a collection of terrorist attacks, feb-1968 to apr-1982 by cpact

Date City Country PerpetratorWeapon InjuriesFatalitiesDescription9-Feb-68 Buenos

AiresArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. The second floor of the

U.S. embassy residence was struckby fifteen 9-mm machine-gun slugsfired from a passing automobileduring the early morning hours.

12-Feb-68 SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A homemadebomb was found behind books on thebookshelf in the USIS Lincoln Libraryin Santo Domingo.

13-Feb-68 MontevideoUruguay Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 URUGUAY. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown outside the U.S. labor exhibitin Montevideo. Limited damage.

20-Feb-68 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. An explosion from a singlestick of dynamite went off on thepatio of the Santiago BinationalCenter, causing $21,000 in damages.

21-Feb-68 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Sovietembassy was bombed in the earlymorning. The bomb was placed byunknown individuals on the windowsill of a ground floor office, whichsuffered considerable damage. Therewere no injuries.

21-Feb-68 NeotHakikar

Israel Unknown Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian terroristsdamaged a pipeline in the vicinity ofNeot Hakikar, south of the Dead Sea.

22-Feb-68 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A bomb exploded in theQuito Binational Center, causingextensive damage to three basementrooms.

24-Feb-68 Masada Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian terrorists firedfive mortar shells into the collectivesettlement at Masada, causing slightdamage but no injuries.

5-Mar-68 RiohachaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Three members of theEjercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN)hijacked a Colombian AviancaAirlines DC-4 plane with 28passengers and 3 crewmen andordered it flown to Cuba. The plane,en route from Riohacha toBarranquilla, Colombia, was divertedand forced to fly to Santiago deCuba. Colombian guerrilla leaderRicardo Lara Parada was reportedaboard the plane. Lara wasconnected with the NationalLiberation Army, a pro-Castroguerrilla group operating inColombia. The plane and itspassengers were returned toColombia on March 6.

8-Mar-68 Rosario ArgentinaFrente deLiberacionNacionaldelVietnamdel Sur

Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. The USIS office inRosario was machine-gunnedpresumably by a taxi that had beenseen in the area. A note left by theattackers identified themselves asthe Frente de Liberacion Nacional delVietnam del Sur.

12-Mar-68 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A homemade bomb explodedin the women's restroom on thesecond floor of the U.S. consulateoutside the USIS offices in Santiago,causing extensive damage.

12-Mar-68 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A bomb was thrownover the wall surrounding the U.S.Marines guards house in GuatemalaCity, causing damage but no injuries.

15-Mar-68 KlagenfurtAustria Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A time bomb believed tohave been planted by Croatianterrorists was disarmed at theYugoslav consulate in Klagenfurt.

16-Mar-68 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. The U.S. Cultural Center inSantiago was bombed by a devicebelieved to be composed of threedynamite sticks. No injuries resulted.

18-Mar-68 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Five French studentsbombed the Paris offices of Trans-World Airways before dawn. TheChase Manhattan Bank and the Bankof America were also bombed. Theyclaimed to be protesting the U.S.involvement in the Vietnam war.

18-Mar-68 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Five French studentsbombed the Paris offices of ChaseManhattan Bank before dawn. Trans-World Airways and the Bank ofAmerica were also bombed. Theyclaimed to be protesting the U.S.involvement in the Vietnam war.

18-Mar-68 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Five French studentsbombed the Paris offices of Bank ofAmerica a couple of hours beforedawn. Trans-World Airways andChase Manhattan Bank were alsobombed. They claimed to beprotesting the U.S. involvement inthe Vietnam war.

18-Mar-68 Elat Israel al-Fatah Explosives28 2 ISRAEL. A bus carryingschoolchildren from Tel Aviv on a tripto the Negev Desert was blown upwhen it hit a mine planted by AlFatah twelve miles north of Elat. TwoIsraeli adults were killed and twenty-eight children injured in the blast.The Israelis retaliated by attackingthe village of Karameh, which wasbelieved to be a major Fatah base inJordan. One hundred fifty guerrillaswere killed another 150 captured bythe Israelis, who lost 29 dead and 70wounded. The Jordanians intervenedwith tanks, and the Israelis retreated.The Palestinians have since viewedthis engagement as a major victory.

19-Mar-68 SaoPaulo

Brazil Unknown Explosives3 0 BRAZIL. A large bomb exploded inthe USIS library in Sao Paulo,damaging one-quarter of thepremises and injuring three youngBrazilians.

19-Mar-68 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES - Unidentified anti-Castro Cubans attempted to bombthe Miami branch of the SpanishNational Tourist Office.

24-Mar-68 Graz Austria Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A time bomb believed tohave been planted by Croatianterrorists exploded at the Yugoslavconsulate at Graz.

25-Mar-68 Madrid Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded in the U.S.embassy, breaking windows in thebuilding and those of a car belongingto a defense attache.

13-Apr-68 Ottawa Canada Other Explosives0 0 CANADA. Two time bombs explodedat the Yugoslav embassy in Ottawa.Croatian terrorists were believed tobe responsible.

22-Apr-68 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Mexicanmission to the United States wasbombed by El Poder Cubano.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The SpanishNational Tourist Office in New YorkCity was bombed by El PoderCubano.

29-Apr-68 Recife Brazil Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BRAZIL. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown onto the property of the U.S.consulate general in Recife. Thebomb fell short of the building andburned a small garden area.

29-Apr-68 Santiagode LosCaballeros

DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Policeremoved and disarmed a time bombplaced in the bathroom of theBinational Center in Santiago de losCaballeros.

2-May-68 MontevideoUruguay Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 URUGUAY. An unexploded Molotovcocktail was found on the steps ofthe Binational Center building inMontevideo.

24-May-68

Quebec Canada Unknown Explosives0 0 CANADA. An explosion, probablycaused by dynamite, damaged theentrance door of the U.S. embassy inQuebec, as well as breaking anumber of windows.

24-May-68

Brussels Belgium Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. A Molotov cocktailexploded in the basement windowwell of the USIS library in Brussels,causing no injuries.

24-May-68

KeyWest

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The British cargoship Granwood, 25 miles from KeyWest, Florida, was extensivelydamaged by a bomb allegedly placedby El Poder Cubano members.

26-May-68

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Mexican consulgeneral's residence in Miami wasdamaged by a bomb placed by ElPoder Cubano.

30-May-68

Tampa UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. El Poder Cubanowas credited with bombing aJapanese ship the Asaka Maru nearTampa, Florida, causing $100,000 indamage.

30-May-68

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES - El Poder Cubanobombed the Spanish National TouristOffice in New York City.They werepreviously bombed on 22 April 1968.

1-Jun-68 GalvestonUnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Japanese shipMikagasan Maru, in Galveston,Texas, was extensively damaged bya bomb allegedly placed by El PoderCubano.

7-Jun-68 Bahamas Other Unknown0 1 BAHAMAS. Haitian Consul JosephAntoine Dorce was assassinated byfour Haitian exiles, members of theHaitian Coalition, a New York-basedanti-Duvalier organization.

19-Jun-68 SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

Other Unknown0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A VenezuelanVIASA Airlines DC9, flying from SantoDomingo to Curacao was hijacked toCuba by three Dominican leftists.

21-Jun-68 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The SpanishNational Tourist Office in New YorkCity was again bombed by El PoderCubano.This is the third time thisoffice was bombed. See 22 April and30 May 1968.

4-Jul-68 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Canadianconsulate and tourist office in NewYork City was bombed by El PoderCubano.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The AustralianNational Tourist Office in New YorkCity was bombed by El PoderCubano.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The JapaneseNational Tourist Office in New YorkCity was bombed by El PoderCubano.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Yugoslavmission to the United Nations in NewYork City was bombed by El PoderCubano.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Cuban missionto the United Nations in New YorkCity was bombed by El PoderCubano.

14-Jul-68 Chicago UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. El Poder Cubanoterrorists bombed the MexicanNational Tourist Office in Chicago.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb placed byEl Poder Cubano in the FrenchNational Tourist Office in New YorkCity was found and removed bypolice.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A hand grenadewas thrown at the residence of theCuban Ambassador to the UnitedNations in New York City.

16-Jul-68 UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb placed byEl Poder Cubano in the MexicanConsulate was dismantled by policeas was another bomb at the officesof Aeronaves de Mexico, the Mexicannational airline.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Police dismantled abomb placed by El Poder Cubano atthe offices of Aeronaves de Mexico,the Mexican national airline. Anotherbomb in the Mexican Consulate wasalso defused.

18-Jul-68 CopenhagenDenmark Other Explosives0 0 DENMARK. A time bomb believed tohave been planted by Croatianterrorists operating from Sweden wasdiscovered at the Yugoslav embassyin Copenhagen and disarmed.

18-Jul-68 Oslo Norway Other Explosives0 0 NORWAY. A time bomb believed tohave been planted by Croatianterrorists operating from Sweden wasdiscovered at the Yugoslav embassyin Oslo and disarmed.

19-Jul-68 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES - El Poder Cubanoplaced a bomb at the Shell DataCenter in Los Angeles.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An Air France ticketoffice in Los Angeles was damagedby a bomb placed by El PoderCubano.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. El Poder Cubanoterrorists bombed the MexicanNational Tourist Office in LosAngeles.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. El Poder Cubanobombed the Japan Air Lines offices inLos Angeles.

20-Jul-68 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A small bomb explodedat the Quito home of the U.S. publicaffairs officer.

22-Jul-68 Rome Italy PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Firearms0 0 ITALY. An El Al Israel Airlines planeflying from Rome to Tel Aviv with 10crew members and 38 passengerswas hijacked and diverted to Algeria.Three armed members of the PopularFront for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP) calling themselves the PFLPGeneral Command were theperpetrators. The plane landed inAlgiers. The Algerian governmentreleased 19 non-Israeli passengers,who were flown to Paris the next day.Ten Israelis were released and flownto Geneva before going on to TelAviv. The Algerian governmentcontinued to hold the plane withseven crew members and five Israelimale passengers. The PFLP officialssaid that they had asked theInternational Red Cross to supervisethe exchange of the Israeli crew andpassengers in Algiers for capturedPalestinian guerrillas in prison inIsrael. The Israeli governmentdenounced the hijacking as airbornepiracy, and asked the Algerianauthorities to release the plane andthe Israeli passengers and crew.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Anti-Castro Cubanterrorists bombed the Britishconsulate in Los Angeles.

1-Aug-68 UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. At sea, 300 mileseast of Miami, Florida, the Britishfreighter Lancastrian Prince was thescene of an attempted bombing.

3-Aug-68 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Bank of TokyoTrust Company in New York wasbombed by El Poder Cubano.

6-Aug-68 EinYahav

Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian terrorists firedthree bazooka shells into the town ofEin Yahav, shattering an emptyinfirmary but injuring no one.

8-Aug-68 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A 311-foot Britishfreighter Caribbean Venture wasseriously damaged by an underwaterexplosion as she lay at anchor inBiscayne Bay, Miami, Florida.Several hours later, El Poder Cubanosaid it had planted the mine becauseof British trade with Cuba. Thevessel settled five feet in the waterafter the blast. There were noinjuries.

10-Aug-68

Izmir Turkey Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Two firebombs were thrownat the USIS office in Izmir, causingslight damage. A Turkish communistsuspect was arrested.

17-Aug-68

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A Mexican airlineoffice in Miami was damaged by abomb placed by El Poder Cubano.

18-Aug-68

JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives10 0 ISRAEL. Al Fatah exploded threegrenades in Jerusalem's Jewishsection, injuring eight Israelis andtwo Americans.

19-Aug-68

JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. An Al Fatah bomb went offone-half mile from the Parliamentbuilding in Jerusalem, causing nodamage and no injuries.

21-Aug-68

JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb planted byPalestinian terrorists exploded in thegarden of the U.S. consulate in eastJerusalem, shattering windows butcausing no injuries.

28-Aug-68

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaRebelArmedForces ofGuatemala(FAR)

Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Members of the FARkilled John Gordon Mein, U.S.ambassador to Guatemala, indowntown Guatemala City as heattempted to avoid being kidnappedby the guerrillas. A car forced theambassador's car to the side of thestreet and a small truck blocked itfrom behind. As the guerrillas, somecarrying automatic weapons,approached his car, the ambassadoropened the door on the other sideand ran. He was struck from behindby a burst of fire from a submachinegun and died instantly.On thefollowing day the FAR issued acommunique stating that they hadplanned to kidnap Mein and hold himas hostage for the release of CamiloSanchez, one of the FARcommanders who had been capturedearlier by government forces.

3-Sep-68 UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Croatian terroristsplanted a bomb aboard the Kupres, aYugoslav ship. The bomb waslocated and disarmed after a tip fromthe FBI.

4-Sep-68 Tel Aviv Israel Unknown Explosives71 1 ISRAEL. Three bombs exploded inand near the central bus station inTel Aviv. Four hundred Arabs werearrested for questioning. One Israeliwas killed and seventy-one wounded.

11-Sep-68 St. John Canada Other Unknown0 0 CANADA. An Air Canada Viscountfour-engine turbo-prop flying from St.John to Toronto was hijacked to Cubaby an American claiming to belong toa U.S. Black Power group.

13-Sep-68 Baniyas Israel Al-Sa'iqa Unknown0 5 ISRAEL. Al-Sa'iqa attacked a militarypolice headquarters in Baniyas, anIsraeli-occupied area of the GolanHeights. The facility was destroyedand all five occupants killed.

16-Sep-68 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. El Poder Cubanoterrorists fired upon the Polish vesselPolancia in a Miami harbor.

19-Sep-68 Israel al-Fatah Firearms4 1 ISRAEL. Five members of Al Fatahinfiltrated eleven miles past theJordan River cease-fire line andambushed an Israeli army patrol. Allthe terrorists died and one memberof the patrol was killed. Four wereinjured.

1-Oct-68 BuenosAires

ArgentinaMovimientoPeronista

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ARGENTINA. Two Molotov cocktailsexploded on the sidewalk outside theU.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires shortlyafter midnight. Pamphlets werefound nearby claiming the act forMovimiento Peronista.

3-Oct-68 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at theBinational Center building causing nodamage or injuries.

7-Oct-68 DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. An explosivedevice was dismantled in front of theUSIS building.

7-Oct-68 SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. An explosivedevice found in front of the USMarine security guard's residence inSanto Domingo was dismantled.

8-Oct-68 Santiagode LosCaballeros

DominicanRepublic

Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A group ofyouths threw Molotov cocktails at theentrance of the Santiago de losCaballeros Binational Centerentrance. A fire caused slightdamage.

9-Oct-68 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded in theearly morning hours in Cordoba,shattering windows of the BinationalCenter library.

9-Oct-68 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb went off on theground floor of the entrance to theUSIS building in La Paz.

12-Oct-68 SaoPaulo

Brazil PopularRevolutionaryVanguard(VPR)

Firearms0 1 BRAZIL. Members of the PopularRevolutionary Vanguard machine-gunned U.S. Army Captain Charles R.Chandler, in front of his home in SaoPaulo.

14-Oct-68 Buga Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded in aPeace Corp jeep at about 3AM. Atime fuse was used. Damage wasnegligible.(According to US StateDept Airgram)

16-Oct-68 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES - The SocialistWorkers Party Building in LosAngeles was bombed by members ofEl Poder Cubano.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded insidethe USIS library in Buenos Aires,blowing out plate glass windows anddamaging the interior.

18-Oct-68 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. El Poder Cubanobombed the Air Canada offices inMiami Beach.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES - Northwest OrientAirlines offices in Miami werebombed by El Poder Cubano.

23-Oct-68 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. Police captured ElPoder Cubano terrorists who hadattempted to assassinate the Cubanambassador to the United Nations inNew York City. The ambassador wasnot injured.

26-Oct-68 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Unknown0 3 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three prominent anti-CommunistCroatian emigre leaders were foundmurdered in a Munich apartment.

27-Oct-68 Brazil Unknown Explosives0 0 BRAZIL. A Sears Roebuck store wasbombed.

31-Oct-68 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. Two sticks of dynamitewhich had failed to detonate becauseof a fuse malfunction, were found inthe library of the Quito BinationalCenter.

4-Nov-68 NewOrleans

UnitedStates

BlackPanthers

Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. Armed with arevolver, a member of the BlackPanthers, Raymond Johnson ofAlexandria, LA, hijacked a NationalAirlines flight #186 to Cuba. Theflight was enroute from New Orleansto Miami. The hijacker was arrestedand held by Cuba.

8-Nov-68 Paris France Other Firearms0 0 FRANCE. Two Italians hijacked anOlympic Airways jet en route fromParis to Athens to publicizeopposition to the military junta inGreece. The two brandished a pistoland a grenade. They gave the 130passengers handbills telling themthat you have just been punished forgoing to Greece. Athensheadquarters of Olympic Airwayspromised to prosecute ruthlessly thehijackers.

10-Nov-68

Brussels Belgium Other Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb believed to havebeen planted by Croatian terroristswas located at the Yugoslav embassyin Brussels.

22-Nov-68

JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives52 12 ISRAEL. A large bomb exploded inJerusalem's busiest open-air market,killing 12 and wounding 52.

11-Dec-68

Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A time bomb wasdiscovered in the Quito BinationalCenter one hour before it was set toexplode.

26-Dec-68

Athens Greece Other Firearms1 1 GREECE. An Israeli passenger waskilled and a stewardess was woundedin a gunfire attack on an El Al IsraelAirlines plane at the Athens airport.In retaliation, Israeli commandosattacked Beirut Airport on December28, 1968, destroying or damaging 13airplanes. Two Palestinians whowere sentenced to 17 and 14 yearsimprisonment for the Athens incidentwere freed after the hijacking of aGreek airliner to Cairo on July 22,1970.

29-Dec-68

BetShean

Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Al Fatah claimed credit forshelling the town of Beisan (BetShean) in northeast Israel.

31-Dec-68

QiryatShemona

Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Al Fatah shelled thesettlement of Kiryat Shmona in upperGalilee. Lebanese authorities deniedthat the rockets had been from theirsoil, while Al Fatah claimed that theyhad operated within Israel.

2-Jan-69 Greece Unknown Unknown0 0 GREECE. An Olympic Airways flightfrom Crete to Athens was hijacked toCairo by a lone hijacker.

8-Jan-69 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Arsonists set fire to the AmerikaHaus Library in Frankfurt. Damageestimated at $5,000.

11-Jan-69 CochabambaBolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb thrown from amoving vehicle exploded in front ofthe U.S. Consulate in Cochabamba,breaking windows.

17-Feb-69 Valencia Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The North American StudyCenter in Valencia, a USIS-supportedfacility, was bombed.

18-Feb-69 Zurich SwitzerlandPopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Firearms6 1 SWITZERLAND. An El Al IsraelAirlines jet preparing to take off fromZurich to Tel Aviv was machine-gunned by four Arab terrorists whobelonged to the PFLP. The terroristsfired 200 bullets and lobbedincendiary grenades from their car asthe plane taxied down the runway.The pilot was killed. In the exchangeof gunfire between the terrorists andan Israeli airline security guard, oneattacker was killed and three Israelicrew members and three passengerswere wounded.The three terroristswho surrendered were later tried andsentenced to 12 years hard labor, asentence Arab states denounced.The Israeli security guard was triedand acquitted after being accused ofkilling the Arab attacker after he hadsurrendered.

21-Feb-69 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives8 2 ISRAEL. A bomb killed two andwounded eight in a central Jerusalemsupermarket.

25-Feb-69 JerusalemIsrael PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded at theBritish consulate in Jerusalem. ThePFLP claimed responsibility.

1-Mar-69 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb damaged an Ethiopian AirlinesBoeing 707 jet at the FrankfurtAirport in Germany. Several cleaningwomen were injured. TheGovernment of Ethiopia blamed theattack on the Syrian-Arab Movementfor the Liberation of Eritrea. The ELF(Eritrean Liberation Front) claimedcredit for the bombing, which it saidwas in retaliation for the use ofEthiopian Airlines planes to transportEthiopian troops into Eritrea, wherethey attack Eritrean villages.

2-Mar-69 MelbourneAustralia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRALIA. The offices of theAustralian-American Association inMelbourne were entered through arear window and ransacked, afterwhich fires were started in piles ofpaper in two rooms. $2500 damagewas done.

2-Mar-69 MelbourneAustralia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRALIA. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown from a passing car at the U.S.consulate general building inMelbourne.

3-Mar-69 GuayaquilEcuador Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ECUADOR. Five men attacked the U.S. consulate in Guayaquil, throwingMolotov cocktails that started a smallfire in the consul general's office.

6-Mar-69 JerusalemIsrael PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives29 0 ISRAEL. Members of the PFLP wereresponsible for planting a bomb thatexploded in the crowded cafeteria ofthe Hebrew University in Jerusalem,wounding 29 Israeli students.

9-Mar-69 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Molotov cocktails were thrown insidethe American Memorial Library inBerlin, causing $2,000 damage.

12-Mar-69 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. AMolotov cocktail was thrown througha ground floor window of the MunichAmerika Haus, causing little damage.

1-Apr-69 CopenhagenDenmark Other Explosives0 0 DENMARK. A time bomb believed tohave been planted by Croatianterrorists was disarmed at theYugoslav embassy in Copenhagen.

20-May-69

Montreal Canada Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CANADA. Three Cuban refugeeswere arrested in New Jersey afterthey had attempted to bomb theCuban consulate in Montreal. Thethree were members of the CubanNationalist Movement, a militantanti-Castro organization. Indicted bya Grand Jury on June 4th forconspiracy to bomb Cubangovernment property in Montreal,the men were Felipe Martinez yBlanca, Guillermo Novo Sampol, andHector Diaz Limontes.

30-May-69

La Paz Bolivia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BOLIVIA. A small explosive devicewas thrown from a moving car in LaPaz and exploded against a side wallof the Bolivian-American Center.

30-May-69

Jordan PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. The Trans-Arabian Pipelinein Jordan was sabotaged. Anexplosive device caused a fire whichblocked the flow of oil. A spokesmanof the PFLP claimed that his grouphad intended to pollute watersupplied to Israeli settlements andfisheries in Hutch Valley. Oil wasreported to be seeping into thenorthern part of the Sea of Galilee,and oil slicks were seen on the JordanRiver. The Israelis managed tocontain the blaze after 14 hours.

8-Jun-69 Angola Unknown Explosives0 0 ANGOLA. Two Africans dressed inPortuguese Army uniform and armedwith machine guns and grenadeshijacked a Portuguese airliner inAngola and diverted it to Pointe-Noire, Congo Republic. The planewas carrying 11 passengers and fivecrewmen aboard. The Portuguesepetitioned Brazzaville on June 12 forthe release of the DC-3 plane andpersonnel. The plane and 13 personswere released but three Portuguesemilitary men were detained pendingan investigation.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedat the Loew's Orpheum Theater inNew York City causing minordamage. Press reports alleged it wasset off by anti- Castro Cubansprotesting the showing of the motionpicture Che.

9-Jun-69 Sydney Australia Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. A bomb possibly plantedby Croatian extremists exploded atthe Yugoslav consulate in Sydney.There were no injuries.

11-Jun-69 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb wrecked the ticketbooth of a theater outside theentrance to the Tameion buildingwhich houses USIS facilities inAthens.

11-Jun-69 FortalezaBrazil Unknown Explosives0 0 BRAZIL. A USIS local employeediscovered a tin containing eighteensticks of dynamite with sufficientexplosive power to destroy the twostory building housing the USISoffices in Fortaleza. Policeconsidered the bomb professionallyconstructed.

17-Jun-69 Oakland UnitedStates

BlackPanthers

Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. Willie Lee Brent, aBlack Panther charged by the FBIwith participating in a shoot-out withpolice in San Francisco in 1968,hijacked a TransWorld Airlines jet,flight #154, carrying 87 persons fromOakland, California, to New York.The plane was diverted to Havana,Cuba. It was the longest U.S.hijacking to date.He was in jail inCuba for two years.

18-Jun-69 Rome Italy EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. An Eritrean student diedwhen a bomb he was preparing in hisroom in Rome exploded. Leaflets inthe room announced an impendingattack by the Eritrean LiberationFront.

18-Jun-69 Karachi Pakistan EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Firearms0 0 PAKISTAN. Three armed members ofthe Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF)attacked an Ethiopian airliner at theKarachi airport. Part of the Boeing707 burned. No casualties werereported. The terrorists, all of whomwere captured, told authorities thatthey carried out the attack todramatize their opposition toEthiopian rule in Eritrea. The threewere convicted and sentenced to oneyear of hard labor.On July 31, the ELFissued a communique warningtravelers that they would risk theirlives if they flew on EthiopianAirlines. The communique said thatthe ELF would resort to attacks onEthiopian airliners in retaliation forEthiopian Air Force attacks onEritrean villages.

19-Jun-69 Rosario ArgentinaOther Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ARGENTINA. Rosario studentsburned an American flag and threwexplosives at the USIS building.

19-Jun-69 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian terroristsbombed a power line in Jerusalem,partially blacking out the city.

20-Jun-69 MontevideoUruguay Tupamaros(Uruguay)

Unknown0 0 URUGUAY. Two Tupamaro terroristsdressed in police uniforms attacked afacility of General Motors Corporationin Montevideo, causing damageestimated at one million dollars.

24-Jun-69 Haifa Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A fire caused by a PFLPbomb burned four hours at an oilpipeline in Haifa.

26-Jun-69 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A series of bombingsoccurred in stores of the U.S.-ownedMinimax supermarket chain duringan official visit by New York StateGovernor Nelson Rockefeller. Totaldamage was estimated at $3 million.

30-Jun-69 WestBerlin

FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown2 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Inan assassination attempt, a Croatiannationalist seriously wounded thehead of the Yugoslav mission in WestBerlin and injured one other person.

17-Jul-69 Calcutta India Unknown Explosives2 0 INDIA. Two time bombs exploded inthe USIS reading room in theconsulate section of the consulategeneral at Little Russel Street Annexin Calcutta. One library patronreceived a bruise on his ankle from afragment and one USIS localemployee received minor burns.

18-Jul-69 London UnitedKingdom

PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Terrorists fire-bombed a London department storeknown to have links with Israel. ThePFLP later claimed responsibility andwarned that there would be morebomb attacks on Jewish-ownedestablishments in London and in theUnited States. PFLP leader GeorgeHabbash said, We shall expand ouroperations everywhere, in all parts ofthe world. The enemy camp includesnot only Israel but also the Zionistmovement, world imperialism led bythe United States, and reactionarypowers bound to imperialism.



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0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Terrorists fire-bombed a second Londondepartment store known to havelinks with Israel. The PFLP laterclaimed responsibility and warnedthat there would be more bombattacks on Jewish-ownedestablishments in London and in theUnited States. PFLP leader GeorgeHabbash said, We shall expand ouroperations everywhere, in all parts ofthe world. The enemy camp includesnot only Israel but also the Zionistmovement, world imperialism led bythe United States, and reactionarypowers bound to imperialism.

19-Jul-69 KhartoumSudan Unknown Explosives0 0 SUDAN. The USIS library inKhartoum was the target of a smallbomb.

22-Jul-69 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 1 PHILIPPINES. Hand grenades werethrown at the USIS library andconsulate building in Manila. OneFilipino was killed.

22-Jul-69 Belgrade YugoslaviaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 YUGOSLAVIA. Arson occurred in theBelgrade office of the U.S. BinationalCommission Cultural Exchangeduring the night.

23-Jul-69 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A cleaning womandiscovered an explosive device in theAthens USIS Library. It was set toexplode when the library was vacant.

30-Jul-69 Tokyo Japan Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 JAPAN. A knife-wielding Japaneseyouth made an unsuccessful assaulton U.S. Ambassador to Japan A. H.Meyer as he was accompanyingSecretary of State William Rogers tothe Tokyo airport.

7-Aug-69 elHamma

Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives12 2 ISRAEL. Members of the PFLP set abomb near El Hamma which blew upan Israeli bus, killing its civilian driverand a soldier and wounding twelveother soldiers.

8-Aug-69 Calcutta India Unknown Explosives0 0 INDIA. An explosion at the CalcuttaPost Office was directed at the USISlibrary.

9-Aug-69 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two American touristswere injured when a bomb explodedat an Olympic Airways facility inAthens.

17-Aug-69

London UnitedKingdom


Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. PFLP terroristsplanted incendiary bombs in Marksand Spencers, a department store inLondon.

18-Aug-69

CopenhagenDenmark Unknown Explosives0 0 DENMARK. The Israel Tourist Officein Copenhagen was bombed.

18-Aug-69

Cairo Egypt Unknown Unknown0 0 EGYPT. An Egyptian Misrair Anatov-24 flying from Cairo to Aswan washijacked to an airstrip north of Jidda,Saudi Arabia by six hijackers.

25-Aug-69



Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Terroristsbombed the Israeli Zim Lines office inLondon, injuring one person. ThePFLP claimed responsibility.

29-Aug-69

Paris France PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives4 0 FRANCE. Two members of the PFLPhijacked a TWA flight 840 707 enroute between Paris and Athens. Theplane carried a crew of 12 and 101passengers. Announcing to thepassengers the Che GuevaraCommando Unit of PFLP had takencommand of the flight, they orderedthe plane flown to Damascus, Syria,where the passengers managed tojump from the plane before a bombwent off and destroyed the plane.Four persons were injured. The PFLPsaid the hijacking and destruction ofthe TWA plane, plus the hijacking ofan El Al Israel Airlines plane toAlgeria in July l968, the attacks on ElAl planes in Athens in December1968 and in Zurich in February 1969,were all part of a plan to strike atimperialist interests within andoutside the Arab world. They alsoasserted that the action was inreprisal for American assistance toIsrael. The Syrians, holding six Israelipassengers, freed 105 passengersand crewmen who were flown toAthens and Rome. Four of theIsraelis, all women, were releasedSeptember 1 and were flown back toIsrael. The two remaining Israeliswere held by the PLO as hostages forthe release of Syrian comrades heldin Israeli prisons. Both hijackers, awoman, Leila A. Khaled, and Salim K.Essawi, were taken into Syriancustody.

3-Sep-69 Tokyo Japan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. Two Molotov cocktails werethrown at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo.

4-Sep-69 Rio deJaneiro

Brazil RevolutionaryMovementof the 8th(MR-8)

Firearms0 0 BRAZIL. Members oftheRevolutionary Movement of the8th (MR-8) and ALN (Action forNational Liberation) kidnappedCharles Burke Elbrick, U.S.ambassador to Brazil, in Rio deJaneiro. The kidnappers took Elbrickfrom his car and left a ransom notedemanding the release of 15prisoners who were to be flown toAlgeria, Chile, or Mexico, and thepublication of an antigovernmentmanifesto. The kidnappersnegotiated with the government bynotes.On September 5, thegovernment agreed to release theprisoners and authorized Braziliannewspapers to publish the manifesto.The deal was almost upset at thefinal moment when paratroopers inRio de Janeiro attempted to preventthe plane carrying the prisoners fromtaking off. The paratroopers wereordered back to their barracks,however, and the plane left forMexico on September 6.Ambassador Elbrick was released onSeptember 7.Following the episode,Brazilian authorities initiated aroundup of leftist suspects, arrestingas many as 4,000. This was the firstof the diplomatic kidnappings, apractice that spread rapidlythroughout Latin America in the nextfew years.

6-Sep-69 Ecuador Unknown Firearms1 1 ECUADOR. Twelve men and onewoman armed with machine gunshijacked two Ecuadorean Air Forcetransport planes to Cuba. During arefueling stop in Colombia, shootingbroke out and one co-pilot was killedand one crew member wounded.One of the planes was abandoned inColombia, while the other continuedto Panama and on to Cuba.Passengers on the abandoned planesaid the hijackers had explained theirmission as a retaliatory act to protestthe deaths of several students inanti-government rioting in Guayaquilin May.

8-Sep-69 Hague NetherlandsPopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. PFLP terroristsclaimed credit for throwing handgrenades at the Israeli Embassy atThe Hague. There were no injuries ordamage. On Sept. 9, 1969 the PFLPclaimed credit for the threecoordinated attacks (Brussels, Bonn& The Hague).

8-Sep-69 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two PFLP terrorists bombed theIsraeli embassy in Bonn, causingminor damage. On Sept. 9, 1969 thePFLP claimed credit for the threecoordinated attacks (Brussels, Bonn& The Hague).

8-Sep-69 Brussels Belgium PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives4 0 BELGIUM. Three Arabs recruited byAl Fatah, two of them teenage boys,threw hand grenades at the El AlAirlines office in Brussels. Fourpeople were injured by flying glass.On Sept. 9, 1969 the PFLP claimedcredit for the three coordinatedattacks (Brussels, Bonn & TheHague).

9-Sep-69 Asmara Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Murray E. Jackson, theAmerican consul general in Asmara,was kidnapped, along with a Britishbusinessman, by members of theELF. No ransom demands weremade. After signing a documentstating that he had been instructedin the ELF's objectives and that hehad not been mistreated, Mr. Jacksonwas released several hours later.

12-Sep-69 Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A bomb went off on theporch of the Amman home of the U.S. assistant army attache, causing noinjuries and only slight damage.

13-Sep-69 Palermo Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Two small Molotov cocktailswere thrown at the entrance of thePalermo apartment building housingthe American consul general.

13-Sep-69 AddisAbaba

Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Firearms0 0 ETHIOPIA. Three armed members ofthe Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF)hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines DC-6with 66 passengers aboard. Theflight, bound for Djibouti from AddisAbaba, was forced to land at Aden,Southern Yemen. One of thehijackers, Mohammed Sayed, 18, wasshot by an Ethiopian secret policeofficial who had been a passenger onthe flight. Police captured the othertwo hijackers.

20-Sep-69 SaoPaulo

Brazil Unknown Firearms2 0 BRAZIL. Terrorists in two sedanspulled up in front of the U.S.consulate in Sao Paulo, dismounted,and forced the guard to kneel andforfeit his revolver. Two policemenarrived but were gunned down asthey were leaving their car.

27-Sep-69 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A man threw a bomb infront of the U.S. consul's home in LaPaz.

1-Oct-69 Quito Ecuador Unknown Other 0 0 ECUADOR. A large noise bomb wasthrown from a small gray Europeancar at the base of the wall adjoiningthe main entrance to the chancery ofthe U.S. embassy in Quito.

1-Oct-69 VancouverCanada Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CANADA. A firebomb was thrownagainst the door of the U.S.consulate general in Vancouver.

6-Oct-69 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb damaged theoffices of the First National City Bankin Cordoba. It was part of a series ofattacks that day against Americanbusinesses. Pepsi-Cola, Squibb, andDunlop Tires were also attacked.

6-Oct-69 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb damaged theoffices of Pepsi-Cola in Cordoba. Itwas part of a series of bombings inthe city against Americanbusinesses. First National City Bank,Squibb, and Dunlop Tires were alsoattacked.

6-Oct-69 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bombs damaged theoffices of Squibb in Cordoba. It waspart of a series of bombings againstAmerican businesses in the city.First National City Bank, Pepsi-Cola,and Dunlop Tires were also attacked.

6-Oct-69 SanMigueldeTucuman

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs damaged officesof IBM Corporation and GeneralElectric Company in San Miguel deTucuman.There were four morebombings in Cordoba againstAmerican businesses the same day.

6-Oct-69 SanMigueldeTucuman

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs damaged officesof IBM Corporation and GeneralElectric Company in San Miguel deTucuman.There were four otherbombing the same day in Cordobaagainst American businesses.

6-Oct-69 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb damaged theoffices of Squibb in Cordoba. Therewere three other bombings againstAmerican businesses in Cordoba thesame day - First National City Bank,Pepsi-Cola, and Dunlop Tires.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The U.S. InformationService library in Buenos Aires wasbombed.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A branch of the Bank ofBoston in Buenos Aires was bombed.

8-Oct-69 SantaFe

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. An office of RemingtonRand was bombed in Santa Fe.

14-Oct-69 Bogota Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Unidentified gunmenfired on the Swiss embassy inBogota. No one was wounded.

23-Oct-69 Lima Peru Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. Five Molotov cocktails werethrown at the front doors of the U.S.embassy chancery in Lima. Only onebomb ignited.

25-Oct-69 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb exploded in frontof the La Paz headquarters of the U.S. Peace Corps.

26-Oct-69 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A small explosive chargedetonated in Beirut under the car ofthe U.S. embassy regionalcommunications officer, which wasparked in front of his home.

1-Nov-69 Tokyo Japan Unknown Explosives0 0 JAPAN. A time bomb was placed nearthe reception desk of the AmericanCultural Center in Tokyo. It wasfound and dismantled.

9-Nov-69 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A dynamite stick wasthrown at the La Paz US BinationalCenter.

20-Nov-69

ArgentinaFuerzasArmadasPeronistas(FAP)

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Offices of 15 foreignfirms--nine U.S.-owned--werebombed. The FAP (Peronist ArmedForces) claimed responsibility.

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27-Nov-69

Athens Greece PalestinianPopularStruggleFront

Explosives13 1 GREECE. In a hand-grenade attackon the El Al Israel Airlines office inAthens, a Greek child was killed and13 people were wounded. TwoJordanian terrorists were sentencedto 11-year and 8-year jail terms, butthey were freed after the hijacking ofan Olympic Airways plane to Cairo onJuly 22, 1970. Mildos Dergarabedianwas arrested in the United States inAugust 1979, and was deported as amember of an international terroristgroup called the Palestinian PopularStruggle Front. He admitted that hewas the one who tossed the handgrenade into the crowded airlinesoffice in 1969. He apparently slippedthrough the U.S.immigrationservice's first line of defense by usinghis Palestinian first name, Mildos, onan application for a tourist visa. Hehad been convicted in Athens underhis given Armenian name, Elias.

29-Nov-69

CanberraAustralia Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. Croatian extremistsbombed the Yugoslav embassy inCanberra.

5-Dec-69 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Incendiary devices were thrown intothe Frankfurt Amerika Haus, causingno fire damage.

12-Dec-69

WestBerlin


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb was discovered in the WestBerlin office of El Al.

12-Dec-69

Madrid Spain EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two men armed with pistolsand explosives were killed byplainclothes security guards as theyattempted to hijack an EthiopianAirlines jet shortly after takeoff fromMadrid on a flight to Addis Ababa. InDamascus, the Eritrean LiberationFront (ELF) admitted that the twoslain men were members of the ELFbut claimed that they had notintended to hijack the airliner, merelyto hand out leaflets. On December10, Spanish police had arrested athird suspected ELF member at theMadrid airport for carryingexplosives.

13-Dec-69


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded outside a U.S.officer's club, causing slight damage.

20-Dec-69

Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A small bomb exploded atthe edge of property behind the USISbuilding in Ankara breaking sixwindows.

21-Dec-69

Athens Greece PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Athens police arrestedthree Arabs as they were preparingto board a TWA plane bound forRome and New York. The three, whohad arms and explosives, said thatthey were members of the PFLP, andthat they had received orders todivert the airplane to Tunis wherethey were to evacuate thepassengers and blow up the plane.One of the hijackers confessed thathe and his colleagues had planned tohijack the aircraft to Tunis, empty itof passengers, and then blow it up towarn the Americans to stop providingair communications with Israel. Theywere freed after the hijacking of anOlympic Airways plane to Cairo onJuly 22, l970.

29-Dec-69

WellingtonNewZealand


0 0 NEW ZEALAND. The butler at theWellington home of the U.S.ambassador found two Molotovcocktails on the driveway outside thehouse. One had exploded.

29-Dec-69

PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Philippine nationalistsattempted to assassinate U.S. VicePresident Spiro T. Agnew by throwinga bomb at his car. There was nodamage.

1-Jan-70 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosion ofundetermined origin occurred at theentrance of the U.S. consulategeneral in Istanbul. Damage waslimited to broken windows.

1-Jan-70 MontevideoUruguay VAR-Palmares

Explosives0 0 URUGUAY. Eight members of VAR-Palmares, armed with handgrenades, knives and revolvers,hijacked a Brazilian Cruzeiro Airlineflight en route from Montevideo toRio de Janeiro. The plane was flownto Cuba. The hijackers stated thattheir purpose was to pay homage tothe dead guerrilla leader, CheGuevara.

4-Jan-70 Turin Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb caused slight damageto the Turin branch of the Bank ofAmerica and Italy.

5-Jan-70 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. An unexploded bomb wasdiscovered in the men's room of theU.S. consular section of the embassyin Athens.

9-Jan-70 Paris France Other Firearms0 0 FRANCE. A TWA 707 airliner en routefrom Paris to Rome with 20 personson board was hijacked to Beirut by alone Frenchman, Christian Belon. Hesaid that he wanted to spiteAmericans and Israelis for theiraggression in the Middle East. Belonwas taken into custody in Lebanonand later sentenced to nine monthsin prison. Since he had alreadyserved the nine months awaitingtrial, he was promptly released andreturned to France, where he wastried for illegal possession ofweapons and sentenced to eightmonths in prison.

11-Jan-70 Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Firearms0 1 ETHIOPIA. Unidentified gunmen shotand killed an American soldier. TheELF was suspected of the shooting.

20-Jan-70 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Unidentified gunmenentered the British consulate inGuatemala City where they shot andkilled the consul's bodyguard.

21-Jan-70 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives3 0 PHILIPPINES. A car bomb explodedbehind the Joint U.S. MilitaryAssistance Group headquarters inManila. Three people were injuredand the Message Center of thebuilding was damaged.

24-Jan-70 Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives36 19 ISRAEL. Al Fatah and PFLP jointlyclaimed credit for the explosion of anammunition truck unloading at adock. Nineteen were killed, 36injured.

29-Jan-70 Fukuoko Japan Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. A firebomb was thrownthrough the first floor window of theU.S. consular officer's office inFukuoko. Police suspected a studentextremist group.

10-Feb-70 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives11 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three Arab terrorists killed an Israelicitizen and wounded 11 other Israelipassengers in a grenade attack on abus at the Munich airport. The threewere arrested. Two Palestinianorganizations--the PFLP and theAOLP--were responsible for theattack. The terrorists were set freeafter the September 6, 1970,hijacking of one Swiss and two U.S.airliners.

21-Feb-70 SwitzerlandPopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Explosives0 47 SWITZERLAND. A sabotaged Swissairplane en route to Tel Aviv crashed ontakeoff, killing all 47 passengers, 15of whom were Israelis. The PFLP-GCclaimed responsibility, and then uponpublic revulsion of the attack,disclaimed it.

21-Feb-70 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An Austrian Airlines Caravelle flyingfrom Frankfurt to Vienna with thirty-three passengers and five crew wasrocked twenty minutes after takeoffby a bomb detonated by an altimeterreading of fourteen thousand feet.The bomb, placed in a mail bagintended to be carried on a flight toIsrael later in the day, exploded inthe cargo hold, creating a jaggedthree foot by two foot hole throughthe bottom of the fuselage. No onewas injured. The PFLP claimedcredit.

23-Feb-70 Hebron WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms0 1 WEST BANK. Guerrillas ambushed atourist bus near the occupied town ofHebron in the West Bank and killedan American woman.

1-Mar-70 Rome Italy EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb was found in theluggage aboard an Ethiopian airlinerin Rome. The device had beenplaced by members of the ELF.

4-Mar-70 MindanaoPhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Two hours after aviolent anti-American demonstration,a bomb rocked the embassy areaand slightly damaged a passingtanker truck carrying gasoline.Another bomb was also found in theembassy area.

6-Mar-70 GuatemalaRebelArmedForces ofGuatemala(FAR)

Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. Members of the FARkidnapped Sean Holly, U.S. laborattache, and demanded the releaseof four prisoners held by Guatemalanauthorities in return for Holly'srelease. The government, which hadfaced a similar incident when AlbertoFuentes Mohr, Guatemalan foreignminister, was kidnapped on February27, again agreed to meet thekidnappers' demands. Two of theprisoners were turned over to theCosta Rican embassy on March 7, butthe other two could not be located.One, who was not in prison as thekidnappers believed, made his ownway to the Costa Rican embassy andwas granted asylum. The fourthcontacted the FAR from Tapachula,Mexico, where he had been staying.The kidnappers released Holly onMarch 8.

7-Mar-70 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A heavy bombexploded in the front entrance of theCordoba Binational Center.

11-Mar-70 SaoPaulo

Brazil PopularRevolutionaryVanguard(VPR)

Unknown0 0 BRAZIL. Members of the VPR seizedJapan's consul general Nobuo Okuchiin Sao Paulo. On March 12, thekidnappers announced their ransomdemands: the release of fiveprisoners, one of whom had beencharged with the slaying of U.S. ArmyCaptain Charles Chandler (seeOctober 12, 1968, incident);immunity from retaliation; andsuspension of the massive searchwhich had been launched by thegovernment. The Braziliangovernment suspended its searchand announced that it would meetthe kidnappers' other demands. Itrepeated its offer on March 13, andreleased the five prisoners who werethen flown to Mexico on March 14.After a temporary delay while theheavy security measures in SaoPaulo were reduced as the guerrillasdemanded, Okuchi was releasedunharmed--10 hours after the planewith its prisoners arrived in Mexico.

14-Mar-70 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives2 0 GREECE. A United Arab AirlinesAntonov 24 flying from Athens toCairo via Alexandria was fourminutes out of its stopover when abomb exploded in the landing gearwell of the rear of the left engine,causing extensive damage to theundercarriage and injuring two of theten passengers. The plane landedsafely.

18-Mar-70 Medellin Colombia Unknown Firearms0 2 COLOMBIA. The son of the Belgianconsul to Medellin, Luis FernandoUribe Bernal and his fiance werefound shot to death.

20-Mar-70 Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. In late March, fivemembers of a National Geographicfilm crew, including an Americanproducer, were taken hostage bymembers of the ELF. The ELF madeno ransom demands but held the fivepersons hostage for 17 days. Thehostages were released unharmed.Note: Date is approximate.

24-Mar-70 SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

UnitedAnti-ReelectionCommand

Unknown0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. LieutenantColonel Donald J. Crowley, U.S. airattache in the Dominican Republic,was kidnapped by six members of agroup calling itself the United Anti-Reelection Command, a leftist groupwhich opposed the reelection ofPresident Balaguer. The kidnappersdemanded that 21 prisoners be setfree in a ceremony to be held inSanto Domingo's main square, andpromised that Crowley would bereleased 10 hours after theceremony. The government agreedto release 20 prisoners, but not indowntown Santo Domingo; instead,they were to be flown to Mexico.With the Archbishop Monsignor HugoPolanco Brito acting as anintermediary, a compromise wasreached: The 20 prisoners wereplaced on board a plane, but werenot allowed to take off until Crowley'srelease was verified. Crowley wasreleased on March 26 and the planeproceeded to Mexico.

24-Mar-70 ItuzaingoArgentinaUnknown Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Members of the FALkidnapped Joaquin WaldemarSanchez, the Paraguayan consul inthe border town of Ituzaingo. Theythreatened to kill Sanchez and beginkilling the managers of Americanbusiness firms if two of theirmembers being held by theArgentine government were notreleased from prison.Thegovernment rejected their demand,stating that one of the two was not incustody and that the other wouldstay in jail because he was acommon criminal who was in thehands of the judicial branch of thegovernment and it would violate theArgentine constitution for theexecutive branch to interfere in thejudicial branch. President Stroessnerof Paraguay, who was vacationing inArgentina at the time, fully concurredin the government's position.Thekidnappers extended their deadlineseveral times. The governmentdisplayed one of the prisoners ontelevision to show that he had notbeen tortured or killed, but refusedto release him. On March 28, thekidnappers released Sanchezunharmed, for humanitarian reasons,but vowed to execute police andgovernment officials. Argentina thusbecame the first government tosuccessfully defy a group ofkidnappers, establishing a precedentwhich Guatemala would follow a fewdays later on March 3l.

24-Mar-70 DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A powerfulbomb exploded in the buildinghousing the USIS offices.

28-Mar-70 Beirut Lebanon PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The American InsuranceCompany in Beirut was bombed bythe PFLP.


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The U.S. embassy inBeirut was bombed by the PFLP,causing little damage and no injuries.The PFLP later said that the attackwas in retaliation for plans of the U.S.Embassy in Beirut to foment religiousstrife and create civil massacres inLebanon aimed at paralyzing thePalestine resistance movement.

29-Mar-70 ArgentinaOther Firearms1 0 ARGENTINA. Four members of MANOattempted to kidnap Yuri Pivovarov,Soviet assistant commercial attache.Pivovarov was taken from his car atgunpoint and forced into another car.His wife's screams alerted a policeguard who fired at the fleeing car. Apassing police car took up the chase,riddling the kidnappers' car withbullets. When the kidnappers' carcollided with another car andsmashed into a tree, three of thekidnappers were captured and thefourth escaped. Pivovarov was notseriously injured. A subsequentinvestigation revealed that a deputyfederal police inspector was involvedin the attempt. MANO hadthreatened to kill the SovietAmbassador and his family just twodays before in retaliation for thekidnapping of the Paraguayan consulon 24 March.

29-Mar-70 Sidon Lebanon PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The U.S.-owned Medrecooil refinery near Sidon was bombedby the PFLP, causing little damageand no injuries.


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. PFLP terrorists plantedtwo sticks of dynamite at the rearentrance of the USIS Kennedy Centerin Beirut. No injuries were reported.

31-Mar-70 Tokyo Japan JapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Unknown0 0 JAPAN. Nine members of the UnifiedRed Army (URA) hijacked a Japan AirLines plane enroute from Tokyo andordered it flown to Pyongyang, NorthKorea. In an elaborate ruse, officialsdisguised Seoul's airport to look likePyongyang's and the plane landed inSeoul, but the hijackers were notfooled. They let the passengersdisembark in Seoul, however, andflew to Pyongyang on April 3.



Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Members of the FARkidnapped Count Karl von Spreti,West German ambassador toGuatemala, who was taken from hiscar at gunpoint and driven to ahideout outside of Guatemala City.The kidnappers threatened toexecute Count von Spreti unless thegovernment released 17 prisoners.The demand was later increased tothe release of 25 prisoners and thepayment of $700,000 ransom.In theface of strong pressure from theWest German government, and incontrast to its previous promptaccessions to kidnappers' demands(March 6, 1970), the Guatemalangovernment rejected the demands,citing the Argentine precedent(March 24, 1970) and theGuatemalan constitution whichprevented the executive branch frominterfering with the judicial branch ofthe government.Behind the publicshow of resistance was a privateconviction on the part of officialswithin the Guatemalan government,including the president, that thekidnappers' deadline had beenextended and that a compromisesettlement was possible. A last-minute attempt at negotiationsfailed, however, and on April 5authorities received an anonymousphone call telling them where to findthe ambassador's body. The WestGerman government denounced theGuatemalan government andreduced its diplomatic representationin Guatemala to a bare minimum.

