultan, was last seen leavinghis hotel Thursday, and is presumedto have been kidnapped.GeneralAbdullah Al-Khalifah had left Brazilwithout informing his colleagues andhad been in London since themorning of Oct 12. The Frenchagency AFP reported on the 16th thatthe general had left for Europe afterquarrelling with other member of theSaudi Defense ministry delegation.

15-Oct-84 Lisbon Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb explodedoutside a French bank in Lisbon. FP-25 claimed credit as an expression ofsolidarity with ETA membersprotesting the French Government'sdecision to turn ETA membersresiding in France over to Spanishauthorities. Bombs were discoveredand dismantled at two other French-owned facilities on the same date.





17-Oct-84 RancaguaChile Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. The U.S.-Chilean Institute inRancagua was the target of aMolotov cocktail attack.

17-Oct-84 Lalibela Ethiopia TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront(TPLF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Ten foreigners, includingtwo American tourists, were seizedby secessionist Ethiopian guerrillaswhen they overran Lalibela. Theforeigners do not appear in anyimmediate danger from the TigrePeople's Liberation Front, however,there is concern that the Ethiopianmilitary will attempt to recapture thetown, thus jeopardizing the hostages.The captured include two Britons, anAustralian, a Finn, three WestGerman medics and a SwissInternational Red Crossrepresentative. An American touristcouple, a British national and a Swisscitizen were freed on October 30.

24-Oct-84 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Four Lebanese employeesof the Associated Press news agencydisappeared en route to work inBeirut. American journalists inLebanon have been specificallytargeted for attack by a pro-Iranianterrorist group because thejournalists are viewed as spies. Theywere released 30 hours later.

26-Oct-84 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Firearms0 1 EL SALVADOR. A U.S. Embassyguard was killed near the Embassy inSan Salvador. Raul MelendezAquino, 62, security guard supervisorat the U.S. Embassy was shot todeath by members of a guerrilla celltraveling in an unmarked car.Aquino was shot three times in thehead. The assailants shouted, Weare from the Farabundo MartiPeople's Liberation Force and this isa U.S. Embassy dog.

26-Oct-84 Rome Italy Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms1 1 ITALY. A United Arab Emiratesdiplomat is in a coma and an Iranianwoman who was with him was killedin an ambush outside Rome. Thetwo were fired at several times by agunman who approached thediplomat's car as it waited at a roadjunction. A young Jordanian wasapprehended the following day andconfessed to being the assailant.The Arab Revolutionary Brigades,believed to be another signature forAbu Nidal, claimed responsibility forthe attack in a phone call.

28-Oct-84 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives10 1 ISRAEL. Four Israeli soldiers arebeing held in connection with an anti-tank rocket attack on an Arab bus inJerusalem. An 18-year old drafteewill be charged with actually firingthe rocket that killed one and injuredanother ten passengers. The groupwhich executed the attack identifieditself as the Avengers but Jewishterrorist cells operate under a varietyof names. They form part of aloosely knit underground led by quiteprominent rabbis.

28-Oct-84 Valleta Malta Unknown Explosives0 0 MALTA. A car belonging to theBritish High Commission in Malta hasbeen damaged by a bomb explosion.No one claimed responsibility.


GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. A 27-year oldAmerican Peace Corps volunteer wasshot to death as he walked homefrom a party in Guatemala City. Hehad been in the country for 18months and was working onenvironmental projects. Two daysearlier gunmen had fired amachinegun into the auto of auniversity professor as he waited forservice at a gas station. The sameday gunmen shot to death a right-wing party deputy to the ConstituentAssembly and his two body guards.No group claimed responsibility forthese assassinations.


GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. A retired American waskidnapped by five armed men. Policesmashed down the door of a houseoutside Guatemala City six days laterand rescued the man, who waschained to a bed.


Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. Police discovered anddismantled a homemade, doublebarreled bazooka loaded with twogrenades in a vacant lot near the U.S. Embassy in what appeared to bethe first terrorist threat against thenew $15 million facility. Thelauncher failed to go off because offaulty wiring. Popular Forces of April25 claimed credit.

1-Nov-84 Madrid Spain Other Firearms1 0 SPAIN. A gunman carrying a falseMoroccan passport was arrestedshortly after he shot and wounded aLebanese citizen in a central Madridshopping mall. It was the fifth attackon Arabs in Spain this year. An Arabman was arrested.

1-Nov-84 Miami CostaRica

Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 1 COSTA RICA. Anti-Castro Cubansfrom Miami have established a basein Costa Rica and are recruiting andsupplying some Contras. Theyrecently shot to death a Costa Ricanbusinessman who they claimed wasa communist sympathizer.

4-Nov-84 San Jose CostaRica

Unknown Explosives2 0 COSTA RICA. Alfonso RobeloCallejas, a leader of the DemocraticRevolutionary Alliance (ARDE) contragroup, was injured in San Jose whena hand grenade was thrown into hiscar. A female companion wascritically injured.

7-Nov-84 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A bomb exploded atthe Italian Embassy in Caracas. Nogroup claimed responsibility for theblast. The explosion may have beencaused by a German-made M-81grenade.

11-Nov-84

Brittany France Other Firearms3 2 FRANCE. A French citizen firedrandomly into a cafe in Brittanyfrequented by Turkish workers, killingtwo of them and wounding threeothers.

11-Nov-84

Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. In their continuedharrassment of petroleumexploration efforts, guerrillas,probably ELN, kidnapped a WestGerman oil engineer employed byMannesmann.

12-Nov-84

Vienna Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. Two small bombs explodedinside the British Consulate in Viennaand outside the Vienna offices of ElAl Israel Airlines, causing littledamage and no injuries. The twoexplosions occurred about an hourapart when identical cooking potsexploded. The pots had beenpurchased in Vienna's Herzmanskydepartment store a week earlier byindividuals believed to beresponsible.

12-Nov-84

Vienna Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. Two small bombs explodedinside the British Consulate in Viennaand outside the Vienna offices of ElAl Israel Airlines, causing littledamage and no injuries. The twoexplosions occurred about an hourapart when identical cooking potsexploded. The pots had beenpurchased in Vienna's Herzmanskydepartment store a week earlier byindividuals believed to beresponsible.

12-Nov-84


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. Guerrillas of the ELNattacked the oil exploration camp setup by the West GermanMannesmann Company in easternColombia. About 40 armed menharangued the workers and then setfire to buildings, bulldozers and ahelicopter.

14-Nov-84


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. ELN guerrillas attackedthe local Coca Cola bottling companyand started a fire with bombexplosions. After midnight, a heavilyarmed 12-person group overtook thenight watchman and carried out thesabotage.

16-Nov-84

Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Iraqi Shi'ite Al DawaParty claimed credit for the bombingin Beirut of the Kuwaiti Embassy.

17-Nov-84

MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms0 0 SOMALIA. Five hijackers led by aSomali army captain, shot their wayinto the cockpit of a jet bound forSaudi Arabia from Mogadishu. Theairplane carried 103 passengers,including one American. The jetlinerwas forced to land at Addis Ababawhere the hijackers demanded theSomali Government release 21political prisoners including sevensentenced to death for subversiveactivities. Negotiations werecomplicated by the fact that nodiplomatic relations exist betweenthe two neighbors. A number ofdeadlines to blow up the aircraftpassed without an explosion, andeventually the five surrendered inexchange for political asylum or safepassage to a country of their choice.No passengers were harmed duringthe ordeal.

18-Nov-84

Valleta Malta Unknown Explosives0 0 MALTA. A bomb severely damagedthe Italian Embassy in Malta. TheEmbassy was empty at the time ofthe explosion.

19-Nov-84

Vienna Austria ArmenianRevolutionaryArmy

Firearms0 1 AUSTRIA. An Armenian gunman shotand killed a Turkish United Nationsofficial in Vienna as the diplomatslowed for a stoplight. The attackerfired six times at the Turk, tossed apiece of cloth with the initials ARA onit into the car and fled. Ananonymous caller told a news agencythat the attack had been carried outby the Armenian Revolutionary Army.

19-Nov-84

Egypt Other Firearms0 0 EGYPT. A clever sting operationconducted by Egypt's PresidentMubarak has damaged Libya'sQadhafi's program to gaininternational respectability. A Libyanassassination squad composed offour men, two Britons and twoMaltese, was apprehended earlierthis month before they could kill theirtarget, Abdul Hamid Bakoush, aformer Libyan Prime Minister. Theassassination was faked to includemedia coverage and realisticphotographs depicting Bakoush afterhe had been shot. The Libyan newsagency reported revolutionary forcesexecuted the death sentence only tobe discredited when PresidentMubarak held a press conferencetriumphantly presenting the intendedvictim to the world. The Egyptianmedia is covering the plot in detail.On November 19 Libya called for theoverthrow of the MubarakGovernment. The call to topple theEgyptian leader came on the seventhanniversary of the late Anwar Sadat'shistoric visit to Jerusalem whichculminated in Egypt's 1979 peacetreaty with Israel.

20-Nov-84

Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. One of the few remainingAmerican students at the AmericanUniversity of Beirut was kidnappedby gunmen and held for 48 hoursbefore being released.

23-Nov-84


Unknown2 1 SPAIN. A French policeman waskilled and two others wounded whenmembers of ETA attacked a tollbooth on the border.

23-Nov-84


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Three bombings againstFrench firms occurred within 48hours of an ETA assassinationagainst General Roson of Spain.

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24-Nov-84

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Gunmen kidnapped theBulgarian commercial attache andtook him in his green Lada jeep toone of their centers.

24-Nov-84

Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb was discovered atthe French Cultural Institute anddefused. A caller claimedresponsibility for the bombing onbehalf of the November 21 Groupwhich is unknown to authorities. Fiveother bombings in Athens occurredthe same day and were claimed bythis same group.The five bombs wentoff at 15-minute intervals at:PanteiosSchool of Political ScienceAthens BarAssociation (3 people injured)HerodAtticus dressing room (an open airtheatre on the slope of the Acropolis)Opposition newspaper MessimvriniArestaurantthe French culturalInstitute.

25-Nov-84

Lisbon Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. Assailants fired fourmortar shells at the U.S. Embassycompound in Lisbon. Three parkedcars were damaged but there wereno injuries. The leftist FP-25 guerrillagroup claimed responsibility for theattack because of the imperialistic U.S. interference in Portugal. Thebarrage marked the ninthanniversary of an aborted rebellionby leftist military officers.

25-Nov-84

Paris France Other Explosives6 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in frontof a Paris concert hall an hour beforemore than 2,000 people showed upfor an evening of Armenian folkmusic and dancing. Police said sixpeople were injured in the blast.Armenian nationalists blamedTurkish extremists.

27-Nov-84

Bombay India RevolutionaryOrganizationofSocialistMoslems

Firearms0 1 INDIA. The British Deputy HighCommissioner for Western India wasshot to death by two unidentifiedassailants as he was being driven towork in downtown Bombay. Two tallgunmen in track suits fired four pistolshots into the car as it slowed at atraffic circle. Two bullets hitdiplomat Perry Norris in the head andchest through the car window. TheRevolutionary Organization ofSocialist Moslems claimedresponsibility for the attack. Thesame group claimed responsibility forthe assassination of British diplomatKenneth Whitty in Athens, Greece inMarch of 1984.

27-Nov-84

Rome Italy Hizballah Explosives0 0 ITALY. Police have arrested sevenLebanese who were planning tostage a suicide truck bombingagainst the U.S. Embassy in crowdedcentral Rome. The seven arebelieved affiliated with the IslamicJihad terrorist group or operating onbehalf of Iran. The men had maps ofthe embassy showing its entrancesand its strong and weak points. Theseven men, who had been undersurveillance for some time, werepicked up in Ladispoli on November17 as a direct result of an eighth manin Zurich who allegedly was carryingmore than four pounds of explosives.The man was about to board anairliner for Rome when arrested.

29-Nov-84

Beirut Lebanon RevolutionaryOrganizationofSocialistMoslems

Other 0 0 LEBANON. An assault sound bombexploded outside the British Airwaysoffice in west Beirut, causing onlymaterial damage. The RevolutionaryOrganization of Socialist Moslemsclaimed responsibility.

29-Nov-84

Greece Other Firearms0 0 GREECE. An attempt was made onthe Jordanian Charge d'Affaires whichfailed only because the weaponfailed to discharge. The police havein custody a suspect who is an Arabcarrying a Moroccan passport.

1-Dec-84 Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. Bombs exploded at theGerman company Hansa. MIR deniedinvolvement.

1-Dec-84 JerusalemIsrael PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. A hand grenade was thrownat a bus in Jerusalem which injuredthree people. In Damascus, the PFLPtook responsibility for the bus attackbut claimed the target was severalIsraeli soldiers who were on the bus.

1-Dec-84 GuadalajaraMexico Unknown Unknown0 0 MEXICO. Two American coupleswere kidnapped by a group ofunknown men on a street inGuadalajara in early December.Eyewitnesses report they saw thecouples taken away in two vehicles.There have been no ransomdemands nor any statements issuedby the kidnappers. One couple hadresided in Guadalajara for a year andthe second couple was visiting themat the time of their abduction. Thereis some speculation the Americansmay have been mistaken as wealthy.All four were members of theJehovah's Witnesses but were notinvolved in missionary work. Policelater speculated that the couplesmay have been mistakenly taken forDEA agents and kidnapped. [See1/30/85 incident].

1-Dec-84 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. The Sendero Luminoso wasresponsible for bombing thePeruvian-American Cultural institutein Lima and another branch of thesame institute in Piura.

1-Dec-84 Piura Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. The Sendero Luminoso wasresponsible for bombing thePeruvian-American Cultural institutein Lima and another branch of thesame institute in Piura.

1-Dec-84 Beirut Lebanon ArabCommandoCells

Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Peter Kilburn, a libraryemployee at the American Universityof Beirut was reported missing afterhe failed to show up for work. Therehas been increased concern aboutsecurity of Americans in Beirut afterseveral kidnappings and telephonecalls threatening U.S. citizens andinstitutions. Kilburn was killed April17, 1986, reportedly in retaliation forthe American bombing of Libya onApril 14. The Arab Commando Cells,believed linked to Abu Nidal, claimedresponsibility.

3-Dec-84 Athens Greece IslamicAction inIraq


0 0 GREECE. An explosives expert waskilled in Athens when he attemptedto dismantle a car bomb under anIraqi Embassy auto. Three otherbombs were discovered in thevicinity. An Iraqi undergroundopposition movement calling itselfIslamic Action in Iraq claimedresponsibility for planting the fourbombs. The bombs were meant tokill Iraqi diplomats stationed inAthens who reportedly monitor theactivities of Iraqi opposition figures inEurope. All of the bombs involvedwere capable of being detonated byremote control.










4-Dec-84 Iran Hizballah Unknown2 2 IRAN. Five Arabic-speaking gunmenforced a Kuwaiti jetliner with 155aboard to divert from Pakistan andland in Tehran. The five men soughtthe release of 17 men jailed orsentenced to death in connectionwith the bombing of the U.S. andFrench Embassies in Kuwait onDecember 12, 1983. The hijackerswere identified as Lebanesebelonging to the radical Islamic Jihad,which in turn has affiliation with thegovernment of Ayatollah Khomeini.Two Americans were killed asAmerican spies during the incidentand two other Americans weretortured. The incident lasted severaldays and was ended when Iraniansecurity guards, disguised as a clean-up crew, stormed the plane andkilled the hijackers. Americanofficials have questioned thecircumstances of the rescue, andthere is some speculation of directIranian-state involvement in thehijacking.

4-Dec-84 BucharestRomania Other Firearms0 1 ROMANIA. A senior Jordaniandiplomat was shot dead in Bucharestby an assailant who was immediatelyarrested. The Jordanian was asecond-ranking diplomat in Romania.He was shot several times with apistol as he left his hotel to take hisfive year old son to school. Thegunman was identified as AhmedMohd Ali Hersch, 27, who held aJordanian passport.

9-Dec-84 Lisbon Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. The Popular Forces ofApril 25 (FP-25) claimed credit for anearly morning grenade attack againstthe Iberian headquarters of the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization. Theattack slightly damaged a parked carand broke windows but caused noinjuries.

11-Dec-84

Belgium CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. Six explosions damagedemergency fuel pipelines of theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organizationaround Belgium, setting off at leasttwo fires but causing no injuries. Theexplosions came a day before thestart of a three day meeting of NATOforeign ministers in Brussels. TheCommunist Combatant Cells claimedresponsibility, saying that NATO hadmade war the principal focus of itsactions.

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12-Dec-84

Athens Greece Unknown Firearms0 0 GREECE. In Athens unknowngunmen fired several shots at aSyrian diplomat in a suburb of theGreek capital, but failed to hit him.

15-Dec-84

Rome Italy Other Firearms0 1 ITALY. A man traveling with a falseMoroccan passport was killed with asilencer-equipped pistol in a streetambush in Rome. He was identifiedas a Palestine LiberationOrganization member. The PLO'sRome office promptly accusedIsrael's secret services of the slayingwhich occurred in an ambush nearthe Via Veneto.

17-Dec-84

Tel Aviv Israel Unknown Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. A hand grenade exploded ata bus stop near Tel Aviv's centralproduce market, wounding threepersons. The grenade was hurledover the wall of the crowded marketin the city's main business district.No group claimed responsibility forthe attack.

18-Dec-84



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three bombs caused fire at an oilpipeline linking three U.S. militarybases in Zaragoza.

18-Dec-84

OberammergauFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An individual dressed in a U.S.Marine Corps uniform flashing a U.S.I.D. card parked a car ten yards fromthe main building at the NATOmilitary school in Oberammergau.The auto contained 55 pounds ofexplosives but failed to explodebecause of a faulty timing device.The RAF claimed credit.

21-Dec-84

FrenchPolynesia

Other Unknown0 0 NEW CALEDONIA. Two Frenchtourists were kidnapped by an anti-independence group in the Frenchsouth Pacific territory of NewCaledonia. The couple was releasedthree days later, and reported thatthey had been held in the presenceof unarmed men. Authoritiesreported that seven others had beendetained for questioning.

21-Dec-84


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA claimed responsibility forthree bomb blasts that damaged apipeline linking three military basesused by U.S. forces stationed inSpain.

21-Dec-84



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb set fire to two U.S. Army trucksin a motor pool. RAF claimedresponsibility.

23-Dec-84

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The entrance to an Iraqibank was devastated by an explosionin west Beirut's commercial district.The incident was not claimed.

25-Dec-84

MuensterFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb attack was carried out againstthe Turkish Consulate General inMuenster on Christmas morning. Theforce of the explosion tore theentrance door, secured with bullet-proof glass, off its hinges, but causedno further damage. The explosivewas a simple, so-called fuse bomb,detonated by a fuse wick, used infirecrackers.

26-Dec-84

Brussels Belgium Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 BELGIUM. Belgian police areinvestigating the attempted bombingof an apartment building where theTurkish Ambassador lives in Brussels.An explosive device, the type that istriggered with a remote controlledmechanism, was found placed infront of the apartment building butfailed to go off because of amalfunction. Had it exploded,authorities say it would havedestroyed the building. No oneclaimed responsibility.

27-Dec-84



Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Red Army Faction wasresponsible for an arson attack whichleft a U.S. military church in flames.

29-Dec-84

Amman Jordan BlackSeptember

Firearms0 1 JORDAN. Senior Palestinian officialFahd al-Qawasimi was assassinatedin Amman. The assassination isbelieved linked to the 20-month oldconflict between rival factions in thePLO. An anonymous telephone callerto a news agency in Paris said thePalestinian terrorist group BlackSeptember was responsible foreliminating a betrayer of therevolution. The victim first had agrenade thrown at him that failed toexplode, and then he was fired atwith silencer-fitted pistols.

29-Dec-84

Jordan Other Explosives0 0 JORDAN. Policemen discovered abomb near the residence of one ofArafat's closest advisors. The bombwhich reportedly was found in a bagand weighed about thirty pounds wasdefused a few minutes before it wasset to detonate.

30-Dec-84

DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs damaged a U.S. Armyintelligence office located at a BritishArmy installation in the Rhinelandcity of Duesseldorf. Damage wasestimated to be $16,500. The RedArmy Faction claimed credit.Severalother RAF bombs exploded at foreigntargets across Germany.

30-Dec-84

WeisbadenFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.West German police dismantled anexplosive device found at a U.S. AirForce facility in Weisbaden after theRAF claimed responsibility for havingplanted the bomb.Several other RAFbombs exploded across Germany thisday.

30-Dec-84



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Outside of Heidelberg terroristsbombed a U.S. Army communicationtower in a field near a superhighwayin Mannheim.Several RAF bombsexploded across Germany this day.Some were specifically claimed.

30-Dec-84

Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Aterrorist bomb damaged a Frenchdiplomatic building in Bonn, theeighth attack in two weeks on U.S.,British, and French installations inWest Germany. Police reported nocasualties in the attack on thebuilding which houses the FrenchEmbassy's technical department.The Red Army Faction is suspected.Several RAF bombs exploded acrossGermany this day. Some wereclaimed.

31-Dec-84


Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. The National Union for theTotal Independence of Angola(UNITA) seized 22 foreign hostages,including two American crewmen of aU.S. transport aircraft, in an attackon a remote diamond miningcomplex close to the border withZaire. Three British technicians and17 Filipinos were also captured.

1-Jan-85 Kobe Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Three homemade rocketswere fired at the U.S. Consulate inKobe, but they caused no injuries ordamage. Several hours after thewooden rockets were fired, theMiddle Core Faction RevolutionaryArmy claimed responsibility as aprotest to Prime Minister YasuhiroNakasone's visit to the United States.

3-Jan-85 Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A four-pound bomb blewup in an apartment located justabove the West Beirut offices of theFrench news agency, Agence FrancePresse, causing extensive damagebut no casualties. ASALA claimedcredit.

3-Jan-85 Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Army explosive expertsdeactivated a six-pound bombplanted at the entrance to theFrench-Lebanese bank in WestBeirut's Ramlet al-Baidaneighborhood. ASALA claimedresponsibility.

3-Jan-85 Beirut Lebanon Amal Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Five unidentified gunmenkidnapped the Swiss charged'affaires as he was driving throughMoslem West Beirut. Eric Wehrli wasforced into a Mercedes by three ofthe gunmen and two others drove offin his Volkswagon. Wehrli wasreleased four days later by ShiiteMoslem Amal militiamen who claimto have found the hideout where Mr.Wehrli was being held and freed himas he was being put in a car to betaken to another location. Thenewspaper An Nahar reported thatMr. Wehrli had been seized bymembers of the Atat family inretaliation for the arrest of one oftheir relatives in Zurich lastNovember. Hussein al-Atat had beenarrested in Zurich while on his way toblow up the American Embassy inRome. He had explosives strappedto his body at the time of his arrest.

4-Jan-85 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Terrorists claiming to be part of ananti-imperialist front stepped up theirattacks on Western military anddiplomatic sites by bombing thehome of the U.S. consul in Frankfurt.U.S. consul William Bodde Jr. was athome at the time of the attack;however, no one was injured. Sevenpeople were seen fleeing theresidence on foot, leaving atypewritten letter in the front gardensaying, Our action is part of the anti-imperialist front in Western Europe.The letter was signed with a five-pointed star, which is the symbol ofthe Red Army Faction.

4-Jan-85 HeidelbergFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Terrorists threw explosives at anunmanned guard post at an airfieldbelonging to the headquarters of U.S.Army Europe at Heidelberg. Twobombs were thrown but only oneexploded, causing considerabledamage. In letters to the Germanmedia, the terrorists criticized U.S.policies, particularly in Latin America,and expressed support for a hungerstrike currently underway by Germanactivists.

7-Jan-85 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives3 0 COLOMBIA. Three people wereinjured and there was seriousproperty damage as the result of adynamite attack on the MeyerInstitute, a U.S.-run language schoolwhich is located in downtown Bogota.Authorities believe the attack to betied to the recent extradition of drugtraffickers to the U.S.

7-Jan-85 Giessen FederalRepublicofGermany


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Terrorists threw a firebomb at aNATO oil pipeline in the 12th attackon United States or allied targets inWest Germany in three weeks. Theattack outside of Giessen, 31 milesnorth of Frankfurt, caused more than$1,000 damage. No one was hurt.The firebomb was thrown into a shaftof the pipeline that supplies oil tomilitary units in West Germany, butthe damage did not interfere with theoperation of the pipeline. Authoritiesreported that the blast appeared tobe the work of the Red Army Faction.

8-Jan-85 UnitedKingdom


1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An Iraqi medicaldoctor was found in his car afterhaving been stabbed thirty times bya dagger. He had recently sent aletter to several newspapers in whichhe condemned the terroristsoperating in the service of Iran, Libyaand Syria.

8-Jan-85 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 1 LEBANON. French military observerLieutenant Colonel Claude Cuenowas assassinated in West Beirut bymembers of Islamic Jihad.

8-Jan-85 Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. A bomb was detonated inthe car of Zaven Karagozian, aDashnak Party (ArmenianRevolutionary Federation) leader.Karagozian lost a leg in the explosionand was reported in critical condition.No one claimed credit for the attack.

8-Jan-85 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. An American RomanCatholic priest who heads a reliefagency was kidnapped by gunmen inthe mostly Moslem western sector ofBeirut. He was the fifth American todisappear on the streets of WestBeirut in 10 months. Witnesses saidabout eight men brandishingautomatic rifles grabbed the priest,Lawrence Martin Jenco, from his caras he was being driven to his reliefoffices.Jenco was released unharmedafter 18 months in captivity, on July27, 1986. His captors, members ofIslamic Jihad, claim he was releasedas a goodwill gesture due to theworsening of a heart condition fromwhich he suffers.

9-Jan-85 Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded near theSheraton Hotel, causing seriousproperty damage to the hotel andneighboring buildings. A few minutesbefore the blast, a government juntamember had stated that he favorsmaintaining the state of siege. Noone was injured.

9-Jan-85 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. An attack upon theChilean Embassy in Bogota wasfoiled when authorities found a high-powered bomb consisting of fivewads of dynamite and a slow-burningfuse inside a peddler's cart. Theabortive attack took place twentyfour hours after another bombexploded at the Meyer LanguageInstitute, injuring three people.

10-Jan-85 Point-a-Pitre

GuadeloupeOther Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GUADALOUPE. A Ford autodealership was one of the targets ina bombing spree related to the trialof two Revolutionary CaribbeanAlliance (ARC) members in Pointe-A-Pitre.

11-Jan-85 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. Nancy Donovan, anAmerican Maryknoll nun, wasreleased unharmed after being heldfor nine hours by anti-Sandinistacontras.

12-Jan-85 Tripoli Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 2 LEBANON. A Syrian chief warrantofficer and his son were kidnappedand murdered by gunmen in Tripoli.

13-Jan-85 Italy Al BorkanLiberationOrganization

Firearms0 1 ITALY. A Libyan diplomat wasassassinated outside his home bygunmen belonging to the Al BorkanLiberation Organization (the volcanoin Arabic). Last January 21 the sameexile group had claimedresponsibility for killing Libya's topdiplomat in Italy.

14-Jan-85 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 2 LEBANON. Two French militaryobservers were killed in an ambushwhile they were touring the southernsuburbs of Beirut. The Islamic Jihadclaimed responsibility, saying thatthe soldiers were caught blatantlyspying for NATO, Israel, and theLebanese Phalangists.


Knives& sharpobjects

0 2 MOZAMBIQUE. Two British citizenstravelling near Mozambique's borderwith South Africa were killed withbayonets by members of theMozambique National Resistance(MNR).

15-Jan-85 Brussels Belgium CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives1 0 BELGIUM. A car bomb exploded lessthan a mile from NATO headquarters,shattering windows and wrecking thefacade of a U.S. Army social center,which officials said also housedoffices of a Pentagon securityagency. The Communist CombatantCells (CCC) claimed responsibility forthe blast and indicated that the U.S.security agency was one of itstargets. It also warned of futureattacks to wound or kill Yankeemilitary and their accomplices. A U.S. guard was slightly injured in theattack. Investigators said a mandrove a stolen car with the bombinside, parked it at the entrance andfled in another car which was waitingnearby and driven by an accomplice.

16-Jan-85 Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A katyusha rocket was firedinto Israeli territory from Jordan.

24-Jan-85 Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A passenger who wascarrying dynamite in a briefcase waskilled when the explosive went off onboard a Bolivian airliner enroute toMiami. The Lloyd Boliviano AirlinesBoeing 727 landed normally in thecity of Santa Cruz after theexplosion. No one else was injured.The passenger was identified asArmando Guerra Perez. No detailsare known about his motive.

26-Jan-85 WestBank/Gaza

Other Explosives0 1 WEST BANK. A firebomb was thrownat an Israeli civilian. He died severaldays later.

28-Jan-85 Lisbon Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. The Portuguese groupFP-25 claimed credit for anunsuccessful mortar attack on NATOwarships in the port of Lisbon. Policesaid three shells from what wasbelieved to be a 60-millimeter mortarwere fired at six warships but fellshort. The ships, on a routine annualvisit, included the U.S. frigate R. E.Byrd.

31-Jan-85 WestBank/Gaza

Other Firearms2 0 WEST BANK. A bus enroute toHebron from Jerusalem was firedupon by terrorists. Two people werewounded.

1-Feb-85 Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Kurdish rebels kidnapped twoItalian technicians as a protest offoreign support for the Iraqigovernment.

1-Feb-85 Cyprus Unknown Firearms1 0 CYPRUS. An attempt was made byan unidentified Arab to assassinatePalestinian entrepreneur Hisian ElSaudi. Saudi had resided in Cyprusfor a year and is the owner of aninternational drivers' license issuingoffice. The victim was shot fourtimes while sitting in his office.

1-Feb-85 Beja Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Explosives1 0 PORTUGAL. In a move protesting thepresence of a West German militarybase in Beja, Popular Forces of April25 ignited 8 bombs near the base,destroying 18 cars belonging toGerman servicemen. One WestGerman woman was slightly injuredby flying glass from one of theexplosions. Portugal leases the Bejamilitary base to West Germany undera 20-year-old agreement.

1-Feb-85 Qalqiliya WestBank/Gaza


0 1 WEST BANK. An Israeli died of burnsafter a Molotov cocktail was hurledinto his car near Qalqiliya, on thepre-1967 border between Jordan andIsrael.

2-Feb-85 Greece NationalFront(Greece)

Explosives78 0 GREECE. A bar catering to U.S.servicemen was the target of a crudebomb. Seventy eight people, most ofthem Americans, were injured in theblast at Bobby's Bar. The NationalFront took credit for the attack,saying the act was not directedagainst any Greeks but against theAmericans who are responsible forthe continuing occupation of Cyprus.Additional info: The embassy siteidentifies ELA along with Carlos asthe perpetrators.

3-Feb-85 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. New Caledonia nationalistsare suspected in connection with acar bomb which went off outsideFrance's Ministry for OverseasDepartments and OverseasTerritories in Paris. There were nocasualties.

6-Feb-85 Lebanon Unknown Explosives10 0 LEBANON. Ten Israeli soldiers werewounded in a car-bomb attack nearthe Burj Shemali Palestinian refugeecamp in southern Lebanon. It wasunclear whether the car wasstationary or driven by a suicidebomber.

6-Feb-85 FederalRepublicofGermany


14 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.West German police said two menentered the lobby of a seven-storybuilding housing the Iranian BankMelli, pulled an incendiary devicefrom a bag, set it on fire and fled.Fourteen people were injured by thefire. A caller from the royalist FedajinRoyal Iranian Monarchy claimedresponsibility in calls to Germannews agencies.

7-Feb-85 Medellin Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 1 COLOMBIA. Leftist guerrillasexploded bombs in front of fourAmerican businesses in the northerncity of Medellin. The bombsexploded at one hour intervals infront of the offices of Union Carbide,Xerox, IBM, and General Telephoneand Electronics, causing minorproperty damage. A private guardwas killed at the IBM facility. In ajoint communique, the National Armyof Liberation (ELN) and the RicardoFranco Front faction of theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) claimedresponsibility.







7-Feb-85 Lebanon BlackBrigade

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A group of Lebaneseseized a Cyprus Airways jetliner anddemanded the release of twoLebanese terrorists jailed in Cyprus.The gunmen freed the plane and allhostages after the Nicosiangovernment agreed to considerreleasing the pair who had hijacked aRomanian jetliner in June 1983. TheBlack Brigade claimed responsibility.

8-Feb-85 Chad Other Unknown0 0 CHAD. Two U.S. citizens working forthe Esso oil exploration companywere kidnapped by a groupidentifying itself as F.A.C.D.M. Thetwo were released on February 13,their company stressing that noransom had been paid.

14-Feb-85 Manila PhilippinesOther Fire orFirebomb

0 30 PHILIPPINES. A group protesting U.S.-Japanese support of the Marcosgovernment claimed responsibilityfor a hotel fire in Manila that killed atleast 30, including 5 Americans.Police confirm arson as the cause ofa fire which virtually destroyed theluxury Regent of Manila hotel. TheAngels sent a communique to severalnews agencies the day after the fire.


UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A police officer onpatrol near the Soviet Mission to theUnited Nations observed a pipe bombprotruding from the gas tank of avehicle belonging to the mission.The same car had been overturnedon Christmas morning and spray-painted with the remark never againon its side. That act was claimed bythe Jewish Defense League (JDL),which has a long history ofharassment of the Soviets in the NewYork City area. Although no grouphas claimed responsibility for thisact, the JDL remains the primesuspect.

19-Feb-85 BazouriyehLebanon Other Explosives0 1 LEBANON. An Israeli major, ShaulZehavi, was killed by a roadsidebomb that exploded near the Shiitevillage of Bazouriyeh. In response tothe attack, Israeli troops imposed acurfew on several Shiite villages inthe area.

22-Feb-85 BaranquillaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN bombed theColombian-American Institute inBaranquilla.

23-Feb-85 Paris France May 15Organizationfor theLiberationofPalestin

Explosives14 1 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at thecentral Paris branch of the British-owned Marks & Spencer departmentstore--the third mystery bombing ofthe store in nine years. Oneemployee was killed and fourteenothers were injured. Several groupsclaimed responsibility for thebombing, which occurred exactlynine years after the first attack onthe store. But police said they werenot taking seriously the claims, whichwere made by telephone andcontained no specific information.The anonymous callers included theFatah Revolutionary Commando andAction Directe. Habib Muaamar, aTunisian arrested in 1986, admittedto having placed the bomb at theJewish-owned department store in1985. In December, 1989 he wassentenced to life in prisonment forhis participation in this incident aswell as for the bombing of a Marks &Spencer London store in 1983.Muaamar is a member of the Iraqi-based Arab Organization May 15, ledby Hussein al-Umari (Abu Ibrahim). Itis a splinter group from the PFLP-Special Operations group led by WadiHaddad.

27-Feb-85 Morocco PolisarioFront

Unknown0 3 MOROCCO. A West German planecarrying three explorers on ascientific expedition was downed byPolisario guerrillas fighting Moroccofor the independence of the WesternSahara. There were no survivors.The guerrillas said that the plane wassimilar to reconnaissance planesused by the Moroccan armed forces.

27-Feb-85 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A medium-power bombexploded in front of the Bolivian-American Bank in La Paz. The bombhad been placed under the steelshutters which cover the bankwindows.

27-Feb-85 Irun Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Two trucks registered inFrance were damaged at Irun by twosmall incendiary devices. ETA wasresponsible and has been harassingFrench interests in the SpanishBasque areas of the country.

28-Feb-85 Vienna Austria Unknown Firearms1 0 AUSTRIA. A former Libyanambassador to Austria was shot andcritically wounded as he left hishome in Vienna. Ezzeddin Ghadamsiwas hit by five bullets while trying toescape through a garden gate.Ghadamsi was ambassador from1971 to 1980, and is described as anopponent of Libyan leader MoammarQaddafi living in exile in Austria.

1-Mar-85 Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Fire was set to a U.S.Embassy car.

1-Mar-85 Rome Italy Other Unknown0 1 ITALY. The killing of a Libyan emigrebusinessman in Rome appears tohave had a political motive,according to authorities. Accordingto police, 13 Libyan emigres havebeen killed in Italy since 1980,supposedly by agents of Libyanleader Qaddafi.

1-Mar-85 Athens Greece KhristosKasimis

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A plastic time bomb wasfound near the West GermanEmbassy in Athens. It was removedby explosives experts to a militaryfacility and destroyed. A groupcalled Revolutionary Group forInternational Solidarity (KhristosKasimis) claimed responsibility as anexpression of solidarity withimprisoned West German Red ArmyFaction members engaged in ahunger strike.

1-Mar-85 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Unknown Unknown0 2 KUWAIT. Hadi Awwad Saeed,assistant cultural counselor at theIraqi Embassy, and his son wereassassinated in their Kuwait home byfour men after repeated threats hadbeen made to the Iraqi Embassystaff.

2-Mar-85 Lalibela Ethiopia TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront(TPLF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Rebels seized a Frenchdisaster-relief aircraft, its five crewmembers and four medical staffmembers in the northern town ofLalibela. The plane had been flyingsupplies for Ethiopian villagers aspart of the international effort torelieve the disastrous drought andfamine. The Tigre People'sLiberation Front, a regionalautonomy group active against thecentral government, was suspected.The hostages were freed a few dayslater.

8-Mar-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives200 80 LEBANON. A massive car bombexploded in front of the Beirutresidence of a militant Shia Moslemleader believed to be behind terroristattacks on U.S. installations. Thesuspected terrorist leader escapedunharmed. More than 80 people werekilled and 200 injured in the attack.The U.S. has been accused ofinvolvement, although CIA personnelhad no contact with those whoactually carried out the bombing.Apparently in late 1984 PresidentReagan approved a covert operationdirecting the CIA to train and supportseveral counterterrorist units forstrikes against suspected terroristsbefore they could attack U.S.facilities in the Middle East. Aboutfour months later, members of one ofthose units, composed in part ofLebanese intelligence personnel,acted without CIA approval on anunauthorized mission. They werereportedly responsible for the hiringof the perpetrators involved in thisact. Administration officials quicklycanceled the entire covert supportoperation when faced with even anindirect connection to the carbombing.

8-Mar-85 Dubai UnitedArabEmirates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. An 18 yearold Arab has admitted he planned asuicide mission to destroy aJordanian Tristar airliner with 107aboard. The youth was arrested inDubai when a small explosionoccurred in the plane's baggagecompartment as the contents werebeing unloaded. The main portion ofthe bomb failed to detonate. Thecharge had been timed to explodewhile the aircraft was in the air enroute to Amman, Jordan. The Arabadmitted he was recruited in anundisclosed Arab country andprovided a forged passport. Heclaims he traveled to another Arabcountry where he stayed for amonth, receiving instructions on howto carry out the operation. Thepackage containing the bomb wasfurnished by another person.

9-Mar-85 TegucigalpaHonduras MorazaNist Frontfor theLiberationofHonduras(

Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb exploded in theLe Volcanique disco in Tegucigalpa, anightclub frequented by Americantroops. The bomb was filled withnails, glass, buckshot and tacks.Many persons were injured, includingtwo Americans. The Moraza NistFront for the Liberation of Honduras(FMLH) claimed responsibility for theattack. Security forces picked up twoforeign journalists in connection withthe bombing. Arrested were PeterTorbiorsson, a Swedish televisionnewsman, his daughter, and a Swissphotographer named Bert Hanse.The journalists are believed to have aconnection with the Sandinistagovernment, and they may also havebeen involved in the March 30, 1984bombing which killed several peopleat the headquarters of a major anti-Sandinista leader during a newsconference.

10-Mar-85 FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Firearms0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The commander of Britain's Royal AirForce in West Germany was shot atby a passing motorist on thehighway, but the assailant may havebeen firing blanks. Three shots werefired at the chauffeur-driven vehicle,but there was no sign of any bulletshaving hit the marshal's car.

10-Mar-85 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives14 12 LEBANON. A suicide car bomberkilled 12 Israeli soldiers and wounded14 others in a convoy in southernLebanon. A young woman's bodywas found among the remains. TheLebanese National Resistance Front(connected with the Syrian NationalResistance Party) claimed credit.Islamic Jihad also claimed credit.

11-Mar-85 Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. Seven bomb blastsrocked French, West German andBritish businesses and homes inLisbon and the central city of Evora,causing extensive damage but noinjuries. Popular Forces of April 25claimed credit.







11-Mar-85 Lisbon Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25


11-Mar-85 Evora Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25




12-Mar-85 Stuttgart FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. A13-pound ticking bomb wasdiscovered at an officer's club on anAmerican army base in Stuttgart. Noone claimed credit, probably due tothe fact that the bomb was a failure.

12-Mar-85 Ottawa Canada ArmenianRevolutionaryArmy

Explosives1 1 CANADA. Three armed youthsclaiming to be members of theArmenian Revolutionary Armyinvaded the Turkish Embassy inOttawa, Canada, shot and killed anEmbassy security guard and took 11hostages before giving themselvesup four hours later. The embassysiege began at 7:00 a.m. when arented U-Haul truck pulled up to theprotective iron fence that surroundsthe compound. Three men leapedover the fence from the top of thetruck and a shootout ensued in whichthe security guard was killed. Thefront door of the building was thenblown up with explosives and themen stormed the building.Ambassador Kirca managed toescape by jumping out of a windowbut he sustained injuries in the fall.The gunmen demanded Turkey'sadmission of responsibility for themassacres of a million and a halfArmenians in World War I.

14-Mar-85 Lebanon Other Unknown0 1 LEBANON. A Dutch Roman Catholicpriest, Father Kluiters, disappearedwhile traveling in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley in EasternLebanon. The priest's body wasfound in a 200 foot pit in a villagenorth of the Bekaa Valley on April 1.A note which read Vengeance Partywas found in the priest's car.

14-Mar-85 Lebanon KhaibarBrigades

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Geoffrey Nash, a Britishmetallurgist, was kidnapped near hishome in Lebanon. He was releasedMarch 25, 1985. A Moslem groupcalled the Khaibar Brigades claimedresponsibility. The group takes itsname from an ancient Jewish town inSaudi Arabia which was overrun byMoslems in the 7th century.

14-Mar-85 Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb destroyed the frontdoor of ESSO Cyprus Inc., oilcompany, an affiliate of the EXXONCorporation. No one claimedresponsibility for the blast.

15-Mar-85 Beirut Lebanon KhaibarBrigades

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. British businessman BrianLevick was abducted in Beirut. Theperpetrators forced Levick into theircar at gunpoint and blew up Levick'scar with a hand grenade beforedriving away with him. He wasreleased March 30. The Moslemgroup, Khaibar Brigades, claimedresponsibility. They said that theabduction was part of a campaign torid Moslem regions in Lebanon offoreign spies.

16-Mar-85 Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Several personsemerged from a camper and openedfire on the Spanish Embassy withautomatic weapons. Four Spanishpolice special operations agents andthree Colombian policemen returnedfire, driving off the attackers. It isunclear if the assault was the work ofterrorists or drug traffickers whohave warned Spain not to becomeinvolved in extradition proceedingsagainst suspected Colombian dealerscurrently in Spain.

16-Mar-85 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Terry Anderson, theAmerican chief Middle Eastcorrespondent for the AssociatedPress, was abducted. Islamic Jihadclaimed responsibility. Anderson wasreleased early December 1991afterbeing held hostage for more than 7.5years.

17-Mar-85 Riyadh SaudiArabia

Other Explosives0 0 SAUDI ARABIA. An Arab hijacked aSaudi Arabian jetliner over Riyadhbut was shot to death by securityagents after he exploded a grenadeas the Boeing 727 sat on the runwayof an eastern Saudi airport. All 76passengers and 21 crew membersaboard the domestic flight werefreed before the hijacker was killed.

17-Mar-85 Beirut Lebanon Amal Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Moslem gunmen fired agrenade at the Chinese Embassy in acampaign to get foreign missions toevacuate all non-Lebanese citizens.No casualties or serious damage wasreported.

17-Mar-85 Beirut Lebanon Amal Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Moslem gunmen seized acar and driver from the ItalianEmbassy in Beirut in a campaign toget foreign missions in Beirut toevacuate all non-Lebanese citizens.The Italian diplomat was not in thecar at the time.

17-Mar-85 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Firearms0 0 BOLIVIA. Two masked individualsattempted to kidnap the PeruvianAmbassador from his bedroom. TheAmbassador drew his own weaponand exchanged gunfire with thekidnappers, who fled. Two days priorto the attempt, the Ambassadorreceived a telephone call warninghim that he would be kidnapped inorder to pressure President Siles toresign. Several ambassadors hadexpressed concern over the lack ofsecurity in La Paz during a bitterminers' strike.

17-Mar-85 NewDelhi

India Unknown Unknown0 0 INDIA. Soviet diplomat Igor Gezhadisappeared while jogging in a NewDelhi park. The police had no cluesbut were questioning both Afghanand Iranian refugees living in NewDelhi. Authorities were uncertain asto whether there was a link to themurder of another Soviet official inNew Delhi a few days later. (see3/21/85)

18-Mar-85 SingaporeSingaporeUnknown Explosives0 0 SINGAPORE. A bomb exploded in thebuilding housing both the Israeli andCanadian embassies.

21-Mar-85 Greece BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Explosions rocked theoffices of the Royal Jordanian Airlinesin Greece, Rome and Nicosia, injuringa total of five people. In London anannonymous telephone caller to anews agency said that thePalestinian group, Black September,was responsible for the attacks, andwould continue to hit Jordaniantargets until the aims of ourJordanian and Arab masses areachieved with the overthrow of theclient regime.

21-Mar-85 Rome Italy BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 ITALY. Explosions rocked the officesof the Royal Jordanian Airlines inGreece, Rome and Nicosia, injuring atotal of five people. In London anannonymous telephone caller to anews agency said that thePalestinian group, Black September,was responsible for the attacks, andwould continue to hit Jordaniantargets until the aims of ourJordanian and Arab masses areachieved with the overthrow of theclient regime.

21-Mar-85 NewDelhi

India UkrainianReactionaryForce

Firearms0 1 INDIA. Two gunmen riding amotorcycle assassinated a Sovietofficial as he sat in a limousineoutside the Soviet Embassy in NewDelhi. Valentine Khitrichenko, anengineer, was a staff member of theembassy's economic section. Themotorbike carrying the two assailantsapproached the Soviet envoy's carand a single shot was fired. The carskidded to a halt and more shotswere pumped into the vehicle. TheUkrainian Reactionary Force claimedresponsibility for the assassinationand said that the group's objective isthe withdrawal of Soviet forces fromtheir homeland. (see 3/17/85)

21-Mar-85 Nicosia Cyprus BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. Explosions rocked theoffices of the Royal Jordanian Airlinesin Greece, Rome and Nicosia, injuringa total of five people. In London anannonymous telephone caller to anews agency said that thePalestinian group, Black September,was responsible for the attacks, andwould continue to hit Jordaniantargets until the aims of ourJordanian and Arab masses areachieved with the overthrow of theclient regime.

22-Mar-85 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Unknown0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillas guttedthree Kentucky Fried Chicken outletsin Lima in their latest assault againstAmerican targets in Peru.





22-Mar-85 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Marcel Fontaine, viceconsul of the French Mission, wasabducted by three men while walkingto his office in west Beirut. He wasdriven away in a blue BMW sedansimilar to one used in three otherkidnappings in recent months. Laterin the day an embassy spokesmansaid that another French diplomat,Marcel Carton, and an embassyemployee, Danielle Perez, had failedto report to work and were reportedkidnapped. Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility. Danielle Perez, wasreleased on March 31. The Moslemgroup, Khaibar Brigades, alsoclaimed responsibility for thiskidnapping.Marcel Fontaine andMarcel Carton were released May 4,1988 after more than three years incaptivity. As of mid-May, 1988,French officials would not say whatconcessions had been made, if any,to win their release.



25-Mar-85 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaOther Unknown0 1 GUATEMALA. An apparent right wingdeath squad assassinated Universityof San Carlos professor Flavio JoseQuesada Zaldana, a Nicaraguannational, in Guatemala City. Zaldanawas a member of the Faculty ofArchitecture at the university.

25-Mar-85 Tripoli Lebanon LebaneseArmedRevolutionaryFaction(LARF)

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Gilles Peyrolles, directorof the French Cultural Center inTripoli (A large city in the north ofLebanon), was kidnapped by theLebanese Armed RevolutionaryFactions (LARF). The groupdemanded that France free acolleague suspected of the murder ofan American military attache and anIsraeli ambassador. A group ofarmed men stormed Peyrolles' homeshortly after midnight, singled himout from his roommates, and tookhim away. He was released April 2,1985.

25-Mar-85 Beirut Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 1 LEBANON. Alec Collette, a Britishjournalist on a U.N. assignment, waskidnapped just outside Beirut bygunmen who were not immediatelyidentified. Collett and an Austriancolleague were approaching Beirutfrom the South when their car wasovertaken by a green Volvo whichforced them to stop. The two menwere forced into the other car wherethe Austrian was freed. On April 23,1986, the Organization of SocialistMoslems (linked to Palestinian leaderAbu Nidal), claimed that they hadhanged Collett in retaliation for theU.S. air raids on Libya.

26-Mar-85 NetherlandsPan-TurkishOrganization

Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. Bomb disposalexperts defused a letter bombdelivered to the Bulgarian TravelOffice. In a note delivered to theAgence France Press bureau in theHague, a group called the Pan-Turkish Organization claimedresponsibility for the act and statedthat other bombs would follow. Policesaid the explosive device wasprofessionally made and would haveundoubtedly exploded if it had beenopened in a normal fashion.

26-Mar-85 St Jeande Lux


Unknown0 1 FRANCE. The Anti-TerroristLiberation Group (GAL), a violentlyanti-ETA organization, killed ETAleader Francisco Xavier Galdeano inthe French border city of St. Jean deLux late in March. Galdeano wasinvolved in laundering fundsobtained by ETA through itsrevolutionary tax. He also served asa correspondent for the radicalBasque newspaper EGIN. He movedto France in 1982 to avoid Spanishpolice surveillance.

27-Mar-85 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Alone hijacker, armed with a knife,forced a West German Lufthansajetliner enroute to Athens fromMunich to land at Istanbul's YesilkoyAirport. Upon landing in Turkey, the142 passengers were released, andthe man, believed to be a Libyan,demanded the plane fly on to Libya.However, by this time sharpshootershad surrounded the plane and theman was forced to surrender to theauthorities.

28-Mar-85 Beirut Lebanon FederationofArmenianRevolutionaries

Unknown0 1 LEBANON. A.R.F. leader Unger SarkisZeitlian and Unger Golanjian werekidnapped in the early morning asthey were approaching the buildingof the Nshan Palandjian ArmenianSchool in Beirut. This is the secondinstance that A.R.F. members inLebanon have been kidnapped. Theother was Apraham Ashjian in 1982.Ashjian was never found. InNovember 1986 the Federation ofArmenian Revolutionaries -Revolutionary Movement claimedthat they had killed Zeitlian afterhaving put the ARF leader on trial.

28-Mar-85 Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front (FPMR) wasresponsible for car bombs whichwent off at IBM, the Bank of Boston,Citibank, and Republic National Bankof New York.







29-Mar-85 Bayonne France Anti-terroristLiberationGroup(GAL)

Firearms3 1 FRANCE. A masked man opened fireon customers in a bar in Bayonne,killing a young student and woundingthree others. The incident wasattributed to GAL, a Spanish anti-terrorist organization.

29-Mar-85 Paris France Hizballah Explosives18 0 FRANCE. An explosion at a theater inParis during a festival of Jewish filmswounded about 18 people, three ofthem seriously. The bomb had beenplaced under a seat in the RivoliBeaubourg Cinema and detonatedshortly after 10 p.m. It dug a hole inthe floor, started a fire and raineddebris on the approximately 50patrons. The theater had recentlyreceived a letter threatening to bloweverything up. Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility for the attack inretaliation for the Israeli Iron Fistpolicy in Lebanon. Some fear theattack could signal a new phase inracially-inspired terrorism.

29-Mar-85 Quiche GuatemalaGuerrillaArmy ofthe Poor(EGP)

Unknown0 2 GUATEMALA. A U.S. journalistdisappeared, along with anotherAmerican who was acting as hisguide, in Quiche. The journalist,Nicholas Blake, had planned onseeking contact with members of thePoor Peoples' Army (EGP). At first hisfamily did not report thedisappearance because theybelieved he and his guide, GriffithDavis, were traveling with theguerrillas. According to a NYT 8/3/86article, Blake and Davis were held bythe EGP for a month and thenexecuted. A rebel spokespersonadmitted to Blake's relatives thatthey had indeed murdered the two.

1-Apr-85 MindanaoPhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. The NPA booby-trappedthe car of a Peace Corps worker inMindanao.

1-Apr-85 Iraq PatrioticUnion ofKurdistan(PUK)

Unknown0 0 IRAQ. The Patriotic Union ofKurdistan kidnapped two SouthKorean technicians in protest of theircountry's support of the Iraqigovernment.

1-Apr-85 Athens Greece KhristosKasimis

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A group calling itselfKhristos Kasimis planted a bomboutside the West German Embassy inAthens early in April to demonstratesupport for the hunger strike of RAFprisoners in West Germany.

1-Apr-85 Nicosia Cyprus ArabUnionistNationalistOrganization

Firearms0 1 CYPRUS. The Arab UnionistNationalist Organization claimedresponsibility for the assassination ofa Libyan businessman. A statementcarried in a daily newspaperdescribed Libyan Ahmad Barani as anAgent...involved in watching theactivities of Arab strugglers andsubmitting information about them tohostile services, thus causing seriousharm to Arab national revolutionarymovements. Barani was shot in theface while in his Nicosia office.

3-Apr-85 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb wrecked a French carshowroom in San Sebastian. ETAwas responsible.

3-Apr-85 Rome Italy BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 ITALY. Black September claimedcredit for firing a bazooka round intothe Jordanian Embassy in Rome.

4-Apr-85 Athens Greece BlackSeptember

Explosives5 0 GREECE. Black September claimedcredit for a rocket attack against aJordanian airliner as it prepared totake off from an Athens Airport. Therocket failed to explode, leaving onlya small hole in the fuselage.

5-Apr-85 Algeria Unknown Firearms1 0 ALGERIA. A Palestinian dissident wasshot in Algeria. It is unclear if thevictim was a member of Abu Nidal ora member of Al Fatah who decided toshift his loyalty.

7-Apr-85 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Firearms2 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. ALibyan gunman shot and killed GebrilDenali, an exiled critic of Qaddafi,and wounded two passers-by inBonn. The assassination occurred incrowded Cathedral Square. Themurderer was arrested at the scene.The Libyan Embassy had reportedlyfailed in an attempt to kidnap Denaliin 1982.

8-Apr-85 Iggingen FederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Ulrike Meinhof Fighting Unit,believed to be associated withRevolutionary Cells, claimed creditfor an attack on a NATO oil pipelinein Iggingen near a U.S. Pershing IImissile base.

8-Apr-85 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded at the Hamburgoffices of a marine technologyresearch firm, International ShippingStudies (ISS). The company wasworking on a feasibility study for thedevelopment of a new NATO frigate.The Timmerman Fighting Unit,believed to be associated withRevolutionary Cells, claimedresponsibility. The explosionoccurred as 100,000 demonstratorsprotested against deployment ofNATO nuclear weapons in Heilbron,Frankfurt, Cologne, Dortmund,Hannover, West Berlin, Nurembergand Munich.

10-Apr-85 Lebanon Amal Explosives2 2 LEBANON. A sixteen year oldMoslem girl drove a Peugeot loadedwith TNT into an Israeli convoy,killing two soldiers and herself(suicide bomber) and wounding twoothers.

11-Apr-85 PhilippinesCivilianHomeDefenseForces(CHDF)

Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. A governmentmilitiaman was arrested for themurder of an Italian missionary in thesouthern Philippines. Father TullioFavali was killed by a militia groupcalled the Civilian Home DefenseForces (CHDF), a controversial,70,000 strong group armed by thegovernment to guard provincialvillages against infiltration andattacks by communist cadres andguerrillas. Father Favali was called aforeign devil by the group and wascharged with aiding local insurgents.This particular CHDF was known asthe Ilagas, and was known to be acannibalistic sect. There are somereports that they kept a piece of themissionary's brain as a trophy.

13-Apr-85 France Hizballah Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Islamic Jihad claimed thebombing of an Israeli-owned bank inretaliation for Israeli military actionsin Lebanon. Police suspect that thegroup Action Directe may actuallyhave been responsible.

14-Apr-85 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillasbombed the Chilean Embassy inLima, reportedly as a diversionaryaction designed to focus policeattention on the embassy area ratherthan the San Isidro region where thepresident of the Peruvian ElectionsBoard was about to be assassinated.

17-Apr-85 Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Kurdish guerrillas kidnapped aJordanian engineer to protestJordanian support of the Iraqigovernment.

17-Apr-85 Iraq PatrioticUnion ofKurdistan(PUK)

Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Kurdish guerrillas kidnappedtwo Japanese employees of theJapanese NEC company. ThePatriotic Union of Kurdistan releasedthe two in September 1985 onhumanitarian grounds.

18-Apr-85 Brussels Belgium RevolutionaryFront forProletarianAction(FRAP)

Explosives2 0 BELGIUM. A bomb blast seriouslydamaged offices of NATO's NorthAtlantic Assembly. Two people wereinjured. Revolutionary Front forProletarian Action (FRAP) claimedcredit.

19-Apr-85 JerusalemIsrael Other Firearms0 1 ISRAEL. An Israeli cab driver wasshot to death in Jerusalem.

19-Apr-85 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A small bomb exploded in acity street.

19-Apr-85 Brussels Belgium RevolutionaryFront forProletarianAction(FRAP)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb damaged a WestGerman electronics firm in Brussels.There were no injuries.Revolutionary Front for ProletarianAction (FRAP) claimed credit.

20-Apr-85 Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A truck packed with 1,000kg of TNT was used in a suicideoperation against an Israeli convoybetween Sidon and Tyre. All convoypersonnel, estimated to be acompany of 120 members, wereeither killed or wounded.

20-Apr-85 Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Fatah commanders wereintercepted by Israeli naval unitsbefore they reached the Israeli coast.The merchant ship carrying aterrorist team was sunk by a missileboat after it fired on Israeli craft. Theengagement took place about 100miles off the coast and at least 20Fatah guerrillas were drowned. Theterrorist team was apparently armedwith a variety of equipment to allowthem to carry out assassinations andbombings.

23-Apr-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Unger Sarkis Aznavourianwas murdered while getting into hiscar in Beirut. He was a member ofthe Dashnagtsagan community.

23-Apr-85 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb found on an Israelibus in Tel Aviv was safely defused bypolice explosives experts. Theincident coincides with a meeting inAlgiers of the Palestine NationalCouncil.

25-Apr-85 KhanYunis

WestBank/Gaza


1 0 Gaza Strip. An Israeli civilian wasstabbed several times as he walkedthrough the market place in KhanYunis in the Gaza Strip.

26-Apr-85 SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb exploded inthe offices of the Libyan ArabAirlines. Two Arabs were arrested.

26-Apr-85 SwitzerlandOther Explosives2 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb went off in aSyrian diplomat's car during rushhour, but the diplomat and his wifeescaped unharmed. Two bystanderswere injured. Two Arabs werearrested in connection with thisincident, as well as for two otherbombings during the day.

26-Apr-85 SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Two Arabs arrestedfor bomb attacks against the LibyanArab Airlines offices and the car of aSyrian diplomat admitted to havingplaced a bomb in the car of anotherSyrian diplomat's car. The bomb wasfound and defused.

27-Apr-85 Paris France ActionDirecte

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded outsidethe European headquarters of theInternational Monetary Fund and theWorld Bank in Paris. A bomb placedunder a car parked about 10 yardsaway from the six story buildingdetonated in the early morning hourswhen the building was empty. ActionDirect claimed credit.

28-Apr-85 Israel Other Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A rocket-propelled grenadewas fired from Jordanian territory atan Israeli patrol, injuring one person.

30-Apr-85 JohannesburgSouthAfrica


Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. Heavy explosionsrocked the Johannesburg offices ofthe largest mining concerns in SouthAfrica, the Anglo-AmericanCorporation and the Anglo-VaalCompany. A month earlier the ANChad threatened to step up attacksagainst multinational corporationsoperating in South Africa, and theyimmediately claimed responsibilityfor these attacks.

30-Apr-85 JohannesburgSouthAfrica


Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. Heavy explosionsrocked the Johannesburg offices ofthe largest mining concerns in SouthAfrica, the Anglo-AmericanCorporation and the Anglo-VaalCompany. A month earlier the ANChad threatened to step up attacksagainst multinational corporationsoperating in South Africa, and theyimmediately claimed responsibilityfor these attacks.

30-Apr-85 Israel Other Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian fedayeen usedincendiary grenades to attack a bus.The bus was destroyed and thedriver wounded.

30-Apr-85 Bat Yam Israel Other Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. Palestinians threw a handgrenade at an Israeli intelligencecenter in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv.One of the center's guards waswounded in the explosion.

1-May-85 Kuwait Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms1 0 KUWAIT. A recent attempt againstthe life of the senior editor of aleading newspaper was claimed by agroup calling itself the ArabRevolutionary Brigades, believed tobe an Abu Nidal signature. The editorwas shot at by two men armed withsub-machine guns as he was leavinghis office in Kuwait and approachinghis car. The caller in Paris stated theattempted assassination wasnecessary because the editor was anagent of the American CIA and aZionist sympathizer.

1-May-85 Pakistan Other Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. Pakistani tribal rebelskidnapped an Australian who wasemployed on a U.N. water project,and his wife. The couple was laterjailed for seven months inAfghanistan where the authoritiesconsidered themcounterrevolutionaries and forcedthem to read Communistpropaganda. The couple was freedlate in December 1985.

2-May-85 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at a branchof the U.S. Norton firm whichproduces electrical materials in thenorthern Basque region. There wereno casualties.

3-May-85 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The American-owned Avis carrental offices in San Sebastian andVitoria were bombed, as well as thelocal Ford dealership in Vitoria. Theattack was part of a majorinternational campaign by ETAagainst tourists planning to visit theMediterranean resorts. The grouphad recently announced that it wouldbe striking at the economic interestsof the oppressive Spanish states intourist zones in retaliation againstgovernment plans to alter theeconomy of the Basque region tomake it more dependent.

3-May-85 Vitoria Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)


3-May-85 Vitoria Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)


3-May-85 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. As part of their campaign todamage the tourist trade in Spain'snorthern region, ETA bombed aFrench auto dealership.

3-May-85 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany

ProletarianActionGroup

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.While President Reagan was on anofficial visit to Germany, a bombexploded 12 miles north of Cologneat the repair facilities of a Frenchfirm which supplies electronicsequipment to the West Germanarmed forces. Proletarian ActionCommando claimed responsibility.

5-May-85 Lima Peru Other Firearms0 1 PERU. Gunmen shot and killed anAmerican missionary at his home inLima's suburb of Puente Piedra.Thomas Brown, who was identifiedby the press as a Baptist missionary,confronted four men armed withrevolvers who had entered his home.It is unclear what the men wanted,but the victim's wife stated theyappeared to be familiar with thehouse. It is believed that theintention of the gunmen had been tokidnap the daughter.

7-May-85 Lisbon Portugal Other Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb went off at theU.S.-operated Radio Free Europestation in Lisbon, on the eve ofPresident Ronald Reagan's visit toPortugal. The blast was claimed bythe Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Militaristgroup who said the bomb was meantas a warning about Portugal'sdependence on the United States.The bomb exploded at about 10 p.m.and caused no damage.

8-May-85 France Anti-terroristLiberationGroup(GAL)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A member of GAL (Anti-Terrorist Liberation Group) claimedresponsibility for the bombing of acar belonging to a Spanish nationalemployed by the Spanish Consulate.The car was destroyed.

8-May-85 Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 5 LEBANON. An Israeli gunboatpatrolling off southern Lebanonopened fire on a rubber dinghyheading toward Israel, killing fivecamouflaged terrorists. The dinghywas equipped with a 50-horsepowermotor and was painted incamouflaged colors. It bore Arabicmarkings similar to those found onanother terrorist boat.

10-May-85


Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. A British metallurgist wasabducted by UNITA forces during anight raid on a diamond mine wherehe was employed. He was releasedAugust 7, 1985

13-May-85

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Aidan Walsh of Ireland, asenior U.N. relief official, waskidnapped by eight heavily armedmen in combat fatigues who forcedhis well-marked U.N. station wagonto a halt. There was no claim ofresponsibility. Walsh was released36 hours later.

14-May-85


Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Armed menkidnapped six Portuguese and twoItalians who were traveling on theroad linking Maputo to Swaziland.Two of those kidnapped werechildren. In December of 1986, theMNR claimed to have released allhostages held by them as a goodwillgesture.

14-May-85

GaboroneBotswanaUnknown Explosives0 1 BOTSWANA. A powerful bomb wentoff in Gaborone, killing a SouthAfrican political refugee who hadbeen living in the city for some time.The man was a known member ofthe African National Congress. Thebody of the victim was mutilatedbeyond recognition and the car wascompletely destroyed.

15-May-85

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Gunmen attempted tointercept the car belonging to theAlgerian ambassador in Beirut. Apatrol from the internal securityforces engaged the gunmen whomanaged to escape. The AlgerianAmbassador was not in the car at thetime.

15-May-85

Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Two bombs were tossed froma car at the Peruvian-U.S. CulturalInstitute Building in Lima. TupacAmaru is suspected.

15-May-85


Explosives0 0 PERU. Bombs were tossed at theSoviet Embassy residence in Lima.Tupac Amaru is suspected.

15-May-85


Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb was tossed into thegarden of the U.S. Ambassador'sresidence in Lima, causing lightdamage but no injuries. Tupac Amaruis suspected.

15-May-85


Explosives0 0 PERU. Three primitive bombs weredefused on the grounds of theChinese Embassy. Tupac Amaru issuspected.

19-May-85

Riyadh SaudiArabia

Hizballah Explosives3 1 SAUDI ARABIA. Two streetexplosions within minutes of eachother in Riyadh left one person deadand three injured. The action wasclaimed by Islamic Jihad to mark theopening of a campaign to bring downthe Saudi monarchy. According toForeign Report 7/11/85, the Iraqissaid that the two explosions inRiyadh, the day that Prince Saud al-Faisal was visiting Tehran, wereplanted by the Iraqis. According tothis report the Jihad deniedresponsibility. Iraq is apparentlyalarmed by moves towards arapprochement between the Gulfstates and Iran and wanted tofrighten the Gulf states away fromthis shift in policy.

19-May-85

Riyadh SaudiArabia

Hizballah Explosives0 0 SAUDI ARABIA. Two streetexplosions within minutes of eachother in Riyadh left one person deadand three injured. The secondexplosion occured near a compoundhousing U.S. military advisers to theSaudi Arabian National Guard.According to Foreign Report 7/11/85,the Iraqis said that the twoexplosions in Riyadh, the day thatPrince Saud al-Faisal was visitingTehran, were planted by the Iraqis.According to this report the Jihaddenied responsibility. Iraq isapparently alarmed by movestowards a rapprochement betweenthe Gulf states and Iran and wantedto frighten the Gulf states away fromthis shift in policy.

21-May-85


Unknown1 1 MOZAMBIQUE. A Red Cross reliefworker was killed and another personwounded in an attack on their truckby Mozambican rebels.

24-May-85


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. ELN guerrillas attacked ajoint oil drilling rig operated by theOccidental Petroleum Company andthe Colombian State PetroleumAgency in the province of Arauca.Damage to the installation wasestimated at $220,000. The drillingsite was almost completelydestroyed. The attack was carriedout by a 25-member guerrilla teamwhich rounded up the workers andharangued them about the theft ofnatural resources by multinationalcompanies, before proceeding withthe sabotage.

25-May-85

Kuwait Hizballah Explosives12 5 KUWAIT. A suicide driver drove a carwired with explosives into themotorcade of the ruling Emir ofKuwait. The Emir escaped with onlyminor injuries; however, four peopletraveling with him, as well as thesuicide driver, were killed. Twelvepeople were injured. The terroristdriver has been identified as an Iraqimember of the Al-Dawa (Islamic CallParty). Al Dawa provides a recruitingpool for the Islamic Jihad terroristcells, and Al Dawa personnelparticipated in the December 1983truck and car-bomb attacks in Kuwaitagainst U.S., French and domesticinstallations. Although ananonymous phone caller originallyclaimed the attack for Islamic Jihad, alater communique deniedinvolvement.

26-May-85

BucharestRomania Unknown Explosives0 2 ROMANIA. A bomb planted in a carbelonging to a Syrian student inBucharest exploded, killing two bombsquad officers.

26-May-85

Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. French journalist Jean-Paul Kauffman was abductedimmediately after arriving inLebanon from Paris.Kauffman wasreleased, along with Marcel Cartonand Marcel Fontaine, on May 4, 1988,after more than three years incaptivity. As of mid-May, 1988,French officials would not say whatconcessions had been made, if any,to win their release.

26-May-85

Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Michel Seurat, an Arabistresearcher who had just arrived fromParis, was kidnapped in Beirut. InMarch 1986, pictures showingSeurat's body were released byIslamic Jihad; however, theFrenchman's remains have not beenfound.