5-Apr-70 PortoAlegre

Brazil VanguardiaPopularRevolucionaria(VPR)

Firearms1 0 BRAZIL. U.S. Consul General CurtisS. Cutter eluded a kidnappingattempt in Porto Alegre. As Cutterwas driving home from dinner withhis wife and a friend, a car blockedhis path. When four or five menarmed with submachine guns jumpedout of it and ran toward his car,Cutter stepped on the accelerator,knocking one of them down. Theothers opened fire and Cutter waswounded in the back, but hemanaged to drive away while thewould-be kidnappers picked up theirinjured comrade and escaped. Threemen, reported to be members of theVPR (Popular RevolutionaryVanguard), were later arrested inconnection with the incident.

10-Apr-70 SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A medium-intensity bomb exploded in the SantoDomingo headquarters of the PeaceCorps. No injuries reported.

15-Apr-70 Amman Jordan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JORDAN. The USIS Cultural Center inAmman was attacked by a large moband completely destroyed by fire.

15-Apr-70 Amman Jordan Other Unknown0 0 JORDAN. Fedayeen terrorists carriedout a successful assault on the U.S.embassy in Amman. Damage wasestimated to be approximately$100,000.

21-Apr-70 Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Jack Fry, a Peace Corpsofficial, and his wife, were kidnappedfrom a train by ELF and released fivedays later. No demands were made.


UnitedStates

WorldUnitedFormosansforIndependence

Firearms1 0 UNITED STATES. Nationalist ChinesePremier Chinang Chingkuo was shotwhile entering the Plaza Hotel in NewYork in an unsuccessful assassinationattempt by a Taiwanese member ofthe World United Formosans forIndependence.

25-Apr-70 Bremen FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.During the early morning hours, theU.S. consulate general building inBremen was attacked with fiveMolotov cocktails, causing $300worth of damage to the room usedby USIS.

25-Apr-70 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in the ElAl Israel Airlines office in Istanbul.There were no injuries.

26-Apr-70 Brazil Other Unknown0 0 BRAZIL. A Brazilian VASP airliner washijacked and ordered flown to Cubaby an armed hijacker identified asJoaquim Terreira, who wasconsidered to be the successor toCarlos Marighela, a left-wing urbanguerrilla leader. The 37 passengersaboard the plane were allowed todisembark in Guyana.

28-Apr-70 Ankara Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. A small group of youngmen attacked a U.S. AID warehouseon the outskirts of Ankara by cuttingthe barbed wire to allow entry to thegrounds. Molotov cocktails werethrown at equipment and vehiclesand they shot at the nightwatchman.

1-May-70 Jamaica Other Unknown0 0 JAMAICA. Two U.S. citizens hijackeda British West Indian Airways flighten route from Jamaica to Miami.They landed in Havana for refuelingand ordered the plane flown toSenegal, but Cuban and Britishauthorities persuaded them tosurrender.

3-May-70 Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A policeman defused sixsticks of dynamite that he found nearthe U.S. consulate entrance.

4-May-70 Asuncion Paraguay al-Fatah Firearms1 1 PARAGUAY. Two Palestinian Arabsburst into the Israeli embassy inAsuncion, shot and killed the wife ofthe first secretary, and seriouslywounded an embassy employee.The assailants, who were arrested,were reported to be members of AlFatah.

5-May-70 Dacca Pakistan Unknown Explosives1 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded directlyin front of the door to the USIS libraryin Dacca, injuring a library patron.

6-May-70 London UnitedKingdom


0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Molotov cocktailswere thrown at the U.S. embassy inLondon.

6-May-70 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A bomb did minordamage to an American business inCaracas.

8-May-70 CapetownSouthAfrica

Unknown Unknown0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. The assistant U.S.naval attache in Capetown reportedthat he had been kidnapped and heldovernight. He was forced totelephone the demands of thekidnappers for the release of twenty-two people being held under theSuppression of Communism Act.

10-May-70

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. Two hand grenades werethrown at the gendarme postadjacent to the residence yard of theU.S. ambassador in Beirut, slightlyinjuring one of the guards.

10-May-70

Amman Jordan Unknown Firearms0 1 JORDAN. The U.S. military attache inAmman was assassinated byautomatic weapons fired at closerange at his home.

10-May-70

Geneva SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb exploded inthe baggage compartment of anIberian Air Lines DC9 in Geneva. Acaller had given a warning first andall passengers and crew had beenremoved from the plane.

10-May-70

AmsterdamNetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. A firebomb that wasto have been planted on board anIberia Air Lines plane bound for Spainexploded in Amsterdam airport.

10-May-70

FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Afirebomb that was to have beenplanted on board an Iberia Air Linesplane bound for Spain exploded inthe Frankfurt Airport.

10-May-70

UnitedKingdom


0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A firebomb wasfound in a suitcase on board a loadedIberia Air Lines plane headed forSpain. The bomb was defused.

17-May-70

GuayaquilEcuador Other Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A bomb exploded in frontof the home of the U.S. branch publicaffairs officer in Guayaquil. Atelephone call claimed the blast inretaliation for U.S. entry intoCambodia.However, no groupclaimed responsibility.

22-May-70

Israel Unknown Explosives22 8 ISRAEL. Fedayeen who had crossedthe border from Lebanon fired threebazooka rockets at a school bus,killing eight children and wounding22.

30-May-70

Genoa Italy Other Other 0 0 ITALY. An Alitalia DC9 flying fromGenoa to Rome was hijacked by ayoung Italian armed with a toy pistol,who diverted the plane and its thirty-five passengers to Cairo in protest ofthe Middle East conflict. He forcedthe pilot to change course twiceduring the incident.

6-Jun-70 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb was found inthe USIS Thomas Jefferson CulturalCenter in Manila. It was defused;however, another bomb did explodein the music library of the center,injuring no one but damaging thebuilding.

6-Jun-70 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb was found inthe USIS Thomas Jefferson CulturalCenter in Manila. It was defused;however, another bomb did explodein the music library of the center,injuring no one but damaging thebuilding.

7-Jun-70 Amman Jordan PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Unknown0 0 JORDAN. Members of the PFLPkidnapped Morris Draper, U.S.political secretary, in Amman, andreleased him unharmed on June 8.His release was negotiated by thehost government.

7-Jun-70 Amman Jordan Unknown Firearms2 0 JORDAN. Captain Robert Potts, a U.S.military attache, and his wife wereslightly wounded by gunfire aftertheir car was stopped by acommando roadblock in Amman.

9-Jun-70 Amman Jordan PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. Members of the PFLP held60 foreigners hostage in two Ammanhotels. They threatened to blow upthe two hotels if PFLP camps inJordan were smashed by Jordanianarmy units. The hostages werereleased unharmed on 12 June.

9-Jun-70 Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. The Tehran offices of El Alwere bombed.

10-Jun-70 Amman Jordan Unknown Firearms0 1 JORDAN. Major Robert Perry, U.S.military attache in Amman, was shotto death in his home by guerrillas.

11-Jun-70 Rio deJaneiro

Brazil VanguardiaPopularRevolucionaria(VPR)

Unknown0 1 BRAZIL. Members of the ALN andVPR kidnapped Ehrenfried vonHolleben, West German ambassadorto Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. One ofthe ambassador's Brazilian securityguards was killed during theabduction.In return for vonHolleben's safe return, thekidnappers demanded the release of40 prisoners who were to be flown toAlgeria, Chile, or Mexico, and thepublication of a revolutionarymanifesto. Among the prisonerswere those accused of being involvedin the kidnapping of U.S.Ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick(September 4, 1969). The Braziliangovernment agreed, and the 40prisoners were flown to Algeria.They arrived June 15 andAmbassador von Holleben wasreleased unharmed on June 16.

18-Jun-70 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 3 ARGENTINA. The Parke Davispharmaceutical plant on the outskirtsof Buenos Aires was severelydamaged by a bomb. Threeemployees were killed.

19-Jun-70 ChiangMai

Thailand Other Firearms0 3 THAILAND. Three USIS foreignservice local employees were killedin an ambush by communistterrorists while traveling in a USISvehicle on the main highway inChiang Mai.

22-Jun-70 Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A U.S. citizen with anAlbanian passport hijacked a PanAmerican World Airways jet boundfrom Beirut to New York, and orderedthe plane flown to Cairo.


UnitedStates

JewishDefenseLeague(JDL)

Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. Members of theJewish Defense League (JDL)damaged the offices of AmtorgTrading Corporation (German) in NewYork.

1-Jul-70 Rio deJaneiro

Brazil AliancaLibertadoraNacional(ALN)

Firearms2 0 BRAZIL. Members of the ALNattempted to hijack a Cruzeiro do SulCaravelle flying the Rio de Janeiro-Sao Paulo-Buenos Aires run, and usea machine gun to divert it. One ofthem used a revolver to shoot thepilot in the legs, but he managed tofly back to Rio, unknown to thehijackers. Tires on the plane wereshot out by police and then policestormed the plane. The hijackershad planned to keep hostages inexchange for the release of politicalprisoners.

2-Jul-70 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

RevolutionaryForceSeven

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. Members ofRevolutionary Force Seven claimedcredit for the early morningfirebombing of the ArgentineEmbassy.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. Members ofRevolutionary Force Seven claimedcredit for the early morningfirebombing of the Haitian Embassy.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. Members ofRevolutionary Force Seven claimedcredit for the early morningfirebombing of the UruguayanEmbassy.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. Members ofRevolutionary Force Seven claimedcredit for the early morningfirebombing of the DominicanRepublic Embassy.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The New York Cityoffice of BOAC was bombed toprotest British actions in NorthernIreland.

6-Jul-70 Cali Colombia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. Three powerfulincendiary devices were foundunexploded in a U.S. firm in Cali.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bomb wasfound at the Portuguese Travel andInformation Agency in New York.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives3 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bombexploded at the Haitian consulate inNew York, injuring three people.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An explosive devicewas found at the South AfricanConsulate in New York.

11-Jul-70 Lebanon Unknown Explosives4 0 LEBANON. Rockets were fired from anearby apartment into the home ofDr. Wadi Elias Hadad, second incommand of the PFLP and founder ofthe Arab Nationalist Movement in anassassination attempt. Four peoplewere injured in the attempt, whichHadad believes was sponsored by U.S. and Israeli intelligence.

12-Jul-70 Brazil VanguardiaPopularRevolucionaria(VPR)

Unknown0 0 BRAZIL. A member of the VPR wasarrested after attempting to hijack anairliner in exchange for release ofpolitical prisoners.

15-Jul-70 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. Bombs were thrown at theUSIS Binational Center in La Paz.

21-Jul-70 TeoponteBolivia EjercitodeLiberacionNacional(Bolivia)

Firearms0 0 BOLIVIA. Members of the ELNkidnapped two West Germantechnicians in Teoponte. Theyburned the offices of the U.S.-ownedgoldmining firm, South AmericanPlacers, Inc., stole $5,000, and fledinto the jungle with their captives,whom they threatened to executeunless the Bolivian governmentreleased 10 prisoners within 48hours. The government yielded onJuly 22 and the two technicians werereleased unharmed on July 23.

22-Jul-70 Beirut Lebanon PalestinianPopularStruggleFront

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Six Arab guerrillashijacked an Olympic Airways 727airliner over Rhodes after it hadtaken off from Beirut, and ordered itflown to Cairo. They demanded therelease of seven other Arab guerrillasbeing held by the Greek governmentfor the attack on an El Al IsraelAirlines airliner (December 26, 1968),for an attempted hijacking of a TWAairplane (December 24, 1969), andfor an attack on the El Al IsraelAirlines office in Athens (November27, 1969).With the International RedCross acting as intermediary, theGreek government promised torelease the prisoners within onemonth, and the 55 passengers andcrew of the Olympic Airways planewere released. The PalestinianPopular Struggle Front claimed creditfor the operation. Officials in Cairowelcomed the six hijackers andpraised their determination to freetheir colleagues. The Greekgovernment went ahead with thetrial of two of the guerrillas whoserelease had been agreed to (theother five had already beensentenced). They were found guiltyand sentenced to prison termstotaling more than 29 years, butwere released on August 12according to the agreement workedout on July 22.

24-Jul-70 Recife Brazil Other Unknown0 0 BRAZIL. Police foiled an attempt tokidnap Donner Lyon, U.S. consul inRecife. Three terrorists werearrested.

31-Jul-70 MontevideoUruguay Tupamaros(Uruguay)

Unknown0 1 URUGUAY. In a series of raids,Tupamaros kidnapped Daniel A.Mitrione, U.S. public safety adviser inUruguay, Aloisio Mares Dias Gomide,Brazilian consul in Uruguay, andClaude Fly, U.S. agricultural adviser(see below, July 31 and August 7,1970 incidents). Mitrione waswounded during his abduction. Thekidnappers demanded the release ofapproximately 150 Tupamaros beingheld in jail in return for the threehostages they had taken. Despitesome pressure from the UnitedStates, the president of Uruguayrefused to negotiate. The policecordoned off Montevideo andlaunched a massive search duringwhich 20 suspected terrorists werearrested. The Tupamaros carried outtheir threat to kill Mitrione and policefound his body on August 10. Fourterrorists involved in the kidnappingwere arrested by Uruguayan securityforces in March 1973; One of them,Antonio Mas Mas, was identified asMitrione's actual murderer; he waslater convicted of the crime andsentenced to 42-45 years in prison.

31-Jul-70 Uruguay Tupamaros(Uruguay)

Unknown0 0 URUGUAY. Aloisio Mares Gomide,Brazilian consul, was kidnapped byTupamaros the same day as Mitrione(see July 31 above). The Tupamarossaid they chose Dias Gomidebecause he was the representative ofa dictatorship which had tortured andkilled hundreds of Brazilian patriots.Dias Gomide and two other hostageswere being held in return for therelease of some 150 imprisonedTupamaros, but the Tupamaros laterreduced their ransom demand forDias Gomide to $250,000. Theransom money was raised by theconsul's wife, but some reportsindicate that it was never paid. DiasGomide was finally released over sixmonths later on February 21, 1971.

31-Jul-70 MontevideoUruguay Tupamaros(Uruguay)

Firearms1 0 URUGUAY. Tupamaros attempted tokidnap Michael Gordon Jones, secondsecretary to the U.S. embassy inMontevideo, and Nathan Rosenfeld,the cultural attache. Rosenfeldeluded capture, but Jones was struckon the head with a pistol, wrapped ina blanket, tied, and thrown in theback of a pickup truck. He regainedconsciousness while being driventhrough Montevideo, threw himselffrom the truck, and escaped.


UnitedStates

WeatherUnderground,Weathermen

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The RevolutionaryAffinity Group Six claimed credit foran explosion outside the New YorkCity branch of the Bank of Brazil. Theword Weatherman was found paintedon the bank.

1-Aug-70 Brussels Belgium Other Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb believed to havebeen planted in the Yugoslavembassy in Brussels by Croatianterrorists failed to explode.


UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A Pan AmericanWorld Airways 747 jumbo jet washijacked to Cuba by a 35-year-oldPuerto Rican nationalist, RudolfoRivera Rios. When the plane, goingfrom New York to San Juan, P.R., with376 persons aboard was about 300miles from its destination, thehijacker brandished a revolver, heldup a bottle that he said containednitroglycerine, and demanded thatthe plane change course for Havana.When the aircraft landed, the Cubanauthorities jailed the hijacker forseven years. When Rios returned tothe United States in 1978, hepleaded guilty to one count ofkidnapping. He claimed that he hadhijacked the plane to dramatize thecause of Puerto Rican independence.He was sentenced to life in prisonand will be eligible for release in tenyears.

4-Aug-70 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A box containing whatappeared to be a time bomb withfour sticks of dynamite wasdiscovered in the Santiago USISBinational Center.

7-Aug-70 Uruguay Tupamaros(Uruguay)

Unknown0 0 URUGUAY. Tupamaros kidnappedClaude Fly, U.S. agricultural adviser,from his office. Fly was held, alongwith Mitrione and Dias Gomide whohad been kidnapped on July 31 (seeabove) in return for 150 Tupamarosheld in jail. During his extendedcaptivity, Fly suffered a heart attack.The Tupamaros then kidnapped aprominent heart specialist whoconfirmed that Fly was gravely ill andneeded prompt medical attention.Both Fly and the physician weredriven to a hospital and released onMarch 2, 1971.

8-Aug-70 Limon CostaRica


0 0 COSTA RICA. A fire completelydestroyed the USIS Binational Centerin Limon.

9-Aug-70 SantaFe


Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. The FAP conducted anarmed attack on the Italian Hospitalin Santa Fe.

12-Aug-70

WestBerlin


Unknown Explosives0 0 GERMANY. Two bombs exploded inWest Berlin, damaging carsbelonging to U.S. military personnel.

18-Aug-70

La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb was found outsidethe La Paz Peace Corps headquartersand was successfully disarmed.

19-Aug-70

La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb exploded in frontof the US AID building in La Paz.

28-Aug-70

La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. Bombs exploded at the LaPaz residence of a U.S. Embassyofficer and at the U.S. Consulatebuilding.

28-Aug-70

La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. Bombs exploded at the LaPaz residence of a U.S. Embassyofficer and at the U.S. Consulatebuilding.

29-Aug-70

Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

RevolutionaryActionParty

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The RevolutionaryAction Party claimed credit forbombing the Portuguese Embassy inWashington, D.C.

29-Aug-70

UnitedStates

RevolutionaryActionParty

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The RevolutionaryAction Party claimed credit forbombing the Rhodesian Informationoffice.

31-Aug-70

TheHague

NetherlandsOther Unknown0 1 NETHERLANDS. Thirty-two armedAmboinese youths seized the Hagueresidence of the Indonesianambassador, killing a guard in theattack. They held the familyhostage, demanding theindependence of the South MoluccanIslands. They were talked intosurrendering the next day.

31-Aug-70

Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. The Tuslog Detachment 30,a U.S. Air Force facility in Ankara,was bombed. Two additional devicesthat failed to explode were alsofound in the facility.

1-Sep-70 GuatemalaCity


Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. The UruguayanEmbassy was machine-gunned bythe FAR.

1-Sep-70 Amman Jordan Other Firearms0 0 JORDAN. Palestinian commandos inAmman attempted to assassinateKing Hussein by firing on hismotorcade.

2-Sep-70 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Extensive damage resultedwhen a bomb exploded in theparking lot of the U.S. embassy inAthens when two terrorists wereattempting to carry it into thebuilding. Both terrorists were killed.

5-Sep-70 Amman Jordan Other Unknown0 0 JORDAN. Staff Sergeant ErvinGraham, an American soldierassigned to the U.S. defenseattache's office in Jordan, was heldeight days by Palestinian guerrillas.He was interrogated and released.No ransom demands were made.

6-Sep-70 AmsterdamNetherlandsPopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Unknown0 0 NETHERLANDS. In a well-coordinatedplan, members of the PFLP hijackedthree airliners bound for New Yorkfrom Europe, and diverted them tovarious locations in the Middle East.A Pan American World Airways 747from Amsterdam was first orderedflown to Beirut, then to Cairo, whereit was blown up a few minutes afterthe passengers and crew wereevacuated. A Swissair DC-8 en routefrom Zurich , and a TWA 707 enroute from Frankfurt were flown toDawson Field, a landing strip in theJordanian desert described by thehijackers as the Revolution Airport.Afourth hijacking of an El Al IsraelAirlines plane en route to Londonfrom Amsterdam was foiled when asecurity guard aboard the planekilled one of the hijackers andwounded another. The dead hijackerwas Patrick Arguello, a member ofthe FSLN, a leftist guerrillamovement in Nicaragua. Thewounded hijacker was Leila Khaled,who had participated in the hijackingof a TWA 707 to Syria on August 29,1969. Miss Khaled was arrested inLondon but later released to gainrelease of the hostages in Jordan.ThePFLP announced that the hijackingswere in retaliation for Americansupport of Israel and the U.S. peaceinitiatives in the Middle East. Thehijackers demanded the release ofArab guerrillas imprisoned inSwitzerland, the United Kingdom,and West Germany. West Germanyat first agreed to release theprisoners, but later reversed itsposition in favor of a jointinternational effort to free thepassengers.On September 9, thePFLP hijacked a BOAC VC-10 fromBombay, India and also had it flownto Dawson Field in Jordan, bringingthe total number of hostages held inthe desert to 300. Negotiations tofree them were complicated by theoutbreak of fighting betweenJordanian troops and Palestinianguerrillas. On September 12, theremaining passengers (women andchildren had been removed earlier)were evacuated and the three planeswere blown up. Most of thepassengers were soon released, butthe PFLP continued to hold 58hostages in order to exert pressureon the European governments. Thehostages were released onSeptember 25, 26, and 29. OnSeptember 29, the Swiss governmentannounced that the British, Swissand West German governmentswould free seven Arab guerrillaswhen the last six hostages, who wereUS citizens, had left Jordan. Theseven prisoners were relased andflown to Cairo on September 30.Twenty-five persons who were heldhostage for 22 days reached acombined $370,000 out-of-courtsettlement with TWA whose 707 jetwas one of the hijacked planes.Awards in the settlement rangedfrom $17,500 for a single person to acombined $80,000 for a six-memberfamily. The attorney for the plaintiffssaid, It is one of the first cases wherean airline accepted responsibility forrecovery for mental anguish(suffered by passengers) in hijackingcases.

6-Sep-70 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Ina well-coordinated plan, members ofthe PFLP hijacked three airlinersbound for New York from Europe, anddiverted them to various locations inthe Middle East. A TWA 707 flightenroute from Frankfurt was hijackedto Dawson Field, a landing strip atZerya in Jordan (described by thehijackers as the Revolution Airport. APan American World Airways 747 wasfirst ordered flown to Beirut, then toCairo, where it was blown up a fewminutes after the passengers andcrew were evacuated. A Swissair DC-8 en route from Zurich was alsohijacked to Dawson Field. A fourthhijacking of an El Al Israel Airlinesplane en route to London fromAmsterdam was foiled when asecurity guard aboard the planekilled one of the hijackers andwounded another. The dead hijackerwas Patrick Arguello, a member ofthe FSLN, a leftist guerrillamovement in Nicaragua. Thewounded hijacker was Leila Khaled,who had participated in the hijackingof a TWA 707 to Syria on August 29,1969. Miss Khaled was arrested inLondon but later released to gainrelease of the hostages in Jordan.ThePFLP announced that the hijackingswere in retaliation for Americansupport of Israel and the U.S. peaceinitiatives in the Middle East. Thehijackers demanded the release ofArab guerrillas imprisoned inSwitzerland, the United Kingdom,and West Germany. West Germanyat first agreed to release theprisoners, but later reversed itsposition in favor of a jointinternational effort to free thepassengers.On September 9, thePFLP hijacked a BOAC VC-10 fromBombay, India and also had it flownto Dawson Field in Jordan, bringingthe total number of hostages held inthe desert to 300. Negotiations tofree them were complicated by theoutbreak of fighting betweenJordanian troops and Palestinianguerrillas. On September 12, theremaining passengers (women andchildren had been removed earlier)were evacuated and the three planeswere blown up. Most of thepassengers were soon released, butthe PFLP continued to hold 58hostages in order to exert pressureon the European governments. Thehostages were released onSeptember 25, 26, and 29. OneSeptember 29, the Swiss governmentannounced that the British, Swissand West German governmentswould free seven Arab guerrillaswhen the last six hostages, who wereUS citizens, had left Jordan. Theseven prisoners were released andflown to Cairo on September 30.Twenty-five persons who were heldhostage for 22 days reached acombined $370,000 out-of-courtsettlement with TWA whose 707 jetwas one of the planes hijacked.Awards in the settlement rangedfrom $17,500 for a single person to acombined $80,000 for a six-memberfamily. The attorney for the plaintiffssaid, It is one of the first cases wherean airline accepted responsibility forrecovery for mental anguish(suffered by passengers) in hijackingcases.

6-Sep-70 Zurich SwitzerlandPopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Unknown0 0 SWITZERLAND. In a well-coordinatedplan, members of the PFLP hijackedthree airliners bound for New Yorkfrom Europe, and diverted them tovarious locations in the Middle East.A Swissair DC-8 enroute from Zurichwas hijacked to Dawson Field inJordan. A Pan American WorldAirways 747 from Amsterdam wasfirst ordered flown to Beirut, then toCairo, where it was blown up a fewminutes after the passengers andcrew were evacuated. A TWA 707en route from Frankfurt was forced toDawson Field, a landing strip in theJordanian desert described by thehijackers as the Revolution Airport.Afourth hijacking of an El Al IsraelAirlines plane en route to Londonfrom Amsterdam was foiled when asecurity guard aboard the planekilled one of the hijackers andwounded another. The dead hijackerwas Patrick Arguello, a member ofthe FSLN, a leftist guerrillamovement in Nicaragua. Thewounded hijacker was Leila Khaled,who had participated in the hijackingof a TWA 707 to Syria on August 29,1969. Miss Khaled was arrested inLondon but later released to gainrelease of the hostages in Jordan.ThePFLP announced that the hijackingswere in retaliation for Americansupport of Israel and the U.S. peaceinitiatives in the Middle East. Thehijackers demanded the release ofArab guerrillas imprisoned inSwitzerland, the United Kingdom,and West Germany. West Germanyat first agreed to release theprisoners, but later reversed itsposition in favor of a jointinternational effort to free thepassengers.On September 9, thePFLP hijacked a BOAC VC-10 fromBombay, India and also had it flownto Dawson Field in Jordan, bringingthe total number of hostages held inthe desert to 300. Negotiations tofree them were complicated by theoutbreak of fighting betweenJordanian troops and Palestinianguerrillas. On September 12, theremaining passengers (women andchildren had been removed earlier)were evacuated and the three planeswere blown up. Most of thepassengers were soon released, butthe PFLP continued to hold 58hostages in order to exert pressureon the European governments. Thehostages were released onSeptember 25, 26 and 29. OnSeptember 29, the Swiss governmentannounced that the British, Swissand West German governmentswould free seven Arab guerrillaswhen the last six hostages, who wereUS citizens, had left Jordan. Theseven prisoners were released andflown to Cairo on September 30.Twenty-five persons who were heldhostage for 22 days reached acombined $370,000 out-of-courtsettlement with Trans World Airlineswhose 707 jet was one of the planeshijacked. Awards in the settlementranged from $17,500 for a singleperson to a combined $80,000 for asix-member family. The attorney forthe plaintiffs said, It is one of the firstcases where an airline acceptedresponsibility for recovery for mentalanguish (suffered by passengers) inhijacking cases.


Unknown0 0 NETHERLANDS. In a well-coordinatedplan, members of the PFLP hijackedthree airliners bound for New Yorkfrom Europe, and diverted them tovarious locations in the Middle East.A Pan American World Airways 747was first ordered flown to Beirut,then to Cairo, where it was blown upa few minutes after the passengersand crew were evacuated. ASwissair DC-8 en route from Zurich ,and a TWA 707 en route fromFrankfurt were flown to DawsonField, a landing strip in the Jordaniandesert described by the hijackers asthe Revolution Airport.A fourthhijacking of an El Al Israel Airlinesplane en route to London fromAmsterdam was foiled when asecurity guard aboard the planekilled one of the hijackers andwounded another. The dead hijackerwas Patrick Arguello, a member ofthe FSLN, a leftist guerrillamovement in Nicaragua. Thewounded hijacker was Leila Khaled,who had participated in the hijackingof a TWA 707 to Syria on August 29,1969. Miss Khaled was arrested inLondon but later released to gainrelease of the hostages in Jordan.ThePFLP announced that the hijackingswere in retaliation for Americansupport of Israel and the U.S. peaceinitiatives in the Middle East. Thehijackers demanded the release ofArab guerrillas imprisoned inSwitzerland, the United Kingdom,and West Germany. West Germanyat first agreed to release theprisoners, but later reversed itsposition in favor of a jointinternational effort to free thepassengers.On September 9, thePFLP hijacked a BOAC VC-10 fromBombay, India and also had it flownto Dawson Field in Jordan, bringingthe total number of hostages held inthe desert to 300. Negotiations tofree them were complicated by theoutbreak of fighting betweenJordanian troops and Palestinianguerrillas. On September 12, theremaining passengers (women andchildren had been removed earlier)were evacuated and the three planeswere blown up. Most of thepassengers were soon released, butthe PFLP continued to hold 58hostages in order to exert pressureon the European governments. Thehostages were released onSeptember 25, 26, and 29. OnSeptember 29, the Swiss governmentannounced that the British, Swiss,and West German governmentswould free seven Arab guerrillaswhen the last six hostages, who wereUS citizens, had left Jordan. Theseven prisoners were released andflown to Cairo on September 30.Twenty-five persons who were heldhostage for 22 days reached acombined $370,000 out-of-courtsettlement with Trans World Airlineswhose 707 jet was one of the planeshijacked. Awards in the settlementranged from $17,500 for a singleperson to a combined $80,000 for asix-member family. The attorney forthe plantiffs said, It is one of the firstcases where an airline acceptedresponsibility for recovery for mentalanguish (suffered by passengers) inhijacking cases.


Unknown0 0 NETHERLANDS. In a well-coordinatedplan, members of the PFLP hijackedthree airliners bound for New Yorkfrom Europe, and diverted them tovarious locations in the Middle East.A Pan American World Airways 747was first ordered flown to Beirut,then to Cairo, where it was blown upa few minutes after the passengersand crew were evacuated. ASwissair DC-8 en route from Zurich ,and a TWA 707 en route fromFrankfurt were flown to DawsonField, a landing strip in the Jordaniandesert described by the hijackers asthe Revolution Airport.A fourthhijacking of an El Al Israel Airlinesplane en route to London fromAmsterdam was foiled when asecurity guard aboard the planekilled one of the hijackers andwounded another. The dead hijackerwas Patrick Arguello, a member ofthe FSLN, a leftist guerrillamovement in Nicaragua. Thewounded hijacker was Leila Khaled,who had participated in the hijackingof a TWA 707 to Syria on August 29,1969. Miss Khaled was arrested inLondon but later released to gainrelease of the hostages in Jordan.ThePFLP announced that the hijackingswere in retaliation for Americansupport of Israel and the U.S. peaceinitiatives in the Middle East. Thehijackers demanded the release ofArab guerrillas imprisoned inSwitzerland, the United Kingdom,and West Germany. West Germanyat first agreed to release theprisoners, but later reversed itsposition in favor of a jointinternational effort to free thepassengers.On September 9, thePFLP hijacked a BOAC VC-10 fromBombay, India and also had it flownto Dawson Field in Jordan, bringingthe total number of hostages held inthe desert to 300. Negotiations tofree them were complicated by theoutbreak of fighting betweenJordanian troops and Palestinianguerrillas. On September 12, theremaining passengers (women andchildren had been removed earlier)were evacuated and the three planeswere blown up. Most of thepassengers were soon released, butthe PFLP continued to hold 58hostages in order to exert pressureon the European governments. Thehostages were released onSeptember 25, 26, and 29. OnSeptember 29, the Swiss governmentannounced that the British, Swiss,and West German governmentswould free seven Arab guerrillaswhen the last six hostages, who wereUS citizens, had left Jordan. Theseven prisoners were released andflown to Cairo on September 30.Twenty-five persons who were heldhostage for 22 days reached acombined $370,000 out-of-courtsettlement with Trans World Airlineswhose 707 jet was one of the planeshijacked. Awards in the settlementranged from $17,500 for a singleperson to a combined $80,000 for asix-member family. The attorney forthe plantiffs said, It is one of the firstcases where an airline acceptedresponsibility for recovery for mentalanguish (suffered by passengers) inhijacking cases.

7-Sep-70 Sucre Bolivia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BOLIVIA. The USIS Binational Centerin Sucre was attacked with Molotavcocktails.

7-Sep-70 Mendoza ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A small bomb explodedat the USIS Binational Center inMendoza.

8-Sep-70 Athens Greece EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 GREECE. Two members of the ELFwho attempted to hijack an Ethiopianairliner in Athens were foiled bysecurity guards.

9-Sep-70 Bombay India PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Unknown0 0 INDIA. The PFLP hijacked a BOAC VC-10 to Jordan (see September 6, 1970,incident). The plane had originatedin Bombay, India.

9-Sep-70 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Three unidentifiedgunmen raided the U.S. InformationService office in Cordoba anddetonated a bomb in a storeroom.


GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A bomb went off in thehome of the Uruguayan Ambassador,however the ambassador was not athome at the time.

11-Sep-70 Jordan PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Unknown0 0 JORDAN. John Stewart, the U.S.Cultural Affairs Adviser in Jordan, waskidnapped and held for one day bythe PLO. He was interrogated. Noransom demands were made and hewas released unharmed the followingday.

11-Sep-70 Jordan PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Unknown0 0 JORDAN. Sergeant Graham ofUSDAO was kidnapped andquestioned for eight days, afterwhich he was released unharmed.

12-Sep-70 London UnitedKingdom


Unknown0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Members of theJDL in London announced that theyhad kidnapped three employees ofthe Egyptian embassy and wouldhold them hostage until the airlinepassengers held in Jordan (seeSeptember 6, 1970 incident) werereleased.

18-Sep-70 Amman Jordan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JORDAN. The U.S. AID parking lot inAmman was burned, and the U.S.Embassy received sniper fire.

2-Oct-70 Sucre ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at thedoor to the USIS Binational Center inSucre.

2-Oct-70 Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosive device wasdetonated outside the U.S. Air Forcecommissary in Izmir. A second bombconsisting of seven sticks ofdynamite was found outside thecommissary.

3-Oct-70 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. CENTO headquarters inAnkara was bombed. The bombshattered virtually all of the glass inthe windows on two sides of thebuilding. There were no injuries.

3-Oct-70 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosive device wasthrown at the USIS offices in Ankara.Damage was slight.

5-Oct-70 Canada Front deLiberationduQuebec(FLQ)

Unknown0 1 CANADA. Members of the QuebecLiberation Front (FLQ) kidnappedJames R. Cross, British tradecommissioner in Quebec Province,and demanded as ransom therelease of 13 imprisoned FLQmembers and their flight to Algeriaor Cuba, the publication of the FLQmanifesto, the payment of $500,000in gold, the publication of the nameof the informant whose tip had ledpolice to raid an FLQ hideout in June,and the reinstatement of certain postoffice workers who had lost theirjobs. The Canadian governmentrejected the demands but attempted(unsuccessfully) to communicatewith the kidnappers.FLQ memberskidnapped Pierre LaPorte, minister oflabor in the Quebec government.The kidnappers warned that theywould kill LaPorte if the demandsmade by Cross's kidnappers were notmet. The government again rejectedthe demands, but offered thekidnappers a safe conduct out of thecountry if the two hostages werereleased unharmed. On October 16,the federal government of Canadainvoked emergency powers whichauthorized police and troops toconduct searches and make arrestswithout warrants. On October 18,LaPorte's body was found in thetrunk of a car. In a massive hunt forthe kidnappers, more than 500suspected members andsympathizers of the FLQ werearrested. Three were later convicted.On December 3, James Cross'skidnappers dropped all of theirprevious demands and released himunharmed in return for safe conductto Cuba. On December 28, 1971,LaPorte's kidnappers were arrested.They were subsequently tried, foundguilty, and sentenced to lifeimprisonment. In December 1978, aFrench-Canadian couple ended theirself-exile in France to face trial inMontreal for the kidnapping of Cross.They refused to plead to the chargesin a preliminary hearing. The judgeentered a plea of not guilty on theirbehalf. On August 7, 1979, Jacquesand Louise Cossette-Trudel receivedtwo-year jail sentences for thekidnapping. Jacques Lanctot, brotherof Louise Cossette-Trudel, was givena longer sentence because herefused to express regret for hisactions when he pleaded guilty.OnJune 9, 1982, Yves Langlois, the lastof the five Quebec separatistguerrillas wanted for the kidnappingof James Cross, returned home toMontreal from exile in France. Hepleaded guilty to forcible detention,extortion and conspiracy. InSeptember 1982, Langlois wassentenced to one day less than twoyears and was ordered to do 150hours of community work after hisrelease.

5-Oct-70 Canada Front deLiberationduQuebec(FLQ)

Unknown0 1 CANADA. Members of the QuebecLiberation Front (FLQ) kidnappedJames R. Cross, British tradecommissioner in Quebec Province,and demanded as ransom therelease of 13 imprisoned FLQmembers and their flight to Algeriaor Cuba, the publication of the FLQmanifesto, the payment of $500,000in gold, the publication of the nameof the informant whose tip had ledpolice to raid an FLQ hideout in June,and the reinstatement of certain postoffice workers who had lost theirjobs. The Canadian governmentrejected the demands but attempted(unsuccessfully) to communicatewith the kidnappers.FLQ memberskidnapped Pierre LaPorte, minister oflabor in the Quebec government.The kidnappers warned that theywould kill LaPorte if the demandsmade by Cross's kidnappers were notmet. The government again rejectedthe demands, but offered thekidnappers a safe conduct out of thecountry if the two hostages werereleased unharmed. On October 16,the federal government of Canadainvoked emergency powers whichauthorized police and troops toconduct searches and make arrestswithout warrants. On October 18,LaPorte's body was found in thetrunk of a car. In a massive hunt forthe kidnappers, more than 500suspected members andsympathizers of the FLQ werearrested. Three were later convicted.On December 3, James Cross'skidnappers dropped all of theirprevious demands and released himunharmed in return for safe conductto Cuba. On December 28, 1971,LaPorte's kidnappers were arrested.They were subsequently tried, foundguilty, and sentenced to lifeimprisonment. In December 1978, aFrench-Canadian couple ended theirself-exile in France to face trial inMontreal for the kidnapping of Cross.They refused to plead to the chargesin a preliminary hearing. The judgeentered a plea of not guilty on theirbehalf. On August 7, 1979, Jacquesand Louise Cossette-Trudel receivedtwo-year jail sentences for thekidnapping. Jacques Lanctot, brotherof Louise Cossette-Trudel, was givena longer sentence because herefused to express regret for hisactions when he pleaded guilty.OnJune 9, 1982, Yves Langlois, the lastof the five Quebec separatistguerrillas wanted for the kidnappingof James Cross, returned home toMontreal from exile in France. Hepleaded guilty to forcible detention,extortion and conspiracy. InSeptember 1982, Langlois wassentenced to one day less than twoyears and was ordered to do 150hours of community work after hisrelease.

5-Oct-70 TucumanArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A time bomb was lefton the window ledge of the USISBinational Center in Tucuman. Thebomb was dismantled.

6-Oct-70 Milan Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Two Molotov cocktails werethrown at the USIS offices in Milan. Asmall fire resulted.

6-Oct-70 London UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Two parcels withgrenades inside and addressed tothe Embassy of Israel and the El Aloffice in London were found in theBOAC London office.

6-Oct-70 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb that failed todetonate was found under thevehicle of a member of the U.S. AirForce near his Ankara apartment.


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Two parcels withgrenades inside and addressed tothe Embassy of Israel and the El Aloffice in London were found in theBOAC London office.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bombexploded in the New York City officeof the Palestine LiberationOrganization. Minor damage.

7-Oct-70 La Paz Bolivia Other Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. The USIS offices in Oruroand La Paz were dynamited andtaken over by demonstrators.

7-Oct-70 Oruro Bolivia Other Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. The USIS offices in Oruroand La Paz were dynamited andtaken over by demonstrators.

8-Oct-70 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Santiago offices of theFord Motor Company were bombed.



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two young men entered the USISAmerika Haus in Munich and set offhomemade firebombs in the secondfloor exhibit room.

9-Oct-70 Lima Peru Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. Small incendiary devices wentoff in the Lima store of an Americanfirm.

9-Oct-70 Iran Other Unknown0 0 IRAN. An Iranian airliner washijacked to Baghdad by Iranianterrorists seeking the release of 21prisoners held in Iran.

11-Oct-70 Chicago UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A passerby foundfifteen sticks of dynamite wired to aclock of an attache case twentyminutes before it was set to explodeoutside the Greek consulate inChicago.

12-Oct-70 Tainan China,Republicof(Taiwan)

Unknown Explosives4 0 TAIWAN. A bomb exploded early inthe evening in the lobby of USISTainan. Four people were injured andthere was extensive damage.

13-Oct-70 Rosario ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A small time bombexploded in the USIS BinationalCenter in Rosario.

14-Oct-70 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A small explosion occurred atan American firm in Lima.


ArgentinaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ARGENTINA. The U.S. defenseattache's home in Buenos Aires wasfirebombed and destroyed.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs exploded at thehomes of two U.S. officials in BuenosAires.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs exploded at thehomes of two U.S. officials in BuenosAires.

21-Oct-70 MelbourneAustralia Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. A bomb was located atthe Yugoslav consulate in Melbourne.Croatian terrorists were believedresponsible.

22-Oct-70 CostaRica

Other Unknown0 0 COSTA RICA. A Costa Rican airlinerwas hijacked to Cuba. The hijackersdemanded the release of fourNicaraguan guerrillas, members ofthe FSLN, who were being held inCosta Rica. The four were releasedand flown to Cuba with the hijackers.

24-Oct-70 Rome Italy Other Other 0 0 ITALY. The U.S. Education '70 Exhibitin Rome was the subject of acommando-type raid executed bytwenty to twenty-five young people.A tear gas grenade was thrown, anda computer and some teachingmachines were damaged. Aphotograph of Angela Davis with amessage saying, To American Schoolof Assassins, we reply withrevolutionary violence, was left.

1-Nov-70 Tehran Iran Unknown Firearms0 0 IRAN. U.S. Ambassador DouglasMacArthur A1 evaded a kidnapattempt. At least one shot was firedat the ambassador, and a hand axewas hurled through the rear windowof his limousine. There were noinjuries.

1-Nov-70 Karachi Pakistan Other Other 10 4 PAKISTAN. The Polish deputy foreignminister was assassinated in Karachiby a Pakistani who drove a truck intoa reception line that was greetingPolish officials at the airport. Fourpersons were killed and 10 injured inthe attack.

6-Nov-70 Tel Aviv Israel al-Fatah Explosives34 2 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in thecentral bus station in Tel Aviv,followed by another explosion theretwenty minutes later. Two peoplewere killed and thirty-four woundedin the attack which was credited to AlFatah. On November 8, Abu Iyad ofFatah issued a statement in Ammansaying that these were the start ofmore and bigger operations withinour occupied homeland.

7-Nov-70 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The personal vehicle of aU.S. embassy officer in Bogota wasslightly damaged when a bomb,placed under it or thrown at it,exploded at 11 PM. It was parked atthe house of the US economiccounselor who was having a party.There were no injuries.

20-Nov-70

BuenosAires


Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A small bomb wasdetonated outside the Buenos Aireshome of the U.S. agricultural attacheby members of the FAP.

20-Nov-70

BuenosAires


Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Four hours after abomb went off at the home of the U.S. agricultural attache, a bomb wasdiscovered at the front door of thehome of another U.S. embassyofficer.

20-Nov-70

Lisbon Portugal ArmenianRevolutionaryArmy

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb causedextensive damage to the USIS libraryin Lisbon. The ARA claimed credit forthe bombing in a letter sent to thepress.

21-Nov-70

Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A small dynamite chargewas detonated outside the fence ofthe U.S. embassy in Ankara.

22-Nov-70

QuezonCity

PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb exploded atthe base of the front wall of the USISThomas Jefferson Cultural Center inQuezon City.

23-Nov-70

SanJuan

PuertoRico

ArmedCommandosofLiberation

Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. The ArmedCommandos of Liberation claimedresponsibility for a bomb that didsome damage to the DominicanRepublic consulate in San Juan.

25-Nov-70

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A ten-inch pipebomb exploded in the New York Cityoffices of Aeroflot. The JDL wasbelieved responsible. AlthoughRabbi Meir Kahane, the group'sleader, said that no one in hisorganization was involved, he said heheartily applauded the attack.

25-Nov-70



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Fire was set at the Frankfurt AmerikaHaus.

27-Nov-70

BuenosAires


Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. The homes of three U.S.military attaches in Martinez, asuburb of Buenos Aires, were raidedby armed men who left leafletsidentifying them as members of thePeronist Armed Forces (FAP). Theystole official documents, weapons,uniforms, and U.S. currency.

27-Nov-70

BuenosAires



27-Nov-70

BuenosAires



27-Nov-70

Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Three bombs exploded inthe U.S. officer's open mess in amilitary installation in Ankara. Threeother bombs detonated at the U.S.military annex, also in Ankara.

27-Nov-70

Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Three bombs exploded inthe U.S. officer's open mess in amilitary installation in Ankara. Threeother bombs detonated at the U.S.military annex, also in Ankara.

1-Dec-70 SanSebastian

Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Unknown0 0 SPAIN. Members of the ETAkidnapped Eugene Beihl, thehonorary West German consul in SanSebastian. The kidnappers warnedthat Beihl's fate would depend on thesentence given to 15 Basquesaccused of murdering a head of theprovincial police. Subsequent eventssuggest the possibility that a dealwas made: Beihl was releasedunharmed on December 24; theBasques were sentenced onDecember 28 -- nine of them to longprison terms and six to death;Generalissimo Franco commuted thesix death sentences to 30 years onDecember 30.

1-Dec-70 MontevideoUruguay Tupamaros(Uruguay)

Explosives0 0 URUGUAY. Tupamaros bombed theMontevideo offices of ITTCorporation.

1-Dec-70 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 CAMBODIA. A bomb exploded in thechancery of the U.S. embassy inPhnom Penh, causing extensivedamage.

6-Dec-70 KualaLumpur

Malaysia Unknown Firearms0 0 MALAYSIA. Three shots were fired atthe home of a U.S. Army officer inKuala Lumpur.

7-Dec-70 SantaCruz

Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. The door of the USISbuilding in Santa Cruz wasdynamited, causing minor damage.

7-Dec-70 Rio deJaneiro

Brazil AliancaLibertadoraNacional(ALN)

Unknown0 1 BRAZIL. Members of the ALN(National Liberation Alliance) andVPR (Vanguardia PopularRevolucionaria) kidnapped GiovanniEnrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassadorto Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, and killedhis bodyguard. The kidnappersdemanded the release of 70prisoners and their flight to Algeria,Chile, or Mexico, the publication ofthe prisoners' pictures in the press,the broadcast of a revolutionarymanifesto, and the immediatepublication by the press of any otherrebel communiques. After lengthynegotiations, the Braziliangovernment agreed to release theprisoners on January 14, 1971.Bucher was released unharmed onJanuary 16, 1971. In August 1972,three persons were sentenced to lifeimprisonment for involvement in thisepisode.

14-Dec-70

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

ArmedRevolutionaryIndependenceMovement(MIRA)

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The New York Citycorporate headquarters of GeneralElectric was bombed by MIRA, aPuerto Rican militant group.

18-Dec-70

Rosario ArgentinaOther Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ARGENTINA. The FAL raided theSpanish consulate in Rosario, settingthe building on fire and escaping with300,000 pesos.

24-Dec-70

Ankara Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Two Ankara Universitystudents were apprehended whilethey were trying to dynamite the U.S.Air Force Tuslog Detachment 30 inAnkara.

29-Dec-70

Ankara Turkey Unknown Firearms2 0 TURKEY. Two policemen outside theU.S. embassy in Ankara werewounded when fired upon by a fast-moving vehicle.

31-Dec-70

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Bombs exploded outside ahotel used by the U.S. Air Force andat a servicemen's club in Athens,causing minimal damage. Thebombs appeared to be timeddevices.

31-Dec-70

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Bombs exploded outside ahotel used by the U.S. Air Force andat a servicemen's club in Athens,causing minimal damage. Thebombs appeared to be timeddevices.

8-Jan-71 Uruguay Tupamaros(Uruguay)

Unknown0 0 URUGUAY. Tupamaros kidnappedGeoffrey M.S. Jackson, Britishambassador to Uruguay, anddemanded the release of 150prisoners as ransom. Thegovernment refused to negotiate andinstead offered a reward forinformation leading to theambassador or his captors. Jacksonwas held in a people's prison foreight months, and was released onSeptember 9, just three days after106 of the prisoners on thekidnappers' list escaped from jail.The Tupamaros announced thatthere was no longer any need tokeep Jackson.

8-Jan-71 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb placed bymembers of the JDL exploded in theSoviet cultural offices in Washington,D.C.

12-Jan-71 Asmara Ethiopia Unknown Firearms0 1 ETHIOPIA. A U.S. Army enlisted manassigned to Kagnew station inAsmara was fatally shot on the roadto Massawa. A pouch containingdocuments was missing from thetruck he was driving.

15-Jan-71 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Other 0 0 UNITED STATES. Members of the JDLsmashed windows of the New Yorkoffice of Aeroflot.

16-Jan-71 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Asurreptitiously planted explosivedevice went off in the main entrancehall of the Munich Amerika Haus,causing extensive damage.


UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. A Molotov cocktailwas thrown into the United ArabRepublic's mission in New York.

17-Jan-71 CanberraAustralia Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. Two Bulgarians werearrested after throwing threegelignite bombs at the SovietEmbassy in Canberra, causing minordamage.


GuatemalaOther Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Four terrorists enteredthe British consulate in GuatemalaCity, killed a PMA guard, and thensprayed the consulate with machine-gun fire.

22-Jan-71 Manila PhilippinesPeople'sRevolutionaryFront

Explosives0 1 PHILIPPINES. The People'sRevolutionary Front bombed theManila headquarters of the U.S. oilcompanies Esso and Caltex, killing aFilipino employee and damaging theoffices.

22-Jan-71 Manila PhilippinesPeople'sRevolutionaryFront

Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. The People'sRevolutionary Front bombed theManila headquarters of the U.S. oilcompanies Esso and Caltex, killing aFilipino employee and damaging theoffices.

22-Jan-71 Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Four members of the ELFhijacked an Ethiopian airliner toLibya.

23-Jan-71 Korea,South

Other Explosives16 1 SOUTH KOREA. A South Koreanattempted to hijack a South Koreanairliner to North Korea. He wasarmed with four hand grenades anda razor-sharp kitchen knife. He usedtwo of the grenades to blast his wayinto the cockpit where he made hisdemands known to the pilot, whosent out a radio message and flewfalse patterns. South Korean fighterswere scrambled in an attempt to haltthe flight, while antiaircraft fire wasdirected at the plane. A sky marshalfired twice at the hijacker with hispistol, causing the skyjacker to drophis grenades. Both of themexploded, killing the skyjacker andthe copilot and injuring sixteenothers, four of them seriously.

23-Jan-71 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Bombs were found on thegrounds of the U.S. embassy and theU.S. Information Service buildings inAnkara.

23-Jan-71 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Bombs were found on thegrounds of the U.S. embassy and theU.S. Information Service buildings inAnkara.