27-May-85

Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 1 LEBANON. British professor DennisHill was abducted from the AmericanUniversity by Islamic Jihad. His bodywas found with four bullet holes inthe back of his neck after heapparently tried to escape during hisinterrogation. Although ananonymous phone call initiallyclaimed credit in the name of IslamicJihad, a later communique deniedany involvement.

28-May-85

Afula Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in thecenter of the town of Afula.

28-May-85

Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility for kidnapping theAmerican director of the AmericanUniversity medical center. Sixgunmen fired a shot at the feet of asecond doctor walking with DavidJacobsen, who then quietly went withhis abductors. After seventeenmonths in captivity, Jacobsen wasreleased by his captors on November2, 1986. While details of his releaseare still rather sketchy, the Reaganadministration is being sharplycriticized for its secret role in sellingarms to Iran as part of negotiationsfor the hostages' release.

29-May-85

Rabat Morocco Unknown Explosives0 0 MOROCCO. A car belonging to aSyrian diplomat exploded in front ofthe residence of the Syrianambassador to Morocco. The carwas completely destroyed and therewas some damage to theambassador's residence.

30-May-85

Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Unidentified people in anAthens suburb threw a Molotovcocktail at the car of U.S. ColonelRobert Morton. The car was parkedin front of the Colonel's home. Hewas not injured.

30-May-85

Afula Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded near thecentral bus station in Afula. Twodays earlier a bomb had exploded inthe town's center.

1-Jun-85 Brussels Belgium Other Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. The Peace Conquerorsclaimed responsibility for thebombing of the Bayer Company, aWest German pharmaceutical andchemical company in Brussels. Aletter claimed the bombing wasconducted to protest the allegeddumping of chemical waste into theNorth Sea.


RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb damaged a pumping station ofa NATO pipeline which serves the U.S. Air Force Rhein-Main Air Base. Theblast, which occurred near Frankfurt,destroyed electrical equipment in thepumping station. The undergroundpipeline itself was not damaged.While no group initially claimedcredit, it is presumed to be the workof the Revolutionary Cells (RZ).

3-Jun-85 London UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb that hadbeen left in a traveling bag outside ofthe Syrian Embassy was safelydeactivated by explosives experts.

3-Jun-85 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A two-pound bomb wasdiscovered in a suitcase in abathroom at the Hilton Hotel inRome. The room had been occupiedby a man with a Lebanese passport.The bomb had apparently beentampered with but the circumstancesare unknown. Officials believe thebomb was probably meant for twoofficials working at the Snia industrialchemical plant in central Italy. AnIslamic Mujaheddin group, claimingthe Snia factory produced toxic gasfor Iraq to use in its war with Iran,had telephoned several Italiannewspapers May 24 claiming twoofficials of the firm had beenexecuted. Police speculate anattempt was made to use the bombbut when it failed to explode, it wasdumped in the room. The individualwho rented the room on May 23 hasnot been seen since May 25. Noattack has taken place involving thefirm or the two officials.

3-Jun-85 Geneva SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. An explosion at aGeneva railway station has beenclaimed by a Palestinian groupcalling itself the Martyrs of Tell Al-Zaltar. Several hundred Palestiniansdied when the Tell Al-Zaltar camp inEast Beirut was beseiged byLebanese Christian Phalangists in thesummer of 1976. The caller saidmore explosives, which had not beenprimed, had been planted in toiletsat Geneva's Cointrin Airport, a factconfirmed by police. Two Palestinianswere arrested in connection with thebombings.

3-Jun-85 Geneva SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Primed explosiveswere found in toilets at Geneva'sCointrin Airport. The discovery wasmade after a caller who had beenclaiming the bombing of a Genevarailway station, warned of the airportbombs' existence. Two Palestinianswere arrested in connection with thebombings.

5-Jun-85 Athens Greece Unknown Unknown1 0 GREECE. An assassination attemptwas apparently made against aPalestinian in Athens. Mustafa AliMustafa, the intended victim, hadbeen the driver of anotherPalestinian who was assassinated inHallenikon in 1983. Mustafa hadbeen seriously injured in that attack,as he was in this one. Authoritiesbelieve the two cases may berelated.

5-Jun-85 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A helicopter charteredby a U.S. oil company was destroyedafter landing at a remote explorationcamp near Reinera by members ofthe Army of National Liberation(ELN). The crew and passengerswere detained by a group of about30 armed men who identifiedthemselves as members of theDomingo Lain front of the ELN. Theleader of the rebel band criticized theoil exploration effort claiming suchaction amounts to theft. The crew ofthe helicopter was not abused andwas instructed not to leave the areauntil the following day.

7-Jun-85 Beirut Lebanon Amal Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Shi'ite Amal militiamenkidnapped the Austrian ambassadorin Beirut. He was released within 24hours.

7-Jun-85 Beirut Lebanon Amal Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Shi'ite Amal militiamenkidnapped a Canadian UN official inBeirut. He was released within 24hours.

7-Jun-85 Athens Greece Hizballah Firearms0 1 GREECE. Two Shi'ite gunmenhijacked a TWA Boeing 727 en routefrom Athens to Rome with over 100Americans on board. The plane wasforced to make several stops beforefinally landing in Beirut where U.S.navy diver Robert Stetham waskilled. All but 41 of the hostageswere released. The rest of thehostages were taken to undisclosedlocations in Beirut. The hostageswere released June 30 aftermediation of Shi'ite Amal leaderNabih Berri and the Syriangovernment. The hijackers includedin their demands the release of theterrorists being held in Kuwait inconnection with the December 1983bombings there of the U.S. andFrench Embassies, and two Lebaneseterrorists held by Spain for themurder of a Libyan diplomat inMadrid last September. The majordemand was for the release of 766Shi'ites being held in Israel. Theradical Hezbollah (Party of God)group claimed responsibility.OnOctober 17, 1985, the U.S.Department of Justice offered$250,000 reward for informationleading to the arrest of the threemen believed responsible for thehijacking and murder.On September13 1987, Fawaz Younis, believed tohave been the leader of the terroristcell involved in the hijacking of aJordanian airliner in Beirut (seeincident 4215) and also thought tohave been involved in the TWAhijacking, was lured onto a yacht bythe FBI. Younis was later convictedof air piracy and the seizure ofhostages for his role in the Beiruthijacking and received a thirty yearprison sentence. In May, 1989, pro-Iranian militant Mohammed AliHammadi was sentenced to lifeimprisonment in Frankfurt oncharges stemming from this incident.Both Mohammed Hammadi and hisbrother, Abbas, are imprisoned inGermany.

8-Jun-85 Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Arsonists poured gasolineon two cars belonging to U.S. militarypersonnel and set them on fire inseparate suburbs of Athens. Thevehicles were owned and parkedoutside the homes of an Air ForceSergeant and a Navy petty officer.The attack brought to five thenumber of cars owned by U.S.personnel stationed at U.S. bases inGreece that have been destroyed in10 days.

9-Jun-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Gunmen kidnappedanother American in what may havebeen an attempt to abduct thePresident of the American Univerisityof Beirut. The victim, ThomasSutherland, a professor at theuniversity, was returning from the U.S. and was to have beenaccompanied by the schoolpresident. While Sutherland wasbeing driven from the airport in thepresident's car, gunmen shot at theauto's tires, bringing it to a halt. Nogroup has claimed responsibility.

10-Jun-85 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Three PortugeseCatholic nuns and two novices havebeen kidnapped in the northwesternMozambique province of Tete. As agoodwill gesture, in December of1986, the MNR claimed to havereleased all hostages held by them.

10-Jun-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Gunmen raided theoffices of Air France in Beirut. Thenext day, the same building was thetarget of a rocket attack.

11-Jun-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A rocket was fired at theGefinor Building in Al-Hamra at the20th floor, which houses the officesof Saudi businessman Rafiq al-Hariri.Gunmen had raided the offices of AirFrance in the same building the nightbefore.

11-Jun-85 Beirut Lebanon Amal Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Shiite extremistsdemanding expulsion of Palestinianguerrillas in Lebanon hijacked aJordanian Boeing 727 in Beirut,forcing the plane to fly to Cyprus,Sicily, and then back to Beirut thenext day before releasing thepassengers and crew. Afterreleasing the passengers, thehijackers proceeded to blow up theaircraft. They then escaped,disappearing into the Shiite-controlled territory around theairport.On September 13 1987,Fawaz Younis, believed to have beenthe leader of the terrorist cellinvolved in this hijacking (and alsothought to have been involved in the1985 hijacking of a TWA Boeing 727en-route from Athens to Rome inwhich a U.S. serviceman was killed -see incident 4209) was lured onto ayacht by the FBI. He is currentlyawaiting trial in the U.S. ShiiteMoslems have threatened attacksagainst U.S. interests if Younis is notfreed.In February 1988 a U.S. DistrictJudge ruled that Younis could becharged with leading the hijacking,but that he could not be prosecutedfor allegedly assaulting passengersand blowing up the Jordanian Airlinejet. The judge did not dismiss sixconspiracy and hijacking counts ofthe indictment and upheld the use ofNavy vessels that transported Younisafter his arrest aboard the FBI-chartered yacht in theMediterranean. Younis claims thatLebanese Justice Minister Nabih Berriapproved the hijacking.On March 14,1989, Younis became the first personconvicted of criminal charges underprovisions of a 1984 law that makesholding Americans hostage anywherein the world a crime. While beingconvicted of air piracy and theseizure of hostages, Younis wasfound innocent of charges that hehelped destroy the aircraft.InOctober, 1989, Fawaz Younis wassentenced to 30 years for thehijacking. He will be eligible forparole in eight years.

12-Jun-85 Larnaca Cyprus Other Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. In retaliation for the Shi'itehijacking of the Jordanian airliner, aPalestinian commandeered aLebanese Boeing 707 right after itlanded in Larnaca on a flight fromBeirut. All of the passengers hadalready disembarked when thePalestinian began threatening thethree man crew with what appearedto be a grenade. Authorities grantedhis demand to be flown to Amman,Jordan.

12-Jun-85 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A terrorist bomb exploded ata bus station in Jerusalem.

13-Jun-85 Oslo Norway NorwegianNational-Socialist(Nazi)Front

Explosives1 0 NORWAY. The Norwegian National-Socialist (Nazi) Front claimedresponsibility for bombing a mosquein Oslo. The wife of the leader of themosque's Ahmadiya sect, a branch ofSunni Moslems, was taken to thehospital, suffering from shock. Themosque was built in 1980 and is usedmostly by Pakistanis.

15-Jun-85 EastBerlin

GermanDemocraticRepublic

Other Explosives0 0 GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.East German authorities foiled a plotby two persons carrying diplomaticpassports from a Middle Easterncountry, to hijack a U.S. airliner inWest Berlin. The act was carried outin support of hijackers of the TWAjetliner. Security agents, acting on atip, arrested the two at East Berlin'sSchoenefeld Airport and foundexplosives in their bags.

17-Jun-85 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. A West German womanwas kidnapped by counter-revolutionaries on Nicaragua'sAtlantic coast. The woman, anecologist who had been working forthe Profanic SA Company in PuertoCabezas, was released in July 1985.

17-Jun-85 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A small bomb exploded inJerusalem, injuring one woman. ThePLO claimed responsibility.

18-Jun-85 Genoa Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded in front ofthe offices of the Zim Israelnavigation company in Genoa. Therewere no casualties.

18-Jun-85 Tel Aviv Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Two large bombs, set toexplode during peak shopping hours,were found in Tel Aviv. Both deviceswere safely defused. The PLOclaimed responsibilty.

19-Jun-85 KiryatGat

Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A terrorist bomb explodednear Kiryat Gat's industrial area. ThePLO claimed responsibility.


PeaceConquerors

Explosives42 3 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded in the internationaldeparture lounge of the FrankfurtAirport, killing a Portuguese man andtwo Australian children. 42 others,including one American, were injuredby the blast. The device, whichapparently was placed in a trashcontainer, exploded at 2:45 p.m.causing extensive damage. Thebomb was placed in a waiting areafacing the counters of Lufthansa,Olympic, Alitalia and Iran Air. Theattack was claimed by severalgroups, including the RAF, PeaceConquerors (recently responsible forthe bombing of the Bayer Companyin Belgium), and the ArabRevolutionary Organization.Authorities believe the claim madeby the Peace Conquerors to beauthentic.

20-Jun-85 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. An incendiarydevice was thrown into the receptionarea of the Nicaraguan Embassy inWashington, starting a fire whichcaused approximately $60,000 indamage.


ElSalvador


Firearms0 13 EL SALVADOR. The Central AmericanWorkers' Revolutionary Party, one ofthe combat groups under theFarabundo Marti umbrella, claimedresponsibility for a machinegunattack on a sidewalk cafe in SanSalvador which killed 13, including 4U.S. off-duty Marine Embassy guardsand two American businessmen. Tenterrorists dressed in military attireattacked the cafe, leaving acommunique indicating that theirprimary target had been the Marines.In 1988 a military appeals courtordered three suspected participantsin this slaying freed under ElSalvador's sweeping amnesty lawthat was adopted to conform with aregional peace plan. Strong U.S.protest over this ruling resulted inthe suspects being held while thegovernment seeks an appeal.In May,1991, a Salvadoran military courtsentenced three alleged leftist rebelsto prison terms ranging from four to25 years for the killings.A report inMay 1997 indicated that one of themen accused of the attack was livingin the United States. He is currentlytrying to apply for a visa.

23-Jun-85 Montreal Canada Other Explosives0 329 CANADA. An Air-India Boeing 747 enroute from Montreal to Londonexploded in mid-air off the Irishcoast, killing all 329 people aboard.This incident occurred less than anhour after another airliner incidenthalfway around the world at Tokyo'sNarita International Airport, where anexplosion in baggage taken from aCanadian Pacific Airlines Flight killedtwo airport workers and injured fourothers. The timing of the two events,and the fact that both planes hadtaken off from Canada, led tospeculation, but no initial evidence,that they could be related. Thebombing was claimed by the Sikhgroup Dashmesh Regiment. Thesame claim was made regarding theTokyo bomb. In November 1985,India's director of air safety releaseda report concluding that an explosionwas officially the cause of the crash.On July 18, 1992 police arrestedManjit Singh as he arrived inBombay. He is believed to havechecked as luggage the suitcasebomb which brought down thisairliner. He is also wanted inconnection with the device whichblew up at Narita Airport in Tokyo.

23-Jun-85 Tokyo Japan Other Explosives4 2 JAPAN. An explosive hidden inbaggage taken from a CanadianPacific Airlines flight ignited, killingtwo airport workers and injuring fourothers at Tokyo's Narita InternationalAirport. Aviation specialists raisedthe possibility that the CPA jet couldhave carried a time bomb meant todestroy it in flight, but that the bombhad gone off too late. The names oftwo Sikhs wanted by the FBI in the U.S. in connection with a plot toassassinate India's Prime MinisterGandhi during his recent state visitwere found on the manifest of theCanadian Pacific aircraft.Responsibility for the attack wasclaimed by the Dashmesh Regiment.This is the name taken by Sikhterrorist groups that developed underthe leadership of Saint Jarnail SinghBhindranwale, the Sikh extremistguru who died in a 1984 army raid onthe Sikh Golden Temple of Amritsar,which was serving as a center forarmed operations. In November1985, two Sikhs were arrested afterauthorities linked one of the pair tothe purchase of a stereo componentwhich contained the bomb thatultimately was used. On May 10,1985, a Sikh electrician wasconvicted of manslaughter inconnection with this incident.

23-Jun-85 BeitShemesh

Israel al-Fatah Unknown0 2 ISRAEL. A Jewish couple was killednear Beit Shemesh. Two terroristsadmitted to having killed the coupleunder orders of Fatah.


Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded near a busstop in the northern part ofJerusalem, injuring an eight-year-oldboy. The PLO claimed responsibility.

25-Jun-85 Umtata Transkei AfricanNationalCongress(SouthAfrica)

Explosives0 0 TRANSKEI. A major sabotageoperation was directed against thissmall country bordering South Africa,whose government is cooperativewith Pretoria. Limpet mines wereused to blow up a power station, afuel depot and a potable waterpipeline in the Transkei capital ofUmtata. Johannesburg's wastedisposal system and a power stationin Durban were targets of similarblasts at about the same time. TheAfrican National Congress (ANC) wasallegedly responsible.Note, Transkei,a region on the eastern cape ofSouth Africa, was one of eighthomelands for black South Africanscreated in 1959 by the rulingNationalist Party. The area becamenominally independent in 1976,however was only recognized bySouth Africa. After the end ofapartheid in 1994, the region wasincorporated into the new SouthAfrica.

26-Jun-85 Brussels Belgium ProletarianRevolutionaryActionFront(FRAP)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A high-powered bomb wasdefused outside a factory thatmanufactures equipment for NATO ina Brussels suburb. The attempt wasattributed to the ProleterianRevolutionary Action Front (FRAP).

26-Jun-85 Tel Aviv Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded near thebeachfront in Tel Aviv. The PLOclaimed responsibility.

27-Jun-85 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Alfred Yaghobzadeh, anIranian citizen who was working for aFrench photo agency, was kidnappednear his hotel in West Beirut bymembers of Hezbollah. His captorsbelieved he was a spy. He wasreleased after 50 days in captivity.

27-Jun-85 France Anti-terroristLiberationGroup(GAL)

Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A Spanish Basque refugeedied after being shot by an assailantwho could have been a mandisguised as a woman. SantosBlanco-Gonzalez was returning homeat 11:30 p.m. when two shots werefired at him. The anti-terroristliberation group, GAL, is suspected.

1-Jul-85 Lahore Pakistan Amal Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded at theU.S. Information Center in Lahore.Shiites are believed responsible.

1-Jul-85 Karachi Pakistan Amal Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded at thePan American Airlines office inKarachi. Shiites are believedresponsible.

1-Jul-85 Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. An explosive device wentoff under a car owned by a U.S.serviceman, triggering a fire thatgutted four vehicles parked nearby.The blast occurred just outside aseaside hotel used to house U.S.military personnel. The RevolutionaryPeople's Struggle (ELA) claimedresponsibility, as did a group calledAnti-Imperialist, Anti-AmericanStruggle. In a note, the ELA criticizedthe Anti-Imperialist, Anti-AmericanStruggle for claiming responsibilityfor the act.

1-Jul-85 Rome Italy Other Explosives15 0 ITALY. A bomb hidden in luggagebound for India exploded in theinternational terminal of Rome'sFiumicino Airport, injuring fifteenbaggage handlers. The luggagearrived either from Beirut or fromAthens and was stacked on a trolleyin a transit zone near the passengerdeparture area. It was to be loadedon an Italian Alitalia flight to NewDelhi. The explosion came barely aweek after the Air India Boeing wentinto the Atlantic Ocean off southwestIreland, killing all 329 aboard.Responsibility for the attack wasclaimed by the Sikh terrorist group,the Dashmesh Regiment.

1-Jul-85 Madrid Spain RevolutionaryOrganizationofSocialistMoslems

Explosives27 1 SPAIN. Terrorists bombed a buildingin Madrid that houses the offices ofTWA and British Airways. Onewoman was killed and 27 othersinjured, including an Americantourist. The Organization of theOppressed, which is linked to theRevolutionary Organization ofSocialist Moslems, claimedresponsibility.

1-Jul-85 Spain BlackSeptember

Explosives2 0 SPAIN. Terrorists sprayed gunfireand hurled hand grenades at theoffices of Alia, Jordan's nationalairline, wounding two people. Thehand grenades failed to detonate andwere defused by police. The BlackSeptember Organization claimedresponsibility.

4-Jul-85 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded at theheadquarters of the Chilean-American Cultural Center inSantiago.

4-Jul-85 ConcepcionChile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. An explosion occurred in theoffices of the American National CashRegister Company in Concepcion. Nogroup claimed responsibility.

7-Jul-85 Lotta Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. The Manuel Rodriguez Fronthas claimed responsibility forincendiary attacks on six Mormonchurches in Antofagasta, Lotta andCoronel. No one was injured in theattacks. Pamphlets left at the sceneread: Yankees get out of EasterIsland.

7-Jul-85 Coronel Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Fire orFirebomb


7-Jul-85 Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Fire orFirebomb



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7-Jul-85 AntofagastaChile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Fire orFirebomb


8-Jul-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms1 0 LEBANON. Three unidentifiedgunmen attacked and criticallywounded Harout Madenlian, an A.R.F.member, and respected leader of theArmenian community in Lebanon.The attack took place whenMadenlian was parking his car in hisgarage in the Zarif section of Beirut.

8-Jul-85 Holon Israel Other Explosives5 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded at the busstation in Holon. Five people werewounded.

10-Jul-85 Haifa Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded outsidethe Haifa district court. Anotherbomb was safely defused.

10-Jul-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A German journalist waskidnapped in West Beirut.

10-Jul-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two Polish journalistswere kidnapped in West Beirut.

10-Jul-85 AucklandNewZealand

Other Explosives0 1 NEW ZEALAND. Two explosionsripped through the Greenpeaceprotest vessel, Rainbow Warrior, as itwas docked in Auckland preparing fora campaign against French nucleartests in the South Pacific. The ship'sphotographer was killed in the blast,and the vessel sank. Two Frenchintelligence agents were arrestedand later connected with thebombing. The French government,acknowledging responsibility for theblast, agreed to pay damages to theenvironmentalist group for thesinking of its protest ship.

11-Jul-85 AshqelonIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded near ahotel in Ashkelon. The PLO claimedresponsibility for the attack.

11-Jul-85 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives89 11 KUWAIT. High-powered bombs wentoff at two popular cafes in KuwaitCity, leaving 11 people dead and 89wounded. The deaths included a topKuwaiti security official in charge ofcriminal investigations who,according to a communique put outby the Arab Revolutionary Brigades,was the intended target of theattacks. This group is believed to beaffiliated with Abu Nidal. A thirdbomb was defused in a coffee housein Kuwait City. In January 1987, twomen were sentenced to death uponconviction of having planted thebombs in the cafes. A thirddefendant was sentenced to lifeimprisonment, and a fourthaccessory received a three-yearterm.







13-Jul-85 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. The Kuwaiti Embassy'spress attache was kidnapped atgunpoint in Beirut. He was releaseda little over a month later. IslamicJihad is suspected.

14-Jul-85 Lima Peru Other Firearms0 0 PERU. Two hooded men machine-gunned the U.S. Consulate in theLima district of Miraflores during thenight. There were no casualties. Thepreviously unknown Javier HeraudRevolutionary Command claimedresponsibility for the attack andwarned that it plans more actions asa protest to U.S. support forrepressive forces in Peru and (U.S.)anti-Nicaragua policy.

17-Jul-85 Nicosia Cyprus Unknown Explosives1 0 CYPRUS. The PLO's acting chiefrepresentative in Cyprus, MalathAbdo, escaped uninjured when abomb wrecked his home in a Nicosiasuburb. Abdo and his family wereasleep when the explosion occurred.His father-in-law was slightly injuredin the blast.

20-Jul-85 Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives4 1 CHILE. A sixty pound car bombexploded in front of the U.S.Consulate in Santiago, killing one andinjuring four other persons. The onefatality was apparently inside one ofthe cars when it exploded. Prior tothe explosion, an anonymous calleradvised a newspaper located nearthe U.S. Consulate to evacuate itsoffices as bombs were going toexplode in ten minutes. The callerclaimed to represent the ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), thearmed branch of the CommunistParty.Note: The fatality thatoccurred in the car could be that of aperpetrator. However, it is not likelyto be a suicide bomber.

21-Jul-85 Beirut Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Members of the ArabRevolutionary Brigades claimedresponsibility for the bombing of aKuwaiti Airlines office in Beirut. Thebuilding was completely destroyed.The group is believed linked to AbuNidal.

21-Jul-85 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. The National Union for theTotal Independence of Angola(UNITA) an anti-Angolan governmentorganization, announced that it haddowned a helicopter of the U.S. firmCabinda Gulf in the province ofCabinda in northern Angola. All ofthe occupants of the helicopter diedas a result of the attack.

21-Jul-85 Harare ZimbabweUnknown Other 0 1 ZIMBABWE. Spain's ambassador toZimbabwe was beaten to death andhis partially clothed body dumped ona farm road outside the capital ofHarare.

22-Jul-85 CopenhagenDenmark Hizballah Explosives20 1 DENMARK. A bomb exploded inScandinavia's oldest synagogue inCopenhagen, injuring twenty people.An Algerian citizen on a tour ofCopenhagen died after being burnedin the explosion. Islamic Jihadclaimed responsibility.

22-Jul-85 CopenhagenDenmark Hizballah Explosives0 0 DENMARK. A bomb went off in theAmerican Airlines offices inCopenhagen. A spokesman forIslamic Jihad said that this blast, andthe others in Copenhagen on thissame day, had been carried out byits Scandinavian cells as reprisal forthe barbaric militaristic Israeliaggression against the village ofKabrikha in South Lebanon. Headded that the organization willreach the core of the USA, USSR,France, UK and also the Arab stateswhich served as puppets of the west.

22-Jul-85 CopenhagenDenmark Hizballah Explosives0 0 DENMARK. A bomb exploded in aJewish rest home in Copenhagen.Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.A U.S. Northwest Orient Airlinesoffice was also bombed during thisattack.

22-Jul-85 CopenhagenDenmark Hizballah Explosives22 0 DENMARK. A U.S. Northwest OrientAirlines office was bombed by IslamicJihad in Copenhagen. Twenty twopeople were injured in the attack. Asynagogue and a Jewish rest homewere also bombed.


Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs ripped through anInternational Telephone & Telegraphequipment shop and a branch of theChase Manhattan bank during thenight. No casualties were reported.The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Frontclaimed responsibility.


Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs ripped through anInternational Telephone & Telegraphequipment shop and a branch of theChase Manhattan bank during thenight. No casualties were reported.The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Frontclaimed responsibility.


Explosives1 0 CHILE. A bomb was hurled at theoffices of the South African miningcompany Anglo-American, injuringthe night watchman and shatteringwindows. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front claimed responsibility.

24-Jul-85 Ankara Turkey BlackSeptember

Firearms0 1 TURKEY. Jordanian envoy Ziyad Satiwas shot three times in the head ashe stopped for a red light in aresidential area of Ankara. Thegunman escaped on foot. Ananonymous caller said that Sati waskilled because of his services toimperialism. Black September alsoclaimed responsibility. In October of1986, six confessed members of anAbu Nidal terrorist cell were arrestedand held responsible for theassassination. In November 1986, aSyrian diplomat indicted fororganizing the murder was recalledto Damascus.

27-Jul-85 Lisbon Portugal RevolutionaryAutonomousGroup

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb explodedoutside the South African Embassy inLisbon, shattering the building'swindow and door and damaging twoparked cars. There were no reportsof casualties. An anonymous callersaid the leftist RevolutionaryAutonomous Group was responsiblefor the blast and called the bombingan act of solidarity with the SouthAfrican people.

30-Jul-85 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Members of RENAMOkidnapped two British employees of aDurban company. No details wereavailable.

31-Jul-85 Amman Jordan Unknown Firearms0 0 JORDAN. The Palestine NationalCouncil speaker escaped unharmedafter unknown assailants opened fireon his house in Amman.

31-Jul-85 Lebanon SyrianSocialNationalistParty

Explosives3 2 LEBANON. A young suicide bomberdrove a car packed with explosivesnear an Israeli patrol in southernLebanon, killing himself and apassing villager and wounding threeIsraeli soldiers. Israeli state radiosaid the car was driven by a 13-yearold boy, but the group who claimedcredit, the Syrian Social NationalistParty, denied this.

31-Jul-85 Haifa Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The PFLP-GC claimedresponsibility for planting a numberof time-bombs which went off in amilitary factory in Haifa. Severalpeople were injured by the blast andthe material losses were said to beextensive.

1-Aug-85 BenidormSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives2 0 SPAIN. Two Swedish tourists wereinjured when a plastic-type bombexploded next to the phone boothwhich they were using at the time.The incident occurred at the eastcoast beach resort of Benidorm. In acommunique sent to newsorganizations in Bilbao, ETA-Mpledged to continue attacks onSpanish economic interests on theMediterranean coast.

3-Aug-85 Poptun GuatemalaOther Unknown0 2 GUATEMALA. Leftist guerrillasattacked a Texaco oil drilling sitenear Poptun, 130 miles northeast ofGuatemala City in El Peten province.A soldier and a rebel were killed inthe attack.

3-Aug-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Four men with riflesseized the Lebanese operationsmanager of ABC News in Beirut as hewas on his way to the airport to go tothe U.S. for a medical checkup.Shakib Hmeidan was releasedunharmed a few days later.

6-Aug-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Shortly after a bomb wentoff near the Saudi Arabian Embassy,a bomb went off near the MoroccanEmbassy in Beirut. Morocco iscurrently participating in theCasablanca summit.

6-Aug-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded nearthe Saudi Arabian Embassy in WestBeirut, causing some damage andinjuring one person. It was reportedthat the Saudi government hadinstructed its embassy to limit visasto Lebanese Moslems wishing tomake the Hajj to Saudi Arabia. TheSaudis are participating in thecurrent Casablanca summit.Anotherbomb exploded at the MoroccanEmbassy a short time later.

6-Aug-85 Lebanon LebaneseNationalResistanceFront

Explosives1 1 LEBANON. A suicide bomber riding amule detonated saddle baskets full ofexplosives in the south Lebanonborder town of Hasbayya, killinghimself and the animal and woundingat least one person. The LebaneseNational Resistance Force (which isconnected to the Syrian SocialNational Party) claimed the buildingwas the headquarters of an Israelimilitary governor it identified as Maj.Firoy.

7-Aug-85 NabatiyehLebanon Amal Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Gunmen kidnapped aCanadian relief worker in southernLebanon. Robert Burkholder wasseized in the Shiite Moslem markettown of Nabatiyeh by unidentifiedmen with guns who bundled him intoa car. He was freed later in the day.

7-Aug-85 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. Twenty nine membersof the American group, Witness forPeace, and 14 journalists who wereaccompanying them, were kidnappedby a group who claimed that theywere an independent anti-Communist group of Nicaraguans,and they stressed the fact that theywere not associated with ARDE, theU.S.-backed Contra group. For itspart, ARDE categorically denied anyinvolvement in the kidnapping, whichtook place on the San Juan River atLa Penca, near the Nicaraguan-CostaRican border. Some of the victims,however, claim that the kidnappershad constantly referred tothemselves as members of ARDE,and followers of Eden Pastora. Theyhad also mentioned that they hadacted independently, not underdirect ARDE orders. The group wasreleased 29 hours after being takenhostage, and continued their boatride for peace.

7-Aug-85 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two arsonists were caught bysurprise while they were attemptingto ignite two cans of gasoline at theU.S. Cultural Center in Hamburg.They sprayed tear gas on the janitorwho discovered them and fled.

8-Aug-85 Glyfadha Greece RevolutionaryOrganizationofSocialistMoslems

Explosives13 0 GREECE. An explosion took place inthe bar of the London Hotel inGlifadha. Thirteen people, including7 Britons, were injured by the blast.The Revolutionary Organization ofSocialist Moslems claimed credit,stating that they had chosen theLondon Hotel because they believedit to be a center of espionage againstthe Arab and Islamic region.

8-Aug-85 WeisbadenFederalRepublicofGermany


Unknown0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The body of an American enlistedman was found in the woods outsideWiesbaden. His identity papers werenot found on him and his identitycard was later received by a newsagency in Frankfurt. Authoritiessuspect that the man was killed inorder to obtain his identity card toenable them to access the U.S. AirForce Rhein-Main Base nearFrankfurt. A bomb at this base thesame day killed two people andwounded twenty others. Afterconsiderable delay, the RAF issued astatement admitting responsibilityfor the murder.

8-Aug-85 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives20 2 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Acar bomb exploded in a parking lot atthe U.S. Air Force's Rhein-Main AirBase near Frankfurt, killing twoAmericans and injuring more than 20other people. No warning was givenbefore an Audi sedan, loaded withexplosives, blew up at 7:15 a.m. TheRAF and Action Directe claimed jointresponsibility. An identity card of anAmerican enlisted man found shot todeath the same day was mailed to aFrankfurt news station. Authoritiesbelieve that he was killed by theterrorists and his identity card usedto access the base.

10-Aug-85

Hebron WestBank/Gaza


1 0 WEST BANK. An Israeli civilian wasstabbed while walking through themarketplace in Hebron.

10-Aug-85

Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Amember of the staff of the IranianEmbassy in Bonn was slightly injuredby the explosion of a letter bombpostmarked Paris.

12-Aug-85

Bangkok Thailand Unknown Explosives0 0 THAILAND. A bomb exploded outsidethe Israeli Embassy in Bangkok,blasting a large crater in the groundbut causing no injuries. No oneclaimed responsibility.

12-Aug-85



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two incendiary devices werediscovered aboard a U.S. militarytrain in Frankfurt by two cleaningwomen.

14-Aug-85

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 2 GUATEMALA. A makeshift grenadewas tossed into the garden of theMexican Embassy in Guatemala City,killing two Guatemalan employees.

15-Aug-85

SaintSebastian


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Three French-owned vehicleswere set on fire in Saint-Sebastien.There were no injuries but the carswere destroyed.

15-Aug-85

SaintSebastian


Fire orFirebomb


15-Aug-85

SaintSebastian


Fire orFirebomb


15-Aug-85



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two bombs exploded at a U.S. Armyinstallation damaging a radio towerused by the U.S. Armed ForcesNetwork. No one was injured in theblast. A group calling itself theFighting Unit for the Creation of anAnti-Imperialist Front in WesternEurope claimed responsibility for theblasts. Authorities believe that this isa front for the RAF.

16-Aug-85

Castellonde laPlana


Unknown0 1 SPAIN. M. Clement Perret, a Frenchnational, was assassinated inCastellon-de-la-Plana while eatinglunch with his brother in arestaurant. He was the secondFrench citizen suspected ofcollaborating in the clandestinestruggle against ETA to be killed inSpain.

17-Aug-85

NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. A group of Misura(Miskito, Sumu, and Rama) Indianskidnapped a female Germanbiologist. She was freed three weekslater.

20-Aug-85

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Unknown0 1 TURKEY. A former colonel in theIranian police, Behruz Shahverdi, wasfound murdered at his home inIstanbul. Shahverdi was one of theleaders of the Iranian nationalresistance movement directed fromParis by the shah's former primeminister, Shapur Bakhtiar.Authorities claim that Shahverdi wasinvolved in planning an attack onIran's spiritual leader, AyatollahRuhollah Khomeyni. Shahverdi hadearlier been suspected of being adouble agent, but he managed toclear himself of suspicion. He wasthen instructed to find out who wasbetraying the movement from withinand try to send the double agent toParis. He was assassinated shortlyafter all of this had occurred, and thekiller has not been identified.

20-Aug-85

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Swiss Red Cross worker,Stephane Jacquemt, was kidnapped.

20-Aug-85

Cairo Egypt Egypt'sRevolution

Firearms2 1 EGYPT. Gunmen assassinated anIsraeli Embassy diplomat andwounded his wife and anotherwoman in a hail of submachine-gunfire as the victims were driving towork at the embassy in Cairo. Agroup called Egypt's Revolutionclaimed responsibility for the act.

20-Aug-85

Netanya Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb-laden car wasdiscovered in the central bus stationin Netanya. The area was evacuatedand the device detonated by thebomb squad. The PLO claimedresponsibility.

22-Aug-85

Morocco PolisarioFront

Unknown0 0 MOROCCO. Polisario guerrillasdestroyed the small boat in whichtwo West German electricians weretravelling between Tangiers andBanjul, Gambia. The two were takeninto captivity and held untilSeptember 3, 1985.

24-Aug-85

Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Katyusha rockets were firedinto northern Galilee from southLebanon. The PLO claimedresponsibility.

24-Aug-85

Italy Unknown Explosives5 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded at theentrance to a building housingIsrael's El Al Airlines, injuring fivepeople. The police were working onthe assumption that the bomb hadbeen planted by anti-Semiticvandals. A bomb also went off at anearby Jewish social club that wasrecently defaced by anti-Semiticslogans. No one claimedresponsibility for the blasts.

26-Aug-85

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Mohammed Shihani, apro-Arafat PLO member, wasassassinated in Southern Lebanon.

27-Aug-85

Beirut Lebanon Amal Firearms0 0 LEBANON. An armed groupconsisting of 15 members of theAmal Movement raided the home ofan official from the LibyanBrotherhood Bureau in West Beirut.They scattered its contents, andseized some documents which provethat Libya is supporting thePalestinians with money andweapons for use against the AmalMovement. The gunmen alsosearched a number of homes in thearea while looking for a pro-ArafatPalestinian official known as AbuAyman.

27-Aug-85

Lebanon al-Fatah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A group of PLO guerrillaswho were sailing in a yacht tosouthern Lebanon in the hope ofcrossing illegally into Israel wascaptured by the Israeli navy. Theguerrillas were members of Al Fatahand had planned to carry out anattack in Israel's northern Galileeregion.

28-Aug-85

Istanbul Turkey Hizballah Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded near anoffice of the Israeli airline El Al inIstanbul, shattering its front windowbut causing no injuries or otherdamage. Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility.

29-Aug-85

JerusalemIsrael Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 ISRAEL. An Israeli civilian wasstabbed in the neck near theDamascus Gate in Jerusalem by aPalestinian attacker.

30-Aug-85

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Senior Palestinianguerrilla leader Mustafa KassemKalifah was assassinated at the Ein elHilwa refugee camp. It was thesecond killing in five days of aprominent PLO member in southernLebanon. Khalifah was loyal toYasser Arafat. No one claimedresponsibility for the assassination,which was seen as an outgrowth offactional feuding between Arafat'ssupporters and Syrian-backed PLOdissidents. A statement issued byArafat's mainstream Fatah groupsaid Khalifah was assassinated byone of the agents of Americans andZionists in...a plot aiming at creatingconflict among Palestinian factions.

30-Aug-85

Athens Greece BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A heavily armed memberof Black September was arrested oncharges of planning to assassinatethe Jordanian ambassador to Greece.He was arrested about 100 metersfrom the Jordanian Embassy,following an anonymous tip. He wascarrying an Austrian-made Steyerautomatic weapon, three magazinesof bullets, a grenade and a knife. Headmitted to being a member of BlackSeptember and said he had been inAthens for about 20 days.

1-Sep-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Steven James Donahue,an American who was reportedlydoing research for a book on drugsmuggling, was kidnapped in Beirut.Beirut press reports that Donahuewas a U.S. drug agent and wasseized by Christians. The embassysaid there was no apparent linkbetween the abduction of Donahueand the kidnapping of otherAmericans by Islamic extremists. Hewas released unharmed more than ayear later.

2-Sep-85 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives6 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in the Gilosuburb of Jerusalem. Six Israeliswere wounded. The Abu Musafaction of the PLO claimedresponsibility.

2-Sep-85 Lebanon PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The Israeli navy hasintercepted a second boat off theLebanese coast carrying Palestinianguerrillas planning an attack onIsrael. The guerrillas belong to a PLOfaction based in Amman, Jordan.They were apprehended a week afterthe capture of a similar rebel vessel.

2-Sep-85 Sidon Lebanon Unknown Firearms1 0 LEBANON. A prominent Palestinianguerrilla commander, Hussein Haybi,was attacked by gunmen at the Einel Hilwa refugee camp near Sidon.He was seriously wounded in theattack.

3-Sep-85 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Explosive specialistsdeactivated a potent bomb near theU.S. Embassy building in Bogota.

3-Sep-85 Athens Greece BlackSeptember

Explosives18 0 GREECE. Eighteen British touristswere injured when a man threw twohand grenades into the swimmingpool and poolside area of a Greekhotel. Police said they think theattack was linked to the arrest lastweek of a Palestinian carrying asuitcase full of weapons near theJordanian Embassy in Athens. Awoman telephoned a Greeknewspaper to claim the incident forBlack September.

3-Sep-85 Bogota Colombia Other Explosives2 0 COLOMBIA. Leftist guerrillas bombedthe office of ITT in Bogota and twopersons were injured.

3-Sep-85 Cali Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The Cali office of theColombian-American CulturalInstitute was bombed.

3-Sep-85 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two gunmen hurledexplosives at the Chileanambassador's official residence andthe embassy.

3-Sep-85 Bogota Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Two gunmen who hadjust attacked the Chileanambassador's official residence andembassy opened fire on theSalvadoran embassy in the sameBogota neighborhood.

3-Sep-85 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Police in Bogota defuseda powerful bomb at the IBM facilitieslocated in the northeast sector of thecity. The device included almost 20pounds of dynamite and was set toexplode at midnight.

3-Sep-85 France Anti-terroristLiberationGroup(GAL)

Unknown1 0 FRANCE. A Frenchman was woundedby a woman suspected of being amember of GAL in a Frenchbordertown.

4-Sep-85 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded outsidethe Algerian Embassy in Beirut,causing some damage but nocasualties. A group calling itself theIslamic Jihad of Shaykh Sadiq alMundhiri claimed responsibility forthe attack as well as for variousattacks against police in their owncountry. The group issued astatement calling the government agang of atheists which has turnedthe country into a Marxist materialistsociety. The statement also insistsNorth Africans working in Franceshould return home.

5-Sep-85 WestBank/Gaza


0 1 GAZA STRIP. An Israeli truck driverwas stabbed to death in a Gaza town.


Explosives0 1 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in aJerusalem outdoor market. The PLOclaimed responsibility.

6-Sep-85 NohfeldenFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three bombs exploded at a U.S. anti-aircraft defense base in Nohfelden,damaging radar equipment in thefourth attack on an American militaryinstallation in a month. No injurieswere reported. There were noimmediate claims of responsibility,but the RAF is suspected. Thebombers cut through perimeterfencing and planted the explosives,which blew up at about 6:00 a.m.

8-Sep-85 Stuttgart FederalRepublicofGermany


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three firebombs were plantedoutside a U.S. military hospital, butguards defused the devices beforethey could explode. Three fullgasoline cans equipped with timingdevices had been hidden undervehicles in a fenced-in parking lot ofthe Bad Cannstatt Hospital inStuttgart.

9-Sep-85 Madrid Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)


17 1 A remote-detonated car bombexploded near a van carryingparamilitary civil guards in Madrid.The blast injured sixteen of theguards and two civilians who werepassing by, including Eugene Brown,an American businessman. The vanwas transporting the guards tostations at embassies in the area.The separatist organization BasqueFatherland and Freedom (ETA)claimed responsibility for the attack.Witnesses saw two men and awoman leave the scene of thebombing in a taxi after forcing thedriver to take them. The taxi driverwas later found in the trunk of thevehicle. Some news reports statedthat the individuals exchanged firewith the guards as they drove away.Eugene Brown of New Jersey workedfor Johnson and Johnson. He wasjogging when the explosion occurred.He suffered injuries to his chest andneck and underwent two rounds ofsurgery at a nearby hospital. Hedied two days after the attack on 11September. He was the firstAmerican to be killed in an attack byETA and the 29th victim this year.This was the first time that ETAdetonated a car bomb in Madrid,however was the fourth car bombattack on security forces this yearand the fourth time an attack hasbeen carried out in the capital in thelast eight months.

9-Sep-85 JerusalemIsrael Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. A firebomb was tossed at abus in Jerusalem.

9-Sep-85 Gilo Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb was safely defusedin Gilo, where a bomb had explodedthe previous week. The PLO claimedresponsibility.

10-Sep-85 RamallahWestBank/Gaza


0 0 WEST BANK. A firebomb was tossedat an Israeli car parked near ahospital in Ramallah.

11-Sep-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The Italian Embassyreported that an Italian businessman,Alberto Molinari, was abducted inBeirut by unknown gunmen.

11-Sep-85 Lebanon Amal Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Amal militiamen fired atthe car of Portuguese AmbassadorLisi Ferreira near the Qasqas crossingpoint. Both the ambassador and hiswife were in the car which was forcedto stop. The gunmen then tried tokidnap the ambassador, but werefrustrated in their attempt bymembers of the 6th Brigade.

12-Sep-85 Lebanon SyrianSocialNationalistParty

Explosives0 21 LEBANON. An 18-year-old femalerammed a car loaded with 660pounds of TNT into an Israeli-backedmilitia's checkpoint in southernLebanon. The attack was attributedto the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.18 South Lebanon Army militiamenand two Israeli intelligence officerswere killed along with the driver.

12-Sep-85 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A group calling itself theWest Beirut Martyrs Organizationclaimed that it was responsible forthe explosive found in front of theCapital Trust Bank in Beirut. Thegroup claimed the Algerian newsagency, which maintains offices inthat building, was the intendedtarget.

12-Sep-85 Athens Greece KhristosKasimis

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded at theAthens branch of Citibank, causingminor damage. The Khristos Kasimisorganization claimed responsibility.Three people were arrested.

12-Sep-85 Athens Greece KhristosKasimis

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb planted in the carof an American Master Sergeantexploded in Athens, demolishing thevehicle. The Sergeant serves atEllinikon Base. The Khristos Kasimisorganization claimed responsibility.

15-Sep-85 CopenhagenDenmark Unknown Explosives0 0 DENMARK. Coinciding with theJewish New Year, a bomb exploded ata Jewish-owned snack shop inCopenhagen. No one claimedresponsibility.

15-Sep-85 CopenhagenDenmark Unknown Explosives12 0 DENMARK. Coinciding with theJewish New Year, a bomb exploded atan Israeli travel agency inCopenhagen. No one claimedresponsibility for the blast. Twelvepeople were injured.

15-Sep-85 CopenhagenDenmark Unknown Explosives0 0 DENMARK. Bombs were found nearthe Israeli Embassy and near theresidence of the Israeli ambassador.

15-Sep-85 CopenhagenDenmark Unknown Explosives0 0 DENMARK. Bombs were found nearthe Israeli Embassy and near theresidence of the Israeli ambassador.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Police defused a bomboutside Ecuador's embassy minutesbefore the Ecuadoran ForeignMinister was due to arrive. The M-19is believed to be responsible foracting in retaliation for the death oftwo of its members in Ecuador earlierthis month. The two guerrillas wereshot to death during their transfer toa penitentiary while awaitingsentencing for kidnapping and killinga leading businessman and banker.The M-19 has played a major role inthe revitalization of the Ecuadorianguerrilla group, Alfaro Lives.

16-Sep-85 Rome Italy RevolutionaryOrganizationofSocialistMoslems

Explosives39 0 ITALY. The RevolutionaryOrganization of Socialist Moslemsclaimed responsibility for a grenadeattack against the Cafe de Paris onthe fashionable Via Veneto. Thegroup claimed the cafe was a U.S.-British spying center. The cafe wascrowded with tourists and 39 peoplewere injured, including 8-11Americans.In August 1986 it wasdetermined that 28-year oldPalestinian Ahmad 'Ali Hassan AbuSaraya should stand trial for thegrenade attack. Saraya is a memberof the Palestinian Martyrsorganization led by Abu Nidal.

17-Sep-85 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A powerful bombexploded at the Torre de los Ingleses(British Tower) in Buenos Aires. Theblast caused considerable damagebut claimed no victims. Several anti-British slogans were spray paintedalong the walls, but no group claimedresponsibility.

17-Sep-85 Lebanon Unknown Explosives30 0 LEBANON. A suicide bomber crashedan explosives-laden car into a baseof the Israeli-backed South LebanonArmy militia, killing or wounding 30militiamen. An Israeli military sourceacknowledged a car bombingattempt but said there were noinjuries. The attack took place fivemiles northwest of the border.

18-Sep-85 Athens Greece BlackSeptember

Firearms0 1 GREECE. The Jordanian publisher ofa radical Arabic weekly was shot andkilled by an unidentified gunman incentral Athens. He was the tenthArab murdered in the Greek capitalsince 1978 in what is believed to beArab infighting. The victim was saidto be close to Yassir Arafat. BlackSeptember claimed responsibility forthe attack.

19-Sep-85 JerusalemIsrael Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. A gasoline bomb was thrownat a bus stop on Mt. Zion. It was thesecond attack at the same spotwithin a week.

20-Sep-85 Lebanon Other Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Syria is said to be behindthe assassination of Fatah officialKamil Husayn as he was leaving hishouse in the Ayn al-Hulwah camp insouthern Lebanon.

21-Sep-85 Morocco PolisarioFront

Firearms0 0 MOROCCO. A Spanish navy boat, onits way to rescue a Spanish fishingboat that had just been attacked,was also attacked by the PolisarioFront off the coast of Morocco.

21-Sep-85 Tripoli Libya Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LIBYA. A car belonging to theTunisian Consulate General in Tripoliwas set on fire while it was parked infront of the Consulate entrance. Thepersons responsible also planted twoposters on which slogans hostile toTunisia were written in front of theConsulate entrance. The Tunisiangovernment blamed Libyanauthorities.


Firearms2 1 MOROCCO. The Polisario Frontclaimed responsibility for machine-gunning a Spanish fishing boat offthe Moroccan coast.

22-Sep-85 Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Israeli police safely defuseda car bomb in the middle of theJewish orthodox neighborhood of MeaSharim. The explosives were foundafter a local shopkeeper called policeand told them of a suspicious-looking white Volkswagen parkednear his establishment. Police calledon the population to be vigilantduring the current period of Jewishreligious holidays. The abortiveattack was claimed by the PLO'sForce 17.

23-Sep-85 Acre Israel Other Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in themain street of Acre. One person waswounded.

24-Sep-85 Bayonne France Unknown Unknown1 4 FRANCE. Four Spanish Basquerefugees were killed and a fifth onewounded at a bar in the center ofBayonne.

24-Sep-85 Limburg FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Apre-dawn explosion disabled a NATOpipeline outside Limburg. No groupclaimed credit.

25-Sep-85 Tunis Tunisia Other Explosives1 0 TUNISIA. A letter bomb, addressedto the Tunisian information media,exploded at a postal center in Tunis,injuring a post office employee. ALibyan national, carrying a diplomaticpassport, had entered Tunisia withseveral packages and left them atthe Libyan General Commission inTunis. The packages were actuallygreeting cards from Italy whose twosides are linked by a thin metalstring. They have two smallbatteries of the cadmium cell type(the type used in watches), inaddition to explosive materials. Theparcels were delivered to a numberof postal centers in the capital.

25-Sep-85 Vienna Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A Hungarian bank inVienna was bombed and severalpeople were injured by the blast.There is speculation that the bankwas targeted because of itscontinued selling of South AfricanKrugerrands. Another theory is thatthe bank was bombed by Arabs whomistook the Hungarian bank for theAmerican Express office which isseveral meters away.

25-Sep-85 Cyprus al-Fatah Unknown0 3 CYPRUS. Three members of the PLOelite Force-17, demanding therelease of 20 Palestinian prisonersheld in Israel, seized an Israeli yachton the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippurand held the three Israelis on boardhostage. They accused the hostagesof being Israeli spies, and they killedthem before surrendering to policeand ending the ten hour ordeal.Israel retaliated with an air attack onTunisia that killed over 70 people.

25-Sep-85 JerusalemIsrael DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in theEgged bus station near the Hadassahhospital on Mt. Scopus. One personwas slightly injured by glass shards.The DFLP claimed responsibility.

25-Sep-85 Bayonne France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Unknown2 2 FRANCE. In Bayonne, two peoplewere killed and two others woundedin an attack on a bar. SpanishBasques are suspected.

25-Sep-85 Italy RevolutionaryOrganizationofSocialistMoslems

Explosives14 0 ITALY. A 16-year old Palestinianyouth hurled a bag packed withexplosives into a British Airwaysoffice, wounding 14 people. Theyouth, who was caught while tryingto escape, claimed to belong to theRevolutionary Organization ofSocialist Moslems, a group whoearlier claimed responsibility for agrenade attack against the Cafe deParis on Via Veneto on September16.

26-Sep-85 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives7 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded at a busstop near Gilo, Jerusalem. SevenIsraelis were wounded.


Firearms0 1 COLOMBIA. A policeman on guard atthe Egyptian Embassy in Bogota waskilled with his own service revolverby gunmen claiming to be membersof M-19.

26-Sep-85 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Two British women,Amanda McGraw (a teacher at theAmerican University of Beirut) andHazel Moss (former manager of aBeirut restaurant) were kidnapped byHizballah. They were released 13days later.

27-Sep-85 Egypt Hizballah Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A Cypriot vessel hit a mine inthe Red Sea and the Islamic Jihadclaimed responsibility. Thestatement from the Jihad, similar tothe one issued in mid-1984, camethree days after the explosion. In thetypewritten note, Jihad detailed theclaims of the Islamic and Arab nationin the face of the Great Satan (USA),and announced they had successfullycompleted the second stage of themining.


UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb was foundaboard a Haiti Air flight at KennedyInternational Airport in New York. Anindividual identified as a Britishsubject was observed leaving theaircraft shortly before departure by asecurity guard. After questioning bysecurity agents, a propane tank,battery pack and wires were foundinside his suitcase. A secondindividual was arrested after it wasdetermined that he had given theBriton the suitcase which containedthe bomb. The accomplice wasidentified as Henry Rosa, whocharacterizes himself as a securityexpert. The motive for this incidentis still unclear.

27-Sep-85 Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 1 PAKISTAN. A prominent Iranian exilewas killed by submachine gun fire ashe was leaving his residence in broaddaylight. Mir Mowla Dad had beenone of the main opponents of thepresent Iranian government inTehran. Three unidentified peoplemanaged to escape.

28-Sep-85 PerpignanFrance Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. An unidentified personthrew a burning missile inside aGreenpeace bus which was parkedwhile members of the ecologistmovement were distributingpamphlets in Perpignan. The buswas only slightly damaged.

29-Sep-85 Haifa Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Two bombs exploded almostsimultaneously in downtown Haifa.Five people were injured. The PLOclaimed responsibility.

29-Sep-85 Haifa Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives5 0 ISRAEL. Two bombs exploded almostsimultaneously in downtown Haifa.Five people were injured. The PLOclaimed responsibility.

30-Sep-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. An attack was madeagainst a Norwegian Embassyvehicle in Beirut. The two passengerswere released but their car wasretained by the assailants.

30-Sep-85 Beirut Lebanon IslamicLiberationOrganization

Firearms0 1 LEBANON. Three Soviet diplomatsand a doctor from the SovietEmbassy in Beirut were kidnapped atgunpoint in predominantly MoslemWest Beirut in a move calculated tobring pressure against the SovietUnion to end factional fighting in thenorthern port of Tripoli. Gunmendragged the four Soviets from theirofficial cars and fired bullets at theirfeet. A group called the IslamicLiberation Organization claimed thatall four would be executed very soonunless Moscow were to bringpressure on its ally Syria to halt theannihilation of Moslems in Tripoli withSoviet tanks and artillery guns. Thekidnappings were the first involvingSoviet Bloc diplomats in Beirut.Thirty-five other foreigners havebeen seized in a series ofkidnappings that began in early 1984and fourteen of them (six Americans,three Britons, four French and anItalian), are still missing. Authoritiesidentified the kidnapped Soviets asValery Kornev, Oleg Spirin, ArkadyKatakov and Nikolai Versky. One ofthe Soviets was killed October 2. Theother three were released on October30. A Soviet intelligence unit arrivedin Lebanon during the last week ofOctober to review the case of themissing Soviet diplomats and todetermine the feasibility of mountinga military operation to free them ifthey were located. The IslamicLiberation Organization made astatement commenting that theSoviets had been released as agoodwill gesture. The IslamicLiberation Organization is dominatedby Sunni Moslems who have beenlosing territory and influence toSoviet and Syrian-backed militias.The group indicated it still views theMarxists as opponents but considersthe U.S. and Israel the primaryenemies.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. Two gasoline bombs werethrown at a restaurant in Jerusalem.The PLO claimed responsibility forthe attack.

30-Sep-85 AmsterdamNetherlandsAbu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. The FatahRevolutionary Council claimedresponsibility for an explosion at theoffice of the Israeli Airlines El Al inAmsterdam. Only slight damage wasreported.

1-Oct-85 France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two bombs placed insidecars belonging to Chilean diplomatsexploded at the doors of the Chileandiplomatic mission.

1-Oct-85 France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two bombs placed insidecars belonging to Chilean diplomatsexploded at the doors of the Chileandiplomatic mission.

1-Oct-85 BarcelonaSpain al-Fatah Unknown0 2 SPAIN. Two Israeli sailors weremurdered and their badlydecomposed bodies were found in aBarcelona apartment after ananonymous telephone call. Spanishanti-terrorist police believe the twowere undercover intelligence agents.The killings were claimed by Force17, an elite PLO unit. The Spanishpolice have identified two Palestinianactivists as suspects in connectionwith the murder of the two sailors.

2-Oct-85 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. The director of theBulgarian-Lebanese friendshipsociety was assassinated in WestBeirut. He was also a member of theLebanese Communist Party.

2-Oct-85 Lebanon Other Unknown0 1 LEBANON. 12 Lebanese extremistswere abducted by a KGB unit inretaliation for the kidnapping of thefour Soviet hostages taken in Beiruta few days earlier. One of theLebanese extremists was killed, andthe KGB reportedly sent the bodyback to the group's leader with amessage saying, Release our threehostages or we will shoot yours oneby one.

2-Oct-85 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A powerful bombexploded in front of a Jewishkindergarten, seriously damagingbuildings, but causing no casualties.The Argentine Interior Ministerordered all state and private schoolsbe granted police protection.

6-Oct-85 Athens Greece Other Firearms1 0 GREECE. Unidentified gunmen in anAthens suburb shot and wounded aLibyan businessman believed to bean opponent of Libyan leaderMoammar Kadafi. Youssef Akeila wasshot in the chest and leg whilestanding outside his home. He wasthe sixth Libyan to be attacked inAthens since 1980.

6-Oct-85 Egypt Amal Firearms0 8 EGYPT. A shooting rampage by anEgyptian policeman at a Sinai beachkilled seven Israeli vacationers. Theassailant also killed his Egyptiancommander. Although labelled asberserk in some accounts, the manwas apparently a Khomeini-Islamicfundamentalist. During his trial,Sulayman Khatir became a folk hero.Prior to and during his trial in a Sinaimilitary court, demonstrationserupted in Cairo supporting him. OnDecember 27 the court sentencedhim to life imprisonment doing hardlabor. Further demonstrationsensued. On January 7, Khatir wasfound hanged in his cell, an apparentsuicide. He was thereupon hailed asa martyr by university students andother anti-Israeli demonstrators whoaccused the authorities of murderinghim.

6-Oct-85 Israel al-Fatah Firearms0 2 ISRAEL. The bodies of an Israelicouple, Mordechai Suissa and EdnaHarari, were found on a hillside neara communal settlement (Kibbutz) sixmiles southwest of Jerusalem. Theyhad been shot first from a distanceand then at point-blank range. Force17 unit of the PLO claimedresponsibility.

6-Oct-85 Israel Unknown Unknown0 1 ISRAEL. Three miles from where thebodies of a young Israeli couple werefound, authorities found the body ofa third Israeli, a farmer named HaimFalah. Although the killing appearedto be a terrorist act, the case was notimmediately linked with the caseinvolving the couple who were killedby Force 17.

7-Oct-85 Egypt PalestineLiberationFront(PLF)

Fire orFirebomb

0 1 EGYPT. The Italian cruise liner,Achille Lauro, with 511 passengerson board, was seized off the Egyptiancoast by four hijackers who identifiedthemselves as members of thePalestine Liberation Front (PLF). Fortwo days the ship was forced to sailan erratic course around theMediterranean Sea. It was firstdiverted to Tartus, where theterrorists had hoped to seek asylumfrom the Syrian government. Whenthe Syrian government denied thempermission to land, the ship veeredon toward Cyprus before returning toEgyptian waters on Wednesday. Theterrorists had demanded the releaseof 50 Palestinian prisoners held inIsrael, as well as freedom for otherPalestinians imprisoned elsewhere.American passengers were separatedfrom the other passengers andthreatened with flammable liquidsduring the ordeal. One Americanpassenger, Leon Klinghoffer, aninvalid in a wheelchair, was shot inthe head and thrown overboard byhis captors. The four Palestiniansfinally surrendered to Egyptianauthorities and were promised safepassage out of Egypt.U.S. navy jetsintercepted the Egyptian airlinerwhich was carrying the four knownPalestinian hijackers as well as twoother Palestinians. The plane wasforced to land in Italy where the fourwere held by Italian authorities andcharged with murder and kidnapping.Italy released the other twoPalestinians, under U.S. protest,although it is believed that one ofthem, Mohammed Abbas Zaida (akaAbu al-'Abbas), was actually themastermind behind the hijacking.InJuly 1986 an Italian court found Abual-'Abbas guilty and sentenced him inabsentia to life in prison. Two otherswere also jailed for life for their partin organizing the hijacking. Othermembers of the hijack team weresentenced to terms ranging from afew months to 30 years.Abdul RahimKhaled, who had been sentenced inabsentia to life imprisonment by aGenoa court in 1987, was arrestedMarch 5, 1991. In May 28, 1991,Greece approved the extradition ofKhaled to italy where he is wanted inconnection with the 1985 hijacking ofachille lauro cruise ship. 56-year-oldkhaled has been sentenced inabsente to life imprisonment by aGenoa court in 1987 for organizingthe hijacking of achille lauro outsidethe port of alexandria.

7-Oct-85 Egypt PalestineLiberationFront(PLF)

Fire orFirebomb

0 1 EGYPT. The Italian cruise liner,Achille Lauro, with 511 passengerson board, was seized off the Egyptiancoast by four hijackers who identifiedthemselves as members of thePalestine Liberation Front (PLF). Fortwo days the ship was forced to sailan erratic course around theMediterranean Sea. It was firstdiverted to Tartus, where theterrorists had hoped to seek asylumfrom the Syrian government. Whenthe Syrian government denied thempermission to land, the ship veeredon toward Cyprus before returning toEgyptian waters on Wednesday. Theterrorists had demanded the releaseof 50 Palestinian prisoners held inIsrael, as well as freedom for otherPalestinians imprisoned elsewhere.American passengers were separatedfrom the other passengers andthreatened with flammable liquidsduring the ordeal. One Americanpassenger, Leon Klinghoffer, aninvalid in a wheelchair, was shot inthe head and thrown overboard byhis captors. The four Palestiniansfinally surrendered to Egyptianauthorities and were promised safepassage out of Egypt.U.S. navy jetsintercepted the Egyptian airlinerwhich was carrying the four knownPalestinian hijackers as well as twoother Palestinians. The plane wasforced to land in Italy where the fourwere held by Italian authorities andcharged with murder and kidnapping.Italy released the other twoPalestinians, under U.S. protest,although it is believed that one ofthem, Mohammed Abbas Zaida (akaAbu al-'Abbas), was actually themastermind behind the hijacking.InJuly 1986 an Italian court found Abual-'Abbas guilty and sentenced him inabsentia to life in prison. Two otherswere also jailed for life for their partin organizing the hijacking. Othermembers of the hijack team weresentenced to terms ranging from afew months to 30 years.Abdul RahimKhaled, who had been sentenced inabsentia to life imprisonment by aGenoa court in 1987, was arrestedMarch 5, 1991. In May 28, 1991,Greece approved the extradition ofKhaled to italy where he is wanted inconnection with the 1985 hijacking ofachille lauro cruise ship. 56-year-oldkhaled has been sentenced inabsente to life imprisonment by aGenoa court in 1987 for organizingthe hijacking of achille lauro outsidethe port of alexandria.

7-Oct-85 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in theLibyan People's Bureau in Athens,causing some damage. A groupcalling itself the Libyan Organizationof 7 April claimed responsibility.

7-Oct-85 JerusalemIsrael Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives11 0 ISRAEL. Abu Nidal claimedresponsibility for an explosion whichinjured 11 people in a residentialbuilding in the Qatamon Tet quarterin the southwestern part ofJerusalem.

7-Oct-85 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in theLibyan Airlines office in Athens.There was considerable damage butno injuries. A group calling itself theLibyan Organization of 7 Aprilclaimed responsibility.

7-Oct-85 Glyfadha Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded underthe car of an American serviceman inGlyfada, destroying his vehicle.

8-Oct-85 Tunisia Other Firearms2 5 TUNISIA. Five people were killed andtwo others wounded when a securityguard at a synagogue on the islandof Jerba opened fire on them. Theassailant was wounded whencolleagues overpowered him. Theattack came one week after Israelijets destroyed the PLO headquartersin Tunis and three days after anEgyptian policeman shot sevenIsraeli tourists in Sinai in a similarincident. Tunisia has a 5,000 strongJewish community, many of themliving on the tourist island of Jerba.Libya's Radio Tripoli, which can beheard in Tunisia, recently had beenmaking broadcasts inciting Tunisiansto turn against Jews in their country.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillaswere responsible for a car bombwhich went off in front of the Limaoffices of IBM. Heavy damage wassustained.

12-Oct-85 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A police dog detected a bombin the false bottom of a suitcasecarried by a man traveling on aMoroccan passport. The bomb,weighing slightly more than sevenpounds, was found in the luggage ofBen Kramy upon his arrival at Rome'sLeonardo da Vinci Airport fromBaghdad, Iraq. The bomb wasdescribed as a mixture of lead andchemicals, roughly five times morepowerful than TNT.

14-Oct-85 Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives2 0 CHILE. A powerful bomb exploded inthe downtown Italian Plaza ofSantiago, wounding a policeman anda woman. The bomb explodedduring rush hour. The ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front claimedcredit.

14-Oct-85 Santiago Chile Unknown Firearms0 0 CHILE. Unidentified persons openedfire on the Catholic parish of theworkers' district of La Legua in thesouthern part of Santiago. Theparish is headed by Belgian priestGuido Peters who for the past fewmonths has received death threatsfrom a clandestine nationalistcombat force which warned him toleave Chile.

15-Oct-85 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A rudimentary bombexploded outside the TunisianEmbassy, causing minimal damage.The bomb was evidently timed tocoincide with the arrival later in theday of the Tunisian Prime Minister,Muhammad Mzali, on a two-dayofficial visit to Italy. The meetingwas intended to discuss implicationsof the deteriorating relationsbetween Washington and both Italyand the Arab world since the U.S.forced down an Egyptian airlinercarrying the alleged hijackers of theAchille Lauro cruise liner.

17-Oct-85 Lebanon LebaneseNationalResistanceFront

Explosives0 6 LEBANON. Six people were killedwhen an American-owned Christianradio station became the target of aterrorist raid. Guards apparentlysurprised four terrorists who weresetting charges to blow up theinstallation. A gun battle ensued andthe explosives detonated, killing theterrorists, a guard and a technicianworking inside the station. Sourcesestimated that the four attackerscarried a total of more than 200pounds of high explosives. Thestation, known as the Voice of Hope,is owned by High Adventures, aCalifornia-based Christian missionaryorganization. Referring to the puppetVoice of Hope, the NationalResistance Front said in a statementfrom Beirut that the four terroristswere members of the LebaneseCommunist Party.

24-Oct-85 Afula Israel Other Explosives5 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in thecentral market of Afula, in northernIsrael, injuring five persons. Policerounded up 80 Arab suspects, mostof them Palestinians from theoccupied West Bank.

24-Oct-85 ConcepcionChile Unknown Explosives1 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded outside theNorth American-Chilean CulturalInstitute in Concepcion, injuring apasser-by with flying glass.

24-Oct-85 ConcepcionChile Unknown Explosives1 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at theMorgan Bank in Concepcion. Oneperson was injured.

25-Oct-85 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 2 MOZAMBIQUE. Two Jesuitmissionaries were kidnapped inMozambique by guerrillas of theNational Resistance Movement(MNR). The pair, both Portuguesecitizens, were found dead in earlyNovember.

27-Oct-85 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives2 0 CHILE. At least two people wereinjured when a bomb tore throughthe International Telephone andTelegraph (ITT) office in Santiago.

28-Oct-85 Athens Greece Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Two cars belonging toAmerican servicemen stationed atEllinikon Air Base outside of Athenswere set on fire. A communiqueclaimed the incident in the name ofWild Geese of the Cities.

28-Oct-85 Athens Greece Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Two cars belonging toAmerican servicemen stationed atEllinikon Air Base outside of Athenswere set on fire. A communiqueclaimed the incident in the name ofWild Geese of the Cities.

30-Oct-85 Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two employees of Japan'sembassy in Beirut were kidnapped bymilitiamen but released a week laterin an exchange of prisoners.

3-Nov-85 Brussels Belgium CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. The ManufacturersHanover Trust bank in Brussels wasbombed, with no warning issued.The bombing was attributed to theCommunist Combatant Cells.

3-Nov-85 StockholmSweden Other Firearms2 1 SWEDEN. One man was killed andtwo others injured in a shootingincident at a political meeting ofKurdish exiles in Stockholm. Thedead man, a member of a small left-wing party known as the KurdishWorkers' Vanguard, was shot in thehead at close range by a manwitnesses said belonged to a rivalgroup.

4-Nov-85 Lebanon SyrianSocialNationalistParty

Explosives0 2 LEBANON. A suicide bomber drove acar packed with explosives into anIsraeli-backed South Lebanese Armymilitia post in southern Lebanon,killing at least three people. TheSyrian National Social Party claimedresponsibility and identified thebomber as a 24-year-old Syrian wholeft a will saying that Israel is like acancer that should be uprooted.

5-Nov-85 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Police dismantled a bombdiscovered in the building housingTWA in Athens. No group claimedresponsibility.