25-Jan-71 Ankara Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Two molotov cocktails werethrown onto the balcony of theresidence of a U.S. Foreign Serviceofficer in Ankara. There were noinjuries and little damage.

2-Feb-71 India Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. Two armed Kashmirinationalists hijacked an IndianAirlines plane to Pakistan. Theydemanded that the Indiangovernment release 36 prisonersheld in Kashmir. When thegovernment rejected their demands,they blew up the plane. They hadreleased the passengers and crewearlier.

7-Feb-71 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Small homemade bombsdamaged two cars belonging to U.S.military personnel in Athens.

7-Feb-71 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Small homemade bombsdamaged two cars belonging to U.S.military personnel in Athens.

8-Feb-71 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A gift-wrapped packagecontaining four sticks of dynamiteexploded inside the apartment of aU.S. soldier. Although damage washeavy, there were no casualties.

10-Feb-71 GothenburgSweden Other Unknown0 0 SWEDEN. Two Croatian emigresseized control of the Yugoslavconsulate in Gothenburg in anunsuccessful attempt to ransom itsoccupants in exchange for convictedterrorists held in Yugoslav jails. TheYugoslav government refused tomeet their demands, and theterrorists surrendered the next dayto the Swedish authorities. Theywere tried and sentenced to 3-1/2years imprisonment, but onSeptember 16, 1972, they werereleased and flown to Madrid afterthree Croatians hijacked aScandinavian airliner and demandedtheir freedom, along with the releaseof five Croatians involved in theassassination of the Yugoslavambassador on April 7, 1971.

10-Feb-71 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was found in anAnkara building occupied by threeAmerican military families.

10-Feb-71 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives2 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in asecond floor bathroom of the Turkish-American Association in Ankara,causing considerable damage to theUSIS library. Two people were slightlyinjured in the blast.

12-Feb-71 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A sizable explosionwent off near the wing of the U.S.chancery building in Manila.

14-Feb-71 IslamabadPakistan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. Molotov cocktails werehurled at the American Center inIslamabad.

15-Feb-71 Ankara Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationArmy

Unknown0 0 TURKEY. The TPLA (Turkish Peoples'Liberation Army) kidnapped JamesFinlay, an unarmed U.S. Air Forcesecurity policeman patrolling theAnkara Air Station, but made noransom demands. He reportedly hadcome upon them as they tried tosteal arms from the base. He wasreleased 17 hours after his capture.

17-Feb-71 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was thrown intothe lower parking lot of the U.S.consulate general in Istanbul. It wasdefused by police.

17-Feb-71 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded outsidethe fence surrounding U.S. Air ForceTuslog Detachment 29 in Istanbul.There was no damage.

19-Feb-71 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A U.S. Army passengerboat in Istanbul was damaged by abomb. Another bomb was found in asecond boat and defused.

19-Feb-71 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A U.S. Army passengerboat in Istanbul was damaged by abomb. Another bomb was found in asecond boat.

20-Feb-71 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A device made of plasticexplosives was found on the groundsof the U.S. Information Service inAnkara. The fuse had been lit, butthe bomb failed to explode.

25-Feb-71 Moscow USSR Unknown Other 0 0 SOVIET UNION. The rear window andboth tail lights of a U.S. embassyofficer's car were smashed while heand his wife were in the car inMoscow. The damage was done witha crowbar and a club. Bothoccupants of the vehicle wereshowered with glass, but not injured.

1-Mar-71 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

PuertoRicanResistanceMovement

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The New School forSocial Research in New York City wasbombed by the Puerto RicanResistance Movement.


UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. Two unidentifiedpeople threw a firebomb from apassing car at the Iraqi mission tothe United Nations in New York City.

4-Mar-71 Ankara Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationArmy

Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Five members of the TPLAkidnapped four U.S. servicemen whowere stationed near Ankara. Thekidnappers demanded thepublication of a manifesto attackingAmerican imperialism in Turkey, andthe payment of 400,000 Turkish lira.The Turkish government capturedone of the kidnappers, he divulgedthe names of his accomplices, andsome 45,000 police and soldierswere mobilized to search for them.At the Middle East TechnicalUniversity in Ankara, the troops weremet by students armed with gunsand dynamite. The kidnappersreleased the four airmen unharmedon March 8, and were subsequentlyarrested, tried and convicted. Threewere hanged, one was imprisoned,and one was killed in a gunfight withTurkish authorities.

6-Mar-71 Colombo SriLanka(Ceylon)

Other Fire orFirebomb

2 1 SRI LANKA (CEYLON). The U.S.embassy in Colombo was attackedwith rocks and firebombs. Twovehicles were burned and manywindows broken. Up to forty men outof a group of one hundredoverpowered the police guard andscaled the embassy wall. Threepolicemen were stabbed, one fatally.



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Anumber of U.S. military vehicles werefirebombed in Frankfurt, causing$6,000 damage.

12-Mar-71 Dacca Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. While the guard wasforced away at gunpoint, two smallbombs were thrown into the groundfloor of the building housing the U.S.consulate in Dacca.

14-Mar-71 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A small bomb was thrownover the back wall of the U.S.consulate in Istanbul.

15-Mar-71 RotterdamNetherlandsal-Fatah Unknown0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. Terroristssabotaged the Gulf Oil Companyrefinery in Rotterdam. The terroristswere reportedly Europeans operatingon a contract from RASD, the AlFatah intelligence organization.

15-Mar-71 Ankara Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationArmy

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Members of the TPLAbombed the U.S. consulate in Ankara.

16-Mar-71 Dacca Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 0 PAKISTAN. Several shots were firedat the home of the U.S. consulgeneral in Dacca, penetrating themaster bedroom suite.

20-Mar-71 Dacca Pakistan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. Three Molotov cocktailswere thrown into the servicescompound of the U.S. consulate inDacca.

25-Mar-71 Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A pipe bomb exploded atthe rear of the U.S. consulate inIzmir. There was no damage.

25-Mar-71 France MovementofYouthwardBrothersin War ofthe Pales

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Forty demonstrators threwstones and three Molotov cocktails atoffices of the Bull ComputerCompany, a subsidiary of GeneralElectric Company. An organizationcalled The Movement of YouthwardBrothers in War of the PalestinianPeople claimed responsibility for theattack.

28-Mar-71 Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in thegarden of the US consulate general'sresidence in Izmir, causing no injuriesor property damage.

30-Mar-71 PhilippinesKabataangMakabayan(KM)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Six members ofKabataang Makabayan (NationalistYouth Organization), a Philippineleftist student organization, hijackeda Philippine Air Lines domestic flightto Peking, China.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Secret CubanGovernment, a group of anti-CastroCubans, bombed the Cuban HealthExchange in New York.

1-Apr-71 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

EjercitodeLiberacionNacional(Bolivia)

Firearms0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The former Bolivian consul general inHamburg, Roberto Quintanilla, waskilled by a member of the ELN whoentered the consulate and shot him.

2-Apr-71 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Five bombs with fuses stillsmoking were discovered outside theCENTO secretariat building in Ankara;a bomb exploded outside the CENTOheadquarters in Ankara.

2-Apr-71 Jordan Other Unknown0 0 JORDAN. Fedayeen damaged apipeline carrying crude oil to theZarka refinery in Jordan. Thepipeline, an extension of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, is owned by theArabian-American Oil Company.

2-Apr-71 Ankara Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. The U.S. Officers OpenMess in Ankara was attacked by fouryoung Turks who threw two blackpowder bombs into the building.

5-Apr-71 Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A fragmentation grenadewas tossed over the back wall of theU.S. embassy in Amman. Thegrenade landed in a parking lot.

6-Apr-71 MontevideoUruguay Unknown Firearms0 0 URUGUAY. Automatic weapons fireand a bazooka-like projectile weredirected at a U.S. embassy residencein Montevideo. The perpetrator wasunknown.

7-Apr-71 MontevideoUruguay Tupamaros(Uruguay)

Explosives0 0 URUGUAY. The Tupamaros wereresponsible for bombing the U.S.Marine billet in Montevideo.

7-Apr-71 StockholmSweden Other Unknown2 1 SWEDEN. Croatian terroristsassassinated the Yugoslavambassador to Sweden and woundedtwo Yugoslav diplomats inStockholm. They were released fromjail when three Croatians hijacked aScandinavian airliner on September16, 1972, and demanded theirfreedom.


UnitedStates

BlackRevolutionaryAssaultTeam

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Members of theBlack Revolutionary Assault Teamclaimed credit for a bomb thatexploded at the New York Cityconsular office of the Republic ofSouth Africa, destroying an outerwall. The group was protestingapartheid.

14-Apr-71 BuenosAires

ArgentinaEjercitoRevolucionariadelPueblo(ERP)(Argentin

Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Members of the ERPattacked the residence of theUruguayan naval attache in BuenosAires.

15-Apr-71 AmsterdamNetherlandsJewishDefenseLeague(JDL)

Explosives5 0 NETHERLANDS. A bomb causedheavy damage to the Amsterdamoffice building housing the Soviettrade delegation. Four of the twentyoccupants and a passerby wereinjured. Slogans from the JDL wereleft on the scene and an AmericanJew living in the Netherlands wasarrested.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives1 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bombcontaining smokeless powder andsteel bearings injured one personand caused considerable damage tothe New York City offices of theSouth African Tourist Corporation. Anotice to news media claimed thatthe attack was in opposition toapartheid.

21-Apr-71 CopenhagenDenmark Unknown Explosives0 0 DENMARK. A bomb destroyed theGreek embassy in Copenhagen.


UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb damagedthe New York City offices of AMTORG,the Soviet Trading Corporation.Twenty minutes earlier a group usingJDL slogans had phoned UPI to warnof the bombing. JDL deniedresponsibility.

26-Apr-71 MozambiqueArmedRevolutionaryAction

Explosives0 23 MOZAMBIQUE. Members of theArmed Revolutionary Action claimedcredit for an explosion on aPortuguese ship off the Mozambiquecoast; 23 crew members were killed.

26-Apr-71 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives1 0 GREECE. A small bomb exploded in atrash barrel outside the headquartersof the USAF Group to protest the U.S.presence in Athens. A Greekemployee was seriously wounded.

27-Apr-71 Rosario ArgentinaEjercitoRevolucionariadelPueblo(ERP)(Argentin

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The Luis Blanco andAdolfo Bello units of the ERP placedeleven bombs in U.S. business officesin Rosario.





30-Apr-71 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A plastic bomb was thrownover the rear gate of the Parisresidence of the U.S. ambassador,causing no injuries, but somedamage.

3-May-71 BuenosAires


Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The ERP bombed threeforeign businesses in Buenos Aires.







4-May-71 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded at theTuslog Detachment 30 US airmen'sbillet in Ankara, shattering all thewindows in the building, which wasunoccupied at the time.

14-May-71

Athens Greece FreeGreeks

Explosives1 1 GREECE. A Greek policeman waskilled while trying to defuse a bombthat exploded in Athens near thestatue of President Harry S. Truman.One other person was injured. FreeGreeks claimed they would increasetheir anti-American attacks unlessthe United States ceased its supportof the regime.

16-May-71

SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

Unknown Firearms0 1 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A U.S.embassy contract watchman waskilled by an unknown assailant whofired upon the embassy.

17-May-71

Istanbul Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationFront(TPLF)(THKP-C)

Firearms0 1 TURKEY. Members of the TPLFkidnapped Ephraim Elrom, the Israeliconsul general in Istanbul, anddemanded the release of allguerrillas being detained by theTurkish government. Thegovernment rejected the demand,launched a house-to-house search,and found Elrom's body in anapartment on May 23. He had beenshot to death. Two of the kidnapperswere later cornered by police, and inthe ensuing gunfight, one was killedand the other was captured. Thecaptive escaped but was killed bypolice on March 27, 1972.

29-May-71

SanSebastian


Unknown0 0 SPAIN. Basque nationalistsattempted to kidnap Henri Wolimer,the French consul in San Sebastian.He resisted and escaped.

4-Jun-71 Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 PERSIAN GULF. Militants from thePopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine (PFLP) carried out anassault on the Liberian-registered oiltanker Coral Sea. Gunmen on aspeedboat fired 10 bazooka shells atthe tanker, causing some damagebut no casualties. The attackoccurred in the Strait of Bab elMandeb at the entrance to the RedSea. It was intended to deter tankersfrom using the Israeli port of Eilat onthe Red Sea.

12-Jun-71 GlenCove

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A faulty timingdevice prevented a JDL bomb fromexploding at the Soviet Union'sestate in Glen Cove, New York.

12-Jun-71 Manila PhilippinesOther Explosives3 0 PHILIPPINES. Several people wereinjured when six pro-Maoists, hurledsix pillbox grenades at the U.S.embassy in Manila.

12-Jun-71 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PHILIPPINES. Three molotov cocktailswere thrown at the JUSMAAG motorpool in Manila, causing minordamage.

12-Jun-71 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PHILIPPINES. A Molotov cocktailexploded at the U.S. AID parking lotstorage house in Manila.

13-Jun-71 UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedoutside the building housing theMexican Government TourismDepartment, causing minor damage.

16-Jun-71 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives2 0 CAMBODIA. A small plastic bombwas thrown at a U.S. embassyvehicle in Phnom Penh, injuring twoCambodian pedestrians anddamaging the vehicle.

23-Jun-71 Uruguay OPR-33 Unknown0 0 URUGUAY. The OPR-33 kidnappedAlfredo Cambon, a legal adviser toseveral large Uruguayan companiesbacked by American capital, andreleased him on June 25.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Secret CubanGovernment bombed a theater inNew York City.

1-Jul-71 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 VENEZUELA. Fire was set in front ofthe quarters of one U.S. militarygroup official in Caracas.

3-Jul-71 HeraklionGreece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb completelydestroyed a U.S. vehicle which wasused to transport Greek employeesto the U.S. air base in Heraklion,Crete.

4-Jul-71 Dacca Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A small bomb exploded inthe U.S. consul general's residencegarden in Dacca.The consulate andthe consul general's residence hadbeen attacked in March 1971.

7-Jul-71 Tel Aviv Israel al-Fatah Explosives30 4 ISRAEL. Seven Arab members of AlFatah fired rockets at a suburb of TelAviv, killing four and wounding thirty.

9-Jul-71 BuenosAires


0 0 ARGENTINA. The USIS LincolnLibrary in Buenos Aires wasextensively damaged by a firebomb.

12-Jul-71 Uruguay Tupamaros(Uruguay)

Unknown0 0 URUGUAY. Argentine-born JorgeBerembau, an industrialist, waskidnapped by the Tupamaros. Aransom of 1 million pesos ($300,000)was asked to be given to threetextile unions to compensate forrecent factory closings. Berembauwas released November 26, 1971.

14-Jul-71 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded at theUSIS Hellenic American Union, aBinational Center in Athens, causingconsiderable damage.

21-Jul-71 Palermo Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A cyclist threw a bomb at theU.S. consul general's front door inPalermo, causing minor damage tothe occupied building but no injuries.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. A JDL firebombdestroyed a Soviet Union embassyofficial's car in New York City.

31-Jul-71 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. An explosive devicefound in a sewer by the U.S.consulate in Guatemala City, wasdismantled.

9-Aug-71 Uruguay Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 URUGUAY. A Molotov cocktail wasleft near a vehicle assigned to a U.S.public safety officer, causing nodamage.

19-Aug-71

Honduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A USIS building wasbombed, but damage was not seriousbecause the office was closed at thetime.

19-Aug-71

Honduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. The U.S. military groupheadquarters was bombed.

21-Aug-71

Honduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. The U.S. Peace Corpsoffice was bombed.

22-Aug-71

Hoboken UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. The MIRA, a PuertoRican independence group, wascredited with nine firebombings ofgroceries and supermarkets inGreenwich Village and Harlem. InHoboken, New Jersey, the groupclaimed credit for the firebombingsof seven stores.

22-Aug-71



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24-Aug-71

Madrid Spain al-Fatah Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb placed by Al Fatahexploded in a B707 of the RoyalJordanian Airline in Madrid, as it wasparked at the Barajas Airport. Theexplosive device was placed in theaft lavatory complex and blew a holein the top of the fuselage, but causedno injuries because the plane wasout of service at the time. It appearsthat the target was King Hussein'smother, Queen Mother Zien, who hadboarded the jet at Amman butdeplaned in Istanbul. No groupclaimed responsibility, but Al Fatahmembers have been reported as theprime suspects. One report claimsBlack September was responsible,although the group did not publiclysurface until November 1971.

24-Aug-71

GuayaquilEcuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A bomb exploded in frontof the U.S. consulate section inGuayaquil, causing no injuries.

1-Sep-71 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 CAMBODIA. A bicycle bomb wasdirected at U.S. Ambassador EmorySwank's car while he was en route tothe embassy. The bomb did notdetonate.

8-Sep-71 Beirut Lebanon al-Fatah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A member of Al Fatahhijacked a Jordanian Alia airliner toLibya. The plane was enroute fromBeirut to Amman.

9-Sep-71 Jordan Other Unknown0 0 JORDAN. Palestinian commandosdamaged the Trans-Arabian Pipelinein Jordan near the Syrian border.Jordan accused the Syrians ofinvolvement.

11-Sep-71 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb exploded onthe back wall of the U.S. embassy atthe rear of the parking lot. Noinjuries.

15-Sep-71 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


0 0 EL SALVADOR. Seventeen incendiarydevices resembling cigarette packswere planted in the San Salvadorstore of a U.S. corporation between6:00 and 6:30pm. Four of thedevices ignited, causing a very smallloss.

15-Sep-71 Jordan Other Unknown0 0 JORDAN. Palestinian commandosagain damaged the Trans-ArabianPipeline in Jordan near the Syrianborder. The pipeline had beendamaged a few days earlier. Syriawas again suspected of involvement.

16-Sep-71 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives6 1 ISRAEL. PLO terrorists threw a handgrenade into a crowd of Americantourists visiting Jerusalem. One child(a 4 year old Arab girl) was killedand six others injured. FiveAmerican tourists were hit byshrapnel.

20-Sep-71 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives3 0 UNITED STATES. A caller to UPIclaimed credit for bombing theentrance of Zaire's U.N. mission inNew York City for the BlackRevolutionary Assault Team. Heclaimed, We bombed it because theyrefused to allow our freedom fightersto cross their country to get toAngola. Three passersby wereinjured by the explosion.


UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Minutes after abombing of the Zaire U.N. mission, alow-grade pipe bomb was found atthe Malawi mission. It wasdismantled by police. The BlackRevolutionary Assault Team claimedcredit.

26-Sep-71 Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. Three bombs exploded at aU.S. consular officer's home causinglimited structural damage. Thebombing was believed to be part of acivil disturbance campaign againstthe government.

26-Sep-71 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives10 2 CAMBODIA. Two U.S. Embassyemployees (one MSG) were killedand ten others wounded whenterrorists threw explosives onto asoftball field in Phnom Penh.

1-Oct-71 Bogota Colombia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. Ten firebombs werefound at the Chapinero, Bogota storeof a U.S. firm. One of the devicesexploded, but caused no damage.

4-Oct-71 Beirut Lebanon al-Fatah Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An Alia Caravelle flyingfrom Beirut to Amman was the sceneof an unsuccessful hijacking by twomembers of Fatah, a Palestinian manand woman, one of whom wasreported killed when overpowered bysecurity guards during the flight.The woman had attempted to pullthe pin from a grenade she hadcarried on board inside a wig andwanted to divert the plane to Iraq.

6-Oct-71 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A delay to take off fromBeirut for technical reasons saved aJordanian Airlines Caravelle from atime bomb that had been placedinside a suitcase under the wingwhile being loaded.

6-Oct-71 Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two bombs exploded in U.S. vehicles, causing no injuries andslight damage to the vehicles.

6-Oct-71 Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two bombs exploded in U.S. vehicles, causing no injuries andslight damage to the vehicles.

8-Oct-71 BelloMonte

VenezuelaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 VENEZUELA. Incendiary deviceswere found in the Bello Monte storeof an American firm.

8-Oct-71 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A bomb exploded infront of a U.S. Peace Corps TrainingCenter near San Salvador. The bombwas discovered by a local guard whothrew it into the street before itexploded, preventing seriousdamage.

12-Oct-71 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Turkish terrorists bombed acar belonging to an employee of theU.S. Consulate in Istanbul.

14-Oct-71 SanFrancisco

UnitedStates

Other Explosives4 0 UNITED STATES. Anti-monarchistIranian students dynamited theIranian consulate in San Francisco,causing $1 million damage to theconsulate and nearby houses andinjuring four people. The group wasprotesting the Shah's lavishcelebration of the twenty-fivehundredth anniversary of the PersianEmpire.

16-Oct-71 Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in anUSAF vehicle. No injuries.

18-Oct-71 Ottawa Canada CanadianHungarianFreedomFightersFederation

Unknown0 0 CANADA. Soviet Premier Aleksei N.Kosygin was assaulted by a memberof the Canadian Hungarian FreedomFighters Federation in Ottawa.


UnitedStates


Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. Members of the JDLfired rifle shots into an apartmentoccupied by members of the Sovietdelegation to the United Nations.

24-Oct-71 Jordan Unknown Unknown0 0 JORDAN. For the third time in twomonths Palestinian commandosdamaged the Trans-Arabian Pipelinein Jordan near the Syrian border.Jordan accused the Syrians ofinvolvement in each case.

27-Oct-71 Lisbon Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A powerful bombexploded outside the new NATOheadquarters in Lisbon, causingconsiderable damage to the buildingbut no injuries.

3-Nov-71 SaoPaulo

Brazil Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BRAZIL. Molotov cocktails damageda car belonging to the U.S. consulgeneral, and the homes of officials ofSwift & Company and Chicago BridgeCompany in Sao Paulo.

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10-Nov-71

Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. Four explosions occurred inthe Intercontinental Hotel in Amman.The hotel is managed by U.S.personnel, and at one time had asmall amount of U.S. backing.

20-Nov-71

Taipei China,Republicof(Taiwan)

Unknown Unknown0 25 PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. AChina Airlines Caravelle flying fromTaipei to Hong Kong exploded inmidair, killing all twenty-five onboard.

23-Nov-71

Sydney Australia Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. A bomb was thrown at aYugoslav travel agency in Sydney.Croatian terrorists were believedresponsible.

26-Nov-71

SanMartin

Colombia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. Fourteen incendiarybombs were placed in the San Martinstore of a U.S. firm. Four of themworked but caused only minordamage.

27-Nov-71

UnitedStates

Republicof NewAfrica

Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. Three armed menwho said they were members of theRepublic of New Africa hijacked aTWA jet to Cuba.

28-Nov-71

Cairo Egypt BlackSeptember

Unknown0 1 EGYPT. Four members of the BSOassassinated Wasfi Tal, the Jordanianprime minister, in Cairo. This wasthe first public mention of the group.A statement issued by the BSO(Black September Organization) saidthat the killing was in revenge for theslaying of Palestinian guerrillas in theJordan civil war in September 1970.The Egyptian government later freedthe four gunmen for lack of evidence.

30-Nov-71

Uruguay OPR-33 Unknown0 0 URUGUAY. Michele Ray, a Frenchjournalist, said that she had beenkidnapped by members of OPR-33and held for 38 hours. Some officialsin Uruguay speculated that Miss Rayhad arranged her kidnapping in orderto interview the guerrillas.

5-Dec-71 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Jewish ArmedResistance claimed responsibility forbombing two Russian gift shops, onein New York and the other inMinnesota. The bombs shatteredglass.

5-Dec-71 UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Jewish ArmedResistance claimed responsibility forbombing two Russian gift shops, onein New York and the other inMinnesota. The bombs shatteredglass.

11-Dec-71

Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. An armed man enteredthe USIS library and ordered the localemployees out. Minutes later adeafening explosion was heard.Destruction of the library was almosttotal.

13-Dec-71

Ireland Unknown Explosives0 0 IRELAND. Two explosive deviceswere attached to a U.S. Marinesecurity guard vehicle. One devicefailed to go off. Damage was minor.

15-Dec-71


BlackSeptember

Unknown0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. BSO (BlackSeptember Organization) membersattempted to assassinate Zaid Rifai,the Jordanian ambassador, inLondon.

16-Dec-71

Geneva SwitzerlandBlackSeptember

Explosives3 0 SWITZERLAND. Three persons wereinjured by parcel bombs sent by theBSO (Black September Organization)to the Jordanian mission to theUnited Nations in Geneva.

1-Jan-72 Kuwait Unknown Unknown0 0 KUWAIT. Facilities of the Kuwait OilCompany, which is partially U.S.-owned, was damaged by sabotage.

11-Jan-72 PortoAlegre

Brazil Unknown Firearms1 0 BRAZIL. A uniformed state militaryguard stationed at the Porto Alegreresidence of the U.S. consul was shotin the leg by two unidentifiedassailants at 3AM. The attackers fledon foot.

16-Jan-72 WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Unknown3 1 ISRAEL. An American nurse waskilled and several people werewounded in a terrorist attack inIsraeli-occupied Gaza.

17-Jan-72 Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives2 0 IRAN. The U.S. mission premises inTehran were subjected to fourbombings. Two local guards sufferedinjuries.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bombexploded at the Portuguese airlinesoffice in New York. The bombing wasin protest against Portuguese rule inPortuguese Guinea.

26-Jan-72 StockholmSweden Other Explosives0 26 SWEDEN. Croatian emigres claimedresponsibility for the bombing of aStockholm-to-Belgrade airliner thatcrashed, killing 26.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. Members of the JDLfirebombed the New York offices ofthe late Sol Hurok, who managed U.S. tours by Soviet performers.

27-Jan-72 Vienna Austria Other Explosives6 0 AUSTRIA. Croatian terrorists weresuspected of placing a bomb thatexploded on a train en route fromVienna to Zagreb, Yugoslavia,injuring six people.

2-Feb-72 Dublin Ireland Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 IRELAND. Irish terrorists firebombedthe British embassy in Dublin.

2-Feb-72 FederalRepublicofGermany

June 2Movement(Bewegung2 Juni)

Explosives0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Second of June Movement placeda bomb in a boathouse used byBritish army officers, killing aGerman employee who was checkingthe explosive device. The groupclaimed to be commemorating theanniversary of a bloody event inNorthern Ireland.

5-Feb-72 Rio deJaneiro

Brazil Other Firearms0 1 BRAZIL. A British sailor on shoreleave in Rio de Janeiro was killed bymachine-gun fire from a passing car.A leaflet signed by four Brazilianextremists claimed the action was anexpression of solidarity with thecombatants of Ireland and of all theworld.

5-Feb-72 RavensteinNetherlandsBlackSeptember

Unknown0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. A Dutch gas-pumping station at Ravenstein wassabotaged. French authoritiesarrested an Algerian in connectionwith the incident. The BSO wasbelieved to be responsible.

6-Feb-72 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany

BlackSeptember

Unknown0 5 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Five Jordanian workers who wereallegedly spying for Israel weremurdered near Cologne. The BSOwas believed responsible.

8-Feb-72 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

BlackSeptember

Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The BSO was believed responsible fordamage to a plant near Hamburgthat made electrical generators forIsraeli aircraft.

17-Feb-72 Greece Resistance,LiberationandIndependenceOrganizat

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The car of the commanderof JUSMAAG was damaged by a bombbelieved placed by the Resistance,Liberation and IndependenceOrganization (AAA).

17-Feb-72 Athens Greece Resistance,LiberationandIndependenceOrganizat

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Cars belonging to two U.S.diplomats were damaged by bombsin Athens. The Resistance, Liberationand Independence Organization(AAA) is believed responsible.

17-Feb-72 Athens Greece Resistance,LiberationandIndependenceOrganizat

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Cars belonging to two U.S.diplomats were damaged by bombsin Athens. The Resistance, Liberationand Independence Organization(AAA) is believed responsible.

19-Feb-72 Cairo Egypt JordanianNationalLiberationMovement

Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A Jordanian with a handgrenade attempted to hijack an AliaCaravelle flying from Cairo toAmman. He tried to divert the planeto Tripoli, Libya as it left Cairo. Hewas overpowered by Jordaniansecurity guards. The JordanianNational Liberation Movementclaimed responsibility.

22-Feb-72 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

BlackSeptember

Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Black September Organizationsabotaged the Esso oil pipeline nearHamburg, claiming that the companyhad aided the Israelis.

22-Feb-72 NewDelhi

India Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. A Lufthansa German Airlinesjet en route from New Delhi toAthens was hijacked by fivePalestinian guerrillas who describedthemselves as members of theOrganization for Victims of ZionistOccupation. They ordered the planeflown to Aden, Southern Yemen.Thedemands of the group were not clear.One report said the hijackersdemanded the release of three Arabsbeing held in Cologne for the slayingof five Jordanians (see February 6,1972 incident). Another report saidthey demanded the release of fourPalestinians being held in Cairo forthe slaying of Jordanian PrimeMinister Wasfi Tal (see November 28,1971 incident). The hijackersreleased the jet, passengers, andcrew on February 23, and onFebruary 25 the West Germangovernment disclosed that it hadpaid $5 million in ransom. Thehijackers went free.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Secret CubanGovernment bombed a theater inNew York City.

1-Mar-72 PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. Secret CubanGovernment bombed two drugstores.

2-Mar-72 Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb went off in theprivate automobile of the USIS pressofficer in front of his home.

5-Mar-72 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

BlackSeptember

Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The BSO sabotaged an oil pipelinenear Hamburg.

10-Mar-72 Medellin Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A timed explosive deviceplaced in a grated vent of theMedellin USIS Binational Centeroutside the director's officeexploded, causing no injuries andminor damage. However, the bombwas judged to be of sufficient forceto have caused casualties.

21-Mar-72 StrasbourgFrance Unknown Firearms0 0 FRANCE. A shot was fired throughthe open doors of the U.S. viceconsul's home in Strasbourg, causingno injuries. The quarters are locatedin the consulate.

21-Mar-72 ArgentinaEjercitoRevolucionariadelPueblo(ERP)(Argentin

Unknown0 1 ARGENTINA. Members of the ERPkidnapped Oberdan Sallustro,president of the Italian-ownedcompany, Fiat of Argentina. Theydemanded that 50 guerrillas bereleased, that $l million in ransom inthe form of school supplies andshoes be given to school children inpoor areas of the country, and thatFiat reinstate 250 workers who hadbeen fired in a labor dispute. Thekidnappers said Sallustro wasresponsible for repression of theworkers.Fiat accepted the ransomdemand, but the Argentinegovernment refused to release theprisoners and warned that Fiatexecutives would be prosecuted forillicit associations unless they brokeoff contact with the kidnappers.Police launched an all-out search anddiscovered the kidnappers' hideouton April 10. Just before they werecaptured, the kidnappers executedSallustro.

27-Mar-72 KeyBiscayne

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A Soviet researchship was bombed by the CubanGroup JCN in Key Biscayne, Florida.

27-Mar-72 Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationArmy

Unknown0 3 TURKEY. Members of the TPLAkidnapped three NATO radartechnicians (two British citizens andone Canadian). The kidnappersdemanded the release of threeterrorists who were being held undersentence of death. The governmentrefused to bargain with thekidnappers or allow them safepassage out of the country. Whenpolice surrounded their hideout, thekidnappers executed the threehostages. In the subsequent assault,ten kidnappers were killed.

29-Mar-72 StockholmSweden Other Explosives0 0 SWEDEN. A bomb was planted inYugotours, a Yugoslav travel agencyin Stockholm. Croatian terroristswere believed responsible.

4-Apr-72 Montreal Canada YoungCubans

Explosives7 1 CANADA. A bomb exploded in theCuban Trade Office in Montreal. Oneperson was killed and seven otherswere injured. Authorities arrestedseven Cuban officials and chargedsix of them with possessing weaponsand interfering with the policeinvestigation. A phone call the nextday claimed the bombings had beencarried out by a group called theYoung Cubans in the name ofAlejandro Del Valle, who died in theBay of Pigs invasion.

15-Apr-72 MontevideoUruguay Unknown Explosives0 0 URUGUAY. A bomb went off in theSoviet embassy in Montevideo.

16-Apr-72 GothenburgSweden Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SWEDEN. The USIS office inGothenburg was damaged byfirebombs during the night.

19-Apr-72 BarcelonaSpain Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Eight or nine young men withtheir faces covered and iron bars inhand broke most of the glass in theentrance to the USIS BinationalCenter library and auditorium inBarcelona. They fled, throwing twoMolotov cocktails that burned on thesidewalk, causing no damage.

19-Apr-72 SanDiego

UnitedStates

SecretArmyOrganization

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Secret ArmyOrganization, an American right-winggroup that targeted undergroundanti-war organizations, bombed theGuild Theater in San Diego,California. The building wasdamaged, but the blast did not resultin any casualties.

20-Apr-72 Athens Greece Resistance,LiberationandIndependenceOrganizat

Explosives1 0 GREECE. In Athens a small timedexplosive device detonated in therear wheel well of the personal autoof the U.S. consul general, causingslight damage. The consul, his wifeand a guest had just entered the carand the consul's wife was injured.The AAA claimed responsibility.

21-Apr-72 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. Three pipe bombs explodedalmost simultaneously in the innercourt of the chancery of the U.S.embassy in Rome, causing nodamage or injuries.

24-Apr-72 AmsterdamNetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. A timed gasolineincendiary device was discovered bya local employee in the waiting roomof the U.S. consulate general inAmsterdam. The device wasdeactivated.

3-May-72 Sweden Unknown Explosives0 0 SWEDEN. The Turkish tourist officewas bombed in response to Ankara'sparliament ratifying the deathsentences of three TPLA membersconvicted of kidnapping three U.S.servicemen in 1971.

3-May-72 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Four armed individualsplanted bombs on the parking lot ofthe U.S. Base Civil Engineeringfacility in Ankara. The bombs failedto explode.

3-May-72 Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationArmy

Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Four Turkish students whowere members of the TPLA hijackeda Turkish airliner to Sofia, where theysurrendered to Bulgarian authorities.The hijackers had demanded therelease of three prisoners in Turkey.The crew and passengers werereleased on May 4.

8-May-72 Vienna Austria BlackSeptember

Firearms4 1 AUSTRIA. Four members of theBSO--two men and two women--hijacked a Sabena Belgian WorldAirlines plane en route from Viennato Tel Aviv. Upon their arrival at TelAviv's Lod Airport, they demandedthe release of 317 Palestinianguerrillas held in Israel. While Israeliofficials negotiated with thehijackers, Israeli paratroopersdisguised as mechanics burstthrough the plane's emergencydoors, killed the two male hijackersand wounded one of the women.Five passengers were wounded inthe gunfight; one later died. The twowomen hijackers were subsequentlysentenced to life imprisonment.



0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A small petrolbomb was thrown against theentrance to the U.S. embassy inLondon, causing very little damage.

10-May-72

Paris France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Four young men enteredthe U.S. Trade Center in Paris and setoff two firebombs, causing anestimated $100,000 damage.

11-May-72


Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives13 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Aseries of bombs placed by theBaader-Meinhof Gang exploded atthe Fifth U.S. Army Corpsheadquarters in West Germany,killing Colonel Paul Bloomquist andwounding 13 others. The bombingswere in retaliation for U.S. actionagainst North Vietnam.

12-May-72

ArgentinaComiteArgentinode LuchaAnti-Imperialisto

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Members of a groupcalling itself the Comite Argentino deLucha Anti-Imperialisto bombed oneDutch and four U.S. firms.

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17-May-72

Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 VENEZUELA. Four incendiary devicesignited in the USIS Binational Centerlibrary in Caracas in the earlyevening. Seven more were removedby Venezuelan police prior todetonation and were found to consistof potassium chlorate contained incigarette and match boxes.

23-May-72

Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A bomb went off in ITTheadquarters in Caracas, causingheavy damage. Reports indicatedthat the blast was to protest ITTopposition to President Allende ofChile.

24-May-72

LongIsland

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Members of the JDLbombed the Long Island, New York,residence of the Soviet mission tothe United Nations.

24-May-72

HeidelbergFederalRepublicofGermany

Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives2 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two bombs placed in cars explodedat the U.S. Army's Europeanheadquarters in Heidelberg, killingone soldier and wounding two others.The Baader-Meinhof Gang wasbelieved to be responsible.

24-May-72

SalisburyZimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Explosives0 0 ZIMBABWE. A South African AirwaysB727 flying from Salisbury toJohannesburg with sixty six personson board was hijacked by twoLebanese who threatened to blow upthe aircraft. At a refueling stop inSalisbury they allowed some of thepassengers to get off. They divertedthe plane to Balantyre, Malawi, anddemanded money from the Anglo-American Mining Company. On May25 all passengers and crew escaped.Troops fired on the jet after the lastof the hostages were safe. Noinjuries were reported and thehijackers were captured.

25-May-72

Paris France CommitteeofCoordination

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded at the U.S.consulate in Paris. The Committee ofCoordination took responsibility forthe action, claiming it was in protestof U.S. bombing in North Vietnam.

25-May-72


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded at theoffices of the American Legion inParis. The Committee of Coordinationtook responsibility for the action,claiming it was in protest of U.S.bombing in North Vietnam.

25-May-72


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded at PanAmerican World Airways in Paris. TheCommittee of Coordination tookresponsibility for the action, claimingit was in protest of U.S. bombing inNorth Vietnam.

25-May-72


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded at theTWA office in Paris. The Committeeof Coordination took responsibility forthe action, claiming it was in protestof U.S. bombing in North Vietnam.

31-May-72

Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives2 1 IRAN. Iranian terrorists bombed theU.S. Information Service offices inTehran, killing one person andinjuring two.

31-May-72

Tel Aviv Israel JapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Explosives76 25 ISRAEL. Three Japanese gunmenattacked passengers at Tel Aviv's LodAirport with machine guns and handgrenades, killing 25 people andwounding 76. The gunmen weremembers of the URA of Japan whohad been recruited by the PFLP forthe assault. They had arrived at LodAirport on an Air France flight fromParis, picked up their suitcases whichcontained the weapons, and openedfire on the crowd. One terrorist waskilled by gunfire from the other two,a second was killed by his owngrenade, and the third was captured.The PFLP claimed credit for theattack, saying that the threeterrorists belonged to the Squad ofthe Martyr Patrick Arguello. Arguellowas killed in a l970 hijacking attemptover London (see September 6, 1970incident). The PFLP also said that thekillings were in retaliation for theshooting of two Arab guerrillas in ahijacking three weeks before, on May8.According to the PFLP, the threeJapanese gunmen had beeninstructed not to fire on the AirFrance passengers, but to wait tenminutes for an arriving El Al IsraelAirlines flight in order to ensure that90 to 95 percent of the victims wouldbe Israelis or people with directloyalties to Israel. The PFLP said,however, that in any case it did notregard tourists visiting Israel asinnocent civilians: The mere choiceof our occupied territory as a placefor tourism is in itself a bias in favorof the enemy. The surviving gunmansaid that the URA had concluded thealliance with the PFLP as a means ofthrusting itself on the world stage.Kozo Okamoto was sentenced to lifein prison for the attack. His releasewas demanded in an April 1974attack of a residential building inQiryat Shemona in Israel that killed18 people.

31-May-72

Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. A car belonging to a civilianemployee parked in the USAFparking area in Tehran wasdestroyed by a magnetic bombattached to the gas tank. No injurieswere reported.

2-Jun-72 Seattle UnitedStates

BlackPanthers

Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. Two hijackers,identified as William Holder, 22, andCatherine Kerkow, 20, took over aWestern Airlines jet as it began itsdescent in Seattle, Washington. Thecouple ordered the plane to NewYork where Holder picked up$500,000 in ransom money andexchanged 36 hostages for anavigator to take the jet to Algiers. AtAlgiers, the hijackers asked forasylum and were taken into custody.In 1980, Holder, a former BlackPanther, received a suspended five-year prison sentence in Paris, France.It was the first time a French courthad tried a person accused ofhijacking an airliner abroad. Thedecision to prosecute was madeunder an international agreementsigned in The Hague in 1970 and anarticle of the French penal code thathad never been invoked before.Holder was charged in May 1975,together with his companionCatherine Kerkow, who is still atlarge and will be tried in absentia.

3-Jun-72 Milan Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. Offices of IBM, Honeywell andthe Bank of America were bombed inMilan. The factory of Honeywell inMilan was also bombed. Leaflets leftat the sites hailed the struggle of theVietnamese people against Americanimperialism and victories of therevolutionary and Communist armyin Vietnam.




9-Jun-72 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs damaged theoffices of four U.S.-owned firms.




10-Jun-72 Dublin Ireland Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives0 0 IRELAND. The West Germanembassy in Dublin was damaged bya bomb that had apparently beenplaced by supporters of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

15-Jun-72 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb was planted in the Yugoslavconsulate in Munich. Croatianterrorists were believed responsible.

20-Jun-72 Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Explosives0 2 GOLAN HEIGHTS. Members of thePFLP-General Command fired rocketsat an Israeli bus in the Golan Heights,killing two civilians and injuringseveral others. The Israelis retaliatedby shelling Lebanese frontiervillages, killing about fifty Lebanesecivilians and guerrillas. The U.N.Security Council condemned Israel.

1-Jul-72 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Shafiq al-Hout, PLOdirector in Beirut, was sent a letterbomb, but it was detected before itcould explode. Marwan Dajani, an AlFatah leader, and Abu al-Hassan, aPLO intelligence officer, were sentletter bombs also, which weredeactivated before they couldexplode.

1-Jul-72 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Marwan Dajani, an AlFatah leader, and Abu al-Hassan, aPLO intelligence officer, were sentletter bombs also, which weredeactivated before they couldexplode.Shafiq al-Hout, PLO directorin Beirut, was sent a letter bomb, butit was detected before it couldexplode.

1-Jul-72 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Marwan Dajani, an AlFatah leader, and Abu al-Hassan, aPLO intelligence officer, were sentletter bombs also, which weredeactivated before they couldexplode.Shafiq al-Hout, PLO directorin Beirut, was sent a letter bomb, butit was detected before it couldexplode.

1-Jul-72 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Dr. Azmi Awad, aPalestinian physician working for theRed Crescent relief organization,found a bomb in his car engine.

9-Jul-72 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 2 LEBANON. Gassan Kanafani, editorof the PFLP's weekly journal Al Hadef,who was also a spokesman for thePFLP and number four in the group'shierarchy, died when a bombexploded in his car, in front of hishome in Hazmiyeh, outside Beirut.His niece was also killed by theexplosion. There was speculationthat Israeli agents were involved inthe assassination.

11-Jul-72 Tel Aviv Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives9 0 ISRAEL. In reprisal for Kanafani'sdeath on July 9, the PFLP threw agrenade in a Tel Aviv bus terminal,wounding nine.

17-Jul-72 MontereyMexico Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 MEXICO. A panel truck containingplastic cans filled with gasoline towhich were attached dynamite capsexploded in front of the U.S.consulate general in Monterey,destroying the truck but causing nodamage to the consulate general.

17-Jul-72 Bogota Colombia Unknown Firearms0 1 COLOMBIA. Kjell R. Haeggloef, firstsecretary of the Swedish embassy inBogota, was shot to death byunidentified gunmen.

18-Jul-72 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. An attache casecontaining fifteen pounds ofexplosives was discovered in theUSIS Cultural Center in Manila. Thecase had been checked at the deskby an unknown patron on Fridayevening, and the device was set toexplode at 1 AM Saturday. Theguard did not check the case untilMonday morning, and the buildingwas saved only because of the failureof the timing device.

19-Jul-72 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. The director of the PLOresearch center in Beirut, AnisSayegh, was partially blinded when apackage bomb exploded.

22-Jul-72 Lebanon Unknown Explosives2 0 LEBANON. The successor to PFLPspokesman, the assassinatedKanafani, Bassam Abu Sharif, wasblinded in his right eye and severelywounded elsewhere in the face andbody, losing several fingers, when abook bomb exploded in his hands.

28-Jul-72 Uruguay OPR-33 Unknown0 0 URUGUAY. Members of OPR-33kidnapped Hector Menoni, managerof United Press International inUruguay, and released himunharmed on July 29.


BlackPanthers

Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. A group ofhijackers, later identified as GeorgeEdward Wright, George Brown,Melvin McNair, his wife Jean AllenMcNair, and Joyce T. Burgess, whosaid they were Black Panther Partysympathizers, took over a Delta AirLines jet over Florida and directedthe plane to Algeria after collecting$1 million in ransom. There were101 persons aboard. At thehijackers' orders, the plane landed inMiami where passengers wereallowed to leave the jet after theransom was paid. Upon their arrivalin Algeria, the Algerian authoritiesimpounded the ransom money andtook the hijackers into custody. Thehijackers were released on August 4and the ransom money was laterreturned to Delta, in spite of arequest by American Black Panthersin exile in Algeria that the money beturned over to them.On November24, 1978, Melvin McNair, JeanMcNair, George Brown, and JoyceTillerson were convicted by a Frenchcourt for the hijacking. All receivedfive year sentences, but two yearswere suspended from the women'sterms. In the United States, theywould have faced 20 years; U.S.extradition requests were denied byan earlier court when the defenseattorney argued that the group wasbeing persecuted because of theirrace and beliefs.

5-Aug-72 Trieste Italy BlackSeptember

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. BSO terrorists set on fire anoil storage facility in Trieste becauseit supplied oil to West Germany andAustria, both of which supportedIsrael. The fire caused an estimated$7 million in damage.

16-Aug-72

Rome Italy NationalistGroup fortheLiberationofPalestine

Explosives0 0 ITALY. An El Al Israel Airlines planewas damaged shortly after take-offfrom Rome by a bomb concealed inits luggage compartment. The bombhad been hidden in a record playergiven to two English girls by twoArabs. A new guerrilla group callingitself Nationalist Group for theLiberation of Palestine claimed creditfor the attack. Two Arabs werereleased by Italian authorities after ashort detention. A Palestinian, AwelAbdel Zwaiter, killed on October 16,1972, was thought to be the bomberand head of Black September.

22-Aug-72

Beirut Lebanon Eagles ofNationalUnity

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A Southern Yemen DC-6airplane en route from Beirut to Cairowas hijacked by three armed menwho said they were members of agroup called the Eagles of NationalUnity. The plane was flown toBenghazi, Libya, where the hijackersrequested asylum. The SouthernYemen government said thehijackers were a reactionary groupinstituted by the Saudi Arabiangovernment. The Libyangovernment freed the hijackers onAugust 27.

26-Aug-72

Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb exploded nearthe wall of the seafront embassystaff housing apartments of the U.S.embassy in Manila.

29-Aug-72

Athens Greece PopularRevolutionaryResistanceGroup

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in the U.S. embassy in Athens, causing slightdamage. The Popular RevolutionaryResistance Group claimedresponsibility.

1-Sep-72 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 CAMBODIA. A bomb explosion killedseveral bystanders and extensivelydamaged a car in which U.S. ChargeThomas Enders was riding en routeto the U.S. embassy. The occupantsof the car were unhurt.

5-Sep-72 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany

BlackSeptember

Firearms0 11 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Eight Palestinian guerrillas broke intothe Israeli quarters at the OlympicGames in Munich, killed two Israeliathletes and took nine othershostage. The guerrillas demandedthe release of 200 Palestiniansimprisoned in Israel and safepassage for themselves and theirhostages to another country.Insubsequent negotiations, Israelrejected the kidnappers' demands,but the West German governmentagreed to give the terrorists andtheir hostages safe passage to Egypt.The group was taken by bus to theairport where helicopters werewaiting to take them to anotherairfield where a commercial planewas said to be waiting. At theairport, police sharpshooters openedfire on the terrorists. In the ensuinggunfight, five of the terrorists and allnine of the hostages were killed,several of them when one of theterrorists tossed a hand grenade inone of the helicopters carrying thehostages. Three of the terroristswere captured and later freed (seeOctober 29, 1972 incident). The BSOclaimed responsibility for the attack.In retaliation for Munich, Israelisraided refugee camps in Lebanon onFebruary 21, 1973, and killed 31.They also downed a Libyan airlinerthat strayed over Sinai, killing 107aboard.The Palestinian leadersuspected of directing the massacreof Israeli athletes and coaches, AbuDaoud, was released by the French in1977, and flown to Algeria, thusreleasing a storm of protest fromGermany and Israel. Daoud hadbeen held pending extradition toGermany.

9-Sep-72 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb was found in thewashroom of an Air France B747flying from Paris to Montreal with 354persons aboard. The plane landed inGander, where the bomb wasdismantled.

10-Sep-72 Meshed Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. A bomb blew up in a roomnear the washroom in the rear of theUSIS Binational Center in Meshed. Adozen windows of the nearby centerbuilding were also broken. Noinjuries were reported.

11-Sep-72 Brussels Belgium al-Fatah Firearms1 0 BELGIUM. An unidentified callerlured an Israeli official to a Brusselscafe where he was shot and seriouslywounded. The gunman was at firstbelieved to be an Arab guerrilla, butlater reports indicated that he maypossibly have been a Moroccan whohad once been employed by Israeliintellience. Some reports attributeincident to Al Fatah or BSO.

15-Sep-72 GothenburgSweden Other Unknown0 0 SWEDEN. Three Croatian emigreshijacked a Scandinavian AirlinesSystem (SAS) airliner and ransomedits passengers for seven Croatianterrorists held in Swedish jails (twowho had seized the Yugoslavconsulate in Goteborg in February1971 and five who were involved inthe assssination of the YugoslavAmbassador in April 1971). Theaircraft was flown to Madrid, wherethe ten Croatians surrendered toSpanish authorities.

15-Sep-72 Madrid Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Five well-dressed youthsentered the doorway of the USIScultural center in Madrid and hurledfour Molotov cocktails into theentrance area before a guard, seatedat a desk in the area, could stand up.

16-Sep-72 Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Seven bombs went off inoffices of U.S.-owned businesses,causing considerable propertydamage during Mexico'sIndependence Day.







17-Sep-72 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A Venezuelan AirlinesDC8 flying from Beirut to Caracaswith ninety-seven persons on boardlanded at Cyprus after a caller saidthat there was a bomb on board. Apowerful time bomb was found in therear toilet. Dr. Atef Harkous, HusseinHarkous, and Adnan Harkous werearrested.

17-Sep-72 Sydney Australia Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. Croatian extremistsbombed the Yugoslav tourist agencyoffices in Sydney.


BlackSeptember

Explosives0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A letter-bombmailed by Arab guerrillas explodedand killed a diplomat in the Israeliembassy in London. In the next fewdays nearly 50 letter-bombsaddressed to officials in Israel andIsraeli embassies were interceptedthroughout the world. All had beenposted in Amsterdam on September16. Eight more letter-bombs mailedfrom Malaysia were found in the firsthalf of October. The BSO claimedresponsibility.

19-Sep-72 Paris France BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Israeli embassy in Parisdiscovered two large envelopescontaining explosives. The deviceswere defused.They were part of thealmost 50 letter bombs mailed fromAmsterdam. The BSO claimedresponsibility.

19-Sep-72 Paris France BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Israeli embassy in Parisdiscovered two large envelopescontaining explosives. The deviceswere defused.They were part of thealmost 50 letter bombs mailed fromAmsterdam. The BSO claimedresponsibility.


BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Eight letterbombs addressed to Israeli officialswere intercepted in London.Theywere part of the almost 50 letterbombs mailed from Amsterdam. TheBSO claimed responsibility.


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Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Eight letterbombs addressed to Israeli officialswere intercepted in London.Theywere part of the almost 50 letterbombs mailed from Amsterdam.The BSO claimed responsibility.


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20-Sep-72 Geneva SwitzerlandBlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Five letter bombsaddressed to Israeli officials wereintercepted in Geneva.They werepart of the almost 50 letter bombsmailed from Amsterdam. The BSOclaimed responsibility.









20-Sep-72 Brussels Belgium BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A letter bomb addressedto an Israeli official was interceptedin Brussels.It was part of the almost50 letter bombs mailed fromAmsterdam. The BSO claimedresponsibility.

20-Sep-72 Tel Aviv Israel BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Two letter bombs addressedto Israeli officials were found in TelAviv and Jeruslem. One of them wasaddressed to Shimon Peres, ministerof transport. One exploded in theJerusalem Post Office, injuring apostal worker.They were part of thealmost 50 letter bombs mailed fromAmsterdam. The BSO claimedresponsibility.

20-Sep-72 JerusalemIsrael BlackSeptember

Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. Two letter bombs addressedto Israeli officials were found in TelAviv and Jeruslem. One of them wasaddressed to Shimon Peres, ministerof transport. One exploded in theJerusalem Post Office, injuring apostal worker.They were part of thealmost 50 letter bombs mailed fromAmsterdam. The BSO claimedresponsibility.

20-Sep-72 Ottawa Canada BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 CANADA. Six letter bombsaddressed to Israeli officials wereintercepted in Ottawa. A seventhwas found in Montreal.They werepart of the almost 50 letter bombsmailed from Amsterdam. The BSOclaimed responsibility.











20-Sep-72 Montreal Canada BlackSeptember


21-Sep-72 Brussels Belgium BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. Israeli security guardsfound a letter bomb in the Israeliembassy in Brussels.It was part ofthe almost 50 letter bombs mailedfrom Amsterdam. The BSO claimedresponsibility.


Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Ten more letter bombsaddressed to Israeli officials wereintercepted in a Jerusalem postoffice.They were part of the almost50 letter bombs mailed fromAmsterdam. The BSO claimedresponsibility.



















21-Sep-72 Kinshasa Zaire(BelgianCongo)

BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 ZAIRE. A letter bomb was found inthe Israeli embassy in Kinshasa, butsecurity guards prevented it fromdoing any damage.It was part of thealmost 50 letter bombs mailed fromAmsterdam. The BSO claimedresponsibility.

21-Sep-72 BuenosAires

ArgentinaBlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Israeli security agentsfound a letter bomb in their embassyin Buenos Aires. Amsterdam policebelieve that the BSO members hadentered their country the previousweek and slipped out after sendingthe letter bombs.

21-Sep-72 PhnomPenh

CambodiaBlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 CAMBODIA. Israeli security guardsfound a letter bomb in their embassyat Phnom Penh.It was part of thealmost 50 letter bombs mailed fromAmsterdam. The BSO claimedresponsibility.

23-Sep-72 Amman Jordan BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. The Amman post officediscovered and defused four more ofthe Amsterdam letter bombsaddressed to Jordanian officials.TheBSO claimed responsibility.


Explosives0 0 JORDAN. The Amman post officediscovered and defused four more ofthe Amsterdam letter bombsaddressed to Jordanian officials.Theywere part of the almost 50 letterbombs mailed from Amsterdam. TheBSO claimed responsibility.





29-Sep-72 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. Three were wounded whenPalestinian guerrillas bombed asupermarket in Jerusalem.

4-Oct-72 Rome Italy BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A Malaysian postmarkedletter bomb arrived at the Romeoffice of United Hias Service, a Jewishimmigration office. The letter boreBlack September inscriptions.Explosives experts defused thedevice. Seven more letter-bombsmailed from Malaysia were found inthe first half of October.

4-Oct-72 Paris France Masada,ActionandDefenseMovement

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in anArab bookstore in Paris. A groupcalling itself Masada, Action andDefense Movement, claimedresponsibility. Israel disclaimed anyknowledge of the group.

6-Oct-72 Algiers Algeria Unknown Unknown0 0 ALGERIA. Palestinian studentsentered the West German consulatein Algiers and held several hostagesfor about an hour, demandingrelease of three Arab terrorists heldfor participation in the massacre ofIsraeli athletes at the MunichOlympics. The students left theconsulate and the hostages werefreed an hour later.

10-Oct-72 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A four-tube mortar wasset up across a major Caracasthoroughfare and was fired at the U.S. embassy. Only one of the tubesfired. The round hit a tree in theembassy grounds and explodedbefore hitting the building, causingno damage.


UnitedStates

BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two of theMalaysian-postmarked letter bombswere delivered to two New Yorkwomen active in American Zionistcircles. They opened the envelopes,but the bombs did not explode. TheBSO claimed responsibility.


UnitedStates

BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two of theMalaysian-postmarked letter bombswere delivered to two New Yorkwomen active in American Zionistcircles. They opened the envelopes,but the bombs did not explode. TheBSO claimed responsibility.

10-Oct-72 Chillan Chile Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. The USIS Binational Center inChillan was attacked by leftists whobroke windows and hurled a Molotovcocktail.


UnitedStates

BlackSeptember

Explosives1 0 UNITED STATES. A clerk in a NewYork City post office was seriouslyinjured when a letter bomb exploded.The letter, another of the Malaysianpostmarked series, was addressed toa former national officer ofHadassah, the women's Zionistorganization.The BSO claimedresponsibility.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 1 ARGENTINA. Supporters of JuanPeron planted a bomb that explodedin the Sheraton Hotel in BuenosAires, killing a Canadian tourist.

16-Oct-72 Rome Italy Unknown Firearms0 1 ITALY. Awel Abdel Zwaiter, aPalestinian who had lived in Rome for16 years and was employed as atranslator by the Libyan embassy,was killed by 12 bullets to the head.The assailants were never caught.Intelligence sources indicate thatZwaiter was responsible for a bombthat exploded in the luggagecompartment of an El Al flight fromRome in August 1972 and wasregarded as head of BlackSeptember in Italy.

22-Oct-72 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Four men hijacked aTurkish airliner to Bulgaria andthreatened to blow up the plane andits 69 passengers if Turkey did notrelease 12 terrorist prisoners, restorethe right of workers to strike, andreorganize the universities. The fourhijackers surrendered to Bulgarianauthorities on October 23, afterTurkey refused to meet theirdemands.

25-Oct-72 Libya Unknown Explosives3 0 LIBYA. Mustafa Awad Abu Zeid, PLOsecretary was blinded by a parcelbomb which caused less seriousinjuries to two other people.

25-Oct-72 KiryatShmona

Israel BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Police intercepted letter-bombs mailed in Israel andaddressed to President RichardNixon, Secretary of Defense MelvinLaird, and Secretary of State WilliamRogers. The letters were mailed byBlack September from KiryatShmona. Suspicious Israeli postalworkers intercepted the bombs.




25-Oct-72 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. A letter bomb addressedto a Palestinian businessman inBeirut exploded in his office, injuringhis secretary. The firm was a tradingcompany that arranged arms dealswith Arab countries. The Palestinianpartner was traveling outside thecountry at the time.

25-Oct-72 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. A letter bomb exploded inthe Beirut post office, blinding apostal worker sorting letters. Theletter was addressed to a Palestinianbusinessman.

25-Oct-72 Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives1 0 ALGERIA. Abu Khalil, PLO and Fatahrepresentative in Algiers, was injuredwhen a parcel bomb exploded in hisface.




26-Oct-72 Cairo Egypt Unknown Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Three letter bombs wereintercepted at Cairo airport. Reportsdiffer as to whether one or all threeexploded. An Egyptian securityofficer who was examining theenvelopes was injured by theexplosion. The letters wereaddressed to three members of theCairo PLO office.



27-Oct-72 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A letter bomb addressedto the PFLP's newspaper offices inBeirut was intercepted in the postoffice, where it was renderedharmless.

29-Oct-72 Beirut Lebanon BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Two hijackers claiming tobe members of the BSO took over aLufthansa German Airlines 727 enroute from Beirut to Ankara andordered it flown to Munich. Thehijackers threatened to blow up theplane unless the West Germangovernment released the three BSOterrorists captured in the Munichattack (September 5, 1972). TheWest German government complied,and the hijacked plane was kept aloftwhile the three terrorists werereleased and flown to Zagreb,Yugoslavia, where the hijacked planelanded to pick them up. The planewas then flown to Tripoli, Libya, andreleased. The hijackers were nevercaptured..


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A letter bombreceived at Egypt's London embassywas rendered harmless.

3-Nov-72 Amman Jordan PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A French girl, identified asa member of the PFLP, was killed inAmman while handling a bomb.Police reported she had intended toplace the bomb in the U.S. embassyin Amman.

5-Nov-72 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A bomb wasdetonated in the Pan AmericanAirways main ticket office in SanSalvador, causing considerabledamage but no casualties.

8-Nov-72 Mexico ArmedCommunistLeague

Unknown0 0 MEXICO. Four members of theArmed Communist League, a smallguerrilla group, hijacked a Mexicanairliner. They demanded arms, therelease of five imprisoned guerrillas,a government promise to dropcharges against two fugitives whojoined them, and $330,000 inransom. The Mexican governmentcomplied, and the plane flew on toCuba where the 11 guerrillas weregranted asylum.

9-Nov-72 SanMigueldeTucuman

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A powerful bombexplosion damaged the San Miguelde Tucuman offices of IBMCorporation.

13-Nov-72

Paris France BlackSeptember

Firearms0 1 FRANCE. Three Arab gunmen,apparently members of BlackSeptember, forced their way into theParis apartment of Khodr Kannou, aSyrian journalist, and fatally shothim. Reports claim that Kannou waswriting a book on the BSO.

15-Nov-72

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A small bombexploded in a women's restroom inthe Argentine/Brazilian pavilion ofthe Fifth International Trade Fair inSan Salvador. The bomb was similarto that used in the bombing of thelocal Pan American World Airwaysoffice ten days before.

23-Nov-72

Amman Jordan al-Fatah Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A bomb was thrown intothe house of an Arab National Unionofficial in Amman. Jordanianauthorities arrested three peoplewho confessed to their involvementand admitted that it was an Al Fatahoperation.

24-Nov-72


Other Firearms0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An Air Canada DC8 scheduled to flyfrom Frankfurt to Montreal andToronto was hijacked on the groundby Viktor Widera, an armed gunmanwho forced everyone off the planeexcept a stewardess whom he heldhostage for twenty-four hours.Widera demanded the release of aCzech being held by West Germanyfor hijacking a plane from Prague toNuremburg, as well as the release ofseveral other Czechs. When a radiowas passed to him and he wasattempting to close the cockpit door,police marksmen shot and killed himaboard the aircraft.

1-Dec-72 Queens UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A travel agencywas bombed by the Cuban group FINin Queens, New York.

5-Dec-72 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Firearms0 0 VENEZUELA. The residence of theHonduran ambassador to Venezuelawas sprayed by machine-gun fire.There were no casualties.

7-Dec-72 Athens Greece Resistance,LiberationandIndependenceOrganizat

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Time bombs explodedunder the cars of two U.S.servicemen in Athens, causing onlyslight damage. An undergroundorganization named Independence,Liberation, Resistance (AAA) said theexplosions were a token protestagainst U.S. support of the Greekregime.

8-Dec-72 Brisbane Australia Unknown Explosives0 1 AUSTRALIA. A vacationing U.Sbusinessman was killed when a bombexploded in an automobile parkedoutside a Serbian Orthodox church inBrisbane.

8-Dec-72 Paris France Other Explosives0 1 FRANCE. The chief representative ofthe PLO and Al Fatah in Paris, Dr.Mahmoud Hamshari, also head ofBlack September, was fatallywounded when he answered histelephone; a bomb attached to thetable below it exploded and wreckedhis Paris apartment. He lived longenough to tell police that the bombwas actuated by a beeper soundedinto the phone by the caller.Palestinian sources blamed Zionistgroups for the attack. The Israeliintelligence Service's Wrath of Godwas suspected.

8-Dec-72 AddisAbaba

Ethiopia Other Explosives11 6 ETHIOPIA. Seven Ethiopian studentsattempted unsuccessfully to hijackan Ethiopian Airlines aircraft shortlyafter takeoff from Addis Ababa. Oneof the hijackers exploded a handgrenade which tore a twelve tofifteen inch hole in the floor,damaging electrical wires and somecontrol cables. Eleven werewounded. Six of the hijackers diedand one of the women was seriouslywounded when she was arrested.

10-Dec-72


Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Members of the ERPkidnapped Ronald Grove, themanaging director of the BritishVestey Industrial Group, and releasedhim unharmed on December 19 afterVestey paid a reported $1 million inransom.

11-Dec-72

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The VA-CubanForwarding Company was bombed bythe FIN in New York City.

20-Dec-72

Beirut Lebanon BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Two rockets hit the U.S.embassy in Beirut. The BSO wassuspected of the attack.

24-Dec-72

Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Asmall bomb that had been placedagainst the door of the U.S. Berlinbrigade non-commissioned officers'club opposite the U.S. headquartersexploded.

24-Dec-72


0 0 BELGIUM. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown from a passing automobileover the fence of the U.S. chanceryin Brussels, causing no damage orinjuries.

28-Dec-72

Bangkok Thailand BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 THAILAND. Four members of theBSO took over the Israeli embassy inBangkok and held 12 hostages, oneof whom was the Israeli Ambassadorto Cambodia, for 19 hours. Theydemanded the release of 36 Arabguerrillas imprisoned in Israel,including the two surviving hijackersof the Sabena plane who werecaptured at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv onMay 8, 1972, and the lone survivor ofthe May 31, 1972, Lod Airport attack.The guerrillas threatened to blow upthe embassy if Thai security forcesattempted an assault.Two Thaiofficials and the Egyptianambassador in Bangkok persuadedthe guerrillas to release theirhostages in return for safe conduct toEgypt. Thai officials said that theguerrillas were told that December27 and 28 were important holidays tothe Thais because of the investitureof the king's son. The guerrillas wereasked not to do anything to spoil theceremony. The guerrillas,accompanied by Thai officials andthe Egyptian ambassador, flew toCairo on December 29. On January 5,Thailand announced that Israel hadagreed to release to their familiesthe bodies of two slain Palestinianhijackers.

28-Dec-72

WestBerlin



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Afirebomb was thrown over the fencenear a rear gate of the U.S. militaryair base portion of Tempelhof Airportin West Berlin. The only damagecaused was a small grass fire.

7-Jan-73 Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Incendiary devices ignitedunder two automobiles owned by U.S. government employees in Athens.There were no casualties.

8-Jan-73 Paris France BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb explosiondestroyed the offices in Paris of anagency that arranges for theemigration of Jews to Israel. The BSOclaimed credit for the incident.



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Arsonists set fire to the library in theAmerika Haus in Frankfurt, causing$25,000 damage.

11-Jan-73 KaiserslauternFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Unknown0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Agroup of suspected Arab terroristsentered a restaurant inKaiserslautern and immediatelyattacked other foreigners present.During the melee, a tourist whoseparents resided in Tel Aviv was killed,and several other people wereinjured.

17-Jan-73 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A small charge ofdynamite wrecked a basementrestroom in the American Universityof Beirut. A preliminary investigationprovided no clue to the identity ormotive of the bomber.

17-Jan-73 Terrenia Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Four cars belonging to U.S.military personnel in Terrenia werevandalized. Windows were brokenand gasoline was thrown inside thecars and lighted.

23-Jan-73 Port-au-Prince

Haiti CoalitionofNationalBrigades

Unknown0 0 HAITI. Two armed men and onewoman kidnapped Clinton E Knox, U.S. ambassador to Haiti, and held himhostage in his own residence. WhenU.S. Consul General Ward L.Christensen arrived at theambassador's residence, he, too, wastaken hostage. In return for the twoAmerican hostages, the kidnappersdemanded the release of 30prisoners and a ransom of $1 million.In subsequent negotiations in whichthe French ambassador acted asintermediary, the kidnappers agreedto accept the release of 12 prisonersand the payment of $70,000. Thekidnappers released their hostagesafter 18 hours and flew with thereleased prisoners to Mexico. TheMexican government gave the groupasylum but confiscated the money.The group claimed to be linked withthe Coalition of National Brigades, ananti-Duvalier exile organization.

24-Jan-73 Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. A small bomb exploded at thePan American World Airways office inTehran.

24-Jan-73 Nicosia Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 1 CYPRUS. A representative of AlFatah, Hussein Abad al-Khair,switched off the light in his hotelroom in Nicosia and was killed by atime bomb that had been placedunder his bed, detonated by a radiotransmitter from across the street.Police later found a $5,000 checkdrawn by a Cypriot known to be anagent of the KGB. Palestiniansclaimed that Israeli agents wereresponsible for the assassination.

26-Jan-73 Madrid Spain BlackSeptember

Firearms0 1 SPAIN. The BSO claimedresponsibility for the assassination inMadrid of an Israeli tourist who theysaid was an Israeli intelligenceofficer. The BSO said he had beenexecuted by firing squad for his partin killing Palestinian representativesin Italy and France.

26-Jan-73 Calvi France Unknown Firearms0 1 CORSICA. A heavily armed man, whowas reportedly a French Legionnaire,was shot to death after he seized fivehostages in an abortive hijackingattempt at Calvi Airport in Corsica.

28-Jan-73 SantaBarbara

UnitedStates

Other Unknown0 2 UNITED STATES. A man of Armenianorigin murdered the Los AngelesTurkish consul general and viceconsul in Santa Barbara in revengefor Turkish attacks on Armenians in1915.

28-Jan-73 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A powerful bomb blastdamaged a branch of the SpanishBanco Popular in Paris. No one wasinjured.

3-Feb-73 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Norman Lee, anArgentine executive of a Coca-Colabottling company in Buenos Aires,was kidnapped. In the face of thecontinuing threat of kidnappings andextortions, several foreigncompanies, including Coca-Cola, ITT,IBM, John Deere, and Otis Elevator,moved company executives and theirfamilies out of Argentina.

5-Feb-73 ArgentinaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ARGENTINA. An incendiary bombwas found in a car belonging to theParaguayan ambassador.

7-Feb-73 Rio deJaneiro

Brazil Unknown Unknown0 1 BRAZIL. David Cuthberg, a Britishnaval officer, was assassinated in Riode Janeiro.

20-Feb-73 London UnitedKingdom

BlackDecember

Unknown0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Three Pakistaniyouths attacked the Indian HighCommission in London and held staffmembers hostage, injuring some ofthem. British police shot two of thegunmen and arrested the third, whosaid they belonged to a group calledBlack December, and that they hadintended to take hostages in order toobtain an audience with PrimeMinister Indira Ghandi to demand therelease of Pakistani prisoners of war.

21-Feb-73 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A car owned by anAmerican serviceman was destroyedand that of a second U.S. militaryman was damaged by bombs thatwere presumably planted byopponents of the Greek regime inAthens. There were no injuries.

1-Mar-73 KhartoumSudan BlackSeptember

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Eight members of the BSOtook over the Saudi Arabian embassyin Khartoum during a farewell partyfor U.S. Deputy Chief of MissionGeorge Curtis Moore. They seizedten hostages, including Moore, U.S.Ambassador Cleo A. Noel, andBelgian Charge Guy Eid. TheJordanian charge d'affaires and theSaudi Arabian ambassador and hiswife and four children were also held.Many other diplomats who wereattending the party escaped. Theterrorists had hoped to capture theGerman ambassador also, but he hadleft the party earlier.The terroristsdemanded the release of 60Palestinian guerrillas being held inJordan, all Arab women detained inIsrael, Sirhan Sirhan, the killer ofSenator Robert Kennedy, the releaseof Al Fatah leader Abu Daoud, andmembers of the Baader-MeinhofGang imprisoned in Germany.Negotiations took place between theSudanese government and theterrorists who were receiving codedinstructions on the radio. Theterrorists later dropped theirdemands on the Israeli and WestGerman governments, but insistedon the release of the prisoners inJordan. In a news conference onMarch 2, President Richard Nixonsaid that the United States would doeverything it could to obtain therelease of the hostages but wouldnot pay blackmail. The terroristsexecuted the remaining hostagesincluding the two U.S. diplomats andthe Belgian charge on the night ofMarch 2. The terrorists then tried tobargain for safe passage to anothercountry, but this was rejected. Theterrorists surrendered on March 3.Acourt of inquiry--the equivalent of agrand jury--indicted the eightterrorists on five counts, includingmurder. The trial began on June 1,1974; the terrorists were convictedon June 24 and sentenced to lifeimprisonment. Two of them hadbeen released for lack of evidence inOctober 1973. President Nimeiri ofSudan commuted their sentences toseven years and released them tothe Palestine Liberation Organizationthe next day. The terrorists wereflown to Cairo where the Egyptianauthorities imprisoned them.

1-Mar-73 KhartoumSudan BlackSeptember

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Eight members of the BSOtook over the Saudi Arabian embassyin Khartoum during a farewell partyfor U.S. Deputy Chief of MissionGeorge Curtis Moore. They seizedten hostages, including Moore, U.S.Ambassador Cleo A. Noel, andBelgian Charge Guy Eid. TheJordanian charge d'affaires and theSaudi Arabian ambassador and hiswife and four children were also held.Many other diplomats who wereattending the party escaped. Theterrorists had hoped to capture theGerman ambassador also, but he hadleft the party earlier.The terroristsdemanded the release of 60Palestinian guerrillas being held inJordan, all Arab women detained inIsrael, Sirhan Sirhan, the killer ofSenator Robert Kennedy, the releaseof Al Fatah leader Abu Daoud, andmembers of the Baader-MeinhofGang imprisoned in Germany.Negotiations took place between theSudanese government and theterrorists who were receiving codedinstructions on the radio. Theterrorists later dropped theirdemands on the Israeli and WestGerman governments, but insistedon the release of the prisoners inJordan. In a news conference onMarch 2, President Richard Nixonsaid that the United States would doeverything it could to obtain therelease of the hostages but wouldnot pay blackmail. The terroristsexecuted the remaining hostagesincluding the two U.S. diplomats andthe Belgian charge on the night ofMarch 2. The terrorists then tried tobargain for safe passage to anothercountry, but this was rejected. Theterrorists surrendered on March 3.Acourt of inquiry--the equivalent of agrand jury--indicted the eightterrorists on five counts, includingmurder. The trial began on June 1,1974; the terrorists were convictedon June 24 and sentenced to lifeimprisonment. Two of them hadbeen released for lack of evidence inOctober 1973. President Nimeiri ofSudan commuted their sentences toseven years and released them tothe Palestine Liberation Organizationthe next day. The terrorists wereflown to Cairo where the Egyptianauthorities imprisoned them.

3-Mar-73 CasablancaMorocco Unknown Explosives0 0 MOROCCO. A watchman discovereda shoe box containing a bomb undera station wagon belonging to theAmerican consul in Casablanca.

4-Mar-73 Beirut Lebanon BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Greek charter shipSanya carrying 250 U.S. touristsbound for Haifa, Israel, sank in Beirutharbor following an explosion onboard. There were no casualties. Anofficial investigation revealed thatthe explosion was caused by adevice placed against the side of theship below the waterline. The BSOclaimed credit for the incident.

5-Mar-73 CasablancaMorocco Unknown Explosives0 0 MOROCCO. A package containing abomb was discovered inside a papertowel dispenser in a public washroomat the U.S. Information ServiceCultural Center in Casablanca.


UnitedStates

PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An elaboratenetwork of explosives was found inthe trunks of cars parked outside ofthe El Al Israel Airlines air terminal atKennedy Airport, the First Israel Bankand Trust Company, and the IsraelDiscount Bank, in New York. Police,having been tipped off by Israelis,were able to dismantle the bombs. Asearch of the vehicles also revealed aquantity of paper with BlackSeptember's letterhead. The FBIreported that three bombs were setto go off on March 4 during IsraeliPremier Golda Meir's New York visit,but an error in their circuits causedthem not to explode. An Iraqi PLOofficial was arrested in Italy in 1991and was charged with setting thebombs. He went on trial in Brooklynin March 1993.


UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An elaboratenetwork of explosives was found inthe trunks of cars parked outside ofthe El Al Israel Airlines air terminal atKennedy Airport, the First Israel Bankand Trust Company, and the IsraelDiscount Bank, in New York. Police,having been tipped off by Israelis,were able to dismantle the bombs. Asearch of the vehicles also revealed aquantity of paper with BlackSeptember's letterhead. The FBIreported that three bombs were setto go off on March 4 during IsraeliPremier Golda Meir's New York visit,but an error in their circuits causedthem not to explode. An Iraqi PLOofficial was arrested in Italy in 1991and was charged with setting thebombs. He went on trial in Brooklynin March 1993.


UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An elaboratenetwork of explosives was found inthe trunks of cars parked outside ofthe El Al Israel Airlines air terminal atKennedy Airport, the First Israel Bankand Trust Company, and the IsraelDiscount Bank, in New York. Police,having been tipped off by Israelis,were able to dismantle the bombs. Asearch of the vehicles also revealed aquantity of paper with BlackSeptember's letterhead. The FBIreported that the bombs were set togo off on March 4 during IsraeliPremier Golda Meir's New York visit,but an error in their circuits causedthem not to explode. An Iraqi PLOofficial was arrested in Italy in 1991and was charged with setting thebombs. He went on trial in Brooklynin March 1993.

12-Mar-73 Nicosia Cyprus BlackSeptember

Firearms0 1 CYPRUS. An Israeli businessman,who was subsequently branded byCairo's fedayeen radio as a Zionistintelligence officer, was found shotand killed on the steps of the NicosiaPalace Hotel. The BSO claimedresponsibility.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Center forCuban Studies was bombed by TheSecret Cuban Government in NewYork City.


Unknown Firearms0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Aman and a woman entered thegrounds of the U.S. consulate generalin Frankfurt. One fired a pistol andthe other hurled a bottle against awindow. Police found a number ofmolotov cocktails on the roof of agarage near the consulate general.On the same day, a number ofwindows were broken at the GreekCentral Bank and several travelagencies in the downtown area,suggesting that the attack may havebeen part of a general protest bylocal radicals.

22-Mar-73 Athens Greece GreekAnti-DictatorialYouth(EAN)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. An explosive device withincendiary capability was detonatedon the private vehicle of a U.S.government employee in Athens,causing minor damage. Painted onthe door were the letters EAN, anacronym for a group called GreekAnti-Dictatorial Youth.

23-Mar-73 Brussels Belgium Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. A molotov cocktail wasthrown through a basement windowat the Greek ambassador's residencein Brussels, causing minor damage,on the date on which the embassy ofGreece celebrated GreekIndependence Day.

28-Mar-73 Rosario ArgentinaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs placed byunidentified terrorists damaged aJewish nursery school in Rosario.There were no casualties.

29-Mar-73 UnionCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bookstore wasbombed in Union City, New Jersey, bythe FIN.

1-Apr-73 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosion destroyedseveral cars in Beirut but caused nocasualties. The BSO said the blastwas an attempt by Jordanianintelligence operatives to assassinateZiyad Al Hilu, a BSO official whoparticipated in the assassination ofJordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal inCairo on November 28, 1971.

4-Apr-73 Paris France Unknown ChemicalAgent

0 0 FRANCE. Several people who werealleged to be of Armenian originthrew tear-gas grenades into theTurkish consulate general and theTurkish airlines office in Paris.

4-Apr-73 Paris France Unknown ChemicalAgent

0 0 FRANCE. Several people who werealleged to be of Armenian originthrew tear-gas grenades into theTurkish consulate general and theTurkish airlines office in Paris.

5-Apr-73 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded in thegarden of the U.S. embassy MarineGuard quarters in Rome, breakingwindows and causing moderatestructural damage.

5-Apr-73 Paris France Unknown Firearms0 1 FRANCE. Basil Raoud al-Kubaisi, anIraqi law professor, was shot to deathin Paris by two unidentified men.The PFLP issued a statement inBeirut saying that he was shot whilecarrying out a PFLP mission. It wassuggested that he was setting uparsenals for Black September inseveral Arab diplomatic offices inEurope. The Mossad Wrath of Godteams were suspected in the death.

6-Apr-73 Rome Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. A fire at the U.S. InformationService library in Rome, which wasoriginally attributed to an electricalshort circuit, was discovered to havebeen caused by an incendiarydevice.

9-Apr-73 Nicosia Cyprus ArabNationalistYouth fortheLiberationof Pales

Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. Four Arab guerrillas blewout the entrance to a Nicosiaapartment building where the Israeliambassador resided. Three werearrested at the scene and the fourthwas captured later. Thirty minutesafter the apartment house explosion,two cars crashed through the gatesof the Nicosia airport. One car wasstopped by police; the other,containing five guerrillas, drove up toan Israeli plane that was about toleave for Tel Aviv. There theguerrillas engaged in a gunfight withCypriot police and an Israeli securityguard, during which the Arabs tossedsticks of dynamite and grenades atthe plane. Three Arabs werewounded in the fight and takenprisoner and one was killed. The fifthescaped.Some reports credit the BSOwith the operation. In a note foundby the police, a group calling itselfthe National Organization of ArabYouth claimed responsibility. Theseven guerrillas who had beencaptured were sentenced to sevenyears imprisonment. In December1973, Cyprus President ArchbishopMakarios quietly released them,saying he did not want Cyprus tobecome a battleground for MiddleEast conflicts.

9-Apr-73 Nicosia Cyprus ArabNationalistYouth fortheLiberationof Pales

Firearms0 0 CYPRUS. Four Arab guerrillas blewout the entrance to a Nicosiaapartment building where the Israeliambassador resided. Three werearrested at the scene and the fourthwas captured later. Thirty minutesafter the apartment house explosion,two cars crashed through the gatesof the Nicosia airport. One car wasstopped by police; the other,containing five guerrillas, drove up toan Israeli plane that was about toleave for Tel Aviv. There theguerrillas engaged in a gunfight withCypriot police and an Israeli securityguard, during which the Arabs tossedsticks of dynamite and grenades atthe plane. Three Arabs werewounded in the fight and takenprisoner and one was killed. The fifthescaped.Some reports credit the BSOwith the operation. In a note foundby the police, a group calling itselfthe National Organization of ArabYouth claimed responsibility. Theseven guerrillas who had beencaptured were sentenced to sevenyears imprisonment. In December1973, Cyprus President ArchbishopMakarios quietly released them,saying he did not want Cyprus tobecome a battleground for MiddleEast conflicts

9-Apr-73 Nicosia Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 1 CYPRUS. Zayad Murchesi, who hadbeen sent to Nicosia by Arafat toreplace Hussein Abad al-Khair, killedunder similar circumstances onJanuary 24, 1973, turned off the lightin his hotel room and wasimmediately killed in the explosion.

9-Apr-73 Rome Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Two young men firebombed aUSO facility in Rome, and attackedand disarmed a policeman on dutyoutside the building.

12-Apr-73 LaSpezia

Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb blast demolished acar belonging to a British officialassigned to NATO in La Spezia. Noinjuries were reported.

14-Apr-73 Sidon Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Masked raiders destroyeda U.S.-owned oil storage tank, badlydamaged two others, and slightlydamaged a fourth in Sidon.

16-Apr-73 Lebanon PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Terrorists tried to blowup the Trans-Arabian Pipeline toZahrani, but only succeeded indenting it. The flow of oil was notaffected by the minor damage. OnFebruary 27, 1974, a military courtsentenced two Palestinian guerrillasto seven years imprisonment for theattack. The two men were said tohave been working for the PFLP-GCand for the PFLP. The attack was inretaliation for an Israeli raid in Beiruton April 10, 1973.

16-Apr-73 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

BlackSeptember

Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. A shot was firedthrough a bedroom window of thehome of the New Zealand charged'affaires in Washington, D.C.Painted on the house were thewords, Black September. The chargespeculated that the terrorists thoughtthey were attacking the residence ofthe Jordanian ambassador who atone time had lived in the house.

21-Apr-73 Athens Greece NationalYouthResistanceOrganization

Explosives1 0 GREECE. A bomb placed under thecar of the Italian vice-consul inAthens caused severe injuries to aGreek citizen passing by. Leafletsfound at the scene attributed thebombings to the National YouthResistance Organization.

23-Apr-73 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Unidentified people threw rocks andfirebombs at the U.S. consulate inFrankfurt.

24-Apr-73 SanJuan

PuertoRico

Other Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. A bomb exploded atthe Dominican Republic consulate inSan Juan causing slight damage andno injuries. The bomb was claimedby Dominican exiles and timed tocoincide with the celebration of theeighth anniversary of the Dominicanrevolt.

25-Apr-73 Japan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. A firebomb was thrown at themain entrance of the U.S. Ikegoammunition storage area, aboutfifteen miles from Yokosuka NavalBase, causing no injuries or damageto the U.S. government facilities.

27-Apr-73 Rome Italy BlackSeptember

Firearms0 1 ITALY. An Italian employee of El AlIsrael Airlines was shot and killedoutside a department store in Rome.Police arrested a Lebanese citizenwho said that he was a member ofthe BSO and had been ordered to killthe Italian because he was an Israelispy responsible for the killing of an AlFatah official.

28-Apr-73 Beirut Lebanon BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Black September placed abomb in the lavatory in BeirutInternational Airport. The device wasfound and dismantled by authoritiesone hour before it was set to go off.Callers claimed that the attack wasdesigned to secure the release ofthree Arabs who had been arrestedthe previous day.

29-Apr-73 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. An explosion causedextensive damage to IBMCorporation offices in San Salvador.

29-Apr-73 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A stick of dynamitethrown at the residence of theJordanian ambassador in Beirutexploded in a vacant lot, doingnegligible damage and injuring noone.

30-Apr-73 Cordoba ArgentinaEjercitoRevolucionariadelPueblo(ERP)(Argentin

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded in abuilding owned by Goodyear RubberCompany in Cordoba and seriouslydamaged the building but caused nocasualties. The ERP later claimedresponsibility for the attack.

30-Apr-73 Beirut Lebanon BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Lebanese troops arrestedfour Arab guerrillas who were ridingin a car with weapons, explosives,and a radio transmitter, as theyapproached the U.S. embassy inBeirut. They were believed to bemembers of the BSO. Police laterreported that five other armedPalestinians were rounded up inconnection with the abortive attack.

1-May-73 BarcelonaSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. The British European Airwaysoffice in Barcelona was firebombed.

1-May-73 Kabul AfghanistanBlackDecember

Firearms0 0 AFGHANISTAN. A member of thePakistani Black December group shotat an assistant manager of the IndianAirlines office in Kabul. The assistantmanager overpowered the assailantand held him for the police.

1-May-73 Cordoba ArgentinaEjercitoRevolucionariadelPueblo(ERP)(Argentin

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. An ERP bomb explodedin front of the Goodyear office inCordoba.

2-May-73 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Rockets were fired at theU.S. ambassador's residence inBeirut. There was no damage and noone was injured.

2-May-73 BarcelonaSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Two firebombs thrown at PanAmerican World Airways offices inBarcelona broke all the windows andcaused considerable smoke damage.

4-May-73 Burma(Myanmar)

Other Unknown0 0 BURMA. Rebel Shan tribesmenkidnapped two Soviet doctorsworking in Burma and demanded therelease of Chang Chipu, animprisoned Shan leader. On May 30,government troops stormed a rebelhideout where the two hostages werebeing held, but the kidnappers hadescaped with their hostages.

4-May-73 GuadalajaraMexico People'sRevolutionaryArmedForces(FRAP)

Unknown0 0 MEXICO. Members of a Mexicangroup called People's RevolutionaryArmed Forces (FRAP) kidnappedTerrance G. Leonhardy, U.S. consulgeneral in Guadalajara. Theydemanded the release of 30 Mexicanpolitical prisoners held in Mexico, thepublication of their communique, atelevision appearance by the Cubanambassador on May 6 to confirm thatthe 30 prisoners had arrived in Cuba,and the suspension of any search forLeonhardy by police and militaryauthorities. Later, they asked for aransom of $80,000. The Mexicangovernment acceded to all of thedemands and Leonhardy's wifearranged for payment of the ransom.Leonhardy was freed unharmed onMay 6. Five of the personsresponsible for the kidnapping weresubsequently arrested andimprisoned. An unsuccessfulattempt to force one's release wasmade in August 1977, when twoFRAP members hijacked a Mexicaninterstate bus outside of Mexico City.

7-May-73 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A pipe bomb explosionheavily damaged a car in Athens.The car carried official nondiplomatictags belonging to a U.S.-EuropeanExchange System vendor.

7-May-73 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A pipe bomb exploded,damaging the automobile of a U.S.citizen employed at the Athensairport.

13-May-73

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Pipe bombs causedextensive damage to automobilesbelonging to two U.S. military menand to a Greek-American movieproducer in Athens.

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SaoPaulo


0 0 BRAZIL. Fire, believed to have beenstarted by an incendiary devicehurled at the home, damaged thehome of a U.S. diplomat in Sao Paulo.

18-May-73

VenezuelaZeroPoint -People'sRevolutionaryArmy

Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. Four members of thePeople's Revolutionary Army (ZeroPoint), a leftist guerrilla organization,hijacked a Venezuelan (Avensa)airliner and ordered it flown toCaracas, Panama City, Merida, andthen Mexico City. The hijackersdemanded the release of 79prisoners held in Venezuela, ademand the Venezuelan governmentrejected. Mexican officialspersuaded the hijackers not todestroy the plane, but rather toaccept political asylum in Mexico orfly to Cuba. The hijackers acceptedthe latter offer and flew to Havanawhere they were taken into custody.All 32 passengers and crew flew backto Caracas on May 20, 1973.

24-May-73

Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An explosion, possiblycaused by a bomb, damaged theSenegalese embassy in Paris. Noone was injured and damage to otherbuildings was slight.

26-May-73

Iraklion Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Fire, possibly due to anincendiary device, caused minordamage to an automobile belongingto a U.S. military officer in Iraklion.

2-Jun-73 Iran Unknown Firearms0 1 IRAN. Lieutenant Colonel LewisHawkins, an American militaryadviser in Iran, was shot and killed bygunmen who were believed to bemembers of a leftist guerrilla group.

9-Jun-73 WestBerlin


BlackSeptember

Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. ABSO unit partially destroyed the FritzWerner GMBH arms plant in WestBerlin. The BSO issued acommunique claiming responsibilityfor the incident and stating that itwas because the company deals withIsrael.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. Fire destroyed anautomobile owned by a member ofthe Soviet mission to the UnitedNations in New York. An anonymouscaller, who was believed to be amember of the JDL, stated that thecar had been firebombed to protestthe treatment of Jews in the SovietUnion and the visit of LeonidBrezhnev to the United States.

28-Jun-73 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 1 FRANCE. Mohammed Boudia, anAlgerian supporter of Fedayeenterrorist operations and a suspectedBSO member, was killed in Pariswhen a bomb exploded in hisautomobile.

1-Jul-73 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A small bomb destroyed theiron gate of the French embassy inLima. The bombing was believed tobe a protest against the plannedFrench nuclear tests in the Pacific.


UnitedStates

Unknown Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. Colonel Yosef Alon,Israeli miliary attache in Washington,D.C., was shot to death outside of hishome. Arab terrorists were believedto be responsible. A Voice ofPalestine radio broadcast said thatAlon had been executed in retaliationfor the assassination of MohammedBoudia in Paris (see June 28, 1973incident).

6-Jul-73 BuenosAires


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ARGENTINA. Members of the ERPhurled incendiary bombs and shot atthe residence of the Uruguayanambassador in Buenos Aires. Therewere no injuries.

7-Jul-73 La Plata ArgentinaEjercitoRevolucionariadelPueblo(ERP)(Argentin

Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. The Uruguayanconsulate in La Plata was seized for15 minutes by two men and awoman who painted signs on thewalls proclaiming solidarity with theUruguayan revolutionaries. The ERPclaimed credit for the incident.

19-Jul-73 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. A lone Palestinian guerrillaarmed with a machine gun and handgrenades attempted to attack the ElAl Israel Airlines office in Athens. Hewas prevented from entering theoffice when a guard pressed asecurity lock that closed inner doorsmade of bullet-proof glass. Theterrorist then fled to a nearby hotelwhere he cornered 17 hostages.Negotiations undertaken by theambassadors of Egypt, Libya, andIraq continued for several hours. Itwas finally agreed to let the terroristfly to Kuwait, where he vanished.The hostages were unharmed. Theman said he was a member of theOrganization of Victims of OccupiedTerritories. Arab officials said thatthey had no knowledge of theorganization.

20-Jul-73 AmsterdamNetherlandsOrganizationof theSons ofOccupiedTerritories

Explosives1 0 THE NETHERLANDS. A Japan AirLines Boeing 747 carrying 145passengers was seized by oneJapanese and three Arab hijackersshortly after it took off fromAmsterdam. A fifth hijacker--awoman reported to be a LatinAmerican carrying a Peruvianpassport--was killed shortly after thetakeover, when a hand grenade shewas holding accidentally exploded. AJapanese purser was injured in theblast. The three Arabs identifiedthemselves as members ofPalestinian groups and the Japanesehijacker was identified as a memberof the Japanese Red Army [URA]acting for the people of Palestine. Allmajor Palestinian guerrillaorganizations denounced thehijacking and disclaimed anyresponsibility for it.The hijackersacted as if they were confused,lending credence to the belief thatthe woman who had been killed wasthe leader and the others had notbeen fully briefed on their mission,which was to gain the release of URAmembers held in Japan and therecovery of the $6 million incompensation money that Japan paidto the victims of the Lod Airportattack (see May 31, 1972, incident).It was reported in Lebanon that thehijackers also demanded $5 millionin ransom.The hijackers ordered theplane flown to Lebanon, butLebanese authorities refused thempermission to land, as did authoritiesat Bahrain, their second choice.They finally landed in Dubai. Officialsof Japan Air Lines arrived there tonegotiate, but the hijackers rejectedany negotiations and flew on toDamascus, then to Benghazi in Libya,where the hijackers released thepassengers and destroyed theaircraft with explosives. A statementlater issued by the Organization ofthe Sons of Occupied Territories saidthat the plane had been destroyed inretaliation for the payment that theJapanese government made tovictims of the Lod Airport incident.On July 29, 1973, Libyan InformationMinister Abu-Zaid Omar Durdaconfirmed that the hijackers wouldbe tried on charges of violent armedrobbery in accordance with Islamiclaw.

20-Jul-73 AmsterdamNetherlandsOrganizationof theSons ofOccupiedTerritories

Explosives1 0 THE NETHERLANDS. A Japan AirLines Boeing 747 carrying 145passengers was seized by oneJapanese and three Arab hijackersshortly after it took off fromAmsterdam. A fifth hijacker--awoman reported to be a LatinAmerican carrying a Peruvianpassport--was killed shortly after thetakeover, when a hand grenade shewas holding accidentally exploded. AJapanese purser was injured in theblast. The three Arabs identifiedthemselves as members ofPalestinian groups and the Japanesehijacker was identified as a memberof the Japanese Red Army [URA]acting for the people of Palestine. Allmajor Palestinian guerrillaorganizations denounced thehijacking and disclaimed anyresponsibility for it.The hijackersacted as if they were confused,lending credence to the belief thatthe woman who had been killed wasthe leader and the others had notbeen fully briefed on their mission,which was to gain the release of URAmembers held in Japan and therecovery of the $6 million incompensation money that Japan paidto the victims of the Lod Airportattack (see May 31, 1972, incident).It was reported in Lebanon that thehijackers also demanded $5 millionin ransom.The hijackers ordered theplane flown to Lebanon, butLebanese authorities refused thempermission to land, as did authoritiesat Bahrain, their second choice.They finally landed in Dubai. Officialsof Japan Air Lines arrived there tonegotiate, but the hijackers rejectedany negotiations and flew on toDamascus, then to Benghazi in Libya,where the hijackers released thepassengers and destroyed theaircraft with explosives. A statementlater issued by the Organization ofthe Sons of Occupied Territories saidthat the plane had been destroyed inretaliation for the payment that theJapanese government made tovictims of the Lod Airport incident.On July 29, 1973, Libyan InformationMinister Abu-Zaid Omar Durdaconfirmed that the hijackers wouldbe tried on charges of violent armedrobbery in accordance with Islamiclaw.

21-Jul-73 Oslo Norway Other Firearms0 1 NORWAY. A Moroccan waiter, AhmedBouchiki, Algerian-born, who wasliving in Oslo, was shot 14 times ashe returned from a movie. SixIsraelis were arrested for the killing.The prosecutor maintained thatBouchiki had been mistakenlyidentified as Ali Hassan Salameh. Thesix received sentences ranging fromone to five and a half years of whichthey served between seven and 22months. The largest newspaper inOslo, Verdens Gang, stated inJanuary 1978, that in a interview withPLO's new European chief,Mohammed Wahbi, the latterdescribed Bouchiki as a member of aspecial resistance group servingunder PLO. Israeli officials have nevercommented on the incident.

22-Jul-73 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. Bombs thrown from a passingcar exploded at an annex of theColombian embassy.

22-Jul-73 Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. Bombs thrown from a passingcar exploded at the Peruvian-NorthAmerican Cultural Institute.

23-Jul-73 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. In Beirut, the marineguard from the U.S. embassy inKuwait was kidnapped byPalestinians but released unharmedafter several hours of questioning.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives1 0 UNITED STATES. An explosioninjured a maintenance worker anddamaged the top floor of a TimesSquare office building in New Yorkwhere a pro-Castro Cuban expositionwas going to be held. Police believedCuban refugees were responsible.Repeated bomb threats had beenreceived from anti-Castro Cubanexiles.

25-Jul-73 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. The offices of theCzechoslovakian embassy inSantiago were damaged by a bombexplosion.

26-Jul-73 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 HONDURAS. A tear-gas bomb wasfired into the offices of theOrganization of American States inTegucigalpa.

27-Jul-73 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb was thrown at theresidence of the second secretary ofthe Democratic People's Republic ofKorea. An automobile parked in frontof the building was destroyed. Therewere no injuries.

2-Aug-73 AvrainvilleFrance Unknown Explosives0 1 FRANCE. Juan Felipe de la CruzSerafin, a U.S. citizen and memberof the militant anti-Castro CubanRevolutionary Directorate, was killedin a bomb explosion in his hotel roomin Avrainville.

5-Aug-73 Athens Greece SeventhSuicideSquad

Firearms53 5 GREECE. Two Arabs armed withmachine guns and hand grenadesopened fire on passengers at theAthens airport. They had intended toattack passengers waiting for a TWAflight to Tel Aviv, but insteaderroneously struck passengers on aTWA flight bound for New York. Fivepassengers were killed and 53wounded. The terrorists then seized35 hostages, but later surrendered toGreek police.There was someconfusion as to the affiliation of thetwo men. They claimed to bemembers of the BSO, but ananonymous BSO spokesman deniedit. On August 8, a new group callingitself the Seventh Suicide Squadclaimed responsibility for the attack,which it named the Bahr al-Bakroperation after a Cairo suburb whereIsraeli planes bombed a school in1970. All other Palestinianorganizations condemned the attack.Two men, one a Palestinian and theother a Lebanese, were laterarrested, tried, and on August 24,1973, sentenced to death (seebelow: December 17, 1973 andFebruary 2, 1974 incidents). Thesesentences were later commuted tomeet the demands of terrorists,calling themselves MoslemInternational Guerrillas, who hadhijacked a Greek freighter. The twowere deported to Libya in 1974.InAugust 1979, a suspected Arabterrorist who allegedly took part inthis incident was arrested in OrangeCounty, California by U.S.Immigration and NaturalizationService agents. Milidos derGarabedian, 32, identified as a nativeof Jordan, was booked into LosAngeles County Jail on charges heconcealed important informationwhen he applied for his visa underanother undisclosed name. Greekauthorities supplied a set of hisfingerprints to federal agents after hehad been under surveillance sometime. A deportation hearing was tobe held for Garabedian.Four victimsof the terrorist attack were awardeda total of $230,000 to be paid byTrans World Airlines (even thoughthe airline was found to beblameless) to compensate for thedeath of one passenger and injuriessustained by three others. Theawards were made on December 14,1977.

5-Aug-73 Athens Greece SeventhSuicideSquad

Firearms53 5 GREECE. Two Arabs armed withmachine guns and hand grenadesopened fire on passengers at theAthens airport. They had intended toattack passengers waiting for a TWAflight to Tel Aviv, but insteaderroneously struck passengers on aTWA flight bound for New York. Fivepassengers were killed and 53wounded. The terrorists then seized35 hostages, but later surrendered toGreek police.There was someconfusion as to the affiliation of thetwo men. They claimed to bemembers of the BSO, but ananonymous BSO spokesman deniedit. On August 8, a new group callingitself the Seventh Suicide Squadclaimed responsibility for the attack,which it named the Bahr al-Bakroperation after a Cairo suburb whereIsraeli planes bombed a school in1970. All other Palestinianorganizations condemned the attack.Two men, one a Palestinian and theother a Lebanese, were laterarrested, tried, and on August 24,1973, sentenced to death (seebelow: December 17, 1973 andFebruary 2, 1974 incidents). Thesesentences were later commuted tomeet the demands of terrorists,calling themselves MoslemInternational Guerrillas, who hadhijacked a Greek freighter. The twowere deported to Libya in 1974.InAugust 1979, a suspected Arabterrorist who allegedly took part inthis incident was arrested in OrangeCounty, California by U.S.Immigration and NaturalizationService agents. Milidos derGarabedian, 32, identified as a nativeof Jordan, was booked into LosAngeles County Jail on charges heconcealed important informationwhen he applied for his visa underanother undisclosed name. Greekauthorities supplied a set of hisfingerprints to federal agents after hehad been under surveillance sometime. A deportation hearing was tobe held for Garabedian.Four victimsof the terrorist attack were awardeda total of $230,000 to be paid byTrans World Airlines (even thoughthe airline was found to beblameless) to compensate for thedeath of one passenger and injuriessustained by three others. Theawards were made on December 14,1977.

12-Aug-73

GuayaquilEcuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A bomb exploded nearthe U.S. consulate in Guayaquil,breaking 35 windows, but no one wasinjured.