5-Nov-85 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A car bomb went off in frontof the Lima branch of the U.S.Citibank in San Isidro. The explosiondid not cause any casualties butdestroyed the metal door of the bankand damaged some neighboringbuildings. The Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement (MRTA)claimed credit for the attack throughslogans painted on the walls of thebank.

6-Nov-85 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A medium-poweredbomb exploded in the offices of theU.S. owned Xerox company inBuenos Aires. There was somematerial damage but no casualties.

8-Nov-85 Nicosia Cyprus al-Fatah Explosives0 1 CYPRUS. A booby-trapped carexploded in Nicosia, killing themanager of Iraqi Airlines. The victimdied when he attempted to start hiscar outside his suburban home todrive to work. The pro-Syrian group,Eagles of the Revolution, claimedresponsibility.

8-Nov-85 Cyprus Al-Sa'iqa Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. Moments before themanager of Iraqi Airlines was killedby a car-bomb while on his way towork, the Nicosia office of IraqiAirlines was bombed by the Eagles ofthe Revolution( a unit of al Sa'iqa).The group said the two bombingswere to eliminate undercover Iraqiintelligence centers and promisedthat more operations against Iraqitargets were to come.

9-Nov-85 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Gunmen attacked the U.S.Embassy with dynamite andsubmachine guns. The Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement claimedresponsibility for the attack whichcaused minor damage but nocasualties. The group described theassault as a protest against U.S.imperialism.

9-Nov-85 FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Police found a fire extinguisherpacked with explosives on a NATOfuel pipeline and searched for asecond bomb believed to be plantednear another NATO pipeline. In aletter to a German news agency, agroup calling itself the ProletarianInitiative and Offensive for WesternEurope as War Zone claimedresponsibility for planting the bomband said another one was planted onanother NATO pipeline on the RhinePalatinate. The group is apparentlyan offshoot of the RAF.

11-Nov-85

JerusalemIsrael PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand


1 0 ISRAEL. The Palestinian RevolutionForces General Command claimedresponsibility for a stabbing attackon an Israeli soldier in Jerusalem.

11-Nov-85

Egypt Other Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Egyptian authorities arrestedfour Libyans who were thwarted intheir attempt to assassinate a groupof Libyan exiles, including a formerLibyan Prime Minister who was theintended target of a foiled Libyanplot in Egypt a year ago. The hitsquad was made up of Libyanstrained by Qadhafi to carry outassassinations. They had been undersurveillance by Egyptian authoritiessince they entered the countryNovember 2. The four werevideotaped the day before the attacklooking around at the house wherethe assault was to be carried out.The next day twelve or so Libyanguests arrived at the house for lunch.When the Libyan hit squad startedmoving their car in towards the farm,the police, who were in anambulance, blocked their way andarrested them at the door to thefarm. A shootout with police ensuedand a hand grenade was taken fromthe pocket of one of the Libyans.

13-Nov-85


Firearms0 1 PERU. Tupac Amaru members shotand killed a guard who was on dutyat the Colombian Embassy. Aftertaking the guard's weapon, theassailants fled.A few minutes later,they attacked the Colombian nationalairline, AVIANCA offices.

13-Nov-85

Lebanon DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. The Democratic Front forthe Liberation of Palestine claimedthat a commando group belonging toit attacked an Israeli passenger busin southern Lebanon withmachineguns and that a number ofpassengers were either killed orwounded.

13-Nov-85


Unknown0 0 PERU. Within minutes of the attackat the Colombian Embassy in Lima,Tupac Amaru guerrillas attacked theoffices of the Colombian nationalairlines, AVIANCA.

19-Nov-85

Athens Greece Other Firearms0 1 GREECE. Two unidentified personsshot and killed an Egyptian nationalemployed by an import-export firm inAthens. The victim was gunneddown on the street while walkingwith his wife and four children. Arabsare suspected.

20-Nov-85

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two Swiss Red Crossworkers were kidnapped in southernLebanon.

20-Nov-85

Amman Jordan Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 2 JORDAN. Gunmen affiliated with theAbu Nidal terrorist groupassassinated two Palestinians in anAmman suburb, claiming they wereagents of Yasser Arafat. Authoritieshave arrested three persons inconnection with the killings. The trioclaims they entered Jordan fromKuwait in mid-November and studiedthe habits of the victims beforemounting the attack.

21-Nov-85

Brussels Belgium CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded at a U.S.electronics firm in Brussels shortlyafter U.S. President Ronald Reaganarrived from the superpower summitin Geneva. Tracts emblazoned with ared star, sign of the CombattantCommunist Cells, were scatteredaround the Motorola Company'sbuilding at the time of the explosionin order to warn occupants in thebuilding of the blast.

23-Nov-85

Athens Greece Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms26 60 GREECE. An Egyptian jetlinercarrying more than 100 people on aflight from Athens to Cairo washijacked by terrorists who originallyidentified themselves as members ofEgypt Revolution. Ten minutes outof Athens, the hijackers beganfrisking the passengers andcollecting passports. During thepassport check, one of the terroristscame across an Egyptian securityguard who pulled out a gun andkilled the terrorist. A gunfightbetween the other terrorists and thesecurity guard ensued, and the guardwas killed. The gunfightdepressurized the plane, which wasforced to land in Malta. The airportlanding lights had been turned off.Tension built steadily once the planewas on the ground, and the terroristsbegan systematically shootingpassengers. An Israeli girl, selectedby her passport, was the first to betaken to the plane's platform andkilled. Five minutes later, anotherIsraeli girl was shot; she remainsbrain dead. Three Americans wereselected after that. One of them waskilled and two of them survived,although the hijackers believed themto be dead. With the permission ofthe Maltese government, an Egyptiananti-terrorist unit stormed the planein a lightning assault. The terroriststhrew three phosphorus grenades inthe front and rear of the plane, whichstarted large fires and spreadburning shrapnel. In all, sixty peoplewere killed, including four of thehijackers. One of the hijackerssurvived the attack, although heremains in critical condition. Theaction was later claimed by thePalestinian guerrilla group headed byAbu Nidal. Egypt is accusing theLibyan government of directinvolvement in the attack. One ofthe hijackers, Omar Mohammed AliRezaq, a Palestinian from Lebanon,was convicted and sentenced to 25years in prison in Malta. He wasreleased after seven years due topressure from Libya and went toGhana, where he was held incustody. With the cooperation ofGhana and Nigeria, the FBI arrestedhim in Nigeria in July 1993.

24-Nov-85


Other Explosives37 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Acar bomb exploded in a crowdedshopping center in Frankfurt whichcaters to U.S. military personnel.Thirty seven people were injured.West German police said an Arabguerrilla organization may have beenresponsible. In December 1986,West German authorities namedIranian embassy employee NaserDaryaei as a firm suspect in theattack.

25-Nov-85

Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Police defused a bomb at theSouth African embassy in Santiago.

29-Nov-85


Unknown Firearms0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. Gerard Hoareau,exiled opposition leader from theAfrican island nation of theSeychelles, was shot and killed by anunidentified gunman on the doorstepof his London home. Mr. Hoareau'ssupporters claim that the SeychellesGovernment was responsible for theshooting. They said he had receivedseveral death threats and hadrecently survived an attempt on hislife.

2-Dec-85 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off in front ofthe South African Embassy'sCommercial and InformationDepartment office. Apparently thebomb had been left on top of theCommercial Affairs secretary's car.The car was blown apart.

2-Dec-85 LuxembourgOther Explosives0 0 LUXEMBOURG. A bomb was thrownfrom a passing car at the heavilyguarded summit meeting of theEuropean Economic Community.Luxembourg has experienced severalbomb blasts this year, and severalhave been claimed by the FightingEcologist Movement. This actionreflects the growing hostility ofradical environmentalists determinedto curb commercial activity whichthey judge harmful.

4-Dec-85 Antwerp Belgium CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives2 0 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded at theBank of America office in Antwerp,extensively damaging the buildingand slightly injuring two people. TheCommunist Combattant Cellsclaimed responsibility for the blast.The building had been evacuatedbefore the blast after the groupcalled in a warning.

6-Dec-85 Larnaca Cyprus Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CYPRUS. An arson fire broke out inthe car of a senior British official atthe Dhekelia base in Larnaca.

6-Dec-85 Belgium CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. The CommunistCombattant Cells bombed the NATOfuel pipeline in central Belgium.

6-Dec-85 VersaillesFrance CommunistCombattantCells(CCC)(Belgium)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The CommunistCombattant Cells bombed the officesof the allied agency which operatesthe NATO pipeline in Versailles.Authorities found a letter signed bythe Internationalist CommunistGroup in France.

7-Dec-85 Beirut Lebanon Amal Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Two Finnish soldiers wereheld hostage for eight hours in a bidto secure the release of two menarrested during an attempted bankrobbery hours earlier. The twomembers of the U.N. peacekeepingforce were seized in the mostly ShiiteMoslem west Beirut neighborhood ofBir Hassen by several gunmen. Theywere not harmed.

7-Dec-85 Paris France PalestineLiberationFront(PLF)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded minutesapart in two adjacent departmentstores in Paris packed with Christmasshoppers, injuring at least 25 people,eight seriously (most likely manymore were injured in total). ThePalestine Liberation Front, IslamicJihad and ASALA all claimedresponsibility. In a phone call, aPalestinian said the bombing wasagainst the French-Iranianrapprochment. A French delegationis due to go to Tehran next week totry to improve relations. Witnessessaid two men fled in a car momentsafter the explosions.At the time ofFebruary, 1986 attacks in France, agroup calling itself the Committee forSolidarity with Arab and Near EastPolitical Prisoners (CSPPA) anoffshoot of LARF, claimed theseearlier attacks and demanded thecombined release of Georges IbrahimAbdallah, pro-Iranian Anis Naccache,head of the commando againstformer Prime Minister ChapourBakhtiar, and Armenian WaroujianGarabedjian, convicted for the Orlybombing in July 1983.

7-Dec-85 Paris France PalestineLiberationFront(PLF)

Explosives25 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded minutesapart in two adjacent departmentstores in Paris packed with Christmasshoppers, injuring at least 25 people,eight seriously (most likely manymore were injured in total). ThePalestine Liberation Front, IslamicJihad and ASALA all claimedresponsibility. In a phone call, aPalestinian said the bombing wasagainst the French-Iranianrapproachment. A French delegationis due to go to Tehran next week totry to improve relations. Witnessessaid two men fled in a car momentsafter the explosions.At the time ofFebruary, 1986 attacks in France, agroup calling itself the Committee forSolidarity with Arab and Near EastPolitical Prisoners (CSPPA) anoffshoot of LARF, claimed theseearlier attacks and demanded thecombined release of Georges IbrahimAbdallah, pro-Iranian Anis Naccache,head of the commando againstformer Prime Minister ChapourBakhtiar, and Armenian WaroujianGarabedjian, convicted for the Orlybombing in July 1983.

8-Dec-85 Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Members of theNorweigian U.N. Interim Forces foiledan attempt by a man from theAfrican Republic of Mali to carry out asuicide car bomb attack on an IsraeliArmy position in South Lebanon.

10-Dec-85

JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Five terrorists who hadinfiltrated from Egypt wereapprehended as they planted anexplosive device near the Kings Hotelin Jerusalem. The five were recruitedinto the PLO in August of this yearand had been provided explosives,fuses and detonators by the PLO.

12-Dec-85

Valletta Malta Unknown Explosives0 0 MALTA. An explosion damaged thelibrary of the Libyan Cultural Center,but there were no injuries. The blastoccurred on the ground-floor of thelibrary opposite the MalteseParliament. It caused considerabledamage.

13-Dec-85

Brussels Belgium Unknown Firearms1 0 BELGIUM. An unidentified gunmanshot and wounded a security guardat a U.S. firm opposite NATOheadquarters, where a meeting ofthe alliance's foreign ministers wastaking place. The guard was hittwice after entering the offices ofControl Data Belgium at 6:40 a.m. toinvestigate a broken window. Thegunman fled.

19-Dec-85

USSR Other Unknown0 0 USSR. A Soviet civil aviationpassenger plane, an Antonov 24, washijacked to China. The plane landedin the western part of Heilongjiangprovince. On December 21, crewmembers and all the passengersreturned to the Soviet Union safely.No details were released.

19-Dec-85

Nantes France Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A gunman claiming to be amember of Abu Nidal managed todisarm five court guards beforebursting into a Nantes courtroom,giving guns and grenades to twodefendants on trial there and takingthirty three people hostage, includingthe judge and jury. Six hours later allbut four of the hostages werereleased and a demand was madefor a bus. The gunman surrenderedto authorities at the Nantes Airportafter releasing the other hostages.The terrorist claimed that he hadwanted to give the Frenchgovernment a slap in the face andheld up photos of the war inLebanon. He said that in two monthsit will be over for the French inLebanon.

20-Dec-85

Istanbul Turkey Other Unknown0 1 TURKEY. Hadi Aziz Murad, an Iraniancommando colonel, was assassinatedat his home in Bakirkoy, Istanbul.Murad was a representative inTurkey of the Nesebenti resistanceorganization, a supporter of the shah,and it is he who was reportedlywaging an anti-Khomeini struggle inTurkey. Agents of the IranianNational Intelligence and SecurityOrganization (Savama) are believedresponsible.

22-Dec-85

Erez Israel PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The Palestinian RevolutionForces General Command claimedresponsibility for placing severalexplosive charges in a bus station inErez. A huge fire resulted.

23-Dec-85

Madras India Unknown Explosives0 0 INDIA. A Sri Lankan Tamil leaderescaped unharmed after a powerfulbomb went off at his home inMadras. A.S. Balasingham, a Britishcitizen and top Tamil rebel strategistin southern India's Tamil Nadu State,accused the Sri Lankan governmentof trying to assassinate him.

24-Dec-85

Lisbon Portugal Other Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A Portuguese left-winggroup, The AutonomousRevolutionary Group (GAR), claimedresponsibility for the bombing of theLisbon ticket office of the Spanishnational airlines as a protest againstthe death of a young Basque whowas killed while in police custody.

25-Dec-85

Hadera Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The PLO claimedresponsibility for an explosion thatoccurred in the central power stationin the city of Hadera. Power toHadera and surrounding cities andsettlements was cut off and manyemployees of the station were killedor wounded.

26-Dec-85

Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded outside afast food restaurant across from CityHall in downtown Tel Aviv. Oneperson was injured.

27-Dec-85

Kabul AfghanistanOther Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. Rebel rockets hit theSoviet Embassy and a Soviet-builthousing project in snow-bound Kabulon the sixth anniversary of Moscow'sintervention in Afghanistan. Novisible damage was reported.

27-Dec-85

Rome Italy Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives99 16 ITALY. Four terrorists throwing handgrenades and firing automatic riflesattacked the El Al check-in counter atthe Leonardo da Vinci Airport.Sixteen people, including fiveAmericans, were killed in the attackand 99 were injured. The attackoccurred at 9:15 a.m. One of theterrorists survived the attack andclaimed to be a member of the groupMartyrs of Palestine. There isevidence the group is under thecontrol of Abu Nidal. The attack wasstaged simultaneously with an attackon the El Al transit terminal inVienna, at Austria's SchwechatAirport.Abu Nidal got a life term inabsentia for masterminding themassacre.

27-Dec-85

Vienna Austria Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives39 3 AUSTRIA. At the same time that theLeonardo da Vinci Airport in Romewas being attacked, three terroristsin Vienna were foiled in their attemptto force their way aboard an El Alaircraft after taking hostages. Analert guard initiated an exchange ofgunfire as the terrorists rolledgrenades across the floor near the ElAl check-in counter. They retreatedand seized a car outside SchwechatAirport leading police on a chasebefore their vehicle was halted. Oneterrorist was killed and two werewounded and taken into custody.Both of the terrorists claim to belongto the Abu Nidal organizationoperating out of Libya. The threewere traveling on Tunisian passports.The original plan of the terrorists hadbeen to attack the El Al area of theairport, seize hostages, hijack anaircraft and explode it in or over TelAviv. The shootout at the airportdisrupted the plan and resulted inthe deaths of two bystanders andone of the terrorists and thewounding of 39 other persons. Thetwo captured terrorists are beingcharged with murder.

31-Dec-85


Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Two female BrazilianBaptist missionaries along with twoAngolans were kidnapped on theroad to Kaluquembe by UNITA. Theirlandrover was attacked and theywere taken.

5-Jan-86 Oviedo Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb was dismantled atthe Ford dealership in Oviedo, westof Bilbao. ETA is suspected.

5-Jan-86 Bilbao Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A small bomb exploded atthe Xerox office in Bilbao.

5-Jan-86 Bilbao Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb was dismantled atthe Bilbao office of the MinnesotaMining and ManufacturingCorporation.

6-Jan-86 Rome Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. The Islamic Cultural Center inRome was destroyed by fire and fiveArabs were arrested. The center isfinanced by the Arab League.

6-Jan-86 Boston UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A crude bomb wasdiscovered in a rubbish bin at theBoston Garden one hour before ahockey match between the BostonBruins and a Soviet team. TheBoston chapter of the Jewish DefenseLeague condemned the action. Theauthorities acted after receiving ananonymous telephone call. The crudedevice consisted of a live handgrenade attached to a timing device.

11-Jan-86 San Jose CostaRica

Unknown Firearms1 0 COSTA RICA. Unidentified individualsmachine gunned the residence ofRodolfo Alberto Henriquez,Salvadoran ambassador to CostaRica. One of the agents whoguarded the diplomat's house waswounded in the incident. Henriquezhad been sworn in as ambassadorthe day before the incident occurred.

16-Jan-86 UnitedArabEmirates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. A timedexplosive went off at the offices ofthe Syrian airlines in Abu Dhabi. Noone was injured by the blast.

16-Jan-86 Tripoli Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosive device wentoff inside a car belonging to AhmadBaha' al-Rida, director of the MobilDistribution Company in Tripoli. Thecar was parked in the lot allocatedfor employees of the oil installation.

17-Jan-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Three employees of theSpanish Embassy were kidnapped atgunpoint near the BeirutInternational Airport. The seizurecame only hours after Spainestablished full diplomatic relationswith Israel. The three were releasedon February 19 after the Spanishgovernment pardoned, and expelledto Lebanon, two Shiite terroristsbeing held for an assassinationattempt against a Libyan diplomat in1984.


Other Unknown1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Sikh moderateSangtar Singh Sandhu, was seriouslyhurt in an assassination attemptagainst him in west London. Sandhuis one of the leaders of the LongowalAkali Dal Party in Britain, favorable tothe New Delhi government. RadicalSikhs are suspected.

19-Jan-86 Vina DelMar

Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A dynamite bomb explodedat the U.S.-Chilean Cultural Institutein Vina del Mar. No group claimedresponsibility.

23-Jan-86 SriLanka

RevolutionaryEelamOrganization(EROS)

Unknown0 0 SRI LANKA. British journalist,Penelope Willis, was kidnapped bymembers of the Eelam RevolutionaryOrganization of Students. The Tamilshad accused her of being a spy.Willis was released on February 18,at which time she told the press thather treatment had been rough.


Other Unknown0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. Sikh moderateTarsem Singh Toor was assassinatedin London only a week after anattempt was made to assassinateanother Sikh in London, SangtarSingh Sandhu. Singh Toor wassecretary-general of the IndianOverseas Congress, a movementwhich supports Indian Prime MinisterRajiv Gandhi.

25-Jan-86 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb went off at a Searsstore in Lima. Tupac Amaruguerrillas are suspected.

27-Jan-86 JerusalemIsrael PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The General Command ofthe Palestinian Revolution claimedresponsibility for a bomb thatexploded in a restaurant inJerusalem. Many people were killedin the blast.

27-Jan-86 SanSebastian


Firearms0 0 SPAIN. ETA machine-gunned aFrench truck outside San Sebastian.No one was injured in the attack.

29-Jan-86 Israel Other Firearms2 3 ISRAEL. A gunman, wearing civilianclothes and carrying Jordanian Armyidentity papers, assaulted an IsraeliArmy patrol, killing two andwounding two others before hehimself was killed. Jordan has deniedany involvement.

30-Jan-86 JerusalemIsrael Other Firearms2 1 ISRAEL. Two masked men in an autosprayed gunshots at a police car at agate to Jerusalem's Old City, killingan Israeli policeman and wounding apassing couple. Four Palestinianswere arrested as suspects.

30-Jan-86 Messina Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. In what appeared to be an actof sabotage, two 135-ton hydrofoilboats flying Cypriot flags were sunkwhile docked for repairs at a Messinashipyard. Two explosions were heardand immediately afterward the twoships which were a few hundredmeters apart, sank to the bottom ofthe port. Bomb experts were calledin when an object which appeared tobe a bomb was located in the keel ofone of the boats. The ships wereowned by a member of Lebanon'sAfifi family and were part of ashipping company based in Limasol,Cyprus.

30-Jan-86 Messina Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. In what appeared to be an actof sabotage, two 135-ton hydrofoilboats flying Cypriot flags were sunkwhile docked for repairs at a Messinashipyard. Two explosions were heardand immediately afterward the twoships which were a few hundredmeters apart, sank to the bottom ofthe port. Bomb experts were calledin when an object which appeared tobe a bomb was located in the keel ofone of the boats. The ships wereowned by a member of Lebanon'sAfifi family and were part of ashipping company based in Limasol,Cyprus.

30-Jan-86 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Unidentified individuals in avehicle threw a plastic explosivedevice at the Shell Company officesin Athens causing a minor amount ofdamage. A guard observed apassenger in an Opel Kadetteremove the bomb from a bag beforetossing it. Four people weresubsequently arrested but authoritieshave not provided details regardingthe arrest.

3-Feb-86 Paris France CommitteeofSolidaritywith ArabandMiddleEast

Explosives8 0 FRANCE. A powerful bomb went offat 9:30 pm in an elegant shoppinggallery on the Champs-Elysees,injuring eight people. The followingday a group calling itself theCommittee of Solidarity with the Araband Middle East Political Prisoners(CSPPA) claimed responsibility forthis attack in a letter to AgenceFrance-Presse. The group, believedto be a joint effort of LARF, ASALAand Iranians, demanded the releaseof several terrorists being held inFrench jails for their participation inattacks on political figures in France.Among those whose release wassought was Anis Naccache, convictedof killing two people while leading agroup attempting the assassinationof former Iranian Prime MinisterShahpur Bakhtiar in Paris in 1980;Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, aLebanese who is charged withcomplicity in the assassination of anAmerican military attache and anIsraeli diplomat; and ArmenianWaroujian Garabedjian, convicted forthe Orly bombing in July 1983.In thesummer of 1987, evidence wasbrought forth to indicate that theIranian government was directlyinvolved in the 1986 Paris bombingsthat had previously been attributedto Lebanese perpetrators. 34members of the Lebanese Moslemfundamentalist group Hezbollah whoresided in France were arrested andthe French Interior Minister, in apress interview, accused theAyatollah Khomeini of havingpersonally directed the 1986bombing campaign in France.


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb found in a publiclavatory on the third floor of the EiffelTower was defused only 90 minutesbefore it had been timed to go off at1 am. The device contained aboutseven pounds of explosives. Therewere about 100 tourists still in thetower at the time. The Committee ofSolidarity with the Arab and MiddleEast Political Prisoners (CSPPA)claimed responsibility. Evidence hasshown that the Iranian governmentwas directly involved in the 1986Paris bombings. [See 2/3/86 incident]


Explosives3 0 FRANCE. A few hours after a bombwas defused at the Eiffel Tower, abomb went off in a crowdedbookshop in a popular tourist area ofthe Latin Quarter. At least threepeople were injured by the blast. TheCommittee of Solidarity with the Araband Middle East Political Prisoners(CSPPA) claimed responsibility.Evidence has shown that the Iraniangovernment was directly involved inthe 1986 Paris bombings. [See 2/3/86incident]

5-Feb-86 Lebanon IslamicSociety

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A United Nationshelicopter was shot down by gunmenof a fundamentalist Moslem alliancein southern Lebanon. The IslamicSociety, a group of extremist SunniMoslem factions, claimedresponsibility.


Explosives9 0 FRANCE. The Les Halles shoppingcomplex was bombed and ninepeople were injured during a rash ofbombings in Paris. The bombexploded at 6:15 pm in the busyFNAC store, which occupies twolevels of the shopping complex.There is speculation that the bombsare being placed by terrorists fromMideast political groups trying to putpressure on the French governmentas it holds secret negotiations for therelease of four French hostageskidnapped last year in Lebanon. TheCommittee of Solidarity with the Araband Middle East Political Prisoners(CSPPA) claimed responsibility.Evidence has shown that the Iraniangovernment was directly involved inthe 1986 Paris bombings. [See 2/3/86incident]

8-Feb-86 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Other 0 0 LEBANON. Marcel Coudry, a Frenchbusinessman, was kidnapped inBeirut by the Revolutionary JusticeOrganization, believed to be anothername for Hizballah. He was releasedNovember 11, 1986.

9-Feb-86 France Unknown Firearms5 0 FRANCE. An attack on a barfrequented by Spanish Basque exilesresulted in five people being injured.The attackers escaped after sprayingthe Batxoki bar with automaticweapon fire. Responsibility forsimilar attacks has been claimed bya clandestine right-wingorganization.

10-Feb-86 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Explosives0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA guerrillas wereresponsible for shooting a ground-to-air missile at an American-ownedtransport plane flying at 8,000 feet.The plane, crewed by Americans andCanadians, landed safely.

13-Feb-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Fire orFirebomb

1 0 LEBANON. Gunmen in a whiteMercedes fired on the SovietEmbassy in Beirut. One of the guardswas wounded in the incident.

14-Feb-86 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A home made bomb wasfound and defused safely at theoffice of Aeroflot in Brussels. Anemployee who noticed a suspiciouspackage after the office opened forbusiness notified the authorities. Noclaim of responsibility was made.

14-Feb-86 JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives6 0 ISRAEL. A bus in Jerusalem wasbombed, injuring six passengers.Force-17 claimed responsibility.

16-Feb-86 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Firearms0 1 EL SALVADOR. FMLN guerrillas in ElSalvador have claimed responsibilityfor the execution of U.S. militaryadvisor Peter Striker Hascall, gunneddown in a suburb southeast of thecapital. Hascall was with a group ofSalvadoran military men near anightclub when he was killed. Hehad been a captain in the U.S. Navy.

17-Feb-86 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 5 NICARAGUA. A U.S.-backed rebelforce ambushed the vehicle in whichfive persons, including one Swissvolunteer worker, were traveling.The five were killed.

18-Feb-86 Lisbon Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb placed in thecar of a U.S. Embassy Marine guardexploded in the embassy compound.After checking the marine'sidentification, Portuguese guardsbegan a search of the car, and whenthey spotted a suspicious-lookingparcel in the trunk, they shouted awarning and the marine ran forcover. The guards cleared the areaminutes before the bomb went off.The Popular Forces of April 25 (FP-25)is believed to have planted the bombin the trunk while it was parked inLisbon.

20-Feb-86 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. ELN guerrillas attacked apipeline camp of the West GermanMannesmann Corporation near LaUnion on the Venezuelan-Colombianborder. The insurgents blew up ahelicopter of the Helitaxi Companywhich was located at the site inaddition to stealing explosives andcommunication equipment.

22-Feb-86 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas in a speeding carthrew dynamite at the U.S. embassyin Lima. No one was injured.Sendero Luminoso is suspected.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas in a speeding carthrew dynamite at the Spanishembassy in Lima. No one wasinjured. Sendero Luminoso issuspected.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas in a speeding carthrew dynamite at the West Germanembassy in Lima. No one wasinjured. Sendero Luminoso issuspected.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas in a speeding carthrew dynamite at the Indianembassy in Lima. No one wasinjured. Sendero Luminoso issuspected.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas in a speeding carthrew dynamite at the Argentineembassy in Lima. No one wasinjured. Sendero Luminoso issuspected.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas in a speeding carthrew dynamite at the Chineseembassy in Lima. No one wasinjured. Sendero Luminoso issuspected.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas in a speeding carthrew dynamite at the Chileanembassy in Lima. No one wasinjured. Sendero Luminoso issuspected.

23-Feb-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Three UN Relief andWorks Agency members werekidnapped north of Beirut. TwoPalestinian officials and theirLebanese driver were driving in anunmarked car from Tripoli at the timeof the abduction.

24-Feb-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives20 5 LEBANON. A man parked a car nextto a truck belonging to Frenchmembers of a UN observation teammonitoring the truce in Beirut,walked away and within fifteenminutes the car exploded killing fivepersons and injuring 20. No groupimmediately claimed responsibilityfor the bomb, which police said alsodestroyed 15 cars in the Sin Fildistrict.

28-Feb-86 StockholmSweden Other Firearms1 1 SWEDEN. Prime Minister Olof Palmeof Sweden was assassinated indowntown Stockholm as he and hiswife left a movie theater. The PrimeMinister was shot twice at closerange by gunmen who escaped. Hiswife was slightly injured in theattack. The Croatian separatistgroup Ustasha claimed responsibilityfor the assassination. Members of thegroup, seeking independence forCroatia from Yugoslavia, killed theYugoslav ambassador to Sweden in1971 and last year the Swedishgovernment denied a request for therelease of the assassins responsiblewho are serving life sentences.Another call claiming responsibilitycame from the Holger MeinsCommando group, a West Germanterrorist cell affiliated with the RedArmy Faction. A October 19, 1986Los Angeles Times article claims thata suspected member of the AbuNidal terrorist group is beingquestioned in connection with theslaying. According to the articlePalme was a friend of PLO leaderYasser Arafat, who is a bitter enemyof Abu Nidal. As of the fall of 1987this case remained unsolved.InOctober 1996 Swedish authoritieswere considering reopening the caseafter new information came to lightregarding a man previously aquittedof the charge.

1-Mar-86 ElNaranjo

GuatemalaOther Unknown1 1 GUATEMALA. Early in March, leftistguerrillas killed Salvadoranbusinessman Ricardo Boet Rodriguezand injured his companion as Boet'sCessna aircraft was taxiing on a stripnear El Naranjo, north of GuatemalaCity.Note: Date is approximate.

1-Mar-86 Israel al-Fatah Unknown1 2 ISRAEL. Syrian members of Al Fatah,dressed in army uniforms, succeededin crossing into Israel from Lebanonand were readying themselves for anattack on a kibbutz when they sawIsraeli soldiers in the area and fledback across the border. Once back inLebanon, the three took Lebanesehostages as the IDF surrounded thehouse. Plans outlining their attackwere found in their pockets. Two ofthe terrorists involved were killedand another one injured in the failedattack. In October of 1986 an Israelimilitary court sentenced three of theterrorists to 19-year sentences fortheir participation in the failedattack.

3-Mar-86 Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Unknown0 1 LEBANON. An official of theArmenian Revolutionary Federation(ARF), Zaven Tashjian, wasassassinated by ASALA in Beirut.

4-Mar-86 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Guerrillas belonging toUNITA announced that they captured170 foreign workers at a diamond-mining town in the northeast. Theforeigners included Portuguese,Filipinos, Romanians, Britons and aWest German. Insurgents stormedthe town of Andrada in Luandaprovince and killed about 60 Angolansoldiers before seizing diamonds,weapons and the foreigners. OnMarch 16 the foreign hostages werefreed in good physical condition.This was the largest group offoreigners captured to date by UNITAin its effort to deter foreign workersfrom helping the Marxist Governmentand the first time it has freedcaptives in Zaire. In February the U.S. government approved $15 millionin aid for UNITA.

6-Mar-86 France Unknown Explosives6 0 FRANCE. A bar frequented byYugoslavs was bombed, injuring sixpeople.

7-Mar-86 France Unknown Firearms0 0 FRANCE. The Seychelles consul andhis daughter were taken hostage intheir apartment by two hoodedgunmen. The gunmen had alsotaken another woman hostage butfreed her shortly after. They thentook the consul and his daughter intoa neighboring apartment. The twogunmen surrendered three hourslater. No details were available onwhat their demands had been.

8-Mar-86 Ethiopia TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront(TPLF)

Firearms0 2 ETHIOPIA. Two employees of theAmerican relief agency World Visionwere shot to death in the diningroom of their residence compound inthe northern town of Alamata. Thevictims were both Ethiopiannationals. According to westerndiplomatic sources, the attackmarked the beginning of a newguerrilla offensive by the TigrePeople's Liberation Front, a well-armed, highly disciplined rebel armythat has been fighting for more thana decade in northern Ethiopia againstthe Addis Ababa government.

8-Mar-86 Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A four-man Frenchtelevision crew disappeared whilefilming a rally by Hezbollah, a ShiiteMoslem militia which supports theIslamic Jihad. The crew consisted ofPhilippe Rochot, Georges Hansen,Aurel Cornea, and Jean-LouisNormandin. A group calling itself theRevolutionary Justice Organization,believed to be another name forHezbollah, claimed credit a few dayslater, stating that the group hadkidnapped the four as a warning toFrance and in the hope that theFrench people will...stop any (French)military or political intervention inLebanon. Islamic Jihad warnedFrance to meet the groups demandsand delivered a videotape of threeother kidnapped Frenchmen -diplomats Marcel Fontaine andMarcel Carton and journalist Jean-Paul Kauffman. In a reference toFrench naval maneuvers in theMediterranean, Islamic Jihad saidthat military parades by the Frenchgovernment will complicate theproblem further. Philippe Rochot andGeorges Hansen were freed on awaterfront street in Beirut on June20, 1986. The Revolutionary JusticeOrganization claimed that they hadfreed the two journalists because ofchanges in France's Middle Eastpolicy and also because of mediationby Syria, Algeria and Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hezbollah. Hansen said thatAurel Cornea and Jean-LouisNormandin were in good conditionbut that he didn't know when theywould be released. [Cornea wasreleased December 24, 1986 as aChristmas goodwill gesture.]OnFebruary 6, 1987 the RevolutionaryJustice Organization sent a note to awestern news agency in Beirut,accompanied by pictures of Jean-Louis Normandin and Joseph Ciccipio(an American taken hostage9/12/86). The group warned that anyaggression by the U.S. military wouldplace the captives' lives in danger.The group is also holding AmericanEdward Tracy, kidnapped October21, 1986 in West Beirut. The notealso warned France about deliveringarms to Iraq.Jean-Louis Normandinwas released November 27, 1987.Also released t

12-Mar-86 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The Army of NationalLiberation (ELN) kidnapped JohannTibuck, a German petroleumengineer (oil), after destroying hishelicopter in Panama de Mita. Thepilot of the helicopter was freed.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. The second Germannational to be kidnapped within aweek was abducted by the ELN inPetaca. The ELN employed the sametechniques to kidnap Hans Fischbornas they had used previously. Ahelicopter was destroyed by fire andits pilot allowed to go free. Fischbornis an engineer employed by apetroleum exploration firm (oil).


Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Members of theMozambique National Resistancekidnapped a Portuguese and anItalian nun in the northern part of thecountry. As a goodwill gesture, inDecember of 1986, the MNR claimedto have released all hostages held bythem.

17-Mar-86 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillassprayed the Argentine Consulate withmachine-gun fire. Sendero Luminosohad launched a fierce terrorcampaign just prior to PresidentGarcia's official visit to Argentina.

17-Mar-86 DamascusSyria Other Remote-detonatedexplosive

110 60 SYRIA. A truck bomb exploded neara compound occupied by Sovietadvisers in Damascus, killing orwounding more than 200 people.Syrian media claimed that aLebanese agent of the Iraqi regimedrove a refrigerator truck packedwith explosives into the northernentrance to Damascus anddetonated it. According to the truckdriver's statement, Hassan Eid saidthat he had a truck route betweenLebanon and Iraq through Syria andhad had an accident last Novemberin Baghdad, in which an Iraqi Armyofficer was killed. He said he wasimprisoned for 50 days in Baghdad,where Iraqi intelligence officersoffered him the choice betweenexecution or obeying them.

18-Mar-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A driver of the U.N. Reliefand Works Agency (UNRWA) waskidnapped near the Palestinianrefugee camp at Bourj al-Barajinah inthe Shia Moslem-dominated southernBeirut suburbs. Zahi Hamadei, aPalestinian refugee who works at thecamp, was taking UNRWA staff towork in a bus when the vehicle wasintercepted by a Mercedes, and hewas taken away by armed men.

18-Mar-86 Paris France Hizballah Explosives10 0 FRANCE. A high-speed train wasbombed while 13 miles outside ofParis. Ten people on board wereinjured. Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility and demanded therelease of five Arab terroristscurrently in French prisons inconnection with an unsuccessfulassassination attempt on formerIranian Prime Minister Bakhtiar in July1980. The Committee of Solidaritywith the Arab and Middle EastPolitical Prisoners (CSPPA) claimedresponsibility as well. Evidence hasshown that the Iranian governmentwas directly involved in the 1986Paris bombings. [See 2/3/86 incident]

18-Mar-86 Israel PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The general command ofthe Palestinian Revolution Forcesclaims that it bombed an Israelifactory in the Bene Beraq settlementnorth of Tel Aviv. Heavy damagewas caused and a large number ofIsraelis were either killed or woundedby the blast.

18-Mar-86 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The People's RevolutionaryCombat (ELA) claimed responsibilityfor a bomb that went off in theunderground garage of the Hellenic-American Union in Athens, causingminor damage. A second bomb wasdiscovered inside a rear entranceand was defused by police.

19-Mar-86 JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives3 1 ISRAEL. Force-17 claimedresponsibility for a car bomb thatwent off in Jerusalem, killing one andinjuring three others.

19-Mar-86 Cairo Egypt Egypt'sRevolution

Firearms3 1 EGYPT. Four Israeli embassy staffmembers who were leaving aninternational trade fair in Cairo wereshot at by gunmen in a speeding car.A female secretary at the embassywas killed and the three others wereseriously injured. Shortly after theattack, Reuters received atypewritten letter signed by Egypt'sRevolution, claiming credit for theattack. Two men were arrested onSeptember 20, 1987 in connectionwith this attack.

20-Mar-86 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives3 1 ISRAEL. One person was killed andthree wounded when a car bombexploded in Jerusalem. A Palestiniangroup claimed responsibility.


Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. German engineer JohannHeinric Sisgborn, a subcontractor ofOccidental Petroleum (oil), wasabducted by the ELN. Sisgborn waskilled by the ELN later in the year.

21-Mar-86 Paris France CommitteeofSolidaritywith ArabandMiddleEast

Explosives28 2 FRANCE. Two people were killed and28 others wounded when a bombexploded in a crowded shoppingcenter on the Champs Elysees. Theattack occurred as the new PrimeMinister, Jacques Chirac, wasaddressing the nation for the firsttime. The bomb apparentlymalfunctioned, as one of the twopersons killed was Lebanese andsuspected of being a member of theLebanese Armed RevolutionaryFactions (LARF). It is believed thatthe bomb went off just as it wasbeing planted. The second fatalitywas also Lebanese and hisbackground is being investigated.The Committee of Solidarity with theArab and Middle East PoliticalPrisoners (CSPPA) claimedresponsibility. Evidence has shownthat the Iranian government wasdirectly involved in the 1986 Parisbombings. [See 2/3/86 incident]

21-Mar-86 Paris France CommitteeofSolidaritywith ArabandMiddleEast

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb was defused in acrowded commuter train in Parisafter a passenger noticed anunattended bag and alerted police.The Committee of Solidarity with theArab and Middle East PoliticalPrisoners (CSPPA) claimedresponsibility. Evidence has shownthat the Iranian government wasdirectly involved in the 1986 Parisbombings. [See 2/3/86 incident]

22-Mar-86 Athens Greece KhristosKasimis

Explosives0 0 GREECE. As a welcoming forSecretary of State Shultz on hisofficial visit to Greece, the KhristosKasimis Revolution Group set off aheavy bomb at a memorial statue inAthens of former U.S. President HarryTruman. The memorial wascompletely destroyed.

23-Mar-86 Sudan SudanPeople'sLiberationArmy(SPLA)

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Norwegian citizen Arne OlavOyhus was kidnapped by the SPLAguerrilla movement. By late April hewas still being held by the guerrillasand the Norwegian Foreign Ministrywas trying to get SPLA leaders toagree to his release.

25-Mar-86 Tokyo Japan Other Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Simultaneous rocket attackswere launched against the U.S.Embassy in Tokyo and the ImperialPalace. There were no damages orinjuries reported in the attacks inwhich at least one incendiary devicelanded on the palace grounds whilethe Emperor Hirohito was inside andanother ricocheted off a window atthe embassy. The attacks occurredat a time when security had alreadybeen tightened in preparation for theMay 4-6 annual economic summit ofseven world leaders, includingPresident Reagan. While there wereno immediate claims ofresponsibility, authorities speculatethat the attacks were made by leftistradicals who had vowed to disruptthe summit and a commemoration ofthe 60th anniversary of theemperor's reign. Five explosivedevices--seven-inch-long aerosol hairspray cans filled with flammableliquid--were fired from compact carsfound parked on streets outside theembassy and palace grounds. Noneof the devices exploded. Thefacilities are about a half mile apartin the center of the city. Timers hadbeen used to fire the devices fromcrude launchers rigged inside thetrunks of the cars. A third car waslater found in a Tokyo suburb withthree similar but unused devicesattached to launchers in its trunk.

26-Mar-86 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. An automobile bearing U.S.license plates was bombed in Athens.The car of a US diplomat wasattacked the same day.

26-Mar-86 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb was discoveredunder the car of a U.S. diplomat inAthens. Another bomb had destroyedthe car of another American thesame day.

27-Mar-86 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Chase Manhattan Bank inSantiago was bombed.

27-Mar-86 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Explosives placed in an outergarden of the Soviet Embassy inLima caused some damage to doorsand windows.

27-Mar-86 La Paz Bolivia People'sCommand

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A dynamite bomb wasthrown from the window of a nearbybuilding at the U.S. Embassy in LaPaz. There was minor damage butno injuries. The People's Commandclaimed responsibility for the attackand promised to carry out more ofthe same if the U.S. continues itsterror against Libya and otherMarxist nations.

27-Mar-86 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives17 4 PAKISTAN. A powerful bombexploded at an Afghan refugee hostelin Peshawar, killing four people andinjuring 17. Pakistani police believeAfghan secret police may haveplaced the device.

27-Mar-86 Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off in a churchof Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(Mormon), causing a fire which wasput out by firemen but causedmoderate damage.

28-Mar-86 Beirut Lebanon NationalRevolutionaryCommand(Umar al-Mukhtar)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Three Energa antitankrockets were fired at an empty annexof the U.S. Embassy in West Beirut.The Umar al-Mukhtar unit of theNational Revolutionary Commandclaimed responsibility for the attack.


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bundle of dynamiteexploded outside the John KennedyCenter building in the area of theAmerican University of Beirut. A unitof the Special Forces of the LeaderUmar al-Mukhtar claimedresponsibility and said that it was inretaliation for American aggressionagainst Libya.

28-Mar-86 Beirut Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 2 LEBANON. Leigh Douglas, a Britishpolitical science professor, and PhilipPadfield, director of the internationallanguage center at the AmericanUniversity, were abducted in WestBeirut. The two were executed April17 in reported retaliation for the U.S.raid on Libya and British support ofthat raid. A group calling itself theArab Revolutionary Cells, believedlinked to Abu Nidal, claimedresponsibility.


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A rocket was fired at theAl-Sadat building which houses theoffice of the American Life Companyin West Beirut. The NationalRevolutionary Command claimedresponsibility.


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The NationalRevolutionary Command (Umar al-Mukhtar unit) claimed responsibilityfor an explosive device that washurled at the British Airways office inWest Beirut. The device failed to gooff. The group claimed the attackwas in retaliation for supporting theAmerican aggression against Libya.

30-Mar-86 WestBerlin


Other Explosives7 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Seven people were injured when abomb exploded at the office of aGerman-Arab friendship society. Theoffice was located in the Americansector of West Berlin. No groupclaimed responsibility. A Palestinianwho was later detained in theinvestigation of the April 5discotheque bombing, admittedduring that investigation that he hadcarried out the attack on theFriendship Society and that theSyrian Embassy in East Berlin hadsupplied the explosives for theattack.

2-Apr-86 Rome Italy Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives9 4 ITALY. A bomb went off on a TWAjetliner 15,000 feet over Greece, butthe pilot was able to land thecrippled plane in Athens a fewminutes later. Four Americanpassengers, (including an infant)were sucked out of the opening inthe plane that the blast caused, andwere killed in the fall. Nine otherpassengers were injured. In Beirut agroup called the Arab RevolutionaryCells, another name used by AbuNidal, claimed responsibility for thebomb, stating that it was inretaliation for the previous week's U.S. military confrontation with Libya inthe Gulf of Sidra. The bomb went offas the airliner was preparing to landat Athens' Hellenikon InternationalAirport at the end of a flight fromRome. The plane routinely flies fromCairo to Athens to Rome and back. Ifthe plane had not been in descentand had exploded at a higheraltitude, the plane would have beendestroyed. Authorities suspect that awoman identified as May EliasMansour may have planted thebomb. Mansour apparently occupiedthe seat under which the bomb wasplaced, on the Cairo-Athens portionof the flight. Mansour disembarkedin Athens and continued on toLebanon. She is known to be aSyrian National Social Party member.

4-Apr-86 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasbombed offices of Citibank, IBM andSears Roebuck in Lima.






Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasbombed the U.S. cultural center inLima.

4-Apr-86 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives1 1 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasbombed the Colombian Consulate.One person was killed and anotherwounded in the bomb and firearmattack against the consulate.

5-Apr-86 WestBerlin


Anti-AmericanArabLiberationFront

Explosives196 3 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two people were killed and 197injured when a bomb went off at adiscotheque in West Berlin. AnotherAmerican serviceman died twomonths later from wounds receivedin the blast. The politicallymotivated bombing was aimed at themany U.S. servicemen who frequentthe disco. Two of the fatalities wereU.S. soldiers, the other was a Turkishwoman. 63 of those injured wereAmericans. The Anti-American ArabLiberation Front, the Red ArmyFaction and an offshoot of the RAF,the Holger Meins Commando, allclaimed responsibility for the blast.Evidence of direct-Libyansponsorship of this incident led to theU.S. bombing retaliation of April 14.In October 1996 police detained aGerman woman and arrested aGerman couple and a Palestinian aswell as issuing arrest warrants forfour Libyans in connection with theincident. In January 1997 Greeceextradited a German woman to herhome country.

7-Apr-86 StockholmSweden Unknown Explosives0 0 SWEDEN. A bomb exploded outsidethe downtown office of NorthwestOrient Airlines in Stockholm. Nocasualties were sustained and no oneimmediately claimed responsibility.A Middle East connection issuspected. The bomb used was thesame type used against NorthwestOrient Airlines in Copenhagen lastJuly.

8-Apr-86 Afula Israel Other Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. An Israeli soldier was injuredwhen a bomb exploded in thenorthern Israeli town of Afula. Arabguerrillas were apparently behind thebombing, a scene of anti-Arab riotslast year.

8-Apr-86 Thailand Unknown Explosives3 0 THAILAND. A time bomb exploded atthe entrance to a parking lot at theentrance to the hotel where DefenseSecretary Caspar Weinberger wasscheduled to attend a state dinnerwith Thailand's Prime Minister. Threepeople were injured by the bombwhich was filled with nails.Weinberger was in his hotel roomabout a mile from the explosion atthe time of the blast. Authoritiescalled the incident an ill-intentionedact meant to obstruct thegovernment's reception for a foreignguest, the U.S. secretary of defense.No group immediately claimedresponsibility.

8-Apr-86 Egypt Unknown Explosives0 2 EGYPT. A small Greek cargo shipsank in the Gulf of Suez after beinghit by an explosion that may havebeen the result of a mine. Two crewmembers were reported missing.The 1,830 Alaska II was sailing emptyfrom Jidda, Saudi Arabia, to Suez Cityin Egypt to pick up oranges.

8-Apr-86 JerusalemIsrael PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Fire orFirebomb

9 0 ISRAEL. Nine people were injuredwhen a firebomb was hurled at a buson the northern edge of Jerusalem.The bus was passing through aJewish-Arab neighborhood at thetime of the attack. 17 Palestinianswere arrested in connection with this.They claimed to be members of thePFLP.

9-Apr-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 12 LEBANON. A violent explosion wentoff in front of the Beirut office of theBelgian airlines, Sabena. The blastleft 12 people dead, including anumber of the office's Lebaneseemployees.

9-Apr-86 Beirut Lebanon Amal Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Gunmen in West Beirutkidnapped a French schoolteacher,Michel Brian, who teaches at theCollege Protestant Francais. Brianwas seized as he walked to school.Soon after his abduction a photocopyof Brian's Lebanese identity card anda one-line written statement signedthe kidnapping group were handed toa reporter near a newsstand in WestBeirut. The Islamic SaffinOrganization also claimedresponsibility for Brian's abduction;however they furnished no proof ofthe fact. Three days after Brian waskidnapped, nighttime rabbit huntersin the Bekaa Valley found him byaccident and, after a fierce gunbattle with his captors, rescued him.

10-Apr-86 Lisbon Portugal ActionDirecte

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb exploded at adowntown Lisbon Air France office.Action Directe claimed responsibilityfor the blast to protest France'scollaboration with Washington. Thecaller claimed solidarity with Libya.There were no casualties, but anearby Trans World Airlines facilitywas also damaged by the blast. OnMay 10, 1986 two terrorist membersof the Call of Jesus Christ who werearrested in connection with theattempted bombing of the Bank ofAmerica in Madrid, also claimed tohave taken part in the attack againstthe Lisbon Air France office. Thegroup is backed by Libya.

11-Apr-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Hours after a Frenchman,Michel Brian, was rescued in theBekaa Valley, an Irishman, BrianKeenan, was reported missing andbelieved kidnapped in West Beirut.Keenan, a teacher, is reportedly the50th foreigner to be abducted inLebanon since January 1984.Keenanwas released in August, 1990.

12-Apr-86 Khaldah Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Raji al-Najmah, Fatah'smost senior official in Lebanon, waskidnapped in Khaldah. Fatah saidthat the Palestinian official was onhis way back to Sidon after takingpart in the talks held in Beirut onways of saving innocent lives in thecamps. The declaration added thatFatah holds Syria responsible for Al-Najmah's safety.

12-Apr-86 Trujillo Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Police believe SenderoLuminoso to be responsible forexplosives that were thrown at thePeruvian-U.S. Cultural Institute inTrujillo. Two individuals got out of anautomobile and threw the explosivesaround midnight.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillas set offseveral bombs throughout Lima,including one which went off at astorage facility belonging to the U.S.Embassy.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillas set offan explosion at the VenezuelanEmbassy in Lima.

12-Apr-86 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasbombed the American-run SummerLanguage Institute.


Explosives0 0 PERU. The Citibank branch office inMiraflores was seriously damaged bya Tupac Amaru bomb.

13-Apr-86 Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Ronald Rosenberg, a U.S. citizen and long-time resident ofValle del Cauca, was kidnapped bymembers of M-19. Rosenberg wasrescued 45 days later after the Armydiscovered the M-19 insurgent campin the forest.

15-Apr-86 KhartoumSudan BlackSeptember

Firearms1 0 SUDAN. Gunmen shooting from apassing car fired on William J. Cokals,a communications officer at the U.S.Embassy in Khartoum. Cokals wasseriously injured. The SudanesePrime Minister was quoted as statingthat Sudan would lend all its materialand human resources to Libya toface American barbaric agression.The U.S. State Department hasordered the evacuation of 200dependents of Embassy personnel.Black September claimedresponsibility.

15-Apr-86 Tokyo Japan Unknown Explosives0 0 JAPAN. A crude rocket-launchingdevice being transported by trucknear the American-operated YokotaAir Base outside of Tokyo exploded,causing no injuries or damage. A finof one rocket was discovered on thebase. Five empty rocket-launchingtubes were found inside the burnedout truck.

15-Apr-86 Bologna Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. An incendiary attack wascarried out on the Italian-BritishAssociation in Bologna. Ananonymous caller claimed the attackwas in response to Britain's supportfor the U.S. attack on Libya. Thecaller said the attack had beencarried out by the Armed CommunistFront.

16-Apr-86 DamascusSyria Unknown Explosives0 0 SYRIA. Several people were killedand wounded in a series ofexplosions aboard buses inDamascus. Syrian state-controlledradio blamed Israeli agents for theattacks. The explosions took placeon intercity buses and civilians werekilled and injured; however there wasno report of exact casualty figures.

17-Apr-86 Tunis Tunisia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TUNISIA. An unidentified man wasseen throwing a gasoline bomb intothe parked car of an Americandiplomat in Tunis. The car wasgutted but no one was injured. Theaction was most likely taken inresponse to Libya's appeal to Arabsto attack American interests.


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A pregnantIrishwoman was apprehended atHeathrow Airport while attempting tocarry a concealed bomb aboard an ElAl flight. Authorities believe that thewoman had been duped by her Arabboyfriend into carrying the bomb andthat she actually knew nothing of theplan. Her boyfriend, Jordaniannational Nezar Hindawi, was arresteda few days later and charged in thecase. Hindawi was said to be from aprominent Jordanian family. WhileHindawi was being charged inLondon, his older brother AhmedNawaf Mansour Hasi was beingdetained by West Berlin police inconnection with the April 5 bombingof a discotheque crowded withAmerican servicemen. It was thatattack which prompted the U.S.bombardment of Libya. Hindawi'sgirlfriend, Anne-Marie Murphy hadpassed through all three mainsecurity checks at London'sHeathrow Airport and was about toboard an El Al flight to Tel Aviv whenthe bomb was discovered by amember of El Al's own security staff.Police believe the bomb almostcertainly would have killed Murphyand the other 387 people aboard theplane. Officials of El Al believe Syriato be behind the attack.

17-Apr-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The British ambassador'sresidence was hit by four rocket-propelled grenades. Although thebuilding was heavily damaged, therewere no injuries, and theambassador, John Gray, was not inthe residence at the time.

17-Apr-86 Beirut Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. In reported retaliation forBritish aid in the U.S. attack on Libya,British cameraman John McCarthywas kidnapped in Beirut by gunmenas he was driving to the Beirutairport in order to leave the country.The abduction came shortly after thebodies of two British professors werediscovered (see 3/28/86 incident)and only hours after the residence ofthe British ambassador was rocketedin Beirut. The kidnapping wasclaimed by the Arab RevolutionaryCells,believed to be an Abu Nidalsignature. Although the organizationclaims to have executed McCarthy,his body has not been found.McCarthy was released August 8,1991.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasclaimed responsibility for a car bombwhich detonated outside the U.S.ambassador's residence in Lima. Thewall surrounding the residence wasbadly damaged but there was nodamage done inside the building. Ina communique the group claimedthat the attack was an act oflegitimate repudiation of the U.S.Government and of solidarity withthe Libyan people.

18-Apr-86 San Jose CostaRica

Unknown Explosives3 0 COSTA RICA. A fragmentationgrenade exploded near the U.S.Embassy in San Jose and threepeople were wounded. It is possiblethat a Panamanian tourist officelocated nearby was the intendedtarget of the blast and the policehave arrested a Panamanian youthas a possible suspect.

18-Apr-86 Ankara Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An attempt by five Libyansto bomb a U.S. officers' club inAnkara was foiled by Turkish policewho stopped two of the Libyansoutside of the club. One of thesuspects attempted to throw away abag which contained grenades andother explosives. The incidentoccurred on a Friday night when theclub is usually full of Americanfamilies who use the dining facilities.There is speculation that the LibyanAmbassador may have beeninvolved. The Ambassadorreportedly has a long history ofinvolvement with Libyan terroristoperations, including anassassination campaign againstLibyan dissidents residing in the U.S.Three of the five Libyans charged areprotected by diplomatic immunityand cannot be prosecuted. TwoLibyans were given five year jailterms in connection with this case.

19-Apr-86 VenezuelaUnknown Explosives1 0 VENEZUELA. A bomb exploded atthe Mormon Church in southeastVenezuela. The church is known forits U.S. affiliation and the attack isbelieved to have been carried out toprotest U.S. attacks in Libya. Theterrorist was seriously injured.

20-Apr-86 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. Two eleven-year-oldAmerican children were kidnappedand held for a few days before beingrescued by the Guatemalan NationalPolice's special unit. The childrenhad been on their way to a cafeteriain the southern part of GuatemalaCity when armed men forced thechildren into a car.

20-Apr-86 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Police were able to safelydefuse an explosive device at theheadquarters of the Spanish-American Cultural Association inBilbao. The building used to be thesite of the American Consulate.

23-Apr-86 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs exploded outside fourMormon churches in the Chileancapital causing minor damage. Thechurches have been favorite targetsof the leftist guerrillas in Chile in thepast because of their U.S. links.

23-Apr-86 Thailand PattaniUnitedLiberationOrganization(PULO)

Explosives0 0 THAILAND. A homemade explosivedevice was thrown from a car at theUnited States Consulate in SohgkhlaProvince, and police are investigatinga link between the attack andseparatists of the Pattani UnitedLiberation Organization.




24-Apr-86 Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Four gunmen kidnappedIlyas Khalid Baydun, a journalist whoworks for the Kuwaiti paper Al-Qabas.


AngryBrigades

Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb rippedthrough a British Airways ticket officein London, gutting the office andblowing out windows of storeshundreds of yards away. Onewoman was injured by the blastwhich occurred at about 5 a.m.Although the building housed both anAmerican Airlines and an AmericanExpress counter, authorities believedthat British Airways had actuallybeen the target. Several groupsclaimed responsibility, including theScottish National Liberation Army,the Angry Brigades and a Palestiniangroup called the RevolutionContinues. The Palestinian claim wastaken most seriously.

24-Apr-86 HeidelbergFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The private car of a U.S. servicemanwas damaged in an arson attack nearHeidelberg.

24-Apr-86 HeidelbergFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. ACanadian military van was damagedin an arson attack near Heidelberg.

24-Apr-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb which was set togo off in 15 minutes was spotted by apedestrian in front of the BritishCultural Center in West Beirut. Thesuspicious-looking packagecontained 33 pounds of incendiarychemicals attached to two pounds ofTNT and a time clock. It was defusedwithout incident.

25-Apr-86 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Firearms1 0 NORTH YEMEN. Arthur Pollick, acommunications officer with the U.S.Embassy in Sanaa was wounded byan unidentified gunman while he wasdriving home. There was no claimmade in connection with the incident.

25-Apr-86 Lyon France Other Unknown0 1 FRANCE. Kenneth Marston, a Britonwho acted as regional director of theU.S. tool company Black & Decker,was murdered by a lone, maskedgunman while he was on the lawn ofhis home in Lyon. An Arab groupclaimed responsibility, withoutfurther identifying itself. The groupclaimed that they would destroy allAmericans and English imperialinterests in the world wherever theyare. Officials were skeptical of theclaim, noting that Marston's murdercould be related to the recentindictments of a dozen Lyongangsters for stealing $1.4 million ingoods from Black & Decker in 1985.

25-Apr-86 Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A hand grenade explodedoutside the offices of Saudia, theSaudi Arabian airline, causing minordamage but no injuries. The blastoccurred as Interior Minister KarlBlecha and Prince Nayif ibnAbdulaziz, the Saudi interior minister,were discussing possible joint effortsagainst terrorism.

25-Apr-86 Lyon France ArabRevolutionaryFront

Explosives1 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in thebuilding housing the AmericanExpress and Control Data offices inLyon. One person was injured by theexplosion. On the walls of thebuilding were spray-painted slogansagainst the American firms Black &Decker, Control Data and AmericanExpress. Arab Revolutionary Frontclaimed responsibility.

26-Apr-86 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The British Bank of theMiddle East was bombed in Beirut'sMoslem-controlled sector. The group219-Fa'-Ayn claimed responsibilityand said the blast was in retaliationfor Britain's role in the U S. attack onLibya.

26-Apr-86 Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A grenade was foundtaped to the door of the KuwaitiAirlines in the same building in whicha grenade had just gone off in frontof the Saudi Arabian airlines offices.

26-Apr-86 MexicoCity

Mexico CommandoInternacionalistaSimonBolivar

Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A caller tipped off policeabout a bomb in a car parked in frontof the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.The sophisticated device wasdefused 15 minutes before it was setto go off. The Simon Bolivar Anti-Imperialist Commando claimedresponsibility for the action, linking itto the U.S. air strike in Libya.

27-Apr-86 Lebanon Other Firearms1 1 LEBANON. A French teacher, RichardRoger, was wounded and hiscompanion, Sohra Doukan, anemployee of the American University,was killed when militiamen openedfire at them from a roadblock.

27-Apr-86 JerusalemIsrael Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 1 ISRAEL. The Abu Nidal terroristgroup claimed responsibility for themurder of British tourist PaulAppleby, who was visiting a religiousshrine in Jerusalem. The victim wasshot in the base of his skull by asmall caliber pistol. The attackoccurred during the Passoverholiday.

28-Apr-86 SantaCruz

Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb was discoveredand deactivated in the ladies'bathroom of the Viru-ViruInternational Airport in Santa Cruz. AU.S. Air Force Galaxy airplane, whichtransported military materiel for jointU.S.-Bolivian maneuvers taking placein the region, was at the Viru-Viruairport. 300 protesters shouting anti-American slogans greeted Americantroops arriving at the airport the daythe bomb was found.

28-Apr-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two Cypriot engineeringstudents at the American Universityin Beirut were reported missing andfeared kidnapped. The students,Stavros Yiannaki and PanayiotisKirkas were believed abducted whileon their way to school. The two werefreed in good health and flown homeon June 21, 1986 after the personalmediation of PLO Chairman YasserArafat in response to an appeal byCypriot President Kyprianou.

29-Apr-86 Kuwait Unknown Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. Kuwaiti security forcesreportedly foiled the attempt by agroup of 12 to hijack a KuwaitAirways 747 en route to anundisclosed east Asian country. Theplan was to be carried out in twostages. During the first stage fourmembers of the group were to boardthe plane at the Kuwaiti airport.Another eight persons were to jointhem at an airport in anotherunspecified location. Sourcesconfirmed that the eight persons didarrive at the rendezvous airport astransit passengers several hoursahead of schedule. They carried anumber of pistols and handgrenades.

29-Apr-86 Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. Dozens of Chileans werearrested after bombs struck at least13 targets, including a wall near theresidence of U.S. Ambassador HarryBarnes, Jr. He was not injured in theattack, but several windows werebroken. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front (FPMR) claimedresponsibility for the attack,indicating that the act was anexpression of solidarity with theLibyan people.

1-May-86 Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. A firebomb wasthrown at a taxi in which anAmerican officer and his wife werepassengers. The bomb failed toignite. The incident took place theday after a brawl occurred betweenU.S. soldiers and Koreans in a bar.

1-May-86 Mar delPlata

ArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. Guerrillas opened firewith automatic weapons on theChilean Consulate in Mar del Plata.

2-May-86 Madrid Spain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two terrorists who belong tothe group Call of Jesus Christ andclaim to serve Libya, were among tenterrorists arrested in an unsuccessfulattempt to bomb the Bank ofAmerica in Madrid. The two, whoclaim Libyan sponsorship, werecaught while placing four kilos ofexplosives in the bank. They saythey were promised $70,000 to carryout attacks against U.S. businessesinterests, including Americanbusinesses in Spain. They alsoadmitted to having taken part in arecent bombing of an Air Franceoffice in Lisbon. Right wingSpaniards were among thosearrested in the attempted bankbombing.

3-May-86 LomalindaColombia Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 COLOMBIA. American schoolteacherJoan Marie Roroff Albel was stabbedin the heart in Lomalinda, a jungleprovince where the Summer Instituteof Linguistics has its headquarters.One of the Institute's translators,Chester Bitterman, was kidnappedand murdered by leftist guerrillas in1981. The institute has beenaccused of interfering with Indians'traditions.

3-May-86 Colombo SriLanka


Explosives40 21 SRI LANKA. 21 persons were killedand another 40 injured when a bombexploded aboard a Sri Lankan state-run airliner at Colombo InternationalAirport. The flight's departure hadbeen delayed for 15 minutes. Hadthe flight been on time, andtherefore airborne at the time thebomb went off, it is thought that all126 passengers would have beenkilled. Tamil separatists wereresponsible. A customs officer toldSri Lanka police that terrorists hadcoerced him into planting a bombaboard the jet by threatening to killhis family. Among the dead weretwo Japanese, a French citizen, threeCeylonese, a West German, and twopeople from the Maldive Islands.Three of the others were believed tobe Britons.

4-May-86 JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Force 17 claimedresponsibility for a bomb that wentoff in front of a bakery in Jerusalem.No casualties resulted but there wasminor property damage. Force 17claimed it had carried out the attackbecause the bakery was used byenemy soldiers.

4-May-86 Tokyo Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. The Middle Core Faction(Chukakuha) was believedresponsible for five homemaderockets which were fired at the stateguest house during welcomingceremonies there for the leaders ofthe industrial nations meeting inTokyo. The rockets missed theAkasaka Palace and landed on thestreet near the Canadian Embassy,south of the palace grounds. Themissiles had been fired from anapartment house about 1.7 milesfrom the Palace and had been set offby a timing device. The timingdevice had been used not only to firethe rockets but also to open thewindow. The attackers had left theroom locked.

4-May-86 FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded near a fuel depot ata U.S. Army barracks in the town ofKirchheimbolanden at approximately3am. The bomb had been attachedto a military truck. No casualtiesresulted but three fuel storage tankswere destroyed and propertydamage was estimated at about$45000.

5-May-86 EastBerlin

GermanDemocraticRepublic

Other Unknown0 1 GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. Aformer employee of Libya'sdiplomatic mission in Bonn who hadinformed on Libyan terrorist planswas found murdered in an East Berlinpark. The victim's body was foundtwo weeks after arrests were made inconnection with the West Berlindiscotheque bombing whichprompted the U.S. air strike on Libya.

5-May-86 GuatemalaRebelArmedForces ofGuatemala(FAR)

Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. Members of FARattacked Geosol installations,burning one rig and setting fire toseveral vehicles. Geosol is an Exxonsubsidiary. The insurgents warnedthat Americans taking part inexploratory activities in Guatemalawould be attacked again.

7-May-86 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A retired French autodealer was kidnapped in Beirut by agroup calling itself the RevolutionaryJustice Organization, reportedly acover for Hezbollah. Camille Sontagwas traveling with his wife, Blanche,when they were intercepted by twogunmen in militia uniforms. Oneheld a gun to Mrs. Sontag's head andthe other pulled her husband fromthe car. Sontag was released by hiscaptors November 11, 1986.

12-May-86

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The driver of the Indiancharge d'affaires was kidnapped byunidentified gunmen. They left himon a road after beating him andstealing his car.

12-May-86

Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The M-19 claimed creditfor early morning explosions at CocaCola and Intercor (an Exxonsubsidiary which is mining coal innorthern Colombia). The bombswent off almost simultaneously atthe main offices of the U.S.companies in Bogota. There were noinjuries reported.

12-May-86


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The M-19 claimed creditfor early morning explosions at CocaCola and Intercor (an Exxonsubsidiary which is mining coal innorthern Colombia). The bombswent off almost simultaneously atthe main offices of the U.S.companies in Bogota. There were noinjuries reported.

12-May-86


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded by theU.S. Embassy in Bogota. The bombwas placed reportedly to protest theirrational and rabid policies of thePentagon in Central America andLibya.

12-May-86


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded at thejoint offices of British Airways andLufthansa in Bogota. The M-19 wasresponsible.

13-May-86

Egypt Unknown Firearms0 0 EGYPT. A U.S. military vessel cameunder fire as it was passing throughthe Suez Canal. Egyptian authoritiesdetained a young man in connectionwith the shootings who was seendriving a car along a prohibitedmilitary zone.

14-May-86

Jakarta Indonesia JapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Explosives0 0 INDONESIA. Rockets were fired atthe U.S. and Japanese embassies anda car bomb went off outside abuilding housing Canada's mission.No injuries resulted from the attacks.Anonymous telephone callers inLondon and Paris claimedresponsibility on behalf of a groupcalled the Anti-ImperialistInternational Brigades. This group isbelieved by authorities in Tokyo to bea unit of the Japanese Red Army.The action was linked to the recentseven-nation summit in Tokyo.There is speculation the attacks wereperpetrated by a small extremistgroup with the possible support ofLibya. The police arrested aJapanese man as he tried to flee thehotel from which the rocket was firedat the Japanese Embassy.Reportedly three Libyans who hadbeen seen with this man are beingsought. Indonesia has the largestMoslem population of any country inthe world and the currentgovernment is determined tosuppress Islamic radicalism. InSeptember 1996 a male member ofthe Japanese Red Army was chargedwith involvement in the bombing.

14-May-86



14-May-86



16-May-86

Paris France ActionDirecte

Explosives1 0 FRANCE. Direct Action claimedresponsibility for explosives whichwere hurled at the Parisheadquarters of Interpol. A guardwho was on duty was injured in theattack.

17-May-86


Firearms0 0 SPAIN. Several French trucks wereattacked by ETA members usingautomatic weapons.

17-May-86

Rio deJaneiro

Brazil Unknown Explosives0 0 BRAZIL. A homemade bomb went offat the Laranjeiras Palace whereSalvadoran President Jose NapoleonDuarte was to have dinner with thegovernor of Rio de Janeiro. Thebomb destroyed a commemorativeplaque but caused no injuries.

17-May-86

NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. Contra rebelskidnapped eight West Germansworking on housing constructionprojects in northern Nicaragua. As aresult of this action, on May 19seventy unarmed West Germansupporters of the Sandinistagovernment held the West Germanembassy and ambassador inManagua, demanding the release ofthe workers. The eight FRG citizenswere released on June 10.

18-May-86


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Bombs exploded at theSummer Institute of Linguistics andthe Center of Studies for Americans.The National Liberation Army (ELN)claimed responsibility.

18-May-86

Bogota Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded at anAmerican Evangelist church inBogota. The ELN claimedresponsibility for the blast.

18-May-86

Lisbon Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. The NATO commmandpost near Lisbon was hit by a mortarshell just before Secretary of DefenseWeinberger arrived. No one wasinjured in the attack. FP-25 claimedcredit, describing the act asretaliation for the NATO role in the U.S. raid on Libya.

19-May-86

Santiago Chile UnitedPopularActionMovement

Firearms0 0 CHILE. Leftists belonging to theUnited Popular Action Movementraided a United Press Internationaloffice in Santiago and transmitted arevolutionary proclamation. Threemen and a woman armed withhandguns broke into the office andforced the staff members to transmita statement to four Chileannewspapers. The statement calledfor an uprising against thegovernment of Pinochet and chargedthat the United States wasresponsible for the tragedy that Chileis living through.

19-May-86

Talca Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The French Consulate wasdamaged by an explosion in Talcaand police suspect the ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front to beinvolved. The target of the explosionmay have actually been the Housingand Urban Development Service;however the French consulatesustained quite a bit of damage inthe pre-dawn attack.

20-May-86

Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The bodyguards of the U.S. ambassador were kidnapped andheld by members of Hezbollah forseveral hours until negotiations withthe U.S. Embassy security officerssecured their release.

20-May-86

GuadalajaraMexico Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 MEXICO. A Molotov cocktail washurled at the U.S. Consulate inGuadalajara by unidentified persons.

20-May-86


Unknown6 0 ISRAEL. Members of the PalestinianRevolutionary Forces GeneralCommand claimed responsibility foran attack on an Israeli militaryvehicle in Jerusalem. The vehiclewas damaged and six militarypersonnel were injured.

23-May-86

Haiti Unknown Firearms0 1 HAITI. Unidentified intruders brokeinto the house of an Americandoctor, cut the phone line andentered the second floor bedroomwhere he and his wife were asleep.As flashlights were pointed into thecouple's eyes, one of the assailantsfired a bullet directly into his heart.Then they left, shouting to eachother in Haitian Creole. The victimwas an American physician who wasjust completing a rural health projectfunded by the U.S. Agency forInternational Development (AID) inHaiti. The case is still underinvestigation.

25-May-86

AshqelonIsrael Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb went off at asoldier's hitchhiking station inAshqelon, 30 miles south of Tel Aviv.

25-May-86

Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Two bombs went off incentral Israel, seriously injuring oneman. One of the bombs went off neara bus station, the other near anapartment house just outside of TelAviv. Earlier in the day a bomb wentoff at a soldier's hitchhiking post.

25-May-86

Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. Two bombs went off incentral Israel, seriously injuring oneman. One of the bombs went off neara bus station, the other near anapartment house just outside of TelAviv. Earlier in the day a bomb wentoff at a soldier's hitchhiking post.

25-May-86

CampbellRiver

Canada Other Firearms1 0 CANADA. A Punjab cabinet minister,Malkiad Singh Sidhu, was the victimof an assassination attempt by fourSikhs in Campbell River. Sidhu wasshot four times in the chest while hewas driving in his car. The four menwere taken into custody, and in 1987were found guilty of attemptedmurder.

27-May-86

Pakistan Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Bombs exploded withintwenty minutes of each other atthree offices of the Saudi ArabianNational Airline. The bombs werebelieved hidden in bags left outsidethe offices. No group claimedresponsibility for the attacks, butauthorities suspect Abu Nidalinvolvement.

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27-May-86



27-May-86

Karachi Pakistan Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Bombs exploded at theSaudi finance office and at a Saudicargo office in Karachi. No groupclaimed responsibility for the attacks,but authorities suspect Abu Nidalinvolvement.

27-May-86


Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Bombs exploded at theSaudi finance office and at a Saudicargo office in Karachi. No groupclaimed responsibility for the attacks,but authorities suspect Abu Nidalinvolvement.

27-May-86


Explosives5 1 PAKISTAN. A security guard waskilled and five others were injuredwhen a bomb went off outside thePan Am office in Karachi. Althoughno group claimed responsibility, AbuNidal is suspected.

28-May-86

Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. An explosion believed set offby Maoist rebels damaged a U.S.cultural center in northern Peru.

29-May-86

Cairo Egypt Hizballah Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A small bomb went off at theEgyptian-American bankheadquarters in Cairo. There was nodamage and no claim ofresponsibility. In July 1987 membersof a terrorist cell supported by Iranand Hezbollah from Lebanon werearrested in Egypt. Some of themembers of the cell have cooperatedwith authorities and admitted tohaving taken part in this attack.

4-Jun-86 GuatemalaRebelArmedForces ofGuatemala(FAR)

Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. Members of theGuatemalan National RevolutionaryUnity (FAR) claimed responsibility forthe downing of a helicopterbelonging to the Exxon Company.The guerrillas also took control of theExxon camp in El Peten for twohours.

4-Jun-86 PhilippinesUnknown Firearms0 0 PHILIPPINES. A French missionarywas kidnapped by unknown gunmen.He was released June 24.

5-Jun-86 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. Two women were woundedwhen a bomb exploded in asupermarket in the Jewish section ofJerusalem. The attack coincided withthe week's anniversary of the 1982Israeli invasion of Lebanon as well asthe 19th anniversary of the 1967Middle East war.

6-Jun-86 PeshawarPakistan Unknown Explosives30 5 PAKISTAN. A car bomb exploded infront of the building occupied by theAfghan consulate in Peshawar, killingfive people and wounding at least 30.

6-Jun-86 Beirut Lebanon LebaneseArmedRevolutionaryFaction(LARF)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A group demanding therelease of detainees in Italian andFrench prisons blew up a carbelonging to the Italian Embassy inEast Beirut and threatened moreattacks against European interests.The group Committee for theDefense of Arab and Middle EastPolitical Detainees in Europe claimedresponsibility. They may be thesame as the Committee for Solidaritywith Arab and Middle East PoliticalPrisoners (CSPPA) and/or affiliatedwith LARF.

10-Jun-86 Athens Greece Unknown Unknown0 1 GREECE. A senior member of thePalestine Liberation Organization,Khalid Nazal, was murdered outsidea central Athens hotel. While somereports blame PLO infighting, the PLOblames the Israeli Mossad for theassassination.

15-Jun-86 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 1 GUATEMALA. A member of theJehovah's Witnesses religious group,Norma Jane Wagon, was found deadinside her car in Guatemala City.The U.S. citizen had been taken to anundisclosed location and lockedinside her car, and then an explosivedevice was set off underneath thecar. The case is under investigation.

17-Jun-86 Sweden Unknown Unknown0 0 SWEDEN. The U.S. Ambassador toSweden was protected from anapparent attack when bodyguardsobserved two men on the grounds ofthe mansion near where theAmbassador was a dinner guest.Shots were fired at the pair whosucceeded in evading the police.The authorities believe they mayhave been acting on behalf of MiddleEast interests intent on avenging theU.S. air strike on Libya in April.

18-Jun-86 Kuwait UnitedArabRevolution

Explosives1 0 KUWAIT. The Al Ahmadi oil complexin southern Kuwait was rocked bythree simultaneous explosionsblamed on saboteurs. The oil wellsand two pipeline networks were setablaze and nine million barrels ofcrude oil were threatened. Oneworker was slightly injured. In atelephone call to a foreign newsagency in Amman a week later, agroup calling itself the United ArabRevolution claimed responsibility forthe blast. The speaker claimed thatthe group is committed to attainingArab unity and boycotting the UnitedStates and the Arab parties whichare its allies.In June 1987 six KuwaitiShiite Moslems (two of them still atlarge) were sentenced to hang forthe sabotage. They were reportedlyfollowing orders directly from Iran.

19-Jun-86 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives2 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded at theItalian Chamber of Commerce inAthens, causing minor damage andinjury to two passersby.

19-Jun-86 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb was defused at theentrance to the Italian Consulate inAthens. It was the second incidentagainst an Italian target in Athensthat day.

21-Jun-86 Vienna Austria Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. Two missiles placed onlaunching pads were discoveredaimed at the Iraqi embassy.Unconfirmed reports attributed thisincident to members of the Abu Nidalgroup.

22-Jun-86 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. The Honduran Embassy wasthe target of a bomb attack in Limawhich caused extensive damage.The MRTA was responsible.

22-Jun-86 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb damaged the officesof Occidental Petroleum in Lima. Acar loaded with approximately 100pounds of explosives pulled up nextto the building in the early morninghours and detonated a few minutesafter the driver fled on foot. No onewas injured.

23-Jun-86 Cairo Egypt Hizballah Explosives15 10 EGYPT. The Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility for a car bomb whichwent off about 30 kilometers south ofCairo. The explosion killed tenpeople and injured fifteen others.The target was unclear.

26-Jun-86 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives40 7 PERU. Sendero Luminoso bombed atourist train en route to Cuzco, killingseven people and injuring forty. OneAmerican was killed.

26-Jun-86 Cali Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The M-19 detonated aweak bomb near the building wherethe Peruvian Embassy has its officesin Cali.

26-Jun-86 Madrid Spain al-Fatah Explosives12 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at the El Alcounter in Madrid's Barajas Airport,injuring a dozen people. The bombhad been hidden in a suitcase, andthe person carrying the bag wasunaware of its contents. The bombwent off when a security manobserved smoke coming out of asuitcase and ordered the conveyorbelt stopped. The bomb detonatedupon opening of the suitcase. Theowner of the luggage had been paid$1,000 to deliver what he thought tobe a shipment of illegal drugs toIsrael. A Palestinian who had beenunder surveillance was arrested andhe confessed to having planted thebomb in the suitcase and stated thatthe bomb had been meant toexplode while the El Al aircraft was inflight. The man claimed membershipin the Syrian-backed Abu Musaorganization, Al Fatah Uprising.

26-Jun-86 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives1 0 SPAIN. A policeman was injured byan explosion that went off at the U.S.3-M company in Bilbao. ETA wassuspected.

27-Jun-86 Medellin Colombia PedroLeonArboleda(PLA)

Explosives1 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded infront of the Honduran Consulatelocated in the Belen neighborhood ofMedellin, injuring the consul. A groupcalling itself the Pedro Leon Arboleda(PLA) claimed responsibility.

27-Jun-86 Medellin Colombia PedroLeonArboleda(PLA)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb went off at theSoviet-Colombian center in Medellin.A group calling itself the Pedro LeonArboleda (PLA) claimedresponsibility.

29-Jun-86 Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. In August, the wife of U.S.businessman Fa'iq Warih, reportedthat Warih had been missing since6/29 when he arrived in Beirut fromDamascus on a ten-day trip. Warih isof Syrian origin.

30-Jun-86 JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on a citybus, injuring five people. The FatahUprising took responsibility for theblast, as well as for another bombattack on a bus in northern Jerusalemwhich slightly injured one woman.

30-Jun-86 JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives5 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on a citybus, injuring five people. The FatahUprising took responsibility for theblast, as well as for another bombattack on a bus in northern Jerusalemwhich slightly injured one woman.

30-Jun-86 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. On the eve of the Pope'svisit, ELN guerrillas dynamited anatural gas liquification plant ownedby an Exxon subsidiary.

1-Jul-86 VersaillesFrance Other Firearms0 1 FRANCE. Libyan businessmanMohammed Bouzou wasassassinated by masked gunmenwho stormed his fashionableVersailles home. A relative ofBouzou had been an official in theprevious government and Qadhafielements are presumed to beresponsible.


Explosives0 0 PERU. An explosive was thrown atthe Peruvian-Soviet Cultural Institutein Lima. The incident was attributedto Sendero Luminoso.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Explosive devices werethrown at the embassy of thePeoples' Republic of China in Lima.The incident was attributed toSendero Luminoso.


Explosives0 0 PERU. An explosive device wasthrown at the Italian Embassy inLima. The incident was attributed toSendero Luminoso.


Explosives1 1 PERU. A guerrilla believed to be amember of Sendero Luminoso,slipped into the Soviet Embassycompound in Lima disguised as amessenger. A security guard shot atthe guerrilla and a bomb went off inthe rebel's hands, killing himinstantly. A firefight eruptedimmediately afterwards in front ofthe embassy. A guard was injured.

10-Jul-86 Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Unknown9 2 ISRAEL. Four Arab terrorists werekilled when their rubber dinghy wasintercepted north of the Lebaneseborder. Two Israeli soldiers werekilled and nine injured in theskirmish. The apparent target hadbeen Israeli civilians in northernIsrael. The PFLP claimedresponsibility for the trespass.

10-Jul-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A car bomb went off infront of a building housing BritishEmbassy employees in Jall al-Dib.Only material damage resulted.

13-Jul-86 Pakistan Other Explosives15 10 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded in arest home at the Pakistani bordersettlement of Teri Mengal, killing 10Afghans and injuring 15. Pakistanhas blamed several bombings in thefrontier region on the Afghangovernment.

14-Jul-86 Cucuta Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN was responsiblefor bombing the Zulia-Cano Limon oilpipeline near the city of Cucuta.Three bombs went off at 1:00 am,severely damaging the line. Thepipeline was built by the WestGerman Mannesmann Corporationand is used by Occidental Petroleumto move oil out of the fields forexport.

17-Jul-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A Saudi Arabian waskidnapped and then freed in the firstkidnapping in West Beirut sinceSyrian troops were deployed to keeporder there twelve days earlier.

18-Jul-86 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb shattered thewindows of the Eastern Air Linesoffice in Santiago, but there were nocasualties. No group claimedresponsibility.

18-Jul-86 Colombia PedroLeonArboleda(PLA)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The Pedro Leon Arboleda(PLA) guerrilla commandos claimedresponsibility for two moderatelypowerful bombs which went offoutside the Centro ColomboAmericano. The PLA staged similarattacks on the Honduran Consulateand the Colombian-Soviet Instituterecently.

20-Jul-86 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A small bomb exploded inTel Aviv just as nearby cafes werefull and hundreds of people were ontheir way to theaters in the vicinity.One teenager was injured by theblast. The bomb had been hidden ina garbage pail behind a tree. Policedetained about 100 Arabs forquestioning.

20-Jul-86 Sudan SudanPeople'sLiberationArmy(SPLA)

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Two American nuns wereheld by the Sudan People's LiberationArmy and forced to walk 27 milesthrough the Sudanese countrysideafter being released by them.Details of the incident were sketchy.The guerrillas claimed that they hadactually rescued the nuns after theywere caught in cross fire during abattle near Juba betweengovernment troops and the rebels.The nuns were part of the Maryknollorder and had lived in the Sudansince 1983.


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A car bomb explodedoutside the headquarters of theOrganization for EconomicCooperation and Development. Theblast was claimed by Action Direct.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. A French-registered car wasburned by ETA in retaliation forrecently increased French policecooperation with Madrid.

22-Jul-86 Morocco PolisarioFront

Firearms1 1 MOROCCO. Suspected PolisarioFront guerrillas in a small speedboatopened fire on a Spanish trawler,killing one Spaniard and woundinganother.

22-Jul-86 Morocco PolisarioFront

Explosives1 1 MOROCCO. Guerrillas fired machineguns and mortars at a Soviet fishingship off the Moroccan coast.Polisario Front is suspected. Theyalso attacked a Spanish trawler.

22-Jul-86 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Four employees ofMannesmann, the FRG firmconstructing the Cano Limon oilpipeline, were kidnapped bymembers of the ELN.

23-Jul-86 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. A Belgian volunteerworker was kidnapped by Contrasnorth of Managua. After being heldby the group for 12 hours, theBelgian was released. According tothe director of Oxfam (OxfordCommittee for Famine Relief), PierreDiron was teaching a group of adultsin the community when severalindividuals dressed in olive drabshowed up. They had the FDN-USAinitials on their uniforms. Afterlecturing Diron against communismand atheism, the Contras tied him upand left him in the house. Neighborsrescued him hours later.

23-Jul-86 Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. The offices of Eastern Airlineswere bombed.

23-Jul-86 Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Aeroflot Airlines offices werebombed.

25-Jul-86 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb was dismantledoutside the U.S. Consulate in Arabeast Jerusalem, two days before thescheduled visit to Israel of VicePresident George Bush. The bomb,which weighed 5.5 pounds, wassafely detonated by explosivesexperts.

26-Jul-86 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A large crowd of Moslemradicals, organized by Hezbollah (TheParty of God), attacked the MoroccanEmbassy in West Beirut to protestKing Hussein II's recent meeting withIsraeli Prime Minister Peres. Therewere no casualties as the staffslipped away from the buildingbefore the attack.

1-Aug-86 CasablancaMorocco Other Explosives0 0 MOROCCO. Four Palestinians werearrested and charged with planningto bomb a synagogue in Casablancaduring the Jewish New Year (RoshHashanah) on October 4. The fourapparently had brought explosivesinto the country camouflaged asdecorative objects for the purpose ofplacing bombs in public places.Casablanca has one of the largestand most influential Jewishcommunities in the Arab world.

2-Aug-86 ZamboangaCity

PhilippinesOther Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Brazilian nationalSulamen Esme, was abducted fromhis car by a group of men inZamboanga City.

3-Aug-86 Cyprus Other Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. Rockets and mortar roundswere fired into the British air base atAkrotiri in southwest Cyprus, slightlyinjuring two British women and aCypriot bystander. The roundslanded near the living quarters formarried airmen. While rockets andmortar rounds were being fired atthe British air base in Akrotiri,terrorists sprayed machine-gun fireindiscriminately on a nearby beachcrowded with servicemen's families.While the Unified NasseriteOrganization and the Omar al-Mukhtar Martyr Group, believed tohave Palestinian links, claimedresponsibility in retaliation forBritain's support of the U.S. air strikeon Libya in April, the acts wereattributed to Libyan agents. Theterrorists were reportedly intent oncausing casualties rather thanproperty damage - several 60mmmortar rounds hit the housing areaand several rocket-propelledgrenades landed on the beach.

3-Aug-86 Cyprus Other Explosives3 0 CYPRUS. Rockets and mortar roundswere fired into the British air base atAkrotiri in southwest Cyprus, slightlyinjuring two British women and aCypriot bystander. The roundslanded near the living quarters formarried airmen. While rockets andmortar rounds were being fired atthe British air base in Akrotiri,terrorists sprayed machine-gun fireindiscriminately on a nearby beachcrowded with servicemen's families.While the Unified NasseriteOrganization and the Omar al-Mukhtar Martyr Group, believed tohave Palestinian links, claimedresponsibility in retaliation forBritain's support of the U.S. air strikeon Libya in April, the acts wereattributed to Libyan agents. Theterrorists were reportedly intent oncausing casualties rather thanproperty damage - several 60mmmortar rounds hit the housing areaand several rocket-propelledgrenades landed on the beach.

4-Aug-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives30 2 LEBANON. Two Armenians werekilled and thirty others seriouslyinjured when a bomb hidden inside asuitcase exploded outside a cafenext to a police station in ChristianEast Beirut. The explosion from the15 pound bomb caused the two-storybuilding housing the cafe to collapse.The concealed bomb had beenplaced at the entrance to the cafe,which is frequented by elderlyArmenian card players. Theresidential district where the attackoccurred is home to more than80,000 Armenians. Although nogroup claimed responsibility for theexplosion, Christian spokesmen haveaccused Syria's secret service ofengineering the bombing.

9-Aug-86 Stuttgart FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Agroup of Turkish terrorists ignited acan of gasoline at the entrance of theTurkish Consulate in Stuttgart, andthen fled. No one was injured in theattack and damage was reportedlynot significant.

10-Aug-86

Hanau FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.While an American family of five wasattending a local festival 100 yardsaway, a bomb exploded under theircar which was parked in a parking lotin Hanau. The car bore U.S. militarylicense plates. No one was injuredby the blast.

11-Aug-86


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. The Revolutionary People'sStruggle (ELA) claimed credit forthrowing a Molotov cocktail into theAthens branch of Citibank. Therewas considerable damage done tothe building, but since the attackoccurred about 4 am, there were nocasualties.

12-Aug-86

StrasbourgFrance Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Two gas bombs werethrown at the Turkish Consulate inStrasbourg, causing minor damage.No group claimed responsibility forthe attack. The attackers fired shotsas they fled.

13-Aug-86

VenezuelaNationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. The ELN kidnappedSpanish cattle rancher PolicarpoRoman Fuentes from his ranch inApure state.

13-Aug-86

Kabul AfghanistanOther Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. The Polish Embassyin Kabul was damaged by rocketsfired by Afghan guerrillas. Theembassy's communication facilitieswere destroyed.

15-Aug-86

SriLanka


Unknown0 1 SRI LANKA. A Danish man drivingalong a country road with his wifewas murdered by guerrillaseparatists. The man's wife hadbeen working on a government-sponsored project which theguerrillas opposed.

18-Aug-86

HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. ATurkish separatist guerrilla wascaught with explosives on thepremises of Turkey's HamburgConsulate. He had intended toassassinate Consul General MehmetNuri Ezen, but security guards hadbeen on the alert for a raid on theTurkish consulate.

19-Aug-86


Other Explosives13 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A four-storybuilding housing an Iranian newsvendor and an employment agencyin London, was destroyed by a bombwhich killed one person and injured13. Two men were seen runningfrom the building at the time of theexplosion. The news vendorapparently was opposed to theIranian regime of the AyatollahKhomeini and had been known to sellanti-Khomeini videotapes. Earlier inthe month the words your death iscoming were written in Persian onthe front of the shop. The consulatebuilding of the Islamic Republic ofIran is located almost directly behindthe bookshop. It was later reportedthat a terrorist posing as an Iran Airsecurity guard had slipped intoLondon to carry out the attack.

20-Aug-86


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN dynamited avital Colombian pipeline which ispartly owned by OccidentalPetroleum. The ELN insist that theyare determined to prevent theextraction of Colombian oil by amultinational company.

22-Aug-86

Lebanon Unknown Explosives2 1 LEBANON. An Irish member of the U.N. peacekeeping force in southernLebanon was killed by a bomb alongthe road. Two other Irishmen werewounded by the blast. It is notknown if the Irish patrol was theintended target.

22-Aug-86

France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb placed in thebuilding housing the offices of theAmerican auto firm General Motorscaused serious damage but noinjuries. No group claimedresponsibility.

22-Aug-86



0 2 ISRAEL. A spokesman for thePalestinian Revolutionary ForcesGeneral Command claimedresponsibility for the fatal stabbing oftwo Israeli soldiers who were onpatrol duty in Jerusalem.

24-Aug-86

Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Finnish contingent ofthe UN peacekeeping force wasattacked in southern Lebanon. Thetroops were hit with machinegun fireand rockets, however no casualtieswere sustained.

24-Aug-86

Beirut Lebanon ArabFedayeenCells

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Arab Fedayeen Cellsclaimed responsibility for thebombing of the Bank of America inBeirut.

26-Aug-86


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded near the NATOairfield of Teveren.

26-Aug-86


Explosives0 0 PERU. The People's RevolutionaryCommand (CRP) claimedresponsibility for a bomb attackagainst the Bolivian Embassy inLima. The attack was staged toprotest the Bolivian Government'sdecision to allow the presence of U.S.troops in Bolivian territory. The CRPis believed to be a splinter of theTupac Amaru RevolutionaryMovement (MRTA).

28-Aug-86

Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. In an attempt to pressurethe Iraqi and French governments,Islamic Jihad kidnapped an Iraqicitizen in Beirut. The group claimedthe Iraqi is a secret agent andoffered to exchange him for the twoIraqi dissidents recently deportedfrom France to Iraq.

29-Aug-86

Santiago Chile Unknown Firearms0 0 CHILE. Unidentified individuals firedmachinegun bursts from a car at twoCarabineros who were guarding theSouth African Embassy in Santiago.The two guards were not hit.

30-Aug-86

Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Basque separatists set fire toa French-registered car in Bilbao inwhat has come to be described as acar war in which activists set fire toFrench cars and trucks to protest aFrench government crackdown onBasque separatists living in France.

30-Aug-86

Beirut Lebanon ArabFedayeenCells

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A group calling itself theArab Fedayeen Cells claimedresponsibility for a bomb attackagainst a British bank in the Christiansector of Beirut.

31-Aug-86

Lima Peru Unknown Explosives6 0 PERU. A bomb went off under thecounter of a Soviet-owned shop inLima, seriously injuring six Sovietsailors. The shop is frequented bySoviet and Polish sailors. The TupacAmaru (MRTA) denied responsibilityin a phone call and said that theattack was perpetrated by a right-wing group.


UnitedStates


ChemicalAgent

21 0 UNITED STATES. A tear-gas grenadewas fired into the Metropolitan OperaHouse in New York City, forcing theevacuation of the theater. TheSoviet Union's Moiseyev DanceCompany had left the stage just fiveminutes earlier. Minutes after thetear gas was released, the newsservice received a call that membersof the Jewish Defense Leaguemovement were responsible for theaction. Twenty one people werehospitalized, including the SovietAmbassador, Yuri Dubinin. Threemembers of the JDL were arrested inMay, 1987 in connection with thisattack.

4-Sep-86 Lebanon Amal Explosives1 3 LEBANON. Three French members ofthe UN peacekeeping force werekilled and a fourth wounded when abomb exploded as they jogged insouthern Lebanon. Shiitefundamentalists were believedresponsible.

4-Sep-86 Paris France CommitteeofSolidaritywith ArabandMiddleEast

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. In a resumption of theirearlier bombing campaign, theCSPPA planted a bomb on a crowdedsubway train. The bomb failed todetonate. [See 2/3/86 incident]CSPPAclaimed all of the recent Parisbombings during this time.

5-Sep-86 Karachi Pakistan Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms127 19 PAKISTAN. A Pan Am Boeing 747about to take off from the Karachiairport, was seized by four Arabsdressed in the uniforms of airportsecurity guards. The hijacking ended17 hours later when the lights on theaircraft went out because of lack ofpower to the generator, and theterrorists panicked, opening fire onthe passengers. At least 19passengers were killed and about127 wounded. The hijackers, whohad demanded the release of threecomrades who are currently in prisonin Cyprus for the 1985 murder ofthree Israelis, were taken intocustody to stand trial in Pakistanicourts.According to a Miami Herald10/2/86 article, evidence was laterturned up which indicated that thehijacking of the Pan Am plane wasactually intended to be a suicidemission, and the hijackers may haveintended to destroy the plane inflight.In July 1988, five Palestinians,believed to be members of the AbuNidal organization, were sentencedto death by hanging for theirinvolvement in the hijacking.

6-Sep-86 Istanbul Turkey Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms3 24 TURKEY. Istanbul's main synagoguewas attacked by two Arab terroristsduring services, killing 22 andwounding three others. They openedfire on the worshipers and thendoused their victims' bodies withgasoline and set them afire. Next agrenade exploded, and two of theterrorists were killed. It is unclearwhether the grenades went offaccidentally or whether it wassuicide. Both the Palestine RevengeOrganization and the Northern ArabUnity Organization claimedresponsibility for the attack. TheIslamic Resistance claimed that ithad masterminded the action inretaliation for a recent Israeli raid ona guerrilla base in southern Lebanon.On 11/6/86, Turkey's state securitycourt released an indictmentclaiming that the Abu Nidal grouphad definitely been responsible forthe attack. Two members of AbuNidal who are linked to this incidentwere arrested in Italy in June 1987.

8-Sep-86 StockholmSweden Unknown Explosives0 0 SWEDEN. A bomb exploded outsidethe African National Congress officesin central Stockholm. Although thebomb caused extensive damage tothe building, no one was injured.


Explosives17 2 FRANCE. The post office in the ParisCity Hall was bombed, leaving oneperson dead and 18 injured. Anotherpoliceman died of his wounds a weeklater. The Committee of Solidaritywith the Arab and Middle EastPolitical Prisoners (CSPPA) claimedresponsibility. Evidence has shownthat the Iranian government wasdirectly involved in the 1986 Parisbombings. [See 2/3/86 incident]

8-Sep-86 Paris France Other Other 0 0 FRANCE. Ten Kurds, armed with fakegrenades, took eight people hostageat an Iraqi Airways office in Parisbefore surrendering to police an hourlater. The Kurds' only demand wasthat French television broadcast astatement protesting Iraq'smistreatment of the Kurdishpopulation. Although the broadcastwas never made, the Kurds seemedsatisfied with the publicity that theyhad managed to get from theincident.

9-Sep-86 Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb was discovered onthe doorstep of a Libyan firm calledAppeal of Islam. Police were alertedto the bomb by an unidentified caller.

9-Sep-86 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Frank Reed, director of aprivate school in West Beirut, waskidnapped from his car. Ananonymous caller claimed the actionfor Islamic Jihad.

11-Sep-86 Beirut Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Syrian-born Victor Kanowas kidnapped in West Beirut. Kanois an executive of the InternationalLions Club. The Arab RevolutionaryCells, believed to be an Abu Nidalsignature, claimed responsibility.Kano was set free by his captors onAugust 14, 1987 after 11 months incaptivity. Authorities did not disclosewhether or not a ransom had beenpaid.

12-Sep-86 Beirut Lebanon ArabFedayeenCells

Explosives1 0 LEBANON. One person was injuredby a bombing at a British bank in theChristian-controlled sector of Beirut.The Arab Fedayeen Cells claimedresponsibility. The same group hadclaimed the bombing of anotherBritish bank and also the Bank ofAmerica in Beirut in late August.


Explosives42 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in acafeteria at a busy shopping centerin Paris, injuring 42 people. TheCommittee of Solidarity with the Araband Middle East Political Prisoners(CSPPA) claimed responsibility.Evidence has shown that the Iraniangovernment was directly involved inthe 1986 Paris bombings. [See 2/3/86incident]

12-Sep-86 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Joseph J. Cicippio, anAmerican banker working for theAmerican University of Beirut waskidnapped from the university'sguarded campus in West Beirut. TheRevolutionary Justice Organizationclaimed responsibility. This group isbelieved linked to Hezbollah.OnFebruary 6, 1987 the RevolutionaryJustice Organization sent a note to awestern news agency in Beirut,accompanied by pictures of JosephCiccipio and Jean-Luis Normandin (aFrenchman taken hostage 3/8/86).The group warned that anyaggression by the U.S. military wouldplace the captives' lives in danger.The group is also holding AmericanEdward Tracy, kidnapped October21, 1986 in West Beirut. The notealso warned France about deliveringarms to Iraq.Joseph Ciccipio wasreleased early December 1991.

13-Sep-86 Lebanon Other Explosives5 1 LEBANON. A French member of theU.N. peacekeeping force was killedand five others were wounded by aland mine which went off along theroad.


Explosives2 1 FRANCE. One policeman was killedand two others seriously injured in anattack on a busy Champs Elyseesrestaurant in Paris. The bomb wasthe fourth left in a crowded Paris sitein the last ten days. The Committeeof Solidarity with the Arab and MiddleEast Political Prisoners (CSPPA)claimed responsibility. Evidence hasshown that the Iranian governmentwas directly involved in the 1986Paris bombings. [See 2/3/86incident]

14-Sep-86 Pakistan Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 1 PAKISTAN. An Iraqi diplomat waskilled when a remote-controlledexplosive went off under his car.(Manchester Guardian 9/21 claims itwas a time bomb under the frontseat of his car.) The Iraqi Embassy inIslamabad identified the deaddiplomat as vice-consul Nhthil Abdulal Salam. Iran denies anyinvolvement in the assassination.

14-Sep-86 Seoul Korea,South

Other Explosives19 5 SOUTH KOREA. At a time whenSouth Korean security was intensebecause of the Asian Games about tobe held there, a bomb exploded inSeoul's Kimpo International Airport,killing five and wounding at leastnineteen. The bomb used wasreportedly similar to that whichexploded in Rangoon, Burma inOctober 1983. That blast wasdirectly tied to the North Koreanregime.


Firearms0 1 MOROCCO. Polisario Front guerrillasin two speedboats attacked aSpanish merchant ship with machineguns and mortars. One crewman ofthe Spanish ship was killed.

15-Sep-86 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb went off outside the NATOcommunications office in Munich.The building also houses theadministrative offices of the Panaviafirm, manufacturer of NATO'sToronado fighter plane. A warningcall was made a few minutes beforethe blast. Red Army Faction issuspected. An earlier attack againstNATO occurred August 26 at theNATO airfield in Teveren.


Explosives51 1 FRANCE. A public office in the Parispolice headquarters was blown apartby another bombing in the campaignby Middle East terrorists for therelease of three imprisonedcomrades. One person was killed inthe blast and 51 others werewounded. In Beirut a French-speaking telephone caller tookresponsibility for the bombing onbehalf of a group called theCommittee of Solidarity for Arab andMiddle East Political Prisoners.

17-Sep-86 Paris France Other Explosives60 5 FRANCE. A bomb went off in acrowded discount clothing and textilestore in Paris, killing five and injuring60. The bomb was thrown by twomen in a passing car. Wantedposters, picturing two Lebanese menaccused of taking part in thebombing campaign in order toblackmail France for the release oftheir older brother, and offering$150,000 for information leading totheir arrest, have been posted allover France. The two men portrayedon the posters, Maurice IbrahimAbdallah, and Robert IbrahimAbdallah, held a news conference inTripoli, Lebanon, denying theirinvolvement in the bombings.

17-Sep-86 Tel Aviv Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Fatah's Force 17 hasclaimed responsibility for explosivecharges which were thrown into theEl Al offices in Tel Aviv.


Explosives0 0 PERU. A powerful bomb explodedinside a guard booth of the ChileanEmbassy on one of Lima's mainthoroughfares. The guard booth wasvirtually destroyed. Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement (MRTA)pamphlets were found at the sceneclaiming credit for the act. Theattack occurred on Chile'sindependence day and a receptionwas scheduled to take place at theambassador's residence.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Dynamite sticks were hurledat the Chilean ambassador'sresidence hours before a receptionwas scheduled to take place forChile's independence day. TupacAmaru Revolutionary Movement(MRTA) pamphlets were found at thescene claiming credit for the act.

18-Sep-86 EastBeirut

Lebanon Front ofJusticeandRevenge

Firearms0 1 LEBANON. The Front of Justice andRevenge claimed responsibility forthe assassination of the Frenchmilitary attache outside the embassyin Christian East Beirut. A loneassassin shot Col. Christian Goutierrethree times in the head at point-blank range. In London the Anti-Imperialist International Brigade alsoclaimed responsibility for theassassination. The caller stated thatuntil Georges Abdallah is releasedfrom a French prison, assassinationsof French diplomats will continue.Hussein Moustapha Tlayss wassentenced to life imprisonment withhard labor in October 1996.

20-Sep-86 Turkey Other Other 0 0 TURKEY. Three Iranians werearrested after an attempt to smugglea briefcase wired for explosivesaboard a Turk Air flight to northernCyprus. While no actual explosiveswere found inside, the handle waswired to explode if touched and themechanism set off alarms at securitychecks.

21-Sep-86 IslamabadPakistan Unknown Firearms1 0 PAKISTAN. Four armed menpenetrated security at IslamabadInternational Airport and got onto therunway where they shot a securityguard and fled. The guard waswounded after the men wereobserved on the runway and he wassent to investigate. There isreported speculation that thisincident occurred about one hourbefore a Saudi Arabian airliner wasscheduled to land (about midnight),and that this was the intendedtarget.

24-Sep-86 Lebanon Amal Firearms1 0 LEBANON. A Nepalese soldierserving with the United Nationspeacekeeping force was shot in theface by gunmen in southernLebanon. The gunmen, believed tobe Shiite Moslems, arrived at theNepalese post at Kadmus school nearthe port of Tyre and asked for waterto drink. One of them suddenly shotthe Nepalese sentry in the face andwalked away. The Nepalese tookover the Kadmus position from theFrench three days ago. The Frenchbattalion, the largest in the force,had decided to move to safer areasafter its positions had come underrepeated attacks.

25-Sep-86 SriLanka


Unknown0 1 SRI LANKA. A German engineerattached to the Deutsche Welle radiorelay station was killed by theLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelambecause the engineer had gotteninvolved in a dispute between rivalterrorist groups.

26-Sep-86 Lebanon Amal Unknown0 0 LEBANON. David Hirst, acorrespondent for the Guardiannewspaper fought off kidnapperswho dragged him out of a taxi whilehis three armed escorts were fixing aflat tire. Hirst said the three gunmenshoved him into the back of a BMW,blindfolded him and sped off. Whenthe car arrived at a house on thesouthern outskirts of Beirut, Hirstmanaged to break away from hiscaptors and jump into a passing taxi.The gunmen, who claimed to bemembers of the Amal militia, weretaken totally by surprise and did noteven attempt to chase Hirst. Hirstfelt that his abductors may havebeen thugs rather than members ofAmal.

28-Sep-86 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. French journalist Jean-Marc Sroussi was kidnapped in WestBeirut. During a heavy rainstorm,Srousi managed to escape byenlarging a hole in the wall with abrick that his captors hadinadvertently left in his room. Sroussibelieves his captors may have beenmembers of Hezbollah.

29-Sep-86 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. ELN guerrillas claimedresponsibility for destroying theChevron oil pumping station in LaForesta. Property damage wasestimated at about $1.5 million.

1-Oct-86 Kabul AfghanistanOther Explosives0 3 AFGHANISTAN. Afghan rebelsattacked the Soviet Embassy inKabul, killing two Soviet children anda guard. There were conflictingreports on whether a rocket or abomb caused the explosion.

1-Oct-86 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb placed inside themen's room on the second floor ofthe Chilean-American Institutebuilding in Santiago exploded,causing minor damage.

3-Oct-86 Tehran Iran Unknown Firearms0 0 IRAN. The Syrian consul waskidnapped in Tehran when men in aBMW sedan and an ambulanceintercepted his car and forced himinto the ambulance. The assailantsfired six shots into the air and spedaway. Iyad Mahmoud was freedseveral hours later after high levelcontacts between the governments.The incident was downplayed by theIranian government.

8-Oct-86 Bogota Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. The residence of Chileanambassador Alvaro Salvadores Salviwas attacked by unidentifiedgunmen; however the ambassadormanaged to escape unharmed. TheChilean Embassy in Bogota was firedon the same day.

8-Oct-86 Bogota Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. The Chilean Embassy inBogota was attacked by gunfire. Nogroup claimed credit.

8-Oct-86 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA claimed responsibility fora bomb that went off at a Peugeotdealership in San Sebastian.

14-Oct-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. The Soviet Embassy inBeirut was fired on by gunmen in apassing car.

15-Oct-86 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives65 1 ISRAEL. A grenade attack at theWailing Wall in Jerusalem killed oneperson and injured 65 others. Theattack occurred after an elite unit ofthe Israeli Army had been sworn in atone of Judaism's holiest shrines. Thesoldiers were gathered with theirfamilies in the parking lot when thehand grenades were thrown into thecrowd. The attackers apparentlyescaped in a car that sped throughthe Arab neighborhood. The PLOclaimed responsibility. Threesuspects were later arrested. Theyreportedly had been recruited by AlFatah, while they claimed to bemembers of Islamic Jihad. The linksbetween the groups are still rathervague.

16-Oct-86 Sudan EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Explosives1 1 SUDAN. Two Eritrean refugees haveconfessed to a car bomb which killedone Eritrean leader and injuredanother. The police sources attributethe incident to disputes betweenEritrean warring factions.

18-Oct-86 BarcelonaSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA claimed responsibility forbombs at three Renault autodealerships, a Citroen showroom andtwo attacks at Crueset and Rossignolcompanies in Barcelona and one on aKronenbourg beer shop at Lasarte.Four passers-by were injured by theblasts.

18-Oct-86 Lasarte Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)












19-Oct-86 Mardin Turkey Unknown Unknown0 0 TURKEY. An unidentified group ofarmed men attacked a NATO radarstation in Mardin, in southwesternTurkey. This was the first attackagainst a NATO installation in Turkey.Damage was minor.

20-Oct-86 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. A fire bombexploded outside a stage door at theLincoln Center in New York where theMoscow State Orchestra wasperforming. Cannisters containing aflammable liquid were found near thescene. A call to a news agency priorto the incident advised there will beno Soviet Nazi performance until 3million Soviet Jews are freed. TheJewish Defense League is considereda suspect.

21-Oct-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives2 0 LEBANON. An explosive mine wentoff in the gardens of the FrenchEmbassy in Beirut. Two Frenchsoldiers guarding the building wereinjured.

21-Oct-86 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 1 GREECE. Abu Ghazala, a member ofthe National Palestinian Council, theRevolutionary Council of Al Fatah andthe Supreme Military Council of theRevolutionary Palestinian Forces wasassassinated by a car bomb in aneast Athens suburb. A group callingitself the Palestinian RevengeOrganization--Deir Yassin Unitclaimed they had murdered Ghazala.

21-Oct-86 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Edward A. Tracy, anAmerican salesman of the Koran, waskidnapped in Beirut by theRevolutionary Justice Organization,believed linked to Hezbollah. Thegroup is accusing Tracy of being aCIA spy for the Mossad. Tracy hasbeen a permanent resident inLebanon since 1976.On February 6,1987 the Revolutionary JusticeOrganization sent a note to awestern news agency in Beirut,accompanied by pictures ofAmerican Joseph Ciccipio (kidnapped9/12/86) and Jean-Luis Normandin (aFrenchman taken hostage 3/8/86)who are also being held by thegroup. The group warned that anyaggression by the U.S. military wouldplace the captives' lives in danger.The note also warned France aboutdelivering arms to Iraq.Tracy wasreleased August 11, 1991.

22-Oct-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. For the second time thismonth, the Soviet Embassy was firedon by gunmen in a car. Thebuilding's guards returned fire.

22-Oct-86 AyacuchoPeru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms8 5 PERU. In Ayacucho, leftist guerrillasattacked an adobe chapel ofJehovah's Witness with automaticweapons fire, killing five andwounding eight. Shining Pathguerrillas accused survivors of beingservants of Yankee imperialism.

23-Oct-86 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Gunmen in Beirutattempted to kidnap the Greekmilitary attache who was en routefrom the embassy to his home.

24-Oct-86 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Firearms0 1 TURKEY. The former bodyguard ofthe late Shah of Iran was shot atpoint blank range and killed in anIstanbul suburb. Col. Ahmad HamedMonfared was the third formerIranian army officer to be killed inTurkey in 17 months. Sources saidthe former officers were known to bein touch with army officers insideIran working to overthrow Moslemreligious leader Ayatollah Khomeini.

24-Oct-86 Manila PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Explosives3 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb went off at theentrance of a McDonald's restaurantin Manila, injuring three people. TheNPA was responsible.

25-Oct-86 Beirut Lebanon CommitteeofSolidaritywith ArabandMiddleEast

Explosives1 0 LEBANON. A bomb placed under acar with diplomatic plates went off infront of the Italian Embassy'stemporary quarters in Beirut. AnItalian diplomat was slightly injuredby the blast. An individual claimingto speak on behalf of the Committeefor Solidarity with Arab and MiddleEastern Prisoners said This is awarning to Italy and France. He thendemanded the immediate release ofdetainees in France and Italy.

26-Oct-86 JerusalemIsrael Other Unknown1 0 ISRAEL. A young Palestinian tried tohijack a bus carrying schoolgirls andforce the bus over a cliff nearJerusalem. A young femalepassenger wrestled with the attackerafter the assailant struck the driverwith a stone. The hijacker was takeninto custody but no other informationwas available.

28-Oct-86 Zahedan Iran Unknown Explosives9 0 IRAN. A bomb went off near theformer offices of an Afghanopposition group in Zahedan. Ninepeople were injured in the attack. Nogroup claimed responsibility.

31-Oct-86 WestBerlin


ArabLiberationFront(ALF)

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An automobile parked near the U.S.Tempelhof Air Base in West Berlinexploded just after a man believed tobe Middle Eastern was seen runningfrom the vehicle. The group ArabLiberation Front, Lebanon claimedresponsibility for the blast.

5-Nov-86 Beirut Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Unidentified individualsfired a rocket at the RomanianEmbassy in Beirut, causing materialdamage but no casualties. Since AbuNidal had condemned a meeting inRomania between Israeli pacifistsand members of the PLO, the groupis suspect.

5-Nov-86 Manama Bahrain Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 BAHRAIN. Two rockets were fired atthe Romanian Embassy. The FatahRevolutionary Council led by PLOdissident Abu Nidal has condemned ameeting in Romania between Israelipacifists and members of the PLO.

6-Nov-86 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb went off at a Renaultdealership in San Sebastian.

6-Nov-86 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. ELN guerrillas wereresponsible for blowing up part of theCano Limon oil pipeline. The pipelineis operated by Ecopetrol and the U.S.-based Occidental PetroleumCorporation.

11-Nov-86

Antwerp Belgium Other Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. The Call of Jesus Christclaimed credit for a bomb thatexploded outside one of Belgium'smain synagogues in the Jewishquarter of Antwerp. There were nocasualties. The Call of Jesus Christ isreported to be supported by Libya.

11-Nov-86

Cairo Egypt Unknown Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A booby-trapped car wasdiscovered near the U.S. Embassy inCairo and the device wassuccessfully deactivated 15 minutesbefore it was set to explode.

11-Nov-86

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Gunmen opened fire onthe Iranian Embassy in West Beirut.The embassy guards returned fire,but no one was reported injured.

11-Nov-86


Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Rightist Mozambicanrebels are holding three WestGermans, a Portuguese and a Britonwho were working for a EuropeanCommunity aid project in northwestTete province. It was reported inDecember 1986 that RENAMOreleased all hostages being held.

12-Nov-86


Explosives0 0 PERU. Police discovered a home-made bomb hidden inside a doll inthe street outside of the Bolivar Hotelwhere Spanish Prime Minister FelipeGonzalez was staying while on anofficial visit. The bomb was similar incomposition to those used bySendero Luminoso.

14-Nov-86

JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Unknown0 1 ISRAEL. A Yeshiva student wasmurdered in Jerusalem by three Arabyouths. The PLO's Force 17 claimedresponsibility, but the governmentreportedly believes the PFLP to beresponsible.

16-Nov-86



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Hind Alameh Fighting Cell unit ofthe Red Army Faction claimedresponsibility for a bomb that wentoff at the IBM Corp. in Heidelberg.No casualties were reported. HindAlameh was a member of the RAFwho was killed during a 1977hijacking.

20-Nov-86

Lebanon Unknown Explosives5 8 LEBANON. A suicide car bomberkilled three members of the U.N.peacekeeping force from the Fijiandivision and four civilians at a U.N.roadblock in southern Lebanon. Thedriver was also killed. Two otherFijian soldiers, two other civilians anda member of an Israeli-backed militiawere injured.

23-Nov-86


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The Cano Limon oilpipeline was bombed in threedifferent places, causing a seriousloss for the jointly owned Ecopetrol-Occidental Petroleum companies.The pipeline was bombed earlier inNovember and the Minister of theInterior claimed that the pipeline hasbeen attacked more than 23 timessince its completion a little over ayear ago. The ELN was responsiblefor all these November attacks.

23-Nov-86



23-Nov-86



23-Nov-86

MelbourneAustralia GreekBulgarianArmenianFront

Explosives0 1 AUSTRALIA. A powerful car bombexploded outside of the TurkishEmbassy in Melbourne, and asuspect in the attack was killed. Agroup calling itself the Greek-Bulgarian-Armenian Front claimedresponsibility for the attack, whichtook place at about 2 am.

25-Nov-86


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A member of theOccidental Petroleum (oil) Company'sCommunity Assistance Program waskidnapped by members of the ELN.Paul Janer was released in late March1987. Payment of any ransom wasdenied.

27-Nov-86

Morocco Unknown Firearms0 0 MOROCCO. A Spanish fishing boatwas machine gunned by a motorizedrubber dinghy off the Saharan coast.The craft was set on fire by theattack but the crew was uninjured.

4-Dec-86 France Unknown Firearms0 1 FRANCE. The right hand man of oneof the sons of the Syrian vice-president, Rif'at al-Asad, was founddead on the slope of a highway nearMontelivar. He had been shotthrough the head.

13-Dec-86


Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Three Italianmissionaries were kidnapped bymembers of the MNR in the northernpart of the country. They werereleased on April 3, 1987.

14-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A Citroen auto dealership inBarcelona sustained substantialdamage when a car bomb detonatedoutside its doors. ETA wasresponsible.

14-Dec-86

CopenhagenDenmark Unknown Explosives0 0 DENMARK. An explosive device wastossed over the gates into thegrounds of the Soviet embassy inCopenhagen, causing minor damage.No one claimed responsibility.

15-Dec-86

Baalbek Lebanon Unknown Explosives2 0 LEBANON. An explosion took placeat the Syrian intelligence center nearBaalbek. Two Syrians were slightlyinjured.

15-Dec-86


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN was responsiblefor an attack against the WesternGeophysical Company of America inwhich they stole 80 pounds ofexplosives and caused extensivedamage.

16-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two powerful bombs went offat French-owned businesses inBarcelona, injuring 28 people. Oneof the attacks involved a 33-poundbomb packed with shrapnel whichset fire to a six-story building. Thebomb went off in a furniture store.

16-Dec-86


Explosives28 0 SPAIN. Two powerful bombs went offat French-owned businesses inBarcelona, injuring 28 people. Oneof the attacks involved a 33-poundbomb packed with shrapnel whichset fire to a six-story building. Thebomb went off in a furniture store.

19-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb went off outside anIBM warehouse entrance in Lima.Tupac Amaru claimed responsibility.

19-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 PERU. The residence of a Christiangroup that works with Amazon tribeswas bombed by the Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement.

19-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru RevolutionaryMovement claimed responsibility fora bomb that went off at a U.S.cultural institute.

19-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb damaged an Agencyfor International Developmentwarehouse in Lima. Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement claimedresponsibility.

19-Dec-86


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Members of ETA abductedthe technical director of the French-owned Agremont Company in Bilbaoand held him until an incendiarydevice could be activated in thebuilding. The building burned to theground as he watched.

21-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 PERU. Members of the Tupac Amarugroup were responsible for a smallbomb that went off outside thegarage of the U.S.I.S. office in Lima.

21-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb went off at the localLima offices of Interpol. TupacAmaru guerrillas were responsible.

21-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb was found and safelydeactivated at a local Kodakprocessing plant in Lima.

22-Dec-86

BadMuenstereifel


Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Mutafa Aktas Fighting Unitclaimed responsibility for a mailbomb sent to the Kurt SchumacherEducation Center in BadMuenstereifel. The group sent aseven page communique claiming tobe sympathetic to the RAF andexplaining that they had bombed thecenter because it claims it doesdirect intelligence work for theFriedrich-Ebert Foundation to which itbelongs. The letter had beenpostmarked in Kaarst, nearDuesseldorf. Only minor damagewas sustained and there were noinjuries.

23-Dec-86

Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. After threats were receivedon a nearly daily basis, a suitcasefilled with explosives was found infront of the Lebanese embassy inParis. Being unable to defuse thebomb, authorities detonated it,causing some damage to thebuilding.

23-Dec-86

Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A Mormon church was thetarget of a bombing in Santiago.

24-Dec-86


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. ETA claimed responsibility forarson attacks against two Frenchregistered cars and a machine gunattack on a French truck.

24-Dec-86


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. ETA claimed responsibility forarson attacks against two Frenchregistered cars and a machine gunattack on a French truck.

24-Dec-86


Firearms0 0 SPAIN. ETA claimed responsibility forarson attacks against two Frenchregistered cars and a machine gunattack on a French truck.

24-Dec-86


Explosives0 1 SPAIN. ETA claimed responsibility fora bomb that went off at a French-owned supermarket. A policemanwas killed when he picked up apackage which contained the bomb.Authorities said that a caller hadadvised that a bomb was in the storeset to explode within an hour. Thedevice went off a half an hour early.

25-Dec-86

Beirut Lebanon Amal Firearms1 1 LEBANON. Libyan diplomat MusbahGharibeh was assassinated in aSyrian-controlled area of Beirut bygunmen in a passing car. Apassenger in his car was injured.Shiites are suspected.

25-Dec-86

TheHague

NetherlandsOther Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. A man fromRotterdam was arrested inconnection with the arson attackagainst a car belonging to the SovietEmbassy in the Hague. The car wasparked near the embassy at the timeof the attack. The man has admittedto having set the fire in protestagainst the Soviet occupation ofAfghanistan. It was reportedly a one-man operation.

25-Dec-86

Baghdad Iraq Hizballah Explosives32 69 IRAQ. Sixty seven people were killedwhen an Iraqi Airways jetliner enroute from Baghdad to Saudi Arabiacrashed in the Saudi Arabian desertafter being hijacked by unknowngunmen shortly after takeoff. IslamicJihad claimed responsibility for thehijacking, as well as a group calledthe Revolutionary Work Organization.The Gulf News Agency quoted anIraqi official as saying that one of thetwo hijackers was killed by a securityofficer and that the other died in thecrash. He claimed that the twohijackers were agents of the Iranianregime. Apparently about an hourafter takeoff a man with a handgrenade jumped up from his seat inthe economy class section and rantowards the cockpit. A shootoutensued and continued for abouttwenty minutes before an explosionwent off within the cockpit. Thefatalities included 23 Iraqis, 22Sudanese, 14 Egyptians, 2Jordanians, 2 Palestinians and 2 ofthe 4 hijackers.

25-Dec-86

Madrid Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb went off in a French-owned hotel in Madrid just after amember of ETA called the hotel witha warning. There were no injuries.

27-Dec-86

Ethiopia EthiopianPeople'sRevolutionaryArmy

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. The Ethiopian People'sRevolutionary Army raided agovernment road constructionproject and abducted two Italiansand an unspecified number ofEthiopians from the site. The Italiansworked for a Rome-basedconstruction company. The groupreported that all the captives weresafe and well. However, severalbodies were recovered after theinitial raid on the construction camp.The Italians were released inFebruary 1987.

28-Dec-86


Explosives1 0 SPAIN. The Renault and Peugeotauto dealerships were bombed nearBilbao. An unidentified callerclaiming to belong to ETA called in awarning before the blasts occurred;however one woman was hurtanyway by flying glass.

28-Dec-86


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Renault and Peugeotauto dealerships were bombed nearBilbao. An unidentified callerclaiming to belong to ETA called in awarning before the blasts occurred;however one woman was hurtanyway by flying glass.

2-Jan-87 LuxembourgUnknown Unknown0 0 LUXEMBOURG. U.S. built M-60 tankshoused at a NATO military campwere sabotaged. About 100 tankswere affected.


Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Mozambique NationalResistance Movement (MNR)guerrillas captured a Portuguese aidworker, his wife and child.

4-Jan-87 Paris France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. An incendiary device wasthrown at an American Embassyvehicle parked outside the residentialcompound in Boulogne.

6-Jan-87 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb was found andsafely dismantled at the IsraeliEmbassy in Tegucigalpa.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasbombed a 12-story building housingthe Austrian Embassy, EasternAirlines and offices of the World Bankand the United Nations. Windows ofthe first five floors were knocked outby the blast. No one was injured.Eastern Airlines was reportedly theintended target.

7-Jan-87 Athens Greece Unknown Firearms0 1 GREECE. Mahmud al-Mustafa, ananti-Qaddafi Libyan traveling on aforged Kuwaiti passport, wasassassinated by two unidentifiedgunmen while he was dining with afriend in a tavern in Athens. The twoassailants escaped in a Peugeot withforeign plates.

8-Jan-87 Athens Greece Unknown Unknown0 1 GREECE. A former warrant officerwith the Iranian army, AhmadMoshkabadi, was assassinated inAthens. Authorities weren't sure thatthe killing was politically motivated.

8-Jan-87 Nicosia Cyprus Hizballah Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb was discovered ona street next to the U.S. Embassyand Hilton Hotel in Nicosia. Thedevice was safely detonated by abomb squad. Officials believe theParty of God organization (Hezbollah)to be responsible.

10-Jan-87 Larnaca Cyprus Hizballah Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb reportedly plantedby Arabs went off in Larnaca in theformer apartment of a Lebanese mannow being held on explosivescharges in a Cyprus prison. A notewritten in English was found at thescene of the explosion, demandingthe release of Amin Sulayman Za'rur.Officials believe the Party of Godorganization (Hezbollah) to beresponsible.

11-Jan-87 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A home-made bombwas discovered and safelydeactivated at the Mexican Embassyin Tegucigalpa. No group claimedresponsibility.

12-Jan-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Saudi Arabian diplomatBakr Damanhouri was kidnappedfrom his home in West Beirut by twogunmen. He was held captive untilMarch 18, 1987. No group claimedresponsibility and Damanhouri, uponhis release, did not name his captors.

12-Jan-87 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The National Army ofLiberation (ELN) abducted aVenezuelan cattle rancher. He wasrescued several hours later.

13-Jan-87 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A French reporter wasseized by gunmen in Beirut momentsafter he interviewed Terry Waiteabout his efforts to free the hostagesin Lebanon. Roger Auque and acompanion had just left the interviewwhen gunmen grabbed them both.His colleague managed to escape.Auque's captors, who claim to belongto the Revolutionary JusticeOrganization (believed to be IslamicJihad), released him on November27, 1987. Released with him wasJean-Louis Normandin who the grouphad abducted in 1986. Chirac claimsthat no ransom was paid for the two.Within a few days of the release,however, Wahid Gordji, an Iranianofficial suspected of helping terroristsduring the Paris bombing raids, wasallowed to leave France, after havingbeen holed up in the Iranian embassyin Paris for the past five months.

14-Jan-87 Bogota Colombia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. An arson fire causedminor damage to the SpanishEmbassy in Bogota.

15-Jan-87 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Unknown0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Iranian exile Ali Akbar Mohammadiwas murdered by two unknownassailants in Hamburg. Mohammadiwas the former chief pilot of IranianMajlis Speaker Rafsanjani. Thegunmen escaped.

15-Jan-87 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb went off near the U.S.Embassy in Lima. Sendero Luminosois suspected.

17-Jan-87 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A businessman fromHamburg, West Germany was seizedby the Organization of the Oppressedon Earth in Beirut. Rudolf Cordes,the Middle East manager for theHoechst chemical company, was inBeirut on business. The recent spateof abductions in Beirut has beenlinked to the arrest of Hezbollahmember, Mohammed Hamadei, inFrankfurt on charges of carryingconcealed explosives. Hamadei iswanted by the U.S. on air piracy andmurder charges in connection withthe hijacking of a TWA passengerplane in 1985. Cordes' abductorshave demanded the release ofMuhammad and Ali Abbas Hamadeifrom West Germany in exchange forCordes.Rudolf Cordes was releasedby his captors on September 12,1988.Abbas Ali Hamadei was foundguilty of having arranged thekidnapping of both Cordes andSchmidt. He received a 13 yearprison sentence by a German court.

17-Jan-87 Morocco PolisarioFront

Unknown0 0 MOROCCO. A Swedish couple thatwas sailing off the coast of Moroccowas captured by Polisario guerrillasafter the group destroyed thecouple's boat. After the AlgerianEmbassy intervened, the couple wasexpected to be released right away.Polisario guerrillas consider the coastalong Morocco and Algeria to be awar zone.

19-Jan-87 JerusalemIsrael Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)


2 0 ISRAEL. The Fatah RevolutionaryCouncil group of Abu Nidal claimedresponsibility for stabbing two Jewishyouths in Jerusalem. The PLOaccused them of being agents ofIsraeli intelligence who had tried tointerfere with a Palestinian combatunit carrying out a mission. Thestabbings set off a wave of protest inthe area.

20-Jan-87 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Alfred Schmidt, a Germanengineer with the SiemensElectronics firm, was kidnapped fromhis first floor suite in the Summerlandhotel on the beach of West Beirut bythe Organization of the Oppressed onEarth. This abduction has been linkedto the arrest of Mohammed Hamadeiin Frankfurt. According to a Beirutsecurity expert, a cousin of theimprisoned Hamadei brothers wasworking at the luxury hotel as ahouseman. The kidnappersdemanded the release of Muhammadand Ali Abbas Hamadei from WestGermany in exchange for Cordes andSchmidt.Alfred Schmidt was releasedon September 7, 1987 amid rumorsthat Siemens had paid a multi-million dollar ransom. Schmidtclaims to have been treated wellduring captivity.Abbas Ali Hamadeiwas found guilty of having arrangedthe kidnapping of both Cordes andSchmidt. He received a 13 yearprison sentence by a German court.

23-Jan-87 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two men, believed to beGermans, were abducted from astore in West Beirut. TheOrganization of the Oppressed of theEarth, believed to be another namefor Hezbollah, claimed responsibilityfor the abductions and stated thevictims would be executed if WestGermany did not free accusedhijacker Mohammed Ali Hamadei.

23-Jan-87 MauritaniaPolisarioFront

Explosives0 0 MAURITANIA. The Panamanian bulkcarrier, Maritime King, was hit byrocket and machine- gun fire off thecoast of Mauritania. Polisarioguerrillas are believed responsible.

24-Jan-87 Somalia Other Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. The Somali NationalMovement kidnapped ten Frenchdoctors belonging to the groupDoctors Without Borders. The tenwere freed unharmed two weekslater.

24-Jan-87 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Four professors werekidnapped from a college campus inWest Beirut by gunmen wearingpolice uniforms. Three of the victimswere Americans, Robert Polhill, AlanSteen and Jesse Turner. The fourthvictim was an Indian, MithileshwarSingh, who holds Americanresidency. A group calling itselfIslamic Jihad for the Liberation ofPalestine claimed to be holding theprofessors and threatened to killthem if their demands were not met.The group also demanded therelease of 400 Palestinians beingheld by Israel in exchange for thefour professors.Singh was releasedby his captors on October 3, 1988during a flurry of speculationregarding the fate of the hostagesand the upcoming U.S. presidentialelections.Robert Polhill was releasedin April 1990.Turner was releasedOctober 21, 1991.Alan Steen wasreleased early December 1991.

24-Jan-87 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Amal Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. A bomb went off behind apolice station in Kuwait City. Pro-Iranian terrorists are suspected.

24-Jan-87 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Other Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. A car laden with explosivesblew up behind the Meridien Hotel inKuwait where many foreignjournalists were assembled to covera summit conference of Moslemleaders. Pro-Iranian extremists whohad previously vowed to disrupt thesummit are being blamed for theexplosion.


Explosives0 3 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillasassaulted the Indian Embassy inLima with machine-gun fire anddynamite. Three policemen werekilled in the attack, which coincidedwith President Alan Garcia's officialvisit to India.

26-Jan-87 Beirut Lebanon Partisansof HolyWar

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A Saudi Arabianbusinessman, Khaled Deeb, waskidnapped while he was on the roadto Beirut International Airport. Hewas freed March 20, 1987. ThePartisans of Holy War claimedresponsibility. The group claimed tobe protesting an Islamic summit inKuwait.


Firearms0 0 PERU. Correspondents at Reutersbroadcasting center in Lima wereforced at gunpoint to broadcaststatements denouncing the Peruvianand Indian governments by membersof Sendero Luminoso. The takeoverof the station came at a time whenPresident Garcia was making anofficial visit to India.

27-Jan-87 Santiago Chile Unknown Unknown1 0 CHILE. A Belgian priest waskidnapped on the streets of Santiagoby three men and a woman who kepttheir faces covered. Father GuidoPeeters was beaten, threatened andstripped by his abductors beforebeing photographed naked. Upon hisrelease, Peeters returned to Belgium.Peeters had been in charge of aparish in one of the poorest slums inSantiago, a site of frequentdemonstrations against PresidentAugusto Pinochet's military regime.

29-Jan-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A Swiss woman waskidnapped in Beirut. Her kidnappersapparently thought she was French,and upon establishing her nationalityas Swiss, her abductors released her.

29-Jan-87 Lebanon Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

6 0 LEBANON. Six Irish soldiers of the U.N. peacekeeping force were injuredafter an explosion occurred at theIrish battalion headquarters insouthern Lebanon. Five remote-controlled bombs had been placedinside the headquarters. Four of thebombs were defused in time but thefifth did explode, seriously injuringtwo soldiers.

30-Jan-87 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. U.S. officials announcedthat Anglican envoy Terry Waite wastaken hostage in Lebanon. Mr.Waite's latest visit to Beirut to securefreedom for U.S. hostages began inearly January, but direct contact withhim was lost on January 20. He isbelieved to be held by Islamic Jihad.He was released on 18 November1991.

31-Jan-87 Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Gunmen kidnapped twoAmericans and an Englishman fromthe UN Emergency Forces. Syrianintelligence claims to have freed thecaptives after chasing and arrestingthe kidnappers.

1-Feb-87 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An Egyptian ship, FastCarrier, was slightly damaged by twolimpet mines that had been placedon the port side of the vessel. Therewere no casualties.

1-Feb-87 Kabul AfghanistanOther Explosives17 4 AFGHANISTAN. Four people werekilled when a car bomb exploded infront of the Indian Embassy in Kabul.Fifteen diplomatic staff members andtwo Indian Airlines employees werewounded. Afghan officials areblaming Islamic guerrillas for theattack, however there has been noclaim of responsibility.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb was discovered anddefused at the French auto firm,Renault, near Bilbao. The Basquegroup ETA is believed responsible.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA is believed to have beenresponsible for a bomb explosion atthe Bilbao laboratories of the Swisspharmaceutical corporation, Sandoz.

13-Feb-87 Iraq PatrioticUnion ofKurdistan(PUK)

Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Kurdish resistance fightersbelonging to the anti-Iraq PatrioticUnion of Kurdistan abducted aGerman construction worker and aTurk in a bid to force the release of anumber of Kurdish prisoners. Thetwo were released on March 26,1987.

15-Feb-87 FederalRepublicofGermany

AutonomousCells

Other 0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Autonomous Cells claimedresponsibility for an act of sabotageagainst a U.S. passenger train whichcaused an estimated $20,000damage. Two ship's anchors weredropped onto the overhead cable ofthe Brehem-Hannover railway in anattack the group said was directedagainst the imperialist war machineof the U.S.

16-Feb-87 VenezuelaNationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. Guerrillas of theNational Liberation Army of Colombia(ELN) crossed into Venezuela andkidnapped a Venezuelan rancher andhis wife. On February 21 theAssociation of Cattle Ranchers met inVenezuela to deal with the problemsin the region being brought on byColombian guerrillas.

18-Feb-87 Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. An Australian captain whois part of the UN observation team insouthern Lebanon escapedunharmed after members ofHezbollah attempted to kidnap him.Members of the Amal militia wereable to aid the Australian andprevent the abduction.

18-Feb-87 Madrid Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. An explosion in the parkinglot of the American Embassy causedslight damage to windows and anembassy vehicle.

19-Feb-87 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 1 SPAIN. A cleaning woman was killedwhen a powerful bomb went off at aRenault dealership. ETA claimedresponsibility for the attack.

19-Feb-87 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives62 10 PAKISTAN. Ten people were killedand sixty two others injured when atruck bomb exploded outside anAfghan guerrilla office in Peshawar.Afghan guerrillas blamed Soviet andAfghan agents for the attack.

21-Feb-87 Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. A large car bomb exploded infront of the U.S.-owned SouthernPeru Copper Company.

22-Feb-87 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives17 0 ISRAEL. Seventeen people wereinjured when a grenade was tossedoutside the Damascus Gate ofJerusalem's Old City as a change ofshifts between two patrols of borderguards was occurring. Twelve of thewounded were soldiers. A PLOspokesman said the attack had beencarried out by a group called the AliAbu Taouk unit.

25-Feb-87 Lebanon LebaneseLiberationFront

Explosives21 1 LEBANON. A powerful car bombwent off shortly after a funeral marchfor 18 Hezbollah members who hadbeen killed by Syrian troops the daybefore. The Lebanese LiberationOrganization claimed responsibilityfor the bomb that killed one andinjured 21 others and said that thebomb was aimed at Syrian troops.As the angry funeral processionpassed through the streets the groupchanted, Death to Syria, Death toIsrael, Death to America.

4-Mar-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. A Lebanese official at theTurkish Embassy in Beirut was shotby gunmen who stormed his home.Burhan Dunay died of his wounds afew days later.

5-Mar-87 Istanbul Turkey Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Other 0 2 TURKEY. The Abu Nidal organizationclaims to have executed by hangingtwo Palestinians who they accused ofbeing members of Jordanianintelligence. The executions ofNathem Abd Ahmed Abu Sbeih andhis uncle, Khaled Muhammad AliMusalam Abu Sbeih occurred inIstanbul, Turkey.

6-Mar-87 Austria Amal Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A letter bomb sent to theengineering firm of Grill andGrossman was safely defused. Aletter arriving simultaneously at thenewspaper Kurier, accused the firmof selling poison gas equipment toIraq. The letter bore a silhouette of aKalashnikov rifle and was headed Inthe Name of Allah the Merciful. Theletter was signed The Sons of ImamElhussein Ben Ali. Grill andGrossman took out a full pageannouncement in the paper with adenial of any such involvement.

6-Mar-87 Honduras Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 HONDURAS. An incendiary devicewas thrown at the home of thespokeswoman for the NicaraguanDemocratic Force contra army.Adela Icaza was in Miami at the timeof the attack. Three houses wereslightly damaged.