15-Aug-73

ChristchurchNewZealand

Unknown Explosives0 0 NEW ZEALAND. The office of the U.S.Consular Agency in Christchurch wasdamaged by a bomb thrown from aspeeding car. There were no injuries.

15-Aug-73

Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Police disarmed pipe bombsfound at the homes of three U.S.embassy officials in Santiago.

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18-Aug-73

Lusaka Zambia Unknown Explosives1 1 ZAMBIA. A letter bomb exploded atthe Lusaka embassy of the People'sRepublic of China, killing Sun Yen,the wife of the charge d'affaires adinterim, and seriously injuring HuaChin-liang, another embassy staffmember.

26-Aug-73

Paris France Unknown Unknown0 1 FRANCE. Dr. Outel Bono, director ofhealth services in Chad, wasassassinated in Paris where he wasparticipating in the creation of anopposition party. The Chadgovernment denied that it hadplayed a role in the killing.

27-Aug-73

UnitedStates

ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives1 0 UNITED STATES. A letter-bomb,flown in a Royal Air Force plane fromBritain, exploded in the hands ofNora Murray, a secretary to theBritish military attache. The IRA wassuspected of the bombing, althougha spokesman for the political arm ofthe IRA denied knowledge of theincident.

27-Aug-73

Asuncion Paraguay EjercitoRevolucionariadelPueblo(ERP)(Argentin

Unknown0 0 PARAGUAY. Ian Martin, a Britishcitizen and manager of Liegib's MeatCompany, was kidnapped inAsuncion. Although a ransom notesigned by the ERP was found inMartin's car, Paraguayan authoritiesbelieved the kidnapping was thework of the MoPoCo, a dissidentfaction of the ruling Colorado Party.Martin was rescued unharmed onSeptember 6 by Paraguayan police.Two of the kidnappers were killedand an undisclosed number werearrested.

27-Aug-73

Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs exploded in Santiagoat the homes of two Cubandiplomats, and in the car of another.No injuries were reported, but therewas considerable property damage.

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28-Aug-73

Paris France ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. One of the IRA letterbombs was discovered at the Britishembassy in Paris.

29-Aug-73

Tokyo Japan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. A Molotov cocktail causedminor damage to the U.S. embassyannex in Tokyo.

4-Sep-73 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded against thedoor of the USIS Binational Center inSantiago, injuring no one butbreaking forty window panes.

5-Sep-73 Paris France al-Fatah Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Five Palestiniancommandos broke into the SaudiArabian embassy in Paris and seized13 hostages. They demanded therelease of Abu Daoud, an Al Fatahleader imprisoned in Jordan. After 28hours of negotiation, in which anumber of Arab ambassadorsparticipated as intermediaries, thecommandos dropped their demandand asked only for safe passage outof the country. They agreed torelease all except four of thehostages who were Saudi Arabians,and were allowed to board a Syrianplane which flew them to Kuwait.OnSeptember 7, the commandos andtheir hostages transferred to aKuwaiti plane and flew over Riyadh,Saudi Arabia. The commandosthreatened to throw the hostages outof the plane unless the Saudi Arabiangovernment helped them inobtaining the release of Abu Daoud.(Abu Daoud was released by KingHussein on September 13.) WhenSaudi Arabian officials refused, theplane was ordered to return toKuwait. The commandos then askedfor another plane to fly them toDamascus, and were refused.OnSeptember 8, the hostages werereleased and the commandossurrendered. The five said they weremembers of a group called thePunishment Squad. All of theprincipal Palestinian resistanceorganizations denounced the attackand disclaimed responsibility. Theterrorists were released in Octoberby the Kuwaitis, who sent them tofight against Israel.

7-Sep-73 WestBerlin


BlackSeptember

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb destroyed the Israeli exhibit atthe West Berlin International Radioand Television Fair. There were noinjuries, but damage was extensive.A West German news agency laterreceived a letter in which the BSOclaimed responsibility.

11-Sep-73 Zambia Unknown Explosives1 2 ZAMBIA. A parcel bomb explodedand killed a British employee of theZambian Ministry of Information andhis wife, and injured their son. Theexplosion occurred outside the mainpost office after the victim hadpicked up the parcel and put it in hiscar. Extensive damage also wasdone to nearby vehicles. Twoanonymous telephone calls werereceived at the Times of Zambiafollowing the explosion. The firstcaller said, Ian Smith did it, and thesecond caller said, Tomorrow we willbomb the airport and British HighCommission.

17-Sep-73 Lisbon Portugal ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. One of the IRA letterbombs was discovered at the Britishembassy in Lisbon.

17-Sep-73 Kinshasa Zaire(BelgianCongo)


Explosives1 0 ZAIRE. An IRA letter bomb woundeda British official at the BritishEmbassy in Zaire.

17-Sep-73 Brussels Belgium ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. An IRA letter bomb wasreceived by a British official inBrussels.

17-Sep-73 Gibraltar ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 0 GIBRALTAR. An IRA letter bomb wasreceived by a British official.

17-Sep-73 Monchen-GladbachFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two explosive charges weredetonated in Monchen-Gladbach, at asite adjoining the British Army of theRhine premises, presumably as partof the IRA's worldwide letter-bombcampaign.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Two bombs exploded inthe garden of the home of the U.S.ambassador in Buenos Aires, causingextensive damage to windows but noinjuries. The bombs appeared tohave been launched from motor-typeweapons.

28-Sep-73 Austria al-Fatah Unknown0 0 AUSTRIA. Three Jewish emigres enroute from the Soviet Union to Israeland an Austrian customs official wereseized by two armed Arabs whoclaimed to be members of the Eaglesof the Palestinian Revolution, whichis believed to be an offshoot of AlFatah. The terrorists seized theirhostages aboard a train, and latercommandeered a car and drove tothe Vienna airport. They demandedthat the Austrian government closeSchoenau Castle, a transit camp forJewish emigres operated by a Jewishagency. The Austrian governmentagreed and the terrorists releasedtheir hostages and were flown toLibya.

28-Sep-73 SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

Other Firearms0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A left-wingrevolutionary held the 12-year-oldson of the Mexican ambassador,Francisco Garcia as a hostage. Thegunman threatened to kill the boyunless he was given safe passage toSpain. His demand was granted andthe boy was released unharmed atthe Santo Domingo airport.

28-Sep-73 Rome Italy WeatherUnderground,Weathermen

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. A blast occurred outside theoffice of ITT Standard S.A. in Rome.Police said unidentified peoplepoured gasoline on the main doors ofthe office and ignited it, but the firewas quickly put out and damage wasslight. This explosion was linked toone at the ITT headquarters in NY onthe same day which was attributedto the Weather Undergroundprotesting against ITT activities inChile.

1-Oct-73 Rio deJaneiro

Brazil Unknown Explosives15 0 BRAZIL. A Brazilian man walked intothe LAN-Chilean Airlines office in Riode Janeiro and handed the clerk apackage, saying, I have a messagefor the government of Chile. Upongiving the clerk the parcel, the manran out of the office. The clerkdiscovered a note saying that thebomb would explode and went forhelp. While police were opening theparcel, it exploded, injuring fifteenpeople and destroying most of theoffice.

4-Oct-73 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two U.S. citizensemployed by the Frontino Goldmineswere kidnapped. On October 5, thekidnappers, who were thought to bemembers of the National LiberationArmy of Colombia (ELN), sent a letterdemanding $168,990 ransom toInternational Mining Company, ownerof the mines. The board of directorsof International Mining in New Yorkdecided to pay the ransom.

5-Oct-73 Genoa Italy ProletarianActionGroup

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Two gasoline bombs wereplaced at the front door of the U.Sconsulate general in Genoa. Therewere no injuries. Spanish-languageleaflets found at the scene bore theinscription of the Proletarian ActionGroup. The attack was believed tobe related to Chilean politics.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The anniversary of CheGuevara's death was commemoratedin Buenos Aires with an ineffectualrocket attack on the Sheraton Hotel.Twelve rockets were fired, but onlytwo hit the building.

9-Oct-73 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs exploded infront of the offices of two U.S.companies, Coca-Cola and FirestoneTire and Rubber, and one Germancompany, Mercedes- Benz, inCordoba. There were no casualties.



10-Oct-73 Mexico 23rd ofSeptemberCommunistLeague

Unknown0 0 MEXICO. Anthony Williams, a Britishconsul in Mexico, was kidnapped.The kidnappers demanded therelease of 51 political prisoners and$200,000 ransom. The Mexicangovernment refused to release anyprisoners. Williams was releasedunharmed on October 14. It was notknown whether ransom was paid. Agroup calling itself the 23d ofSeptember Communist Leagueclaimed responsibility.

15-Oct-73 Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Unknown0 0 CUBA. An anti-Castro Cuban heldcaptive the Belgian ambassadorwhile both were visiting the FrenchEmbassy in Havana. The Frenchambassador voluntarily joined hiscolleague. The Cuban governmentrejected the gunman's demand thathe be allowed to leave Cuba.Security forces entered the embassy,killed him, and freed the twoambassadors.

18-Oct-73 Beirut Lebanon LebaneseSocialistRevolutionaryOrganization

Unknown16 2 LEBANON. Five guerrillas who saidthey were members of a small left-wing guerrilla group called theLebanese Socialist RevolutionaryOrganization raided a Bank ofAmerica office in Beirut and held 40people hostage. They demanded thepayment of $10 million to finance theArab war effort against Israel, therelease of Palestinian guerrillas heldin Lebanon, and safe passage toAlgeria or Southern Yemen. TheBank of America refused to pay the$10 million. Both Southern Yemenand Algeria refused asylum to theterrorists.After 25 hours, police andarmy commandos stormed the bank.John Crawford Maxwell, a U.S.citizen, had been executed by theterrorists. In the battle, onepoliceman was killed and sixpolicemen were wounded; five bankemployees and five passersby werealso wounded. Two guerrillas werekilled in the assault, one wascritically wounded, a fourthsurrendered unharmed, and a fifthwas captured later. The survivingmembers of the guerrilla group weresentenced by a Beirut court on March9, 1974. Adel Najin Abu-Asi wassentenced to death for the murder ofJohn Crawford Maxwell.


ArgentinaTupamaros(Uruguay)

Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. An Argentine Airlines737 jet bound from Buenos Aires toSalta was hijacked by four armedterrorists who said they wereTupamaros. The plane eventuallyended up in the small Bolivian bordertown of Yacuiba, and after two daysof negotiations, the hijackerssurrendered to Bolivian authoritiesafter accepting the offer of safeconduct to Cuba in exchange for thehostages.


UnitedStates

YanikianCommandos

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. The TurkishInformation Office in New Yorkreceived a parcel containing a smokebomb and a letter addressed to theTurkish consulate general from agroup calling itself the YanikianCommandos, an Armenian groupnamed after the assassin of theTurkish consul on January 28, 1973.The bomb did not detonate.

1-Nov-73 Rio deJaneiro

Brazil Unknown Explosives15 0 BRAZIL. A letter bomb exploded inthe offices of the Chilean LAN-ChileAir Company in Rio de Janeiro,injuring 15 people.

17-Nov-73

NuremburgFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two subsidiaries of ITT, one inNuremburg and one in West Berlin,were damaged by bomb blasts. Noinjuries were reported.

17-Nov-73

WestBerlin


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two subsidiaries of ITT, one inNuremburg and one in West Berlin,were damaged by bomb blasts. Noinjuries were reported.

20-Nov-73

MaracaiboVenezuelaOther Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. Kurt Nagel, honoraryWest German consul in Maracaibo,was kidnapped by gunmen andreleased two days later. Venezuelanauthorities believe that the BanderaRoja, an extremist leftist group, wasresponsible for the kidnapping. Twoof the guerrillas were captured in aclash with four farmers two dayslater.

22-Nov-73

Cordoba ArgentinaPeronistArmedForces(FAP)

Unknown0 4 ARGENTINA. An American executiveof Ford Motor Argentina, John A.Swint, and three bodyguards werekilled in Cordoba. The FAPannounced that it was responsible.

25-Nov-73

Beirut Lebanon ArabNationalistYouth fortheLiberationof Pales

Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Four Palestinian guerrillasbelonging to Arab Nationalist Youthfor the Liberation of Palestinehijacked a KLM Royal Dutch Airlinesjumbo jet shortly after it took offfrom Beirut. The plane was forced tofly first to Syria and then to Cyprus,Libya, and Malta. The hijackersdemanded that KLM ceasetransporting arms to Israel, that theDutch government drastically changeits pro-Israel stance, and that TheNetherlands no longer render aid inthe emigration of Soviet Jews toIsrael. All 247 passengers and 17crew members were releasedunharmed on November 27, 1973.The hijackers surrendered aftergetting a safe passage guaranteefrom Dubai.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Secret CubanGovernment bombed a New York Citybusiness office.

3-Dec-73 Piraeus Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded outside abuilding housing a branch of theBank of America in Piraeus. Therewere no injuries, but there wasdamage to the bank building andadjacent area. On the same daythere was an explosion in thebasement of a branch of theCommercial Bank of Greece inAthens. Again there were no injuries,but there was some damage to thebuilding. A new anti-governmentgroup called Greek People claimedcredit for the blasts.

3-Dec-73 MexicoCity

Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A time bomb exploded inthe early morning in front of theCuban embassy's chancery in MexicoCity, causing minor damage.

8-Dec-73 Santiago Chile Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. A fire broke out in thecommercial section of the formerSoviet embassy in Santiago. Almostsimultaneously an incendiary bombwas thrown from a speeding car atthe front door of the formerresidence of the Soviet ambassador.Police thought that the attacks werein possible retaliation for theoccupation by members of aCommunist Youth Movement of theChilean embassy in Paris the daybefore.

8-Dec-73 Santiago Chile Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. An incendiary bomb wasthrown from a speeding car at thefront door of the former residence ofthe Soviet ambassador. At the sametime, a fire broke out in thecommercial section of the formerSoviet embassy in Santiago.Policethought that the attacks were inpossible retaliation for theoccupation by members of aCommunist Youth Movement of theChilean embassy in Paris the daybefore.

14-Dec-73

Marseille France CharlesMartelGroup

Explosives20 4 FRANCE. The Algerian Consulate inMarseille was bombed resulting inthe death of 4 Algerians and thewounding of 20 others. A previouslyunknown organization, the CharlesMartel Group claimed responsibility.The bombing occurred during aperiod of racial tensions after thestabbing death of an Algerian on abus.

17-Dec-73

Rome Italy Other Firearms0 0 ITALY. At least 32 people were killedand 18 were wounded at the Romeairport when five Arab guerrillasattacked a Middle East-bound PanAmerican World Airways jet airliner,spraying it with bombs and machinegun fire, hurling hand grenades intoit and setting it on fire. Theguerrillas then commandeered aLufthansa German Airlines plane andflew to Athens with a number ofhostages. From Athens the hijackersflew to Damascus and then to Kuwaitwhere they released 12 hostages andsurrendered to the Kuwaitgovernment. At one point, thehijackers demanded the release oftwo Palestinian terrorists held inGreece for the August 5, 1973,attack at the Athens airport. OnMarch 2, 1974, the five extremistswere flown to Cairo under theresponsibility of the PLO, which saidthat the five men would be tried by arevolutionary court for carrying outan unauthorized operationdetrimental to the Palestinian cause.

17-Dec-73

Rome Italy Other Explosives18 32 ITALY. At least 32 people were killedand 18 were wounded at the Romeairport when five Arab guerrillasattacked a Middle East-bound PanAmerican World Airways jet airliner,spraying it with bombs and machinegun fire, hurling hand grenades intoit and setting it on fire. Theguerrillas then commandeered aLufthansa German Airlines plane andflew to Athens with a number ofhostages. From Athens the hijackersflew to Damascus and then to Kuwaitwhere they released 12 hostages andsurrendered to the Kuwaitgovernment. At one point, thehijackers demanded the release oftwo Palestinian terrorists held inGreece for the August 5, 1973,attack at the Athens airport. OnMarch 2, 1974, the five extremistswere flown to Cairo under theresponsibility of the PLO, which saidthat the five men would be tried by arevolutionary court for carrying outan unauthorized operationdetrimental to the Palestinian cause.

18-Dec-73

Dacca BangladeshUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BANGLADESH. Three Molotovcocktails were thrown into the motorpool of the U.S. embassy in Dacca.

20-Dec-73

Piraeus Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb was discovered inthe building housing the ChaseManhattan Bank in Piraeus. Thebomb was deactivated.

27-Dec-73

NorthernIreland


Unknown0 1 N. IRELAND. Thomas Niedermayer, aWest German industrialist associatedwith the Grundig ElectronicsCompany, who was also his country'shonorary consul, was kidnapped fromhis home. The list of suspects wastopped by members of the IRA.Three possible motives for theabduction were: to obtain therelease or transfer to NorthernIreland of two sisters, Dolours andMarion Price, who were imprisoned inEngland for their part in a car-bombattack in London in March 1973; toraise ransom money from Grundig; orto frighten off foreign investment.On September 6, 1979, it wasrevealed by the Boston Globe thatNiedermayer died of a heart attackwhile being held captive, and beforeany ransom demand was made. Aformer IRA activist, Peter McMullen,revealed the fate of Niedermayer,stating that an IRA strike forcewanted Niedermayer for ransom andthe release of the Price sisters whowere arrested for bombing a Londoncourt; when Niedermayer died, theIRA never claimed credit for theabduction because they were tooembarrassed. McMullen himselfapplied for asylum in the UnitedStates in September 1979. In March1980, police identified a body foundin a garbage dump in Belfast as thatof Thomas Niedermayer.On February16, 1981, John Christopher Bradley, a42-year-old father of four fromBelfast, who had plead guilty to thecharge of kidnapping (but not themurder) of Niedermayer, wassentenced to 20 years in jail for hispart in the death of the Germanconsul.

30-Dec-73

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two bombsdamaged the 573-ton Mereghan A1as it awaited cargo at a Miami riverdock. In a call to the news media, aman who identified himself as aspokesman for a Cuban liberationgroup in Miami said the action wasdirected against the government ofthe Bahamas for the murder ofCuban nationals. (This Cubanliberation group may be FLNC--Frentede Liberacion Nacional Cubana(Cuban National Liberation Front)--aMiami-based exile group responsiblefor several attacks in 1974.)

31-Dec-73



Firearms1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Members of thePFLP attempted to assassinateJoseph E. Sieff, president of theMarks and Spencer store chain,honorary vice- President of theZionist Federation of Britain, andpresident of the Joint PalestinianAppeal, which collects funds forwelfare in Israel. The shot broke twoof Sieff's teeth and lodged in hishead. Many accounts creditVenezuelan terrorist Carlos with theattack, which the PFLP said was inresponse to Sieff's hospitality forMenachem Begin.

31-Dec-73

Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. Explosions in downtown Romeheavily damaged three buildingshousing offices of companies ownedby ITT Corporation. Leaflets found onthe scene said ITT organized thecoup d'etat in Chile and it is made upof Fascist and reactionary elements.

31-Dec-73

Turin Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. Bombs exploded in Turin andZurich, apparently thrown by Spanishextremists protesting the sentencingto death of a Barcelona studentradical. In Turin the target was abuilding housing the Spanishconsulate and the Spanish Chamberof Commerce, neither of which wasdamaged. In Zurich, a bombexploded in a post office locatedbeneath the Spanish consulategeneral. No injuries were reported.

31-Dec-73

Zurich SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Bombs exploded inTurin and Zurich, apparently thrownby Spanish extremists protesting thesentencing to death of a Barcelonastudent radical. In Turin the targetwas a building housing the Spanishconsulate and the Spanish Chamberof Commerce, neither of which wasdamaged. In Zurich, a bombexploded in a post office locatedbeneath the Spanish consulategeneral. No injuries were reported.

1-Jan-74 MexicoCity

Mexico Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 MEXICO. The FLNC bombed theCuban Embassy in Mexico City.

8-Jan-74 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A homemade bomb wasdiscovered under a U.S. governmentcar parked outside an Americanresidence in Kiffisia, a suburb ofAthens. The bomb was safelydeactivated. It is not known whoplaced it under the car.

11-Jan-74 SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb was placedin a telephone booth adjacent to thebuilding housing the Spanishconsulate. The consulate itself wasnot severely damaged, but the lobbyof the building was destroyed andthe ground floor post office wasextensively damaged. There were nocasualties. On the previous day, theoffices of Air Iberia were sprayedwith red paint by several youths.They wrote MIL -- Movimiento IbericoLibertario (Iberian LiberationMovement) -- on the window.

11-Jan-74 Turin Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb damaged the door ofa Turin building housing the Spanishconsulate and chamber ofcommerce, but caused no injuries.

11-Jan-74 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. Three bombs exploded inRome, heavily damaging offices offirms linked to ITT. Leaflets found inthe area claimed ITT was responsiblefor the 1973 Chilean coup andcharged that the firm was involved ina reactionary and fascist plot in Italy.



18-Jan-74 Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Homemade pipe bombscaused minor damage to three carsbelonging to U.S. military personnel.The cars all carried distinctive yellowforeign mission license plates. Callsto the press identified theperpetrators as dissident students.

20-Jan-74 MexicoCity

Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A homemade bomb, thrownfrom a moving truck by unidentifiedindividuals, exploded in the gardenof the Cuban embassy, causing noinjuries and little damage. Policelater found a total of four unexplodedbombs in the Cuban embassycompound. They were removedwithout incident.

21-Jan-74 Madrid Spain Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A Cuban Action packagecontaining high explosives blew up inthe Cuban embassy in Madrid.

21-Jan-74 Ottawa Canada Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CANADA. The Cuban embassyreported receiving a packagecontaining high-power explosivesthrough the mail from Cuban Action.

21-Jan-74 Lima Peru Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PERU. A Cuban Action packagecontaining high explosives detonatedat the Cuban embassy in Lima.

21-Jan-74 BuenosAires

ArgentinaAnti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The Cuban embassyreported receiving a packagecontaining explosives through themail from Cuban Action.

24-Jan-74 London UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An unidentifiedman hurled a bomb into the Bank ofHapoalim, Israel's third largest bank,in London's financial district. Oneemployee was slightly injured byflying glass.

31-Jan-74 SingaporeSingaporeJapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Explosives0 0 SINGAPORE. Two Japanesebelonging to the radical URA (UnitedRed Army) and two Arabs of the PFLPtried to blow up a Shell Oil Companyrefinery, then seized eight hostagesaboard a ferryboat and threatened tokill themselves and the hostagesunless they were given safe passageto an Arab country. The terroristshad tried to blow up three oil storagetanks belonging to Shell EasternPetroleum, a Shell Internationalcompany but only succeeded insetting one on fire. Five of the eighthostages were allowed to jumpoverboard and swim to safety but theother three were forced to stay withthe guerrillas while they bargainedwith the Singapore government forsafe passage to an Arab country.OnFebruary 6, five PFLP members tookover the Japanese embassy inKuwait, holding about 12 hostages,including the ambassador, RyokoIshikawa. They demanded that theJapanese government supply anairliner to bring their comrades fromSingapore to Kuwait. A Japan AirLines plane carrying the fourguerrillas from Singapore landed inKuwait. After picking up the otherfive guerrillas, who had releasedtheir hostages, the plane went on toAden, Southern Yemen, arriving onFebruary 8. The guerrillas werefreed by Southern Yemen authoritieson February 10. (See incident inKuwait on 6 Feb 1974)

1-Feb-74 GuadalajaraMexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Bombs exploded at Pepsi-Cola and Union Carbide plants inGuadalajara. Bombs also damaged aCoca-Cola bottling plant, a bakery,and federal offices in Oaxaca.Damage was put at more than$400,000. No casualties or arrestswere reported.

1-Feb-74 GuadalajaraMexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Bombs exploded at Pepsi-Cola and Union Carbide plants inGuadalajara. Bombs also damaged aCoca-Cola bottling plant, a bakery,and federal offices in Oaxaca.Damage was put at more than$400,000. No casualties or arrestswere reported.

1-Feb-74 Oaxaca Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Bombs also damaged aCoca-Cola bottling plant, a bakery,and federal offices in Oaxaca.Damage was put at more than$400,000. No casualties or arrestswere reported.Bombs also explodedin Guadalajara at Pepsi Cola andUnion Carbide plants.

1-Feb-74 BotswanaUnknown Explosives0 1 BOTSWANA. Abraham OnkgopotseTiro, permanent organizer of SASO,the South African Students'Organization, was killed by a parcelbomb explosion. The parcel wasstamped by the InternationalUniversity Exchange Fund in Geneva,Switzerland, according to the press,but the identity and motive of theperpetrator have not beendetermined.

2-Feb-74 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 0 PAKISTAN. Three gunmen, membersof a group called MoslemInternational Guerrillas, seized aGreek freighter in the port of Karachi.They threatened to blow up the shipand kill two hostages unless theGreek government freed two Arabterrorists who were being held inAthens under sentence of death forthe August 5, 1973 attack at theAthens airport. After lengthynegotiations with Pakistaniauthorities and three Arabambassadors, the attackers accepteda Greek government agreement tocommute the sentences of theAthens terrorists. The three gunmenwere flown out of Karachi on aspecial PIA flight to Cairo on theevening of February 3 and flown toLibya the following day.

4-Feb-74 London UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A letter bombexploded at the Daily Express, aLondon newspaper, injuring a guard.

4-Feb-74 Lima Peru MovimientoArmadoNacionalistaOrganizacion(MANO)

Explosives1 0 PERU. A letter bomb posted inMexico exploded in the Cubanembassy in Lima, slightly injuring awoman. The Peruvian groupMovimiento Armado NacionalistaOrganizacion (MANO) issued acommunique saying, This is the firstwarning to those who, like the agentsof Fidel Castro's internationalcommunism, seek to disrupt law andorder in the republic and poison ourpeople with Marxism-Leninism.

6-Feb-74 KuwaitCity

Kuwait PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Unknown0 0 KUWAIT. Five members of thePopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine (PFLP) seized the JapaneseEmbassy in Kuwait and took 12hostages, including the ambassador.They demanded that Japan arrangeto fly two of their comrades and twomembers of the Japanese Red Armyto Kuwait from Singapore, wherethey were imprisoned. Japancomplied, and the terrorists weregranted safe passage to SouthYemen. A Japan Air Lines carryingthe four guerrillas from Singaporelanded in Kuwait. After picking upthe other five guerrillas, who hadreleased their hostages, the planewent on to Aden, South Yemen,arriving on Feb 8. The guerrillaswere freed by South Yemenauthorities on Feb. 10. (See Incidentin Singapore on 31 Jan 1974)

8-Feb-74 BarcelonaSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. A Molotov cocktail was thrownat an Air France office in Barcelona.

11-Feb-74 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. Three Christianestablishments in Jerusalem--theoffice of Baptist House (operated bythe U.S. Southern BaptistConvention), the U.S.-owned ZionHouse Bible Shop, and the chapel ofthe Swedish Theological Institute-were firebombed. The groupresponsible for the bombings is notknown at this time. The JewishDefense League and extremistYeshiva students were responsiblefor similar bombings in February1973.


0 0 ISRAEL. Three Christianestablishments in Jerusalem--theoffice of Baptist House (operated bythe U.S. Southern BaptistConvention), the U.S.-owned ZionHouse Bible Shop, and the chapel ofthe Swedish Theological Institute-were firebombed. The groupresponsible for the bombings is notknown at this time. The JewishDefense League and extremistYeshiva students were responsiblefor similar bombings in February1973.


0 0 ISRAEL. The chapel of the SwedishTheological Institute, along with twoAmerican establishments, the BaptistHouse ( run by US Southern BaptistConvention) and the Zion HouseBible Shop were firebombed. Thegroup responsible for the bombingsis not known at this time. The JewishDefense League and extremistYeshiva students were responsiblefor similar bombings in February1973.

13-Feb-74 Madrid Spain Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives1 0 SPAIN. A package addressed to theCuban embassy exploded in a Madridpost office, wounding a postalworker.

16-Feb-74 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. Bombs exploded at aSpanish tourist office and a Spanishbank in Brussels.



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Arsonists set fire to a Spanish travelagency in Frankfurt.

16-Feb-74 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. Bombs exploded at aSpanish tourist office and a Spanishbank in Brussels.

23-Feb-74 Lavrion Greece Unknown Explosives0 2 GREECE. Two Greek demolitionexperts were killed while they wereattempting to defuse a bomb foundin the U.S.-owned Dow Chemicalplant at Lavrion. The bombs werebelieved to have been planted bypeople protesting U.S. support of theAthens government.

1-Mar-74 UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Cuban exilemagazine, Areito, reported being thetarget of bomb attacks.

1-Mar-74 France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. The Sonolar factory, whichis owned by a French subsidiary ofthe International Telephone andTelegraph Company, was destroyedby fire. A group calling itself WeMust Do Something telephonedAgence France Presse to claimresponsibility for the fire, which itsaid was a welcome for the Chileanambassador to France.

3-Mar-74 Beirut Lebanon ArabNationalistYouth fortheLiberationof Pales

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Two Arabs hijacked aBritish Airways VC-10 that was enroute from Bombay to London after ithad stopped at the Beirut airport.The guerrillas planted explosives andordered the pilot to land atAmsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Thehijackers freed 92 passengers and 20crew members and blew up theplane before being apprehended byDutch security forces. They had toldpassengers that they belonged to theArab Nationalist Youth for theLiberation of Palestine. The PLOdenied any responsibility for theoperation. The two guerrillas weresentenced to five yearsimprisonment.

7-Mar-74 Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. A bomb was tossed into theBritish embassy compound duringthe evening. There were no injuries,but some windows in the chancerywere broken by the explosion.

7-Mar-74 TheHague

NetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. A fire erupted inthe Spanish tourist agency in TheHague. The building was partiallydestroyed. A local daily newspaperreceived an anonymous call from awoman who spoke with a Spanishaccent and said that the fire was aprotest against the execution of aSpanish anarchist in Madrid in earlyMarch.

9-Mar-74 Madrid Spain Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The FLNC claimedresponsibility for the bombing of theentrance of the Cuban consulate inMadrid. Heavy damage was done tothe building, but no serious injurieswere reported.

10-Mar-74 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. An unknown individual threwan explosive at the principalresidence of the Swiss ambassador inLima, breaking the door's windows.

12-Mar-74 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at thefront door of the Cordoba USISBinational Center at 2 in themorning, causing some damage.

14-Mar-74 VenezuelaRed Flag(Venezuela)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 VENEZUELA. A fire was set at a newsupermarket owned partly by theRockefeller family of the UnitedStates. Self-professed members ofthe Red Flag guerrilla group claimedresponsibility. Other groups,including the National LiberationArmed Forces, also claimedresponsibility for the attack.

14-Mar-74 MexicoCity


Explosives0 0 MEXICO. The Mexico City offices ofCubana de Aviacion were damagedby a dynamite explosion, claimed bythe FLNC, National Front for theLiberation of Cuba.

14-Mar-74 ElMarques

VenezuelaRed Flag(Venezuela)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 VENEZUELA. Three incendiarybombs were discovered anddisarmed at Sears stores in ElMarques and Bello Monte. BanderoRojo (Red Flag) claimedresponsibility.

14-Mar-74 BelloMonte

VenezuelaRed Flag(Venezuela)

Fire orFirebomb


14-Mar-74 VenezuelaRed Flag(Venezuela)

Fire orFirebomb



Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Security police arrestedsix Arabs after they attempted tosmuggle arms and explosives in foodcontainers and luggage aboard aKLM Royal Dutch Airlines B0747 enroute from Amsterdam to Tokyo viaBeirut. One of the suspects was aLebanese employee of KLM. Heclaimed that the individuals weremembers of PFLP as well as the ArabNational Youth Organization for theLiberation of Palestine, and that theyincluded two Palestinians, twoLebanese, and one Libyan. One ofthe men involved was a Palestinianrefugee from Syria who hadparticipated in the November 26,1973 hijacking of a KLM plane. Policeat Beirut International Airport hadearlier received intelligenceinformation regarding a possiblehijacking attempt.

16-Mar-74 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at thefront door of the USIS BinationalCenter in Cordoba, causing nopersonal injuries but some damage.

16-Mar-74 Kingston Jamaica Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 JAMAICA. The Cuban embassy inKingston was bombed by the FLNC -National Front for the Liberation ofCuba.

16-Mar-74 Lebanon LebaneseRevolutionarySocialistMovement

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Iranian ambassadorto Lebanon was the target of anunsuccessful bomb attempt. Theexplosion blew a tire and causedminor damage to the body of the car.The Lebanese Revolutionary SocialistMovement claimed responsibility forthe bombing.

17-Mar-74 LondonderryNorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms0 0 NORTHERN IRELAND. Four maskedguerrillas drove a hijacked truck intoa U.S. Navy communications centeroutside Londonderry and opened fireon guards in an attempt to stealarms. The raiders tied up threeAmericans and took anotherAmerican hostage, but he escaped.The gunmen fled on foot. No injurieswere reported. The center relaysNATO messages to and from theUnited States.

23-Mar-74 Asmara Eritrea EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Explosives0 2 ERITREA. The Debawa site of anEthiopian-Japanese mining operationnear Asmara was attacked bymembers of the ELF-GeneralCommand armed with grenades andautomatic weapons. The Eritreanflag was raised at the site, andleaflets were scattered. Damage tothe mine generator and otherequipment was placed at $3 million.There were no casualties at the minebut two guards at the village schoolwere killed by fleeing terrorists.

24-Mar-74 Mexico Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A bomb was thrown at theoffices of Cubana de Aviacion byunidentified persons, causingconsiderable property damage. TheCuban group FLNC claimedresponsibility for the bombing.

26-Mar-74 Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. The ELF seized the pilotand passengers of a helicopterdowned in Ethiopia. The helicopter,which had been hired by Tenneco Oil,Inc., carried the pilot and fourpassengers, including two employeesof Tenneco, an employee of Texaco,and a UN official. In return for theirrelease, the ELF demanded thatTenneco assist the ELF in freeing 75political prisoners held by theEthiopian government, employ ajournalist to publish the ELF story,and suspend further oil explorationuntil the ELF and the governmentcame to peace; they also demandedthat the hostages not return toEthiopia. Tenneco agreed to discussthe demands. At one point duringthe negotiations, the ELF agreed torelease two of the hostages. Asecond helicopter was sent byTenneco to retrieve them on May 27,but its pilot was also taken hostage.The guerrillas then kidnapped twomissionary nurses, one American andthe other Dutch. The Dutch nursewas killed on the day of her capture.(see incident on May 27, 1974) TheAmerican nurse and the pilot of thesecond helicopter were releasedunharmed on June 23, 1974. On June26, the first pilot was releasedunharmed. The remaining fourhostages were released unharmedon September 10, 1974.

8-Apr-74 Asmara Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Explosives0 0 ETHIOPIA. Kagnew Station, a U.S.Navy communications facility outsideAsmara, was the target of a rocketattack. There was slight damage andno injuries. The ELF was suspectedin the incident.

11-Apr-74 QiryatShemona

Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Explosives16 18 ISRAEL. Three Arab guerrillas--onePalestinian, one Syrian, and oneIraqi--stormed a residential buildingin Qiryat Shemona, killing 18 peopleand wounding 16. The guerrillas,who were said to belong to the PFLP-GC, died in an explosion at the end ofa gun and grenade battle with Israelitroops. One of the terrorists'communiques demanded that Israelrelease 100 prisoners including KozoOkamoto, a Japanese terroristserving a life sentence for the attackon Lod Airport in Tel Aviv on May 31,1972. The following day, after the 18victims of the Arab terrorist raid wereburied, Israeli forces carried outretaliatory raids across the Lebaneseborder. They entered six villages insouthern Lebanon and blew upseveral houses belonging to Arabguerrilla sympathizers after theinhabitants had been evacuated.

12-Apr-74 Cordoba ArgentinaEjercitoRevolucionariadelPueblo(ERP)(Argentin

Unknown1 0 ARGENTINA. Alfred Laun, head of theU.S. Information Service branch inCordoba, was wounded andkidnapped by the ERP. The guerrillassaid that Laun would be interrogatedon counterrevolutionary activities inVietnam, Santo Domingo, Brazil, andBolivia, and for his activeparticipation as a liaison in theFascist military coup against ourbrother people in Chile. He was alsoto have been interrogated on his tieswith the CIA. The guerrillas releasedLaun on April 13, 1974, apparentlybecause of the seriousness of hiswounds.

13-Apr-74 PhilippinesUnknown Firearms0 3 PHILIPPINES. Three U.S. Navalofficers were shot and killed whileinspecting road construction at theperimeter of the Subic Bay NavalBase, fifty miles northwest of Manila.

13-Apr-74 CoralGables

UnitedStates

SecretOrganizationZero

Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. The SecretOrganization Zero claimed that itsgunmen assassinated Jose Elias deTorriente, founder of FLNC, in CoralGables, Florida. Torriente wasallegedly the mastermind behindplans to assassinate Castro in 1969and 1970.A week later, RicardoMorales Navarrete, and FBI informantinstrumental in the conviction ofOrland Bosch, was killed by a bombdetonated by the ignition switch inhis car.

14-Apr-74 LosAngeles

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb blast at theLebanese consulate in Los Angeles,apparently in reprisal for the Arabguerrilla raid on Qiryat Shemona (seeApril 11, 1974 incident), causedabout $1,500 damage. No one wasinjured. Just before the explosion,anonymous callers told two newsservices that the bombs would go offand hung up after declaring, NeverAgain!, the slogan of the JDL.

18-Apr-74 Cairo Egypt IslamicLiberationOrganization

Unknown27 11 EGYPT. An extremist organizationled by an Iraqi national and havingconnections with Libya was behindan armed attack on the TechnicalMilitary Academy in Cairo. Elevenpeople were killed and 27 injured inthe attack. Among those arrested inthe next few days was a Palestinianwho was believed to be theringleader. He confessed that theaim of his organization, the IslamicLiberation Organization, was tooverthrow existing regimes in Arabcountries.

20-Apr-74 UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 1 UNITED STATES. Ricardo MoralesNavarrete, an FBI informantinstrumental in the conviction ofOrlando Bosch, was killed by a bombdetonated by the ignition switch inhis car. This occurred a week afterthe assassination of Torriente of theFLNC.

23-Apr-74 Thailand PattaniUnitedLiberationOrganization(PULO)

Unknown0 0 THAILAND. The Pattani LiberationFront, a Muslim separatist movementin southern Thailand, credited itselfwith the kidnapping of two womenmissionaries. The organizationdemanded that the United States andBritain halt all military and economicaid to Thailand, and that the Thaigovernment halt its persecution ofthe people of Pattani and legalizetheir struggle for independence.


ElSalvador

People'sRevolutionaryArmy(ERP)

Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Four gunmenclaiming to be members of thePeople's Revolutionary Army alloweda watchman to take his child out ofthe building before planting a bombthat destroyed the offices of theChilean embassy in San Salvador.No injuries were reported and theterrorists escaped.

1-May-74 LosAngeles

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Caribe Starwas sunk in Los Angeles Harbor by abomb placed on its sea chest. The120 foot long former Catalina ferryhad been sold to Arab interests andrefitted as a luxury yacht. The JewishDefense League claimedresponsibility.

1-May-74 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives2 0 UNITED STATES. Without priorwarning, a bomb exploded in a publiclocker in the international arrivalsterminal for Alitalia Airlines at JFKInternational Airport in New York.Two airline employees were injured.

1-May-74 Jordan ArabNationalistYouth fortheLiberationof Pales

Unknown0 0 JORDAN. A monitoring station of theTrans-Arabian Pipeline was damagedby the Organization of ArabNationalist Youth for the Liberation ofPalestine.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb placedon the window sill of a London houseadjacent to the Cuban embassy wasdetonated by means of a safety fusegiving a three-minute delay. Theblast caused only minor damage andno injuries. The FLNC claimedresponsibility for the attack.

8-May-74 Lebanon LebaneseSocialistRevolutionaryOrganization

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosive deviceplaced against the outside of thereinforced concrete wall of the USISRegional Service Center blew a holein the wall. The plastic charge didnot cause any major damage to theprinting presses or any personaldamage. The Lebanese SocialistRevolutionary Movement (Shibbugang) claimed responsibility for theincident.

14-May-74

Merida Mexico Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Two FLNC bombs destroyedthe offices of the Cuban Consulate inMerida and caused serious damageto another office. A third bomb wasdiscovered and defused.

15-May-74


Unknown76 31 ISRAEL. Three Arab guerillas fromPopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine crossed the border fromLebanon into Israel and first attackeda bus carrying Israeli women on theirway home from work. The guerillaskilled two of the women andwounded six. They then went to Ma’alot village and killed three morepeople before seizing a school filledwith ninety teenagers who weresleeping in the school following ahike. The guerillas occupied theschool, although several studentsand some teachers (twenty in all)managed to escape by jumping froma window. The guerillas demandedthe release of twenty terrorists heldin Israeli jails and gave officials until6 pm to comply, or they threatenedto kill the children. They alsodemanded the French and Romanianambassadors come to secure thedeal. Officials complied and theterrorists held in prison were broughtto the school for release. However,negotiations broke down at the lastminute and Israeli troops stormedthe school. In the ensuing gunfight,all three guerillas were killed. At leasttwenty-six people were killed andseventy wounded, many of themstudents. Officials speculate that it islikely the guerillas stumbled upon thestudents in the school by chance,since they attacked other targetsfirst and since it was the middle ofthe night, so they would have noreason to believe students were inthe school at that time. The head ofthe Popular Democratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine, the groupclaiming responsibility for the attack,Nayef Hawatmeh said that the attackhad been aimed against the MiddleEast peace mission of HenryKissinger, who had been in theMiddle East about two monthsearlier. Hawatmeh said that Kissingerwas suggesting a settlement thatwould mean ‘surrender of thePalestinian people.’ The attack wasmeant to show Kissinger that thePalestinians rejected any proposalthat would hurt the Palestinian causeand would accept only the creation ofa Palestinian entity. The leader alsosaid the attack was intended to warnthe US against turning the West Bankof Jordan over to King Hussein.

15-May-74


Unknown76 31 ISRAEL. Three Arab guerillas fromPopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine crossed the border fromLebanon into Israel and first attackeda bus carrying Israeli women on theirway home from work. The guerillaskilled two of the women andwounded six. They then went to Ma’alot village and killed three morepeople before seizing a school filledwith ninety teenagers who weresleeping in the school following ahike. The guerillas occupied theschool, although several studentsand some teachers (twenty in all)managed to escape by jumping froma window. The guerillas demandedthe release of twenty terrorists heldin Israeli jails and gave officials until6 pm to comply, or they threatenedto kill the children. They alsodemanded the French and Romanianambassadors come to secure thedeal. Officials complied and theterrorists held in prison were broughtto the school for release. However,negotiations broke down at the lastminute and Israeli troops stormedthe school. In the ensuing gunfight,all three guerillas were killed. At leasttwenty-six people were killed andseventy wounded, many of themstudents. Officials speculate that it islikely the guerillas stumbled upon thestudents in the school by chance,since they attacked other targetsfirst and since it was the middle ofthe night, so they would have noreason to believe students were inthe school at that time. The head ofthe Popular Democratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine, the groupclaiming responsibility for the attack,Nayef Hawatmeh said that the attackhad been aimed against the MiddleEast peace mission of HenryKissinger, who had been in theMiddle East about two monthsearlier. Hawatmeh said that Kissingerwas suggesting a settlement thatwould mean ‘surrender of thePalestinian people.’ The attack wasmeant to show Kissinger that thePalestinians rejected any proposalthat would hurt the Palestinian causeand would accept only the creation ofa Palestinian entity. The leader alsosaid the attack was intended to warnthe US against turning the West Bankof Jordan over to King Hussein.

22-May-74

Brussels Belgium InternationalRevolutionaryActionGroup(GARI)

Fire orFirebomb

1 0 BELGIUM. A stolen automobileloaded with cans of gasolineexploded outside the office of IberiaAirlines in Brussels. The blast injuredone person and caused heavydamage to the building, which alsohouses the First National Bank andthe American-owned Westbury Hotel.Cars containing similar explosivecharges were discovered anddisarmed by Belgium police in frontof Iberia Airlines offices in Liege andAntwerp. On the basis of pamphletsfound at subsequent similarincidents, Belgium authorities believethat GARI was responsible for theexplosions.

22-May-74

Liege Belgium InternationalRevolutionaryActionGroup(GARI)

Fire orFirebomb


22-May-74

Antwerp Belgium InternationalRevolutionaryActionGroup(GARI)

Fire orFirebomb


27-May-74


Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. A helicopter was sent byTenneco to retrieve hostages takenby the ELF on March 26, but its pilotwas also taken hostage. Twomissionaries were kidnapped thesame day. ELF seized the pilot andpassengers of a helicopter downed inEthiopia on March 26,1974. Thehelicopter, which had been hired byTenneco Oil, Inc., carried the pilotand four passengers, including twoemployees of Tenneco, an employeeof Texaco, and a UN official. Inreturn for their release, the ELFdemanded that Tenneco assist theELF in freeing 75 political prisonersheld by the Ethiopian government,employ a journalist to publish the ELFstory, and suspend further oilexploration until the ELF and thegovernment came to peace; theyalso demanded that the hostages notreturn to Ethiopia. Tenneco agreedto discuss the demands. At onepoint during the negotiations, the ELFagreed to release two of thehostages The guerrillas thenkidnapped two missionary nurses,one American and the other Dutch.The Dutch nurse was killed on theday of her capture. The Americannurse and the pilot of the secondhelicopter were released unharmedon June 23, 1974. On June 26, thefirst pilot was released unharmed.The remaining four hostages werereleased unharmed on September10, 1974.

27-May-74


Unknown0 1 ETHIOPIA. ELF guerrillas kidnappedtwo missionary nurses, one Americanand the other Dutch. The Dutchnurse was killed on the day of hercapture. The American nurse andthe pilot of the second helicopterwere released unharmed on June 23,1974Earlier (Mar 26, 1974), the ELFseized the pilot and passengers of ahelicopter downed in Ethiopia. Thehelicopter, which had been hired byTenneco Oil, Inc., carried the pilotand four passengers, including twoemployees of Tenneco, an employeeof Texaco, and a UN official. Inreturn for their release, the ELFdemanded that Tenneco assist theELF in freeing 75 political prisonersheld by the Ethiopian government,employ a journalist to publish the ELFstory, and suspend further oilexploration until the ELF and thegovernment came to peace; theyalso demanded that the hostages notreturn to Ethiopia. Tenneco agreedto discuss the demands. At onepoint during the negotiations, the ELFagreed to release two of thehostages. A second helicopter wassent by Tenneco to retrieve them onMay 27, but its pilot was also takenhostage.(See incident on May 27,1974). On June 26, the first pilot wasreleased unharmed. The remainingfour hostages were releasedunharmed on September 10, 1974.

28-May-74

Lebanon RevolutionaryArabYouthOrganization

Explosives3 0 LEBANON. The detonation of a smallexplosive charge at the John F.Kennedy USIS Library and CulturalCenter caused minor injuries to threelocal employees and some damageto the installation. The RevolutionaryArab Youth Organization claimedresponsibility. In May 1975 severalterrorists were sentenced to prisonfor this bombing.

1-Jun-74 Port-au-Prince

Haiti Unknown Explosives1 0 HAITI. A bomb in a trunk that hadbeen shipped on an Air France flightfrom Miami exploded in a baggageroom at the Port-au-Prince airport,injuring a policeman. The trunk wasshipped by a man who had a ticketfor the flight but did not board theaircraft.

2-Jun-74 Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Unexploded bombs werefound under cars owned by U.S.servicemen. Several groups claimedresponsibility.

4-Jun-74 Ethiopia Other Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. An Italian farmer waskidnapped from his Eritreanplantation by Eritrean guerrillas.

5-Jun-74 Miami UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two unidentifiedindividuals suspected of being anti-Duvalier Haitian exiles threw a bombon board a Haitian navy patrol boatdrydocked at Ryder Yacht Basin inMiami.

12-Jun-74 Athens Greece GreekAnti-RegimeMovementLAOS-11

Explosives0 0 GREECE. An unexploded time bombwas found under the vehicle of asenior U.S. Navy officer in Athens.The Greek Anti-Regime Movement L.A.O.S.-11 claimed responsibility.

12-Jun-74 WestBerlin


RevolutionaryCells

Explosives4 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded on the second floorof the Chilean consulate in WestBerlin, causing considerable damageto the consulate's offices and twoother floors in the building. FourGerman nationals living in thebuildings, including the honoraryconsul, were slightly injured. TheRevolutionary Cells claimed credit forthe blast, which it said was topublicize terrorism under which thepeople of Chile live.

18-Jun-74 Zurich SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A powerful bombdamaged the Zurich branch of the U.S.-owned Manufacturers HanoverTrust but caused no injuries. Swisspolice arrested members of theKrause Group in connection with theblast.

20-Jun-74 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Three branch offices ofthe Bank of London were bombed.

20-Jun-74 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A series of bombsdamaged the offices of two branchesof the First National City Bank, twobranches of Bank of Boston, a branchof the Bank of America, a Coca-Colawarehouse, Eveready offices, a Fordshowroom, and offices of Parke-Davisand Xerox.





23-Jun-74 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bomb insidethe basement stairwell of the Frenchmilitary materiel mission inWashington, D.C., exploded, causingminor damage. The two personsinside the building at the time of theblast were not injured. Localnewspapers speculated that thebomb may have been intended forthe Israeli or Cypriot embassies, bothof which are located within twoblocks of the French mission. It wasalso suggested that the buildinghousing the offices of the Chileanmilitary and naval attaches, locatedfive doors away, was the intendedtarget.

24-Jun-74 NahariyyaIsrael Other Firearms8 4 ISRAEL. Three Arab terroristsentered Israel and seized hostages inan apartment building in Nahariyya.They killed four persons andwounded eight before theythemselves were killed in a gunbattle.


ArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. A small truck passed infront of the U.S. embassy chancery inBuenos Aires. Individuals inside thevehicle fired machine guns on anArgentinian police patrol carprotecting the chancery and thenfled. The police car sustained bullethits, but no police were injured.

3-Jul-74 Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A columnist and co-editorof An-Nahar was kidnapped in Beirutand released five days later. Theleader of the PLO, Yasser Arafat,cooperated fully in the search. Threemen, a Lebanese, a Syrian, and aPalestinian, were arrested inconnection with the kidnapping.

3-Jul-74 Paris France Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A plastic bomb exploded infront of the Cuban embassy in Paris,demolishing the door frame andfurnishings of the foyer and knockingout windows of neighboringbuildings. No one was injured. In atelephone call to a Miami newspaper,the Frente de Liberacion Cubana(FLNC) claimed responsibility for theincident.