8-Mar-87 Turkey Other Explosives0 8 TURKEY. After their camps innorthern Iraq were bombed byTurkish planes a week earlier,Kurdish separatists crossed intoTurkey and attacked two houses nearthe Syrian border with handgrenades. As the occupants of thebuildings tried to flee, the guerrillassprayed them with gunfire. Eightcivilians were killed in the attack.


Unknown0 2 MOZAMBIQUE. Mozambique NationalResistance Movement (MNR)guerrillas murdered a Portugueseemployee of the state electricitycompany, along with a Mozambicancolleague.

10-Mar-87 DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Following a Turkish air raid againstKurdish targets in Iraq, Kurds inseveral countries staged protests.Twelve Kurds in Duesseldorfcompletely destroyed the office ofthe Turkish Airline.

11-Mar-87 Ordieia Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb went off at theFrench Renault dealership in Ordieia.Only material damage was sustained.ETA is suspected.

12-Mar-87 Jordan Other Unknown1 0 JORDAN. PLO member AttalahMuhammad, aka Abu al-Zaim wasinjured during an assassinationattempt which was believedtriggered by a split in his movement.

14-Mar-87 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb went off at theentrance to the National CashRegister Company in San Sebastian.ETA is suspected. Damage wasminimal.

15-Mar-87 Madras India LiberationTigers ofTamilEelam(LTTE)


150 25 INDIA. Tamil exiles are beingquestioned about a railway blast inMadras that killed 25 people andwounded about 150 others. A bombdetonated by remote control went offunder a railway bridge as an expresstrain was passing over it. Tamilpropaganda leaflets demanding theestablishment of a separate Tamilstate in Sri Lanka were found at thescene.

18-Mar-87 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two men riding amotorcycle threw an explosivedevice into the yard of the Israelidiplomatic mission in Athens. Thedevice failed to detonate.

18-Mar-87 DjiboutiCity

Djibouti Other Explosives45 11 DJIBOUTI. Eleven people were killedand forty five others wounded whena bomb went off in a popular cafe incentral Djibouti City. Eight of thosekilled were European citizens andseventeen of those injured wereFrench military personnel. Thebombing may have been perpetratedby terrorists of the Popular StruggleFront (PSF) with Libyan backing.

19-Mar-87 Deva Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Three French autodealerships were targeted by bombsin the Basque region, however onlytwo of the bombs went off. ARenault dealership in Deva was badlydamaged, and a bomb at thePeugeot-Talbot dealership in Zumayacaused little damage. Civil Guardsdefused a bomb at the Renaultdealership in Azpetia. ETA issuspected.

19-Mar-87 Zumaya Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Three French autodealerships were targeted by bombsin the Basque region, however onlytwo of the bombs went off. ARenault dealership in Deva was badlydamaged, and a bomb at thePeugeot-Talbot dealership in Zumayacaused little damage. Civil Guardsdefused a bomb at the Renaultdealership in Azpetia. ETA issuspected.

19-Mar-87 Azpeitia Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Three French autodealerships were targeted by bombsin the Basque region, however onlytwo of the bombs went off. ARenault dealership in Deva was badlydamaged, and a bomb at thePeugeot-Talbot dealership in Zumayacaused little damage. Civil Guardsdefused a bomb at the Renaultdealership in Azpeitia. ETA issuspected.

20-Mar-87 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives4 0 PERU. Four people were hospitalizedwhen a bomb went off at theentrance to the Bank of London inLima.


Unknown0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasattacked two Bank of Tokyo sites inLima.


Unknown0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasattacked two Bank of Tokyo sites inLima.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. The National LiberationArmy of Colombia (ELN) burned fivetank trucks belonging to theOccidental oil company.

23-Mar-87 FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives31 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Thirty one people were injured whena car bomb exploded at the Britisharmy and air force headquarters inRheindahlem. The bombing occurredat about 10:30 pm after ananonymous caller warned theDuesseldorf news bureau of theimpending attack. The ProvisionalIrish Republican Army claimedresponsibility.


Firearms2 0 PERU. Three men with submachineguns attempted to assassinate themanager of the Bank of Tokyo inLima. Both Tadao Sawaki and hisdriver were shot and seriouslywounded, yet the driver managed tocontinue on and avert furtherdanger. Tupac Amaru guerrillas aresuspected.

23-Mar-87 Beirut Lebanon RevolutionaryPopularResistanceOrganization

Explosives5 0 LEBANON. The RevolutionaryPopular Resistance Organization hasclaimed credit for an explosion at aSyrian intelligence unit located in theKing Hotel in West Beirut. FiveSyrian intelligence personnel werewounded in the attack.

25-Mar-87 Lebanon PopularRevolutionaryResistanceOrganization

Explosives0 3 LEBANON. Projectiles were fired at aSyrian headquarters, killing oneSyrian officer and two soldiers. ThePopular Revolutionary ResistanceOrganization claimed it had carriedout this action and would continueuntil Syrians leave all Lebaneseterritory.

25-Mar-87 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Molotov cocktails were thrown at aBritish Navy truck and trailer thatwere parked in Hamburg harbor.

25-Mar-87 Israel PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand

Explosives15 0 ISRAEL. A bomb went off at amilitary bus station and severalsoldiers were wounded. ThePalestinian Revolution ForcesGeneral Command claimedresponsibility.

30-Mar-87 Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. A Turkish employee at acement factory was kidnapped byKurdish rebels. Ali Selvi wasreleased to the Turkish Consulate inIraq on June 16, 1987.

31-Mar-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb was found andsafely dismantled in front of theKuwaiti Embassy in Bi'r Hasan.

31-Mar-87 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Kurdish rebels threw Molotovcocktails at the Turkish Central Bankin Hamburg. Only minor damagewas sustained.


Explosives0 0 PERU. A stick of dynamite washurled at a branch of the U.S.-ownedCitibank in Lima. Members of TupacAmaru appear to have beenresponsible.

1-Apr-87 ZamboangaPhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown1 1 PHILIPPINES. An Australian and aFrenchman enjoying a picnic nearZamboanga were attacked bysuspected Moslem rebels belongingto the Moro National Liberation Front(MNLF). The Australian was injured inthe attack, and the Frenchman wastaken away by the terrorists. Hisbody was found a few days later.

2-Apr-87 Lebanon Other Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Three gunmen stopped acar belonging to the United NationsTruce Supervision Organization andtried to abduct two officers (a Finnand an Italian) but failed to do so. Asuspect was subsequently arrestedby Amal forces.

3-Apr-87 Cairo Egypt Hizballah Fire orFirebomb

0 0 EGYPT. A man claiming to belong toHizballah was arrested after throwingMolotov cocktails on the campus ofthe American University in Cairo.

7-Apr-87 WestBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. Senior Syrian intelligenceofficer Lieutenant Colonel AhmadDargham was assassinated in WestBeirut. The gunmen escaped.

9-Apr-87 BarcelonaSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives2 0 SPAIN. Two people were injuredwhen a car-bomb exploded in front ofa French-owned bank in Barcelona.ETA was responsible.

12-Apr-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb that was timed toexplode at midnight malfunctionedand was safely dismantled in front ofthe British Council in West Beirut.

13-Apr-87 Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Unknown0 0 CHILE. Members of the ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) tookover the Associated Press facility inSantiago long enough to broadcastpre-recorded anti-government tapes.

14-Apr-87 La Paz Bolivia BrotherJulian

Explosives14 0 BOLIVIA. Fourteen people werewounded when a stick of dynamitewas hurled at the front of the U.S.Embassy in La Paz. The explosionoccurred as about 10,000 peoplewere demonstrating againstgovernment austerity plans. A groupcalling itself Brother Julian claimedresponsibility for the attack.

15-Apr-87 Madrid Spain Anti-ImperialistInternationalBrigades

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Crude mortars which missedtheir marks were fired at three U.S.diplomatic facilities in Madrid. TheInternational Front AgainstImperialism claimed credit andstated that the attacks were inretaliation for the U.S. raid on Libyain 1986. The group may actually bethe Anti-Imperialist InternationalBrigades (believed to consist ofcomponents from the Japanese RedArmy). It is backed by Libya.





15-Apr-87 Lebanon LebaneseLiberationFront

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Lebanese LiberationFront claimed responsibility for anexplosive device that went off in abuilding housing the Syrianintelligence service. A few people inthe building were injured by theblast. The group has vowed tocontinue attacking Syrian posts untilall Syrian forces are out of Lebanon.

16-Apr-87 MexicoCity

Mexico CommandoInternacionalistaSimonBolivar

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 MEXICO. Several Molotov cocktailswere thrown over the wall of aGeneral Motors factory in Mexico Cityby a group calling itself theCommando Internacionalista SimonBolivar. The group claimed theattack to be in observance of theApril 15, 1986 attack by the U.S. onLibya.

16-Apr-87 Madrid Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A home-made bombexploded at the Banco HispanoAmericano in Madrid. The bank isowned jointly with the U.S. Damagewas minimal.

17-Apr-87 Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. A powerful car bombexploded in front of the headquartersfor the Lebanese branch of theSyrian ruling political party, injuring acivilian.

18-Apr-87 Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two Finnish UN soldierswere abducted by members ofHizballah who were retreating froman attack against Southern LebaneseArmy troops in the nearby area. It isbelieved the fighters originally hadplanned to use the Finnish base as arefuge after their attack. The twowere released a short time later.

19-Apr-87 Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 5 ISRAEL. In a massive securitybreach, three Palestinian guerrillasevaded a network of electronic andother security systems and enteredIsraeli territory where they plannedon seizing Israeli hostages. In anensuing shootout with securityforces, the three were killed, as weretwo Israeli soldiers. Documentsfound on the infiltrators indicatedthat they were members of Fatahwho planned on taking Israelihostages to exchange forPalestinians imprisoned in Israel.The attack was reportedly linked tothe scheduled opening in Algiers thesame day of the Palestine NationalCouncil. It was speculated that theattack was part of an effort by Arafatto regain the support of PLO hard-liners. The terrorists were dressed inmilitary fatigues and carried rifles,grenades, flak jackets and U.S.-madeanti-tank missiles.

20-Apr-87 PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb exploded infront of the Colgate-Palmolive office.

20-Apr-87 Nicosia Cyprus UnitedNasiriteOrganizaiton

Firearms2 0 CYPRUS. A British military vehiclewas riddled with machine-gun fire inNicosia, seriously wounding aserviceman and a young British girl.Four people arrested in connectionwith this attack are members of thepro-Libyan organization known as theUnited Nasirite Organization.



Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. At least sixpolitical leaders in Thatcher'sgovernment have received letterbombs since the middle of April. Theletters are identical and rubberstamped with the words Students'Union, University of Ulster. All of thebombs were safely defused. TheProvisional Irish Republican Armyclaimed credit.Note: date isapproximate.

23-Apr-87 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Peruvian rebels hurledhomemade bombs and dynamite atthe transportation and distributionsections of the Coca-Cola Companyin Lima. Six of the 15 attackers werearrested.

23-Apr-87 Tehran Iran Other Firearms0 0 IRAN. An armed terrorist groupattacked the residence of the Afghancharge d'affaires in Tehran, but wererepulsed in an exchange of gunfirewith guards.

25-Apr-87 Glyfadha Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)


20 0 GREECE. A remote-control bombexploded beneath a bus carrying U.S.military personnel to their base inGlyfada. The November 17organization claimed responsibilityfor the blast which injured sixteenAmericans and four Greeks.

27-Apr-87 Manila PhilippinesJihadBrigades

Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Two hand grenadeswere thrown at a U.S. militarycompound in Quezon, a suburb ofManila, but no damage wassustained. A Muslim group callingitself the Jihad Brigade claimedresponsibility for the attack andstated that it was in retaliation forthe U.S. raid on Libya in 1986.

27-Apr-87 DominicanRepublic

MaximilianoGomezRevolutionaryBrigade

Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. TheMaximiliano Gomez RevolutionaryBrigade claimed credit for detonatingtwo homemade bombs at two U.S.Mormon Missionary installations onconsecutive days. The attacks weremeant to commemorate the U.S.troop invasion of the DominicanRepublic 22 years earlier.

28-Apr-87 DominicanRepublic


Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. TheMaximiliano Gomez RevolutionaryBrigade claimed credit for detonatingtwo homemade bombs at two U.S.Mormon Missionary installations onconsecutive days. The attacks weremeant to commemorate the U.S.troop invasion of the DominicanRepublic 22 years earlier.


Unknown Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. No serious damagewas caused after a small bombexploded at the construction site of anew headquarters of the UnitedStates Embassy in San Jose.

29-Apr-87 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Revolutionary Peoples'Struggle (ELA) bombed an office ofUnion Carbide in Athens. The groupreleased a communique stating thatthe attack was in retaliation for thedeaths of thousands in Bhopal.

30-Apr-87 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives3 0 PERU. Members of SenderoLuminoso entered the North KoreanTrade Office in Lima and detonated abomb which wounded three people,including the commercial attache ofthat country. In 1986 North Koreasold 10,000 assault rifles to thePeruvian government.

30-Apr-87 SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic


Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. TheMaximiliano Gomez RevolutionaryBrigade claimed credit for detonatinga homemade bomb in front of thePeace Corps office in Santo Domingo.No one was wounded. The attackwas meant to commemorate the U.S.troop invasion of the DominicanRepublic 22 years earlier.

1-May-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. According to a reportpublished in the Iranian-affiliatedmagazine, as-Shiraa, armedelements kidnapped MohammedKhatami, an employee of the IranianEmbassy in Beirut, in an attempt toexchange him for Terry Waite.

6-May-87 Suriname Unknown Unknown0 0 SURINAME. Rebels kidnapped aBelgian engineer who was employedat a palm oil factory in Victoria. Theengineer was released in early June.

6-May-87 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb exploded at the U.S.ambassador's residence in Lima.

6-May-87 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives2 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso memberstossed explosive devices at thewarehouse of the U.S. shoe firmBATA. Two workers were wounded.

7-May-87 CajamarcaPeru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Terrorists bombed a SeventhDay Adventist Church in Cajamarca.

9-May-87 FundacionColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The National LiberationArmy of Colombia (ELN) claimedcredit for an attack on the Coca ColaCompany in Fundacion. The attackwas carried out by men dressed inpolice uniforms who gained entranceto the warehouse on the pretext ofsearching for bombs that had beenplaced there. After gaining entranceto the factories, employees wereevacuated before dynamite was setoff.

9-May-87 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Firearms0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An American soldier was shot todeath at the Headquarters of theAmerican Forces in Zehlendorf adistrict of Berlin.

10-May-87

Marseille France Unknown Explosives3 0 FRANCE. In Marseilles three peoplewere injured when a bomb went offat a cultural and administrativecenter for foreigners.

10-May-87

AntioquiaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The National LiberationArmy of Colombia (ELN) claimedcredit for an arson and gasolineattack on the warehouse of the CocaCola Company in the Rio Negromunicipality of Antioquia. The attackoccurred only a few hours after anattack on another Coca Cola factoryin Fundacion. As in the otherincident, the attack was carried outby men dressed in police uniformswho gained entrance to thewarehouse on the pretext ofsearching for bombs that had beenplaced there. After gaining entranceto the factories, employees wereevacuated before dynamite was setoff.

11-May-87

Bolivia AlejoCalatayu

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. Members of a self-styledcommando unit called Alejo Calatayuclaimed responsibility for detonatinga small explosive device at the homeof a U.S. Drug EnforcementAdministration agent. The attackwas staged to protest the arrival ofU.S. troops in Bolivia.

11-May-87

Jamaica Unknown Unknown0 0 JAMAICA. A train belonging to theAlcoa company was derailed bysabotage.

12-May-87

BarcelonaSpain TerraLliure

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A medium-sized bomb wentoff at the General Electric Companyin Barcelona, and althoughconsiderable material damage wasdone to the offices, there were nocasualties. The Catalonian separatistmovement, Terra Lliure, issuspected.

13-May-87

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives2 1 LEBANON. One Syrian soldier waskilled and two others wounded asthey tried to defuse a bomb near aSyrian Army base in West Beirut.

15-May-87


Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Mozambique NationalResistance Movement (MNR)guerrillas (aka RENAMO) abductedsix foreign medical relief workers. Arepresentative for the Baptistorganization called Youth With aMission, claimed that an Americanand a few Australians, including aneighteen month old baby, wereamong those abducted. The groupwas freed by their captors August 21,after a two hundred mile trekthrough the jungle.

19-May-87

Tel Aviv Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)


0 1 ISRAEL. An Israeli soldier wasstabbed to death in Tel Aviv. The PLOclaimed responsibility.

19-May-87

Fiji Other Explosives0 0 FIJI. An employee of Air New Zealandboarded one of the company's 747s(that had just arrived from Japan enroute to New Zealand) andthreatened to blow the plane up withdynamite he had strapped to hisbody. Shortly after seizing theairliner the hijacker, a Fiji Indian,released 24 crew members and all105 passengers. Eventually the pilot,co-pilot and chief engineer were ableto rush the hijacker, ending theincident, however details aresketchy. Some reports say thehijacker had demanded the releaseof the 11-member, Indian-dominatedgovernment of Timoci Bavadara,which had been been overthrownand put under house arrest in a coupthe previous week. Other reports saythat the hijacker had demanded tobe flown to Libya, others, to NewZealand.

19-May-87

La Paz Bolivia SimonBolivarGuerillaCoordinatingBoard(CGSB)

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A guerrilla group callingitself the Simon Bolivar Organizationclaimed responsibility for bombing abranch of the U.S. National City Bankin La Paz. A statement issued by thegroup claimed the action was torepudiate U.S.-Bolivian militarymaneuvers.

20-May-87

Vienna Austria Other Unknown1 0 AUSTRIA. Ezzedin Al Ghadamsi, aformer Qadhafi aide currently livingin exile, was the victim of anassassination attempt in Vienna. Asthe assailant fled, a passport bearingthe name of Libyan diplomat,Mohammed Elhag, was dropped. Thepassport was found to contain abusiness card of an individualidentified as Ahmed Abdullah.Abdullah was arrested, but it isbelieved that Mohammed Elhag isbeing harbored in the LibyanEmbassy. In 1988 the Libyanassailant received a ten-year prisonterm.

23-May-87

Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 1 LEBANON. One person was killed ina car bomb attack against an IranianRevolutionary Guard Corps official.

25-May-87

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A company inMiami, Florida that transports goodsto Cuba was bombed.

26-May-87

Egypt Egypt'sRevolution

Firearms2 0 EGYPT. Three American diplomatsriding in a station wagon on theirway to work were fired upon bygunmen claiming to belong to agroup called Egypt's Revolution. Twoof the diplomats were slightly injuredin the attack. Two men were arrestedon September 20, 1987 in connectionwith this attack, as well as for theassassination of an Israeli diplomatat the Cairo trade fair in March of1986.

31-May-87

Jamaica Unknown Unknown0 0 JAMAICA. A freight train belonging tothe Alcoa company was derailedwhile still on company property. Thisis the second case of sabotageagainst trains belonging to this firmthis month.

1-Jun-87 ZimbabweOther Unknown0 2 ZIMBABWE. Two West Germantourists, who had been touring Africaon motorcycles, were killed byguerrillas in southern Zimbabwe nearVictoria Falls.

2-Jun-87 CochabambaBolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. Unidentified assailantsthrew an explosive device over thewall of the U.S. Narcotics AssistanceUnit Vehicle Maintenance Facility inCochabamba. The building sustaineddamage and windows throughout theneighborhood were shattered.


Explosives0 0 PERU. A mortar shell was fired at theupper Huallaga Valley Special ProjectCamp (funded by USAID). SenderoLuminoso is active in this area.

6-Jun-87 Athens Greece Unknown Firearms0 0 GREECE. The residence of anAmerican Embassy employee wasfired on by a gunman in a passingcar.

6-Jun-87 Iraq Other Unknown11 0 IRAQ. Kurdish dissidents attacked 11Turkish vehicles in the DehokDistrict, located 60 km from Turkey.All of the drivers of the vehicles wereseverely wounded in the attack.

7-Jun-87 Lebanon Unknown Explosives2 1 LEBANON. A roadside bombexploded killing an Israeli soldier andwounding two others in southernLebanon.

9-Jun-87 Rome Italy JapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. An early morning car bombwent off outside the U.S. Embassycompound in Rome. A group callingitself the Anti-ImperialistInternational Brigade claimedresponsibility for the attack. Thesame group claimed responsibility forattacks against embassies inIndonesia during the 1986 Tokyoeconomic summit. An Asian maletraveling with a Canadian passportwas originally being sought inconnection with the attack.InDecember 1987, it was reported thattwo members of the Japanese RedArmy had been involved in the attackwhich coincided with the summitmeeting of advanced industrialcountries. Witness identification andfingerprints substantiate the report.Police in Tokyo believe the Anti-Imperialist International Brigade is aunit of the Japanese Red Army.

9-Jun-87 Rome Italy Anti-ImperialistInternationalBrigades

Explosives0 0 ITALY. Shortly after a car bomb wentoff outside the U.S. Embassy, twocrude rockets were fired into theembassy compounds from a nearbyhotel. A group calling itself the Anti-Imperialist International Brigadeclaimed responsibility for the attack .It is suspected that this group is aunit of the Japanese Red Army.

9-Jun-87 Rome Italy Anti-ImperialistInternationalBrigades

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A rocket was fired at theBritish Embassy in Rome. A groupcalling itself the Anti- ImperialistInternational Brigade claimedresponsibility for the attack. Thisgroup may consist of Japanese RedArmy members and is backed byLibya.

10-Jun-87 Iran Other Explosives0 0 IRAN. Four armed men, believed tobe Iranian, stormed the offices ofMitsui and Company and detonated abomb that caused minor damage tothe building. The bombers shoutedslogans against Japan's economicinfluence over Iran.

10-Jun-87 CochabambaBolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. Unidentified individualstossed dynamite explosives at theChilean Embassy (consulate?) inCochabamba, causing minordamage.

12-Jun-87 Malta Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 MALTA. Pro-Libyan terrorists aresuspected of arson at three touristhotels. Officials believe the Libyansare trying to destabilize the country'sgovernment.





13-Jun-87 BarcelonaSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb damaged HewlettPackard's offices in Barcelona.

13-Jun-87 BarcelonaSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb damaged the officesof the Bank of London and SouthAmerica in Barcelona.

13-Jun-87 ZimbabweOther Explosives0 1 ZIMBABWE. A bomb concealed in atelevision set which was supposed tobe delivered to an ANC official,accidentally went off when the wifeof the man who had brought the setfrom Mozambique for deliveryunwittingly turned the set on. Shewas killed by the blast. Zimbabweofficials claim this was a SouthAfrican plot to kill the chiefrepresentative of the ANC.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasbombed a laboratory that producesHelene Curtis cosmetics in Lima.


Explosives2 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasbombed a Volvo dealership in Lima.Two guards were injured in theattack.

14-Jun-87 Quetta Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb contained in abriefcase was defused outside theoffices of the U.S. Agency forInternational Development (AID) inQuetta.

14-Jun-87 Pakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Two bombs were defusedoutside shops in Afghan refugeecamps.

14-Jun-87 Pakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Two bombs were defusedoutside shops in Afghan refugeecamps.

14-Jun-87 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Firearms0 1 HONDURAS. Shots fired from outsidethe Palmerola Air Base inTegucigalpa killed U.S. Armysergeant, Randall Harris, who wassitting in a jeep inside the base.

16-Jun-87 BarcelonaSpain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Red Army for theLiberation of Catalonia (ERCA)claimed credit for a bomb thatexploded at the Hewlett-Packardoffices in Barcelona.

16-Jun-87 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. In Tel Aviv a man was killedwhen the bomb he was trying toplant in an abandoned carprematurely detonated. A few hourslater an explosive device was foundand dismantled in a crowded busstation in the same vicinity.

17-Jun-87 Malta Other Firearms8 0 MALTA. Pro-Libyan elements aresuspected of assaulting a bus filledwith Austrian tourists. Eight personswere injured in the machine-gunattack. The Maltese governmentclaimed that the attack had beenpart of an effort to destabilize hisgovernment and undermine tourism.

17-Jun-87 Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. American journalistCharles Glass was abducted whiletraveling along the coastal highwayfrom Sidon to Beirut. Glass was aformer ABC reporter who hadcovered the TWA hijacking in 1985and had interviewed the pilot of theairliner from the cockpit during thatincident. He had been in Beirutworking on a book regarding theMiddle Eastern situation. At the timeof the abduction, Glass was travelingwith Ali Osseiran, son of Lebanon'sdefense minister. It appears that thegunmen had originally planned onkidnapping only Glass; however,when Osseiran, (who is a ShiiteMoslem) began to protest Glass'streatment, the gunmen grabbed himalong with his chauffeur-bodyguard,Suleiman Salman. The HizballahParty of God is believed responsible,although the group issued astatement of denial.Salman andOsseiran were blindfolded and setfree on the coastal highway near thecity of Sidon on June 24. A few daysafter their release, a one-pagetypewritten statement written inArabic was left at the door of aLebanese radio correspondent inSidon, claiming the kidnapping onbehalf of a group called TheOrganization for the Defense of FreePeople. The statement claimed thatGlass was actually an Israeli agent.On July 1, NBC News reported that U.S. intelligence had interceptedmessages between the IranianEmbassy in Damascus, Syria andHezbollah forces in Lebanonproviding conclusive evidence thatIran had ordered the kidnapping ofGlass.In mid-July Glass' kidnappersreleased a video tape in which Glassdescribed himself as a U.S. spy.Glasswas able to escape from his captorson August 18, 1987, two monthsafter he was taken prisoner. Whilethere is speculation that his captorshad let him escape, Glass wasquoted as saying he felt his escapehad been genuine.

17-Jun-87 Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Upon arriving at thehome of a friend, the automobile ofthe Venezuelan Charge d'Affaires,Gonzalo Espina, was fired on by twopeople on motorcycles. Thewindshield of the vehicle wasdamaged but no injuries resulted inthe attack.

19-Jun-87 Paris France Other Unknown0 1 FRANCE. A Kurdish political refugee,who was head of the Association ofKurdish Workers, was assassinatedoutside his Paris home. In December1985, another Kurd was killed in thesame Paris neighborhood. He hadbeen a member of the KurdishCommunist Party (PKK). While theassassination may be a result ofKurdish infighting, the PKK claimsthat the assassinations are beingcarried out by the Turkish secretservice.

19-Jun-87 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An explosion occurred atthe headquarters of an American firmwith the acronym SGTI in Paris. Thebomb caused only minor damageand no group claimed responsibility.

20-Jun-87 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Peru's embassy in Bonn was thetarget of an arson fire that coincidedwith the first anniversary of thekilling of 250 Maoist guerrillasfollowing prison mutinies in Lima.

22-Jun-87 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Turkish Central Bank in Hamburgwas the target of an arson attack.Although no group claimedresponsibility, slogans were writtenon the walls before the gasoline wasignited, and terrorists are suspected.

22-Jun-87 Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. Two cars belonging toPalestinian journalist Hanna Siniorawere set on fire and written in Arabicon a nearby wall was the message:Jerusalem will only be the capital ofPalestine, signed by the PopularFront for the Liberation of Palestine.Siniora had recently announced thathe would be the first Arab to run forthe Jerusalem City Council. Hiscandidacy has been viewed as a signof acceptance of Jewish rule by thePLO.

24-Jun-87 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded at aMormon Church in Santiago.

25-Jun-87 Trujillo Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb was removed fromthe teachers' lounge at the USISbinational center in Trujillo. Severaltelephone warnings had previouslybeen received by the center.

26-Jun-87 Rome Italy Other Firearms0 1 ITALY. Yussef Kherbigh, head of theCairo office of an anti-Qaddafi groupcalled the National Front for theSalvation of Libya, was assassinatedby two gunmen on a street in Rome.The gunmen were captured andadmitted to being Libyan agentsbelonging to Qaddafi's LibyanRevolutionary Committee.

27-Jun-87 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded outside of aMormon Church in Santiago. Thiswas the second such attack in aweek.

28-Jun-87 Haifa Israel al-Fatah Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. A woman and child wereinjured when a bomb exploded neara popular beach in Haifa. Force 17claimed responsibility for the blast.

30-Jun-87 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The JDL's east coastfaction, led by Vincent Jancier (a.k.a.Chaim Ben- Yosef) was responsiblefor an explosive device found in atrash can at Lincoln Center justbefore the Bolshoi Ballet was toperform. The device consisted of agrenade wrapped in aluminum foiland rigged to two batteries and aclock.

1-Jul-87 SantaFe

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb explodedoutside the Bank of London andSouth America in Santa Fe.

2-Jul-87 WestBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A car bomb exploded infront of Syria's military headquartersin West Beirut. No casualties werereported.

2-Jul-87 Madrid Spain Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Explosives2 0 SPAIN. Iraqi agents are suspected ina car bomb attack on an Iraniandiplomat in Madrid. MohammedRazi, second secretary at theembassy, had become suspiciousthat something was wrong with hiscar. He got out to check, but couldnot escape in time to avoid seriousinjury. A passerby was also injuredby the blast. While Iraqi agents aresuspected, an anti-Khomeini groupcalled Mojahedine-e Khalq (alsoknown as Monafiquin) claimedresponsibility.

3-Jul-87 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. A bomb that went off on anIsraeli bus in Jerusalem wounded twopeople.

4-Jul-87 Manila PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. The New People's Army(NPA) tossed bombs at the ThomasJefferson Cultural Center and theInternational School in Manila. Noone was injured in the attacks.


Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. The New People's Army(NPA) tossed bombs at the ThomasJefferson Cultural Center and theInternational School in Manila. Noone was injured in the attacks.


Unknown0 0 SPAIN. ETA sabotaged a French-owned truck hauling seven Citroenautomobiles. All of the automobiles,as well as the truck, were destroyed.ETA called the attack an act ofeconomic sabotage.

6-Jul-87 Munri Sudan SudanPeople'sLiberationArmy(SPLA)

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Members of the SudanesePeoples Liberation Army (SPLA)kidnapped three Americans and oneBritish citizen from their homes inMunri. Three of those kidnapped areaffiliated with a Christianorganization called ChristianResource Organizations ServingSudan (ACROSS).The Sudaneserebels released their captives sevenweeks later on August 26, claimingthey were honoring a personalappeal by former President JimmyCarter.

6-Jul-87 Bayonne France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Members of Iparretarrak(Revolution) which is a splinter ofETA, detonated bombs outside taxoffices and a city hall in BayonneFrance. The group's plans to attackthe mid-July Tour de France bicyclerace were foiled by French police.

6-Jul-87 Bayonne France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Members of Iparretarrak(Revolution) which is a splinter ofETA, detonated bombs outside taxoffices and a city hall in BayonneFrance. The group's plans to attackthe mid-July Tour de France bicyclerace were foiled by French police.

7-Jul-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosive device washurled at the Kuwaiti Embassy inBeirut. No one was injured.

8-Jul-87 Quetta Pakistan Amal Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. In two separate incidents,pro-Khomeini Iranians armed withautomatic weapons and grenadelaunchers attacked members of themain Iranian opposition party.Altogether 30 people were injuredand three people killed in theseattacks. Approximately 17,000Iranian dissidents live in Karachi andQuetta, the locations of the attacks.

8-Jul-87 Karachi Pakistan Amal Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. In two separate incidents,pro-Khomeini Iranians armed withautomatic weapons and grenadelaunchers attacked members of themain Iranian opposition party.Altogether 30 people were injuredand three people killed in theseattacks. Approximately 17,000Iranian dissidents live in Karachi andQuetta, the locations of the attacks.

9-Jul-87 ConcepcionChile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A powerful bomb exploded atthe front door of a Mormon Church inConcepcion.

9-Jul-87 PanamaCity

Panama Unknown Explosives0 0 PANAMA. A homemade bomb wasthrown at the Nicaraguan Embassy inPanama City. Damage was minor.

10-Jul-87 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Other Unknown1 0 UNITED STATES. In what appears tohave been a political assault by aSalvadoran death squad, aSalvadoran woman in Los Angeleswas abducted, tortured, and raped.Yanira Corea had been leaving ameeting of the Committee inSolidarity with the People of ElSalvador (CISPES), a group critical ofU.S. policy in Central America, whenshe was seized by several men,blindfolded and interrogated in a vanabout her political activities in LosAngeles. The men at one pointsuggested killing her but one of theothers replied that Corea should bekept alive as a reminder to othersthat they were here.

12-Jul-87 Santiago Chile Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown at a Mormon Church inSantiago. Out of the commonpeople's territories Yankee invaders,was written on the church wall.

12-Jul-87 MbabaneSwazilandOther Firearms0 3 SWAZILAND. Two members of theAfrican National Congress (ANC) anda female companion were murderedby white gunmen who forced theirtaxi off a road outside Mbabane.

14-Jul-87 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives250 72 PAKISTAN. 72 people were killed andover 250 injured when two carbombs exploded within thirtyminutes of each other in a busyshopping area of Karachi. No groupclaimed responsibility for the attack,but Pakistan is blaming Afghanintelligence.

14-Jul-87 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. 72 people were killed andover 250 injured when two carbombs exploded within thirtyminutes of each other in a busyshopping area of Karachi. No groupclaimed responsibility for the attack,but Pakistan is blaming Afghanintelligence.

17-Jul-87 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Other Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. A Guatemalanwoman who is active on behalf of theCommittee in Solidarity with thePeople of El Salvador (CISPES) waskidnapped in Los Angeles and heldfor questioning for several hours bytwo men. She was told to stopassociating with Salvadorans. Thisincident follows the kidnap and rapeof another Salvadoran woman aweek earlier.


Unknown Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A car explodednear the entrance of KensingtonPalace, the London home of thePrince and Princess of Wales. Thedriver of the car was wounded.Officials believe the blast to havebeen caused by a bomb.

18-Jul-87 Athens Greece Unknown Firearms1 0 GREECE. In Athens a group ofKurdish refugees were attacked byunknown assailants as they wereleaving the Lavrion Reception Centerfor Political Refugees. One personwas treated for gunshot wounds.


Hizballah Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An opponent ofthe Iranian government was thetarget of a car bomb in London. AmirParvis, former minister in the Shah'sgovernment, was badly injured whena bomb placed under a seatdetonated. The bomb had actuallybeen placed under the wrong seat -had it been under Parvis' seat, hemost likely would have been killed. Agroup called the Guardians of theIslamic Revolution claimedresponsibility for the attack.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Several Sendero Luminosomembers were arrested inconnection with the bombing of theBolivian Embassy in Lima. Policebelieve the incident to be related tothe presence of U.S. troops in Bolivia,who are actively working with theBolivian government in an anti-drugeffort. The attack followed a meetingby Peruvian and Bolivian foreignministers in which the drug issue wasdiscussed.

20-Jul-87 Peru Other Explosives22 0 PERU. An illegally parked car at theSheraton Hotel exploded as it wasbeing towed away. 22 persons wereinjured. The car had been packedwith 80 pounds of dynamite.

22-Jul-87 UnitedKingdom

al-Fatah Firearms0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A Palestinianjournalist, Ali Naji Awad al-Adhami,was shot in the head by a gunmanwho fled on foot following the attack.Al-Adhami had been employed by aKuwaiti newspaper and was a wellknown Arab cartoonist. Al-Adhamidied of his wounds August 29. Nogroup claimed responsibility for theattack, however Al Fatah or Force 17are suspected of having killed himbecause of his anti-Arafat politicalcartoons.

23-Jul-87 Vienna Austria Other Firearms0 1 AUSTRIA. An Iranian exile living inFrance was gunned down in Viennaby men thought to be Iranian agents.Hamid Reza Chitgar, chairman of theParty of Work (reportedly similar toAlbanian Marxism), was called to ameeting of his sympathizers inVienna on May 19. His body and carwere found two months later.

23-Jul-87 Sudan SudanPeople'sLiberationArmy(SPLA)

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Three Jesuit missionarieswere kidnapped in the southern partof the country. One of the priestsmanaged to escape, and the othertwo, an Indian and a Maltese, werereleased by the Sudan People'sLiberation Army (SPLA) July 29, 1987.

24-Jul-87 BrazzavilleCongo(Brazzaville)

Hizballah Explosives1 1 CONGO. A man claiming to be amember of Hezbollah overpoweredan Air Afrique DC 10 over Italy andordered it flown to Geneva forrefueling in order to continue on toBeirut. The man had boarded theplane in Brazzaville, Congo,concealing a small pistol andexplosives which he had wrappedaround his waist. While the planewas on the ground in Geneva theterrorist underscored his demand tobe flown to Beirut by murdering aFrench passenger. Panickedpassengers opened emergency doorsand slid down chutes to escape anyfurther violence. A steward who triedto overpower the hijacker was shotand seriously wounded. A Swisssecurity team was able to board theplane during the confusion andovertake the hijacker. One of thehijacker's demands had been therelease from a West German prisonof Mohammed Ali Hamadei, theLebanese Shiite Moslem who is beingheld for his participation in the TWAhijacking in June 1985.In February,1989, Hussein Mohammed Hariri, aLebanese Shiite Muslim wassentenced to life in prison by a Swisscourt. Throughout the trial severalthreats were made against Swissinterests by a Lebanese group callingitself the Green Cells. In July 1992,Hariri escaped from the top securityprison at Bochuz in Canton Vaud inSwitzerland.

24-Jul-87 Hendaye France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 1 FRANCE. An ex-ETA member whohad been in contact with the Spanishconsulate in Hendaye regardingreturning to Spain under an amnestyprogram, was killed when his carexploded. It is uncertain whether hewas killed by members of the Anti-Terrorist Liberation Group (GAL) orETA.

25-Jul-87 Castellonde laPlana

Spain TerraLliure

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Members of the Cataloniangroup Terra Lliure (Free Land)claimed responsibility for a bombthat went off at the Hispano-Americano Bank in Castellon de laPlana.

28-Jul-87 Turkey Unknown Firearms1 1 TURKEY. Iranian exile MansuriMohammad Hasan was murdered inhis home by an unknown gunmanwho fled in a Mercedes suspected ofbelonging to the Iraqi Consulate.Benhan Fadil, first secretary at theIraqi Foreign Ministry, was visitingHasan at the time of the murder, andwas himself seriously injured by theassassin.


0 0 CHILE. Molotov cocktails werethrown at a Mormon Church inSantiago, causing approximately$25,000 in damage.

29-Jul-87 SriLanka

SinhaleseJanathaVimukthiPeramuna(JVP)

Firearms0 0 SRI LANKA. Indian Prime MinisterRajiv Gandhi was hit by the rifle buttof a Sri Lankan soldier while heinspected an honor guard. The primeminister was not seriously hurt. Theassailant, who is known to beaffiliated with the leftist SinhaleseJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)terrorist organization, was pushed offbalance by a naval commander as heaimed the blow at Mr. Gandhi.Detectives are investigating whetherthe assault was part of a larger JVPconspiracy to destabilize the SriLankan government.

1-Aug-87 Tehran Iran Other Unknown0 1 IRAN. Following violence andhostility between Iranian pilgrims andSaudi Arabian authorities during theHaj pilgrimage in Mecca, angry mobsstormed the Saudi Arabian embassyin Tehran, seizing four Saudidiplomats. Three of the diplomatswere released a few days later. OneSaudi diplomat fell out of a windowas the demonstrators took over theembassy. He died of his injuries twoweeks later.

1-Aug-87 Tunisia Hizballah Explosives0 0 TUNISIA. Explosions occurred at fourhotels, seriously injuring 11 tourists.Four of those injured were British.The Habib al-Dawi group of theIslamic Jihad organization claimedresponsibility. Members of theIslamic Tendency Movement, withlinks to Islamic Jihad, were convicted.




1-Aug-87 Tehran Iran Other Unknown0 0 IRAN. At the same time that angrymobs were storming the SaudiArabian embassy in Tehran,demonstrators attacked the KuwaitiEmbassy, ransacking and burningembassy documents and tamperingwith its contents. During the melee,an unidentified person answered thetelephone within the KuwaitiEmbassy, claiming that the embassyhad been turned into a headquartersfor Hezbollah.

2-Aug-87 SwitzerlandGreenCells

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SWITZERLAND. After the arrest of anArab hijacker in Switzerland,Switzerland continued to receivethreats from an Arab group callingitself the Green Cells. The annex ofthe Palais Wilson, a structure whichonce housed the League of Nations,was set on fire and officials believethat people associated with theGreen Cells may have been involved.

2-Aug-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An unidentified personhurled an explosive device at theSaudi Arabian Embassy compound.The blast resulted in only minordamage because some of the sticksof dynamite failed to detonate.

2-Aug-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A car bomb damaged theSaudi Arabian Air Lines office inBeirut.

3-Aug-87 WestBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A small bomb exploded atthe Saudi Arabian Cultural Center inWest Beirut. Only minor damagewas sustained.

5-Aug-87 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Two bombs went off inPeshawar, causing extensivedamage. Two people were killed andthirty six injured in one of the blasts.Afghan intelligence agents aresuspected.

5-Aug-87 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives36 2 PAKISTAN. Two bombs went off inPeshawar, causing extensivedamage. Two people were killed andthirty six injured in one of the blasts.Afghan intelligence agents aresuspected.

6-Aug-87 Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. An explosive-ladenautomobile set to detonate in theparking lot of the British EpiskopiBase Officers' Club was discoveredand the bombs defused. An arson-set fire broke out a few hours afterthe discovery of the car bomb. Earlyspeculation was that the fire was adiversion, and that after it started,the car was to have exploded.

8-Aug-87 Lima Peru Other Explosives1 0 PERU. Guerrillas bombed the Limabranch of Citibank. Minor damagewas sustained and one person wasinjured.

8-Aug-87 Honduras Unknown Explosives12 0 HONDURAS. A pipe bomb explodedat a restaurant frequented by U.S.servicemen, injuring six U.S. soldiersand six Honduran civilians. TheAmericans were stationed at thenearby Palmerola Air Base.

9-Aug-87 GardenGrove

UnitedStates


0 1 UNITED STATES. A Vietnamesepublisher was killed in an arson fireat his office in Garden Grove,California. The Vietnamese Party toExterminate the Communists andRestore the Nation claimedresponsibility in a communique tothe police the same day.

10-Aug-87

Mardan Pakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off near asports arena in the city of Mardan.No casualties were reported. Afghanintelligence agents are suspected.

10-Aug-87

Mardan Pakistan Other Explosives45 7 PAKISTAN. Two bombs exploded at abus station in Mardan, resulting inseven dead, 45 injured. Afghanagents are suspected.

10-Aug-87

Geneva SwitzerlandOther Firearms0 1 SWITZERLAND. A former Iranianmilitary pilot awaiting asylum inSwitzerland was assassinated by twogunmen in Geneva. Iran issuspected of direct involvement.

11-Aug-87

Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)


11 0 GREECE. A remote-control bombdetonated near a bus carrying U.S.servicemen in Athens. TenAmericans and the bus driver wereinjured. The 17 NovemberRevolutionary Organization (17NRO)claimed responsibility. The bombhad been concealed in a car bearingdiplomatic license plates.

15-Aug-87

SaudiArabia

Hizballah Explosives5 1 SAUDI ARABIA. An explosion torethrough a natural gas plant on thePersian Gulf and, although the Saudigovernment is denying foul play,there is speculation that theexplosion was due to Iraniansabotage. The Saudi branch ofHezbollah claimed responsibility forthe blast.

17-Aug-87


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A National LiberationArmy of Colombia (ELN) bombdestroyed a transport helicopterused by Occidental Petroleum Co.(oil).

18-Aug-87



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Four cars parked at an Americanmilitary complex were damaged byfirebombs thrown by two unidentifiedmen. A neo-Nazi group claimed creditfor the attack in connection with thedeath of Rudolph Hess.

20-Aug-87

SantanderSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA set off bombs in front ofFord and Renault auto dealerships inSantander.

20-Aug-87


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA set off bombs in front ofFord and Renault auto dealerships inSantander.

20-Aug-87


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. An ETA bomb exploded at aPryca supermarket in Santander.Pryca is a French-owned supermarketchain.

22-Aug-87

Lima Peru Other Firearms0 0 PERU. A terrorist commandomachine-gunned an automobilebelonging to the North Koreandiplomatic mission in Lima. Thedriver of the vehicle, a Peruvian, wastaken into custody after beingwounded by return fire.

24-Aug-87


Explosives3 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasdetonated a car bomb in front of theCiticorp office, injuring threepassersby.

24-Aug-87


Explosives0 0 PERU. A car bomb went off in theunderground garage of the SheratonHotel. Authorities believe the blastwas caused by 16 kilos of dynamitehidden in a Datsun. While no onewas injured, moderate damage wascaused in the ensuing fire. Tenmembers of Tupac Amaru werearrested in connection with the blast.

27-Aug-87

Tel Aviv Israel PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The PalestinianRevolutionary Forces GeneralCommand claimed responsibility forhaving placed a time bomb on anIsraeli military bus in Tel Aviv.Several people were injured by theblast.

31-Aug-87

WestBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Joseph Khuri waskidnapped in West Beirut when hewas found to be carrying an Italianpassport. Khuri is an Italian nationalwhose mother runs the ItalianCultural Center in West Beirut.Khuri's father is Lebanese. Khuri wasreleased unharmed five days later,through efforts of Amal militia.

1-Sep-87 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 1 ANGOLA. Members of UNITAabducted three Swedish reliefworkers from an army-escortedconvoy. UNITA killed one of thevictims before sending a delegate toStockholm to express regrets andurge Sweden to withdraw itsnationals from Angola. Two monthslater the two workers had still notbeen released.


PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb went off on railroad tracks tenminutes before a U.S. military trainwas scheduled to be crossing thatsection of line. The military train wason a regular daily trip to West Berlincarrying personnel and supplies.Because the train was unexpectedlydelayed, the bomb instead damageda West German freight train and thetracks. No injuries were caused.OnNovember 11, 1989 two members ofthe PFLP-GC were convicted inconnection with this bombing.

5-Sep-87 MexicoCity

Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A small explosive deviceexploded on the grounds of Proctorand Gamble in Mexico City.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Serious damage was causedto the Lima branch of the Bank ofLondon by an explosion believed tohave been perpetrated by TupacAmaru.

7-Sep-87 Paris France Hizballah Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb went off in front ofthe Paris branch of the Saudi-European Bank. Damage wasminimal and there were nocasualties. Although no groupclaimed responsibility, there wassome speculation, especially afterthe bombing a few days later of aKuwaiti bank, that Islamic Jihad wascarrying out its threat against SaudiArabia and Kuwait to retaliate for the404 deaths caused to Muslimpilgrims during the rioting at Mecca.

9-Sep-87 Paris France Hizballah Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A powerful bomb went offin front of the Kuwaiti-French bank inParis, causing substantial damagebut no casualties. A bomb hadexploded a few days earlier atanother Arab bank in Paris, leadingto speculation that the Islamic Jihadmay be carrying out its threatsagainst both Saudi Arabia and Kuwaitafter riots in Mecca left 402 dead.

9-Sep-87 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Iranian counterrevolutionaries wereresponsible for an attack on anIranian airlines office in Frankfurt. Anofficial in charge of the office wasbadly wounded in the attack.

10-Sep-87 Paris France Other Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Iraniancounterrevolutionaries wereresponsible for an attack on anIranian airlines office in Paris.

10-Sep-87 Oslo Norway FedayeenKhalq(People'sCommandos)

Unknown3 0 NORWAY. The Iranian Embassy inOslo was stormed by eleven armedmembers of the Fedayeen Khalq(People's Commandos), a Marxistgroup seeking the overthrow of thepresent Iranian government. Thecharge d'affaires was among thethree people wounded in the incidentwhich ended after the group wasallowed to read statements to themedia.

10-Sep-87 Vienna Austria Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRIA. Two unidentified menhurled Molotov cocktails at theTurkish Airlines office in Vienna.Earlier in the evening a man with aforeign accent had telephoned thelocal press and warned of the attackon behalf of the leftist TurkishMarxist Workers Party.

10-Sep-87 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives10 0 PAKISTAN. A car bomb in Peshawarinjured ten people. Afghan agentsare suspected.

10-Sep-87 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives25 2 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off at a fruitstand in Peshawar, injuring 25 andkilling two. This was the secondbombing on the same date. Afghanagents are suspected.

11-Sep-87 Istanbul Turkey June 16Organization

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Bombs exploded outside ofCitibank, the Sheraton Hotel and theRamada Inn in Istanbul. The June 16Organization claimed the attack toprotest alleged torture of Turkishprisoners.






Explosives0 0 PERU. An explosion at the Limabranch of Citibank is being attributedto the Tupac Amaru group.

14-Sep-87 Iraq KurdistanNationalUnion

Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Pro-Iranian Kurds kidnappedGiacomo Cominetti, an Italianengineer, from his work base innorthern Iraq. The Kurdistan NationalUnion claimed that Cominetti is beingheld in exchange for an Italian navalwithdrawal from the gulf. Cominettiwas released February 27, 1988.

16-Sep-87 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives38 7 PAKISTAN. A bomb in Peshawarkilled seven and injured 38. Afghanagents are suspected.

19-Sep-87 RawalpindiPakistan Other Explosives16 5 PAKISTAN. A bomb at a bus stationin Rawalpendi killed five and injured16. This is another in a series ofbombings in Pakistan which appearto have been carried out by Afghanagents.

22-Sep-87 Tel Aviv Israel PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand


0 2 ISRAEL. The PalestinianRevolutionary Forces GeneralCommand claimed responsibility forfatally stabbing two Israeli soldierson patrol in the Ramat section of TelAviv.

25-Sep-87 Sidon Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. In Sidon a French Jesuitpriest was murdered. No groupclaimed responsibility.

27-Sep-87 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb went off at theForeign Bank of the Andes and Spain.Tupac Amaru is suspected.

27-Sep-87 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A small bomb caused slightdamage to a U.S. militarycommissary in Athens. TheRevolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)claimed responsibility.

29-Sep-87 Zambia Other Explosives7 1 ZAMBIA. A parcel bomb exploded asthe package was being unloadedfrom a Zambian Posts andTelecommunications Services truck.The parcel, which had been mailedfrom South Africa, killed a PTSemployee and wounded sevenothers. South African agents wereblamed by the Zambian government.

30-Sep-87 Lima Peru Other Firearms0 0 PERU. A young Peruvian armed witha revolver was unsuccessful in hisattempt to hijack a Soviet Aeroflotplane with 350 passengers at theJorge Chavez International Airport.The would-be-hijacker had evadedcustoms and security measures andentered the plane bearing a falsepolice identification card. The planehad been scheduled to fly to theUSSR via Havana, Cuba.

30-Sep-87 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Terrorists in Santiagobombed a Mercedes-Benz dealership.

1-Oct-87 London UnitedKingdom

Hizballah Unknown0 2 UNITED KINGDOM. Two Iranianopponents of the Ayatollah Khomeiniwere found dead in their apartmentin London. A group calling itself theGuardians of the Islamic Revolutionand Soldiers of Khomeini claimedcredit for the murders of MohammedAli Tavakoli-Nabavi and his sonNoureddin.


Firearms0 0 PERU. Armed members of TupacAmaru occupied the offices of theFrench news service in Lima.

1-Oct-87 KhartoumEthiopia TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront(TPLF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. A French nurse, SophieBedon, was kidnapped by Tigreanrebels, possibly Tigray PeoplesLiberation Front (TPLF). The womanwas taken hostage after an attack onan Ethiopian garrison in Rama.In theSudanese capital, Khartoum, she washanded over to the French embassyafter being held for over threeweeks.

2-Oct-87 Iraq KurdistanNationalUnion

Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Pro-Iranian Kurdish guerrillaskidnapped two Italian engineers.Giuseppe Carrara and RobertoDiotallevi were seized from theirwork camp at Baiji, sixty miles northof Baghdad. The Kurdistan NationalUnion claims the Italians are beingheld in exchange for an Italian navalwithdrawal from the gulf. Thehostages were released February 27,1988.

7-Oct-87 Belgium SyrianMujahideen

Firearms0 1 BELGIUM. The First Secretary of theSyrian Embassy was assassinated bya group claiming to be the SyrianMujahideen. Another caller claimedthe name of the group to be thePeople's Mujahideen. AntaniosHanna was shot as he was leavinghis home by a gunman who fled in awaiting car.

8-Oct-87 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A grenade was thrownfrom a passing car at the ItalianConsulate in Caracas. Only minordamage resulted.

8-Oct-87 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two young Americanswere kidnapped by members of theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC). They werereleased on August 14, 1988.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. Members of the Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement tossedincendiary devices at the U.S.Consulate in Lima to mark the 20thanniversary of the death of CheGuevara.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Members of the Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement bombed theBolivian Embassy in Lima to mark the20th anniversary of the death of CheGuevara.


Explosives0 0 PERU. For the second time intwenty-four hours, the MRTA bombedthe Bolivian Embassy. The damagefrom the second attack was moreserious.

10-Oct-87 JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Firearms0 1 ISRAEL. Force-17 claimedresponsibility for the murder of anIsraeli civilian in Jerusalem. Theshooting occurred near theDamascus Gate.

10-Oct-87 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. The NPA claimedresponsibility for the assassination ofa reporter for Japan's Kyodo NewsService. The group claimed he hadplayed a leadership role in an anti-NPA vigilante program.

12-Oct-87 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives13 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off in themain bus terminal of Peshawar,wounding 13 people and causingextensive damage to the building.The attack was blamed on Afghan'ssecret agents, and occurred at a timewhen security had been stepped upfor the world cup cricket matcheswhich were being held in Pakistan.

13-Oct-87 Pakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded at anIranian cultural center, destroying awall and the home of the center'schauffeur. It also caused substantialdamage to a nearby building.Though the blast was the second tooccur in Pakistan within 24 hours, itwas the first attack aimed at anIranian target since the wave ofbombings hit Pakistan this year.Afghan agents are being heldresponsible.

13-Oct-87 Harare ZimbabweOther Explosives18 0 ZIMBABWE. A car bomb went off in ashopping center in Harare, injuring18 people. Zimbabwe officials areblaming South Africa for the blast.The bomb reportedly was designedto cause as many casualties aspossible by dispersing sharp metalfragments.

14-Oct-87 Medellin Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A powerful bombexploded at the Medellin branch ofBanco Colombo Americano, a Bank ofAmerica subsidiary.


Explosives4 0 PHILIPPINES. The Manila GardenHotel, which is partly owned by JapanAir Lines and is under Japanesemanagement, was bombed, injuringfour people. The NPA is suspected.

14-Oct-87 BarcelonaSpain TerraLliure

Explosives8 0 SPAIN. Eight people were injuredwhen a bomb blew up outside thedoors of the American Consulate inBarcelona. The Terra Lliureseparatist group claimedresponsibility.


Firearms0 1 PHILIPPINES. New People's Army(NPA) operatives shot and killedthree Americans, two of them active-duty military personnel and the thirda retired Air Force officer. The threewere killed in separate ambusheswithin a mile of Clark Air Force base.





19-Oct-87 WestBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The North KoreanEmbassy press attache waskidnapped in West Beirut. Acompanion of his was also abducted.

20-Oct-87 Ethiopia EthiopianPeople'sLiberationFront

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. The Ethiopian People'sLiberation Front claimedresponsibility for an attack on a U.N.food convoy in northern Ethiopia. Therebels burned 16 U.N. trucks andseven other trucks owned by CatholicRelief Services, carrying a total ofalmost 450 tons of food.

20-Oct-87 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. American Paul Fisherwas kidnapped by Contras whoreportedly thought he might be aRussian. He was held by the groupfor fifteen days.

20-Oct-87 France Amal Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Islamic ResistanceFront claimed responsibility for aparcel bomb that was sent to aFrenchman of Pakistani origin. Thebomb was safely defused. The groupstated that its attacks were reprisalsfor anti-Islamic actions orchestratedby the French government in NorthAfrican countries.

20-Oct-87 Paris France Amal Explosives1 0 FRANCE. A vagrant was injuredwhen a grenade was tossed at him inParis. The Islamic Resistance Frontclaimed responsibility for what itcalled its campaign of terroristattacks.

20-Oct-87 Paris France Amal Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Islamic ResistanceFront claimed responsibility for aparcel bomb that was sent to theTunisian consulate in Paris. Thebomb was safely defused.

21-Oct-87 Chad ChadianPeople'sRevolutionaryMovement

Explosives0 0 CHAD. The Chadian Peoples'Revolutionary Movement is believedresponsible for an explosion at the U.S. volunteer World Vision trainingcenter.

21-Oct-87 Paris France Amal Explosives1 0 FRANCE. A Moroccan employee ofthe North African news agencyMaghreb Arabe Presse lost a handwhen a parcel he was openingexploded in southern Paris. A groupcalling itself the Islamic ResistanceFront claimed responsibility for thisblast along with two other parcelbombs and a grenade explosion.

22-Oct-87 Kuwait Other Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. A missile attack on Kuwait'sprimary offshore oil terminal causedserious damage. Iran was blamed forthe attack.

23-Oct-87 Pakistan Other Explosives17 4 PAKISTAN. A bomb, hidden under afruit stand near an Afghan refugeecamp, exploded. Four persons werekilled and 17 others were injured.Afghan agents are suspected.

23-Oct-87 Trujillo Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Unknown0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru was blamed forattacking the USIS binational centerin Trujillo.

23-Oct-87 Peru Other Unknown0 0 PERU. Three armed left-wingterrorists occupied a French newsagency and forced a reporter to senda pro-rebel communique.


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Three Lebanese-born Canadians were arrested whenthey tried to cross into the UnitedStates from Canada and a search oftheir car turned up a crude bomb.On June 22, 1988, the three, who theU.S. government contends areaffiliated with the Syrian SocialistNational Party (SSNP) a pro-SyrianLebanese group, were convicted ofsmuggling charges. Two of thedefendants received 10-year jailterms and the third received an eightyear sentence.

24-Oct-87 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Amal Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. An office of Pan Am Airlineswas bombed in Kuwait, two daysafter a pro-Iranian Shiite group hadvowed to strike at U.S. and Europeaninterests worldwide. No one wasinjured by the blast. In December,1987, a group calling itself theOrganization for the Liberation ofMuslims in Kuwait, declaredresponsibility for the attack.

25-Oct-87 Tel Aviv Israel PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The PalestinianRevolutionary Forces GeneralCommand claims to have bombed anIsraeli intelligence center in Tel Aviv.

25-Oct-87 Kandy SriLanka

People'sLiberationFront(JVP)

Explosives0 0 SRI LANKA. A branch office of theIndian High Commission in Kandywas bombed. The People'sLiberation Front (JVP) a Sinhalese-Marxist group, is suspected.


Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. NPA guerrillas arebelieved responsible for an attack ata Pepsi Cola bottling plant and twoDel Monte pineapple facilities.Damage at the Pepsi plant wasextensive.





29-Oct-87 Tunja Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Mormon churches inTunja, Duitama and Sogamoso wereattacked with dynamite. Threepeople were critically wounded.

29-Oct-87 Duitama Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Mormon churches inTunja, Duitama and Sogamoso wereattacked with dynamite. Threepeople were critically wounded.

29-Oct-87 SogamosoColombia Unknown Explosives3 0 COLOMBIA. Mormon churches inTunja, Duitama and Sogamoso wereattacked with dynamite. Threepeople were critically wounded.

29-Oct-87 EastBeirut

Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms1 2 LEBANON. Two French Embassyguards were killed and anothercritically wounded when gunmenopened fire on them as they wereshopping in East Beirut. A personclaiming to be a spokesman forASALA claimed responsibility, whileothers close to the group deniedhaving carried out the attack.Another group called the TanyusShahin Armed Unit also claimedresponsibility, demanding that theFrench release George IbrahimAbdallah from prison and stopinterfering with Lebanese affairs.

1-Nov-87 VenezuelaRevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. A Venezuelan rancherwas released 13 days after beingabducted by members of theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC).

4-Nov-87 Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Unknown0 0 CHILE. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front (FPMR) is suspected inan attack on a Renault autodealership in Santiago. The facilitysustained substantial damage.

6-Nov-87 Santiago Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. The Lautaro Youth Movementclaimed responsibility for incendiarydevices that were thrown at aMormon Church in Santiago.

7-Nov-87 AngelesCity

PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb exploded atthe Pearl Buck Foundation in AngelesCity. The foundation is an Americannon-profit organization that aidsAsian children.

8-Nov-87 Israel Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. Members of Abu Nidalcaptured a yacht off the coast of theGaza Strip and took eight peoplecaptive. The victims are Belgian andFrench but appear to hold dual Israelicitizenship. Walid Khaled, acting as aspokesperson for Abu Nidal,announced that the seizure of theFrench-registered yacht was anattempt to influence Arab leadersmeeting in Amman to make nodecisions that would entitle Jordan'sKing Hussein to represent thePalestinians in negotiations withIsrael. At one point Abu Nidalcontacted the International RedCross to ask their assistance inmoving their hostages from one spotto another, but the Red Crossdeclined to aid terrorists in any way.The terrorists subsequentlyannounced that one of the hostageshad had a baby while in captivity,and that both the baby and themother were doing well.A 7 year oldand her 6 year old sister werereleased by the group on December29, 1988. French officials speculatedthat Colonel Qaddafi hadorchestrated the girls' release inorder to improve Libya's image at atime when the ReaganAdministration had heightenedconcern about a Libyan chemicalweapons plant.On April 10, 1990 AbuNidal released three more of thecaptives. All of the French captivesheld by the group have beenreleased. The French hostages werereleased at the request of Qaddafi.In March 1990 France decided toprovide three Mirage fighter planesto Libya despite a 1986 EuropeanCommunity arms embargo againstthat country.

9-Nov-87 SingaporeSingaporeUnknown Explosives0 0 SINGAPORE. A bomb went off at theentrance of the AmericanInternational Assurance building inSingapore at 11:30pm. No one wasinjured.

10-Nov-87

SingaporeSingaporeUnknown Explosives0 0 SINGAPORE. A bomb explodedoutside of the Shell Tower inSingapore which houses the Anglo-Dutch oil company businesses. Theblast occurred four hours after asimilar explosion at the nearbyAmerican International Assurancebuilding.

11-Nov-87

Tel Aviv Israel PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand

Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. The General Command ofthe Palestinian Revolutionary Forcesclaimed responsibility for a timebomb that went off at a Tel Avivpolice station.

11-Nov-87

Lebanon Unknown Firearms1 0 LEBANON. A French engineer wasseriously wounded when gunmen ina passing car opened fire on him.

12-Nov-87


Unknown Unknown2 2 UNITED KINGDOM. An Indian guruwas murdered as he blessedfollowers during a prayer gatheringin London. Three other men wereshot and one later died. Hardlinersin the Sikh community reportedlybelieved the guru was a spy for theIndian government.

12-Nov-87

RawalpindiPakistan Other Explosives9 0 PAKISTAN. Afghan agents arebelieved responsible for a bomb thatwent off at a residential hotel inRawalpindi, injuring nine people.

14-Nov-87

Manila PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Explosives10 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb went off at theManila Garden Hotel, injuring 10people. The luxury hotel is owned byJapan Air Lines and operated byJapanese management.

16-Nov-87

Ethiopia EthiopianPeople'sRevolutionaryArmy

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Members of the EthioipianPeoples' Revolutionary Army claim tohave captured two Italians and threeEthiopians who were working to builda road that was eventually to beused by the Ethiopian army. The twomen were released nine months lateron August 12, 1988.

17-Nov-87

Beirut Lebanon LiberationBattalion

Unknown0 2 LEBANON. Two Syrian soldiers werekilled as they walked down a streetin Beirut. The Liberation Batallionclaimed responsibility. The grouppromised to continue attacks againstSyrian targets until their troops arewithdrawn.

17-Nov-87

ZimbabweMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)


7 5 ZIMBABWE. Members of theMozambique National Resistancegroup, or RENAMO, crossed theborder into Zimbabwe where theyattacked a dormitory of schoolchildren, killing five and seriouslyinjuring seven others. The guerrillasused bayonets and many of thechildren had their ears cut off.

18-Nov-87

PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives19 1 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded on abus near Peshawar, killing oneperson and injuring 19 others.Afghan agents have been blamed forthe numerous bombings taking placein Pakistan this year.

18-Nov-87

Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Dynamite was thrown at theU.S. Embassy by Peruvian guerrillas.

18-Nov-87

Lima Peru Other Unknown0 4 PERU. Peruvian guerrillas attacked aNissan auto plant in Lima and fourrebels were killed.

18-Nov-87

LaFlorida

Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. Firebombs were thrown at aMormon church in La Florida.Leaflets found in the area saidYankees Go Home, and Che is Alive.The leaflets were signed by theLautaro Youth Movement.

18-Nov-87

Athens Greece al-Fatah Unknown1 0 GREECE. An Israeli Druze living inAthens was kidnapped and torturedby members of Fatah who believedhim to be a Jew. The Israeli wasdetained at an office belonging to thePLO for 24 hours before beingreleased.

20-Nov-87

Davao PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. The New People's Army(NPA) carried out simultaneousattacks against two U.S.-ownedStandard Philippine Fruit Company(Dole) plantations in Davao. Damageto the plantations was extensive.

20-Nov-87

Davao PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. The New People's Army(NPA) carried out simultaneousattacks against two U.S.-ownedStandard Philippine Fruit Company(Dole) plantations in Davao. Damageto the plantations was extensive.

25-Nov-87

ZimbabweOther Firearms0 16 ZIMBABWE. Antigovernment rebelsattacked a mission station killingsixteen church workers and theirfamilies, including two Americansand a British citizen. The victimswere shot and axed before theirbodies were burned. One childescaped the massacre and anotherwas forced to watch the atrocitiesand then ordered to deliver a notefrom the attackers to authorities.Authorities would not comment onthe contents of the note.

25-Nov-87

Kuwait Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 KUWAIT. An incendiary device wentoff at the front door of the AmericanLife Insurance Company, located onthe third floor of a building.

25-Nov-87

KiryatShmona

Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives8 7 ISRAEL. An Arab guerrilla used amotorized hang glider to infiltrate anIsraeli army base near KiryatShemona. The attacker landed in anopen field near the army base andopened fire on a military van, killingan officer and wounding a womansoldier. He then entered the campand attacked with hand grenadesand automatic rifle fire. Altogethersix soldiers were killed and sevenwounded. A foreign volunteer at anearby kibbutz was also slightlywounded. The infiltrator was killed.The Popular Front for the Liberationof Palestine (PFLP) claimedresponsibility for the attack.

26-Nov-87

Israel PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand

Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. The PalestinianRevolutionary Forces GeneralCommand claimed responsibility fora bomb which exploded at a militarybus station. Several soldiers werewounded in the attack.Note: Numberof injuries is approximate.

27-Nov-87

JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Knives& sharpobjects

0 2 ISRAEL. Two Israeli agents of theShin Bet internal security servicewere found with their throats slit inthe basement of a store in Jerusalem.Force-17 claimed responsibility.

28-Nov-87

PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives20 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded at atextile bazaar in Peshawar, wounding20 people.

28-Nov-87

Lima Peru Movementof theRevolutionaryLeft (MIR)(Chile)

Firearms0 0 PERU. Five armed members of theMovement of the Revolutionary Left(MIR), a splinter of the MRTA, forcedtheir way into the United PressInternational (UPI) office in Lima anddemanded that a message bebroadcast.

29-Nov-87

Bangkok Thailand Other Explosives0 115 THAILAND. The North Koreangovernment was behind the bombingof a Korean Air passenger planewhich exploded mid-air with 115passengers on board. The flightoriginated in Baghdad and stopped inAbu Dhabi before disappearing fromradar screens before a scheduledrefueling stop in Bangkok. A man andwoman, both North Korean agents,used forged Japanese passports.They were arrested in Bahrain afterhaving disembarked in Abu Dhabibefore the airliner continued on itsjourney. Both the suspects swallowedcyanide pills immediately upon theirarrest. The man was successful in hissuicide attempt, the woman wassubsequently extradited to SouthKorea where she was tried, convictedand sentenced to death. She hadclaimed responsibility for the attackand said she had acted on behalf ofthe North Korean government. InJuly 1989 she was sentenced todeath.

30-Nov-87


Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The PalestinianRevolutionary Forces GeneralCommand released a statementclaiming to have bombed the mainpower station in Jerusalem.

1-Dec-87 Israel Unknown Firearms1 0 ISRAEL. Unidentified gunmencrossed the Egyptian-Israeli borderthrough a hole in a fence and fired onan Israeli army patrol. One of thesoldiers was slightly wounded. Thegunmen fled back across the border.

1-Dec-87 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Explosives werediscovered in an envelope mailed tothe British ambassador to Lebanon,John Gray. Gray escaped theassassination attempt when a guardwarned him not to open the package.

8-Dec-87 Copiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at the frontdoor of a Mormon church in Copiago.

10-Dec-87

Santiago Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. Four men threw Molotovcocktails at a Mormon church in theLa Florida section of Santiago.Before escaping, the individualsdistributed pamphlets with theslogan Rebel youth for victory and aplentiful life, Lautaro YouthMovement's 5th Anniversary.

13-Dec-87


0 0 ISRAEL. Two Molotov cocktails werethrown at the U.S. Consulate inJerusalem. No one was injured in theattack.

13-Dec-87

Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A hand grenade wasthrown at the Malaysian Embassy inManila. Only minor damage wassustained.

14-Dec-87


Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A spokesman for thePalestinian Revolutionary ForcesGeneral Command claimedresponsibility for tossing grenadesinto a military bus in Jerusalem. Nocasualties were reported.

17-Dec-87


0 0 ISRAEL. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown into the yard of the BritishConsulate in Jerusalem. No injurieswere reported.

20-Dec-87

Athens Greece Amal Firearms1 0 GREECE. A pro-Islamic group callingitself the Sons of Allah has claimedresponsibility for an assassinationattempt against Midhat al-Hiyali, anIraqi diplomat in Athens. Thediplomat was wounded in theshooting attack.

22-Dec-87

AfghanistanOther Unknown0 1 AFGHANISTAN. British cameraman,Andy Skrypkowiak, is believed tohave been captured by rebels inAfghanistan and killed when he triedto escape. The rebels reported to beinvolved belong to the Hezb-e Eslami(Gulbuddin Hikmatyar) party, a groupfighting both the Soviets and fellowAfghani guerrilla groups.

22-Dec-87

Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb discoveredhidden on a tire on a railroad trackwas rendered harmless.

26-Dec-87

BarcelonaSpain Other Explosives9 1 SPAIN. Two grenades were tossedinto a USO club in Barcelona, killingone U.S. sailor and wounding nineothers. In October, a Catalonianseparatist group claimedresponsibility for a similar attack inwhich eight people were injured atthe U.S. consulate. The CatalonianRed Liberation Army claimedresponsibility for this attack, butauthorities remain skeptical. Theattacker was heard to havescreamed Long live Lebanon inSpanish just before hurling thegrenades into the club.

26-Dec-87

IslamabadPakistan Other Explosives40 1 PAKISTAN. Three car bombsexploded in downtown shoppingareas in Islamabad, killing oneperson and injuring 40 others. As inother bombings in Pakistan this year,these were blamed on Afghanagents. These were the first bombsto actually go off in the center of thecapital. The day marked the eve ofthe eighth anniversary of the Soviettroop intervention in Afghanistan.Pakistan has sheltered and aidedMoslem fundamentalists fighting tooverthrow the government in Kabul.

26-Dec-87


26-Dec-87


29-Dec-87

PalmadeMallorca

Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb went off in a USOcafeteria in Palma de Mallorca,causing some damage but nocasualties.

30-Dec-87

OrYehuda

Israel Unknown Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. Two people were injuredwhen a letter bomb exploded in OrYehuda. Within a 24- hour period tenidentical letter bombs sent fromTurkey were found throughout Israel,most of them safely deactivated.Originally musical Christmas cards,the musical components had beenreplaced with explosive devices.They all contained a return addressof: D. Nisim, Istanbul, Turkey. Someof the envelopes were discovered atthe post office, others by the Israelicitizens to whom they wereaddressed. The bombs came at atime of high tension in Israel afterthe most serious and widespreadunrest in the West Bank and GazaStrip since Israel captured theterritories in 1967. There wasimmediate speculation thatPalestinian terrorists might beresponsible.

30-Dec-87


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30-Dec-87


1-Jan-88 Logrono Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A Citroen dealership inLogrono was extensively damagedby a bomb claimed by ETA. Nocasualties were reported.


Other ChemicalAgent

0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. An Iraqibusinessman living in exile inLondon, was given the poisonthallium, a heavy-metal elementsimilar to arsenic and known to beused by Iraqi intelligence operatorsand Arab terrorist groups. The victimdied 15 days later.

4-Jan-88 Paris France NationalFront fortheLiberationofKurdistan

Unknown0 1 FRANCE. A consular official for theWest German Embassy was foundmurdered in Paris. An envelopefound on his body was signed by theNational Front for the Liberation ofKurdistan. The leaflet, written inFrench, called for the repayment ofmoney which was seized during theJuly 1987 searches of Kurdistaninstitutions in Cologne. Kurds hadpreviously occupied several Germaninstitutions in France, but this wasthe first armed attack againstGermans.

7-Jan-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Afghan agents arebelieved responsible for an explosionwhich occurred at the U.S.-ownedCaltex Oil depot in Peshawar.

9-Jan-88 StockholmSweden Other Unknown0 0 BULGARIA. A Bulgarian member ofparliament who had sought politicalasylum in Stockholm the previousyear, is believed to have beenabducted. The Bulgarian defectorhad become ill and was admitted toSabbatsbergs Hospital where hereportedly was visited by personswho behaved strangely. Thedefector disappeared a few daysafter leaving the hospital.

10-Jan-88 AlexandriaEgypt NationalFront fortheLiberationof Egypt

Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A bomb went off near the U.S. Consulate in Alexandria, causingproperty damage. A group called theNational Front for the Liberation ofEgypt claimed responsibility.

11-Jan-88 Kampala Uganda Other Explosives4 1 UGANDA. A grenade was tossed intothe building housing the Libyan,French, Sudanese and West Germanembassies in Kampala. A Libyandiplomat was killed in the attack, andfour others, including a Frenchattache, were wounded. A groupcalling itself the Uganda FederalArmy claimed responsibility for theattack, stating that the LibyanEmbassy served as a terrorist base.The caller also speculated that AbuNidal had been in the building at thetime of the attack.

12-Jan-88 Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 1 LEBANON. An Australian UNIFILobserver was killed and his Canadianaide was injured when a bombexploded under the jeep they wereriding in during a routine patrol in thesecurity zone of southern Lebanon.

12-Jan-88 BulawayoZimbabweOther Explosives3 2 ZIMBABWE. Two people were killedand three others injured when a carbomb went off in front of a suburbanvilla in Bulawayo. The villa was usedby members of the African NationalCongress. The two people killed mayhave been planting the bomb at thetime it went off. South Africaninvolvement is suspected.

14-Jan-88 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. Two suspected FMLNmembers opened fire on a U.S.Embassy vehicle in San Salvador. Noone was injured in the attack.

14-Jan-88 Manila PhilippinesOther Firearms0 0 PHILIPPINES. Gunmen opened fire onthe French Ambassador's car inManila. No one was injured in theattack.

15-Jan-88 San Jose CostaRica

Unknown Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb wasdiscovered in the Honduran Embassyin San Jose.

15-Jan-88 AvellanedaArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at aMormon Church in Avellaneda.

16-Jan-88 Karachi Pakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. An explosive device wasthrown over the wall of a CaltexPetroleum (oil) storage facility inKarachi. Afghan agents weresuspected.

17-Jan-88 Sudan Other Unknown0 1 SUDAN. Mahdi Al Hakim, aprominent Iraqi Shiite Moslem leaderopposed to the regime of PresidentHussein of Iraq, was assassinated inthe lobby of the Khartoum Hilton.His brother is chairman of theIranian-backed Supreme Assembly ofthe Islamic Revolution of Iraq,headquartered in Tehran. Hakim'ssupporters blamed the attack onIraqi agents.There were unconfirmedreports that Al-Hakim had embarkedon a futile mediation attempt inBeirut to secure the release of TerryWaite.

21-Jan-88 Israel al-Fatah Unknown1 3 ISRAEL. Members of the PLO'smainstream Fatah group attemptedto infiltrate the Israeli border justsouth of Kibbutz Manara, on theLebanese border. Three guerrillaswere killed and one Israeli soldierwas seriously wounded in the attack.

22-Jan-88 Jalabad AfghanistanUnknown Explosives20 8 AFGHANISTAN. Pakistani mournerswho had caravaned to the Afghancity of Jalabad for a funeral wererocked by bombs which killed eightpeople and wounded many others.One bomb exploded in one of thebuses which had brought thePakistanis. The explosions occurredabout a half mile from the funeralsite of the Pathan leader, Khan AbdulGhaffar Khan. The vice president ofIndia was among severalinternational leaders attending thefuneral.Note: Number of injuries isapproximate.

22-Jan-88 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)


0 0 GREECE. The November 17organization claimed responsibilityfor a failed assassination attemptagainst U.S. Drug EnforcementAdministration agent George Carrosin Athens. A remote-controlleddetonating system planted in Carros'home failed to detonate properly.

23-Jan-88 Quella Pakistan Other Explosives8 2 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off in ablack-market bazaar in Quella, killingtwo, and injuring eight others.Quella is a center for Afghan anti-Communist guerrillas and Afghanagents are believed responsible.

24-Jan-88 ElSalvador

Other Firearms1 0 EL SALVADOR. A church worker fromCalifornia was attacked by assailantsbelieved to be members of a deathsquad. Father Michael Kennedy wastransporting a group of Salvadoranrefugees to a hospital when anunmarked truck forced him off theroad and gunmen hit him with theirrifles. They threatened him withdeath the next time he transportedpeople to a hospital.

24-Jan-88 Pakistan Other Explosives19 10 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off in agovernment-owned bus killing 10and wounding 19 others. Afghanagents are being blamed.


Unknown0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillas tookover the Associated Press office inLima and forced staff to broadcast acommunique.

26-Jan-88 Cairo Egypt Unknown Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A bomb exploded in abookshop in the Nile Hilton Hotelannex in downtown Cairo. Nocasualties were reported anddamage was slight.

27-Jan-88 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A West German citizenwho is half Lebanese, was abductedby four carloads of gunmen as hestood talking to a friend on a streetnear his home in west Beirut. TheRevolutionary Justice Organizationclaimed responsibility. According to asenior Shiite official, the kidnappingof Ralph Schray is linked to the trialof Ali Abbas Hamadei in Germany,where he was standing charges ofcarrying concealed explosives.Hamadei is wanted by the U.S. on airpiracy and murder charges inconnection with the hijacking of aTWA passenger plane in 1985.Schraywas released on March 3, 1988. Ithas been reported that anotherbrother of Hamadei, Abdel Hadi, asenior military official of Hezbollah,directed this abduction.

31-Jan-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives0 5 PAKISTAN. Three Afghan refugeesand two Pakistanis were killed whena bomb hidden inside a tomato crateexploded in Peshawar.

31-Jan-88 AfghanistanUnknown Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. A small explosionoccurred in a drainage ditch near therear entrance of an Americandiplomat's residence.

1-Feb-88 WestBeirut

Lebanon Al-SadrBrigades

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A Syrian group callingitself the Al-Sadr Brigades claimedresponsibility for kidnapping a Libyannational in West Beirut. The groupclaims the hostage is a Libyanintelligence agent.

1-Feb-88 Brussels Belgium Other Firearms0 0 BELGIUM. The Brussels office of theANC was the target of shooting.South African agents are suspected.

2-Feb-88 Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms0 1 LEBANON. A Frenchman, identifiedas an intelligence agent, was killedby two gunmen firing from point-blank range in East Beirut. JacquesMerrin was killed just minutes afterconferring with the director ofLebanese Internal Security. PapersMerrin was carrying at the time of hisdeath were stolen by his assailants. Astatement claiming the assassinationby ASALA was followed by anotherstatement denying involvement.

4-Feb-88 Israel al-Fatah Unknown1 2 ISRAEL. Al Fatah guerrillas infiltratedthe northern Israeli border fromLebanon and killed two Israelisoldiers and wounded another.

4-Feb-88 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A hand grenade wasdiscovered in the toilet of a Lebaneseairliner just before the plane was toleave the Beirut airport for Cairo.

5-Feb-88 Bogota Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives13 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb went off in frontof the American-owned OccidentalPetroleum's (oil) new nine-storyBogota headquarters. 13 peoplewere injured by the blast. TheNational Liberation Army (ELN)claimed responsibility.

5-Feb-88 Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. U.N. Relief and WorksAgency members Jan Stening ofSweden, and William Jorgensen ofNorway, were kidnapped by gunmenwhile traveling in a UNRWA car onthe road to Beirut from southernLebanon. The two were held in ahouse which is under PLO control,but the PLO claims that thekidnappers do not belong to anyorganized Palestinian group.Therewas speculation that Abu Nidal hadcarried out the kidnapping becauseof recent disputes between the groupand UNRWA concerning relief rations.Abu Nidal denied responsibility.Nearly a month after the two reliefworkers were kidnapped they werefreed, with a note from a captorssaying that they had been proveninnocent.

9-Feb-88 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Ivory Coast'sChancellery was the target of agrenade attack.

10-Feb-88 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two Swedish journalistswere seized in West Beirut. AndreLada and Riden Folke were releasedby their captors, believed to beHezbollah, after they discovered thatthey were not German, and thereforecould not expect the $1 million theyhad hoped to obtain for thejournalists' release.

11-Feb-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Firearms0 1 PAKISTAN. Sayyed Baha'uddinMajruh, head of the AfghanInformation Office in Peshawar, waskilled by armed men in Peshawarcity. Afghan extremists are beingblamed.

12-Feb-88 ElSalvador


Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. A U.S. embassyvehicle was fired on by assailantsbelieved to be FMLN guerrillas.

12-Feb-88 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb was found aboarda Middle East Airlines Boeing 707which had just come in from Romeand was supposed to leave forCyprus to pick up President Amin al-Jumayyil. The bomb, whichcontained about 1 kg of TNT, wasreportedly very sophisticated,appeared to have been made locally,and probably took about twentyminutes to install. The bomb hadbeen placed in the radiocompartment, under the pilot's seat.It had been primed to go off at analtitude of 30,000 feet when theplane would have been enroute fromCyprus to North Yemen. BetweenBeirut and Cyprus (before Presidental-Jumayyil coming on board) theaircraft would have only reached analtitude of about 15,000 feet.

13-Feb-88 Limassol Cyprus Other Explosives0 3 CYPRUS. Three Palestinian officialswere assassinated by a car bomb inLimassol. The victims were membersof the PLO higher military committeein Lebanon and the Fatah bureau incharge of the West Bank and GazaStrip. A group calling itself the MartyrRasim al-Ghul Organization claimedto have carried out theassassinations. A PLO spokesman,however, charged the Israeliintelligence service Mossad withresponsibility.

13-Feb-88 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Authorities are blaming TupacAmaru for the bombing of Shell OilCompany offices in Lima. There wereno casualties.

14-Feb-88 Limassol Cyprus Kach Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A ferryboat which had beenthe focus of recent controversy dueto its planned symbolic protestvoyage to transport Palestiniandeportees back to Israel wasdamaged by an explosion in the portof Limassol. The explosion appearedto have been caused by anunderwater mine connected to atime fuse. No one was injured by theblast. An Israeli extremistorganization calling itself KACHInternational claimed responsibilityfor the blast. This group is led byRabbi Meir Kahane. The PLO hasaccused the Mossad of involvement.

16-Feb-88 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A hand-made dynamitebomb went off in front of the IsraeliEmbassy in Manila. Minor damagewas sustained. There was no claimof responsibility.

17-Feb-88 Asmara Ethiopia TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront(TPLF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Members of the TigrayPeople's Liberation Front abductedsix European aid workers in Asmara.The victims were three Irish nuns,two Belgian doctors and a Dutchnurse. All were released a weeklater.

17-Feb-88 Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 1 LEBANON. Lieutenant ColonnelWilliam R. Higgins, an AmericanMarine officer serving with a U.N.truce monitoring group, waskidnapped in southern Lebanon.Higgins had been driving near theport city of Tyre when his car wasstopped by gunmen who forced theminto their vehicle. A group callingitself the Islamic RevolutionaryBrigades (a.k.a. the Organization ofthe Oppressed of the Earth) claimedresponsibility, and issued a videotape in which Higgins is showncriticizing U.S. policy in the MiddleEast.On July 31, 1989, theOrganization of the Oppressed onEarth delivered a statement claimingto have killed Higgins, along with avideotape showing a man hangingfrom a gallows. The group claimedthat the execution of Higgins wascarried out in retaliation for theIsraeli abduction of Shiite Moslemcleric Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid fromhis home in Lebanon. Obeid is aknown Hezbollah leader who haddirected several attacks againstIsraelis and is believed to havemasterminded the abduction ofHiggins.

19-Feb-88 Namibia South-WestAfricaPeople'sOrganization(SWAPO)

Explosives31 14 NAMIBIA. A bomb went off at acrowded South African-owned bankkilling 14 and wounding 31 others.The South West Africa People'sOrganization (SWAPO) wasimmediately blamed by authorities.At least 55 pounds of plasticexplosives were used in the bomb.The bank, which serves the mainSouth African Army base operatingalong the Angolan border withNamibia, was completely destroyed.

19-Feb-88 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosive device wasdiscovered before it could go off atthe Ivory Coast's Chancellery.

20-Feb-88 JerusalemIsrael Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. Two Molotov cocktails werethrown at the U.S. Consulate in EastJerusalem. No one was hurt.

20-Feb-88 Honduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb was discoveredattached to a vehicle belonging to anemployee at the Palmerola militaryinstallation which is used by U.S.troops.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillas(MRTA) were responsible for severalexplosions in downtown Lima,including an attack against thewarehouses of Perulac, a branch ofthe Swiss transnational companyNestle. Only minor damage wassustained. The attacks in Limaappear to commemorate theanniversary of the birth of APRAfounder Victor Raul Haya de la Torre,who died in 1979.

21-Feb-88 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded in frontof the residence of the Ivory Coast'sambassador to Lebanon. The bomb,which had been placed in front of thedoor, caused no casualties. This wasthe third attempted attack againstthe embassy in a month.

22-Feb-88 Taipei China,Republicof(Taiwan)

Other Unknown0 0 TAIWAN. A Taiwanese man tried todivert a China Airlines domestic flightto Beijing, but he was overpoweredby crew members. 114 people wereon board the plane, including oneAmerican. The hijacker claimed hewanted to see the reunification ofChina, and had been planning thehijacking for over a month.

22-Feb-88 GoeppingenFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Homemade bombs were detonatednear the tanks of six trucks inside theUS 1st Infantry Division's CookBarracks in Goeppingen. Theperpetrators had cut through a wirefence surrounding the compound inorder to penetrate the facility.

22-Feb-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives0 1 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off in ahotel bathroom in Peshawar, killing aman. Afghan agents were blamed.

24-Feb-88 Greece Other Fire orFirebomb

6 0 GREECE. What had begun as apeaceful demonstration protestingthe arrival of the U.S. supply shipSaturn turned violent when Molotovcocktails were thrown onto the ship'sdeck. Six people, including twoAmerican sailors, were injured in theincident.

24-Feb-88 Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Five Korean studentsattacked the second floor library ofthe USIS building, setting offfirecrackers, breaking windows andsetting off small fires. The studentsforced USIS employees out of thebuilding before police arrived.

25-Feb-88 Chiclayo Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillastossed homemade gasoline bombsinto the Quimica Suiza building inChiclayo, setting a fire whichseriously damaged the warehouse.

26-Feb-88 Kwangju Korea,South

Unknown Explosives0 0 SOUTH KOREA. A timed explosivedevice was discovered on abookshelf of the USIS center inKwangju.

27-Feb-88 Kohat Pakistan Other Explosives11 5 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off at abazaar in Thal, district of Kohat,killing five people and wounding 11.Three of the dead and nine of theinjured were Afghan refugees.Afghan agents were blamed.

28-Feb-88 Israel al-Fatah Unknown0 2 ISRAEL. Two members of Al Fatahwere killed when their kayak wasintercepted by an Israeli patrol as theguerrillas were attempting toinfiltrate Israel from southernLebanon.

28-Feb-88 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded near thesports stadium in Tel Aviv. Therewere no reports of injuries.


ArgentinaCheGuevaraBrigade

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A group calling itselfthe Che Guevara Brigade claimedresponsibility for bombing the ParkeDavis Laboratories in Buenos Aires.

1-Mar-88 Dhaka BangladeshUnknown Explosives0 0 BANGLADESH. A homemadeexplosive device was thrown into thecompound of the American CulturalCenter in Dhaka.

1-Mar-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives3 1 PAKISTAN. One person was killedand three others injured in a bombblast which took place in Peshawar.Afghan agents are suspected.

1-Mar-88 WettarauFederalRepublicofGermany


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Aformer member of the Baader-Meinhof gang is suspected of havingparticipated in an arson attackagainst the Renault agriculturaltechnology firm in Wettarau. Ananonymous letter claimedresponsibility for the Renault attack,stating that Renault had beenattacked because it was a veryimmediate part of French statepower. The letter referred to themurder of Renault manager GeorgesBesse, murdered by Direct Action,and declared solidarity with prisonersfrom the Red Army Faction and thePalestinian Revolution.

1-Mar-88 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. An American Methodistvolunteer with Witness for Peace wascaptured along with elevenNicaraguans and taken captive byContras. Richard Boren was releasedeight days later along with anotherNicaraguan captive. Ten otherNicaraguans had escaped earlier.

2-Mar-88 EastBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. An Iranian national waskidnapped in East Beirut andreleased two days later.

4-Mar-88 ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A hand-grenade wasthrown at a U.S. embassy vehicle,causing severe damage. Theoccupants of the vehicle escapedunharmed.

4-Mar-88 Sidon Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The Middle Eastcoordinator for the British reliefgroup Oxfam and his Syriancolleague were taken into custody bymembers of Abu Nidal while theywere visiting a Palestinian refugeecamp in Sidon. They were releasedby the group four days later, with aspokesman for Abu Nidal claimingthat the two had not been kidnappedbut detained for security questioningafter they were seen takingphotographs at the Ain Helwehrefugee camp.

4-Mar-88 Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A car found abandoned afterits driver crashed into a utility polewas discovered to contain severaldozen kilograms of explosives. TheFatah organization claimedresponsibility and announced that U.S. Secretary of State Shultz, stayingin a nearby Hilton Hotel, had beenthe intended target before theperpetrator had his accident 30minutes before the bomb was slatedto go off.



Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The Che GuevaraBrigade claimed responsibility for abomb explosion at the Parke-DavisLaboratories in Buenos Aires. Thegroup stated in a communique thatthe attack was in response to allegedU.S. complicity with British militarymaneuvers in the Falkland Islands.

6-Mar-88 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb was discovered andsafely defused at a supermarket inJerusalem.

6-Mar-88 SriLanka


Unknown0 2 SRI LANKA. Tamils ambushed anIndian military jeep, killing twosoldiers and abducting a third.

6-Mar-88 Gibraltar ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 3 GIBRALTAR. Three unarmed PIRAmembers believed to be on aterrorist mission were killed byBritish commandos in Gibraltar. Anexplosives-laden car which wasbelieved rented by the three wasfound with a timing device that hadnot yet been connected. The car wasfound in Marbella, about 50 miles upthe coast from Gibralter. Officialsbelieve the trio had planned todetonate the car bomb during aceremony at the governor'sresidence.

7-Mar-88 Lima Peru Other Explosives2 0 PERU. Leftist guerrillas wereresponsible for detonating a bomb atthe headquarters of Royal DutchShell Oil in Lima. Two people wereinjured.

7-Mar-88 Israel al-Fatah Unknown0 6 ISRAEL. Three members of Al Fatahcrossed into Israel from Egypt andhijacked a bus, trying to bargain forthe release of all Palestinianprisoners from Israeli jails. After theterrorists killed the sole malepassenger on the bus, anantiterrorist police squad assaultedthe bus, and in so doing killed allthree terrorists, as well as twofemale passengers on the bus. Fatahclaimed to have conducted theattack in retaliation for the killing ofthree Fatah operatives in Cyprus inFebruary, purportedly by Israeliagents.

7-Mar-88 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb went off in aschoolyard moments after the pupilshad been dismissed. The bomb hadactually been set to go off while thestudents of the religious school werein class, but the timing devicemalfunctioned.

10-Mar-88 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb detonated outsidethe Saudi-American Bank in Istanbul.The bank is affiliated with Citibank.

11-Mar-88 Cairo Egypt Other Firearms0 0 EGYPT. The Organization forStruggle Against Zionist InfiltrationInto Egypt claimed responsibility forfiring bullets at the Israeli Embassy inCairo.

11-Mar-88 Fukuoka Japan Hotaru(Firefly)

Firearms0 0 JAPAN. A right-wing terrorist groupcalling itself Hotaru (meaning Firefly)claimed responsibility for shooting atthe Chinese Consulate in Fukuoka.No one was injured by the attack.

11-Mar-88 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A car bomb was discoveredand safely defused near the centralbus station in Jerusalem. Officialsbelieve the aim of the perpetratorswas to carry out a major attack in ahighly populated area in protest ofthe visit of U.S. Secretary of StateGeorge Shultz, who was staying at anearby Hilton Hotel at the time. TheFatah organization claimedresponsibility for an attemptedattack against Shultz the previousweek.

12-Mar-88 Pakistan Other Firearms1 0 PAKISTAN. An air marshall was shotand wounded by an unsuccessfulhijacker trying to divert a PakistanInternational Airlines flight with 143passengers and 13 crew membersaboard, to either Afghanistan orIndia. Two others were detained aspossible accomplices. The assailantwas subdued during a cockpit brawlby passengers and a security guard.There have been press reportsclaiming that the hijacker wasworking for the Afghan secret police.

13-Mar-88 Lagos Nigeria Amal Firearms3 0 NIGERIA. Three Saudi diplomatswere injured when they were fired onby a masked man who laid in waitin the parking lot of a hotel in Lagos.Pro-Iranian terrorists may have beenresponsible.

15-Mar-88 Bern SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Police defused abomb on the grounds of the YugoslavEmbassy in Bern.

15-Mar-88 IslamabadPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. An agent of the Afghansecret police was caught whileplanting a powerful bomb in acrowded bus station in Islamabad.The bomb was defused severalminutes before it was set to explode.

15-Mar-88 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. The Brazilian Embassyin Guatemala City was slightlydamaged by a powerful home-madebomb which had been left at theentrance to the building. No groupclaimed responsibility.

16-Mar-88 JerusalemIsrael Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. A firebomb was thrown at apolice vehicle in Jerusalem. No onewas injured.

17-Mar-88 BarcelonaSpain TerraLliure

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A small explosion occurred atthe entrance to the British Consulatein Barcelona. Terra Lliure wasresponsible.


Explosives13 0 GREECE. Thirteen people, includingfour U.S. servicemen, were woundedwhen a bomb went off at Oscar's barin Athens. The Revolutionary PopularSolidarity organization claimedresponsibility for the attack whichwas aimed at Americans to showsolidarity with the people of Palestineand Nicaragua. Police believe thisgroup to be part of the People'sRevolutionary Struggle (ELA).Japanese Red Army involvement isalso suspected.

19-Mar-88 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown at a grocery store inJerusalem.


Explosives2 0 PERU. The headquarters of Shell OilCompany were bombed in Lima,seriously injuring two people andinflicting heavy damage. TupacAmaru claimed responsibility. Thegroup was protesting a recentagreement between Shell and thePeruvian government to exploit gasdeposits in Cusco.

21-Mar-88 Tokyo Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Officials believe that theMiddle Core Faction may have beenresponsible for a bomb that went offin front of the Israeli Embassy incentral Tokyo. The bomb had beenhidden in a parked motorcycle.

21-Mar-88 Tokyo Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Ten minutes after a bombblast rocked the Israeli Embassy, acar bomb exploded outside the SaudiArabian airline office. Police suspectthe Middle Core Faction.

22-Mar-88 RancaguaChile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. Incendiary devices werethrown at the USIS Binational Centerin Rancagua. The assailants left aManuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front(FPMR) flag hanging on a window ofthe facility following the attack.




0 0 WEST BERLIN. Two Molotov cocktailswere hurled at a U.S. Army barracksin West Berlin by an unidentified manon a bicycle. The suspect escaped.

23-Mar-88 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA is suspected of havingplanted a bomb that went off in frontof a Ford car showroom in Victoria.An anonymous caller warned of theimpending explosion, which causedheavy damage.

23-Mar-88 Bombay India Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 INDIA. Grenades were found in theSaudi Arabian Consulate in Bombay.Similar grenades were used inanother attack two days later againstan Alitalia crew at a Bombay airport.Authorities believe the man takeninto custody in connection with thesetwo incidents is affiliated with theAbu Nidal group.

23-Mar-88 Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Rockets were fired at theU.S. Embassy in Bogota, causingminor damage. Only one of therockets, which were fired by two menfrom a distance of about 150 feet,exploded on the roof of the embassy.The Omar Torrijos Battalion of the M-19 claimed responsibility and statedthe attack was in response to U.S.policy in Panama and the presence ofU.S. soldiers in Honduras.

24-Mar-88 Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded in front ofthe Bank of Boston in Santiago. TheManuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front(FPMR) was suspected.

24-Mar-88 Lima Peru Other Firearms0 0 PERU. A U.S. embassy vehicle wasfired on in Lima.

25-Mar-88 Bombay India Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives1 0 INDIA. In Bombay, a man claiming tobelong to the group Cells of the ArabFighters, burst into a bustransporting 12 Alitalia crewmembers to a hotel and beganshooting at the pilot, who wasseriously wounded. The suspecttossed hand grenades at thepursuing police, but they failed toexplode, and the man was captured.The suspect had arrived in Bombayon an Alitalia flight from Australia. Ina statement made to a foreign newsagency, the Abu Nidal group claimedit had attacked a group of Zionistpilots of Alitalia.


Explosives4 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN bombed theBanco Internacional of Colombia,injuring four people. The bank isowned in part by the U.S.-based FirstNational Citibank. The group claimedthe action to be in response to U.S.intervention in Panama.

27-Mar-88 Spain Unknown Explosives2 0 SPAIN. A bomb planted inside amoped exploded near the Holiday InnHotel used to house U.S. militarypersonnel on temporary duty. Twopeople were injured by the blast.

27-Mar-88 Brussels Belgium Other Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb was defusedoutside the ANC offices in Brussels.The South African government isbeing blamed.

27-Mar-88 Madrid Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives2 0 SPAIN. A bomb went off outside theoffices of a French company inMadrid. Two women were injured bythe blast. ETA is suspected.




0 0 WEST BERLIN. Two Molotov cocktailswere thrown at a U.S. militarybarracks in Lichterfelds. A watchmanextinguished the flames. No groupclaimed responsibility.

28-Mar-88 ParamariboSuriname Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SURINAME. Fire was set to theNetherlands Fatum InsuranceCompany offices in Paramaribo. Theattack was in protest of a visit by theNetherlands Foreign Minister.

29-Mar-88 ParamariboSuriname Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SURINAME. The office of theNetherlands' KLM airlines was thetarget of an attack in Paramaribo onthe second day of a visit by theNetherlands Foreign Minister.Molotov cocktails started the blaze.

29-Mar-88 Paris France Unknown Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A representative of theAfrican National Congress in Pariswas assassinated at the door of herfourth floor office by an unknownassailant who used a gun fitted witha silencer. The ANC headquarters inLusaka and the French CommunistParty are blaming the assassinationon the South African government.The victim, Dulcie September, hadrepresented the ANC in France since1984. She had been convicted oftreason in South Africa in 1964 andserved a five year sentence beforebeing deported.

29-Mar-88 Marseille France Unknown Firearms0 0 FRANCE. Attackers in two carssprayed the South African Consulatein Marseilles with buckshot.

29-Mar-88 Manila PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Firearms0 1 PHILIPPINES. A Japanese tourist waskilled by unknown gunmen as hedrove down a street in Manila. NewPeople's Army is suspected.

30-Mar-88 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb, hidden in a plasticbag, exploded about 100 metersfrom the South African Embassy inParis.

31-Mar-88 Sadda Pakistan Other Explosives15 7 PAKISTAN. A bomb killed sevenpeople and injured 15 others at abazaar in Sadda. Afghani agents aresuspected.

31-Mar-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives4 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb injured fourpeople when it went off in a bazaar inPeshawar. This was the secondbombing of a bazaar in Pakistan onthis date. Afghani agents aresuspected.

1-Apr-88 Davao PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 2 PHILIPPINES. Two security guards ofa Japanese businessman in Davao,firing warning shots during the nightto alert the household of intruders,were killed by the unknownassailants. The businessman is anemployee of the Takeda ChemicalCorporation and manager of theDavao Central Chemical Corporation,a Filipino-Japanese joint venture. Thecompany has been experiencinglabor difficulties. Revolutionarytaxes have been extorted from otherJapanese firms by Marxist guerrillaswho have managed to infiltrate theFilipino labor movement.

1-Apr-88 Lisbon Portugal Other Firearms0 1 PORTUGAL. A founder and formersecretary general of the MozambiqueNational Resistance Movement (MNR)was found dead on a country roadoutside of Lisbon. Evo Fernandeshad been shot five times and was leftwith a hood over his head and signsof torture on his body. Four daysearlier his wife reported that he'dbeen kidnapped. It is unclearwhether his death was part of aninternal MNR feud, or whetherMozambican intelligence operativeswere responsible. Two Portuguesemen believed linked to theassassination were arrested inMorocco and extradited to Portugal.A third suspect was arrested inFrance.

2-Apr-88 Caracas VenezuelaVenceremosExplosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A hand grenade wastossed into the U.S. Embassycompound in Caracas by a man on amotorcycle. The Venceremosorganization claimed responsibility.

3-Apr-88 France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb completelydestroyed a mini-van that had beenrented by four U.S. naval officers whowere dining in a nearby restaurant atthe time of the explosion. No onewas injured by the blast. The officerswere from the U.S. aircraft carrierDwight D. Eisenhower.

4-Apr-88 Cairo Egypt Unknown Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A bomb was discoveredshortly before it was to go off at theU.S. pavilion of the CairoInternational Fair. Security servicesordered a media blackout.

4-Apr-88 NewDelhi

India Other Explosives0 0 INDIA. An explosion and ensuing firedamaged the American Center inNew Delhi. U.S. Defense SecretaryFrank Carlucci had arrived only hoursearlier for talks with the government.

5-Apr-88 Bangkok Thailand Hizballah Unknown0 2 THAILAND. A Kuwaiti Airlines flighten route from Bangkok to Kuwait washijacked by members of Hezbollahwho demanded the release of 17 pro-Iranian extremists being held inKuwaiti jails. Three members of theKuwaiti royal family were on boardthe flight, which turned into asixteen-day ordeal resulting in themurder of two passengers.At onepoint the plane was diverted to Iranwhere it is reported that the hijackersreceived assistance.The hijackingended in Algeria where the Algeriangovernment negotiated with theterrorists and facilitated their safepassage out of the country.There arereports that the original plan of thehijackers was to stage a doublehijacking in Bangkok, but a secondteam of hijackers was taken intocustody by Thai authorities justbefore they boarded the targeted jet.It is believed that the release of thisteam was part of the deal negotiatedby terrorists before the settlement ofthe other hijacking.

7-Apr-88 MozambiqueOther Explosives2 0 MOZAMBIQUE. South African anti-apartheid activist Albie Sachs wasseriously injured by a bomb whichwent off under his car as heactivated the motor. Two passersby,including a child, were also injuredby the blast. The attack occurredone week after the assassination ofANC representative DulcieSeptember, in Paris.

8-Apr-88 JerusalemIsrael Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. A Molotov cocktail washurled at the home of a U.S.Consulate employee in EastJerusalem. No one was hurt.

9-Apr-88 Amman Jordan BlackSeptember

Explosives2 0 JORDAN. The Black Septemberorganization claimed responsibilityfor a blast that wounded two menoutside the vehicle registrationdepartment in Amman.

10-Apr-88 CanberraAustralia Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. A South Africandiplomat's car was destroyed by abomb in front of his home inCanberra.

10-Apr-88 IslamabadPakistan Other Fire orFirebomb

1100 100 PAKISTAN. Over 100 people diedfrom wounds inflicted by thesabotage of a weapons dump inIslamabad. More than 1,100 peoplewere wounded. Three incendiarydevices were carried to the scene ofthe attack in trucks bearing Afghanlicense plates. The devices boretimed fuses and exploded insequence. The Soviet leadership inAfghanistan has been accused. ThePakistani munitions dump is run byInter-Services Intelligence, thePakistani intelligence agency. Theagency supervises supplies for theAfghan resistance forces.

10-Apr-88 IslamabadPakistan Other Explosives7 0 PAKISTAN. An explosion rippedthrough the offices of the SaudiArabian Airlines just as otherexplosions were going off at aweapons dump and a weaponsfactory. At least 7 people wereinjured. All of the attacks wereblamed on Afghan agents.

10-Apr-88 Lahore Pakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. As bombs were going offat a weapons dump and the offices ofSaudi Arabian Airlines, a bomb wentoff at an ammunitions plant inLahore. The blasts were blamed onAfghan agents.

11-Apr-88 AfghanistanOther Explosives0 29 AFGHANISTAN. Afghan guerrillasusing surface-to-air missiles shotdown a Soviet passenger plane,killing all 29 aboard. The guerrillasclaim that they don't distinguishbetween civilian and military targets.

11-Apr-88 PeshawarPakistan Unknown Explosives3 2 PAKISTAN. Two railway workers werekilled and three injured when a bombexploded in a train near Peshawar.

13-Apr-88 UnitedStates

JapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A suspectedmember of the Japanese Red Army(JRA) was arrested while at a reststop on the New Jersey Turnpike. Hisrental car contained three pipebombs and explosives-manufacturingmaterials. It appears that YuKikumura had intended to bomb theU.S. Navy recruiting station in NewYork City on the second anniversaryof the U.S. air strike on Libya. InFebruary, 1989, Kikumura wassentenced to 30 years in prison forpossession of bombs.

13-Apr-88 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Three Palestinian guerrillaswere killed when they tried to enterIsrael from Lebanon on what thearmy claims was to have been ahostage-taking mission. ThePalestinians had been armed with M-16 rifles, hand grenades and rockets.

13-Apr-88 Tehran Iran Other Explosives0 0 IRAN. A bomb discovered at a busterminal in Tehran may have beenplaced by Iraqi agents.

14-Apr-88 Medellin Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The Andres TamayoPopular Militia, a splinter group of theM-19, detonated explosives at the U.S. Binational Center in Medellin. Theterrorists evacuated the buildingprior to setting off the explosives.

14-Apr-88 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A time bomb was defusedin front of an El Al airlines office inIstanbul.

14-Apr-88 Naples Italy JapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Explosives17 5 ITALY. A car bomb went off in frontof a USO club in Naples, killing a U.S.Navy enlisted woman and fourItalians, and injuring at least 17people. The investigation is currentlyfocusing on participation in thisincident by the Japanese Red Army.Agroup called the Islamic Organizationfor the Support of the World'sOppressed claimed responsibility forthe attack.

15-Apr-88 Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded outside aU.S. Air Force communications siteoutside the Torrejon Air Base. Asecond bomb found nearby wasdefused. The attack marked thesecond anniversary of the U.S. raidon Libya.

15-Apr-88 Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A second bomb was foundand defused shortly after anexplosive device exploded outside aU.S. Air Force communications siteoutside the Torrejon Air Base. Theattack marked the secondanniversary of the U.S. raid on Libya.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Bombs believed planted byTupac Amaru (MRTA) terrorists wentoff at two USIS Binational Centers inLima.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Bombs believed planted byTupac Amaru (MRTA) terrorists wentoff at two USIS Binational Centers inLima.

16-Apr-88 CharsaddaPakistan Other Explosives11 4 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off at a busstation in Charsadda, killing four andinjuring 11. Afghan agents aresuspected.

17-Apr-88 IslamabadPakistan Other Explosives7 1 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off at thesame weapons dump where anexplosion killed 100 people a weekearlier. This explosion killed oneexplosives technician and wounded 7others. Afghan agents aresuspected.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. During a 20-minutebombing spree by the AndresTamayo Popular Militia the U.S.businesses of Texas Instruments,Goodyear, Croydon, S.A., and theHare Krishna Yoga Center weretargeted. The attacks were inretaliation for U.S. intervention inCentral America.








Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The British-ownedYardley of Colombia was targetedduring a 20-minute bombing spreecarried out by the Andres TamayoPopular Militia.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The French-ownedBanco Sudameris was targetedduring a 20-minute bombing spreeby the Andres Tamayo PopularMilitia.

17-Apr-88 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Amal Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb caused serious damage to aJewish Cultural Center in Frankfurt.No one was injured by the blast.Police suspect the same group thatwas responsible for an attack on theSaudi Arabian Airlines office eightminutes later, probably pro-Iranians.


Amal Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb inflicted heavy damage to anoffice of the Saudi Arabian Airlines inFrankfurt. There were no casualties.There were no immediate claims ofresponsibility, but authorities suspectpro-Iranian militants.

18-Apr-88 Amman Jordan BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. Black September claimedresponsibility for a bomb which wentoff in the underground parking lot ofa municipal building in Amman. Thegroup claimed the building was beingused by Jordanian intelligenceagents.

18-Apr-88 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. An explosive devicethrown from a passing car causedminor damage to the offices ofMexicana Airlines in Guatemala City.Officials speculated that the attackmay have been related to theprevious day's return to Guatemalaof four political exiles belonging tothe United Representation of theGuatemalan Opposition.


Other Explosives6 0 COSTA RICA. A fragmentationgrenade which went off in front ofthe American Cultural Center in SanJose injured six people, including twoAmericans. A group with ties toLibya is suspected.

20-Apr-88 SingaporeSingaporeUnknown Explosives0 0 SINGAPORE. A bomb hidden in arestroom of the U.S. Embassychancery was discovered by acleaning woman. The device wasremoved safely.

20-Apr-88 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A Libyan nationaldisappeared in West Beirut whilevisiting relatives. He was possiblykidnapped.

23-Apr-88 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A high-powered bombwent off at a home in Tegucigalpawhich is known to be frequented byNicaraguan Indians rebelling againstthe Sandinista government. Nocasualties were reported.

23-Apr-88 CholutecaHonduras Unknown Unknown0 1 HONDURAS. A Nicaraguanresponsible for handling Contra fundsin Honduras was assassinated inCholuteca.

25-Apr-88 Italy Other ChemicalAgent

0 0 ITALY. The Organization ofMetropolitan Proletariat andOppressed Peoples, a group claimingsupport for the Palestinian uprising inthe West Bank, notified authoritiesthat it had injected poison intograpefruits imported from Israel.Contaminated grapefruits werediscovered in Naples and Rome andthe government took all grapefruitsoff the market. The poison turned outto be a substance which causes colortainting but is not harmful.

26-Apr-88 Israel DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives2 4 ISRAEL. Three guerrillas belonging tothe Democratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine killed twoIsraeli soldiers before being killedthemselves after infiltrating thenorthern Israeli border. Two othersoldiers were seriously wounded. Theguerrillas were armed with automaticweapons, hand grenades, and anti-tank missiles.

26-Apr-88 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Several explosivedevices went off near the SheratonHotel in downtown San Salvador.

27-Apr-88 Israel PalestineLiberationFront(PLF)

Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. Two members of thePalestine Liberation Front (PLF)infiltrated one mile into Israel andattacked an Israeli truck driver withautomatic weapons and handgrenades.

27-Apr-88 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Amal Explosives1 0 KUWAIT. A bomb blast at the SaudiAirlines offices in Kuwaiti Cityoccurred less than 24 hours afterSaudi Arabia cut off diplomatic tieswith Iran. A security guard wasinjured by the blast. Islamicfundamentalists are believedresponsible.


PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Explosives1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. AU.S. military train en route fromFrankfurt to West Berlin wasdamaged by explosions. Theengineer of the train was slightlyinjured by the blast, and thelocomotive and a section of trackwere damaged.On November 11,1989 two members of the PFLP-GC(Hafez Dalkimoni and AbdelGhadanfar) were convicted inconnection with this bombing.Authorities believe Dalkimoni mayalso have been involved in theDecember 1988 bombing of Pan AmFlight 103 over Lockerbie.

27-Apr-88 Athens Greece Unknown Firearms0 0 GREECE. The PLO claims that Israeliintelligence attempted to assassinatea member of the Palestinian missionin Athens. The gunmen fled afterfailing in their attempt to kill the firstsecretary of the mission.

28-Apr-88 Athens Greece Unknown Unknown0 1 GREECE. A South Yemenibusinessman was assassinated inAthens. The two gunmen escaped.

29-Apr-88 Athens Greece Unknown Unknown0 1 GREECE. The founder of theArmenian Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia (ASALA) wasassassinated in a beachfront suburbof Athens. The victim, BedrosHavanassian, had many aliases,including Hagop Hagopian. RivalArmenian terrorists or Turkish agentsare suspected in the assassination.

1-May-88 RoermondNetherlandsProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Firearms2 1 NETHERLANDS. The IRA claimedresponsibility for the murder of ayoung Royal Air Force enlisted manwho was shot while sitting in aparked car near the West Germanborder. Two companions werewounded in the attack. Policereportedly counted over 20 bulletholes in the car. The three men arebelieved to have spent the eveningat a club in Roermond that is popularwith off-duty servicemen.

1-May-88 NetherlandsProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives1 2 NETHERLANDS. About a half hourafter the ambush of an RAF vehicle inRoermond, a car bomb killed twoother British servicemen andseriously wounded another in thetown of Nieuwbergen. The IRAclaimed responsibility for this attackas well. The men had been at theBacchus Discotheque and had justgone back to their car when theexplosion occurred.

2-May-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives9 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb injured ninepeople when it went off in amarketplace in Peshawar. Afghanagents are suspected.

2-May-88 Oyarzun Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA claimed responsibility forthe bombing of a Renault dealershipin Oyarzun.

3-May-88 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The National LiberationArmy (ELN) claimed responsibility forcoordinated kidnappings of consularofficials throughout Colombia. Thevictims included two West Germanhonorary consuls, a French diplomat,and two Swiss trade officials.Honorary consuls of France andPanama escaped kidnap attempts.Several Colombian journalists werealso taken hostage by the group.TheELN was protesting governmentpolicies toward multinationalcompanies dealing in Colombiancrude oil.All of the 15 foreign anddomestic officials were released byMay 12, 1988.







3-May-88 FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An explosive device was safelydeactivated after being discovered ina car bearing British army licenseplates at the Bielefeld base where4,000 British soldiers reside withtheir families. The incident occurredtwo days after the Irish RepublicanArmy claimed responsibility for killingthree off-duty British militarypersonnel in the Netherlands.

4-May-88 Santiago DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A bombcontaining shrapnel went off outsidethe U.S. Binational Center inSantiago.

7-May-88 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Amal Explosives1 0 KUWAIT. Pro-Iranian extremists weresuspected of bombing a downtownoffice of the Avis car rental company.One person was injured by the blast.

9-May-88 Cannes France Masada,ActionandDefenseMovement

Explosives4 0 FRANCE. A homemade bomb wentoff at a hostel housing North Africanimmigrant workers. The attack,which occurred near Cannes, injuredfour immigrants. A group callingitself Masada claimed responsibility.Rightist militants were arrested inJanuary 1990 in connection with thisincident.

10-May-88

NewDelhi

India Other Explosives14 1 INDIA. A time bomb went off in thecrowded lobby of Citibank in NewDelhi. One person was killed and 14others injured by the blast. Thebombing marked the firstanniversary of the government'sdecision to remove the moderateSikh provisional administration in thePunjab.

11-May-88

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. A Sovietcorrespondent from PRAVDA waskidnapped by four people near a SanSalvador hotel. The journalist hadarrived in the country on May 8 asthe first Soviet correspondent in ElSalvador. The journalist had lastbeen seen at a demonstration heldby the Federation of Committees ofMothers and Relatives of SalvadoransMurdered and Disappeared forPolitical Reasons.

11-May-88

Nicosia Cyprus Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)


19 3 CYPRUS. Abu Nidal claimedresponsibility for a car bomb whichtargeted the Israeli Embassy inNicosia. Three people were killedand 19 others wounded by theexplosion. Guards at the IsraeliEmbassy twice prevented theterrorist from parking a Mitsubishitruck in front of the facility, and thedriver of the bomb-laden car wasapparently trying to return to hisaccomplice when the bombdetonated. A bag dropped by a manfleeing the scene contained theremote-control device.

12-May-88

Sanaa Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. A rocket-propelled grenadewas fired at the U.S. Embassy inSanaa by an unknown assailant.There were no casualties.

15-May-88

KhartoumSudan Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 SUDAN. Terrorists in Khartoumstaged simultaneous machinegunand grenade attacks on foreigners inthe Acropolis Hotel and the nearbySudan Club, killing seven people andwounding 21, including threeAmericans. The hotel wasfrequented by Western diplomats,relief workers and journalists and theclub was reserved for British andCommonwealth citizens. Among thedead were a British family of four andtwo Sudanese. Three gunmencarrying Lebanese passports andclaiming to belong to ArabRevolutionary Cells, were taken intocustody. In October 1988, fivemembers of Abu Nidal weresentenced to death for these attacks.

15-May-88

KhartoumSudan Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives21 7 SUDAN. Terrorists in Khartoumstaged simultaneous machinegunand grenade attacks on foreigners inthe Acropolis Hotel and the nearbySudan Club, killing seven people andwounding 21, including threeAmericans. The hotel wasfrequented by Western diplomats,relief workers and journalists and theclub was reserved for British andCommonwealth citizens. Among thedead were a British family of four andtwo Sudanese. Three gunmencarrying Lebanese passports andclaiming to belong to ArabRevolutionary Cells, were taken intocustody. In October 1988, fivemembers of Abu Nidal weresentenced to death for these attacks.

18-May-88

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaManoBlanca

Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. Two grenades werethrown from a passing car at thehome of a Soviet newscorrespondent in Guatemala City.The Tass Correspondent hadreceived a letter a week earlier fromthe right-wing group Mano Blanca,threatening the man with a surprisefor both Tass and the official Cubannews agency Prensa Latina.

18-May-88

KuwaitCity

Kuwait Amal Explosives0 2 KUWAIT. A bomb explosion toreapart a car which was parked in frontof the Kuwaiti Airlines headquartersin the capitol. Two occupants of thecar were killed. Pro-Iranian terroristswere suspected.

19-May-88

Seoul Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Students armed withMolotov cocktails attacked the USISbuilding in Seoul.

20-May-88

Seoul Korea,South


1 0 SOUTH KOREA. The U.S. Embassy inSeoul came under attack by a smallgroup of radical South Koreanstudents throwing homemadebombs. The students were able toscale the walls of the compound inorder to stage their attack. Onepolice guard was seriously injured.Damage to the embassy was veryslight.

21-May-88

Cyprus Other Firearms1 1 CYPRUS. An Austrian soldier of theU.N. peacekeeping force waswounded by an assailant in theTurkish Cypriot village of Pyla. Thesoldier returned fire and killed theattacker in the first fatal shoot-outinvolving the peacekeeping forcesince it arrived on the island 24 yearsago.

23-May-88

Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. In an act meant to disruptthe impending visit to Greece by theTurkish Foreign Minister, members ofthe November 17th group placedbombs under the cars of four Turkishdiplomats. Two of the bombs werediffused, the two others exploded.No one was injured.

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25-May-88

Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A Belgian volunteerdoctor, Jan Cools, was reportedmissing in southern Lebanon. OnDecember 18, 1988, a pro-Iraniangroup calling itself the Soldiers ofTruth issued a statement claimingresponsibility for his abduction. Coolswas released June 15, 1989 after anappeal by Colonel Qaddafi andmediation efforts by Abu Nidal'sFatah Revolutionary Council.

26-May-88

Lebanon Hizballah Unknown1 0 LEBANON. An assassination teammade up of 12 members of Hezbollahfailed in their attempt to kill four topSyrian generals in southern Beirut.The six-car motorcade came underattack as they were returning from ameeting with the spiritual leader ofthe Hezbollah militia, Shiite clericMohammed Hussein Fadlullah. Hoursearlier an announcement had beenmade regarding plans to deploy aSyrian security force in the Shiiteslums of south Beirut. One guardwas wounded.

26-May-88


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. 40 guerrillas of the M-19movement seized the MexicanEmbassy in Bogota to protest waterand electricity shortages in lower-class areas of Bogota.

1-Jun-88 JerusalemIsrael DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

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0 0 ISRAEL. Several groups affiliatedwith the Democratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine and IslamicJihad have been arrested for a seriesof six firebombs carried out inJerusalem.


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1-Jun-88 Nice France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb was found andsafely dismantled from the carbelonging to the director of animmigrant hostel in Nice. An attackagainst another immigrant hostelhad been carried out in May.

1-Jun-88 Kabul AfghanistanUnknown Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. The French Embassywas hit by a rocket.

1-Jun-88 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives1 0 CHILE. A bystander was injuredwhen a bomb went off in front of aCitibank branch in downtownSantiago.

2-Jun-88 JerusalemIsrael Other Unknown0 1 ISRAEL. A Jewish teenager was killedby a Palestinian woman in aJerusalem park.

2-Jun-88 EastBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. The motorcade of U.S.Ambassador John H. Kelly cameunder fire in East Beirut. One bullethit the hood of the Ambassador'sarmored limousine, but no one wasinjured. The State Departmentdenies that this was part of anassassination plot against Kelly.

3-Jun-88 Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 10 ECUADOR. The Israeli militaryattache, the Ecuadoran Air Force'stop officers, and seven other militarymen were killed when a bombexploded on their airplane.

8-Jun-88 Bogota Colombia Christiansfor PeaceandNationalSalvation

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A group of protestorsbelonging to Christians for Peace andNational Salvation took over theheadquarters of the Latin AmericanEpiscopal Conference in Bogota,taking 42 people hostage. Thehostages were held by the groupuntil June 13. The protest had to dowith the Colombian government'salleged human rights violations andpolitical violence. There are reportsthat authorities suspect the groupmay have ties with the M-19.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasattacked the U.S. ambassador'sresidence in Lima with rockets. Onlyminor damage was sustained.

12-Jun-88 Tel Aviv Israel Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. Three firebombs werethrown from the roof of the DizengoffCenter in Tel Aviv. There were nocasualties and only one of thedevices exploded.

15-Jun-88 HuancayoPeru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms0 2 PERU. An American and his Peruviancompanion were shot and killed byguerrillas believed to belong toSendero Luminoso. The victimsworked for the U.S. Agency forInternational Development and werekilled near Huancayo, 125 miles eastof Lima.

16-Jun-88 PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown1 1 PHILIPPINES. One person was killedand another injured when suspectedmembers of the Moro NationalLiberation Front (MNLF) attacked thevehicle of an Austrian consultant fora Filipino hydroelectric project. TheAustrian was not injured in theattack.

17-Jun-88 MercedesUmana

ElSalvador

Other Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. French citizensWalter Moran Moscoso and MiguelGrute, who worked for a privateenterprise, were kidnapped byguerrillas in Mercedes Umana. Theguerrillas also set fire to machinerybelonging to the business.

19-Jun-88 Cadiz Spain Red ArmyFaction(RAF)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A NATO delegation in Cadizwas the target of an attempted bombattack perpetrated by two men and awoman believed to be members ofthe Red Army Faction. An explosivedevice rigged to a moped was parkedoutside the hotel where 72 NATOofficials were staying, when itexploded prematurely. The terroristswere still near the bomb site at thetime of the explosion, and whenapproached by Spanish police whowanted to check their identification,the three commandeered a vehicleand fled to Seville. They opened fireon the officers while making theirescape.


Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. Four members of thePopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine were captured as they triedto infiltrate into Israel from southernLebanon. The guerrillas were armedwith explosives and rocket-propelledgrenade launchers, as well asautomatic weapons. Two of thePalestinians were injured in anexchange of gunfire before theircapture.

24-Jun-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Explosive devices weredetonated at the headquarters of twoAfghan guerrilla groups in Peshawar.There were no reports of casualties.Afghan agents are suspected.

24-Jun-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Explosive devices weredetonated at the headquarters of twoAfghan guerrilla groups in Peshawar.There were no reports of casualties.Afghan agents are suspected.

25-Jun-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives4 13 PAKISTAN. 13 people were killedwhen a powerful bomb exploded atthe Prince Hotel in Peshawar. Afghanagents are suspected.

27-Jun-88 Ethiopia EthiopianPeople'sRevolutionaryArmy

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. The Ethiopian People'sRevolutionary Party kidnapped anItalian technician in the Beles Valley.The technician had been working ona geological project in the area. Twoother Italians were still being held bythis group. By the end of 1988 allItalians held by this group had beenreleased.

28-Jun-88 PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. The Moro NationalLiberation Front (MNLF) attacked anAmerican-owned logging company onMindanao Island. A guard was killedin the attack. Authorities speculatedthat the attack may have been dueto the company's failure to payrevolutionary taxes to the group.

28-Jun-88 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

Amal Explosives1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb went off in a video-rental storein Hamburg which specializes inIranian films. One person wasinjured by the blast which destroyedthe shop. No group claimedresponsibility, but in the past pro-Iranian terrorists have attacked anti-Khomeini targets in West Germany.

28-Jun-88 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 1 GREECE. U.S. military attache, Capt.William Nordeen, was assassinatedby members of the November 17Revolutionary Organization inAthens. Nordeen was in his armor-plated car in an affluent Athenssuburb when an explosive-packedcar parked 300 feet away detonated.

30-Jun-88 Cairo Egypt Other Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A hand grenade was thrownat the car belonging to the Kuwaitiambassador in Cairo. Authoritiesbelieve the attack may have beencarried out by terrorists linked toeither Libya or Iran.

1-Jul-88 AfghanistanUnknown Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. A German club washit by rocket fire.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. American Jack Cumbillo,chief contractor for the TexasPetroleum (oil) Company, waskidnapped in Santander Departmentby members of the NationalLiberation Army (ELN).


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Fidel Angelo Estipino, anItalian oil company executive, waskidnapped by members of theNational Liberation Army (ELN).

2-Jul-88 Madrid Spain Anti-ImperialistInternationalBrigades

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb went off near the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. The Anti-Imperialist International Brigadesclaimed responsibility. The group isbacked by Libya.


Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. Fidel Lillo Shifihno, anexecutive of General American PipeCompany (oil related) waskidnapped. His body was discoverednear the town of Sabana de Torreson July 27. The People's LiberationArmy is suspected.

4-Jul-88 Manila PhilippinesOther Explosives7 0 PHILIPPINES. Home made bombsexploded outside the U.S. Embassy inManila during a Fourth of July protest.Seven people were injured by theblasts.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A homemade mortar found ina construction bin had been aimed atthe U.S. Embassy in Madrid. Thedevice was safely defused. The Anti-Imperialist International Brigade(backed by Libya) claimedresponsibility.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded near the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. The smallexplosive device had been hiddeninside a soft drink container. Twodays earlier another bomb had goneoff near the Embassy as well. TheAnti-Imperialist InternationalBrigades (backed by Libya) claimedresponsibility for the attack inresponse to the U.S. downing of anIranian aircraft.

8-Jul-88 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb exploded in oneMormon Church and a bomb wasdiscovered in another MormonChurch in La Paz. No one was injuredby the one explosion and no groupclaimed responsibility.

8-Jul-88 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb exploded in oneMormon Church and a bomb wasdiscovered in another MormonChurch in La Paz. No one was injuredby the one explosion and no groupclaimed responsibility.

11-Jul-88 Greece Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 2 GREECE. In a foiled plan toparticipate in the commandeering ofa Greek tourist vessel, two men inthe process of assembling anexplosive device accidentally blewthemselves up at the TrocaderoMarina where the intended target,the City of Poros was to dock.A groupcalling itself the Organization of theMartyrs of the Popular Revolution inPalestine (Abu Nidal) claimedresponsibility.

11-Jul-88 Greece Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives98 11 GREECE. A Greek cruise ship wasattacked by Middle Eastern gunmenwho indiscriminately fired automaticweapons and threw hand grenadesinto the crowd, killing 11 andwounding another 98. One Americanwas among the fatalities. Theterrorists escaped. The attackappears to have been theconsequence of a blundered hostageattempt. A car which was loadedwith explosives blew up at the portwhere the ship was to haveanchored, killing the occupants ofthe vehicle. Authorities speculatethat the ship was to have been takenhostage in an attempt to intimidatethe Greek government out of its planto extradite Muhammed Rashid, amember of Abu Nidal being held in aGreek jail for involvement in twoearlier incidents which targetedAmerican airliners.A group callingitself the Organization of the Martyrsof the Popular Revolution in Palestine(Abu Nidal) claimed responsibility.InOctober 1989, two Abu Nidalmembers were convicted of variouscharges in connection with this case,including premeditated murder.

13-Jul-88 Duisburg FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives9 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The IRA claimed responsibility forbombs which injured nine soldiers ata British army barracks in Duisburg.Although there were armed soldierspatrolling the fence surrounding thearea, the perpetrators were able tobreach the perimeter fence in orderto plant the two bombs.

14-Jul-88 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Firearms0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An armed Lebanese man tookhostages at the Libyan Arab People'sBureau in Bonn, threatening to useforce if he were not transported outof Germany. The man wasoverpowered by German policeeleven hours later. There werereports that the food and drink hereceived while in the embassy weretainted with sedatives by police.

17-Jul-88 SanPedroSula

Honduras Other Explosives4 0 HONDURAS. About a dozen menthrew hand grenades and opened fireon a group of American servicemenwho were leaving a discotheque inSan Pedro Sula at about one o'clockin the morning. Four of theAmericans were wounded andhospitalized. The attack was carriedout by the Lorenzo Zelaya PopularLiberation Front, also known as theChichonero Front.

18-Jul-88 CanberraAustralia Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. An incendiary devicedetonated underneath the car of theU.S. Defense Attache in Canberra. Anote left at the scene read, YankImperialist Murderers Out, butmentioned no claim of responsibility.

19-Jul-88 ValparaisoChile Unknown Explosives3 0 CHILE. A bomb explosion at theentrance to a Mormon Church inValparaiso seriously injured threechildren.

19-Jul-88 DominicanRepublic

Other Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A few hoursafter a meeting was held betweenleaders of the Nicaraguan Resistancea bomb went off at their meetingplace, the Dominican ConcordeHotel. The participants had alreadyleft the site, and there were nocasualties. The NicaraguanResistance blamed the blast onrepresentatives of the NicaraguanSandinista government.

21-Jul-88 Ankara Turkey BlackFriday

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was discoverednear the Saudi Arabian culturalmission in Ankara. A group calledBlack Friday claimed responsibilityfor planting the bomb. The group isbelieved to be made up of pro-Iranian terrorists whose namesymbolizes the date of the previousyear's religious pilgrimage to Meccawhen hundreds of Iranian radicalswere killed. The attempted bombingcoincided with the current year'spilgrimage.


Explosives0 0 CHILE. Units of the ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) arebelieved responsible for a bomb thatwent off at the Bank of Hong Kong inSantiago. The date coincided withthe 35th anniversary of Fidel Castro'sattack on the Moncada Barracks inSantiago de Cuba, an action whichsymbolizes the beginning of Castro'srevolutionary effort. The FPMR haslongstanding ties with Cuba.


Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at the SouthAfrican Embassy in Santiago, the siteof an earlier protest bydemonstrators demanding therelease of black nationalist NelsonMandela from a South African prison.Units of the Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front (FPMR) are believedresponsible.

1-Aug-88 PhilippinesOther Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb which went offat a Philippine-Soviet Shipping Linesoffice was blamed on rightists.

1-Aug-88 NicaraguaOther Unknown27 2 NICARAGUA. A ferryboat with a ten-person American delegation on boardwas the target of a guerrilla ambushin the southeastern portion of thecountry. Two people were killed andanother 27 people injured, includingan American, in the attack.

4-Aug-88 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. The New People's Armyis suspected in the murder of anAustralian saw-mill operator at hishome on Negros Island.

4-Aug-88 Jaffna SriLanka


Unknown1 2 SRI LANKA. A senior Red Crossofficial and his driver were killedwhen Tamil guerrillas attacked theirjeep in Jaffna. A doctor was seriouslywounded in the attack.

5-Aug-88 Cannes France Unknown Explosives12 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in aLebanese area in Cannes, injuring 12tourists. No group claimedresponsibility.

5-Aug-88 PeshawarPakistan Unknown Unknown0 1 PAKISTAN. Pakistan's mostprominent Shiite Muslim clergymanwas assassinated in Peshawar.Allama Arif Hussain's assassinationmay have been linked to a foreignperpetrator, or it may have beenlinked to fighting between PakistaniShiite and Sunni Muslims.

5-Aug-88 DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives4 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Provisional Irish Reublican Army(PIRA) was responsible for a bombwhich went off at a British armybarracks in Dusseldorf. Three Britishsoldiers and a West German civilianwere injured by the blast.

8-Aug-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives0 2 PAKISTAN. Two children were killedwhen a bomb wrapped in a sackwent off where the children wereplaying near Peshawar. Afghanagents are suspected.

8-Aug-88 PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb was discoveredunderneath the automobile of a U.S.serviceman stationed at Clark AirBase.

8-Aug-88 La Paz Bolivia SimonBolivarGuerillaCoordinatingBoard(CGSB)

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A stick of dynamite wastossed over the wall of the U.S.Embassy commissary on the morningof U.S. Secretary of State GeorgeShultz's visit to the country. TheSimon Bolivar Guerrilla Commandwas responsible.

8-Aug-88 La Paz Bolivia SimonBolivarGuerillaCoordinatingBoard(CGSB)


0 0 BOLIVIA. A crude remote-controlledbomb went off while U.S. Secretaryof State George Shultz's motorcadewas passing through La Paz, justmissing Shultz's vehicle but slightlydamaging three other vehicles in thegroup. No injuries were reported, butthe car in which Shultz's wife wastraveling was damaged. The SimonBolivar Guerrilla Command and theArmed Forces of National Liberationclaimed responsibility for the attack.Authorities suspect drug-traffickers'involvement.

9-Aug-88 PhilippinesUnknown Firearms0 1 PHILIPPINES. A West Germanbusinessman was shot dead in frontof his family when three gunmenburst into their home in the northernPhilippines. The victim was themanager of a metal foundry.

12-Aug-88

Ostend Belgium ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Firearms0 1 BELGIUM. The IRA was responsiblefor the assassination of a Britishsoldier in Ostend. The soldier wasshot at point-blank range when hestopped at a traffic light.

13-Aug-88


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA was responsible for ninebombs which targeted Frenchinterests in different parts of thecountry. Among those hit wereshowrooms belonging to Peugeot,Renault and Citroen.

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ManakulamSriLanka


Explosives0 7 SRI LANKA. Tamil guerrillas wereresponsible for a bomb blast whichkilled seven Indian soldiers inManakulam.

14-Aug-88

CanberraAustralia Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. Several explosivedevices were discovered under thecar of a political officer of the U.S.Embassy in Canberra.

18-Aug-88

Pakistan Other Explosives0 30 PAKISTAN. Thirty people, includingPresident Zia, U.S. AmbassadorRaphel, the senior U.S. militaryofficer in Pakistan, and several keymembers of Pakistan's armed forceswere killed when the military aircraftin which they were travellingexploded in middair. Wad (Afghanisecurity service) is suspected.

19-Aug-88

Lebanon Other Explosives0 1 LEBANON. A suicide attack on anIsraeli convoy in the security zonefailed to kill anyone but the youngwoman attacker.

20-Aug-88

Haifa Israel Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives25 0 ISRAEL. Twenty five people wereinjured when members of the AbuNidal organization threw a handgrenade into a busy shopping centerin Haifa.

22-Aug-88

Manila PhilippinesUnknown Firearms0 2 PHILIPPINES. Two bodyguards werekilled when gunmen opened fire infront of a restaurant in Manila whereSouth Korean opposition leader KimDae Jung was attending a dinnerparty with Philippine DefenseSecretary Fidel Ramos.

23-Aug-88

TalcahuanaChile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. An explosion at a Mormonchurch in Talcahuana caused anestimated $50,000 damage.

26-Aug-88

VancouverCanada Other Firearms1 0 CANADA. A 17-year old Sikh shotand seriously wounded the editor ofa Punjabi-language newspaper inVancouver.

1-Sep-88 Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. During September sixattacks against Syrian forces werereported, resulting in at least 30Syrian casualties.

1-Sep-88 Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 30 LEBANON. During September sixattacks against Syrian forces werereported, resulting in at least 30Syrian casualties.Note: Date isapproximate.

1-Sep-88 CostaRica

Unknown Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb went off at theTico-Panamena Company near thePanamanian border. Two individualswere pursued amid gunfire butescaped toward the border.

3-Sep-88 Pakistan Other Explosives13 3 PAKISTAN. A bomb went off on atrain traveling between Islamabadand Peshawar killing three andwounding 13 others. Afghan agentsare suspected.

4-Sep-88 Karachi Pakistan Other Explosives5 0 PAKISTAN. Five people were injuredwhen a bomb exploded at a Karachitrain station. Afghan agents aresuspected.

7-Sep-88 SantiagodeCompostela

Spain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Free Galician People'sGuerrilla Army is believed to havebeen responsible for a bomb whichexploded at the British Barclays Bankin Santiago de Compostela. Bombswent off at six other Spanish banksas well.

8-Sep-88 Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Molotov cocktailswere hurled onto the grounds ofCamp Hialeah most likely by radicalstudents.

9-Sep-88 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded outsideof the Iraqi Cultural Center in Ankara.No casualties resulted.

10-Sep-88 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives15 0 PAKISTAN. Fifteen people wereinjured when a bomb which had beenplaced under a water storage tank inPeshawar exploded. Afghan agentsare suspected.

10-Sep-88 DavaoCity

PhilippinesUnknown Unknown1 1 PHILIPPINES. A British businessmanwas assassinated and his driverwounded in an ambush outsideDavao city.

10-Sep-88 JohannesburgSouthAfrica


Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A bomb went offoutside the home of an Indianlegislator in Johannesburg, and asecond bomb was detonated at agovernment office dealing withIndian affairs. No casualties werereported. Members of the AfricanNational Congress (ANC) aresuspected.