15-Jul-74 Osaka Japan Other Unknown0 0 JAPAN. A Japanese hijacker held 89hostages aboard a Japan Airlinesjetliner departing from Osaka formore than five hours. He demandedthe release of an imprisonedJapanese Red Army leader (TakayaShiomi) and a plane to take themboth to North Korea. The hijackerwas captured and the passengersescaped while the plane was beingrefueled at Nagoya, Japan.

16-Jul-74 Lourdes France InternationalRevolutionaryActionGroup(GARI)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A series of bomb attacksdestroyed 13 buses in a parking lotand along the route of the Tour deFrance bicycle race near Lourdes andSaint-Lary, in which Spanish riderscompeted. GARI claimedresponsibility for the bombings.

21-Jul-74 Beirut Lebanon LebaneseSocialistRevolutionaryOrganization

Firearms1 0 LEBANON. Four assailants attackedChilean ambassador Alfredo CanalesMarquis and his wife as they wereentering their apartment in Beirut.The attackers fired four shots at theambassador, wounding him critically.All four assailants managed toescape. The Lebanese RevolutionarySocialist Organization (Shibbu gang)claimed responsibility for theattempted assassination.

23-Jul-74 Rosario ArgentinaEjercitoRevolucionariadelPueblo(ERP)(Argentin

Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Erich Breuss, anAustrian national and executive ofArgentina's largest steelmanufacturing firm, Acindar, waskidnapped on his way to work inRosario by four men posing asprovincial policemen. The ERPclaimed credit.

25-Jul-74 Nimes France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A homemade bombexploded in front of a Spanish bankin Nimes. No one was injured.Spanish anarchists were believedresponsible.

26-Jul-74 SanJuan

PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. A bomb at thePeruvian consulate in San Juandestroyed two cars and damaged theconsulate building. The AssociatedPress in Miami received a callclaiming credit for the Cuban exilegroup M-7.

28-Jul-74 Toulouse France Other Explosives3 0 FRANCE. Three policemen wereinjured when a bomb exploded onthe roof of a covered playgroundnear the Spanish consulate inToulouse. The blast was believed tobe the work of Spanish anarchists.

1-Aug-74 Egypt Unknown Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Unknown perpetratorsplaced an underwater bomb on thevessel Alcazar from Singapore. Theexplosions resulted in 44 meters ofbilge keel buckling and distorting.

2-Aug-74 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A man was observedleaving a briefcase at the Pan Amoffice in Beirut and then departingquickly. The briefcase contained adynamite bomb, which expertsdefused. The man was subsequentlyarrested.

3-Aug-74 Paris France PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives2 0 FRANCE. Three car-bomb explosionstook place outside the offices ofright-wing newspapers (L'Aurore andMinute) and the Jewish Social Fund.French newspapers received acommunique on August 5 with a PFLPsignature claiming responsibility inthe name of Commando MuhammadBoudia (an Algerian member of thePFLP who was killed in Paris in 1973when his car exploded; he wasallegedly killed because he was aleader in the BSO). Two personswere slightly injured by theexplosions.

3-Aug-74 France PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL


3-Aug-74 France PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL


5-Aug-74 TheHague

NetherlandsUnknown Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. A bomb wasdiscovered and defused at the U.S.embassy in the Hague.

5-Aug-74 Brussels Belgium InternationalRevolutionaryActionGroup(GARI)

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. Bombs exploded duringthe night in front of three branchoffices of the Spanish Bank inBrussels, and during the morningrush hour in front of the downtownoffice of Iberia Airlines. In the lastblast, five persons were injured.Pamphlets found at one of the bankswere signed by GARI.







6-Aug-74 Kingston Jamaica Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 JAMAICA. A small bomb exploded onthe grounds of the Cuban embassy inKingston, causing slight damage andno injuries. The perpetrators werenot identified, although they mighthave been associated with the FLNC,which had claimed responsibility fora bombing of the embassy on March26.

6-Aug-74 SanJuan

PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. An explosive devicecontaining nuts and bolts wasdetonated at the front door of theVenezuelan consulate in San Juan,causing extensive damage but noinjuries. The Cuban M-7 organizationclaimed it set the bomb to protestdeals of the Venezuelan governmentwith Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A dynamite bombplanted at the U.N. General Assemblybuilding was dismantled by bombspecialists.

9-Aug-74 Sapporo Japan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. A small incendiary devicewas thrown against the U.S.consulate in Sapporo. The resultingfire was quickly extinguished by acaretaker and property damage wasminimal.

14-Aug-74

DamascusSyria ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives2 0 SYRIA. A homemade bomb explodedat night near the entrance of the U.S.pavilion at the DamascusInternational Fair, causing moderatedamage to the building and seriousdamage to the Skylab exhibit. Onepavilion guard and one civilianpoliceman sustained minor injuries.According to the Beirut newspapers,a newly surfaced group, The ArabCommunist Organization, announcedthe following day that it wasresponsible for the bomb explosion.

15-Aug-74

Seoul Korea,South

Other Firearms1 2 SOUTH KOREA. The wife of PresidentChung Hee Park was fatally woundedby an assassin's bullet intended forher husband. A 17-year-old girl wasalso killed by a stray bullet. Theassassin, identified as Mun SeKwang, a Korean who had been livingin Osaka, Japan, was seized afterbeing wounded by security guards.South Korean investigators chargedthat the attempted assassination ofPresident Park had been plotted bythe North Korean government.Kwang had been a member of theOsaka branch of the Korean YouthLeague, an anti-Park organization ofKorean residents in Japan. He wasreportedly recruited by North Koreanagents in 1972 and assigned themission of killing Park in November1973.

16-Aug-74

Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. The Soviet embassy in Limawas bombed.

19-Aug-74

Nicosia Cyprus Other Firearms0 2 CYPRUS. U.S. Ambassador RodgerDavies and one local employee, anembassy secretary, were killed whenarmed Cypriots fired shots at theambassador's office and residence.In early 1977, Cypriot authoritiesarrested six men on charges ofmurder and illegal possession offirearms in connection with theincident. After trial in Nicosia, twowere acquitted; the others receivedvarious sentences.

25-Aug-74

MannheimFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Aguerrilla group calling itself theCommando Muhammad Boudia (whowas an Algerian member of the PFLP)claimed responsibility for a bombattack on a mechanical craneconstruction factory in Mannheim.According to a report in the BeirutDaily Star, the group bombed thefactory, which is owned by the Korfgroup, because Korf had invested inan Israeli steelworks two yearsearlier. Nobody was injured in theexplosion, which caused anestimated $2,400 damage.

26-Aug-74

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. After a TWA B0707 landedat Rome from Athens, a fire wasdiscovered in the baggagecompartment. The fire was confinedto an area near a suitcase containingan explosive device thatmalfunctioned and caused the fire.

26-Aug-74


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Ahomemade bomb placed in front of awindow of the Israeli State TravelOffice in Frankfurt exploded, causing$20,000 damage to the office andslight damage to two cars parked infront of the office building but noinjuries.

27-Aug-74

Cordoba ArgentinaPeronistArmedForces(FAP)

Firearms0 1 ARGENTINA. Ricardo Goya, laborrelations manager of the French-owned IKA-Renault Motor Companyin Cordoba, was assassinated by agroup of men who blocked hisvehicle as he was driving to work andmachine-gunned him. The PeronistArmed Forces (FAP) claimed creditfor the assassination.

1-Sep-74 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosion damagedthe offices of Iran Airways in Beirut.

2-Sep-74 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A large bomb exploded inthe parking lot of the U.S chancery inAthens, killing two terrorists whowere carrying it. The explosioncaused extensive damage.

7-Sep-74 Tel Aviv Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Explosives0 88 ISRAEL. A Trans-World Airlines jetwith 88 persons aboard crashed intothe Ionian Sea off Greece after abomb apparently hidden in thebaggage compartment exploded.There were no survivors. TheOrganization of Arab NationalistYouth for the Liberation of Palestine(ANYO) claimed responsibility for thecrash. It was later determined thatthe explosion was set by the PFLP-GC. The airliner began its trip, Flight841, in Tel Aviv. After anintermediate stop in Athens, it wasen route to Rome when it was seento pitch up suddenly into a sharpclimb and then nose dive into theocean.

8-Sep-74 Rosario ArgentinaMontoneros(Argentina)

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb thrown from apassing automobile damaged theoffices of a USIS center in Rosario,but did not cause any injuries. Thethree occupants of the car, believedto be associated with theMontoneros, continued to throw fourmore bombs at other places in thecity. During pursuit by police, abomb in the terrorists' car exploded,killing all of the occupants.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A series of bombsexploded at U.S. and other foreigncompanies in Buenos Aires and othercities. In early September, a numberof the bombings were carried out byextremist groups to mark theanniversary of Allende's overthrow inChile on September 11, 1973.

11-Sep-74 Salta ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at theresidence of the Chilean consul atSalta, causing considerable damagebut no injuries.

11-Sep-74 BarcelonaSpain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb caused propertydamage but no injuries at the Lan-Chile Airlines office in Barcelona.

13-Sep-74 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The explosion of a bombthrown at the Albanian embassy inParis resulted in minor damage.

13-Sep-74 Marseille France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The explosion of a bombplaced at the entrance of the AirAlgeria office in Marseilles shatteredthe front door and caused extensivedamage inside the office. Carsparked in front of the building werealso damaged. Police said no onehad claimed responsibility for theexplosion.

13-Sep-74 TheHague

NetherlandsJapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Firearms0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. Four membersof the Japanese United Red Armyseized 11 hostages at the Frenchembassy in The Hague, including theFrench ambassador to TheNetherlands, Jacques Senard. Thekidnappers demanded a $1 millionransom and the release of YutakaFuruya, a Red Army member whohad been arrested on July 21 at OrlyAirport, Paris, for possessingcounterfeit currency and falsepassports. The French governmentagreed to the demands and Furuyawas flown to Amsterdam's SchipholAirport. The gunmen freed theirhostages on September 17. Theguerrillas were flown in a French jetto Syria, where they surrendered toPalestinian guerrillas. The terroristsreturned $300,000 of the ransom,which they had obtained from theFrench government. Syria promisedsafe conduct for the terrorists to acountry of their choice and left themin the custody of the PLO. The Parisoffice of the PLO denied that itsorganization had asked Syrianauthorities to hand over the Japaneseguerrillas and said it had nothing todo with The Hague affair.


ArgentinaOther Explosives1 0 ARGENTINA. Three men driving pastthe Chilean embassy in Buenos Airesfired a machine-gun burst at thebuilding, injuring the driver of a carparked in front of the embassy.Simultaneously, several antitankgrenades were fired at the embassyfrom an adjacent public park. TheFAL claimed responsibility for theattack.

15-Sep-74 DamascusSyria ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives6 0 SYRIA. A medium-sized bombexploded on the ground floor of anempty building under renovation andpublicly designated for future use bythe USIS in Damascus. The blastcaused damage to three stories ofthe structure and many otherbuildings in the neighborhood. SixSyrian pedestrians were injured. ABeirut newspaper reported thatresponsibility for this incident hadbeen claimed by the ArabCommunist Organization, the samegroup which took credit for anexplosion at the U.S. pavilion at theDamascus International Fair onAugust 14.

16-Sep-74 ArgentinaMontoneros(Argentina)

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. About 40 bombsexploded, most directed againstceremonies commemorating themilitary revolt which ended JuanPeron's first period of rule.Montonero slogans and banners werein evidence at many of thebombings. Targets included threeFord showrooms; Peugeot and IKA-Renault showrooms; Goodyear andFirestone Tire distributors; Riker andEli Lilly pharmaceutical laboratories;Union Carbide Battery Company;Bank of Boston and Chase ManhattanBank branches; Xerox Corporation;and Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Colabottling companies.


Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Three Ford Showroomswere bombed. About 40 bombsexploded, most directed againstceremonies commemorating themilitary revolt which ended JuanPeron's first period of rule.Montonero slogans and banners werein evidence at many of thebombings. Other targets includedPeugeot and IKA-Renault showrooms;Goodyear and Firestone Tiredistributors; Riker and Eli Lillypharmaceutical laboratories; UnionCarbide Battery Company; Bank ofBoston and Chase Manhattan Bankbranches; Xerox Corporation; andCoca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola bottlingcompanies.


Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A Peugeot showroomwas bombed.About 40 bombsexploded, most directed againstceremonies commemorating themilitary revolt which ended JuanPeron's first period of rule.Montonero slogans and banners werein evidence at many of thebombings. Other targets includedFord showrooms, Goodyear andFirestone distributors,pharmaceutical companies, UnionCarbide Battery company, Bank ofBoston, Chase Manhattan Bank,Xerox Corporation, Coca-Cola andPepsi Cola Company.


Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Riker and Eli Lillypharmaceutical laboratories werebombed. About 40 bombs exploded,most directed against ceremoniescommemorating the military revoltwhich ended Juan Peron's first periodof rule. Montonero slogans andbanners were in evidence at many ofthe bombings. Many other Americancompany offices were bombed.


Unknown0 2 ARGENTINA. The Montoneros killedtwo persons and kidnapped Juan andJorge Born, directors of Bunge andBorn Company, one of the largestinternational trading conglomeratesin Latin America. The two personskilled were the Borns' chauffeur andthe manager of one of thecompanies. A communique at firstreportedly demanded $60 millionransom in cash and supplies. Thekidnappers said that the Bornbrothers would be tried for the actscommitted against the workers, thepeople, and the national interest bythe monopolies to which they belong.The captives were found guilty andsentenced to one year in a people'sprison. Juan Born was releasedseveral months later. Jorge Born wasreleased on June 20, after thecorporation agreed to pay theransom. Most of it was paid in cash,which the Montoneros said theywould use to buy arms and build apopular organization.The Argentinegovernment opposed the payment,which they noted equaled one-thirdof the country's national defensebudget, and most of the negotiationshad to be carried on in Europe.Argentine police attempted tointercept $1.2 million in food andclothing which Bunge and Born hadagreed to distribute in slum areas aspart of the ransom. Later, twoexecutives of the company werearrested by Argentine police.

19-Sep-74 Arequipa Peru Other Explosives2 0 PERU. A powerful bomb exploded atthe Bolivian consulate in the HotelPresidente building in Arequipa,damaging the consulate and eightother offices. Two people wereinjured. According to a Peruviannewspaper report, the police found adocument at the scene linking theincident to the Condor organization.The Condors possibly have ties to theBolivian National Liberation Army.


DominicanRepublic

Other Firearms0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Gunmenkidnapped Barbara Hutchison,director of the USIS in the DominicanRepublic. The gunmen took her tothe Venezuelan Consulate wherethey held others hostage for thirteendays. (See Venezuelan Consulateincident below.)


DominicanRepublic

Other Firearms0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Gunmenseized the Venezuelan consulate,after kidnapping Barbara Hutchison,the director of the USIS in theDominican Republic, and they heldsix others as hostages. Thekidnappers demanded the paymentof $1 million ransom and the releaseof 37 prisoners being held in theDominican Republic. All demandswere refused. After thirteen days ofnegotiations, the kidnappersreleased their hostages in return forsafe passage to Panama.


ArgentinaArgentineAnti-CommunistAlliance

Explosives0 2 ARGENTINA. General Carlos PratsGonzalez, former commander of theChilean Army under the latePresident Salvador Allende, and hiswife were killed in a bomb blast asthey drove toward their Buenos Aireshome. (The General had gone intovoluntary exile in Argentina after the1973 coup in Santiago.) Suspicionimmediately fell on a right-wingterrorist group that calls itself theArgentine Anti-Communist Alliance.However, the possibility thatChileans might have been behind thebombing has not been ruled out.



Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Alfonso Marguerite, asenior executive of the tradingconglomerate Bunge and BornCompany, was kidnapped in BuenosAires. The abductors were membersof the ERP.

2-Oct-74 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb exploded on the roofof the Soviet embassy in Lima.

2-Oct-74 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. After a bomb threat, a stick ofdynamite was thrown at the Yugoslavembassy in Lima but did not explode.

6-Oct-74 Milan Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Four terrorists invaded Face-Standard in Milan, a local ITTcommunications subsidiary, and setfire to a warehouse, causing about$9 million damage. The sameevening, the Avis Milan offices werebombed, with damage reported to beabout $15,000. An unsigned notedelivered to the Milan office of theItalian news agency stated that thewarehouse fire was revenge for ITT'srole in Chile.

6-Oct-74 Milan Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Avis Milan offices werebombed. Damage was estimated at$15, 000. Also that night, fourterrorists invaded Face-Standard inMilan, a local ITT communicationssubsidiary, and set fire to awarehouse, causing about $9 milliondamage. An unsigned notedelivered to the Milan office of theItalian news agency stated that thewarehouse fire was revenge for ITT'srole in Chile.

8-Oct-74 PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. The anti-CastroCuban exile group FLNC and/or agroup known as M-7 originallyclaimed responsibility for thebombings of the two theaters onOctober 8 and the bombing of aMexican airline office on October 9.On October 13, an individual calledUnited Press International in San Juanand stated that the Latin AmericanAnti-Communist Army wasresponsible for the bombings. (TheFLNC has been known to usedifferent organization names forterrorist incidents in the UnitedStates.)

8-Oct-74 PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. The anti-CastroCuban exile group FLNC and/or agroup known as M-7 originallyclaimed responsibility for thebombings of the two theaters onOctober 8 and the bombing of aMexican airline office on October 9.On October 13, an individual calledUnited Press International in San Juanand stated that the Latin AmericanAnti-Communist Army wasresponsible for the bombings. (TheFLNC has been known to usedifferent organization names forterrorist incidents in the UnitedStates.)

8-Oct-74 Lima Peru Unknown Unknown0 0 PERU. Terrorists conducted anarmed attack in Lima against a Coca-Cola factory.

8-Oct-74 Lima Peru Unknown Firearms0 0 PERU. Terrorists conducted anarmed attack against the residenceof the U.S. Ambassador.

8-Oct-74 Lima Peru Unknown Firearms0 0 PERU. Terrorists conducted anarmed attack against the Bolivianembassy.

9-Oct-74 PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. The Mexicana airlineoffice was bombed.The anti-CastroCuban exile group FLNC and/or agroup known as M-7 originallyclaimed responsibility for thebombings of the two theaters onOctober 8 and the bombing of aMexican airline office on October 9.On October 13, an individual calledUnited Press International in San Juanand stated that the Latin AmericanAnti-Communist Army wasresponsible for the bombings. (TheFLNC has been known to usedifferent organization names forterrorist incidents in the UnitedStates.)

10-Oct-74 DamascusSyria ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives1 1 SYRIA. An explosion occurred at theDamascus office of the National CashRegister Company. An office boywas killed and a cleaning womanwounded by the blast. The ArabCommunist Organization claimedresponsibility.

11-Oct-74 Beirut Lebanon ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosion damagedthe First National Bank of Chicago indowntown Beirut. No injuries werereported. The Arab CommunistOrganization claimed responsibility.A statement found in the entrance tothe bank demanded the release ofAdel Abn Asi, a Lebanese underdeath sentence for a bomb attack onthe Beirut branch of the Bank ofAmerica on October 18, 1973.

21-Oct-74 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The USIS BinationalCenter and three affiliates of U.S.companies were targets of terroristbombs.





UnitedStates


Firearms1 0 UNITED STATES. Three men claimingto be members of the JDL burst intothe New York office maintained bythe PLO, fired several shots atemployees, and beat the assistantdirector with a lead pipe.

30-Oct-74 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. The Cuban-VenezuelanFriendship Institute in Caracas wasattacked.

30-Oct-74 Ankara Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 TURKEY. The residence of a U.S.serviceman assigned to the USDAOin Ankara was the target ofautomatic weapon fire. Thirteenbullets hit the front of the residenceand at least two entered theresidence. No injuries weresustained.

3-Nov-74 Rome Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Gasoline bombs were throwninto the Rome offices of IBM,Minnesota Mining and ManufacturingCompany and three branches of theItalian affiliate of Bank of America.One of the branches was damagedextensively. U.S. Secretary of StateHenry Kissinger was due to addressthe World Food Conference in Romethe next day.







3-Nov-74 Rome Italy Other Fire orFirebomb


5-Nov-74 Milan Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Three Molotov cocktails werethrown into the Milan Trade Center,which is under the jurisdiction of theU.S. Department of Commerce,causing minor fire damage to theoffice. Police assume the attack wasmade by the same group of leftistswho fire-bombed other U.S. facilitiesin Rome during Secretary of StateKissinger's visit.

6-Nov-74 Amman Jordan JordanianFreeOfficersMovement

Unknown0 0 JORDAN. A Caravelle airliner of RoyalJordanian Airlines was hijackedduring a domestic flight betweenAmman and Aqaba. The hijackersidentified themselves as members ofthe Jordanian Free OfficersMovement. The number of hijackersinvolved is not clear, although one ofthem was a security guard on theplane. Conflicting reports listed thenumber of passengers on board asbetween eight and 21 people. Theplane was flown to Benghazi, Libya,after being refused permission toland at Beirut Airport. On arrival atBenghazi's Benia Airport, thehijackers released the passengersand crew, after being grantedpolitical asylum in Libya. The plane,with passengers and crew, took offagain later the same day andreturned to Amman.

8-Nov-74 MexicoCity

Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A bomb exploded in the carof the Cuban ambassador to Mexico,Fernando Lopez Muino.

8-Nov-74 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. Two bombs explodednear the conference site of a meetingof the Organization of AmericanStates in Quito. The meeting wasintended to lift economic sanctionsagainst Cuba. One bomb damagedthe Bolivian embassy and injured twopersons. The other damaged theBrazilian Cultural Center.

8-Nov-74 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives2 0 ECUADOR. Two bombs explodednear the conference site of a meetingof the Organization of AmericanStates in Quito. The meeting wasintended to lift economic sanctionsagainst Cuba. One bomb damagedthe Bolivian embassy and injured twopersons. The other damaged theBrazilian Cultural Center.

9-Nov-74 LosAngeles

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb exploded,causing extensive damage at aUnited Nations information centerbookstore in Los Angeles, California.No one was injured. Police estimatedthe damage to the building at$5,000. The blast also destroyedbetween $10,000 and $15,000 worthof UNICEF (United NationsInternational Children's EmergencyFund) Christmas cards and UNcalendars. An anonymous phone callreferred to the bomb as a thank younote from the PLO to the UnitedNations for letting them address theUnited Nations. In closing, the calleradded the words, Never again, whichhas been a slogan of the JDL.

9-Nov-74 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Pan AmericanUnion building, headquarters of theOrganization of American States inWashington, D.C., was bombed.There were no injuries, but damagewas estimated at $100,000. An anti-Castro group was suspected of beingbehind the bombing. A callerallegedly connected with thebombing identified himself to UnitedPress International as a member ofthe Cuban Movement C-4.

12-Nov-74

SanJuan

PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. An anti-Castro exilegroup bombed the San Juan offices ofAvianca Airlines.

14-Nov-74

Tokyo Japan Maruseido(MarxistYouthLeague)

Fire orFirebomb

7 0 JAPAN. Several Japanese extremists,wearing red helmets and insignia ofthe Maruseido (Marxist YouthLeague) threw Molotov cocktails atthe U.S. chancery in Tokyo, causinglittle damage. They then chargedthe embassy main gate, injuringseven guards.

14-Nov-74

Tokyo Japan Maruseido(MarxistYouthLeague)

Fire orFirebomb

7 0 JAPAN. Maruseido members threwfirebombs at the Soviet embassy inTokyo. Some managed to enter theembassy lobby and do somedamage, as well as injure five Sovietembassy personnel and two guards.

16-Nov-74

Florence Italy HolgerMeinsKommando

Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Holger Meins Kommandoclaimed credit for a bomb planted atthe West German consulate inFlorence.

18-Nov-74

BeitShean

Israel DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Unknown23 4 ISRAEL. Three Arab terrorists slippedinto an apartment house in BeitShean and killed four unarmedcivilians before they themselveswere killed by an Israeli assaultteam. Five more people werewounded during the brief battle, andanother 18 were injured when theyjumped from windows of the building.Evidence indicated that the terroristshad intended to trade their hostagesfor 20 terrorists being held in Israelijails and for Archbishop HilarionCapucci, the spiritual leader of GreekCatholics in Jerusalem, who had beenaccused of smuggling arms toguerrillas. According to thegunmen's plans, the French andAustrian ambassadors would havebeen summoned as negotiators toinsure their safe flight to Damascus.The PDFLP claimed credit for theattack.

18-Nov-74

MexicoCity

Mexico 23rd ofSeptemberCommunistLeague

Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A wave of bombings hit anumber of Mexico City commercialestablishments. The targets includeda Sears store and a U.S.-ownedrestaurant and drugstore. Mexicanpolice recovered literature at thebombing sites traceable to the 23d ofSeptember Communist League.

18-Nov-74

MexicoCity


Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A wave of bombings hit anumber of Mexico City commercialestablishments. The targets includeda Sears store and a U.S.-ownedrestaurant and drugstore. Mexicanpolice recovered literature at thebombing sites traceable to the 23d ofSeptember Communist League.

21-Nov-74

Dubai UnitedArabEmirates

Other Unknown1 1 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. FourPalestinian terrorists hijacked aBritish Airways VC-10 jet from Dubaiwithin the UAE and forced it to fly toTunis after a refueling stop in Tripoli,Libya. An Indian stewardess wasshot in the back during a shootout onthe plane, but her wound was notserious. In addition to the hijackers,the plane carried 22 passengers, 13crew members, and 12 ground-service employees who had beenaboard the aircraft when it wasseized. The hijackers demanded thatEgypt release 13 Palestinianguerrillas imprisoned in Cairo. (Eighthad been convicted by Sudan for theslaying of three diplomats inKhartoum on March 1, 1973, and fivewere awaiting trial by the PLO for theDecember 17, 1973, attack on theRome airport.) The demands were atfirst rejected by both the governmentof Egypt and the PLO.The hijackersreleased four passengers onNovember 22. Thirteen more werereleased after the five terroristsinvolved in the Rome Airport raidwere freed by Egypt and flown toTunis. Two other Palestinianguerrillas held by The Netherlandswere also released at the hijackers'demand and were flown to Tunis.The seven released Palestinianprisoners then boarded the plane.Thehijackers shot and killed a WestGerman hostage, Werner GustavKehl, on November 23, but theremaining hostages were released onNovember 25. The hijackers thendemanded asylum in Tunisia. TheTunisian government agreed to theirdemands and the gunmen and theseven Palestinians surrendered toTunisian authorities on November 25.On November 27, the PLO announcedthat it had arrested 26 persons inLebanon and other Arab countries fortheir alleged involvement in thehijacking and that it would try thesuspects in public. On December 7,the Tunisian government handedover the 11 terrorists (the fourhijackers and the seven otherguerrillas who had been releasedfrom Cairo and The Netherlands) tothe PLO. They left Tunis in PLOcustody for an undiscloseddestination. The four who hijackedthe plane have been tried andsentenced, according to a January24, 1975 PLO announcement. Thesentences were believed to be longprison terms. Their actualwhereabouts, however, remain amystery.

21-Nov-74

Dubai UnitedArabEmirates

Other Unknown1 1 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. FourPalestinian terrorists hijacked aBritish Airways VC-10 jet from Dubaiwithin the UAE and forced it to fly toTunis after a refueling stop in Tripoli,Libya. An Indian stewardess wasshot in the back during a shootout onthe plane, but her wound was notserious. In addition to the hijackers,the plane carried 22 passengers, 13crew members, and 12 ground-service employees who had beenaboard the aircraft when it wasseized. The hijackers demanded thatEgypt release 13 Palestinianguerrillas imprisoned in Cairo. (Eighthad been convicted by Sudan for theslaying of three diplomats inKhartoum on March 1, 1973, and fivewere awaiting trial by the PLO for theDecember 17, 1973, attack on theRome airport.) The demands were atfirst rejected by both the governmentof Egypt and the PLO.The hijackersreleased four passengers onNovember 22. Thirteen more werereleased after the five terroristsinvolved in the Rome Airport raidwere freed by Egypt and flown toTunis. Two other Palestinianguerrillas held by The Netherlandswere also released at the hijackers'demand and were flown to Tunis.The seven released Palestinianprisoners then boarded the plane.Thehijackers shot and killed a WestGerman hostage, Werner GustavKehl, on November 23, but theremaining hostages were released onNovember 25. The hijackers thendemanded asylum in Tunisia. TheTunisian government agreed to theirdemands and the gunmen and theseven Palestinians surrendered toTunisian authorities on November 25.On November 27, the PLO announcedthat it had arrested 26 persons inLebanon and other Arab countries fortheir alleged involvement in thehijacking and that it would try thesuspects in public. On December 7,the Tunisian government handedover the 11 terrorists (the fourhijackers and the seven otherguerrillas who had been releasedfrom Cairo and The Netherlands) tothe PLO. They left Tunis in PLOcustody for an undiscloseddestination. The four who hijackedthe plane have been tried andsentenced, according to a January24, 1975 PLO announcement. Thesentences were believed to be longprison terms. Their actualwhereabouts, however, remain amystery.

21-Nov-74

Lima Peru RevolutionaryVanguard

Explosives11 0 PERU. A bomb exploded in a SearsRoebuck store in Lima, causing$30,000 damage and injuring eleven.Police received an anonymous callwarning of the bomb thirty minutesbefore the blast. The press reportedthat the Revolutionary Vanguard wasresponsible.

22-Nov-74

Japan Maruseido(MarxistYouthLeague)

Unknown1 0 JAPAN. Three members of Maruseidoattacked the U.S. Consulate, causingminor damage and slightly injuringthe Consul. Police took all threemembers into custody.

25-Nov-74

GuadalajaraMexico Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 MEXICO. Three incendiary deviceswent off in the Guadalajara store ofan American firm, causing $80,000damage. The same night anexplosive device went off in theXerox office in Guadalajara, causingconsiderable damage.

25-Nov-74

GuadalajaraMexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. An explosive device wentoff in the Xerox office in Guadalajara,causing considerable damage.Three incendiary devices went off inthe Guadalajara store of an Americanfirm, causing $80,000 damage, thesame night.

25-Nov-74

BuenosAires

ArgentinaOther Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Leftist guerrillas werebelieved responsible for explosionsat a branch of the First National CityBank of New York and two GeneralMotors Corporation showrooms inBuenos Aires.

25-Nov-74

BuenosAires


25-Nov-74

BuenosAires


30-Nov-74

Israel al-Fatah Firearms1 1 ISRAEL. Two Palestinian guerrillasidentified as Al Fatah membersentered the town of Rihaniya, wherethey entered a house, shot an IsraeliMoslem to death, and wounded hiswife. The attackers then surrenderedto Israeli forces. The guerrillasapparently believed that they hadentered a Jewish village and weresearching for hostages to exchangefor five imprisoned terrorists in Israel.

1-Dec-74 Bombay India Other Firearms0 0 INDIA. A Swissair DC8 flying fromBombay to Karachi was hijacked byMohammad Aslam, who pointed agun at the crew and demanded to beflown to Libya or Lebanon. Shortlyafter the aircraft landed at Karachi torefuel, Aslam was overpowered bythe crew and taken into custody.

2-Dec-74 PuertoRico

Unknown Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. An unclaimedbombing cut the water supply to theUnion Carbide's Caribe Oil Refiningand Commonwealth Oil Refining Co.

5-Dec-74 MexicoCity


Firearms0 0 MEXICO. A member of an urbanguerrilla group, the 23d ofSeptember Communist League, heldtwo French diplomats at gunpoint intheir embassy for five hours. Thegunman was tricked by police intobelieving that his demand forpolitical asylum in France would bemet. The diplomats were releasedunharmed, and the kidnapper wascaptured on his way to the airport.

6-Dec-74 Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Unknown2 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian guerrillas raidedthe Rosh Hanikra kibbutz andwounded two Israelis. One terroristwas killed. The PLO claimedresponsibility for the attack.

7-Dec-74 Lima Peru Unknown Firearms2 0 PERU. A group of unidentifiedpersons fired submachine guns atLima's Sheraton Hotel, wounding twoguards. Several Latin Americanforeign ministers were housed in thehotel, which was the center forcelebrations of the one hundredfiftieth anniversary of a battle forindependence in Latin America. Theterrorists escaped during a battlewith police.

9-Dec-74 PeshawarPakistan Unknown Explosives2 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded at theUSIS Center in Peshawar, slightlyinjuring two employees and causingextensive damage. The perpetratorswere not known.

10-Dec-74

Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives4 0 LEBANON. Three PLO offices locatedin Beirut were severely damaged byrocket attacks. Four people werereported injured. The rockets, whichwere equipped with timing devices,had been strapped to the roof-racksof three cars that had been parkednear the offices of the PLOheadquarters, the Palestine ResearchCentre, and the Occupied HomelandsAdministration building. The carshad been rented by four men --holding British, Irish, Mexican, andWest German passports -- who hadall left the country before the attacksoccurred. The agency which hadrented a car to the man with theWest German passport wasdestroyed in a bomb explosion onDecember 12. Israelis or anunderground extremist group weresuspected of responsibility.

11-Dec-74

Tel Aviv Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives54 1 ISRAEL. A man hurled handgrenades into a movie theateraudience in Tel Aviv, killing twopeople, including himself, andwounding 54. The PFLP claimedresponsibility. The terrorist was aGhana-born holder of a Britishpassport who had lived in Turkey.

15-Dec-74

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedat the Bahama Cruise Line offices inMiami, Florida, causing moderatedamage but no injuries. The LatinAmerican Anti-Communist Army, aname believed to be used by theFuente de Liberacion NacionalCubano (FLNC) to confuseauthorities, claimed credit for thebombing.

15-Dec-74

Paris France YouthActionGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded outsideTrans-World Airways and Coca-Colaoffices in Paris, causing slightdamage. Members of the extremeright-wing Youth Action Groupclaimed responsibility. According toa French police statement quoted inthe press, the group said that theblasts were a protest against themeeting in Martinique of thePresidents of France and the UnitedStates.

15-Dec-74

Paris France YouthActionGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded outsideTrans-World Airways and Coca-Colaoffices in Paris, causing slightdamage. Members of the extremeright-wing Youth Action Groupclaimed responsibility. According toa French police statement quoted inthe press, the group said that theblasts were a protest against themeeting in Martinique of thePresidents of France and the UnitedStates.

16-Dec-74

France YouthActionGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at theMinnesota Mining and ManufacturingCompany, shattering windows.Members of the Youth Action Groupclaimed responsibility.

16-Dec-74

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb exploded inthe Eastern Steamship Lines office inMiami, Florida, causing a small fireand minor damage. The companyowns two cruise ships operatingbetween Miami and the Bahamas,but it is American-owned and has noconnection with the Bahamiangovernment. According to the FBI,the bomb appeared to be differentfrom those used in previousbombings by Cuban exilerevolutionary organizations. Itappeared likely, however, that theincident was related to the previouslystated intention of the Fuente deLiberacion Nacional Cubano (FLNC)to direct its attacks against theBahamian government.

16-Dec-74

BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. A Times of Londoncorrespondent was kidnapped inBuenos Aires by rightists whothreatened to kill him if he did notimmediately leave the country. Hecomplied.

18-Dec-74

Paris France RaulSendicInternationalBrigade

Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A Uruguayan militaryattache, Colonel Ramon Traval, whowas formerly an intelligence officer,was shot and killed in Paris. A groupcalling itself the Raul SendicInternational Brigade, named after aleader of the Tupamaro urbanguerrillas, claimed responsibility forthe killing.

20-Dec-74

JerusalemIsrael DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives13 0 ISRAEL. A bomb explosion injured 13persons in central Jerusalem. Thebomb exploded on Ben YehudaStreet, an avenue of cafes, shops,and offices, just after lunchtimewhen the street was crowded withshoppers. The PDFLP claimed creditfor the blast.

21-Dec-74

Beirut Lebanon ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Two bombs exploded inthe British-owned Spinneysdepartment store in Beirut. A groupcalling itself the Arab CommunistOrganization claimed credit for theexplosions. It set a New Year's Evedeadline for the free distribution ofone ton of sugar, one ton of rice, and1,000 cans of powdered milk to poorfamilies in Beirut. No one wasinjured.

22-Dec-74

JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. Terrorists threw a handgrenade at a busload of Christmaspilgrims from the United States whowere touring Jerusalem, wounding ateenage American girl and an Arabbystander. The PLO claimedresponsibility.

24-Dec-74

Sydney Australia Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRALIA. Two firebombs werethrown into the downtown ticketoffice of Pan Am in Sydney, causingsome damage but no injuries. Twomen were arrested for the explosion.A socialist youth group may havebeen responsible.

25-Dec-74

Beirut Lebanon Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 LEBANON. An Air India B0747 flying155 passengers on the Bombay-Beirut-Rome-New York run washijacked out of Beirut by JosefHomolov, a Czechoslovak-bornCanadian who entered the cockpitand flashed a pocketknife. Whileholding a flashlight over the pilot'shead, he demanded a gun andpassage to a place of his choice.During the two hour seige, heattempted to force the pilot to putthe plane into a sharp dive over thecenter of Rome. At this point thehijacker was overpowered bymembers of the crew. He wasarrested by Italian authorities afterlanding in Rome.

27-Dec-74

ManaguaNicaraguaOther Unknown0 4 NICARAGUA. Nine members of theFSLN, a leftist guerrilla group inNicaragua, invaded a private homewhere a party was being given inhonor of Turner B Shelton, the U.S.ambassador. Ambassador Sheltonhad already left the party, but theguerrillas seized 25 hostages,including the Nicaraguan ForeignMinister, Nicaragua's ambassador tothe United States, and the Chileanambassador to Nicaragua. Fourpeople were killed in the initialassault. The kidnappers demandedthat the Nicaraguan government paythem $5 million, release 14prisoners, and fly the kidnappers andthe prisoners to Cuba. They alsodemanded that the governmentbroadcast an anti-governmentstatement. The government agreedto release the 14 prisoners and pay$1 million. The guerrillas releasedtheir hostages 61 hours later andwere flown to Cuba.

28-Dec-74

SanJuan

PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives2 0 PUERTO RICO. An individual threw ahand grenade onto the berthedcruise vessel Maxim Gorki injuringtwo Soviet crew members. An anti-Castro group claimed credit.

31-Dec-74

JohannesburgSouthAfrica

Unknown Explosives1 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A bomb concealed ina book exploded in the Johannesburgpost office, injuring an employee. Itwas addressed to a family of Jewishorigin, according to the police. Thepolice have not said where the parcelwas posted.

1-Jan-75 Paris France Baader-MeinhofGroup

Unknown0 0 FRANCE. The Baader SolidarityGroup, Holger Meins Brigade andUlrike Meinhof Commando claimedcredit for attacking the Mercedesbranch in Paris, near the Etoile.

3-Jan-75 DamascusSyria ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives0 0 SYRIA. The Arab CommunistOrganization bombed the Jordanianembassy in Damascas. There wasextensive damage. The datecoincided with the opening of theQuadripartite Conference in Cairo.

3-Jan-75 DamascusSyria ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives0 0 SYRIA. The Arab CommunistOrganization bombed the Egyptianembassy in Damascas. There wasonly slight damage. The datecoincided with the opening of theQuadripartite Conference in Cairo.

6-Jan-75 Saigon SouthVietnam

Other Explosives0 1 SOUTH VIETNAM. An Americandiplomat, William E. Bennett, waskilled by an explosion in the U.S.embassy. Investigators suggestedthat he may have been the victimeither of gangsters or Vietcongterrorists.

8-Jan-75 Asmara Ethiopia Unknown Explosives0 0 ETHIOPIA. Three bombs were throwninto the USIS library in Asmara. Theexplosion resulted in minor damagebut no injuries.

13-Jan-75 Paris France Other Explosives3 0 FRANCE. Two men armed withbazookas fired two rockets at anIsrael El Al 707 airliner as it wasabout to take off for New York fromOrly Airport. The rockets missed thatplane which was carrying 136passengers and seven crewmembers, but hit a parked Yugoslavaircraft and a storage building. AYugoslav steward, a French guard,and a French worker were injured.An anonymous call to Reuters newsagency in Paris said that the attackwas the work of an Arab guerrillagroup called the Mohammed BoudiaCommando. Another statementtelephoned to the Agence France-Presse office in Beirut said the BSOhad staged the attack in retaliationfor the bombing of PLO offices inBeirut during December 1974.However, both the PLO and the BSOdisclaimed responsibility for theattack. In New York, a Croatiannationalist group opposed toYugoslav President Tito claimedcredit. The two men who were seenfiring the rocket escaped. Nopassengers were aboard the aircraft.The Mohammed Boudia Commandowas named after a pro-PalestinianAlgerian killed by a car bomb in Parisin June 1973. The firing of therockets at the Israeli airliner was thefirst attack on a plane in France inthe Palestinian terrorist campaign.

19-Jan-75 Paris France Other Explosives20 0 FRANCE. Twenty people werewounded when three pro-PalestinianArab terrorists tossed grenades andexchanged gunfire with policemenafter an unsuccessful attack on ataxiing El Al Israeli airliner at OrlyAirport. After the exchange ofgunfire, the three gunmen took tenhostages and held them in an airportwashroom. After negotiations withthe French authorities through theEgyptian ambassador in Paris andthe French Interior Minister, theterrorists released a woman and afour-year old child. The otherhostages were released on January20 in exchange for a French Boeing707 and a three- member crew thatflew the guerrillas to the Middle East.The plane was refused permission toland by several countries, but finallyit was allowed to land at Baghdadairport and the guerrillas gavethemselves up to the Iraqiauthorities. The three terrorists wereidentified as an Algerian, aPalestinian, and a Lebanese. TheMohammed Boudia group claimedresponsibility. This was the samegroup that had claimed credit for theJanuary 13 attack. Iraq was to handover the guerrillas to the PLO. Thiswas the first time Iraq had allowed ahijacked plane to land on its territory.ADDINFO FF: The attack was thesecond unsuccessful attempt in aweek on an Israeli airliner at thefield. The three gunmen were flownto Baghdad after Kuwait, Syria,Saudia Arabia, Egypt, SouthernYemen and Lebanon refused themlanding rights. The Iraqi embassy inParis January 21 denounced theterrorists and said they had beenallowed to land in Baghdad onlybecause their plane was low on fuel.Egypt and other Arab states alsocriticized the raid. As in the case ofthe first Orly attack, the PalestineLiberation Organization (PLO)dissociated itself from the latestincident. PLO leader Yasir ArafatJanuary 20 cabled his regrets toFrench President Valery Giscardd'Estaing, and said members of theresponsible group would be put ontrial and severely punished.


UnitedStates

Unknown Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. Rifle shots hit theSoviet U.N. mission building in NewYork City.

20-Jan-75 Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. In a 1978 pressconference, a spokesman for ASALAclaimed that the January 1975bombing of the Beirut offices of theWorld Council of Churches was thegroup's first operation.

28-Jan-75 Lebanon ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Arab CommunistOrganization claimed credit forbombing the British-owned Spinney'sCenter department store, whichcaused moderate damage but noinjuries. Pamphlets said that thebombing was engaged in becauseSpinney's had failed to respond to itsprevious demands to distribute foodin the ACO's name.

31-Jan-75 Cali Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Eric Leupin, an HonoraryConsul of the Netherlands, waskidnapped in Cali by 30 members ofthe Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC). The guerrillasdemanded the release of anotherFARC member who had been in aColombian prison since 1971. After20 months, leftist guerrillas freedLeupin, unharmed, in Cali on October3, 1976. A first demand of $600,000ransom was lowered to $40,000. Nodetails are known of a payment.Leupin's release may have beendelayed because the guerrillas usedhim to instruct peasants inagricultural skills.ADDINFO: The Calinewspaper El Espectador onFebruary 14 reported receiving aFARC communique demanding a $1million ransom for Leupin. TheAssociated Press reported June 17that the government had preventedFARC from collecting a $150,000ransom for Leupin. Leupin's wife wasarrested on May 3, 1976, by theColombian Army for attempting todeliver a $50,000 ransom to theguerrillas.

1-Feb-75 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb exploded infront of the offices of the Venezuelanconsulate general in New York Cityshattering plate glass windows in theconsulate building. There were noreports of injuries. Omega-7 claimedresponsibility for the bombing andannounced that it had been carriedout in protest to the resumption ofdiplomatic relations betweenVenezuela and Cuba.

5-Feb-75 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A Los Angelesbookstore, UNIDOS, was bombed bythe Cuban Action Commandos.

8-Feb-75 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Mercedes agency inParis was bombed.

9-Feb-75 Geneva SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. An anarchist groupwas suspected to have beenresponsible for the bombing of theGerman mission to the UnitedNations in Geneva. There was seriousdamage but no injuries.

11-Feb-75 Tyre Lebanon ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Arab CommunistOrganization claimed responsibilityfor a bomb that exploded at the Tyrebranch office of the American LifeInsurance Company which causedextensive damage but no casualties.A leaflet claimed the attack was aprotest against Secretary of StateHenry Kissinger's Middle Easterntour.

11-Feb-75 ElizabethUnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Town andCampus Banquet Hall on U.S. 1 nearElizabeth, New Jersey, was bombedby Omega-7.

17-Feb-75 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. The 11-year old son ofRobert Walker, a chaplain andprofessor of culture at the AmericanUniversity of Beirut, was slightlyinjured when a hand grenadeattached to his father's car exploded.

20-Feb-75 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb caused seriousdamage to the Turkish Airlines officein Beirut, but no serious injuries werereported. A note found in the officessaid, The Slave Kortin Yanikyangroups will continue the just struggleof the Armenians against theimperialists.

21-Feb-75 Rosario ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs in Rosariodamaged the First National Bank ofNew York and the Boston Bank.

21-Feb-75 Rosario ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs in Rosariodamaged the First National Bank ofNew York and the Boston Bank.

21-Feb-75 Rosario ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb damaged theBank of London in Rosario.

21-Feb-75 Rosario ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb damaged theNew Italian Bank in Rosario.

21-Feb-75 Rosario ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb damaged theMassey-Ferguson tractor firm inRosario.

21-Feb-75 Rosario ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb damaged theGerman Roemer Laboratories inRosario.

21-Feb-75 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. In Miami, gunmenbelonging to the Movement forCuban Justice (also known as thePragmatistas) assassinated LucianoNieves, an outspoken advocate ofpeaceful coexistence with the Castroregime. Nieve's murder may havebeen a bungled kidnapping. Thegunmen were eventually arrestedand convicted of this murder.

26-Feb-75 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Los Angelestelevision station KCET was bombedby the Cuban Action Commandos.

26-Feb-75 Cordoba ArgentinaMontoneros(Argentina)

Unknown0 1 ARGENTINA. John Patrick Egan, a U.S. consular agent in Cordoba, waskidnapped by Montonero guerrillas.A communique signed by theguerrillas listed the names of fourleftist Peronists who had disappearedin past months and demanded thatthe government show them alive ontelevision. Informed sources said theforeign minister advised the U.S.embassy that the four personsnamed in the ransom demand werenot being held by the government.Some believed them to be dead.Egan was killed by the Montoneros.His body was found on February 28in a suburban Cordoba residentialarea.ADDINFO: Egan, a retiredbusinessman, was seized by thePeronist insurgents at his suburbanhome. A communique the next dayto the press said he would beexecuted by firing squad on February28 unless the government provedthat four recently arrestedMontoneros were alive. InteriorMinister Alberto Rocamora saidFebruary 28 that the governmentwould not negotiate with theguerrillas for any reason. That nightEgan's body was found at the side ofthe road outside Cordoba, shot oncethrough the head and wrapped in aMontonero flag. Three men and awomen armed with machineguns hadforced him to climb into a car.

27-Feb-75 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

2nd ofJuneMovement

Other 1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two armed men and a womankidnapped Peter Lorenz, the ChristianDemocratic Union Party candidate formayor. The trio ambushed Lorenz'schauffeur-driven car as he was enroute to his office in Berlin. A trucksuddenly blocked the path of the caras it approached an intersection. Awoman in another car rammed thelimousine from the rear, and anothercar drove up to block an escaperoute from the side. Lorenz's driver,who jumped from the car, wasthrown to the pavement and beatenunconscious. The female kidnapperwas later identified as a fugitiveanarchist linked to the Baader-Meinhof band of urban guerrillas.The Movement of June 2 claimedresponsibility for the kidnapping.The kidnappers freed Peter Lorenz onMarch 4 after government authoritiesreleased five convicted anarchistsfrom West German prisons and flewthem, plus a hostage, out ofFrankfurt airport for an unknowndestination. A sixth prisoner whoserelease was requested, refused tojoin the group. The prisoners werealso given $50,000. Other demandsmet by the government included therelease of two persons jailed for theirrole in violent demonstrations inNovember 1974 after the death of animprisoned urban guerrilla leader.Three members of the terrorist bandwere arrested by authorities sixmonths later. They were identifiedas members of the inner circle of theMovement of June 2. The Lufthansajet carrying the prisoners andhostage landed March 3 in Aden,Southern Yemen. After the Adengovernment granted amnesty to thefive, the hostage flew back to WestBerlin on March 4 and appeared ontelevision to read a statement fromthe anarchists. The note said theSouth Yemen Foreign Ministry hadassured the anarchists the right tostay in full freedom and withoutlimitation in Aden. The statementalso contained an apparent codesignaling that the kidnappers weresafe and that Lorenz should bereleased. Lorenz was released onMarch 4.ADDINFO: This episode hasbeen included as an act ofinternational terrorism because thesovereignty of West Berlin stillresides in the occupying powers, notWest Germany.


2nd ofJuneMovement

Other 1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two armed men and a womankidnapped Peter Lorenz, the ChristianDemocratic Union Party candidate formayor. The trio ambushed Lorenz'schauffeur-driven car as he was enroute to his office in Berlin. A trucksuddenly blocked the path of the caras it approached an intersection. Awoman in another car rammed thelimousine from the rear, and anothercar drove up to block an escaperoute from the side. Lorenz's driver,who jumped from the car, wasthrown to the pavement and beatenunconscious. The female kidnapperwas later identified as a fugitiveanarchist linked to the Baader-Meinhof band of urban guerrillas.The Movement of June 2 claimedresponsibility for the kidnapping.The kidnappers freed Peter Lorenz onMarch 4 after government authoritiesreleased five convicted anarchistsfrom West German prisons and flewthem, plus a hostage, out ofFrankfurt airport for an unknowndestination. A sixth prisoner whoserelease was requested, refused tojoin the group. The prisoners werealso given $50,000. Other demandsmet by the government included therelease of two persons jailed for theirrole in violent demonstrations inNovember 1974 after the death of animprisoned urban guerrilla leader.Three members of the terrorist bandwere arrested by authorities sixmonths later. They were identifiedas members of the inner circle of theMovement of June 2. The Lufthansajet carrying the prisoners andhostage landed March 3 in Aden,Southern Yemen. After the Adengovernment granted amnesty to thefive, the hostage flew back to WestBerlin on March 4 and appeared ontelevision to read a statement fromthe anarchists. The note said theSouth Yemen Foreign Ministry hadassured the anarchists the right tostay in full freedom and withoutlimitation in Aden. The statementalso contained an apparent codesignaling that the kidnappers weresafe and that Lorenz should bereleased. Lorenz was released onMarch 4.ADDINFO: This episode hasbeen included as an act ofinternational terrorism because thesovereignty of West Berlin stillresides in the occupying powers, notWest Germany.

1-Mar-75 Iraq Other Firearms7 2 IRAQ. An Iraqi Airlines Boeing 737 ona domestic flight was diverted bythree men to Tehran Airport in Iran.A hijacker and two passengers wereshot to death in the gun battle thatensued between the three men andIraqi security officers aboard theplane. Seven of more than 90persons aboard the plane wereinjured. The hijackers demanded $5million and the release of 85 Kurdishrebel leaders imprisoned in Iraq. Thetwo surviving hijackers surrenderedto Iranian authorities. Fuad Al-Qeitanand Taha Neimi were convicted by amilitary court and executed April 7,1975, by a firing squad.

2-Mar-75 Toulouse France CharlesMartelGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Charles Martel Groupbombed the Toulouse office of AirAlgerie. The firm's Lyons office wasalso bombed.

2-Mar-75 Lyon France CharlesMartelGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Charles Martel Groupbombed the Lyon office of AirAlgerie. The firm's Toulouse officewas also bombed.

5-Mar-75 Tel Aviv Israel al-Fatah Firearms12 11 On March 5, two boats filled with 8Palestinian militants landed on thecoast of Israel, proceeded on foot toTel Aviv, and stormed the SavoyHotel. The original target of theattack was reportedly the Tel AvivMunicipality Youth Center. However,the militants encountered severalpolicemen on their way to the YouthCenter. While fleeing the policemen,the militants climbed over anembankment, to the road, and seizedthe Savoy Hotel, the only lightedbuilding on the street. The militantstook the guests and employeeshostage and reportedly demanded aplane to Syria with which to leavewith their hostages. They alsodemanded that the French, Greek,Vatican, or UN ambassador bebrought in as a guarantor of the dealand had pamphlets demanding therelease of ten prisoners, includingthe Greek Catholic Archbishop ofJerusalem, Most Rev. HillarionCapucci, in jail for arms smuggling.They later reduced their demand tosafe passage for themselves. On themorning of March 6, Israeli troopsstormed the Hotel and ended thestand-off. Eighteen people; eightcivilian hostages, three Israelisoldiers, and seven gunmen werekilled in the attack. Two of the policeofficers killed were killed as themilitants entered the hotel. At leasttwelve people; six civilians and sixsoldiers, were injured in the attack.The attack occurred on the eve of avisit by Secretary of State HenryKissinger to the Middle East to assistin peace negotiations. Al-Fatahclaimed responsibility for the attack.They stated that the attack wasintended to serve as notice to theIsraeli government and Secretary ofState Henry Kissinger that therecould be no Middle East peacesettlement with the Palestinians.Some Fatah militants were sayingthat the attack originated in Egypt,not Lebanon, though sourcesreported that this was an attempt toundermine Anwar Sadat’sgovernment (which they weredistrustful of) in the upcomingKissinger meetings. The statementclaiming responsibility also reportedthat the commandos had blownthemselves up when they ran out ofammunition. It was unclear if thiswas true. On March 6, officialsreported that they had captured theship (which was carrying the twosmall boats) used to drop off themilitants. It is believed the terroristsbegan their trip in Lebanon.

5-Mar-75 Tel Aviv Israel al-Fatah Firearms12 11 On March 5, two boats filled with 8Palestinian militants landed on thecoast of Israel, proceeded on foot toTel Aviv, and stormed the SavoyHotel. The original target of theattack was reportedly the Tel AvivMunicipality Youth Center. However,the militants encountered severalpolicemen on their way to the YouthCenter. While fleeing the policemen,the militants climbed over anembankment, to the road, and seizedthe Savoy Hotel, the only lightedbuilding on the street. The militantstook the guests and employeeshostage and reportedly demanded aplane to Syria with which to leavewith their hostages. They alsodemanded that the French, Greek,Vatican, or UN ambassador bebrought in as a guarantor of the dealand had pamphlets demanding therelease of ten prisoners, includingthe Greek Catholic Archbishop ofJerusalem, Most Rev. HillarionCapucci, in jail for arms smuggling.They later reduced their demand tosafe passage for themselves. On themorning of March 6, Israeli troopsstormed the Hotel and ended thestand-off. Eighteen people; eightcivilian hostages, three Israelisoldiers, and seven gunmen werekilled in the attack. Two of the policeofficers killed were killed as themilitants entered the hotel. At leasttwelve people; six civilians and sixsoldiers, were injured in the attack.The attack occurred on the eve of avisit by Secretary of State HenryKissinger to the Middle East to assistin peace negotiations. Al-Fatahclaimed responsibility for the attack.They stated that the attack wasintended to serve as notice to theIsraeli government and Secretary ofState Henry Kissinger that therecould be no Middle East peacesettlement with the Palestinians.Some Fatah militants were sayingthat the attack originated in Egypt,not Lebanon, though sourcesreported that this was an attempt toundermine Anwar Sadat’sgovernment (which they weredistrustful of) in the upcomingKissinger meetings. The statementclaiming responsibility also reportedthat the commandos had blownthemselves up when they ran out ofammunition. It was unclear if thiswas true. On March 6, officialsreported that they had captured theship (which was carrying the twosmall boats) used to drop off themilitants. It is believed the terroristsbegan their trip in Lebanon.

6-Mar-75 Paris France Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in theParis offices of the West GermanSpringer press group. Police foundleaflets at the scene demandingamnesty for the German Baader-Meinhof terrorists.

7-Mar-75 MexicoCity

Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Police discovered anddisarmed a powerful nitroglycerinbomb in the Mexico City offices ofCubana de Aviacion, fifty minutesbefore it was set to explode.

9-Mar-75 SanJusto

ArgentinaMontoneros(Argentina)

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The Montonerosbombed new cars on a San Justoproduction lot at the Chrysler-Fevreplant, fifteen miles west of BuenosAires, causing no casualties. Thegroup warned of future attacksagainst U.S. interests and said thatthey are protesting the forthcomingvisit by a U.S. assistant secretary ofstate.

10-Mar-75 Istanbul Turkey MahirCayanSuicideGroup

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A packet of explosives washurled into the garden of the U.S.Consulate in Istanbul, only partiallyexploding. No damage was caused.The Mahir Cayan Suicide Groupclaimed responsibility.

23-Mar-75 MogadishuSomalia Front fortheLiberationof theFrenchSomaliCoas

Firearms0 0 SOMALIA. Four armed menkidnapped the French ambassador toSomalia. The kidnappers belonged toan organization called the Front forthe Liberation of the French SomaliCoast (which was seeking theindependence of the French Territoryof the Afars and Issas). AmbassadorGueury was taken to a suburban villawhich was later surrounded bySomali troops and policemen. Thekidnappers demanded the release oftwo Front guerrillas imprisoned inFrance. They also demanded$100,000 in gold and a plane to flythem across the Gulf of Aden toSouthern Yemen. The FrenchGovernment accepted the conditionsset down by the kidnappers for thesafe release of Ambassador Gueury.Southern Yemen unexpectedlyrefused landing permission to theplane carrying the ambassador andhis four captors. A French plane withthe two prisoners and the moneyaboard was also refused permissionto land in Aden. The French planelanded in Djibouti, the capital of theFrench territory of the Afars andIssas. The plane carrying Gueuryand his captors landed in NorthSomalia as diplomatic negotiatorssought a new place for the exchangeof the prisoners and money for theambassador. On March 28, Adenfinally agreed to act as the exchangepoint for the release of Gueury andsanctuary for the liberation frontmembers. Ambassador Gueury'splane rendezvoused at Aden with thesecond French plane carrying the twoprisoners and the ransom money.Subsequently, Gueury was releasedunharmed and returned to Paris onthe same aircraft that had broughtthe two prisoners from France.ADDINFO FF: Gueury was kidnappedas he emerged from a church inMogadishu, the Somali capital. Thekidnappers had refused to negotiatethrough the Somali Government.Italian Ambassador to SomaliaGiorgio Giacomelli therefore acted asintermediary between the Frenchgovernment and the captors, whoheld Gueury in a villa outside thecapital. In several phone calls to hisembassy, the French envoy said hewas being well-treated. Somalisecurity agents surrounded the villa,but took no action. The kidnappersand the freed guerrillas were placedunder guard by the South Yemeniauthorities.

23-Mar-75 MogadishuSomalia Front fortheLiberationof theFrenchSomaliCoas

Firearms0 0 SOMALIA. Four armed menkidnapped the French ambassador toSomalia. The kidnappers belonged toan organization called the Front forthe Liberation of the French SomaliCoast (which was seeking theindependence of the French Territoryof the Afars and Issas). AmbassadorGueury was taken to a suburban villawhich was later surrounded bySomali troops and policemen. Thekidnappers demanded the release oftwo Front guerrillas imprisoned inFrance. They also demanded$100,000 in gold and a plane to flythem across the Gulf of Aden toSouthern Yemen. The FrenchGovernment accepted the conditionsset down by the kidnappers for thesafe release of Ambassador Gueury.Southern Yemen unexpectedlyrefused landing permission to theplane carrying the ambassador andhis four captors. A French plane withthe two prisoners and the moneyaboard was also refused permissionto land in Aden. The French planelanded in Djibouti, the capital of theFrench territory of the Afars andIssas. The plane carrying Gueuryand his captors landed in NorthSomalia as diplomatic negotiatorssought a new place for the exchangeof the prisoners and money for theambassador. On March 28, Adenfinally agreed to act as the exchangepoint for the release of Gueury andsanctuary for the liberation frontmembers. Ambassador Gueury'splane rendezvoused at Aden with thesecond French plane carrying the twoprisoners and the ransom money.Subsequently, Gueury was releasedunharmed and returned to Paris onthe same aircraft that had broughtthe two prisoners from France.ADDINFO FF: Gueury was kidnappedas he emerged from a church inMogadishu, the Somali capital. Thekidnappers had refused to negotiatethrough the Somali Government.Italian Ambassador to SomaliaGiorgio Giacomelli therefore acted asintermediary between the Frenchgovernment and the captors, whoheld Gueury in a villa outside thecapital. In several phone calls to hisembassy, the French envoy said hewas being well-treated. Somalisecurity agents surrounded the villa,but took no action. The kidnappersand the freed guerrillas were placedunder guard by the South Yemeniauthorities.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. Two fires were setat the Colombian consulate in NewYork City. The consulate hadreceived threats from a Cuban exilegroup.

27-Mar-75 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The PanamaGovernment Tourist Bureau in LosAngeles was bombed by the CubanAction Commandos.

27-Mar-75 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Costa RicanConsulate in Los Angeles wasbombed by the Cuban ActionCommandos.

28-Mar-75 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives13 0 ISRAEL. Bomb blasts wounded 13persons traveling on a bus inJerusalem. Palestinian guerrillas inBeirut claimed responsibility for theaction.

30-Mar-75 Lyon France Other Firearms1 0 FRANCE. Croatian exiles werebelieved responsible for anassassination attempt in which theYugoslav vice-consul in Lyon wasshot and seriously wounded as hegot out of his car in a garage near hishome.

1-Apr-75 Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. John McKay, an official ofthe U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency,was detained by Palestinians at theSabra refugee camp in Beirut. Hewas released unharmed after twodays of interrogation.

2-Apr-75 GuadalajaraMexico Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 MEXICO. Fire was set to the U.S.consulate in Guadalajara, causing nomajor damage to USIS premises.

3-Apr-75 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. In Los Angeles, theCommunist Party headquarters wasbombed by the Cuban ActionCommandos.

5-Apr-75 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An explosive devicecaused considerable damage to theLos Angeles office of Iraqi Airwaysbut caused no injuries. An anti-Arabmessage was telephoned to a localnews agency after the eveningexplosion.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. The JDL wassuspected of firebombing the Iraqi U.N. Mission in New York City, causingminor damage.

10-Apr-75 Paris France CharlesMartelGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. In a letter to Reuters, theCharles Martel Group claimed creditfor planting a bomb that exploded ina car outside the Algerian consulatein Paris. The group was protestingthe French president's visit toAlgeria.

11-Apr-75 Kuwait Other Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. A bomb exploded at theAmerican Life Insurance Company,causing considerable damage. TheKuwaiti press reported that theCommunist Labor Organization(Lebanon) was responsible for theexplosion. This probably was theArab Communist Organization. Threeof the terrorists were arrested in Julyand sentenced in December 1975 toprison terms of from 3 to 15 years, tobe followed by deportation. Severalother ACO terrorists were arrested inJuly 1975 in Syria and Lebanon.Those in Syria were sentenced aftertheir arrest and some were executed.The fate of those in Lebanon was notknown.

13-Apr-75 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. In Los Angeles, theUNIDOS bookstore was bombedagain by the Cuban ActionCommandos.

18-Apr-75 Mar delPlata

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at thedoor of the Chilean consulate in Mardel Plata, causing serious damage topart of the building. The Chileanpresident had recently visitedArgentina.

19-Apr-75 Tokyo Japan Other Explosives0 0 JAPAN. A bomb exploded in theTokyo building housing the SouthKorean Industrial and EconomicResearch Institute. Threateningletters were found in the company'smail box. Extremists, believed to bemembers of the South Korea YouthLeague, or possibly the Anti-JapanArmed Front of East Asia, werearrested.

24-Apr-75 StockholmSweden Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives0 2 SWEDEN. Seven West Germanguerrillas seized the West Germanembassy in Stockholm, then blew offthe top floor with explosives. Theywere captured while attempting toescape when the government inBonn rejected their demands. Threepersons died in the 12-houroccupation of the building andseveral of the 12 hostages capturedin the embassy were seriouslyinjured in the dynamite explosionand the fire that followed. [One ofthe guerrillas committed suiciderather than be captured, and theembassy's military attache was killedby submachine gun bursts in theguerrillas' initial assault on thebuilding.] Six of the guerrillas werearrested. West Germany, which inthe past had met terrorists'demands, refused to accede to theguerrillas' demands that 26imprisoned comrades be freed andflown out of Germany with more than$500,000 ransom. The guerrillasissued a statement identifyingthemselves as members of a groupcalled Kommando Holger Meins.ADDINFO FF. Six leftist West Germanguerrillas ... and held it for 12 hoursbefore dynamiting part of it after theBonn government refused theirdemands for the release of 26imprisoned anarchists. Threepersons--two embassy officials andone terrorist--died in the siege. Theterrorists identified themselves asthe Holger Meins Commando, namedfor a member of the Baader-Meinhofurban guerrilla group who died aftera hunger strike in a West German jailin November 1974. The guerrillasseized the embassy at midday andtook 12 hostages. The guerrillasfatally wounded one of the hostages,West German military attache Lt. ColAndreas Baron von Mirbach, whenSwedish police failed to move awayfrom the embassy building quicklyenough. The terrorists threatened tokill the ambassador, Dietrich Stocker,and the other hostages unless WestGermany released 26 members ofthe Baader-Meinhof gang fromprison, gave them $520,000, andflew them to an undiscloseddestination. When the Bonngovernment rejected the demands,the terrorists set off explosions onthe top floor of the building,apparently self-inflicted gun wounds,and the charred body of theeconomics attache, Heinz Hillegaart,was found in the rubble. It was notknown if Hillegaart died of burns orwas shot by the terrorists. The fivesurviving terrorists surrendered tothe police without a struggle.Several of the hostages receivedslight injuries from the blast.Swedendeported four of the five survivingterrorists to West Germany April 26.The fifth terrorist remainedtemporarily in Stockholm because ofserious burns suffered in theembassy explosions. The WestGerman government named thesurviving terrorists as BernhardRossner, Siegfried Hausner, Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Lutz Haufen, andHanna Krabe. Siegfried Hausner diedin a hospital of injuries on May 4.Four of the terrorists were tried inDuesseldorf between May 1976 andJuly 1977. All were convicted andsentenced to two terms of lifeimprisonment.

24-Apr-75 StockholmSweden Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives0 2 SWEDEN. Seven West Germanguerrillas seized the West Germanembassy in Stockholm, then blew offthe top floor with explosives. Theywere captured while attempting toescape when the government inBonn rejected their demands. Threepersons died in the 12-houroccupation of the building andseveral of the 12 hostages capturedin the embassy were seriouslyinjured in the dynamite explosionand the fire that followed. [One ofthe guerrillas committed suiciderather than be captured, and theembassy's military attache was killedby submachine gun bursts in theguerrillas' initial assault on thebuilding.] Six of the guerrillas werearrested. West Germany, which inthe past had met terrorists'demands, refused to accede to theguerrillas' demands that 26imprisoned comrades be freed andflown out of Germany with more than$500,000 ransom. The guerrillasissued a statement identifyingthemselves as members of a groupcalled Kommando Holger Meins.ADDINFO FF. Six leftist West Germanguerrillas ... and held it for 12 hoursbefore dynamiting part of it after theBonn government refused theirdemands for the release of 26imprisoned anarchists. Threepersons--two embassy officials andone terrorist--died in the siege. Theterrorists identified themselves asthe Holger Meins Commando, namedfor a member of the Baader-Meinhofurban guerrilla group who died aftera hunger strike in a West German jailin November 1974. The guerrillasseized the embassy at midday andtook 12 hostages. The guerrillasfatally wounded one of the hostages,West German military attache Lt. ColAndreas Baron von Mirbach, whenSwedish police failed to move awayfrom the embassy building quicklyenough. The terrorists threatened tokill the ambassador, Dietrich Stocker,and the other hostages unless WestGermany released 26 members ofthe Baader-Meinhof gang fromprison, gave them $520,000, andflew them to an undiscloseddestination. When the Bonngovernment rejected the demands,the terrorists set off explosions onthe top floor of the building,apparently self-inflicted gun wounds,and the charred body of theeconomics attache, Heinz Hillegaart,was found in the rubble. It was notknown if Hillegaart died of burns orwas shot by the terrorists. The fivesurviving terrorists surrendered tothe police without a struggle.Several of the hostages receivedslight injuries from the blast.Swedendeported four of the five survivingterrorists to West Germany April 26.The fifth terrorist remainedtemporarily in Stockholm because ofserious burns suffered in theembassy explosions. The WestGerman government named thesurviving terrorists as BernhardRossner, Siegfried Hausner, Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Lutz Haufen, andHanna Krabe. Siegfried Hausner diedin a hospital of injuries on May 4.Four of the terrorists were tried inDuesseldorf between May 1976 andJuly 1977. All were convicted andsentenced to two terms of lifeimprisonment.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives2 1 ARGENTINA. A bomb placed in a carparked in front of the Britishembassy residence in Buenos Airesexploded, killing a police guard andinjuring two others. The ambassadorand his family were not injured.

28-Apr-75 JohannesburgSouthAfrica

Unknown Firearms32 2 SOUTH AFRICA. Unidentified gunmeninvaded the heavily guarded IsraeliConsulate in Johannesburg, sprayedthe streets outside the building withgunfire, killing two and wounding 32.The gunmen demanded a helicopterfor the first leg of a proposed flight toIsrael and also demanded that theIsraeli ambassador to South Africa,Yitzhak Unna, come to Johannesburgfrom Cape Town to meet them. Theauthorities refused to accede to thedemands. South African policesurrounded the building andpreparations were made to blowopen the bullet-proof doors if allnegotiations failed. Some of thegunmen were thought to be Japanesebecause Japanese interpreters wereseen entering the building. It wasunknown how the intruders managedto enter the secure buildingundetected. *MICKOLUS GIVES VERYDIFFERENT ACCOUNT

1-May-75 Biarritz France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Warriors of Christ theKing, a rightist group allegedlycomposed of Spanish police, weresuspected of attacking ETA targets inthe south. In Biarritz, three menattempted to place a bomb in the carof Jose Antonio Urruticoechea, asuspected ETA member named asone of the fifteen persons wanted bythe Spanish government for theCarrero Blanco murder. One of thetrio died when the bomb explodedprematurely. Another was wounded.

2-May-75 SantaMonica

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The SocialistWorkers Party Bookstore located inSanta Monica, California, wasbombed by the Cuban ActionCommandos.

3-May-75 France Meinhof-Puig-AntichGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two charges of dynamiteexploded at the construction site ofthe Fessenheim Nuclear Powerreactor station, 45 miles south ofStrasbourg, France, on the RhineRiver. No nuclear material was instock or service at the site. The self-proclaimed terrorists made nodemands, took no hostages, andcaused no injuries. Responsibility forthe attack was claimed by ananonymous caller to a localnewspaper who warned that threebombs would go off. He identifiedhimself and his accomplices asmembers of the Meinhof-Puig-AntichGroup. Authorities had no previousknowledge of such a group. UlrikeMeinhof was a West Germananarchist then jailed in Germany,Puig Antich was a Spanish anarchistexecuted in 1974 by the Francogovernment for killing a Spanishpoliceman. However, because ofpast protests, it is also possible thatthe bombs were planted byopponents to nuclear plants, and notby a spin-off of the infamous Germanterrorists, the Baader-Meinhof group.Or the perpetrators could have beenmotivated by both ideological andenvironmental concerns. They mayhave used the name associated withthe Baader-Meinhof group as a ployto gain further publicity andnotoriety.A Le Monde correspondentat Strasbourg reported that theperpetrators of the bombing seemedto know the site and understand thefeatures of a nuclear power station.Two bombs had been placed in thecenter of the plant next to a nuclearreactor. The third, which did notexplode, was planted nearby in thewashroom. Damage was minor. Afire, ignited by the explosions, wasquickly extinguished by securityteams. A telephone warning,received 70 minutes before the firstblast, allowed workers to evacuatethe site before the explosions. Noperpetrator has been identified orapprehended. Plans have beenmade to build industrial plants andpower stations in the Fessenheimarea along the Rhine, and citizens ofcommunities on both sides of theriver have protested. However, thelocal ecological group disclaimed anyconnection with the incident.Because the power plant was still inconstruction and did not yet containcritical materials, there were nosecurity measures in force to deterthe terrorists. The holiday weekendkept workers at a minimum, and thesite was fully accessible to the public.Press reaction to the event was mild,dwindling to zero within three daysafter the bombing. The incidentcaused a delay of several months inthe construction schedule.

3-May-75 France Meinhof-Puig-AntichGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two charges of dynamiteexploded at the construction site ofthe Fessenheim Nuclear Powerreactor station, 45 miles south ofStrasbourg, France, on the RhineRiver. No nuclear material was instock or service at the site. The self-proclaimed terrorists made nodemands, took no hostages, andcaused no injuries. Responsibility forthe attack was claimed by ananonymous caller to a localnewspaper who warned that threebombs would go off. He identifiedhimself and his accomplices asmembers of the Meinhof-Puig-AntichGroup. Authorities had no previousknowledge of such a group. UlrikeMeinhof was a West Germananarchist then jailed in Germany,Puig Antich was a Spanish anarchistexecuted in 1974 by the Francogovernment for killing a Spanishpoliceman. However, because ofpast protests, it is also possible thatthe bombs were planted byopponents to nuclear plants, and notby a spin-off of the infamous Germanterrorists, the Baader-Meinhof group.Or the perpetrators could have beenmotivated by both ideological andenvironmental concerns. They mayhave used the name associated withthe Baader-Meinhof group as a ployto gain further publicity andnotoriety.A Le Monde correspondentat Strasbourg reported that theperpetrators of the bombing seemedto know the site and understand thefeatures of a nuclear power station.Two bombs had been placed in thecenter of the plant next to a nuclearreactor. The third, which did notexplode, was planted nearby in thewashroom. Damage was minor. Afire, ignited by the explosions, wasquickly extinguished by securityteams. A telephone warning,received 70 minutes before the firstblast, allowed workers to evacuatethe site before the explosions. Noperpetrator has been identified orapprehended. Plans have beenmade to build industrial plants andpower stations in the Fessenheimarea along the Rhine, and citizens ofcommunities on both sides of theriver have protested. However, thelocal ecological group disclaimed anyconnection with the incident.Because the power plant was still inconstruction and did not yet containcritical materials, there were nosecurity measures in force to deterthe terrorists. The holiday weekendkept workers at a minimum, and thesite was fully accessible to the public.Press reaction to the event was mild,dwindling to zero within three daysafter the bombing. The incidentcaused a delay of several months inthe construction schedule.

7-May-75 SantaMonica

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The MidnightSpecial Bookstore in Santa Monicawas bombed by the Cuban ActionCommandos.

7-May-75 Paris France InternationalRevolutionaryActionGroup(GARI)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in theParis offices of IBM. There were nodamages. A Spanish anarchistorganization, the InternationalRevolutionary Group (GARI), claimedresponsibility for the attack.

10-May-75

Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Alacran (TheScorpion), an anti-Castro group,bombed the offices of the SovietAirlines Aeroflot in Washington aswell as the Mexican Chancery inWashington. The chancery bombingwas in protest of Mexico's indicationof moving to revise the Rio Treatywhich is expected to clear the wayfor lifting the political and economicsanctions imposed on Cuba in 1964.No one was injured in either attack.

10-May-75

Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Alacran (TheScorpion), an anti-Castro group,bombed the offices of the SovietAirlines Aeroflot in Washington aswell as the Mexican Chancery inWashington. The chancery bombingwas in protest of Mexico's indicationof moving to revise the Rio Treatywhich is expected to clear the wayfor lifting the political and economicsanctions imposed on Cuba in 1964.No one was injured in either attack.

13-May-75

Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown1 0 LEBANON. Foreign Service officerMichael Konner was abducted from amarketplace in Beirut by personsidentifying themselves asPalestinians. He was interrogatedand struck but not seriously injuredby his captors. He was released 14hours later. No demands had beenmade.

14-May-75

BuenosAires

ArgentinaOther Firearms2 0 ARGENTINA. Police arrested threegunmen who sprayed machine-gunfire at the home of the U.S.ambassador, touching off a gunbattle in which two persons werewounded.

14-May-75

JerusalemIsrael Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. A parked Arab-owned buswas burned in Jerusalem. A newgroup called Terror for Terror, an Eyefor an Eye reportedly burned the busin retaliation for the burning of aJewish-owned bus in Ramallah, inIsraeli-occupied territory on the WestBank of the Jordan.

17-May-75

Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Five sticks of dynamite withan acid fuse were found in a store ofa U.S.-owned firm.

19-May-75

Tanzania People'sRevolutionaryParty(PRP)

Unknown0 0 TANZANIA. Three Stanford Universitystudents and a Dutch researchassistant, Emilie Bergman, werecaptured in a raid on the GombeStream Research Center on LakeTanganyika, directed by Britishanimal behaviorist Jane Goodall. Theguerrillas, members of the PopularRevolutionary Party (PRP), a Marxist-oriented group, demanded $460,000plus American arms and ammunition,and the release of radical leaders inZaire in exchange for four hostages.The principal demand required thatJulius Nyerere, the president ofTanzania, should assist in arming arebel movement in Zaire with thehelp of the United States. Theguerrillas released an Americanwoman, Barbara Smuts, unharmed,six days after her capture so that shecould carry the rebels' demand formoney, weapons, and the release ofPRP members held in Tanzania.Tanzania refused the demands and agroup of negotiators representing theparents and, apparently, Stanford,began talks which resulted in theyoung woman's release. The twoother young women were releasedunharmed on June 28. KennethSmith, the last remaining hostage,was released unharmed on July 25,1975. About $400,000 ransom waspaid by Stanford University, thestudents' parents, and otherAmericans.ADDINFO FF: Fourstudents, three Americans and oneDutch. Rebels were members ofZaire's People's Revolutionary Party(PRP), a Marxist group composed ofremnants of Simba army that hadsupported Patrice Lumumba.Speculation was the abductors tookhostages because they could notlocate Jane Goodall. Threatened tokill hostages if demands were notmet in 60 days. Govermentspokesman Benjamin Mkapa said thegovernment had firmly rejected alldemands. Tanzania will not beblackmailed. Two prisoners JohnLumbu and S. Kilenga had beenreleased in a general amnesty inApril but were rearrested on receiptof the ransom demands. Tanzaniarefused to accept responsibility forhostages; American AmbassadorCarter and other diplomatsexpressed concern over thequickness of Zaire to close door fornegotiations. At a news conferenceafter her release, Barbara Smuts saidthe captors had insisted that thekidnapping had been done to furthertheir cause which was the liberationof all people of the Congo from thegovernment of President Mobutu. USofficials said an attempt on June 24to free three hostages had beenfoiled when a Zaire gunboat openedfire on a rescue vessel. The rescueboat was manned by Americandiplomats who had negotiated withthe guerrillas through fisherman onthe shores of Lake Tanganyika. TheAmericans were reportedly bearing asum of money as ransom payment.Stanford Univ. denied that it hadmade any contribution to funds forransom. NEWSWEEK, Sept 1, 1975,reported that the hostages' familiesand Stanford came up with a$400,000 ransom payment, and inJuly the last of the captives emergedunharmed from the Zaire jungles.

19-May-75

Tanzania People'sRevolutionaryParty(PRP)

Unknown0 0 TANZANIA. Three Stanford Universitystudents and a Dutch researchassistant, Emilie Bergman, werecaptured in a raid on the GombeStream Research Center on LakeTanganyika, directed by Britishanimal behaviorist Jane Goodall. Theguerrillas, members of the PopularRevolutionary Party (PRP), a Marxist-oriented group, demanded $460,000plus American arms and ammunition,and the release of radical leaders inZaire in exchange for four hostages.The principal demand required thatJulius Nyerere, the president ofTanzania, should assist in arming arebel movement in Zaire with thehelp of the United States. Theguerrillas released an Americanwoman, Barbara Smuts, unharmed,six days after her capture so that shecould carry the rebels' demand formoney, weapons, and the release ofPRP members held in Tanzania.Tanzania refused the demands and agroup of negotiators representing theparents and, apparently, Stanford,began talks which resulted in theyoung woman's release. The twoother young women were releasedunharmed on June 28. KennethSmith, the last remaining hostage,was released unharmed on July 25,1975. About $400,000 ransom waspaid by Stanford University, thestudents' parents, and otherAmericans.ADDINFO FF: Fourstudents, three Americans and oneDutch. Rebels were members ofZaire's People's Revolutionary Party(PRP), a Marxist group composed ofremnants of Simba army that hadsupported Patrice Lumumba.Speculation was the abductors tookhostages because they could notlocate Jane Goodall. Threatened tokill hostages if demands were notmet in 60 days. Govermentspokesman Benjamin Mkapa said thegovernment had firmly rejected alldemands. Tanzania will not beblackmailed. Two prisoners JohnLumbu and S. Kilenga had beenreleased in a general amnesty inApril but were rearrested on receiptof the ransom demands. Tanzaniarefused to accept responsibility forhostages; American AmbassadorCarter and other diplomatsexpressed concern over thequickness of Zaire to close door fornegotiations. At a news conferenceafter her release, Barbara Smuts saidthe captors had insisted that thekidnapping had been done to furthertheir cause which was the liberationof all people of the Congo from thegovernment of President Mobutu. USofficials said an attempt on June 24to free three hostages had beenfoiled when a Zaire gunboat openedfire on a rescue vessel. The rescueboat was manned by Americandiplomats who had negotiated withthe guerrillas through fisherman onthe shores of Lake Tanganyika. TheAmericans were reportedly bearing asum of money as ransom payment.Stanford Univ. denied that it hadmade any contribution to funds forransom. NEWSWEEK, Sept 1, 1975,reported that the hostages' familiesand Stanford came up with a$400,000 ransom payment, and inJuly the last of the captives emergedunharmed from the Zaire jungles.

20-May-75

Tehran Iran Other Firearms0 2 IRAN. Three terrorists shot and killedtwo U.S. Air Force officers in Tehran.The officers were identified asColonel Paul R. Shaffer, Jr. andLieutentant Colonel John H. Turner.Ten Marxist guerrillas weresentenced to death by firing squadon January 1, 1976. An eleventhdefendant, one of two women in thegroup, was sentenced to solitaryconfinement for 15 years. Theseguerrillas also admitted to the 1973slaying of Lieutenant Colonel LewisHopkins, financial comptroller of theU.S. Military Mission.

21-May-75

Paris France Meinhof-Puig-AntichGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An anarchist group claimedresponsibility for an explosion thatset fire to a building housing Swedishorganizations on the ChampsElysees. The group, named afterPuig Antoich, a Spanish anarchistexecuted in Spain, and UlrikeMeinhof, a leader of the WestGerman Baader-Meinhof Gang, said itwas protesting the opening of thetrial of the German terrorists inStuttgart.

22-May-75

Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded, heavilydamaging a U.S. Army truck on anIstanbul street. No injuries werereported. Another explosion at ajoint U.S.-Turkish supply depotcaused no injuries or propertydamage. A previously unknownMarxist group claimed responsibility.

22-May-75

Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded, heavilydamaging a U.S. Army truck on anIstanbul street. No injuries werereported. Another explosion at ajoint U.S.-Turkish supply depotcaused no injuries or propertydamage. A previously unknownMarxist group claimed responsibility.

26-May-75

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An unidentifiedCuban exile group bombed theMexican Consulate in New York City.

31-May-75

Beirut Lebanon ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Arab CommunistOrganization bombed the ITT officesin downtown Beirut. No injuries.

3-Jun-75 Rome Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Firebombs were thrown atthree American companies onlyhours after President Ford ended hisvisit to Rome. The Bank of Americaand Italy, the Goodyear TireCompany and an ITT subsidiary wereattacked.





5-Jun-75 Paris France NationalistInterventionGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Nationalist InterventionGroup, believed to be right-wingSpaniards, bombed the Paris officesof the Committee for Solidarity withSpain on the Rue St. Jacques.

8-Jun-75 Lima Peru Movementof theRevolutionaryLeft (MIR)(Chile)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb was thrown into theyard of the U.S. ambassador'sresidence in Lima. The explosioncaused no injuries and minordamage. The Movement of theRevolutionary Left (MIR) claimedresponsibility.

12-Jun-75 Saint-Jean-de-Luz

France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a summer resort, in abuilding housing a group giving aidto Basque refugees from Spain.

12-Jun-75 HasparenFrance Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in a highschool in Hasparen. Spanishauthorities suspected that the schoolhad been the site of a recentassembly of the ETA. Damage wasslight.

12-Jun-75 Bayonne France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb was discovered ina Basque-owned bookshop inBayonne.

14-Jun-75 Mashad Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. A bomb placed on the wall ofthe USIS compound in Mashadcaused damage to the wall andwindows. There were no injuries.

15-Jun-75 KfarYuval

Israel ArabLiberationFront(ALF)

Unknown6 2 ISRAEL. After crossing the Lebaneseborder, four members of the ArabLiberation Front, an Iraqi-backedorganization led by Abdul WahabKayyali, attacked the cooperativefarm village of Kfar Yuval, holding afamily hostage. The groupdemanded the release of twelveprisoners, including the GreekCatholic archbishop of Jerusalem,Hilarion Capucci. The Israelis refusedthe group's demands and stormedthe house, killing all four guerrillas.Also killed was the father of thefamily taken hostage. His brother-in-law died in the original takeover inwhich six persons were wounded,including his wife and son.

16-Jun-75 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. Shots were fired from apassing car into the U.S. embassy inGuatemala City. There were noinjuries and slight property damage.

19-Jun-75 Beirut Lebanon PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. U.S. Army Colonel ErnestMorgan was seized from a taxicab ata roadblock by armed men in Beirut.Ransom demands were made to theUnited States for 280 tons of food,600 tons of building materials, andclothing for 3000 residents ofKarantina-al-Maslakh, a slum sectionnear the Beirut harbor. A little-known Palestinian group calling itselfThe Organization of RevolutionarySocialist Action claimed responsibilityfor the kidnapping. This isapparently another name for aMaoist urban guerrilla grouppreviously known as RevolutionaryLebanese Socialist Organization. It isbelieved to operate under theLebanese wing of the Popular Frontfor the Liberation of Palestine. It isinvolved with the Palestinians'Rejection Front, now financed byLibya and led by the Popular Front(PF), which opposes efforts tonegotiate a settlement in the MiddleEast. On July 11, after 12 days ofcaptivity, Colonel Morgan wasreleased by the guerrillas when ananonymous donor distributed anestimated 12 tons of food in theimpoverished neighborhood. [ThePalestinian Liberation Organizationissued a communique identifying twoPalestinian splinter groups as beingresponsible for the abduction,namely, the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine (GeneralCommand) and the Popular StruggleFront.]

19-Jun-75 StockholmSweden Unknown Explosives0 0 SWEDEN. A McDonald's restaurant inStockholm was bombed.


UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb ofconsiderable force blew up outsidethe building of the Yugoslav missionto the United Nations. No one wasinjured but windows of the missionand the neighboring building weresmashed. The attack is suspected tohave been an act of the Yugoslavextremist emigre group. A SerbianOrthodox priest, Rev. StojiljkoKajevic, admitted participating inseven bombings of Yugoslavdiplomatic offices, including thepresent bombing of the Yugoslavmission, at the time of his arrest inNovember 1978 in New York oncharges of conspiring to bomb theYugoslavian Consulate in Chicago.

2-Jul-75 Paris France Other Unknown0 4 FRANCE. A special French policecaptain, two members of his squad,and Michael Moukarbel, a Lebaneseguerrilla who was under arrest, werekilled in the Latin Quarter near theSorbonne in Paris by a man calledCarlos. Mr. Moukarbel had beenarrested for taking part in thebazooka attack at Orly Airport lastJanuary. The search for Carlos led toinquiries in 10 countries. Theincident gradually brought out astory of international terrorism andlinks among extremist groups ofPalestinians, Germans, Japanese,Turks, and possibly others. It servedto connect a series of attacks andbombings in several countries overthe last few years. Speculation has itthat Carlos, later identified as IlichRamirez Sanchez of Venezuela,might be the key to terroristinternational, a group linkingapparently separate terrorist causesin one grand conspiracy. Theevidence uncovered in Paris showedthat there were ties of logistics,weapons, help in faking documentsand finding refuge and probablyexchange of information.

3-Jul-75 Tehran Iran Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Firearms0 1 IRAN. A car carrying terroristsswerved in front of a U.S. embassyautomobile in Tehran. Two men gotout (the same two men who admittedto involvement in the May 20shooting of the two U.S. Air Forceofficers in Tehran were also accusedin this slaying), and opened fire,killing a young Iranian employee ofthe embassy. It was the thirdemployee of the embassyassassinated in a six week period.The People's Strugglers claimedresponsibility.

4-Jul-75 JerusalemIsrael PalestinianRevolutionForcesGeneralCommand

Explosives72 13 ISRAEL. A Palestinian terrorist bombexploded among a crowd of Israelishoppers in Jerusalem, killing 13persons and wounding 72. TheGeneral Command of the PalestinianRevolution attributed the attack to agroup calling itself the Martyr Farid alBoubaly Brigade. Israeli air and navalforces raided suspected Arabguerrilla bases north and south of thecity of Tyre in Southern Lebanon.The bases were suspected of beinglaunching sites for guerrilla attackson Israel. The attacks came lessthan three days after a terroristbomb exploded in Jerusalem and onlyhours after funeral services for the13 persons who died in the blast.There were no reports of casualtiesat the guerrilla bases.

9-Jul-75 Eilat Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. An Israeli oil pipelinerunning from the Red Sea to theMediterranean was shut down by anexplosion at a pumping station nearEilat. Palestinians claimed credit.

14-Jul-75 Asmara Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Kidnappers seized twoAmericans, Steven C. Campbell andJames J. Harrell, both civiliantechnicians, at the U.S.-run Kagnewmilitary communications relaystation in Asmara. The two workedfor Collins International ServiceCompany, Richardson, Texas, asubsidiary of Rockwell Corporation.The ELF claimed responsibility.Conflicting reports have theabductors also as the PopularLiberation Front, another Eritreanindependence group, whose goal isEritrean secession from Ethiopia.The Eritrean rebels demanded fromthe U.S. government: halt armssupplies to Ethiopia's military regimeand close U.S. communication basesthere; compensation for areas ofEritrea that suffered heavy damagein attacks by the U.S.-equippedEthiopian Air Force planes duringfighting between rebels andEthiopian government forces; U.S.government pressure on Ethiopia'smilitary government to free allEritrean rebels it holds in prisons.The ELF sought no ransom. Thedemands were not made untilSeptember 12 when two moreAmericans were captured. The firsttwo men were released on May 3,1976, unharmed.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives4 0 UNITED STATES. A group callingitself the Peace and FreedomFighters planted a bomb inside theMexican Consulate in Los Angeles.Four persons were injured and$35,000 worth of damage wascaused by the explosion. Demandswere issued later by the group forthe release of Cuban politicalprisoners and that relations not beestablished with Cuba. It is believedthat the Peace and Freedom Fighterswere, in fact, a joint attack groupcomposed of the Cuban ActionCommandos, the Hungarian Peaceand Freedom Fighters and the NaziParty.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A small bombexploded a few feet from theambassador of Costa Rica as he leftthe embassy offices in northwestWashington, D.C. AmbassadorRodolfo Silva was uninjured, and partof an outer wall suffered minordamage. Ninety minutes after theblast, a caller told UPI and AssociatedPress that the Cuban Scorpion wasclaiming credit and that our goal is topunish anyone who recognizes Cuba.Costa Rica was the site of a meetingof the OAS that was discussinghemispheric relations with Cuba.According to one report, statementsfrom an FLNC leader implicatedAbdala and the Cuban ActionCommandos.

23-Jul-75 Okinawa Japan Other Fire orFirebomb

2 0 JAPAN. A Chilean training vessel anda Kobe University ship docked at theInternational Ocean Exposition inOkinawa were attacked by terroristsusing Molotov cocktails. Two Chileansailors were injured. Radical leftistswere suspected.

26-Jul-75 Roubaix France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Paris and Roubaixoffices of the Amicale des Algeriensen Europe were bombed.

26-Jul-75 Lyon France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Algerian CulturalCenter in Lyons was bombed.

26-Jul-75 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Paris and Roubaixoffices of the Amicale des Algeriensen Europe were bombed.

2-Aug-75 Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Constance Stransky, anAmerican citizen, was held byPalestinians in Beirut. She wasreleased after 11 days.

3-Aug-75 KualaLumpur

Malaysia JapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Firearms3 0 MALAYSIA. A group of five terroristsclaiming to be members of theJapanese Red Army seized the U.S.consulate and a Swedish diplomat inthe American International AssuranceBuilding in Kuala Lumpur. A guardand two policemen were shot andwounded by the gunmen after theyseized the U.S. consul, RobertStebbins, and three Malaysianemployees. Swedish charged'affaires Frederick Bergenstrahleand his secretary were also seized.Seizure of the consular section of theU.S. embassy in downtown KualaLumpur resulted in an originalcapture of 53 hostages, then asmaller group of 15 hostages beingheld captive for 79 hours. Thehostages were released August 7after Japan had met the demands: Inreturn for the hostages, the gunmenforced Japan to agree to releasingseven Red Army comrades fromprison. Two of the seven preferredto remain in Japan, but the other fivewere flown to Kuala Lumpur and thenwent on with the gunmen to Libya.Also aboard were a Japanese crew ofnine and four government officials--two Malaysians and two Japanese--presented as hostages in exchangefor those seized during the embassyoccupation. As a financial footnote insiege operations, Japan Airlinesstated that the cost of the Boeingand crew to take the Red Army mento Libya was $618,000. Theterrorists gave themselves up toLibyan officials.ADDINFO FF: August4, 52 hostages. The guerrillas freedthe hostages in exchange for releaseof 5 other Red Army men imprisonedin Japan. They had stormed 12 storybldg, making their way to Americanconsulate on 9th floor. Herded 52hostages into separate rooms andthreatened to kill them unlessprisoners were released and safepassage to Mid-East. Hostagesincluded Swedish charge d'affairesFrederik Bergenstrahle, fourAustralians, one Japanese, someSingaporeans, and indeterminatenumber of Malaysians. JapanesePremier Takeo Miki, who was inWashington, acceded to demands.Gunmen released 9 hostages on Aug.6 and later freed 38 more, leavingStebbins, Bergenstrable, twoAmericans, a Japanese, twoSingaporeans, and 8 Malaysians. All15 taken to Kuala Lumpur airport,where they boarded a Japaneseairliner, with five other Red Armymen. After further negotiations, 15hostages were set free August 7 inexchange for substitute hostages,two Japanese and two Malaysiangovernment officials. Ten countrieswere solicited for asylum and mostrefused permission to land.Negotiations stalled at the airportover Red Army demands to carryexplosives with them and that theirroute to Libya be over water tobypass Israel, but the terroristsfinally gave up the bombs, althoughthey were allowed to keep theirguns. The plane finally landed inTripoli. Red Army gunmen expressedsolidarity with Palestinian movementand with new Communistgovernments of South Vietnam andCambodia.

3-Aug-75 KualaLumpur

Malaysia JapaneseRed Army(JRA)

Firearms3 0 MALAYSIA. A group of five terroristsclaiming to be members of theJapanese Red Army seized the U.S.consulate and a Swedish diplomat inthe American International AssuranceBuilding in Kuala Lumpur. A guardand two policemen were shot andwounded by the gunmen after theyseized the U.S. consul, RobertStebbins, and three Malaysianemployees. Swedish charged'affaires Frederick Bergenstrahleand his secretary were also seized.Seizure of the consular section of theU.S. embassy in downtown KualaLumpur resulted in an originalcapture of 53 hostages, then asmaller group of 15 hostages beingheld captive for 79 hours. Thehostages were released August 7after Japan had met the demands: Inreturn for the hostages, the gunmenforced Japan to agree to releasingseven Red Army comrades fromprison. Two of the seven preferredto remain in Japan, but the other fivewere flown to Kuala Lumpur and thenwent on with the gunmen to Libya.Also aboard were a Japanese crew ofnine and four government officials--two Malaysians and two Japanese--presented as hostages in exchangefor those seized during the embassyoccupation. As a financial footnote insiege operations, Japan Airlinesstated that the cost of the Boeingand crew to take the Red Army mento Libya was $618,000. Theterrorists gave themselves up toLibyan officials.ADDINFO FF: August4, 52 hostages. The guerrillas freedthe hostages in exchange for releaseof 5 other Red Army men imprisonedin Japan. They had stormed 12 storybldg, making their way to Americanconsulate on 9th floor. Herded 52hostages into separate rooms andthreatened to kill them unlessprisoners were released and safepassage to Mid-East. Hostagesincluded Swedish charge d'affairesFrederik Bergenstrahle, fourAustralians, one Japanese, someSingaporeans, and indeterminatenumber of Malaysians. JapanesePremier Takeo Miki, who was inWashington, acceded to demands.Gunmen released 9 hostages on Aug.6 and later freed 38 more, leavingStebbins, Bergenstrable, twoAmericans, a Japanese, twoSingaporeans, and 8 Malaysians. All15 taken to Kuala Lumpur airport,where they boarded a Japaneseairliner, with five other Red Armymen. After further negotiations, 15hostages were set free August 7 inexchange for substitute hostages,two Japanese and two Malaysiangovernment officials. Ten countrieswere solicited for asylum and mostrefused permission to land.Negotiations stalled at the airportover Red Army demands to carryexplosives with them and that theirroute to Libya be over water tobypass Israel, but the terroristsfinally gave up the bombs, althoughthey were allowed to keep theirguns. The plane finally landed inTripoli. Red Army gunmen expressedsolidarity with Palestinian movementand with new Communistgovernments of South Vietnam andCambodia.

4-Aug-75 UnitedStates

Other Explosives1 0 UNITED STATES. A group called Jawsplaced a bomb on the hull below thewater line of the Bahamian vesselGoldfinger II. The explosion blew ahole and caused the engine room tobe flooded. Shortly after the attack aSpanish speaking woman claimedThe ship was bombed to punish theenemy and protest against theBahamian Government's attitudetowards American fishermen.


UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. A small incendiarydevice exploded shortly aftermidnight at the Venezuelanconsulate in New York City.

5-Aug-75 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded in thebasement of the Ecuadoreanembassy in Buenos Aires, causingserious damage but no injuries.

6-Aug-75 Bogota Colombia Other Unknown2 0 COLOMBIA. Donald E. Cooper, vicepresident for merchandising for theSears, Roebuck department stores inColombia, was kidnapped from hisBogota home by five men and onewoman. Wounded in the ambushwere two household employees. Noransom was demanded. Mr. Cooper'skidnapping marked the first time thata U.S. citizen had been the directtarget of an abduction in Colombia.A number of wealthy Colombians andoccasionally foreigners have beenkidnapped by guerrillas over theyears, but not U.S. citizens.Colombia authorities believed thatleft-wing guerrillas were involved.Cooper was released on November 2,1975.ADDINFO: The police said itwas not known if the kidnapperswere common criminals after moneyor urban guerrillas seeking topublicize their struggle againstimperialism.

9-Aug-75 Miami UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Miami office ofthe Dominican Republic's Consul wasbombed in protest of the extraditionto the United States of a Cuban exileleader. No group took credit for thebombing.

13-Aug-75

BuenosAires


Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. Three or fourunidentified terrorists in anautomobile shot at two Cubanembassy vehicles entering theembassy compound in Buenos Aires.The Cuban ambassador was in onecar and a visiting Cuban official andan attache were in the other. No onewas injured. Accion Cubana, an anti-Castro Cuban exile group, claimedcredit for the attack.

18-Aug-75


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb wasfound and defused in the Algerianembassy in London. A telephonecaller told news agencies that thebomb had been placed by theSoldiers of the Algerian Opposition,which seeks the overthrow ofAlgerian Colonel HouariBoumedienne.

18-Aug-75

Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb placed by the Soldiers of theAlgerian Opposition was found anddefused in the Algerian embassy inBonn. This group claimed credit forthe bomb.

18-Aug-75

Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded at theAlgerian embassy in Rome. TheSoldiers of the Algerian Oppositionclaimed credit for the bombing. Theyalso claimed responsibility for placingtwo other bombs at the Algerianembassies in London and Bonn.These bombs were found anddefused.

19-Aug-75

StockholmSweden Unknown Explosives0 0 SWEDEN. A bomb exploded in aMcDonald's restaurant in Stockholm,the second such incident at thisMcDonald's in two months.