10-Sep-88 JohannesburgSouthAfrica


Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A bomb went offoutside the home of an Indianlegislator in Johannesburg, and asecond bomb was detonated at agovernment office dealing withIndian affairs. No casualties werereported. Members of the AfricanNational Congress (ANC) aresuspected.

11-Sep-88 Kabul AfghanistanUnknown Explosives22 10 AFGHANISTAN. Ten people werekilled and 22 injured when a bombexploded near the Pakistani Embassyin Kabul.

11-Sep-88 Baalbek Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Kenneth Well, anAmerican employee of LittonIndustries, based in Saudi Arabia,was kidnapped from the town ofBaalbek in the Bekaa Valley,immediately following his wedding toa Lebanese woman. The victim wasable to free himself from thekidnappers the same day.

14-Sep-88 RichmondUnitedStates

Other Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. A Lebanesegunman armed with an AK-47 Sovietassault rifle held nine militarypersonnel and two civilians hostageat a military recruiting center inRichmond, Virginia for five hours.The twenty-year-old gunman wasattempting to help bring peace toLebanon and requested that a shortstatement about the situation inLebanon be broadcast over localradio stations. The man wasarrested after negotiators weresuccessful in getting the man tosurrender peacefully.

18-Sep-88 Ankara Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in thecourtyard of the Iraqi Embassy inAnkara. The Kaaba LiberationOrganization - Muhammad Al Sadrclaimed responsibility.

21-Sep-88 Medellin Colombia Unknown Firearms1 0 COLOMBIA. The Venezuelan Consulwas slightly injured when gunmen ina taxi opened fire on his car while hewas driving to work in Medellin. Nogroup claimed responsibility.Agreements had earlier beenreached between the governments ofVenezuela and Colombia regardingincreased border security todiscourage drug traffickers.

23-Sep-88 Romania Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ROMANIA. An incendiary device wasthrown onto the grounds of the U.S.Consulate.

24-Sep-88 EastLondon

SouthAfrica


Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A bomb exploded inthe parking lot of a Holiday Inn inEast London. The ANC wasresponsible. No casualties werereported, but at least nineautomobiles were destroyed.

27-Sep-88 SuchitotoElSalvador


Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Two Salvadoranemployees of World Relief (a U.S. AIDaffiliate) were kidnapped by theFMLN in Suchitoto.

30-Sep-88 Seoul Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Firebombs weretossed onto a U.S. army base byradical students near central Seoul.No one was injured in the attack.

1-Oct-88 Nice France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A firebomb was thrown atthe Algerian Consulate in Nice.

2-Oct-88 Tolosa Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Unknown0 0 SPAIN. ETA members attacked aPeugeot car showroom in Tolosa.

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0 0 SPAIN. Members of ETA burned aFrench ice cream stand in Tolosa.

2-Oct-88 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb which had beenhidden inside a loaf of breadexploded in Jerusalem, injuring threechildren and causing moderateproperty damage. A similar bombhidden in a loaf of bread at a nearbymarket was discovered by a storeowner, and safely defused.

2-Oct-88 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. A bomb which had beenhidden inside a loaf of breadexploded in Jerusalem, injuring threechildren and causing moderateproperty damage. A similar bombhidden in a loaf of bread at a nearbymarket was discovered by a storeowner, and safely defused.

3-Oct-88 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

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0 0 SPAIN. ETA firebombed a Renault carshowroom in Bilbao.

5-Oct-88 Limassol Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. Two explosive devices werethrown into the British servicemens'married quarters on the outskirts ofLimassol, causing minor damage butno injuries.

5-Oct-88 Bogota Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)


1 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN claimedresponsibility for a foiledassassination attempt against themanager of the Texas PetroleumCompany in Bogota. John Buttle, aCanadian national, was returninghome in a chauffeur-driven car, whena remotely-controlled bomb went offas he passed a fire hydrant. The useof a remote-control device is a newtactic for the ELN. In a communique,the group accused Texaco (oil) Co. oftaking part in a dirty war againstColombian leftists.

7-Oct-88 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 TURKEY. After forcing their way intothe Istanbul office of the Chileanhonorary consul, four gunmenthreatened him. It is unclear howlong the honorary consul was heldbefore the gunmen fled, firing oneshot into the floor.


ElSalvador


Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. A gunman fired shotsat a U.S. Embassy security vehiclewhile it was being driven bySalvadoran security men outside theNational University, located near theU.S. Embassy. A caller claimed theattack on behalf of the FarabundoMarti National Liberation Front(FMLN). No one was injured by theattack.

14-Oct-88 TegucigalpaHonduras PatrioticMorazanistaFront(FPM)

Unknown0 1 HONDURAS. An Americanbusinessman was murdered as hejogged near his home in aTegucigalpa suburb. Telephone callsto the media claimed theassassination in the name of thePatriotic Morazanista Front, a Maoistgroup active several years earlier.

14-Oct-88 Lebanon Amal Explosives32 3 LEBANON. A car bomb went off at aSyrian army barracks, killing threepeople and wounding 32.


Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A 10-foot tall statue ofthe late U.S. General DouglasMacArthur was blown up bysuspected communist guerrillas onLeyte Island in eastern Philippines.

17-Oct-88 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb went off outside thehome of former defense ministerAriel Sharon in Jerusalem. Sharon iscurrently the Israeli Trade Minister.No one was injured by the blast.

18-Oct-88 ElSalvador

Other Explosives11 0 EL SALVADOR. Two car bombsdetonated simultaneously in front ofa firm under contract to USAID and acrowded hamburger restaurant. 11people were injured by the blasts(including an American citizen). Agroup calling itself the Manuel JoseArce Commandos claimedresponsibility. Their communiquestated that they are not a part of theFMLN but accept their policies.

18-Oct-88 LivingstoneZambia Other Explosives5 0 ZAMBIA. Five people were injured bya bomb explosion which occurredoutside a residence in the touristtown of Livingstone. Zambianauthorities blamed the attack on thegovernment of South Africa andreported that members of the ANCwere the intended targets.

18-Oct-88 CharsaddaPakistan Other Explosives18 3 PAKISTAN. Three people were killedand 18 others injured when a bombwent off at a market in Charsadda.Afghan agents are suspected.

19-Oct-88 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 7 LEBANON. A suicide bomber plowedinto an Israeli military convoy justacross the border from the Israelitown of Metulla, detonating hundredsof pounds of explosives. At leastseven Israeli soldiers were killed.Hezbollah claimed responsibility forthe attack.

20-Oct-88 KirkcaldyUnitedKingdom

Other Firearms1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Gunmen firedfrom a passing car on the presidentof the Croatian Movement forStatehood, wounding their victim.There is speculation that theYugoslavian government wasinvolved in the attack.

21-Oct-88 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Unknown0 1 TURKEY. An American who had justarrived in Istanbul for a languageconference was murdered in a park.The victim was a translator for RadioLiberty, a Munich-based Americannetwork that broadcasts to the SovietUnion.

22-Oct-88 Seoul Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Radical studentsfirebombed the USO building inSeoul. There were no injuriesreported.

23-Oct-88 Pakistan Other Explosives8 0 PAKISTAN. Eight people were injuredwhen a bomb exploded underneaththe van they were in. The victimshad been en route to a religiousshrine nearby. Afghan agents aresuspected.

24-Oct-88 IslamabadPakistan Other Explosives3 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded in amarket in Islamabad, injuring threepeople. Afghan agents aresuspected.

25-Oct-88 Ankara Turkey Hizballah Unknown0 1 TURKEY. The Islamic Jihad-Hijazclaimed responsibility forassassinating a Saudi Arabiandiplomat in Ankara. The SecondSecretary of the Saudi Embassy waskilled as he was approaching hishome around 9:30 pm.

26-Oct-88 Taegu Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Radical studentsthrew firebombs at the U.S. culturalcenter in Taegu. No injuries werereported.

27-Oct-88 Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Firebombs werehurled at branch offices of Kor-AmBank and Citibank by a group ofapproximately 20 radical Koreanstudents.


ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A rocket was firedinto the fifth floor of the buildinghousing the U.S. Agency forInternational Development in SanSalvador. There were no injuries.The FMLN claimed responsibility.

27-Oct-88 Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Firebombs werehurled at branch offices of Kor-AmBank and Citibank by a group ofapproximately 20 radical Koreanstudents.

27-Oct-88 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Norwegian citizen BruceOlson was kidnapped by the NationalLiberation Army of Colombia (ELN).Olson had been living among theMotilones Indians since 1961,teaching them Spanish. Olson wasreleased in July, 1989

28-Oct-88 Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. A gasoline bomb wasthrown into the playground of aPakistani school. The school servesthe children of diplomats fromMoslem countries.

30-Oct-88 Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb went off in a carowned by an American teacher at theU.S. Defense Dept. school fordependents in Izmir.

1-Nov-88 Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. The home of a French priestwas bombed and the intended victimarrested after police discoveredTupac Amaru literature in the ruinsof his home. Authorities suspect theRodrigo Franco Command.

4-Nov-88 Seoul Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Firebombs werethrown into the U.S. Army's Far EastDistrict Engineers' compound inSeoul. Property damage was minor.

5-Nov-88 Taegu Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Firebombs werethrown at the main gate of CampHenry in Taegu.

5-Nov-88 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A rocket-propelledgrenade was fired at the downtownSheraton Hotel where an OASmeeting had been scheduled for thefollowing week. The FMLN wasbelieved responsible.

7-Nov-88 Cairo Egypt Unknown Explosives1 0 EGYPT. The U.S. military attache wasseverely injured by a bomb blastwhich occurred at his home in Al-Jizah in the greater Cairometropolitan area.

9-Nov-88 KhartoumSudan Other Firearms0 0 SUDAN. An armed individualinfiltrated the United Arab EmiratesEmbassy in Khartoum and held theambassador, consul, and fourembassy staff members hostageuntil a group of commando forcesstormed the embassy a few hourslater.

11-Nov-88

WestBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. An attack in West Beiruttargeted the Soviet Novosti pressbureau. There were no reports ofcasualties.

13-Nov-88

Lebanon al-Fatah Firearms0 1 LEBANON. After an attempt tolaunch an attack on Israel failed, afive-member Palestinian squadseized a U.N. observation post inLebanon, holding a Lebanesetechnician and five Finnish soldiershostage. Four of the Palestinians,who claimed they belonged toArafat's Fatah faction, surrendered,but a lone gunman refused to giveup, and, agitated at one point, heshot the Lebanese man in the head,killing him instantly. During the 18hour ordeal the Palestinian, whoreportedly may have been on drugs,sliced long lines on his arm with aknife, and then poured salt in hiswounds in order to stay awake. TheFinnish soldiers eventuallyoverpowered him.

15-Nov-88

Cucuta Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Italian businessmanEnrico Sciappa was kidnapped whiledriving in the La Merced district ofCucuta, near the Venezuelan border.Sciappa is an executive with the coalexporting firm Incolminex.

15-Nov-88

Sodupe Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The auto dealerships ofRenault and Peugeot were bombed inZalla and Sodupe. ETA wassuspected.

15-Nov-88

Zalla Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The auto dealerships ofRenault and Peugeot were bombed inZalla and Sodupe. ETA wassuspected.

17-Nov-88

Korea,South


2 0 SOUTH KOREA. Militant studentsforced their way onto a U.S. militaryhousing complex, using firebombs todamage military and civilian vehicles.Two people were injured in theattack.

17-Nov-88

Sidon Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Peter Winkler, a SwissRed Cross member, was kidnappedby three gunmen near Sidon.Winkler was released December 16,1988. Abu Nidal was implicated inthis abduction.

18-Nov-88

Geneva SwitzerlandSocialist-NationalistFront(SNF)

Explosives5 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb went offoutside an office building housing theSoviet airline Aeroflot and two Arabbanks, the Swiss Kuwaiti Bank andthe Jordanian-owned Arab Bank. Fivepeople, including two Americans,were injured by the blast. A groupcalling itself the Socialist-NationalistFront (SNF) claimed responsibility forthe attack and said that futuretargets would include capitalist,communist and Jewish interests.

19-Nov-88

Lima Peru Other Explosives4 0 PERU. A bomb hidden in a trash canexploded outside the Aeroflot officein Lima. Four people were injured.

23-Nov-88

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. The FMLN attackedthe U.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment in San Salvador.

25-Nov-88

Chile Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. Terrorists in ski masks threwMolotov cocktails into a MormonChurch. No one was injured.

26-Nov-88

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A grenade explodedin the back yard of the U.S. DeputyChief of Mission as suspected FMLNguerrillas drove through an upperclass suburb of San Salvadorrandomly tossing explosives.

27-Nov-88

DearbornUnitedStates

Other Firearms1 0 UNITED STATES. A leading opponentof the North Yemen governmentescaped injury when shots were firedat a group he was with while enteringa restaurant in Dearborn, Michigan.An associate of Ibrahim Alwazir wasinjured in the attack. Alwazir's familyimmediately accused the NorthYemen government of involvement.

30-Nov-88

Yongsan Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Militant studentshurled firebombs over the wall of theU.S. Eighth Army Base in Yongsan.

30-Nov-88


0 0 ISRAEL. Two firebombs were thrownat the U.S. Consulate in EastJerusalem. No one was injured in theattack.

30-Nov-88

Bremen FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Firearms0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three masked and armed assailantsattacked the Turkish employmentattache in Bremen. After raiding hisoffice, the gunmen tied the attacheto an armchair and wrote slogans onthe walls. The men told him thattheir action was being carried out insupport of hunger strikes being heldin Turkish prisons.

1-Dec-88 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown9 2 PERU. Suspected Sendero Luminosoguerrillas sabotaged a VIP-touristtrain between Cuzco and MachuPicchu, killing two women (includingthe wife of a New Jersey mayor) andwounding nine others.

2-Dec-88 Zambia Other Explosives13 2 ZAMBIA. A bomb placed in a vehiclebelonging to the Red Cross explodedin Zambia as the driver of the truckopened the door. Two people werekilled and thirteen others injured.Authorities accused the governmentof South Africa of involvement.

5-Dec-88 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms5 1 PAKISTAN. Iranian refugees waitingoutside a United Nations agencyoffice in Karachi were fired on by amasked gunman. One person waskilled and another five people injuredin the attack.

5-Dec-88 Peru ShiningPath (SL)


0 5 PERU. Approximately forty membersof Sendero Luminoso took control ofHaquira, an isolated village in thePeruvian Andes, arresting villagerswhose names appeared on a list oflackeys of imperialism and enemiesof the revolution. Among them werea young Frenchman and aFrenchwoman who were working forthe International Committee for theDevelopment of Agriculture. Afterharanguing the villagers anddenouncing the Lima governmentand foreign interference, theSenderistas cut the throats of fivepeople, including the French workers.Peruvian authorities believe that thekilling of the two French workers andthe murder of a young Americanworker in June mark the beginning ofan offensive against developmentprojects and the foreigners who workfor them. Authorities report that1695 deaths were attributed to theSenderistas in 1988.

6-Dec-88 La Paz Bolivia Workers'RevolutionaryParty

Unknown0 1 BOLIVIA. A female assassin killed thePeruvian naval attache in front of theembassy in La Paz. A group callingitself the Workers RevolutionaryParty claimed responsibility for theattack in a note left at the scene.

8-Dec-88 WesternSahara

PolisarioFront

Explosives0 8 WESTERN SAHARA. Two DC-7 planescarrying American and Canadiancitizens working under contract for U.S. AID were brought down by heat-seeking missiles fired by Polisarioguerrillas. Five Americans and threeCanadians were killed. The PolisarioFront apologized and claimed they'dmistaken the planes for Moroccanmilitary aircraft.

10-Dec-88


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. ETA firebombed a branch ofthe French food firm Danone nearBilbao.

12-Dec-88

WestBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. A Belgian teacher wasassassinated by unidentified gunmenin West Beirut.

14-Dec-88

Lisbon Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A parcel bombaddressed to Maestro MenahemBegin was discovered by an alertsecurity guard at the Israeli Embassyin Lisbon.

16-Dec-88

Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Three Irish soldiers withthe U.N. peacekeeping forces wereabducted by members of the FaithfulResistance, a splinter group affiliatedwith Hezbollah. The three wererescued by Amal the following day.

19-Dec-88

Nice France Masada,ActionandDefenseMovement

Explosives12 1 FRANCE. Three small bombsexploded at an immigrant hostel insouthern France near Nice, where alarge number of North Africanimmigrants live. One person waskilled and another 12 injured by theblasts. Anti-muslim pamphlets werefound at the scene and a groupcalling itself Masada claimedresponsibility. The same groupclaimed responsibility for a similarattack in Cannes the previous May.

19-Dec-88

TegucigalpaHonduras PatrioticMorazanistaFront(FPM)

Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A powerful bomb wentoff outside the Tegucigalpaheadquarters of the U.S. PeaceCorps. There were no casualties, butproperty damage was serious. TheApril 7 Martyr's Command of thePatriotic Morazanista Liberation Frontclaimed responsibility. The groupaccused the U.S. service organizationof serving the interests of the CIAand the Pentagon.

21-Dec-88

LockerbieUnitedKingdom

Other Explosives12 270 UNITED KINGDOM. SCOTLAND. PanAm Flight 103, en route from Londonto New York, exploded midair andcrashed into the Scottish village ofLockerbie, fifteen miles north of theEnglish border. Along with the 259people on board, 11 people on theground were killed in the crash.Twelve others were seriously injured.The plane had been at a cruisingaltitude of 31,000 feet when itdisappeared from radar screens. TheGuardians of the Islamic Revolution,a pro-Khomeini organization, claimedresponsibility for the action, statingthat it had been carried out inretaliation for the U.S. downing of anIranian airliner earlier in the year.Authorities are still trying todetermine the credibility of theclaim, however, focus seems to haveshifted toward terrorists belonging tothe Popular Front for the Liberationof Palestine-General Command. ThePFLP-GC is believed to have beencommissioned by Iran'sRevolutionary Guards. There arereports that the group may haverecruited a passenger of the flight tocarry a suitcase which he believedcontained heroin. According toofficials, the suitcase bomb whichwas discovered after the incident,had contained about 30 pounds ofthe Czechoslovakian-made SemtexH. A Toshiba portable radiocontaining a timing device and abarometric trigger set to go off athigh altitude served as the detonatorfor the plastic explosive.The airlinersabotage was preceded by atelephone tip to the U.S. Embassy inHelsinki on December 5, by ananonymous caller warning of aplanned bombing of a Pan Am flightout of Frankfurt to the United Stateswithin the next two weeks. Flight103 originated in Frankfurt. Whileprivate citizens were not notified ofthe threat, U.S. embassy personnelwere advised of the situation.In July,1989, U.S. intelligence officialsreportedly identified four terroristsalleged to have been responsible forthe bomb on Flight 103. The keyfigure in the attack was reported tohave been Hafez Kassem Dalkimoni,a 43-year old Palestinian from thePopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine - General Command. He iscurrently in a West German prisonawaiting trial for possession ofexplosives. Another suspect, KhalidJaafar of Lebanon, was apparentlyaboard Flight 103 when it exploded.The other two suspects, unnamed inthe report, were held briefly by WestGerman police before the bombingon explosive charges but werereleased for lack of evidence.In 1991,the former head of security forLibyan Arab Airlines, Abd al-BassetAli Mohammad al-Megrahi, and hisassistant Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah,were indicted in connection with theattack. In April 1999, the accusedLibyans were handed over toScotland for trial. The trial began, inthe Netherlands, in May 2000 and averdict was read in January 2001. Al-Megrahi was found guilty andsentenced to life in prison. Fhimahwas found not guilty and shippedback to Libya. In October 2002, theLibyan government agreed tocompensate the victims of theattack, and in April 2003, Libyaformally accepted responsibility forthe bombing. In September 2003,UN sanctions against Libya werelifted.

21-Dec-88

LockerbieUnitedKingdom

Other Explosives12 270 UNITED KINGDOM. SCOTLAND. PanAm Flight 103, en route from Londonto New York, exploded midair andcrashed into the Scottish village ofLockerbie, fifteen miles north of theEnglish border. Along with the 259people on board, 11 people on theground were killed in the crash.Twelve others were seriously injured.The plane had been at a cruisingaltitude of 31,000 feet when itdisappeared from radar screens. TheGuardians of the Islamic Revolution,a pro-Khomeini organization, claimedresponsibility for the action, statingthat it had been carried out inretaliation for the U.S. downing of anIranian airliner earlier in the year.Authorities are still trying todetermine the credibility of theclaim, however, focus seems to haveshifted toward terrorists belonging tothe Popular Front for the Liberationof Palestine-General Command. ThePFLP-GC is believed to have beencommissioned by Iran'sRevolutionary Guards. There arereports that the group may haverecruited a passenger of the flight tocarry a suitcase which he believedcontained heroin. According toofficials, the suitcase bomb whichwas discovered after the incident,had contained about 30 pounds ofthe Czechoslovakian-made SemtexH. A Toshiba portable radiocontaining a timing device and abarometric trigger set to go off athigh altitude served as the detonatorfor the plastic explosive.The airlinersabotage was preceded by atelephone tip to the U.S. Embassy inHelsinki on December 5, by ananonymous caller warning of aplanned bombing of a Pan Am flightout of Frankfurt to the United Stateswithin the next two weeks. Flight103 originated in Frankfurt. Whileprivate citizens were not notified ofthe threat, U.S. embassy personnelwere advised of the situation.In July,1989, U.S. intelligence officialsreportedly identified four terroristsalleged to have been responsible forthe bomb on Flight 103. The keyfigure in the attack was reported tohave been Hafez Kassem Dalkimoni,a 43-year old Palestinian from thePopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine - General Command. He iscurrently in a West German prisonawaiting trial for possession ofexplosives. Another suspect, KhalidJaafar of Lebanon, was apparentlyaboard Flight 103 when it exploded.The other two suspects, unnamed inthe report, were held briefly by WestGerman police before the bombingon explosive charges but werereleased for lack of evidence.In 1991,the former head of security forLibyan Arab Airlines, Abd al-BassetAli Mohammad al-Megrahi, and hisassistant Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah,were indicted in connection with theattack. In April 1999, the accusedLibyans were handed over toScotland for trial. The trial began, inthe Netherlands, in May 2000 and averdict was read in January 2001. Al-Megrahi was found guilty andsentenced to life in prison. Fhimahwas found not guilty and shippedback to Libya. In October 2002, theLibyan government agreed tocompensate the victims of theattack, and in April 2003, Libyaformally accepted responsibility forthe bombing. In September 2003,UN sanctions against Libya werelifted.

22-Dec-88

Ankara Turkey Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 TURKEY. The Second Secretary atthe Portuguese Embassy in Ankarawas found stabbed to death on theTarsus-Ankara Highway.

24-Dec-88

Okinawa Japan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

23 0 JAPAN. A tear-gas device was hurledinto a nightclub known to befrequented by American servicemenin Okinawa. 23 people were injuredtrying to escape the fumes.

27-Dec-88

Taegu Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Student radicalshurled firebombs onto the roof of abuilding at Camp Henry in Taegu.

27-Dec-88

Karachi Pakistan Hizballah Firearms1 0 PAKISTAN. The Saudi Consul inKarachi was seriously injured when agunman shot him in the neck at closerange. The pro-Khomeini groupSoldiers of Justice claimedresponsibility.

27-Dec-88

JerusalemIsrael Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Abu Nidal claimedresponsibility for a bomb that wentoff in a Jerusalem garbage can.

4-Jan-89 LaFlorida

Colombia TheExtraditables

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Americanmissionaries were kidnapped whileattending a meeting in the town of LaFlorida. The kidnappers, members ofa group calling itself TheExtraditables, threatened to kill thehostages if drug kingpin CarlosLehder were not released from a U.S.prison. Roy Libby and RichardGrover were released unharmed onMarch 12, near the city of Cali.

5-Jan-89 Thailand Hizballah Unknown0 1 THAILAND. The Soldiers of Justice(believed to be a joint apparatus ofAbu Nidal's Fatah RevolutionaryCouncil and Hezbollah) and theIslamic Holy War in Hejaz bothclaimed responsibility for theassassination of a Saudi diplomat inThailand. The Islamic Holy War inHejaz claimed it had carried out theact in revenge for the execution offour of its members in Saudi Arabiaon September 30, 1988.

5-Jan-89 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Grenades were foundhidden near a runway at the AthensInternational Airport within 50 yardsof parking spaces used by PanAmerican and Trans World Airways.Two days later a detonator and twosmall envelopes containing apowdery substance believed to be acombustible agent were discoveredin a bathroom at Iraklion Airport onthe island of Crete. The device wasaccompanied by a note which readHands off Qadafi...if Qadafi isharmed, the airport and the U.S.base will pay for it. The passage wasin reference to the U.S. Iraklionmilitary base and recent U.S.-Libyantensions.

8-Jan-89 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Firearms0 1 HONDURAS. Gunmen in Tegucigalpaassassinated a Contra commander,known as Commander Aureliano ashe was driving in his jeep. A Contraspokesperson accused theNicaraguan government ofinvolvement.

8-Jan-89 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two French car showroomswere bombed by ETA.

8-Jan-89 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two French car showroomswere bombed by ETA.

9-Jan-89 Taegu Korea,South


1 0 SOUTH KOREA. Firebombs werethrown at the U.S. Camp Henrymilitary facility in Taegu. One soldierwas injured in the attack. Recentattacks have been committed bymilitant students.


Unknown Explosives5 1 EL SALVADOR. Five people, includingU.S. and Canadian religious workers,were wounded and one was killedwhen a grenade was thrown into thehouse that the two foreigners werevisiting. Villagers accusedSalvadoran Army members of theattack.


PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A packagecontaining explosives was receivedby the Israeli Embassy in London.The explosives were safelydetonated. The January 15Organization,a group believed to beaffiliated with the Palestinian IslamicJihad, claimed responsibility.

17-Jan-89 PanamaCity

Panama Unknown Explosives0 0 PANAMA. A bomb was found andsafely defused outside of the U.S.Consulate in Panama City.

18-Jan-89 Kwangju Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Militant studentsthrew firebombs and rocks at the U.S. Cultural Center in Kwangju.

21-Jan-89 Tripoli Lebanon Amal Unknown0 3 LEBANON. The Tripoli MartyrsBattalion claimed responsibility forkidnapping three members of theSyrian occupation forces in Tripoli inretaliation for the kidnapping ofQasim Jabir, an official of the IslamicUnification Movement, by the Syrianoccupation forces. On January 24,1989, the group claimed to haveexecuted the three in reprisal for theSyrian forces' refusal to free Jabir.

24-Jan-89 LivingstoneZambia Other Explosives1 1 ZAMBIA. A bomb exploded at theWindsor Hotel in Livingstone, killingone person. Zambian authoritiesblame agents of the South Africangovernment for the attack.

25-Jan-89 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms1 0 PERU. The U.S. Embassy's regionalsecurity officer was wounded whenhis helicopter was fired on by eitherSendero Luminoso members or drugtraffickers.

27-Jan-89 Medellin Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. American art dealerMichael Reif was abducted as he leftan exclusive country club in Medellinalong with a leading Colombianindustrialist, who is believed to havebeen the primary target. The twowere freed on February 7 in a raid ona ranch northwest of Bogota.

27-Jan-89 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives2 0 EL SALVADOR. A bomb went off in anightclub known to be frequented byU.S. Embassy and military personnelin San Salvador. Two people wereinjured.

27-Jan-89 Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Coordinated bomb attackswere carried out against three U.S.-Turkish business concerns in Istanbuland Ankara by the left-wing groupDev Sol. In each attack groups offive armed terrorists tied up officeemployees, spray-painted slogans,and set off explosives in unoccupiedareas of the targeted buildings.While property damage wasextensive, there were no casualties.

27-Jan-89 Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Coordinated bomb attackswere carried out against three U.S.-Turkish business concerns in Istanbuland Ankara by the left-wing groupDev Sol. In each attack groups offive armed terrorists tied up officeemployees, spray-painted slogans,and set off explosives in unoccupiedareas of the targeted buildings.While property damage wasextensive, there were no casualties.

27-Jan-89 Ankara Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Coordinated bomb attackswere carried out against three U.S.-Turkish business concerns in Istanbuland Ankara by the left-wing groupDev Sol. In each attack groups offive armed terrorists tied up officeemployees, spray-painted slogans,and set off explosives in unoccupiedareas of the targeted buildings.While property damage wasextensive, there were no casualties.

28-Jan-89 Caracas VenezuelaAnti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. Anti-Castro Cubans arebeing blamed for a bomb which wasdiscovered in the Venezuelan ForeignMinistry building. The bombreportedly had been placed there todraw attention to Castro's announcedvisit to attend the inauguration ofVenezuelan President Carlos AndresPerez on February 2.


Unknown Firearms1 0 EL SALVADOR. A senior U.S.Embassy security official (aSalvadoran national) was wounded ina shooting incident. Circumstancessurrounding the attack were notreported.

30-Jan-89 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb was found nearthe Peace Corps building inTegucigalpa.

30-Jan-89 SanAndreasIsland

Colombia Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. A Colombian airliner washijacked by a Miskito Indiandemanding to be flown to Miami.The hijacker jumped from his seatsoon after takeoff from San AndreasIsland en route to Medellin. Hedoused a passenger with gasolineand threatened to set the plane onfire. While the Miskitos have beenfighting a guerrilla war against theNicaraguan government, thehijacker's motives were not madeclear. A crew member was able tosubdue him and he was taken intocustody when the plane landedsafely in San Jose, Costa Rica. Fourothers reportedly were taken intocustody in San Jose as well.

31-Jan-89 Kwangju Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Firebombs and rockswere thrown at the American CulturalCenter in Kwangju by about 50student radicals. No serious damageresulted.

1-Feb-89 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Soviet Embassy inBeirut was hit by a rocket.

3-Feb-89 Honduras PatrioticMorazanistaFront(FPM)

Unknown0 0 HONDURAS. A U.S. military convoywas attacked by members of theJacobo Carcomo Command of thePatriotic Morazanista Front. Thegroup claimed responsibility for theattack in leaflets found a few dayslater at the scene of another attack(not involving a U.S. target). Therewere no casualties.

5-Feb-89 Quetta Pakistan Other Explosives5 3 PAKISTAN. A bomb at a bus stationin Quetta killed three and injured fiveothers. Afghan agents were blamed.

11-Feb-89 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives2 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Pro-Iranian terrorists are beingblamed for a bomb explosion whichoccurred outside a West Germanuniversity building in Cologne. Ameeting of an Iranian oppositiongroup was being conducted at thesite. Two people were injured.

12-Feb-89 Pakistan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. An American Expressoffice was set on fire amid protestsover Salman Rushdie's book.

14-Feb-89 MemelsdorfFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Apetrol bomb caused damage at arefugee hotel in Memelsdorf.

15-Feb-89 Santiago DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. An explosivedevice was discovered on thegrounds of the USIS Binational Centerin Santiago.

15-Feb-89 Israel Other Unknown0 1 ISRAEL. Two weeks after thedisappearance of an Israeliparatrooper, a group calling itself theArab Palestinian Army claimedresponsibility, and sent a videocassette of the soldier to the U.N. inIsrael. The group demanded therelease of 1,500 Palestiniandetainees in exchange for thesoldier. The paratrooper's body wasfound in May.

15-Feb-89 Lebanon Amal Firearms0 1 LEBANON. American citizen GailHarfouche was killed by unidentifiedgunmen as she drove through asmall town with her infant son, whowas not injured. Harfouche wasmarried to a local Sunni Moslem.Fundamentalist Moslems aresuspected in the attack.

16-Feb-89 Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Militant studentsattacked the U.S. cultural center withfirebombs.

18-Feb-89 JerusalemIsrael Other Unknown0 1 ISRAEL. An off-duty Israeli soldierwas killed near Jerusalem bysuspected Palestinian extremists.

18-Feb-89 Honduras RevolutionaryUnitedFrontMovement

Explosives5 0 HONDURAS. A bomb exploded on aprivately-owned bus carrying U.S.soldiers to Palmerola military base.Five people, including three U.S.soldiers, were injured. A groupcalling itself the Revolutionary UnitedFront Movement claimedresponsibility and denounced YankeeImperialism.


Amal Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A Londonmosque was firebombed amidtension from the Rushdie affair. Pro-Iranian extremists are suspected.

22-Feb-89 JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The Fatah Uprising, adissident, Syrian-supportedPalestinian group opposed to Arafat,claimed responsibility for a bombwhich targeted an Israeli policevehicle in Jerusalem.

23-Feb-89 LaCeiba

Honduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. An agriculturallaboratory owned by U.S. StandardFruit was the target of a grenadeattack in La Ceiba.

26-Feb-89 Karachi Pakistan Amal Explosives0 1 PAKISTAN. The British Council libraryin Karachi was the target of a bombwhich killed a security guard. Theattack is believed to have beencarried out by Islamicfundamentalists as a protest overRushdie's book.


Explosives0 0 PERU. A small explosive device wasthrown at the U.S. Embassy in Lima.Sendero Luminoso is suspected.

27-Feb-89 Bogota Colombia PopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Explosives3 0 COLOMBIA. The People's LiberationArmy (EPL) claimed responsibility fora bomb that went off at the SummerInstitute of Linguistics in Bogota.Three Americans were injured by theblast.


UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. Two Berkeley,California bookstores and a New Yorknewspaper office were the targets offirebombs related to the internationalSalman Rushdie affair. The RiverdalePress in the Bronx had recentlypublished an editorial whichsupported Rushdie's book, TheSatanic Verses.

28-Feb-89 Berkeley UnitedStates



28-Feb-89 Berkeley UnitedStates



28-Feb-89 VientianeLaos Other Firearms0 0 LAOS. An official with the Japanesetrading firm Mitsui was abductedfrom his home in Vientiane by fourarmed men. Yoshiaki Asao wasrescued March 9. Two of thekidnappers were reportedly killedand four others were arrested.


Unknown0 1 PERU. A French tourist was killed bymembers of Sendero Luminoso inCusco Department.

2-Mar-89 BarcelonaSpain TerraLliure

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Catalanian group TerraLliure claimed responsibility for afailed bomb attack against a Frenchtourism office in Barcelona.

5-Mar-89 Padua Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Five bookstores in the city ofPadua and the region of Emilia wereset on fire after displaying SalmanRushdie's book. Before the firessomeone claiming to represent theIslamic Jihad had called a newspaperoffice in Padua and threatened tolaunch a wave of bombings againstItalian bookstores if Rushdie's bookwere not removed from shelves.









7-Mar-89 Santiago DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. An explosivedevice was thrown at the USISBinational Center in Santiago. Fourpeople were arrested at the scene.

9-Mar-89 VientianeLaos Unknown Explosives0 1 LAOS. A bomb at the Soviet CulturalCenter in Vientiane killed one person.

9-Mar-89 Pusan Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. A car driven bystudent militants drove through apier gate in Pusan, and the assailantstried to firebomb the U.S.S. Quelet,an American Navy ship anchoredthere.

9-Mar-89 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives6 0 LEBANON. Hezbollah claimedresponsibility for a roadside bombwhich wounded two Israeli soldiersand four others on a main road northof Israel's self-declared security zone.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. Revolutionary Solidarity(believed to be associated with theELA) claimed responsibility for abomb attack on a French bank in thedowntown Athens suburb of Kolonaki.In a communique after the attack,the group asserted its support ofAction Direct terrorists currentlyserving jail sentences in France.

13-Mar-89 PhiladelphiaUnitedStates

Other ChemicalAgent

0 0 UNITED STATES. Two seedless redgrapes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniawere found to contain traces ofcyanide, prompting a ban on allimported Chilean fruit in the U.S. OnMarch 2, both the U.S. and Japaneseembassies in Santiago had receivedtelephone warnings asserting thatexported Chilean fruit products hadbeen contaminated. Canada, HongKong and Japan placed embargoeson the produce, costing Chile about$3 million daily. Fruit is Chile'ssecond largest export. Eventually,this incident cost Chile an estimated$300 million in lost sales.On March14, a caller to Radio Cooperativa inChile claimed the incident in thename of the Israeli UltranationalistMovement. The caller stated thatthe sabotage was intended to harmthe United States, because thatcountry closed its ears to the Israeliwarnings against the U.S. decision tohold talks with PLO leaders.InDecember 1994, the WSJ publishedtranscripts of a June 1989 call to theUS Embassy in Santiago from thesame person who phoned in thewarnings saying that the whole thingwas only a lie to scare thegovernment. This strengthens theChilean grape growers claim thatthere was never any cyanide- lacedgrapes found.


Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Light Anti-Armor Weapon(LAW) rockets were discovered readyto be fired on the American Embassybuilding in Santiago. An anonymouscaller claiming to represent theManuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front hadearlier warned of the impendingrocket attack. The incident occurredshortly after the U.S. ambassadormet with the Chilean acting foreignminister regarding the poisonedgrapes found in the United States.

15-Mar-89 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. A car-bomb exploded infront of the Swiss Embassy in WestBeirut wounding a Lebanese civilian.

15-Mar-89 DamascusSyria PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Unknown0 0 SYRIA. American Military AttacheColonel Clifford Robert Ward and hisaide, Major Peter Seagal, werekidnapped in Damascus by membersof the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine-GeneralCommand (PFLP-GC). Ahmad Jibril'sgroup claims that the attache and hisaide were spying on one of its campsoutside Damascus and that theywere apprehended while takingphotographs of some positions.


Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. Renamo guerrillasabducted four International RedCross workers (including threeEuropeans) and held them untilMarch 31.

17-Mar-89 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives120 12 LEBANON. A car-bomb exploded ona street in East Beirut killing twelveand injuring 120. The Britishconsulate, not known to be theintended target, was heavilydamaged.

17-Mar-89 Israel al-Fatah Unknown1 1 ISRAEL. Two members of the FatahUprising crossed into Israel fromJordan and attacked an Israelimilitary patrol. One soldier waskilled and another injured in anattack apparently meant toembarrass the moderate governmentof Jordan.

17-Mar-89 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Explosives were thrown at theVenezuelan Embassy from a passingcar in Lima. Two suspects weretaken into custody.

20-Mar-89 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in front ofthe United Arab Emirates airlineoffice in Istanbul. There were nocasualties.

21-Mar-89 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 3 LEBANON. Three Irish soldiers withthe U.N. peacekeeping force werekilled when a land mine explodedunder their jeep near the Israelisecurity zone.

23-Mar-89 Tarija Bolivia ZarateWillkaArmedForces ofLiberation

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb went off at aMormon Church in Tarija. The ZarateWillka Armed Forces of Liberationwas probably responsible.

25-Mar-89 Tel Aviv Israel Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ISRAEL. An Arab stabbed and killedan elderly Jewish man in Tel Aviv.The assailant was then shot andarrested by police.


Unknown0 3 MOZAMBIQUE. Renamo guerrillasattacked a theological college, killingthree Italian missionaries. One otherItalian missionary was taken hostageand released by the group later inthe month.

27-Mar-89 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A Miami travelagency authorized to organize flightsto Cuba was bombed with low-intensity explosives. There were nocasualties.

27-Mar-89 Brussels Belgium Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. A Yugoslav tourist officewas firebombed in Brussels. Theincident was reportedly linked toethnic unrest among the Albanianpopulation of Yugoslavia.

28-Mar-89 IslamabadPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded nearthe British Council library inIslamabad, causing moderatedamage to the facility. Islamicfundamentalists are suspected.

28-Mar-89 SaoPaulo

Brazil Unknown Explosives0 0 BRAZIL. A crude explosive devicefailed to detonate underneath a carparked in front of the U.S. Consulatein Sao Paulo.

29-Mar-89 Brussels Belgium Hizballah Unknown0 2 BELGIUM. Two Moslem clerics wereassassinated at Brussel's mainmosque. The victims were a SaudiArabian cleric and his Tunisiandeputy. The Soldiers of Justice,believed to be a joint apparatus ofAbu Nidal's FRC and Hezbollah,claimed responsibility. One of themen had previously received a deaththreat following his public criticism ofKhomeini's death sentence againstSalman Rushdie.

30-Mar-89 Lyon France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A small bomb causedmoderate damage to the MoroccanConsulate in Lyon. Elements linkedto the Western Sahara nationalistmovement are suspected.

1-Apr-89 Chicago UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. The home of aVietnamese restauranteur in Chicagowas firebombed.

2-Apr-89 Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Moslem Fundamentalistsare suspected of having bombed aBritish Embassy vehicle anddetonated another bomb at theBritish Cultural Center. The attacksfollowed continued threats againstBritish interests in connection withthe Salman Rushdie affair.

2-Apr-89 Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Moslem Fundamentalistsare suspected of having bombed aBritish Embassy vehicle anddetonated another bomb at theBritish Cultural Center. The attacksfollowed continued threats againstBritish interests in connection withthe Salman Rushdie affair.

2-Apr-89 FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An immigrant housing complex wasthe target of an arson attack inBavaria.

4-Apr-89 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Anti-apartheid sympathizerssabotaged a Shell Oil station inCologne.

5-Apr-89 ElSalvador


Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Road-buildingequipment of the U.S.-based HarrisonCompany was destroyed by guerrillasof the Farabundo Marti NationalLiberation Front (FMLN).

5-Apr-89 SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb was defusedoutside an Iran Air Office.

6-Apr-89 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Heavy damage was inflictedon the U.S.-Chilean Cultural Institutein Santiago after a bomb blast inretaliation for a U.S. embargo onChilean fruit. No one was injured.Shortly after the attack a call wasreceived from a man who said, TheU.S. had to pay for the fruit.

6-Apr-89 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Guerrillas of the NewPeoples' Army (NPA) were thwartedin their attempt to ambush passingAmerican Air Force securitypolicemen when the airmen caughtthem setting landmines near ClarkAir Force Base.

7-Apr-89 Canada LebaneseLiberationFront

Unknown0 0 CANADA. A gunman of Lebanesedescent hijacked a Greyhound bus enroute to New York and forced it todrive to the Canadian parliament inOttawa. The man claimed to be amember of the Lebanese LiberationFront and demanded that Syrianforces withdraw from Lebanon. Theincident ended peacefully.

8-Apr-89 Israel PalestinianPopularStruggleFront

Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. The Israeli navy sank arubber dinghy full of Palestinianterrorists on their way to carry out anoperation inside Israel. ThePalestinian Popular Struggle Front(PPSF), led by Samir Ghawshah,claimed that their guerrillas hadclashed with the Israeli navy fornearly five hours.

9-Apr-89 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillaskidnapped two Newsweek reportersand held them for three days whilemembers of the group interrogatedthem and lectured them on Senderophilosophies.

9-Apr-89 Tuba PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Guerrillas successfullypenetrated a U.S. military installationnear the city of Tuba and planted 14explosive devices. Nine of thebombs failed to work, but the othersdestroyed a radar antenna and acommunications van. The NewPeoples' Army claimed responsibility.



0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Colletts Penguinbookshop and Dillons bookstore wereboth targetted in London firebombattacks associated with the sale ofSalman Rushdie's book The SatanicVerses. The stores had earlierreceived threats.



0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Colletts Penguinbookshop and Dillons bookstore wereboth targetted in London firebombattacks associated with the sale ofSalman Rushdie's book The SatanicVerses. The stores had earlierreceived threats.

10-Apr-89 KualaLumpur

Malaysia Other Explosives4 0 MALAYSIA. In another protestagainst Rushdie's The SatanicVerses, the British High Commissionoffice in Kuala Lumpur was bombed.Four people were injured in theattack.

11-Apr-89 Honduras PatrioticMorazanistaFront(FPM)

Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb detonatedunderneath a U.S. convoy which wascarrying supplies in the northern partof the country. No one was injured. Asimilar attack had targeted a U.S.convoy in February in the same area.The Patriotic Morazanist Front (FPM)claimed responsibility for bothattacks.

12-Apr-89 FossaltaMaggiore

Italy AutonomiaSinastraAnteParlamentare

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. The Autonomia Sinastra AnteParlamentare was responsible forsetting afire the car belonging to thewife of an American serviceman inFossalta Maggiore.

12-Apr-89 Grumolo Italy AutonomiaSinastraAnteParlamentare

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. The Autonomia Sinistra AnteParlamentare was responsible for anarson attack against three U.S. AirForce vehicles in Grumolo.

16-Apr-89 Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb containing 16 kilosof dynamite was discovered at awater pumping station near MoshavRamon just hours before it was set tohave detonated and presumablycaused extreme damage toagricultural land which would havebeen flooded.

16-Apr-89 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives1 1 HONDURAS. One person was killedand another injured when anexplosive they were attempting tothrow at a U.S. Embassy warehouseexploded prematurely.


Explosives0 0 PERU. A one-pound bomb left on thepatio of the U.S. Cultural Center inLima was safely defused by police.Slogans left on the wall implicatedthe MRTA.

18-Apr-89 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 1 PERU. Austrian journalist JosephPiescher was tortured and killed byalleged members of SenderoLuminoso.

19-Apr-89 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A small explosive devicediscovered in the Zion Squaresection of downtown Jerusalem wassafely dismantled.

20-Apr-89 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN abducted threeBrazilian engineers. They werereleased 45 days later.

21-Apr-89 IslamabadPakistan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. A vehicle bearing officialU.S. diplomatic plates wasfirebombed in Islamabad.

21-Apr-89 QuezonCity

PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. An American militaryofficer was killed as his carapproached the Military AdvisoryGroup compound in Quezon City.The New Peoples' Army claimedresponsibility for the death of Col.James Rowe, a counterinsurgencyexpert and Vietnam War veteran,who they claim had been directlyinvolved in the fight against them.InAugust 1989 a communist rebel whoadmitted taking part in Rowe'sassassination was arrested byPhilippine authorities.

26-Apr-89 CzechoslovakiaUnknown Explosives0 0 CZECHOSLOVAKIA. No casualtieswere reported after a bomb explodedon an international express traintravelling through Czechoslovakia.The explosion occurred in a rail carbelonging to the Hungarian staterailway.

27-Apr-89 SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives1 1 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A bombexploded at the U.S.-DominicanBinational Center in Santo Domingo,killing an infant and injuring itsmother. The date coincided with the24th anniversary of the U.S. militaryintervention in the DominicanRepublic. Three other bombingsagainst domestic targets were alsoreported the same day. Authoritiesclaim that one of the suspects hadreceived terrorist training in Libyaand Cuba.

27-Apr-89 Lasarte Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA was responsible for abomb explosion at the FrenchMichelin factory in Lasarte.

27-Apr-89 Medellin Colombia PopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Italians and aSpaniard employed at the Rio Grandehydroelectric dam were kidnappedfrom their residence in Geradota,about 10 miles outside of Medellin.The EPL was believed responsible.

28-Apr-89 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A car bomb detonatedoutside of a police station inJerusalem.

30-Apr-89 Tel Aviv Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The Abu Musa organization(Fatah Uprising?) claimed credit forbombing a bus stop two miles east ofTel Aviv.

3-May-89 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)


3 2 ISRAEL. A suspected member of theMoslem fundamentalist group Hamasfatally stabbed two people andwounded three others in an attack onprivate citizens in a Jerusalemshopping area. During the attack theman reportedly shouted, God isgreat.

3-May-89 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Assailants threwexplosive devices at a U.S. Embassywarehouse, causing some damage.The FMLN is suspected.

4-May-89 Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Three West German reliefworkers, Heinrich Struebig, ThomasKemptner, and Markus Quint, werekidnapped by Hezbollah. Struebigand Kemptner were released thenext day to deliver a messagedemanding clemency for MuhammadAli Hammadi, the accused Lebanesehijacker who was being tried before aWest German court. Quint wasreleased on May 14. On May 16,Struebig and Kemptner werekidnapped again.

5-May-89 Lebanon Unknown Explosives3 0 LEBANON. Three Israeli soldierswere wounded by a roadside bomb insouthern Lebanon.

5-May-89 Israel Other Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. An Israeli soldier whovanished while hitchhiking homefrom his base is thought to bekidnapped by Palestiniannationalists.

5-May-89 Tehran Iran Unknown Unknown0 0 IRAN. An unidentified group attackeda Lufthansa office in Tehran.

8-May-89 Luanda Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Explosives0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA is suspected ofbombing a Texaco oil facility inLuanda.


Explosives0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA is suspected ofbombing the French oil companyPetromar in Luanda.


Explosives1 0 ANGOLA. UNITA is suspected ofbombing the Japanese SumitomoCorporation in Luanda. One personwas injured by the blast.

9-May-89 Zarauz Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA was responsible forbombs that went off at two Renaultcar showrooms in Bilbao and at athird in Zarauz.

9-May-89 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)


9-May-89 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)


12-May-89


Unknown0 2 PERU. Two West German touristswere forced off a bus by members ofSendero Luminoso and murdered infront of the other passengers.

12-May-89

Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A group calling itself theCells of Armed Struggle have claimedresponsibility for the abduction ofretired British Royal Air Force pilotJack Mann. The call claimingresponsibility came 24 hours afterMann disappeared while on his wayto a bank in West Beirut. Mann hadat one time worked for MiddleEastern Airlines and had lived inBeirut with his wife since hisretirement several years ago. TheCells of Armed Struggle aredemanding the release of theirPalestinian comrades who they claimare being held in jails in England fortheir alleged participation in theassassination of political cartoonistAli Naji Adhami in London in 1987.British authorities deny that anyonehad been detained in the killing,however.Mann was released inSeptember 1991.

16-May-89

JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A small bomb exploded inJerusalem.

16-May-89

Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Henrich Struebig andThomas Kemptner, the two WestGerman relief workers who werekidnapped on May 4 and released onMay 5 were taken again byHezbollah, this time with the help ofan Abu Nidal operations unit,according to Mednews. They wereheld hostage until June 17, 1992.

18-May-89

Tel Aviv Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. An explosive devicedetonated in an Orthodox Jewishsuburb of Tel Aviv.

18-May-89

Tanzania Other Unknown0 0 TANZANIA. A South African agentwas foiled in his attempt to hijack anANC-chartered Aeroflot flighttransporting ANC members betweenAngola and Tanzania.

24-May-89


Unknown6 1 PERU. A British citizen died and sixpeople were injured during an attackby Sendero Luminoso in theDepartment of Ancash north of Lima.

24-May-89

Bolivia ZarateWillkaArmedForces ofLiberation

Unknown0 2 BOLIVIA. Two U.S. Mormonmissionaries were assassinated by agroup of terrorists from the ZarateWilka Armed Forces of Liberation(FAL). Local newspapers were sent ahandwritten message denouncingYankee invaders and their lackeys.The attack coincided with the arrivalin Bolivia of the first contingent of U.S. military engineers, technicians,and troops, who will be in charge ofleveling Patti-Patti Hill to build anairport for the city of Potosi.

25-May-89


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA is suspected of havingbombed a Renault dealership inBilbao.

1-Jun-89 Abidjan Coted'Ivoire

Hizballah Firearms0 1 IVORY COAST. A French militaryadvisor was shot and killed inAbidjan. Initial reports said that hehad been killed by car thieves. Apolitical motive has not been ruledout, however, especially in light ofthe fact that in August of 1988 alarge cache of weapons andexplosives was discovered in therented villa of a Lebanese man inAbidjan. Authorities believe a ShiiteMoslem network affiliated withHezbollah may exist in this area.There are currently more than30,000 Lebanese nationals living inthis West African country.

1-Jun-89 UnitedStates

Unknown ChemicalAgent

1 0 UNITED STATES. A South Africanchurch leader visiting the U.S. fellseriously ill four times between Apriland June from what appeared to bean illness brought on by poisoningfrom a toxic compound similar to anerve gas or insecticide. A doctorconfirmed that the Reverend FrankChikane, general secretary of theSouth African Council of Churches,had come into contact with acompound (an organophosphateanticolinesterase) which is eitherinhaled or absorbed through the skin.Chikane is an outspoken critic of theSouth African regime.

1-Jun-89 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Basque group Iraultza(Revolution) took credit for thebombing of a Citibank office in SanSebastian. While property damagewas extensive, there were nocasualties.

1-Jun-89 Port-au-Prince

Haiti Other Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 HAITI. Two Haitians failed in theirattempt to hijack an ALM jet on aflight from Port-au-Prince to Curacao.The men told the pilot that they hada remote-controlled bomb hidden inthe plane's bathroom and demandedto be flown to New York. The pilotcontinued on to Curacao and the twowere arrested there.

1-Jun-89 Colombo SriLanka

Other Explosives0 0 SRI LANKA. Suspected Sinhalesemilitants hurled a bomb at the IndianEmbassy in Colombo, but theymissed their mark and the bombexploded at an adjacent U.S. AIDbuilding. Damage was minimal.


Firearms0 2 PERU. A Lithuanian citizen who hadbeen working as the chief of theecology section of the Peruviannewspaper El Comercio was shot andkilled by members of SenderoLuminoso. Barbara Dachille hadbeen traveling in a UN Food andAgriculture Organization stationwagon with the director of a SouthAmerican llama project at the time ofthe attack. Her companion was alsokilled.

3-Jun-89 Cairo Egypt Other Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A timed explosive was safelyremoved from the grounds of theBritish Cultural Center in Cairo. TheJanuary 15 Organization wassuspected, as was the EgyptianRevolution.

3-Jun-89 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. Swedish relief workerJan Ehrenborg and a Nicaraguantechnician were taken hostage by thecontra rebels. The Nicaraguan wasreleased within a few hours, butEhrenborg was held several days.

3-Jun-89 Cairo Egypt Other Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A timed explosive was safelyremoved from the grounds of theAmerican Cultural Center in Cairo.The January 15 Organization wassuspected, as was the EgyptianRevolution.

4-Jun-89 Dubai UnitedArabEmirates

Other Firearms0 1 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. Iranianintelligence agents are suspected inthe assassination in Dubai of aformer military intelligence colonelunder the late shah of Iran. AtellahBayahmadi had arrived in Dubai tohold a secret meeting with threeIranian military officers. He wasreportedly on a mission for the Flagof Freedom Organization, a Paris-based opposition group dedicated tothe overthrow of the currentgovernment in Iran. Bayahmadi wasfound dead in his hotel room, shot inthe head. He'd been wearing abullet-proof vest.

10-Jun-89 India Other Explosives4 6 INDIA. Pro-Pakistani militants wereblamed for an explosion in front of apoliceman's home which killed sixand wounded four.

10-Jun-89 Kabul AfghanistanUnknown Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. A bomb attack at aCoca Cola plant in Kabul was foiledby security forces. The motive mayhave been Coca Cola's failure to payrevolutionary taxes.


ElSalvador


Firearms1 0 EL SALVADOR. A U.S. Embassyguard was fired on by a sniper in SanSalvador. The FMLN is suspected.

18-Jun-89 Hungary Unknown Fire orFirebomb

5 0 HUNGARY. Several soldiers wereinjured in an arson fire at the Sovietarmy headquarters.

18-Jun-89 Kabul AfghanistanUnknown Unknown0 0 AFGHANISTAN. A domestic flightfrom Kabul to Zaranj was hijackedand forced to land in Iran.

19-Jun-89 ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms1 0 EL SALVADOR. Six gunmen pulledalongside a car carrying threeAmerican nuns and fired once intothe head of one of them. She wascritically wounded.

19-Jun-89 Ambato Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. An explosive device wastossed into the Ambato branch ofCitibank during the night.

19-Jun-89 OsnabrueckFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The PIRA was blamed for a bombwhich exploded outside a Britishmilitary barracks in Osnabruck. Theblast caused extensive damage, butno casualties resulted. There was noimmediate claim for credit. Twosuspected attackers fled after theywere surprised by a West Germanemployee at the barracks. Fourmore unexploded bombs containingplastic explosives were discovered.

20-Jun-89 Peten GuatemalaGuatemalanNationalRevolutionaryUnity(URNG)

Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. A Texaco Petroleum(oil) truck was attacked by membersof the Guatemalan NationalRevolutionary Unity (URNG) in Peten.

20-Jun-89 Brussels Belgium ArabianPeninsulaFreemen

Unknown0 1 BELGIUM. An organization callingitself the Arabian Peninsula Freemenclaimed responsibility forassassinating the Saudi ArabianEmbassy driver in Brussels. Theorganization delivered a statementurging free strugglers to target theSaudi ruling family until it is deposed.


Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. The American co-director ofthe Save the Children Federation ofthe West Bank and Gaza waskidnapped while outside of hisagency at midday. By late afternoonthat same day, Chris George hadbeen released, carrying with him asix-page letter from his captors toGeorge Bush asking that thePresident meet with Yasser Arafat.Abu Nasser was identified as the keyfigure in the abduction. He hadbelonged to the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine but had beenexpelled from the group prior to theabduction. He was described asmentally unbalanced.

24-Jun-89 AmacchelGuatemalaGuatemalanNationalRevolutionaryUnity(URNG)

Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. A U.S. helicopter beingused to supply a military garrison inAmacchel came under fire byguerrillas of the Guatemalan NationalRevolutionary Unity (URNG).

28-Jun-89 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives4 0 ISRAEL. An explosion in a garbagebin at an outdoor market outside ofTel Aviv injured four passersby.Later in the day two Arabs wereinjured by stab wounds inflicted byJewish residents in retaliation for theearlier attack.

29-Jun-89 Dhaka BangladeshOther Explosives2 0 BANGLADESH. A Canadian-basedshoe company in Dhaka was bombedand two people injured by Moslemfundamentalists protesting thecompany's design on one of itsslippers which the Moslemsconsidered offensive for itsresemblance to the Arabic charactersfor Allah.

30-Jun-89 Paris France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Basque separatistgroup Iparretarak claimedresponsibility for the bombing of aParis to Madrid railway line whichstopped rail traffic for four hours.

1-Jul-89 Marseille France Unknown Explosives2 1 FRANCE. A parcel bomb, believed tohave been mailed from abroad,exploded in a mail sorting office atthe Marseilles railway station. Onepostal worker was killed and twoothers wounded by the blast. Thebomb's intended target was notreported.

2-Jul-89 SriLanka


0 0 SRI LANKA. Three vehicles belongingto a Norwegian relief organizationwere torched by Sinhalese rebels.

2-Jul-89 Hanover FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives5 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The PIRA was responsible for anexplosion in the car of a British Armymember in Hanover. The victim waskilled, and five of his family memberswho had been standing near the carwere injured.

4-Jul-89 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives29 10 PAKISTAN. The bombing of a bus inPeshawar was blamed on Afghanagents. Ten people were killed andanother 29 injured by the blast whichwas the largest bombing in Pakistanin a year.

4-Jul-89 Santiago Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Unknown0 0 CHILE. Two members of the MarxistLautaro Youth Movement wereindicted for an attack on a Mormonchurch in Santiago's La FloridaDistrict.


Explosives33 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillasare suspected of having planted abomb underneath a bus carryingSoviet sailors just west of Lima. Theexplosion injured 33 of the soldiers.


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Moslemextremists bombed a Collett'sbookstore branch in London.Note:This is likely to be in protest ofRushdie's book.

6-Jul-89 Israel Other Unknown27 16 ISRAEL. An Israeli bus travelingbetween Tel Aviv and Jerusalem wasforced off the road and into a ravineby a Moslem fundamentalist fanatic.Sixteen passengers were killed(including one American) andanother 27 injured in the incidentwhich sparked several retaliatoryattacks.

10-Jul-89 SantaCruz

Bolivia ZarateWillkaArmedForces ofLiberation

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. The Zarate Willca group isbelieved to have been responsible fora powerful bomb explosion whichtargeted a Mormon Church in SantaCruz.

10-Jul-89 Mecca SaudiArabia

Generationof ArabFury

Explosives0 0 SAUDI ARABIA. A group calling itselfthe Generation of Arab Fury claimedcredit for two bombings during theMoslem pilgrimage in Mecca. Oneperson was killed and 16 otherswounded by the bombs which wentoff simultaneously on a streetleading to Mecca's Grand Mosqueand a bridge next to the Mosque. OnSeptember 16, 1989, 16 pro-IranianKuwaitis were executed for their rolein these incidents and the officialstatement implicitly blamed Iran.Before their execution, several of thecondemned men confessed to havingbeen trained by Iranian diplomats inKuwait. Hezbollah and its Saudiaffiliate, Hezbollah-Hijaz, threateneda holy war against the Saudi royalfamily in retaliation for theseexecutions.


Generationof ArabFury

Explosives16 1 SAUDI ARABIA. A group calling itselfthe Generation of Arab Fury claimedcredit for two bombings during theMoslem pilgrimage in Mecca. Oneperson was killed and 16 otherswounded by the bombs which wentoff simultaneously on a streetleading to Mecca's Grand Mosqueand a bridge next to the Mosque. OnSeptember 16, 1989, 16 pro-IranianKuwaitis were executed for their rolein these incidents and the officialstatement implicitly blamed Iran.Before their execution, several of thecondemned men confessed to havingbeen trained by Iranian diplomats inKuwait. Hezbollah and its Saudiaffiliate, Hezbollah-Hijaz, threateneda holy war against the Saudi royalfamily in retaliation for theseexecutions.

11-Jul-89 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 1 MOZAMBIQUE. A Brazilian engineerwas killed by members of theMozambique National ResistanceMovement (MNR).

11-Jul-89 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A powerful bomb wasdefused at the offices of a radioproject of the U.S. Agency forInternational Development (AID) inTegucigalpa. The bomb wasdetected by specially trained dogs.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Reacting to the SimonBolivar Organization's publishedstatement claiming it sought peacetalks with the Colombiangovernment, the National LiberationArmy (ELN) launched two attacks,one on an oil pipeline and another onoil storage tanks owned by Texaco.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Reacting to the SimonBolivar Organization's publishedstatement claiming it sought peacetalks with the Colombiangovernment, the National LiberationArmy (ELN) launched two attacks,one on an oil pipeline and another onoil storage tanks owned by Texaco.

13-Jul-89 Vienna Austria Other Unknown1 3 AUSTRIA. The leader of the pro-IraqiDemocratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK)and two of his deputies wereassassinated in a Vienna apartmentwhile meeting with three Iranianofficials, including an Iranian officerof the Revolutionary Guardsparamilitary group who was alsowounded in the attack. He hadreportedly been negotiating with theDPK members for their return to Iranand an end to their 20 year oldseparatist campaign. Iran'sgovernment appears to have beendirectly responsible. In November,after public and press complaintsabout the slow response, theAustrian government issued warrantsfor all three officials and then soughtInterpol's assistance in finding thefugitives, two of whom had left thecountry and the third who hid in theIranian Embassy in Vienna.

13-Jul-89 LaCeiba

Honduras PatrioticMorazanistaFront(FPM)

Explosives7 0 HONDURAS. In La Ceiba, seven U.S.soldiers were injured by a homemadebomb while on leave from PalmerolaBase. The explosive device wasthrown into the group of servicemenas they were leaving a discothequearound midnight. The leftistMorazanista Liberation Front claimedresponsibility in a communique.

14-Jul-89 Kenya Unknown Unknown1 1 KENYA. An American nun was killedand another wounded at theirmission in Wema.


0 0 CHILE. An incendiary device wasthrown at a Mormon Church inSantiago.

17-Jul-89 Mardan Pakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. The Afghan governmentwas accused by the Pakistanigovernment of involvement in thebombing of a bus station in Mardanand another at a railroad workers'housing area in Lahore which injuredsix people.

17-Jul-89 Lahore Pakistan Other Explosives6 0 PAKISTAN. The Afghan governmentwas accused by the Pakistanigovernment of involvement in thebombing of a bus station in Mardanand another at a railroad workers'housing area in Lahore which injuredsix people.


Other Explosives0 0 SAUDI ARABIA. A bomb went off inMecca near the Grand Mosque. Noone was injured by the blast. OnSeptember 16, 1989, 16 pro-IranianKuwaitis were executed for their rolein a series of attacks at Mecca.Before their execution, several of thecondemned men confessed to havingbeen trained by Iranian diplomats inKuwait. Hezbollah and its Saudiaffiliate, Hezbollah-Hijaz hasthreatened a holy war against theSaudi royal family in retaliation forthese executions.

20-Jul-89 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives2 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillasthrew an explosive into the car oftwo Peruvian journalists employed bythe New York-based U.S. WorldwideTelevision network. The two menwere slightly injured.

20-Jul-89 Osorno Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front (FPMR) detonated anexplosive in a Mormon Church inOsorno. There were no casualtiesreported, although many peoplewere in the church at the time of theattack. According to a FPMRspokesman, the attack was meant tocommemorate the 10th anniversaryof the Sandinista Revolution inNicaragua.

20-Jul-89 ValparaisoChile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Firearms0 0 CHILE. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front (FPMR) opened fire ona Mormon Church in Valparaiso. Noinjuries were reported.

20-Jul-89 Vina DelMar

Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at a MormonChurch in Vina del Mar. The ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) issuspected.

21-Jul-89 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaOther Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A bomb exploded atthe home of a U.S. Texaco (oil)Company executive in GuatemalaCity. Right-wing elements weresuspected.

26-Jul-89 Colombo SriLanka

Other Explosives0 0 SRI LANKA. Sinhalese rebels weresuspected of having thrown threeexplosives into an Indian Bank inColombo.

26-Jul-89 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaOther Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A bomb exploded nearthe Italian Embassy in GuatemalaCity, slightly damaging the building.There is speculation that right-wingelements were involved.

27-Jul-89 Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The owner of a WestGerman textile factory, Peter Levins,was kidnapped by men dressed ingovernment security force uniforms.

28-Jul-89 Bogota Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. German citizen NelPinsky, owner of Pupy Fashions, waskidnapped in Bogota by twounidentified gunmen.

1-Aug-89 CostaRica

Unknown Unknown0 0 COSTA RICA. There wereunconfirmed reports that anAmerican couple residing in Tibasmay have been kidnapped.

2-Aug-89 VelvetithuraiSriLanka


Firearms0 7 SRI LANKA. Seven Indian soldierswere killed when Tamil militantsopened fire on them inside acrowded bazaar in Velvetithurai, eastof Jaffna. Many civilian casualties aswell as Tamil casualties resulted inthe ensuing clash.

5-Aug-89 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A defective bomb wasdiscovered in the library of the USISBinational Center in Santiago.

5-Aug-89 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives30 4 PAKISTAN. Four people were killedand another thirty injured when abomb exploded at a Peshawarvegetable market. Afghan agentswere suspected.

7-Aug-89 Fulham UnitedKingdom

Other Explosives0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. An Iranian whohad applied for political asylum waskilled when a bomb went off at thelaundromat where he worked inFulham. Iranian agents aresuspected.

8-Aug-89 Pakistan Other Explosives2 0 PAKISTAN. Afghan agents wereblamed for an explosion at the ChitraHotel which injured two people.

8-Aug-89 Israel Other Unknown0 2 ISRAEL. A Jordanian soldierinfiltrated southern Israel where heentered a kibbutz and killed anAmerican visitor. The assailant thentook another person hostage beforehe was killed by security forces.

9-Aug-89 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Unknown0 1 EL SALVADOR. A U.S. businessmanwas killed during a kidnappingattempt in his home in San Salvador.No group claimed responsibility.

9-Aug-89 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives6 2 LEBANON. In what Hezbollahdescribed as a down payment forIsrael's abduction of Sheik Obeid, twosuicide bombers blew themselves upin an attack on an Israeli convoy insouthern Lebanon. Six people werehurt, including five Israeli soldiers. Acommunique was issued by theIslamic Resistance Movement,believed to be part of the Hezbollahorganization.

17-Aug-89

France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A town hall and schoolbuilding were the targets of arsonfire in the southeastern town ofCharvieu-Chavagneux, near Lyon.Moslems were suspected of the arsonattack which appears to have beenprompted by the town's mayorhaving razed a condemned buildingwhich housed a makeshift mosque.

17-Aug-89

France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A town hall and schoolbuilding were the targets of arsonfire in the southeastern town ofCharvieu-Chavagneux, near Lyon.Moslems were suspected of the arsonattack which appears to have beenprompted by the town's mayorhaving razed a condemned buildingwhich housed a makeshift mosque.

18-Aug-89


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An explosivedevice which may have been lackinga detonating component wasdiscovered and safely dismantled inLondon's Grosvenor Square. Thedevice was found near the U.S. andIndonesian Embassies, but it isunclear whether either embassy wasthe target, or if the device wassimply abandoned at that spot.

18-Aug-89

Colombo SriLanka


Explosives0 24 SRI LANKA. Tamil militants slippedinto a hospital in Colombo and fromthere launched rocket-propelledgrenades and fired machine guns atan Indian post across the street.Because patients and staff wereinside the hospital at the time, theIndian troops were hampered in theirresponse to the attack and returnedonly limited small arms fire. Twentyfour Indian soldiers were killed in theattack.

20-Aug-89

Fresno UnitedStates

Unknown Firearms1 0 UNITED STATES. A controversialVietnamese author was shot fourtimes in the head and chest by twounidentified Asian gunmen in Fresno,California. Doan Van Toai hadreceived many threats over the pastfew years because he advocated thatthe U.S. establish diplomatic ties withVietnam. Toai survived the attack.

22-Aug-89

Zurich SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb exploded atan American Airlines office in Zurich.An anonymous group claimedresponsibility and declared itssupport for the FMLN in El Salvadorwhere a Swiss theologian hadrecently been killed.

23-Aug-89

Istanbul Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb went off at theIsraeli Consulate in Istanbul. A groupcalling itself the Armed People's Unit,believed linked to the KurdishWorkers Party (PKK) separatist group,was believed responsible.

24-Aug-89

Osorno Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives1 0 CHILE. An explosion partiallydestroyed the entrance of a MormonChurch in Osorno, injuring ateenager. The bomb containedapproximately 200 grams ofamonium gelignite. The FPMRclaimed responsibility.

26-Aug-89

Cyprus Unknown Firearms1 1 CYPRUS. An Iranian opposition figurewho was a high-ranking member ofthe underground Iranian CommunistParty and its Komala Kurdish guerrillaforces was assassinated by twogunmen after he arrived in Cyprusfrom Sweden. Another Kurdishactivist was injured in the attack.

28-Aug-89

Hanover FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. APIRA bomb found underneath the carof a British military officer in theBothfeld district of Hanover wassafely dismantled.

1-Sep-89 Tel Aviv Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A fragmentation grenadeexploded outside the home of TelAviv's mayor. No injuries werereported.

1-Sep-89 SouthAfrica


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. In a pre-electionANC campaign of violence, the homeof an Indian politician wasfirebombed.

1-Sep-89 Israel Amal Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Pro-Iranian guerrillas firedKatyusha rockets into northern Israelfrom inside southern Lebanon, hittingsome warehouses.

1-Sep-89 MuensterFederalRepublicofGermany


Firearms2 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two off-duty British soldiers wereshot and wounded by PIRA terroristsnear Muenster. The incidentoccurred late at night when the two,dressed in civilian clothes, werewalking to their quarters.

3-Sep-89 London UnitedKingdom

Other Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Moslemextremists appeared responsible forthe bombing of a book displaywindow at Liberty Department storein London. One person was seriouslyinjured by the blast which was linkedto Rushdie's book The SatanicVerses. An anonymous telephonewarning had been received shortlybefore the explosive devicedetonated.

6-Sep-89 Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A Mormon Church in theQuinta Normal District was bombed.

7-Sep-89 Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Rockets were fired intoIsrael from Jordanian territory in thefirst such attack from Jordanianterritory in twenty years. ThePopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine claimed responsibility.

7-Sep-89 Unna FederalRepublicofGermany


Unknown0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The German wife of a British soldierin Unna was murdered by PIRAmembers dressed in army fatigues.The woman was killed as she sat inher car, marked by British licenseplates, near a military housingfacility. The PIRA claimedresponsibility for the incident, butsaid that they had mistaken her for aBritish soldier. They warned civiliansto stay clear of British militarypersonnel and facilities.

8-Sep-89 CopenhagenDenmark Other ChemicalAgent

0 0 DENMARK. The South AfricanConsulate in Copenhagen was thetarget of an attack by a group ofabout 40 anti-apartheid militants.The group poured acid on the floorsand burned official papers beforelittering the street around theconsulate with steel blades toprevent pursuit by authorities.

9-Sep-89 Minden FederalRepublicofGermany


Firearms0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Shots were fired at a British Armybarracks in Minden. The PIRA wassuspected.

10-Sep-89 Namibia,SWAf

Other Unknown0 1 NAMIBIA. A South African deathsquad was believed responsible forthe assassination of Anton Lubowski,SWAPO's only white leader.

11-Sep-89 Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosive device wasthrown at the U.S. Consulate inIstanbul. Authorities arrested afemale medical student believedaffiliated with Dev-Sol.

13-Sep-89 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. The car of the U.S. deputyconsul in Jerusalem was the target ofarson fire.

13-Sep-89 GuayaquilPeru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb tossed from a luxuryautomobile partially destroyed theresidence of Canada's honoraryconsul in Guayaquil. Witnesses saidthat the automobile had circled theneighborhood several times beforethe package containing several sticksof dynamite was thrown. No groupclaimed responsibility.

13-Sep-89 York UnitedKingdom

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Four Penguinbookstores in York, Peterborough,Guildford and Nottingham werebomb targets in simultaneousattacks. The bomb in York was theonly device which went off; theothers were safely defused. Theincidents were related to thebombing campaign by suspectedMoslem fundamentalists opposed toSalman Rushdie's The SatanicVerses.

13-Sep-89 PerterboroughUnitedKingdom


13-Sep-89 GuildfordUnitedKingdom


13-Sep-89 NottinghamUnitedKingdom


14-Sep-89 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives1 0 VENEZUELA. A man was shot andwounded while trying to place abomb at the U.S. Embassy inCaracas.

14-Sep-89 Cali Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb was discoveredand safely dismantled at the Caliheadquarters of the Colgate-Palmolive Company.

14-Sep-89 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The France-Spain railway linewas bombed by ETA. Traffic wastemporarily halted.

18-Sep-89 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. A Renault car dealership nearBilbao was the target of an ETAfirebombing attack.

18-Sep-89 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The U.S. Embassy inBogota was hit by a homemaderocket which had been fired from tenblocks away. The rocket failed toexplode properly and caused nodamage. Narcotraffickers werebelieved responsible.

18-Sep-89 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives2 3 PAKISTAN. Three people were killedand two others injured by a bombexplosion on a bus in Peshawar. TheAfghan government was blamed.

19-Sep-89 BethlehemIsrael Other Other 3 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian militants stoneda West German tour bus inBethlehem, injuring several of thetourists. Tourists have become atarget of the Palestinian uprisingever since Israeli troops disguised astourists shot and killed an activist inBethlehem in August.

19-Sep-89 Morocco Other Firearms0 0 MOROCCO. A Moroccan passengerplane was hijacked by a lone gunmanand forced to fly to Spain's CanaryIslands. The incident, apparentlylinked to the disputed Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara territory,ended peacefully, and all elevenpassengers were released unharmed.

19-Sep-89 Chad Hizballah Explosives0 171 CHAD. The Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility for a bomb thatexploded on the Brazzaville-Parisflight of the French airline Union desTransports (UTA). 171 people werekilled by the explosion, seven ofthem American citizens.Traces ofSemtex were discovered in thewreckage of the DC-10. Another UTAflight traveling the same route hadbeen destroyed by a bomb in abaggage compartment while on theground in N'Djamena in March of1984. Syria reportedly financed theoperation.

19-Sep-89 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The East Beirut office ofAmerican Express was badlydamaged by a bomb. There were noreports of casualties.

20-Sep-89 Baghdad Iraq UnitedOrganizationofHalabjahMartyrs

Explosives25 0 IRAQ. Three hand grenades werethrown into the British Club inBaghdad, injuring twenty-five peoplewho were there watching a film.Several days after the attack theUnited Organization of the HalabjahMartyrs, a Kurdish group, claimedresponsibility.

20-Sep-89 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb destroyed a carbelonging to the Chinese Embassy'scommercial office in Paris. No onewas hurt by the explosion, whichdamaged two other Chinesediplomatic vehicles as well.

21-Sep-89 BethlehemIsrael Other Other 2 0 ISRAEL. Two German tourists wereinjured when Palestinians stonedtheir tour bus in Bethlehem. Thiswas the second such attack in asmany days.


Unknown0 0 PERU. Members of Tupac Amarutook over the offices of the UnitedPress International and forced thepersonnel to transmit a communiquedenouncing Latin Americangovernments that have re-negotiatedagreements on their external debtswith international agencies andforeign banks. The staff was leftbound and gagged.


Unknown0 0 PERU. Members of Tupac Amarutook over the offices of the Frenchwire service Agence France Pressand forced the personnel to transmita communique denouncing LatinAmerican governments that have re-negotiated agreements on theirexternal debts with internationalagencies and foreign banks. Thestaff was left bound and gagged.


Firearms0 0 PERU. Police suspect that the TupacAmaru group (MRTA) was responsiblefor shooting at the residence of theU.S. Ambassador in Lima.

24-Sep-89 Lima Peru Other Firearms0 0 PERU. A police guard stationed infront of the U.S. Embassy in Limawas fired upon by assailants in apassing vehicle.

25-Sep-89 CartagenaColombia Other Explosives1 2 COLOMBIA. A powerful bombexploded at the Hilton Hotel inCartagena. A medical conventionwas taking place at the hotel at thetime of the attack, and two doctorswere killed and a third was wounded.No group claimed responsibility butdrug traffickers, are being blamed.

26-Sep-89 Santiago Chile ArnoldoCamuCommand

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off outside ofthe U.S. Embassy in Santiago. Aguard was injured in the attack. TheArnoldo Camu Command claimedresponsibility.

26-Sep-89 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 2 PHILIPPINES. Two American civiliansemployed by the Ford AerospaceCorporation (Department of Defensecontractors) were killed while at a U.S. Air Force training range north ofManila. The New People's Army(NPA) was responsible for themurders, which occurred just prior toa visit to the Philippines by U.S. VicePresident Quayle.

27-Sep-89 TecunUman

GuatemalaOther Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. Three foreign tourists,a Spaniard, a Frenchman and anItalian, were abducted from a hotel inTecun Uman near the Mexicanborder. They were released two dayslater after having undergoneintensive questioning by theirkidnappers.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA bombs went off atCitroen and Peugeot car dealershipsin Bilbao. A third bomb was defusedat Renault. No casualties resulted.





28-Sep-89 Tripoli Libya Unknown Unknown0 1 LIBYA. An Italian national wasmurdered near Tripoli.



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The PIRA was blamed for a thwartedbombing of a British soldier's vehicle.

1-Oct-89 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A Shell Oil facility was hitby a rocket just outside of Bogota.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two more French cardealerships were bombed nearBilbao, causing extensive propertydamage.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two more French cardealerships were bombed nearBilbao, causing extensive propertydamage.

2-Oct-89 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A group calling itself theSupremacy of Reason claimedresponsibility for a bomb that wentoff at a Paris school affiliated withthe U.S.-based Church ofScientology. No casualties resulted.

2-Oct-89 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The French Fayardpublishing firm was bombed byMoslem extremists, apparently inconnection with the Rushdiecontroversy.

3-Oct-89 Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. The home of a Turkish-Cypriot politician was bombed.

4-Oct-89 Brussels Belgium Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 1 BELGIUM. A prominent BelgianJewish doctor was assassinated inBrussels. Dr. Joseph Wybran, anoutspoken advocate of an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, was killed whilein the parking garage of ErasmusHospital. The Abu Nidal group isbelieved to have been responsible.Three separate claims for the attackwere received--one from the Soldiersof Truth, which is believed to be thename given to Abu Nidal operationscarried out on behalf of pro-Iranianextremists. Two other Palestiniangroups also claimed responsibility.


ElSalvador

Other Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. More than fiftymembers and supporters of theFederation of Committees of Mothersof Political Prisoners (FECMAFN)forcibly occupied the Costa RicanEmbassy in San Salvador todenounce the repression of thefascist government of El Salvador.While the protestors claim to havebeen unarmed, the Costa Ricanconsul said he saw several youthsarmed with revolvers and explosivedevices.

6-Oct-89 Sidon Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two Swiss Red Crossworkers were kidnapped in Sidon.The abduction appears to be linkedto the fate of a pro-Iranian Shiiteextremist who recently received alife prison sentence in Switzerland forthe 1987 hijacking of an Air Afriqueplane to Geneva. Authorities believethe abduction was carried out by theAbu Nidal on behalf of Hezbollah. Thehostages were freed within a week ofeach other ten months later inAugust 1990.

6-Oct-89 Burma(Myanmar)

Other Explosives0 0 MYANMAR (formerly Burma). Twostudents took over a commercialplane on a domestic flight and forcedit to fly to Thailand. The students,armed with hand grenades,threatened to blow up the planeunless the Myanmar governmentwere to release all political prisoners,return all military troops to theirbarracks, and lift night curfewsthroughout Myanmar. The incidentended peacefully after officials wereable to convince the hijackers torelease all 83 passengers and crewmembers and surrender.

10-Oct-89 RawalpindiPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bus terminal inRawalpindi was bombed. Afghanagents were suspected of carryingout the bombing.

10-Oct-89 Trujillo Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Six bombs exploded within1,000 meters of a meeting of theGroup of Eight in Trujillo. Authoritiesbelieve the Tupac Amaru group(MRTA) was responsible for trying todisrupt the meeting of foreignministers.

13-Oct-89 Seoul Korea,South

Other Explosives0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Radical studentsthrew hand grenades and homemadebombs at the U.S. ambassador'sresidence in Seoul. The assailantsgained entrance to the premises andcaused approximately $30,000 indamage before the policeoverpowered them.

13-Oct-89 Suriname NationalLiberationUnion

Unknown0 0 SURINAME. Militants of the NationalLiberation Union attacked the U.S.-owned Alcoa company in Moengo.The group may be connected to theBushnegro Jungle Commandoguerrilla group.

14-Oct-89 Lahore Pakistan Other Explosives3 0 PAKISTAN. The offices of the SaudiArabian state airline Saudia werebombed in Lahore, injuring severalguests at a hotel in which the officeis located. Iranian agents aresuspected.

16-Oct-89 Ankara Turkey Hizballah Explosives1 0 TURKEY. A Saudi diplomat wasseriously injured when a car bombexploded outside the Saudi militaryattache's office in Ankara's Cankayadistrict. Hezbollah claimedresponsibility, saying the bombingwas in retaliation for the recent Saudiexecution of 16 Kuwaiti nationalsinvolved in the Mecca bombings lastJuly.

17-Oct-89 TheHague

NetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. The Iranian Embassyin The Hague was firebombed.

17-Oct-89 Lautoka Fiji Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FIJI. A Methodist Church wasfirebombed in Lautoka. The attackmay have been in retaliation forattacks a few days earlier on Indiantemples and a mosque.

22-Oct-89 CapeTown

SouthAfrica


Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A bomb went off atthe headquarters of BritishPetroleum's (oil) South Africansubsidiary in Cape Town, and a fewminutes later a second bomb wentoff at a British Petroleum gas stationin another part of the city. Nocasualties were reported. Britain hadrecently ruled against placingeconomic sanctions on South Africaat a meeting of Commonwealthnations. Either the ANC or the PanAfrican Congress of Azania (PAC)may have been responsible.

22-Oct-89 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Four passersby wereinjured when three bomb explosionsoccurred at the U.S. Hellinikon airbase in Athens. Parked carsbelonging to Americans at the basewere destroyed. The leftist People'sRevolutionary Struggle (ELA) claimedresponsibility.





22-Oct-89 CapeTown

SouthAfrica


Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A bomb went off atthe headquarters of BritishPetroleum's (oil) South Africansubsidiary in Cape Town, and a fewminutes later a second bomb wentoff at a British Petroleum gas stationin another part of the city. Nocasualties were reported. Britain hadrecently ruled against placingeconomic sanctions on South Africaat a meeting of Commonwealthnations. Either the ANC or the PanAfrican Congress of Azania (PAC)may have been responsible.

23-Oct-89 Baghdad Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAQ. A car belonging to a Turkishassistant economic and trade attachewas bombed in Baghdad.

24-Oct-89 TheHague

NetherlandsBasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. A car belonging to aSpanish diplomat was destroyed by abomb outside of the diplomat's homein The Hague. ETA claimedresponsibility.


Explosives0 0 PERU. A car bomb went off in frontof the U.S. Marine House in Lima.Sendero Luminoso is suspected.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Members of SenderoLuminoso placed a bomb under avehicle at the Soviet Embassy inLima.


Explosives0 0 PERU. The Chinese Embassy in Limawas the target of a SenderoLuminoso car bomb.

26-Oct-89 Quito Ecuador Unknown Firearms0 0 ECUADOR. The U.S. Embassy inQuito was fired upon by gunmen in apassing automobile. A weeklongconference of guerrilla groups wasmeeting in Quito at the time.

26-Oct-89 Medellin Colombia Unknown Firearms0 2 COLOMBIA. Unidentified gunmen onfoot shot and killed two guards infront of the Ecuadoran (Embassy) inMedellin.



Firearms0 2 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The PIRA opened fire on a vehicle inwhich a British soldier's family wassitting at a gas station, killing theserviceman and his baby. His wifewas not injured in the attack.

27-Oct-89 TheHague


Explosives0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. Bombexplosions ten minutes apart causedextensive damage to the SpanishEmbassy's commercial and laborattaches' offices. Five passersbywere injured in the attacks. ETAclaimed responsibility.

27-Oct-89 TheHague


Explosives5 0 THE NETHERLANDS. Bombexplosions ten minutes apart causedextensive damage to the SpanishEmbassy's commercial and laborattaches' offices. Five passersbywere injured in the attacks. ETAclaimed responsibility.


Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. The NPA was blamedfor the murder of a U.S. militaryintelligence agent in Manila.

31-Oct-89 Beirut Lebanon PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives3 1 LEBANON. The Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine in Beirutclaimed responsibility for a suicideattack on an Israeli gunboat off ofLebanon. The Palestinian was killedand three Israeli soldiers wounded inthe attack.

31-Oct-89 Lima Peru Unknown Unknown0 1 PERU. An Interpol Commander wasassassinated as he walked hisdaughter to school in Lima.

31-Oct-89 ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives35 10 EL SALVADOR. Two Americans wereamong the ten fatalities that resultedwhen a powerful bomb went off atthe offices of the leftist NationalTrade Union Federation ofSalvadoran Workers. 35 others werewounded. The organization, which isan umbrella group for more than 250unions, has been accused by rightwingers of providing a front for theFMLN.

1-Nov-89 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Saudi ArabianEmbassy was bombed by pro-Iranianterrorists believed affiliated withHizballah.

1-Nov-89 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown1 1 LEBANON. Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility for the assassination ofa Saudi Arabian diplomat in Beirut.The diplomat's driver was injured inthe attack. The killing was inretaliation for the recent execution ofShiite extremists by the Saudigovernment for their participation inbomb attacks in Mecca last July.

1-Nov-89 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb went off in frontof a Mormon Church in Bogota.

2-Nov-89 Antigua GuatemalaUnknown Unknown1 0 GUATEMALA. An American nun waskidnapped in Antigua. The womanwas tortured and the following dayreleased by her captors. SeveralAmerican nuns had recently receiveddeath threats.

6-Nov-89 France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 CORSICA. A 150-unit apartmentcomplex being built by a French-Italian consortium was blown up by agroup of about 30 Corsican NationalLiberation Front (FLNC) members.Prior to the bombing the group hadgathered nearby residents andgotten them out of the area.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The Army of NationalLiberation (ELN) claimedresponsibility for kidnapping anemployee of the Mexican consortiumAssociated Construction Engineers(ICA).

8-Nov-89 PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown3 2 PHILIPPINES. Two Austriansemployed by the National PowerCorporation were killed whensuspected Moro National LiberationFront militants ambushed a convoyof vehicles in which they weretraveling. Three others were injuredin the attack.

9-Nov-89 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives2 1 LEBANON. Two Israeli soldiers wereinjured in a suicide bombing by aMoslem fanatic. The RevolutionaryMovement of Lebanon's Hezbollahclaimed responsibility.

9-Nov-89 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Rockets were fired intoIsrael from Lebanon.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Mexican engineerswere kidnapped by the Army ofNational Liberation (ELN) in theArauca oil zone near the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

10-Nov-89

ManizalesColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The Colombian-AmericanCenter was damaged by a two-pounddynamite bomb in Manizales.

10-Nov-89

Izmir Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb went off outside aU.S. military shop in Izmir. The Dev-Sol group is believed to have beenresponsible.

13-Nov-89



Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A powerful bombwas discovered under the carbelonging to the London manager ofThai Airways and safely defused.The bomb had been intended for asenior British military official, but thePIRA misidentified its target.

14-Nov-89

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. Police defused a high-powered bomb in front of theSalvadoran Embassy in GuatemalaCity.

14-Nov-89

Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An American MP office inIstanbul was bombed. Dev Sol wassuspected.

16-Nov-89

Bogota Colombia Other Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Leftist guerrillas arebelieved to have been responsible forthe bombing of a Mormon church inBogota. The blast caused moderatedamage.

16-Nov-89

ElSalvador


Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Members of theFarabundo Marti National LiberationFront (FMLN) kidnapped 13International Red Cross members inthe Soyapango area.

18-Nov-89

Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A group of unidentifiedpersons threw explosives at theSalvadoran Embassy in Lima.

21-Nov-89


Unknown0 1 PERU. An American journalist wasmurdered by Sendero Luminosoguerrillas in the Upper Huallaga RiverValley, an area known for coca-production. Todd Smith, a reporterfor the Tampa Tribune, had been inthe country doing research on thedrug trade and guerrilla violence.His body was found on a playgroundwith a note attached which read, Thisis the way that North American spiesdie - PCP. PCP stands for theCommunist Party of Peru, a nameused by Sendero.

21-Nov-89

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. 15 Members of theFarabundo Marti National LiberationFront (FMLN) took over the VIP towerof the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvadorat about 5:30 a.m., trapping 12heavily armed Green Berets and 17civilians (including 3 Americans)inside the hotel. The civilians weresoon released, but the Green Beretsdeclined mediators' suggestions thatthey lay down their weapons andleave at the same time. Even whilenegotiations were being conductedand the building was surrounded bySalvadoran troops, the guerrillasmanaged to slip away. The GreenBerets left the hotel 27 hours afterthe ordeal began. They had notexchanged gunfire with the rebels.

24-Nov-89

Pakistan Other Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 3 PAKISTAN. A remote-control bombkilled three people, including theSaudi official responsible forcoordinating aid in Pakistan to theAfghan resistance movement.Iranian agents were believedresponsible.

29-Nov-89

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. During heavy fightingin San Salvador an Americandiplomat was held at gunpoint in hishome for 14 hours by the FarabundoMarti National Liberation Front(FMLN).

1-Dec-89 Tokyo Japan Unknown Explosives0 0 JAPAN. A bomb was discovered onthe grounds of the BurmeseEmbassy.

1-Dec-89 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives4 0 BELGIUM. A bomb in a briefcaseexploded during a lecture on publicfinance at the French-languageBrussels Free University. Fourpeople were injured.

5-Dec-89 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Five infiltrators armed withassault rifles and grenades werekilled while entering the Negevdesert from Egypt. It is believed thegroup was planning to stage a majorattack to coincide with the December9 second anniversary of thePalestinian uprising.

6-Dec-89 TheHague


Explosives0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. The BasqueFatherland and Liberty (ETA) claimedresponsibility for a grenade attackagainst the Spanish Embassy in TheHague. Extensive damage wascaused to the embassy.

6-Dec-89 Turkey June 16Organization

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A launch belonging to theU.S. Consulate was destroyed by abomb claimed by the Warriors of the16th of June Movement. The groupgot its name from a workers' protestmovement that paralyzed Istanbul onJune 15 and 16, 1970. The actionwas carried out to protest Turkisheconomic policies.

8-Dec-89 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb went off at an EECoffice in Athens. The RevolutionaryPeople's Struggle(ELA) gave awarning before carrying out theattack.

9-Dec-89 Antwerp Belgium ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Firearms1 0 BELGIUM. During a routine vehiclecheck in Antwerp a policeman wasshot and wounded by members ofthe PIRA. The gunmen fled on footand authorities found their car tocontain handguns and 500 rounds ofammunition. One of the suspectswas later apprehended at asafehouse in Amsterdam.

11-Dec-89


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. British engineer JohnJohnson was kidnapped by membersof the National Liberation Army (ELN)while he was traveling to the camp ofa petroleum company in the easternpart of the country.

12-Dec-89

Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front (FPMR) detonated abomb at the Salvadoran Consulate inSantiago, just a few hours before theChilean presidential elections were totake place.

13-Dec-89

MexicoCity

Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A strong explosionseriously damaged a First NationalCitibank branch in Mexico City.There were no reports of injuries.

13-Dec-89

Israel Other Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 ISRAEL. Palestinians detonated whatis believed to have been the firstremote-control explosive device usedby Palestinians in Israel since thebeginning of the Palestinian uprisingtwo years ago. A passing car wasdamaged by the blast, but no onewas injured.

14-Dec-89

PhilippinesUnknown Explosives1 0 PHILIPPINES. A grenade slightlydamaged the home of the U.S.agricultural attache. A Filipinoworkman was injured.

14-Dec-89


Explosives1 0 PHILIPPINES. Rifle-launchedgrenades were fired into the U.S.Embassy residential and recreationalcompound in Manila. A Communistrebel was arrested.

16-Dec-89

Brussels Belgium Mujahideenof thePeople

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A group calling itself theMujahideen of the People claimedresponsibility for a failed bombattack against a Syrian diplomat inBrussels. The anti-Syrian Islamicfundamentalists had planted handgrenades under the diplomat's carwhich were meant to detonate withthe vehicle's motion. The explosiveswere dismantled.

17-Dec-89

SriLanka


Unknown0 0 SRI LANKA. A U.S. diplomat waskidnapped by Tamil separatists nearJaffna but was released unharmedafter several hours.

20-Dec-89

La Paz Bolivia ZarateWillkaArmedForces ofLiberation

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. The Zarate Willka ArmedForces of Liberation claimedresponsibility for a bomb attack atthe U.S. Embassy in La Paz. Theexplosion caused considerabledamage but did not result incasualties.

20-Dec-89

Santiago DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A small bombexploded in front of a MormonChurch in Santiago.

21-Dec-89

Italy ContinuingStruggle

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. A U.S. Air Force van was seton fire by a member of thedisbanded pacifist group theContinuing Struggle. The action wascarried out in retaliation for the U.S.invasion of Panama.

21-Dec-89

Sudan Unknown Explosives0 3 SUDAN. A Cessna aircraft belongingto the humanitarian organizationDoctors Without Borders was shotdown by a SAM missile. The threeFrenchmen on board were killed.In abizarre twist, the corpse of one of thevictims was booby-trapped beforebeing loaded onto a plane bound forParis. A device was set to explodewhile the corpse was on a plane inthe air, but it went off prematurely,injuring the driver of the truckcarrying the body to the aircraft.

21-Dec-89

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 1 GUATEMALA. A Nicaraguan diplomatwas assassinated in Guatemala City.

21-Dec-89

DominicanRepublic

Unknown Firearms1 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. An AmericanMormon missionary was fired at bygunmen on a motorcycle. Hesuffered only minor injuries.

21-Dec-89

Bani DominicanRepublic


1 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A Molotovcocktail was thrown at a missionaryin Bani. The explosive missed itstarget.

21-Dec-89

SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

RevolutionaryArmy ofthePeople

Firearms0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. TheRevolutionary Army of the Peopleopened fire on the Codetel office inSanto Domingo. The company is asubsidiary of the U.S. GTEcorporation.

21-Dec-89

Mella DominicanRepublic

RevolutionaryArmy ofthePeople

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. TheRevolutionary Army of the Peoplethrew a Molotov cocktail at theoffices of Codetel in Mella. Thecompany is a subsidiary of the U.S.GTE corporation.

21-Dec-89

Temuco Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off in front ofthe U.S. Binational Center in Temuco,causing extensive damage.

23-Dec-89

Talca Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Lautaro group issuspected of having detonated abomb in front of the U.S. BinationalCenter in Talca.

23-Dec-89

Vina DelMar

Chile NationalResistanceFront(Chile)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The National Resistance Front(NRF) claimed responsibility foractivating a bomb in front of theentrance to the U.S. BinationalCenter in Vina del Mar. Therightwing group was active duringthe Allende era in the early 1970s.

23-Dec-89

Arequipa Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. The Tupac Amaru groupdetonated a bomb at the U.S.Binational Center in Arequipa.

23-Dec-89

Quklpue Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off in theentrance to a Mormon Church inQuklpue.

24-Dec-89

RancaguaChile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs went off in front ofMormon churches in Rancagua and inthe El Bosque suburb of Santiago. Inboth instances Yankees out ofPanama was painted near thechapels.

24-Dec-89

Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs went off in front ofMormon churches in Rancagua and inthe El Bosque suburb of Santiago. Inboth instances Yankees out ofPanama was painted near thechapels.

24-Dec-89

DavaoCity


Firearms0 0 PHILIPPINES. A USIS building inDavao City was fired on during thenight. New People's Army (NPA) issuspected.

24-Dec-89

SantaMarta

Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A Mormon Church inSanta Marta was bombed inretaliation for the U.S. invasion ofPanama.

25-Dec-89

Chiclayo Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. The MRTA threw an explosiveonto the roof of the U.S. BinationalCenter in Chiclayo.

25-Dec-89


Explosives0 0 PERU. Bombs went off at twodifferent Mormon churches inChiclayo. MRTA leaflets left at bothsites denounced the U.S. invasion ofPanama.

25-Dec-89


Explosives0 0 PERU. Bombs went off at twodifferent Mormon churches inChiclayo. MRTA leaflets left at bothsites denounced the U.S. invasion ofPanama.

27-Dec-89

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A fragmentationgrenade was thrown at theInternational Red Cross offices inGuatemala City. No group claimedresponsibility.

27-Dec-89

Loja Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A bomb exploded outsideof a Mormon Church in Loja.

27-Dec-89

Quilpue Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front (FPMR) detonated abomb at a Mormon Church in Quilpuein retaliation for the U.S. invasion ofPanama.

28-Dec-89

Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded inside afifth floor bathroom of the Chilean-U.S. Cultural Institute in Santiago.

28-Dec-89


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. Incendiary devices werethrown at a Mormon Church in theFrei neighborhood of Santiago.Leaflets of the Lautaro YouthMovement were found at the scene.

29-Dec-89

Vina DelMar

Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Vina del Mar offices ofCitibank were bombed.

29-Dec-89

Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A Mormon church wasbombed.

29-Dec-89

Vittoria Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Basque group Iraultzaclaimed responsibility for bombing aFord Auto dealership in Vittoria. Thegroup claimed the attack was inreprisal for the U.S. invasion ofPanama as well as a show of supportfor the Basque cause.

29-Dec-89


Explosives0 0 PERU. Officials believe the MRTA tohave been responsible for anexplosion at a Mormon Church inTarapoto. Mormons and DEA agentswere warned to leave the UpperHuallaga Valley by a note left at thescene.

30-Dec-89

Quetta Pakistan Other Explosives3 0 PAKISTAN. Four Afghan agents werearrested for a rocket attack in Quettathat wounded three people.

31-Dec-89

Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded at aMormon Church in Santiago.

31-Dec-89

Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb slightly damaged anAustralian transportation company.

31-Dec-89

Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. Explosive devices werethrown at a U.S. Embassy vehiclethat was traveling in Quito. No onewas injured.

31-Dec-89

Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. Explosive devices werethrown into the U.S. Embassycompound in Quito.

1-Jan-90 SantaCruz

Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. The Santa Cruz offices ofthe U.S.-affiliated Tesoro Petroleum(oil) Co. were damaged by a bombexplosion.

1-Jan-90 CochabambaBolivia ComandoAlejoCalatayud

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb exploded outside aMormon Church in Cochabamba. Agroup calling itself the ComandoAlejo Calatayud claimedresponsibility.

2-Jan-90 NicaraguaOther Firearms1 2 NICARAGUA. Two Roman Catholicnuns, one of them an American, werekilled and an American bishop waswounded in an armed attack near theAtlantic coast. The Nicaraguangovernment was quick to blame theU.S.-supported Contras, but thegroup denied responsibility.

2-Jan-90 CabudareVenezuelaOmarTorrijosCommandofor LatinAmericanDignity

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 VENEZUELA. The Omar TorrijosCommando for Latin AmericanDignity claimed responsibility forMolotov cocktails hurled at theheadquarters of the Mormon Churchin Cabudare. The group'sspokesman said that the organizationhad been formed by Venezuelansopposed to the U.S. invasion ofPanama.

10-Jan-90 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Iraultza claimed responsibilityfor the bombing of a Ford dealershipin the Lejona suburb of Bilbao.

12-Jan-90 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 2 GUATEMALA. A Salvadoran leftistand the Guatemalan woman who wasdriving him to the airport wereabducted near Guatemala City. Theirbodies were discovered the next day.

14-Jan-90 Ankara Turkey Amal Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A car belonging to a SaudiArabian diplomat was bombed inAnkara. Pro-Iranian terrorists weresuspected.

14-Jan-90 Bastia France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 CORSICA. The Corsican NationalLiberation Front (FLNC) attacked atourist camp near Bastia, holdingtourists at gunpoint and setting offexplosives.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Terrorists hurled sticks ofdynamite at the U.S. Embassy in theMiraflores district of Lima. TupacAmaru (MRTA) guerrillas weresuspected.


Explosives0 0 PERU. MRTA guerrillas tossedexplosives into the Miraflores homeof several U.S. Marines. There wereno injuries.

15-Jan-90 Amurrio Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Euzkadi ta Askatuasuna (ETA)claimed responsibility for bombing aPeugeot car dealership in Amurrio.

18-Jan-90 IslamabadPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A powerful bomb that hadbeen planted in a jeep exploded atthe Islamabad Airport, destroyingtwo nearby vehicles but causing nocasualties. An Afghan national wasarrested.

19-Jan-90 BougainvillePapua-NewGuinea

Other Firearms1 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA. An Australianmining executive was shot andwounded by Bougainville secessionistrebels.


Other Firearms1 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA. An Australianjournalist was shot and wounded byBougainville secessionist rebels.


Other Unknown1 1 PAPUA NEW GUINEA. An Australianmineworker was killed and anotherwounded by Bougainvillesecessionists. The two had beenworking on a dirt landing strip at theBougainville copper mine.

25-Jan-90 DavaoCity


Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. The New Peoples' Army(NPA) was suspected of throwinghand grenades at the U.S.Information Service office in Davao.The attack occurred simultaneouslywith attacks on a nearby policestation and governmentcommunications building.

29-Jan-90 Uganda Other Firearms1 1 UGANDA. Unidentified gunmen killedone Italian missionary and woundedanother in an ambush north ofKampala.

1-Feb-90 Malakal Sudan Unknown Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Two doctors with the reliefgroup Doctors Without Borders werekidnapped in Malakal.

4-Feb-90 Bangkok Thailand Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 THAILAND. A car belonging to aSaudi Arabian airline employee wasset on fire at the airport in Bangkok.

4-Feb-90 Cairo Egypt Hizballah Explosives19 11 EGYPT. Terrorists used automaticweapons and grenades to assault anIsraeli tour bus near Cairo. Elevenpeople were killed and another 19wounded in the well-planned attack.The Popular Front for the Liberationof Palestine-General Command(PFLP-GC) delivered a statementclaiming that the Islamic Jihad hadcarried out the attack and calling thegroup the heroes of our greatPalestinian people. The Organizationfor the Defense of the Oppressed inEgypt's Prisons also claimedresponsibility. More than 20 peoplewere arrested.

4-Feb-90 Pretoria SouthAfrica

Other Firearms0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. Shotgun blasts werefired at the British Embassy inPretoria by suspected right-wingelements. The attack followed Britishgovernment statements declaringsupport for President de Klerk'spolitical reform measures.

6-Feb-90 Patrai Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in a U.S.military vehicle at the Araxos Basenear Patrai.

7-Feb-90 Belfast NorthernIreland


Explosives0 0 NORTHERN IRELAND. The PIRAbombed the Belfast factory of theaircraft company Short Brothers, thelargest industrial employer inNorthern Ireland and a supplier tothe British Army. This is the IRA'sthird attack on Short since June,when the company was purchasedby the Canadian-owned BombardierInc.


Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb left outside the Limaresidence of the Argentinianambassador was safely defused.MRTA was suspected.

9-Feb-90 Cuzco Peru Unknown Unknown0 1 PERU. An American was foundmurdered in the city of Cuzco.

10-Feb-90 Austria Unknown Explosives1 0 AUSTRIA. A Yugoslavian national wasinjured when a bomb exploded in hiscar.

11-Feb-90 SanCristobal

GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 2 GUATEMALA. Two Coca-Cola unionrepresentatives were foundmurdered in San Cristobal. The twohad been tortured before being killedexecution-style.

12-Feb-90 Medellin Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. American businessmanJames Donnelly was kidnapped bymembers of the National LiberationArmy (ELN) in Medellin shortly beforethe Cartagena drug summit.Donnelly was released 10 days later.

12-Feb-90 Medellin Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. American teacher DavidKent was kidnapped by members ofthe ELN in Medellin shortly before theCartagena drug summit. Kent wasreleased 10 days later.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Three Mormon Churcheswere damaged by explosives thrownby members of the ELN who wereprotesting President Bush's imminentarrival for the Cartagena drugsummit.






Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An American priest waskidnapped by the ELN and releasedfour days later with a threateningmessage to U.S. officials, military andcorporations.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. MRTA guerrillas threwincendiary devices at a U.S. Embassywarehouse in Lima to protest the U.S.invasion of Panama.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. MRTA guerrillas threwincendiary devices at thePanamanian Embassy in Lima toprotest the U.S. invasion of Panama.

17-Feb-90 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. MRTA guerrillas threwincendiary devices at the offices ofChampion, S.A., an affiliate of anAmerican spark-plug company, toprotest the U.S. invasion of Panama.

21-Feb-90 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 3 PHILIPPINES. Gunmen believed to bemembers of the New People's Army(NPA) ambushed the jeep of anAmerican geologist in Boholprovince, killing him, his wife and hisfather-in-law.

23-Feb-90 Adana Turkey Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. The American CulturalCenter in Adana was firebombed bysuspected leftists.

23-Feb-90 BuenosAires


Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A Buenos Aires branchof Citibank was bombed. The CheGuevara Brigade claimedresponsibility.

24-Feb-90 Lebanon Unknown Explosives15 1 LEBANON. A Greek-owned ferry wasshelled off the coast of Juniyah,leaving one dead and 15 othersinjured.

25-Feb-90 Brussels Belgium Unknown Unknown0 1 BELGIUM. An exiled Albanian leaderwas assassinated as he sat in his carin Brussels. No group claimedresponsibility.

25-Feb-90 Cyprus Other Firearms25 1 CYPRUS. A gunboat flying a Syrianflag with a crew that spoke in theSyrian dialect opened fire on aCypriot ship transporting passengersfrom Lebanon to Cyprus. One personwas killed and 25 were injured. TheCypriot ship had been flying theLebanese flag when it was attacked.

28-Feb-90 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 1 GUATEMALA. A security guard at theSwedish Embassy in Guatemala Citywas found murdered in an embassybathroom. The Swedish Embassyand its ambassador had been thetarget of bomb threats in recentmonths.

28-Feb-90 WestBank/Gaza


1 0 WEST BANK. A British tourist wasstabbed.

2-Mar-90 PanamaCity

Panama Other Explosives27 1 PANAMA. An individual yelling VivaNoriega tossed a grenade into anAmerican-owned disco in PanamaCity, killing an American servicemanand injuring 27 other people, 15 ofthem Americans. A group callingitself the Movement of December 20claimed responsibility in leafletsdistributed later in the month. Thegroup takes its name from the datethat the U.S. invaded Panama in1989.

2-Mar-90 Tel Aviv Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded at a busterminal in Tel Aviv.

7-Mar-90 Istanbul Turkey Hizballah Unknown0 2 TURKEY. An Islamic fundamentalistgroup claimed responsibility for theassassination of a leading Turkishjournalist critical of Muslimfundamentalists. His driver was alsokilled in the attack which took placeoutside the journalist's home inIstanbul.


Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at a MormonTemple in Santiago. The ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR)claimed responsibility.


Explosives1 0 CHILE. One person was injured whena bomb went off in front of the U.S.Consulate in Santiago. The FPMRclaimed responsibility. The attacktook place a few hours beforePatricio Aylwin was to be sworn in asthe new Chilean president.

11-Mar-90 TegucigalpaHonduras MorazanistaPatrioticLiberationFront(FPM)

Firearms7 0 HONDURAS. The MorazanistaPatriotic Liberation Front (FPM)claimed responsibility for firing on abus carrying U.S. servicemennorthwest of Tegucigalpa. Seven U.S. airmen were wounded in theattack which occurred as the bus wastraveling from Soto Cano Air Base tothe beach. The FPM had beenresponsible for a grenade attack theprevious July which had injuredseveral U.S. servicemen.

14-Mar-90 Istanbul Turkey Other Firearms1 0 TURKEY. An anti-Iranian governmentactivist was shot and wounded bysuspected pro-Iranian gunmen whiledriving to Istanbul's airport.

15-Mar-90 TegucigalpaHonduras PatrioticResistanceArmy(ERP)

Explosives3 0 HONDURAS. An American womanwas among the three casualtieswhen a bomb exploded at aTegucigalpa shopping center. ThePatriotic Resistance Army (ERP)claimed responsibility.

15-Mar-90 Rennes France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at aMosque in Rennes. Racial violencetargeting Arabs and Africans hasincreased recently in this area.

17-Mar-90 Rabta Libya Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LIBYA. The Rabta chemical plant wasdamaged by an arson fire. Five plantworkers, including two foreigners,were held for questioning. Qadaffiaccused America, Israel and WestGermany of involvement.

18-Mar-90 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A driverless car ladenwith explosives careened off-trackbefore arriving at its target, theCommodore Hotel, where Syriansoldiers are based. The car bombwas safely defused.

19-Mar-90 Greece Unknown Explosives2 0 GREECE. A former British Petroleumofficial was injured when a bombexploded as he entered his car. Apasserby was also slightly injured. Noone claimed responsibility.

20-Mar-90 Belfast NorthernIreland


Explosives5 0 NORTHERN IRELAND. Five peoplewere injured when a bomb explodedat the Canadian-owned Shortsmissile complex in eastern Belfast.This is the fourth attack since June.(See 19900207.) According toseparate AP reports, there appear tobe two conflicting motives for thebombings: to scare workers who areproviding services for the BritishCrown Forces and to pressure Shortsto hire more Catholics.


Unknown1 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillasfailed in an assassination attemptagainst the resource manager of themultinational firm Bunge and Borne.

26-Mar-90 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. The NPA may havebeen responsible for theassassination of the Filipino vicepresident of Nestle Philippines. Thevictim was killed while attending acompany tennis match. He hadpreviously received death threats.

27-Mar-90 Lebanon LebaneseNationalResistanceFront

Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Gunmen affiliated withthe pro-Syrian Lebanese NationalResistance Front assassinated anAmerican Christian missionary in thesouthern village of Rashaya Foukhar.Villagers had accused him of tryingto set up a Jewish settlement in thearea.

27-Mar-90 Athens Greece SocialResistance

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Timed explosive devicesdestroyed 12 cars belonging todiplomats from the Soviet Union,Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary,Syria and to a representative fromthe PLO. The explosions occurredsimultaneously in different suburbsthroughout Athens. The leftist SocialResistance group claimedresponsibility.













27-Mar-90 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillasdetonated a car bomb in front of theU.S.-owned shoe factory Bata inLima.

29-Mar-90 Israel PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Two Katyusha rockets werefired into Israel from Jordanianterritory. The Islamic-Jihad-Jerusalemclaimed responsibility.

30-Mar-90 Lebanon RevolutionaryActionOrganizationof theArab Resi

Firearms2 0 LEBANON. A Polish diplomat and hiswife were wounded when pro-Iranianextremists opened fire on them. ThePolish government had recentlyoffered to help transport Soviet Jewsto Israel. The Revolutionary ActionOrganization of the Arab ResistanceFront claimed responsibility.

1-Apr-90 Harare ZimbabweUnknown Explosives1 0 ZIMBABWE. A member of the AfricanNational Congress (ANC) was injuredwhen a parcel bomb exploded inHarare. South African rightists aresuspected.

8-Apr-90 VientianeLaos Unknown Explosives1 1 LAOS. A bomb went off at the SovietCultural Center in Vientiane, killingone person and injuring another.

9-Apr-90 ParamariboSuriname Unknown Unknown0 1 SURINAME. The Second Secretary ofthe Soviet Embassy was murderednear Paramaribo. Three people werearrested. The motive was unclearand may have been criminal.

24-Apr-90 Geneva SwitzerlandOther Firearms0 1 SWITZERLAND. A leading opponentof the Iranian government, KazemRadjavij, was assassinated by pro-Iranian gunmen outside of his homenear Geneva.

27-Apr-90 AfghanistanUnknown Unknown0 1 AFGHANISTAN. A Frenchhumanitarian aid worker was killed inBadakhshan Province.

27-Apr-90 Congo(Brazzaville)

Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 CONGO. Guerrillas abducted 13French nationals and 10 Congoleseemployed by the ELF oil company.Within hours they had released nineof the French and most of theCongolese. On May 8, the guerrillasreleased another Frenchman, and onMay 10 they released the remainingthree French and three Congolese.According to one account, thekidnappers were a dissident factionof the Front for the Liberation of theCabinda Enclave (FLEC). The mainbody of FLEC publically condemnedthe action.

28-Apr-90 Amman Jordan IslamicFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(IFL

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. The Islamic Front for theLiberation of Palestine (IFLP) claimedresponsibility for the bombing of theJordanian-Soviet Friendship Societyin Amman. The action was carriedout in response to increased SovietJewish immigration to Israel.

29-Apr-90 Barinas VenezuelaM-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A bomb went offoutside of the Colombian Consulatein Barinas. The Jaime Bateman unitof the M-19 claimed responsibility forthe attack, stating that it was carriedout in response to the April 26assassination of presidentialcandidate Carlos Pizarro LeonGomez, who had been shot at pointblank range on board an Aviancaairliner. Pizarro was a former leaderof the M-19, which had recentlysigned a peace accord with thegovernment and agreed toparticipate in the electoral process.The M-19 officially deniedresponsibility for the bombing of theconsulate.

30-Apr-90 ArgentinaCheGuevaraBrigade

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The Che GuevaraBrigade claimed responsibility for abomb which targeted GTEEnterprises. The U.S.-ownedbusiness was badly damaged andwas apparently attacked because ofthe government's effort to privatizethe State Telecommunicationscompany.

4-May-90 Hanover FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two Semtex explosives weighing atotal of 100 pounds were defused atthe British Langenhagen militarybarracks. Three PIRA terrorists fledafter being spotted by a guard nearthe Hanover facility.

4-May-90 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. The NPA killed a U.S.Marine near the American naval baseat Subic Bay.

5-May-90 Amman Jordan Hizballah Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JORDAN. The Islamic Struggle Frontfirebombed the Amman offices of theArab-American Anti-DiscriminationCommittee.

6-May-90 Lahore Pakistan Other Explosives35 11 PAKISTAN. Afghan agents aresuspected of having bombed anexpress train near Lahore, resultingin 11 fatalities and 35 injuries.

9-May-90 Seoul Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. The U.S. InformationCenter in Seoul was attacked and seton fire.

13-May-90

AngelesCity


Unknown0 2 PHILIPPINES. An NPA hit teammurdered two U.S. soldiers near ahotel in Angeles City.

14-May-90


Explosives1 0 CHILE. Members of the FPMR arebelieved to have thrown a powerfulexplosive device into the compoundof the U.S. Consulate in Santiago.The blast injured a guard. The FPMRalso bombed other targets on thesame day, including a Jewishcommunity center.

18-May-90


Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. The NPA fired two rifle-launched grenades at the JeffersonCultural Center in Manila. The Centerhouses the U.S. Department ofAgriculture, the Jefferson Library andthe U.S. Air Force Office of SpecialInvestigations.

19-May-90

Nagoya Japan Sekihotai Explosives0 0 JAPAN. The rightist anti-KoreanSekihotai group bombed a Koreancommunity building in Nagoya. Thegroup was protesting the May visit ofSouth Korean President Roh.

19-May-90

San Jose CostaRica

Other Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb exploded nearthe U.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment (AID) office in San Jose.A Costa Rican group with ties toLibya is suspected.

20-May-90

JerusalemIsrael PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)


0 1 ISRAEL. The Islamic Jihad Movementin Palestine claimed responsibility forstabbing a Jewish settler inJerusalem.

21-May-90

Amman Jordan Other Firearms10 0 JORDAN. In retaliation for recentviolence against Palestinians in theGaza Strip, a Palestinian opened fireon a busload of French tourists inAmman, wounding ten people.

21-May-90

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A small bomb went offoutside of the Israeli El Al Airlinesoffice in Istanbul.

22-May-90

Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded at aMormon Church in Santiago.

23-May-90

ElSalvador


Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. The FMLN attacked alow flying U.S. military helicopter,which nevertheless managed to flyon to Panama.

24-May-90

Krakow Poland Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 POLAND. Polish anarchists threwfirebombs at the Soviet Consulate inKrakaw.

24-May-90

Krakow Poland Other Unknown0 0 POLAND. Polish anarchistsvandalized the U.S. Consulate inKrakow.

24-May-90

StockholmSweden Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SWEDEN. Five arson attacks weredirected against interests involvingMiddle Eastern and North Africanimmigrants. A refugee center inVasteras and an Islamic Culturalcenter in Stockholm were two of thetargets.

24-May-90

Sweden Unknown Fire orFirebomb


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24-May-90

Vasteras Sweden Unknown Fire orFirebomb


27-May-90

RoermondNetherlandsProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Unknown0 2 NETHERLANDS. A PIRA hit teammistook two Australian lawyersvacationing in Roermond for Britishsoldiers and murdered them. ThePIRA expressed its regrets.

28-May-90


Explosives1 0 GREECE. Three bombs hiddenunderneath vehicles parked near theHilton Hotel exploded, injuring apasserby and causing materialdamage to nearby buildings.Authorities suspect leftist terrorists,possibly belonging to the November17.

28-May-90

JerusalemIsrael PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Explosives12 1 ISRAEL. A bomb hidden in a foodvendor's cart exploded in Jerusalem,killing one and injuring 12 others.Both the Islamic Jihad for theLiberation of Palestine and AbuMusa's Fatah Uprising claimedresponsibility.

29-May-90


Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. The NPA kidnapped aJapanese aid worker on the island ofNegros. He was released in August1990.

30-May-90

Israel PalestineLiberationFront(PLF)

Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. Heavily armed members ofAbu Abas's Palestinian LiberationFront (PLF) set out in six speedboatsafter unloading from a Libyan vesseland attempted to land on Israelibeaches. They reportedly intendedto attack beachgoers and tourists.Twelve guerrillas were apprehendedin the thwarted attack.

31-May-90

Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. A car bomb exploded in frontof the PRC Embassy in Lima.

31-May-90


Explosives3 0 PERU. Suspected MRTA membersbombed the Japanese Center forSeismic and Disaster Research of theNational Engineering University rightafter an earthquake struck the junglezone. Three people were injured.Damage was estimated at over$500,000, and much irreplaceableinformation was destroyed.

31-May-90

Manila PhilippinesUnknown Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. A Japanese executivewas murdered in his Manila home.

1-Jun-90 Gdansk Poland Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 POLAND. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the Soviet Consulate inGdansk.

2-Jun-90 DortmundFederalRepublicofGermany


Unknown0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. ABritish military officer was killed inDortmund. The PIRA claimedresponsibility.

2-Jun-90 OlongapoPhilippinesUnknown Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. A U.S. naval officer waskilled in his home in Olongapo.Criminals, rather than terrorists, mayhave been responsible.


Unknown0 2 PERU. Two British ornithologistswere kidnapped in the Alta Huallagozone by terrorists or drug traffickers.Since the region is coca producing, itis assumed that the kidnappersmistook them for U.S. DrugEnforcement Agents. As of October23, when the British Embassyconfirmed the disappearance, nobodies had been found, but accountsin the local Tingo Maria press attestthat the ornithologists werekidnapped, tortured and killed.

4-Jun-90 Liberia Other Unknown0 0 LIBERIA. Liberian rebels attacked aU.S.-managed rubber plantationsoutheast of the capital.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. The PLO firebombed the U.S.Consulate in Jerusalem.

7-Jun-90 Freiburg GermanDemocraticRepublic

First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GR

Explosives0 0 GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.The Spanish First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group (GRAPO)bombed a Spanish auto dealership inFreiburg. This was the group's firstaction known to be committedoutside of Spain.

7-Jun-90 JerusalemIsrael PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Explosives9 1 ISRAEL. The Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility for a bomb blast in aJerusalem shopping center that killedone and injured nine others.

8-Jun-90 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA bombed a French carshowroom in San Sebastian and aFrench-owned supermarket inOyarzun.

8-Jun-90 Oyarzun Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA bombed a French carshowroom in San Sebastian and aFrench-owned supermarket inOyarzun.

10-Jun-90 Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The November-17 groupfired a bazooka into the offices ofProctor and Gamble in response tothe government's recent decision tosell debt-ridden state firms, such asthe one Proctor and Gamble hadpurchased. This was the first knownrocket attack by this group.

11-Jun-90 Kwangju Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. 500 radical studentshurled hundreds of firebombs at theAmerican Cultural Center in Kwangjuto protest the reopening of thecenter, which had been closed sinceMay 1989 because of previousstudent attacks.

14-Jun-90 Hanover FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 GERMANY. An IRA bomb exploded atthe Upnohard diver training centernear Hanover.

14-Jun-90 Hamlin FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The PIRA claimed responsibility forbombing a British military trainingfacility in Hamlin.

19-Jun-90 India LiberationTigers ofTamilEelam(LTTE)

Unknown0 13 INDIA. The Sri Lankan LiberationTigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)assassinated 13 top members of arival Tamil group in southern India.

19-Jun-90 Mungo Suriname Unknown Explosives0 0 SURINAME. The U.S.-owned Suralcobauxite mining company, asubsidiary of the Aluminum Companyof America, was bombed in Mungo.

23-Jun-90 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ISRAEL. A 12-year-old boy wasstabbed by a woman while he playedat a bus stop in Jerusalem. The boy'sfriend described the woman and lateradded that she ran like a man.

23-Jun-90 Israel Other Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. The Israeli Navy foiled anattempt by Lebanese Muslimgunmen to launch a speedboatattack against Israeli targets.

24-Jun-90 Israel Other Explosives4 0 ISRAEL. A bomb left in a garbagecan exploded at a Dead Sea resort,injuring four people, including twoWest German tourists.

25-Jun-90 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Police defused a bombfound in a West Jerusalemcommercial center.

26-Jun-90 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. Two people were injuredwhen a bomb exploded at a bus stopin West Jerusalem.

29-Jun-90 PanamaCity

Panama Other Firearms0 0 PANAMA. The December 20Movement machine-gunned the U.S.Embassy.

29-Jun-90 PanamaCity

Panama Other Firearms0 0 PANAMA. The December 20Movement machine-gunned the U.S.Marine House, five blocks away fromthe U.S. Embassy, which had justbeen hit in the same manner.

29-Jun-90 AmsterdamNetherlandsProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. A massive car bombexploded in front of the British touristoffice in Amsterdam. The PIRA mayhave been responsible. (The buildingalso housed a South African Touristoffice.)

30-Jun-90 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Communist guerrillaskidnapped a U.S. Peace Corpsworker, sparking the removal of therelief workers from the area.Timothy Swanson was released inAugust 1990.

1-Jul-90 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb destroyed a Syriannational's car in central Athens.

1-Jul-90 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. Three people were injuredwhen a bomb exploded in a WestJerusalem shopping center.Palestinians are suspected.

3-Jul-90 Tirana Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 ALBANIA. A bomb exploded in thecourtyard of the Cuban Embassy inTirana.

4-Jul-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Firearms1 0 PHILIPPINES. Gunmen opened fire onthe U.S. Information Office in Manila,slightly injuring a security guard.

5-Jul-90 Colon Panama RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 PANAMA. Colombian guerrillashijacked an airplane en route fromColon in Panama to take ManuelMarulanda, founder of theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia, from Colombia to Cuba.Marulanda, who is 65 and has cardiacproblems, mysteriously disappearedfrom an area where Colombianguerrillas were being housed duringpeace negotiations.


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb explodedin a garbage can outside BarclaysBank near the Strand Palace Hotel inLondon. The same day anotherbomb was dismantled close to theoffices of El Al, and two dummybombs were discovered in subwaystations.

8-Jul-90 AmsterdamNetherlandsBasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives3 0 NETHERLANDS. Three people wereinjured when ETA exploded a bombin front of a Spanish bank inAmsterdam.

10-Jul-90 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. An Iranian cameramanwas abducted after leaving his officein West Beirut. Mehdi Maamarianworked for Iran's official televisionstation.

10-Jul-90 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A group calling itself theResistance Movement bombed aMcDonald's restaurant in Istanbul.

12-Jul-90 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA bombed a French autodealership in Bilbao.

14-Jul-90 Egypt Amal Explosives1 2 EGYPT. Muslim fundamentalists set afire at a Red Sea resort hotel thatkilled a West German and aFrenchwoman and wounded anothertourist.

15-Jul-90 MogadishuSomalia Unknown Explosives0 0 SOMALIA. A bomb was hurled at theChinese Embassy from a speedingcar.

20-Jul-90 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA bombed a Renault carshowroom in Bilbao.


Unknown0 0 NETHERLANDS. ETA claimedresponsibility for an attack againstIberia Airlines in Amsterdam.


Unknown0 0 NETHERLANDS. ETA claimedresponsibility for an attack againstthe Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya inAmsterdam.

22-Jul-90 MogadishuSomalia Unknown Explosives0 0 SOMALIA. A bomb exploded in theoffice of the European EconomicCommission (EEC) representative inMogadishu, causing serious damage.

23-Jul-90 MogadishuSomalia Unknown Explosives0 0 SOMALIA. A bomb exploded at theEuropean Community mission inMogadishu.

25-Jul-90 Bangkok Thailand Other Explosives0 0 THAILAND. A bomb went off outsideof the Burmese Embassy. RadicalBurmese students were suspected.

25-Jul-90 Lima Peru Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms1 0 PERU. The legal adviser of the Israelicommunity was shot at close rangeas he was driving in Lima.Palestinian radicals, possiblyelements of Abu Nidal, weresuspected. Three members of AbuNidal were detained for questioningby Peruvian authorities in 1988.

26-Jul-90 Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs went off at Citibank,Chase Manhattan Bank, the VTR Co.,and an American fruit exportingcompany.




26-Jul-90 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at the DutchShell Oil company in Santiago.


Unknown0 3 PHILIPPINES. An NPA hit squad wasbelieved responsible for theassassination of a Singaporeanexecutive in Manila. The man'sdriver and bodyguard were alsokilled in the attack.

28-Jul-90 Tel Aviv Israel Unknown Explosives19 1 ISRAEL. A bomb buried in the sandexploded on a beach in Tel Aviv,killing a Canadian tourist andwounded 19 others.

31-Jul-90 Cairo Egypt Other Unknown0 1 EGYPT. An attack on the residenceof the Ambassador of Bahrain leftone policeman dead. Muslimfundamentalists were responsible.

3-Aug-90 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA bombed the offices ofthe French Credit Lyonnais bank inSan Sebastian.

3-Aug-90 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA bombed a Renaultdealership in San Sebastian.

5-Aug-90 Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. Two gunmen withsilencer-equipped pistols shot Abdulfattah Aziz, an official of Abu Nidal'sFatah Revolutionary Council.

6-Aug-90 London UnitedKingdom


Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An Americanwoman discovered a bomb attachedto her car in London. The house infront of which the car was parkedhad previously belonged to a Britishpolitician, the intended PIRA target.

9-Aug-90 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb was discovered in amarket in Tel Aviv. Palestinians weresuspected.

15-Aug-90

Turkey Other Unknown0 1 TURKEY. Iranian government agentsare believed to have assassinatedAhmad Kashefpour, an opponent ofthe Iranian regime.

22-Aug-90


Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at a MormonChurch in Santiago. The RobertoNordenflycht Commando of the MRPFwas responsible.

22-Aug-90


Unknown0 2 PERU. Sendero Luminoso killed twoMormon missionaries in Huancayo.

24-Aug-90

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb that had beenhidden in a bag exploded in thefourth floor doorway of the SpanishConsulate in Istanbul. No groupclaimed responsibility.

24-Aug-90

Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb was thrown at a U.S.DEA agent by unidentified attackersin Lima. He was unharmed.

25-Aug-90

Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb exploded in acar parked near the JapaneseEmbassy in Manila. The car was inthe lot of a distributor retailingToyota cars.

26-Aug-90

LaFlorida

Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. The Lautaro Movement threwMolotov cocktails at Mormon templesin La Florida, Ochagavia, andSantiago Norte.

26-Aug-90

OchagaviaChile LautaroYouthMovement

Fire orFirebomb


26-Aug-90


Fire orFirebomb


28-Aug-90

Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. The Nissan carcompany was bombed in Manila.

30-Aug-90

Colombia TheExtraditables

Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. Six journalists werekidnapped while on their way tointerview leftist guerrillas by theMedellin cocaine cartel theExtraditables. Most of thejournalists, including Diana Turbay,daughter of a former Colombianpresident, had family ties toColombia's political elite, but onewas a German free-lance reporter.One hostage was released inNovember because he was sufferingheart pains, and the German and atleast one of the others were releasedin December. During a police raid inJanuary 1991, one hostage escapedand Turbay was killed.

1-Sep-90 SayaxcheGuatemalaGuatemalanNationalRevolutionaryUnity(URNG)

Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. Leftist guerrillas of theGuatemalan National RevolutionaryUnity (URNG) attacked a clinic run byAmerican missionaries in Sayaxche.The attack was reportedly inretaliation for aid the missionarieshad given to Guatemalan soldiers.

6-Sep-90 Sweden Other Explosives0 1 SWEDEN. An Iranian Kurdish woman,Mrs. Effat Ghazi-Mohamad, was killedwhen she opened a letter bombaddressed to her husband. Iraniangovernment involvement wassuspected.

7-Sep-90 BarcelonaSpain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A French tourist office wasbombed in Barcelona. Catalonianseparatists were suspected.

9-Sep-90 PeshawarPakistan Unknown Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. A Canadian missionarywas kidnapped in Peshawar.

11-Sep-90 TalcahuanoChile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs went off at a SalvationArmy Church in Talcahuano and aMormon Church in Valdivia.

11-Sep-90 Valdivia Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs went off at a SalvationArmy Church in Talcahuano and aMormon Church in Valdivia.

17-Sep-90 Tel Aviv Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded near thecentral bus station in Tel Aviv.

18-Sep-90 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb went off near theAmerican University of Beirut.Security officials had earlierdiscovered an explosive device in acigarette package in the office of theuniversity's president.

20-Sep-90 Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Two Portuguese aidworkers were kidnapped by FLEC.They were released November 15after the Portuguese and Zaireangovernments intervened.

22-Sep-90 PhilippinesOther Explosives0 3 PHILIPPINES. Three people werekilled as they attempted to plantbombs near the U.S. Citytrust Bankof New York.

23-Sep-90 FallsChurchVirginia

UnitedStates

Unknown Unknown0 2 UNITED STATES. A politicalcolumnist for a Virginia-basedVietnamese magazine and his wifewere murdered in their home. Tenmonths earlier another employee ofthe same anti-Communist journalhad also been killed.

23-Sep-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb went off at theNikko Manila Garden Hotel in Manila,injuring several people, including twoJapanese tourists. The hotel isowned by Japanese Airlines.

23-Sep-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb went off at theMandarin Oriental Hotel in Manila.The hotel is controlled by an Asian-European group.

23-Sep-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A grenade was thrownat the Iranian Embassy in Manila.

23-Sep-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A grenade was thrownat the Belgian Embassy in Manila.

26-Sep-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Bombs were thrown atthe Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola bottlingfactories in Manila, as well as at theMotorola firm.



26-Sep-90 PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. An explosive devicewas discovered on the grounds of theJapanese-owned Uniden Corporation.

26-Sep-90 Belgium Unknown Unknown1 0 BELGIUM. Three armed attackersgained entrance to the home of ahigh-ranking American NATO officerin an apparent attempt either tokidnap or to assassinate him.General John Douglas was not athome at the time, but his chauffeurwas bound, gagged and leftunconscious.

27-Sep-90 PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Bombs exploded at theAmerican pharmaceutical companiesof Wyeth-Suaco and Squibb and atthe Boston Bank.



27-Sep-90 Djibouti Other Explosives15 1 DJIBOUTI. The Movement for DjiboutiYouth (MDY) (or Islamic Struggle ofDjibouti Youth) claimed responsibilityfor a grenade attack against a cafefrequented by French militarypersonnel and their families. A childwas killed and 15 other people wereinjured. The incident may have beencarried out by locals on behalf ofIraq. The alleged ringleader of thegroup, Awaleh Ghelleh Assoweh, andanother member, Mohamed HassanFarah, were arrested in Ethiopia onJuly 29, 1992.

27-Sep-90 Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. The U.S. CulturalCenter was the target of a firebombattack by about 150 radical studentsin protest of U.S. pressure on SouthKorea to open its agriculturalmarkets.

27-Sep-90 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. The NPA was suspectedof planting a bomb that exploded onthe MacArthur highway near theClark Air Base.

29-Sep-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb exploded atthe offices of Proctor and Gamble inManila.

29-Sep-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives1 0 PHILIPPINES. An explosive devicewas thrown at a subsidiary of VicksInternational in Manila, injuring oneperson.

1-Oct-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb exploded atthe Fuller O'Brien paint companynear Manila.

3-Oct-90 Pretoria SouthAfrica

Unknown Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A small explosivedetonated in front of the U.S.Ambassador's residence in Pretoria.

3-Oct-90 JerusalemIsrael PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Explosives7 0 ISRAEL. A hand grenade tossed atIsraeli security personnel in EastJerusalem injured seven. The IslamicJihad in Palestine was suspected.

5-Oct-90 Warsaw Poland Unknown Explosives0 0 POLAND. A bomb exploded at theKodak firm in Warsaw.

5-Oct-90 Santiago Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Explosives0 0 CHILE. Members of the LautaroMovement detonated a powerfulbomb at a Mormon church inSantiago in commemoration of thethird anniversary of their group.

6-Oct-90 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA bombed a French cardealership in San Sebastian.

8-Oct-90 Santiago Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Explosives0 0 CHILE. Leftist Lautaro guerrillasthrew two bombs at the entrance tothe Spanish Embassy in Santiago.

8-Oct-90 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded nearJerusalem's Wailing Wall, injuring apoliceman.

11-Oct-90 La Paz Bolivia NestorPazZamoraCommission(CNPZ)

Unknown1 1 BOLIVIA. The CNPZ attacked the U.S.Embassy Marine barracks in La Paz,killing a Bolivian policeman andinjuring another.

12-Oct-90 Cairo Egypt Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 1 EGYPT. The Parliamentary speakerwas assassinated in Cairo. The AbuNidal Organization, acting withEgyptian Islamic extremists, wasbelieved responsible. Officialssuspect Iraqi complicity.

13-Oct-90 Padua Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. The firm of Cabassi andGioretti was bombed in Padua, andofficials suspect Middle Easterninvolvement. The firm imports Israelicosmetics.

15-Oct-90 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Members of MRTA took overthe office of the Italian news agencyANSA and forced the transmission ofa manifesto. The guerrillas left abomb that the police were able todefuse.


ArgentinaEva PeronOrganization

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb detonated atbranches of Citibank and RobertsBank in Buenos Aires. A group calledEva Peron claimed responsibility.The group opposes PresidentMenem's privatization policies.



Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb detonated atbranches of Citibank and RobertsBank in Buenos Aires. A group calledEva Peron claimed responsibility.The group opposes PresidentMenem's privatization policies.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso bombedthe German Embassy in Lima,damaging buildings within a 100 yardradius of the embassy.

18-Oct-90 Bangkok Thailand Other Explosives0 0 THAILAND. A bomb detonated in thecompound of the Burmese Embassyin Bangkok. A group of radicalBurmese students was suspected.

19-Oct-90 Lima Peru Other Unknown0 1 PERU. A private guard was killed inan attack against the U.S.-ownedBata shoe factory in Lima.

19-Oct-90 Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. FLEC kidnapped Chevron oilemployee Brent Swan.

21-Oct-90 JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Knives& sharpobjects

1 3 ISRAEL. An Arab stabbed threeIsraelis to death and woundedanother in an attack in Jerusalem.The Islamic Jihad and Force 17 bothclaimed responsibility.



Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at aBritish hospital in Buenos Aires.Officials blamed the Eva Peronorganization.

23-Oct-90 PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb went off at theU.S. Caltex oil company.

23-Oct-90 PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb went off at theShell Oil company.

23-Oct-90 Paris France Other Unknown0 1 FRANCE. Iranian government agentsare believed responsible for theassassination in Paris of an Iranianopposition leader. The victim was anofficial of the monarchist FlagFreedom Organization of Iran.

23-Oct-90 PanamaCity

Panama Unknown Explosives0 0 PANAMA. An explosive device washurled at the Austrian Consulate inPanama City, causing minor damage.


Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. An Americanmissionary was kidnapped by NPAmembers who were escaping fromthe military. He was released in July1992.

24-Oct-90 MontevideoUruguay Unknown Explosives0 0 URUGUAY. A bomb went off at theIslamic-Egyptian Cultural Center onthe grounds of the Egyptian Embassyin Montevideo.

25-Oct-90 Bulgaria Unknown Explosives0 0 BULGARIA. The offices of an ethnicTurkish political party weredestroyed by a bomb near Shumen.

27-Oct-90 Amman Jordan ArabCommunistRevolutionaryParty

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. The Arab CommunistRevolutionary Party claimedresponsibility for a bomb that wasdiscovered in front of the BritishBank of the Middle East in Amman.The device was safely dismantled.

29-Oct-90 Mexico Other Unknown0 0 MEXICO. The German consul inMexico, Wolfgang Wilczek, was heldcaptive in his office by members ofthe National IndependenceCommittee for the Defense ofPolitical Prisoners, Missing People,and Exiles. The group demanded therelease of Felipe Martinez, who wasaccused of having ties with asubversive group. Wilczek wasreleased November 2.

31-Oct-90 ConcepcionChile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at a MormonChurch in Concepcion. FPMR leafletswere found at the site.

1-Nov-90 Brazil Unknown ChemicalAgent

0 0 BRAZIL. A Brazilian airliner with 348passengers on board was hijacked bya man who sprayed mace into theface of the pilot. The aircraft madean emergency landing in the CanaryIslands.