22-Aug-75

Valencia Spain Other Firearms1 0 SPAIN. A U.S. Marine was shot andwounded in Valencia. FRAP, an anti-Franco organization headquartered inGeneva, claimed credit for theattack.

23-Aug-75

Asmara Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Explosives0 2 ETHIOPIA. Two Americans undercontract for the Navy, were killed byan ELF land mine while on their wayto the U.S. transmitter facility nearAsmara.

26-Aug-75

PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. A Japanese stewardessemployed by Lufthansa waskidnapped by Moslem rebels while onholiday. She was released on August27 after a ransom equivalent to$27,000 was paid.The Moro NationalLiberation Front (MNLF) claimed thiskidnapping during the hijacking of aJapanese freighter in Sept 1975.

29-Aug-75

Bayonne France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A group of masked menbombed the Spanish consulate inBayonne.

29-Aug-75

Bayonne France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Bank of Bilbao inBayonne was bombed by a group ofmasked men.

30-Aug-75

ZamboangaPhilippinesOther Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Two U.S. employees ofBoise-Cascade were abducted from atimber concession near Zamboangaby Muslim dissidents. They werereleased less than 24 hours later.

1-Sep-75 Angola Other Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. A Canadian missionary waskidnapped, presumably by Angolanrebels.

11-Sep-75 Lisbon Portugal Other Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. The RevolutionaryInternationalist Solidarity groupclaimed credit for bombing theSpanish embassy in Lisbon.

11-Sep-75 StockholmSweden Other Explosives0 0 SWEDEN. A bomb was defusedoutside the Spanish tourist office inStockholm. It was believed theaction was part of an internationalprotest against Spanish deathsentences for ETA terrorists.

12-Sep-75 Asmara Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Two American enlistedmen (Thomas C. Bowidowicz,Technician 3 of the Navy, and DavidStrickland, Specialist 5 of the Army)and six Ethiopians were kidnappedfrom the American communicationscenter in Asmara by ELF guerrillas.The revolutionary council claimedresponsibility for the attack. Theattack was believed to have beenplanned to coincide with theEthiopian government celebration ofthe anniversary of the overthrow offormer Emperor Haile Selassi and the13th anniversary of the integration ofEritrea into Ethiopia. The servicemenwere released in Sudan on January 9,1976, in good condition. The StateDepartment said no ransom hadbeen paid nor concessions made, butrefused to discuss the details of therelease while other Americans werebeing held.ADDINFO: Spokesman forthe ELF in Beirut demanded throughthe press that the United Statescease all military aid to theGovernment of Ethiopia, close thecommunication facility near Asmara,dismantle an Ethiopian naval baseunder construction at Massawa, paycompensation for damage done toEritrean villages by the U.S.-equipped Ethiopian Air Force, andexert pressure on the Ethiopiangovernment to free all Eritrean rebelsit holds in prisons. Deadline was setfor October 3.



Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A letter bombmailed in Dublin exploded in theLondon office of Canadian-basedAlcan, slightly injuring a secretary.Two weeks previously, the companyhad announced plans to build a plantin the Republic of Ireland.

15-Sep-75 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. An automobile owned by aU.S. Air Force Sergeant wasdestroyed by a bomb in Athens.There were no injuries, and no groupclaimed responsibility.



Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. The Countess ofOnslow, a central figure in an allegedoperation against the IRA two yearsago [the Countess arrangedclandestine meetings in 1973between government officials andKenneth Littlejohn, a bank robberwho later said he was ordered to spyon the IRA by British intelligence],was wounded when a letter bombexploded in her hands in London.The IRA is suspected of this attack.

15-Sep-75 Madrid Spain PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Five armed Arab terroristsforced their way into the Egyptianembassy in Madrid, threatening toblow it up and kill the ambassadorand two aides. The guerrillasdemanded that Egypt refrain fromsigning implementation documentsfor the interim accord with Israel;that it issue a public declaration byofficials attending theimplementation conference inGeneva that the agreement signedSeptember 4 was a betrayal of theEgyptian and Arab peoples; and thatthe Egyptians leave the Genevameeting. Speculation was that thePLFP may have been involved. Theambassadors to Algeria and Iraqvolunteered to serve as hostagesalong with three Egyptians. Theterrorists, their three Egyptianhostages, and the Iraqi and Algerianambassadors were driven to theairport on September 16 where theyboarded a four- engine, Soviet-madeplane for flight to Algeria. Theguerrillas released the hostages inAlgeria and surrendered to Algerianauthorities, who turned them over tothe PLO representative.ADDINFO FF:Guerrillas threatened to blow upEgyptian embassy with AmbassadorMahmoud Abdul Ghaffar and his twoaides unless Cairo renounced Sinaipact with Israel. Dropping theirdemands after l6 hr siege, thePalestinians were flown to AlgiersSept. 16 along with Ghaffar, his aidesand two other hostages. Thegunmen were turned over to arepresentative of the PLO. Thehostages were set free. Negotiationsleading to Palestinian decision toleave embassy and fly to Algierswere conducted by ambassadors toIraq, Algeria, Kuwait, and Jordan.The PLO later dissociated itself fromincident. The Egyptian ambassadorto Lebanon Ahmed Lufti Mitwalli,issued message to PLO leader YasirArafat holding him and allPalestinians responsible for theoutcome of events in Madrid. Aspokesman for extreme left PopularFront for the Liberation of Palestinestated on Sept. 15 that the embassyraid was a reaction to thetreacherous policies of PresidentAnwar Sadat and to the surrender pol

16-Sep-75 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded outsidethree Spanish banks in Paris, causingextensive damage.



24-Sep-75 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded in theCordoba offices of Xerox Argentina.

26-Sep-75 Manila PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Heavily armedPhilippine bandits hijacked aJapanese freighter with 27 personsaboard in Manila and demanded aransom of $133,000. The group,saying that they were members ofthe same band that abducted aJapanese woman tourist a monthearlier, warned authorities againstany military intervention. The ship,Suehiro Maru, had a crew of 22Japanese and five Philippines. Thebandits were followers of acommander Jikiri, who was identifiedas the man who directed thekidnapping of Mrs. Yoko Seki onAugust 25. (Mrs. Seki was releasedunharmed after Philippine authoritiessaid a ransom of $28,500 was paid,part of which was recovered.) The 40Muslim pirates surrenderedunconditionally and released theJapanese freighter with 29 hostageson September 28. No ransom waspaid. The rebels, members of theMoro National Liberation Front, havebeen fighting for a separate Moslemstate in the southern Philippines.The rebels offered to release the shipand crew in return for safe passage,but this was refused.

27-Sep-75 Bogota Colombia MilitaryLiberationFront ofColombia

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two bombs exploded atthe Soviet Chancery in Bogota.Shortly afterwards, a bombdetonated at the site of a Cuban filmfestival sponsored by the Cubanembassy. There were no injuries.Leaflets found at both sitesattributed the bombings to theMilitary Liberation Front of Colombia.It is likely that an anti-Castro Cubanexile group planted the bombs.

27-Sep-75 Bogota Colombia MilitaryLiberationFront ofColombia

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two bombs exploded atthe Soviet Chancery in Bogota.Shortly afterwards, a bombdetonated at the site of a Cuban filmfestival sponsored by the Cubanembassy. There were no injuries.Leaflets found at both sitesattributed the bombings to theMilitary Liberation Front of Colombia.It is likely that an anti-Castro Cubanexile group planted the bombs.

28-Sep-75 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A stick of dynamite wasthrown into the garden of the Ankararesidence of the Spanishambassador.

29-Sep-75 Boston UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives1 0 UNITED STATES. A man was slightlyinjured when a small bomb explodedin the office of Iberia Airlines inBoston.

1-Oct-75 Angola PopularMovementfor theLiberationof Angola

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. American teacher, PatriciaThornton, is believed being heldprisoner of the Popular Movement forthe Liberation of Angola. A secondAmerican, Jose Diaz, a cattle rancher,is also believed held by the samegroup.

1-Oct-75 Angola PopularMovementfor theLiberationof Angola

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. American teacher, PatriciaThornton, is believed being heldprisoner of the Popular Movement forthe Liberation of Angola. A secondAmerican, Jose Diaz, a cattle rancher,is also believed held by the samegroup.

3-Oct-75 Ireland ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Unknown0 0 IRELAND. A splinter group of themilitary Provisional wing of the IRAkidnapped a Dutch businessman,Tiede Herrema. The kidnapped manwas managing director of a branch ofthe Dutch Ferenka Company inLimerick. The terrorists threatenedto kill him unless Ireland freed threetop Irish Republican Army prisoners.Among the three prisoners theterrorists wanted released wasBrigitte Rose Dugdale, British heiressturned revolutionary. In addition tothe release of Miss Dugdale, thekidnappers demanded freedom forIRA provisional terrorists Kevin Malinand Jim Hyland. After being heldprisoner by the Irish terrorists for 36days, Tiede Herrema was releasedunharmed on November 8. The twoIRA members surrendered to Irishpolice.ADDINFO: Until Herrema'srelease, negotiations with thekidnappers were carried out by ChiefSuperintendent Lawrence Wrenn,head of the security division of theIrish police force, who provided foodand changes of clothing for all threepersons. Police in Dublin announcedthat they were holding BrianMcGowan and John Vincent Walsh inconnection with the kidnapping.

4-Oct-75 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms14 3 LEBANON. Three Arab terroristsattacked the Beirut airport in anapparent attempt to hijack anairplane and take Egyptianpassengers as hostages in protest ofthe Egyptian-Israeli Sinai accord.Three persons were killed and 14wounded. Security forces killed onegunman and wounded and capturedtwo others. A fourth gunman, driverof the car that carried the group tothe airport, was later turned over tothe police by the security arm of thePLO. The terrorists carried papersshowing two of them to bePalestinians, one Syrian, and oneLibyan. The PalestinianRevolutionary Command condemnedthe attack and indicated that the so-called Rejectionist Front was behindthe action.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An explosionoccurred at the DominicanRepublican consulate in Miami,Florida. No one was injured;extensive property damage resulted.A telephone caller to a Miaminewspaper said a group called theYouths of the Star had placed thebomb. This is a code namesuspected of being used by the FLNC,an anti-Castro Cuban exile group.The bombing was thought to berelated to the Dominican Republicextradition to the United States of aCuban exile wanted as a federalfugitive.

7-Oct-75 Saint-Jean-de-Luz

France Unknown Firearms0 3 FRANCE. Three members of ETAwere shot to death near Saint-Jean-de-Luz in French Basque country.


ArgentinaOther Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Ten armed refugees,nine of them Chileans, one Brazilianliving in Argentina, occupied theoffices of the United Nations HighCommission for Refugees in BuenosAires, and held 14 employeeshostage. The refugees, two womenand eight men, demanded to betaken to a new homeland because oftheir poor living conditions inArgentina. The Argentinegovernment agreed to give thecaptors safe passage out of thecountry. By night fall, eight womenwho had been held were freed beforea final settlement was reached. Thesix remaining hostages, includingRobert Mueller, a Swiss who headedthe UN High Commission forRefugees office, and nationals ofArgentina, Chile, and Austria, werefreed on October 10, 1975, after thegroup of refugees were flown out ofArgentina for asylum in Algeria, theonly country that would accept them.They took along seven members oftheir families for whom they had alsodemanded safe passage out of thecountry.

8-Oct-75 Paris France Other Firearms1 0 FRANCE. A Spanish assistant militaryattache in Paris was shot severaltimes. The attackers escaped. Agroup using the name of an executedBasque terrorist claimedresponsibility for the shooting byissuing a statement in a left-wingParis newspaper.

8-Oct-75 Mainz FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Spanish consulate in Mainz wasbombed. No one was injuredalthough there was extensivedamage. Political leftists werebelieved responsible. It was asuspected reaction against Spain'sexecution of convicted terrorists.

10-Oct-75 FortLauderdale

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The CountyCourthouse in Fort Lauderdale,Florida, was bombed by the FLNC.



Explosives20 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb hidden ina bag exploded at a Central Londonbus stop, killing one man waiting fora bus, injuring 20 other people. Theblast was blamed on the IRA.

11-Oct-75 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was thrown from apassing car into the parking lot of anAnkara building occupied by the U.S.Base Civil Engineer Detachment. Asecond explosion occurred at theAnkara Officers' Club, which wasoccupied by U.S. servicemen. Noinjuries were reported, althoughthere was property damage.

11-Oct-75 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was thrown from apassing car into the parking lot of anAnkara building occupied by the U.S.Base Civil Engineer Detachment. Asecond explosion occurred at theAnkara Officers' Club, which wasoccupied by U.S. servicemen. Noinjuries were reported, althoughthere was property damage.

14-Oct-75 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb went off at an anti-Franco, Spanish-language publishinghouse in Paris causing considerabledamage, but no injuries. It appearsto have been one of the targetsbombed as a result of the September27 execution of convicted Spanishterrorists.

16-Oct-75 ArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 2 ARGENTINA. An Italian executiveand his bodyguard were shot todeath by unidentified terrorists. Noone claimed responsibility for thisact.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb exploded ina locker at Miami InternationalAirport near the Dominican Airlinesticket counter. Polando Otero wasarrested and convicted of thebombing.


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A time bomb wasdiscovered in the offices of theDominicana Airlines in Miami. Thebomb was dismantled.

22-Oct-75 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Two U.S. governmentemployees jogging through a leftistneighborhood in Beirut werekidnapped by unidentified abductors.Observers suspected that eitherPalestinian commandos or Lebaneseleftists were responsible for thedisappearance of Charles Gallagherand William Dykes, Jr., a director andassistant director respectively of alarge suburban printing plant thatbelongs to the U.S. InformationAgency and which publishesmagazines and pamphlets in Arabic,French, Russian, and otherlanguages. The two Americans werereleased unharmed on February 25,1976. The PFLP denied anyinvolvement with the kidnapping..

22-Oct-75 Vienna Austria Other Firearms0 1 AUSTRIA. Three armed men stormedinto the Turkish embassy in Viennaand killed the ambassador. Theenvoy, Danis Tunaligil, was killed bya group calling itself The ArmenianLiberation Army. The ambassadorwas killed with British- and Israeli-made submachineguns. The gunmenescaped; Austrian police arrested anumber of suspects, later released.Their action appeared to be politicalaccording to an embassy official, butit was never ascertained if the killerswere of Greek or Turkish origin.

23-Oct-75 Ismaram Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Two armed men brokeinto the British consulate in Ismaramand kidnapped the honorary consul,Basil Burwood-Taylor. The ELF issuspected of the action. He wasreleased unharmed on May 3, 1976.No demands were apparently made.

24-Oct-75 Paris France Other Firearms0 2 FRANCE. Turkey's ambassador toFrance, Ismail Erez, was killed byunknown assailants as he drove backto the embassy in Paris from areception. His driver was also killedin the ambush. An Armenian groupcalled the Commandos of theAvengers of the Armenian Genocideclaimed responsibility.ADDINFO FF:Erez, 53, and his 23 year oldchauffeur Talip Yener, were killed indaylight by two men who approachedtheir car and opened fire withsubmachineguns. The gunmenescaped. A phone caller to theAgence France Presse bureau inBeirut, Lebanon, claimed theassassinations had been carried outby the Secret Armenian Army for theliberation of Armenia, a group whichhad announced its formation in atract delivered to the AFP office inAthens Sept. 17. Telephonedmessages to the Associated Pressoffice in Vienna and to Radio StationEurope in Paris claimed that thekillings were the work of EOKAB, theGreek Cypriot undergroundorganization. Oct. 25 reported thatTurkish authorities had closed maincheckpoint in Nicosia. A crowd of4000 demonstrators demandedrevenge against Greeks and Cypriotsfor the killings. Spokesman at UnitedNations and U.S. Mission to the UN inNew York said Oct. 24 that extrasecurity measures were being takento protect the Turkish delegation.



Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. The West Germanproduction manager of the Mercedes-Benz truck factory in Buenos Aireswas kidnapped by the Montoneros.He was released on December 24after a large ransom was paid andlabor concessions were made.

25-Oct-75 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Two Scandinaviandiplomats and a French diplomatwere kidnapped in a raid on apopular hotel in central Beirut aftergunmen shot their way into theirrooms. They were later releasedunharmed after intervention by thePLO.

25-Oct-75 Asmara Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Eritrean guerrillaskidnapped Egizio Fralaschi, an Italianteacher, in Asmara.

26-Oct-75 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms1 0 LEBANON. Philip Caputo, a staffcorrespondent for the ChicagoTribune in Beirut, claimed that hewas deliberately shot at by leftistgunmen after being directed by themto walk down a street. He waswounded in both feet and in theback.

26-Oct-75 Lebanon Other Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Twelve gunmen burst intothe sixth-floor office apartment ofWashington Post reporter Jonathan C.Randal just before dawn and led himto a waiting car. They kept him forseveral hours.

27-Oct-75 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Michael Ross, anAmerican newsman with United PressInternational, was detained for morethan an hour by gunmen from theAin El Mreisse quarter of Beirut nearthe U.S. embassy.

27-Oct-75 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Several mortar roundslanded on the Beirut residence of theAustrian ambassador in the Kantarineighborhood.


UnitedStates

FuerzasArmadasdeLiberacionNacional(FALN)

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A Puerto Ricannationalist group, the FALN, tookcredit for an explosion at the officesof the US mission to the UN. Theywere also responsible for explosionsoutside the State Department andthe Bureau of Indian Affairs, andseven other nearly simultaneousbombings of banks and otherbuildings in New York and Chicago.No one was injured in the blast,which caused minor structuraldamage to the buildings. Thebombings were part of thecoordinated attack against Yankeegovernment and monopoly capitalistinstitutions. The FALN reiterated itsdemand for the release of fiveimprisoned Puerto Rican nationalistswho were convicted of the attempt toassassinate the late President HarryS. Truman and the wounding of fivecongressmen in the 1950s.

27-Oct-75 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives8 0 ISRAEL. A thirty-three pound bombplanted in a French car parked infront of Jerusalem's Eyal Hotelexploded, wrecking the groundfloorlobby of the hotel, shatteringwindows in stores and apartments asfar as one hundred yards away,damaging ten shops and injuringeight persons, including two youngSwiss women, two Israelis and anArab. Arab terrorists were suspectedand fifteen to twenty Arabs weretaken into custody for questioning.

28-Oct-75 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Officials of the Frenchembassy were pinned down in theircompound on Rue Clemenceau inBeirut by gunfire.

29-Oct-75 ArgentinaMontoneros(Argentina)

Unknown0 1 ARGENTINA. Four Montonerogunmen assassinated the personnelmanager of the products division ofFiat-Concord, Argentina's largestauto firm. The group had threatenedto kill company executives if theirdemands were not met. Thecompany had closed its plant onOctober 20 but was compelled by thegovernment to reopen theinstallation.

29-Oct-75 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A dynamite bomb explodedin the parking lot of the Britishconsulate. There were no injuries.

29-Oct-75 Istanbul Turkey Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Two Molotov cocktailsexploded in the Istanbul garden ofthe Iranian consulate. There were noinjuries reported. A dynamite bombexploded in front of the Turkish-Iranian Friendship Society in Istanbul.Police speculated the attacks were toprotest the visit of the Shah of Iran.

29-Oct-75 Istanbul Turkey Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Two Molotov cocktailsexploded in the Istanbul garden ofthe Iranian consulate. There were noinjuries reported. A dynamite bombexploded in front of the Turkish-Iranian Friendship Society in Istanbul.Police speculated the attacks were toprotest the visit of the Shah of Iran.

30-Oct-75 Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. An American pilot forLebanon's Trans-MediterraneanAirways, Herman Huddleston, waskidnapped in Beirut by fourPalestinians. He was releasedunharmed on November 3, 1975.

31-Oct-75 UnitedStates

SecretOrganizationZero

Explosives0 1 UNITED STATES. Rolando Masferrer,known as El Tigre (The Tiger), wasassassinated by a car bomb plantedby the Secret Organization of Zerobecause of his systematic work in thedestruction of the anti-Communiststruggle. Masferrer, a notoriousBatista hit man was killed because ofan alleged association with theCuban intelligence service. Acommunique announcing his deathwent on to state that Hisassassination, like that of...Torriente[see April 13, 1974] should serve asan example for those who disdain thecause of Cuban liberation. It isnecessary to cleanse the exilecommunity in order to liberate Cuba.

2-Nov-75 SanJuan

PuertoRico

Unknown Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. Unknownperpetrators exploded two devices inthe hull below the waterline of theRussian vessel S.S. Maksim Gorkiy.The ship was at anchor visiting theport of San Juan with cruisepassengers on board at the time ofthe incident. The explosions rippedholes in the hull.

7-Nov-75 PhilippinesOther Firearms0 0 PHILIPPINES. Six Japanese nationalswere kidnapped from their fishingvessel off Basilan Island by tenarmed men. All of the Japanese werereleased on December 6 after asettlement was reached between thePhilippine government and thekidnappers, who probably wereMoslem rebels.

12-Nov-75

Dhaka BangladeshUnknown Explosives0 0 BANGLADESH. A live grenade wasfound on the grounds of theresidence of Samar Sen, the Indianambassador.

13-Nov-75

Beirut Lebanon Al-Sa'iqa Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Two Sai'qa membersentered the Pan Am hangar at BeirutInternational Airport and held fivemaintenance men at gunpoint,demanding jeeps or trucks. Findingnone at the hangar, they left. Armytroops intercepted them and killedthem in a gun battle after theyrefused to surrender.

13-Nov-75

JerusalemIsrael al-Fatah Explosives40 6 ISRAEL. A terrorist bomb explodedamong shoppers and pedestrians inZion Square, Jerusalem's mainshopping street, killing six peopleand injuring 40 others. Al Fatah'sDamascus offices claimed credit, asdid the Martyr George Haddad Unit ofthe DFLP.

20-Nov-75


Firearms1 3 ISRAEL. Golan Heights. Threemembers of the DFLP broke into aschool dormitory at RamatMagshimim, lined students againstthe wall, and began shooting them inthe back. The students were alsoarmy sergeants. A survivor fled towarn others on the farmingsettlement. The terrorists, armedwith submachine guns and hatchets,killed three and wounded anotherbefore escaping into Syria.

21-Nov-75

Angola Other Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Members of the MPLAkidnapped Don Webster of CBS andBill Mutschmann, a freelancephotographer, and accused them ofbeing CIA agents. Upon their releaseon December 11, 1975, theycomplained of poor treatment,inedible food, unsanitary conditionsand much harassment by theircaptors.

24-Nov-75

Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms0 1 LEBANON. A British businessmanwas fatally shot by Arab gunmen inBeirut who apparently mistook himfor an American.

26-Nov-75

Dhaka BangladeshOther Firearms1 0 BANGLADESH. Six men attacked theIndian High Commissioner(ambassador) as he arrived for work,shooting him in the right shoulder.Guards killed four of the attackersand wounded the other two, whomthey said belonged to the defunctNational Socialist Party and werefollowers of former Prime MinisterSheik Mujibur Rahman.

27-Nov-75

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Cuban Power 76,another name for the Frente deLiberacion Nacional Cubana (FLNC),was responsible for the planting of atime bomb found on board aBahamassair flight at MiamiInternational Airport. The bomb wasstrong enough to have killedeveryone on board had it explodedmidflight.

28-Nov-75

MexicoCity


Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A bomb exploded under theCuban ambassador's car in MexicoCity. The FLNC was believedresponsible for the attack.

29-Nov-75

MexicoCity


Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A bomb was placed in theSoviet embassy in Mexico City. TheFLNC was believed responsible forthe attack.

30-Nov-75

Asmara Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Two Hong Kongbusinessmen were kidnapped inAsmara by Eritrean separatists.

2-Dec-75 Beilen NetherlandsFreeSouthMoluccanYouth's

Firearms1 2 THE NETHERLANDS. Seven armedextremists, calling themselves theFree South Moluccan Youths anddemanding independence for theIndonesian Island of South Molucca,seized a passenger train near Beilenin Northern Netherlands, killing atleast three men and taking about 64hostages. Twenty-six of the original64 hostages either escaped or werereleased, leaving a total of 38hostages on the Beilen train. Theterrorists demanded a bus to takethem to Schiphol airport nearAmsterdam, and a plane to fly themto an unknown destination. Later, inanother note, they demanded therelease of five Moluccans held inDutch prisons on charges of terroristactions, and Dutch recognition ofwhat they called their government inexile. An explosion aboard thehijacked train injured one of theattackers and slightly wounded apassenger hostage. The young Asianterrorists surrendered to police onDecember 14, releasing theremaining hostages after a 12-daysiege of the train. The terroristswere tried and sentenced to 14 yearsin prison.ADDINFO FF: In the firstincident, 7 armed S. Moluccans Dec.2 seized a train bound forAmsterdam near Beilin, killed twopeople and held 50 hostages.

4-Dec-75 Miami UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Miami office ofthe FBI was bombed, along withthose of a Social Security office, aState unemployment office, two postoffices, a bank, a state attorney'soffice, and the Miami PoliceDepartment Headquarters. RolandoOtero, a former member of Brigade2506, was accused of the bombings.



4-Dec-75 AmsterdamNetherlandsOther Firearms6 1 THE NETHERLANDS. Six armedSouth Moluccans shot their way intothe Indonesian Consulate in centralAmsterdam and took a reported 47persons hostage. At least threeconsulate staffers were injured bygunfire or fell as they climbed out ofconsulate windows and down a ropefrom the roof of the building in orderto escape. One consular official,injured when he jumped from anupper floor, died later in a hospital.Three other staffers inside theconsulate were believed wounded inthe initial gunfire. The last of 16children originally captured in theconsulate school were released onDecember 8 by the South Moluccansin return for certain concessions,leaving 27 adult hostages in thebuilding. Gunmen at both sites--theIndonesian Consulate and the Beilentrain hijacked on December 2--sought independence for theMoluccan Island group ruled byHolland for nearly three centuries,and presently part of Indonesia, therelease of 25 comrades in Dutch jails,and safe passage. The six terroristssurrendered, ending the 16-day siegeon December 19. The remaining 27hostages were released unharmed.ADDINFO FF: In the second incident,another group of 7 gunmen enteredthe Indonesian Consulate inAmsterdam and imprisoned 30,including 16 children. The Beilentrain killings were the first terrorist-inspired deaths in the Netherlands.The radicals for the most part wereDutch-born children of natives of theMoluccas. Five of the children in theIndonesian Consulate were laterreleased when demands for a TV set,radio, and megaphone were met.The Dutch government dispatched a30-man Marine special tactical forceto deal with the terrorists. Mediationattempts by Semuel Metiari, aspiritual leader of the S. Moluccancommunity, in Amsterdam weresuccessful in obtaining release of allbut four of the children. On Dec. 10the gunmen issued a set of demandsto the Indonesian government;calling for a Geneva summitconference between PresidentSuharto of Indonesia and JohannesManusama, the leader of one of theexile groups, to discuss S. Moluccanindependence. The terrorists alsodemanded that political prisoners bereleased. On Dec 10, the Dutchgovernment announced thatIndonesia had suspended trade talkswith the Netherlands in connectionwith the failure of the Dutchgovernment to take more forcefulaction against the terrorists who heldthe Indonesian Consulate.



6-Dec-75 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms2 0 LEBANON. Robert Mardiroussian,second secretary at the Sovietembassy, was paralyzed from thewaist down after being hit by fivebullets when gunmen challenged hiscar in Beirut. A second Sovietdiplomat was released from thehospital after being treated for aminor gunshot wound.

8-Dec-75 BuenosAires


Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The Mexican Consulatein Buenos Aires was bombed. It wasbelieved that Cuban exiles werepossibly responsible. The bomb wasreportedly meant to be anti-Echevarria, the President of Mexico,who favored Castro.

10-Dec-75

Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Portuguese embassy inParis was bombed. There were noinjuries. A rightist organization, thePortuguese Liberation Army, claimedcredit for the episode.

12-Dec-75

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An unidentifiedCuban exile group bombed theoffices of Almacen el Espanol in theLittle Havana section of Miami,Florida, and a beauty shop next tothe Almacen office in Hialeh. Thecompany specializes in shippingmedicines to the relatives of Cubanexiles who are still inside Cuba.

12-Dec-75

Hialeah UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An unidentifiedCuban exile group bombed theoffices of Almacen el Espanol in theLittle Havana section of Miami,Florida, and a beauty shop next tothe Almacen office in Hialeh. Thecompany specializes in shippingmedicines to the relatives of Cubanexiles who are still inside Cuba.

15-Dec-75

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bombexploded outside the United Nationsbuilding in New York City, causingminor property damage. No one wasinjured. The United Nations hadrecently voted against Israel, and theJewish Defense League wassuspected.

16-Dec-75

Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb consisting oftwo sticks of dynamite with a timingmechanism exploded in a store of aUS firm in the Bogota neighborhoodof Chapinero causing $2,000damage.

18-Dec-75

Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 1 LEBANON. The Turkish embassy inBeirut was attacked with rockets by agroup that identified itself as theSecret Armenian Army. One personwas killed.

21-Dec-75

Vienna Austria Other Firearms7 2 AUSTRIA. Six terrorists, five men andone woman, burst into a meeting ofthe Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC), shot twopersons to death and wounded abouteight others, including one of theterrorists in the initial exchange ofgunfire. At least 80 persons weretaken hostage. Among the hostageswere 11 delegates to the conference,including Shiek Zaki Yamani, SaudiArabia's oil minister, YamshidAmuzegar of Iran, and ValeneinHernandez Acosta of Venezuela. Theband of pro-Palestinian terrorists,members of a group calling itself Armof the Arab Revolution, ended the 20-hour siege at the Viennaheadquarters of the World Oil Cartelon December 22, taking about 4lhostages, including 10 oil ministers,and a DC-9 jetliner provided byAustria. The plane flew to Algeria, toTripoli, and then Libya. Most of thehostages were freed unharmed atAlgeria, the first stop. The remainingcaptives aboard the flight to Tripoliincluded the oil ministers of SaudiArabia, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Algeria,as well as other OPEC delegates fromKuwait, Qatar, and the United ArabEmirates. After being deniedpermission to land in Baghdad andTunis, the plane returned to Algiers.The last nine hostages were releasedunharmed on December 23, whilethe guerrillas surrendered to Algerianauthorities. In return, Algeriagranted them asylum. Carlos, akaIlich Ramirez Sanchez, is believed tohave been the organizer and leaderof the raid.

22-Dec-75


Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. An American, RonaldMichalke, a civilian working for theCollins International ServiceCompany, was kidnapped in Ethiopiaby ELF members. He was releasedunharmed in June 1976.ADDINFO:Apparently Michalke is one of fiveAmericans recently kidnapped in aneffort by terrorists to get the U.S. toclose down the Asmaracommunications center and cease allmilitary assistance to Ethiopia.

23-Dec-75

Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Unknown0 1 GREECE. Richard Welch, specialassistant to the U.S. ambassador inAthens, was assassinated by threeunidentified assailants. A leftistgroup calling itself the RevolutionaryOrganization of November 17claimed credit. The EOKA-B havebeen tenuously linked to theassassination.

24-Dec-75

Stuttgart FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Yugoslav Aero Transport office inStuttgart was bombed, with propertydamage but no injuries.

28-Dec-75

Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Two rockets were fired atthe Turkish embassy in Beirut. Arecently formed group of Armenianextremists, the Armenian SecretArmy, claimed responsibility for theattack.

28-Dec-75

SanJuan

PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives1 0 PUERTO RICO. A militant Cuban exilegroup claimed credit for a secondattack against the S.S. MaksimGorkiy, the Russian cruise shipvisiting the port of San Juan. A bombwas thrown on board injuring onecrew member and causing slightdamage to the ship. The attack wasin protest against the Communistregime in Cuba. The first attackoccurred on November 2, 1975.

29-Dec-75

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives75 11 UNITED STATES. A bomb exploded ina baggage locker in a Delta, Easternand TWA claims area of New YorkCity's La Guardia Airport, killingeleven and injuring seventy five.Damage was estimated at $750,000.A caller said a commando attacksquad of the PLO had carried thearmed struggle into the U.S. andthreatened more attacks. Anothercaller warned that two more bombshad been planted, but this turned outto be a hoax. A Puerto Rican groupclaimed responsibility for the blast.The next day, the PLO denounced theblast, which police said was equal totwenty to twenty-five sticks ofdynamite.

29-Dec-75

Chicago UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb exploded inthe home of Sava Temer, assistant tothe Yugoslavian consul general inChicago. No injuries were reported.

1-Jan-76 UnitedStates

Other ChemicalAgent

0 0 UNITED STATES. Arab terrorists wereblamed in a newspaper account formailing a vial of nerve gas to theUnited States. U.S. Army expertsdisarmed the device.


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three homemade bombs werediscovered in the Chilean consulatein Frankfurt and defused.

1-Jan-76 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 82 LEBANON. A sudden explosionaboard a Middle East Airlines 720flying from Beirut to Dubai and Omancaused the plane to crash into theSaudi Arabian desert, killing alleighty-two on board. The explosiontook place in the forward baggagecompartment as the plane was flyingabove Saudi and Kuwait.

3-Jan-76 Stuttgart FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded in front of the garageof the Yugoslav consulate general inStuttgart, causing minor damage. Nogroup claimed credit for thebombing. Yugoslav exiles havebeen responsible for similar acts inthe past.

9-Jan-76 JerusalemIsrael PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives8 0 ISRAEL. A time bomb exploded in acrowded Jerusalem market, injuringeight pre-Sabbath shoppers. ThePFLP claimed credit.

9-Jan-76 Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Fire bombs were thrown atthe two UNESCO headquarters inParis, causing property damage butno injuries. A group called the JewishSelf-Defense Front claimedresponsibility for the attacks.

10-Jan-76 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. The U.S. embassy inBeirut came under heavy sniper fire,although no one was injured.


UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two pipe bombswere found at the Iraqi mission to theUN in New York. The Jewish ArmedResistance Strike Movement, anoffshoot of the JDL, claimed credit.Four members of the JDL wereindicted by a New York court oneleven charges, including attemptingthe bombings of the Iraqis.


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Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Three pipe bombswere discovered by a New York Cityelectrician inspecting a subwaymaintenance entrance near the U.N.Library. The devices were set toexplode at 3pm when the SecurityCouncil was scheduled to debate thePalestinian question. The bombswere disarmed half an hour beforethe debate began. The Jewish ArmedResistance Strike Movement, anoffshoot of the JDL, and the YoungCroatian Republican Army claimedcredit.

12-Jan-76 Paris France JewishDefenseLeague(JDL)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. The Jewish Self DefenseFront threw a gasoline bomb at anArabic bookstore in Paris, causing$30,000 damage. The store wasowned by a Palestinian militant,Mahmoud Saleh, who had served asa temporary PLO representative inParis. Saleh was assassinated inParis at a later date, January 3, 1977.

12-Jan-76 DortmundFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb was thrown onto the terrace ofthe Yugoslav consulate in Dortmundcausing minor damage. Although noone claimed credit for the bombing,Yugoslav exiles have beenresponsible for similar bombings inthe past.

14-Jan-76 SanFrancisco

UnitedStates

Other Explosives5 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb exploded inthe men's restroom adjacent to theIranian Consulate in San Francisco.The blast caused property damageand several people were injured. TheRed Guerrilla Family claimedresponsibility, saying the blast was tosupport the Iranian people's struggleto rid themselves of the CIA-backedshah and proclaimed solidarity withrevolutionaries in Angola, Greece,Puerto Rico, Iran and the U.S.Note:Injuries are approximate.

15-Jan-76 Cordoba ArgentinaOther Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The British CulturalInstitute in Cordoba was bombed.There was property damage but noone was injured. The blast wasreportedly the work of nationalistsprotesting against Britain's refusal torecognize Argentine sovereignty overthe Falkland Islands.

15-Jan-76 Asmara Ethiopia Unknown Explosives0 0 ETHIOPIA. Plastic explosives wereplaced under two power units at theU.S. Navy's Kagnew Station nearAsmara. There was minor damageand no injuries.

16-Jan-76 Oporto Portugal Other Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. The Anti-CommunistAction Front claimed credit for theexplosion nearby the Russian vesselNadya Ribakovatye. Two bombs werethrown at the ship, one exploded inthe water alongside, anotherdamaged a nearby swing bridge.The ship was not damaged but leftthe port of Oporto without taking onany cargo. The attack was believedto be directed against communists inthe port administration.


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Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bombthrown from a passing car explodedoutside the Polish Consulate in NewYork. The Jewish Armed Resistanceclaimed responsibility. A caller alsowarned that India would be attackedas well for voting in favor of a UNresolution that equated Zionism withracism.

19-Jan-76 Mexico Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 MEXICO. A package containing TR-4plastic explosives with a remotefiring device was found in the parkinglot of a U.S. firm.

21-Jan-76 Rome Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Three Molotov cocktails werethrown at the Iranian embassy inRome.

25-Jan-76 Nairobi Kenya PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 KENYA. Three Palestinian terrorists,apparently members of the PFLP,were arrested by authorities atNairobi's Embakasi InternationalAirport before they could fire theirSAM-7 heat-seeking missiles at an ELAL plane scheduled to stop overduring its flight from Johannesburg,South Africa, to Tel Aviv. Somereports claim that the machine guns,grenades, pistols and SAM-7s wereprovided by Idi Amin of neighboringUganda. A few days later, WestGermans connected with the Baader-Meinhof Gang were sent to find outwhat had happened to theircolleagues but were also arrested,apparently as a result of a tip byIsraeli intelligence to the KenyaSecurity Service. The femaleGerman had instructions written onher stomach in invisible ink orderingthe terrorists to carry out theirattack. The release of the terroristswas demanded by a PFLP group thathijacked an Air France plane toEntebbe, Uganda on June 27, 1976.The Palestinians were held in Israelijails until February 1980 when theywere sentenced to 18-year prisonterms. Two West Germans arrestedwith the Arabs were sentenced inSeptember 1980 to 10-year prisonterms.

28-Jan-76 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives1 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded under anunoccupied U.S. government ownedtruck in Ankara, causing extensiveproperty damage. The truck wasparked in front of a U.S. militarytransient building, Merhaba Palas.The desk clerk was slightly injured.



Unknown0 3 ARGENTINA. Two Bendix officialswere killed in their offices in BuenosAires. A policeman was also killedwhen he tried to interfere with theterrorists. A Montonero slogan waspainted on the outside wall of theoffices.

30-Jan-76 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 1 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded at theSpanish embassy in Bogota, fatallyinjuring the guard on duty. No oneclaimed responsibility for thebombing.

31-Jan-76 Paris France Unknown Unknown0 0 FRANCE. The Iran Air office on theAvenue des Champs Elysees in Pariswas attacked.

3-Feb-76 Somalia Other Knives& sharpobjects

6 3 TERRITORY OF AFARS AND ISSAS.Six members of the Front for theLiberation of the Somali Coast seizeda bus carrying thirty one children ofFrench military families to the Somaliborder post of Loyada. The groupdemanded the immediate andunconditional independence of FTAIwithout the referendum planned byFrance, release of all politicalprisoners, and the departure of allFrench troops from Djibouti. Thegroup threatened to slit the throatsof their hostages. On February 4,French troops engaged in a shootoutwith the terrorists, killing five ofthem. One of the guerrillas openedfire on the children, killing one andwounding four, one of whom laterdied from his wounds. The bus driverand a social worker were alsowounded. A sixth terrorist fired off aburst of shots before being killed bythe troops. The attack touched off afirefight with Somali soldiers,resulting in the death of a Somali andthe wounding of a French officer.The terrorists had taken one of thehostages, a seven year old child,over the Somali border. He wasreleased in Mogadishu to the Frenchembassy on February 7.

5-Feb-76 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Three bombs exploded inthe offices of the Iranian AtomicEnergy Organization in Paris. Agroup calling itself InternationalSolidarity claimed credit for thebombing which, it said, was inprotest against the execution ofmembers of the Liberation Army.


Other Unknown0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Yugoslav vice consul in Frankfurtwas assassinated by two unknownassailants. A caller told a New Yorkradio station that the young CroatianArmy for Freedom was responsible.

8-Feb-76 WestBerlin


Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded at an Israeli businessoffice in West Berlin, causingextensive property damage but nopersonal injuries. A note was foundat the building stating that the Armof the Arab Revolution wasresponsible.

11-Feb-76 Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. New Order firebombsdamaged the Paris offices of Aeroflot.

12-Feb-76 Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. Bombs damaged a townhall in the north where a showing ofSoviet photographs was beingconducted.

12-Feb-76 Paris France Unknown Unknown0 0 FRANCE. The Somali embassy inParis was attacked, and its front doorwas smashed.

12-Feb-76 Bahamas Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 0 BAHAMAS. The Soviet shipDzhordano Bruno, while anchoredfive miles from the British-ownedAnguilla Cays island of Cay Salbank,was attacked by gunfire from a smallboat. No one was injured. Anti-Castro Cuban exiles have previouslyattacked Soviet ships and may havebeen responsible.

16-Feb-76 Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Unknown0 1 LEBANON. The first secretary of theTurkish embassy in Beirut, OktayCerit, was assassinated by anunknown assailant. The SecretArmenian Army is suspected.

16-Feb-76 EnvigadoColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Firearms2 0 COLOMBIA. The director of theRenault plant in Envigado, a Frenchcitizen, and his bodyguard werewounded by machine-gun fire by theNational Liberation Army.

17-Feb-76 Caracas VenezuelaOther Firearms0 0 VENEZUELA. Three shots were firedat the U.S. embassy from a passingautomobile. No one was injured. ACuban news agency in Caracasreported the attack on February 16,before it had actually occurred.Venezuelan authorities areinvestigating.

19-Feb-76 ElMarques

VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. Two bombs wereplaced outside the El Marques storesof a U.S. firm in the evening. Onlyone of them exploded, causing minordamage.

20-Feb-76 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in theAlgerian consulate general in Parisand at another Algerian consulategeneral in Strasbourg. The UnifiedLiberation Front of New Algeria issuspected.

20-Feb-76 StrasbourgFrance Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in theAlgerian consulate general in Parisand at another Algerian consulategeneral in Strasbourg. The UnifiedLiberation Front of New Algeria issuspected.

20-Feb-76 Lyon France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in theLyons offices of Air Algerie. Theairline office was heavily damaged bythe blast but there were no injuries.The Unified Liberation Front of NewAlgeria is suspected.

22-Feb-76 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Unified LiberationFront of New Algeria claimed creditfor bombing the Algerian governmenttourist office in central Paris.

22-Feb-76 BesanconFrance Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. There was an attemptedbombing of the Algerian consulate inBesancon.

27-Feb-76 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Homemade bombsexploded at the American Expressand Chase Manhattan offices inAthens.

27-Feb-76 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Homemade bombsexploded at the American Expressand Chase Manhattan offices inAthens.


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Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. Several shots werefired at the Soviet residentialcomplex in New York. Only minordamage was sustained, and therewere no personal injuries. A callerclaiming to represent the JewishArmed Resistance claimed credit forthe shooting and threatened thatSoviet diplomats would be kidnappedunless a Soviet Jewish teenager wasallowed to emigrate to Israel. FiveJewish Defense League memberswere arrested and later tried for thisincident. On 16 December, four ofthe group were sentenced to prisonterms of up to 6 years and the fifthreceived a suspended sentence.

27-Feb-76 VenezuelaOther Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. William A. Niehous,manager in Venezuela for Owens-Illinois Glass Company, was abductedby seven members of a group called,Group of Revolutionary Commands.The guerrillas demanded $2.3million. The Venezuelan governmenttook over the Venezuelan holdings ofOwens-Illinois Glass because it hadgiven in to some of the demands ofthe kidnappers. The company paidfor publication of their manifesto inthe United States and Europe, andpaid a bonus to each of itsemployees in Venezuela. Niehouswas rescued by Venezuelan policeJune 29, 1979; one of his kidnapperswas shot trying to escape into thejungle where Niehous had been heldfor over three years.

28-Feb-76 PhilippinesOther Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Eunice Diment, aBritish missionary, was kidnapped onBasilan Island in the Mindanaoprovinces where Moslem rebels havecarried out a number of kidnappingsand ambushes. She was released onMarch 2l.

3-Mar-76 San Jose CostaRica

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A Miami-based Cubanexile group bombed the Sovietembassy in San Jose.

7-Mar-76 Paris France Unknown Firearms0 0 FRANCE. Shots from automaticweapons were fired at the windowsof an Aeroflot office in Paris, causingconsiderable damage but no injuries.

8-Mar-76 Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Numerous Molotovcocktails were thrown at the Syrianembassy in Paris, causing slightproperty damage and no personalinjuries. A Zionist group issuspected.


UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb was thrownat a building housing theCzechoslovak and Soviet nationalairlines offices in New York, causingconsiderable property damage butno injuries. A man claiming torepresent the Jewish ArmedResistance Strike Force telephonedthe New York Post claimingresponsibility for the bombing.

12-Mar-76 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


0 0 EL SALVADOR. Seven unexplodedincendiary bombs were discovered inthe San Salvador store of a U.S. firm.The FMLLF took credit.

12-Mar-76 VientianeLaos Unknown Explosives4 0 LAOS. Two grenades exploded onthe grounds of the Soviet embassy inVientiane, injuring two men and twowomen, all Soviet citizens.

19-Mar-76 Ortakoy Turkey Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. A building at the Ortakoy U.S. Army installation was destroyedby a fire that resulted from arson. ATurkish terrorist group was believedresponsible. There were no injuries.

21-Mar-76 Saint-Jean-de-Luz

France Unknown Firearms3 0 FRANCE. The wife of a leadingBasque nationalist refugee wasseriously wounded when the car shewas riding in was machine-gunnednear her home in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.A passing car fired on her. Herhusband was only slightly wounded,as was her fifteen month old son.



Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An explosive devicewas removed from the offices of theSoviet trading company Amtorg. Ananonymous telephone calleridentifying himself as a member ofthe Jewish Resistance Group warnedof the bomb.

26-Mar-76 ArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 2 ARGENTINA. Two security guards ofa Ford executive were killed bymachine-gun fire from a speedingcar.

27-Mar-76 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Two small bombs explodedin front of an apartment buildinghousing U.S. military personnel anddependents. No injuries werereported.

29-Mar-76 DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb was tossed through thewindow of the building housing theSwedish Consulate in Dusseldorf.The bomb exploded in the offices ofa German firm. The attack mighthave been in protest against theimminent trial of the terrorists whoseized the West German embassy inStockholm in April 1975.

30-Mar-76 BarranquillaColombia Unknown Firearms0 1 COLOMBIA. The Lebanese consul inBarranquilla was shot dead.

31-Mar-76 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded outsidethe office of Philips Electronics inAnkara.

31-Mar-76 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded outsidethe entrance to the Pan AmericanAirlines office in Ankara causingextensive property damage but noinjuries. No group claimed credit forthe bombing.

1-Apr-76 Dublin Ireland Unknown Unknown0 1 IRELAND. A Czech diplomat about todefect to marry his Irish girlfrienddied in Dublin after a visit by anunknown individual. The presssuggested that the deceased hadplanned to detail Czech support ofProvisional Irish Republican Armyterrorists.

2-Apr-76 VientianeLaos Unknown Explosives1 0 LAOS. Two grenades were throwninto the grounds of the Cubanembassy in Vientiane, wounding amilitia man and slightly damagingsome windows.


UnitedStates


Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. Two shots werefired into the Soviet mission to theUnited Nations in New York. No onewas injured. The Jewish ArmedResistance claimed credit for theattack.

3-Apr-76 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded at theFirst National City Bank in Bogota. Itwas not known who was responsible.

3-Apr-76 Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. An incendiary bombexploded in the Athens offices ofAmerican Express, causing limiteddamage.

4-Apr-76 Madrid Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Five Molotov cocktails werethrown into the Madrid store of a U.S.firm, causing $3,000 damage.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedat the front door of the CubanMission to the United Nations in NewYork City. Associated Press and ABCNews received anonymous telephonecalls from a person who said thebombing was part of a plan code-named Omega-7, to hit Communistseverywhere.


Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. A Cuban fishermanwas killed during a machine gunattack on two Cuban fishing vesselsin the Straits of Florida. Cuban exilesin Miami claimed credit.


Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. A Cuban fishermanwas killed during a machine gunattack on two Cuban fishing vesselsin the Straits of Florida. Cuban exilesin Miami claimed credit.

7-Apr-76 PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Firearms0 0 PHILIPPINES. Three members of theMoro Liberation Front hijacked atwin-engine BAC-111 over theSouthern Philippines. Demands weremade for the release of fourprisoners held by the Philippinegovernment and the payment of a$300,000 ransom; also a demand tobe flown to Benghazi, Libya, viaManila. The plane was ordered toManila where they exchanged the 72passengers for 12 airline employees,then took off for the Mid-East. Theylanded in Bangkok to refuel. Theworld's longest hijacking in distanceended on April 17, 1976, ten daysafter the ordeal began. The BAC-111was one of two used in the 8,800mile hijacking (the hijackerstransferred to a DC-8 in Bangkok).The hijackers consented to therelease of their 12 hostages and thesurrender of all their weapons exceptfor one pistol. In return, they were toget a bigger, longer-range jet planethat would take them on to Libya.The ordeal ended in Benghazi whenLibyan authorities let the gunmeninto the country for humanitarianreasons. Witnesses said that themoney paid to the hijackers was leftbehind in the airline bag when theygot off the plane. Libya returned the$300,000 ransom to the Philippineairline.

7-Apr-76 Angola Unknown Firearms0 2 ANGOLA. Two Roman Catholicmissionaries, a Dutchman and aPortuguese, were killed by auniformed man who fired on themwith a machine gun.

7-Apr-76 ArgentinaOther Unknown1 1 ARGENTINA. Left-wing guerrillasattacked the home of Hugo CarlosSardan, an Argentine executive ofthe U.S. Pfizer drug firm, killing oneguard and wounding another.

11-Apr-76 Nice France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Two Molotov cocktailsexploded at the main entrance to theU.S. consulate in Nice, causingproperty damage but no injuries. Alocal newspaper article claimed anextreme right wing nationalist groupthrew the firebombs in retaliation forthe protests against the Concordelanding in the United States.

12-Apr-76 MogadishuSomalia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SOMALIA. A small fire in the USISoffices in Mogadishu destroyed themain electrical distribution complexand caused some smoke and waterdamage to a corridor and stairwell.


Unknown Unknown0 1 UNITED STATES. Ramon Donestevez,a liberal who had negotiated therelease of Cuban political prisoners,was assassinated by unknowngunmen.

14-Apr-76 Florence Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. The Armed CommunistFormations claimed credit for thefirebombing of the Texaco OilCompany offices in Florence.


ArgentinaUnknown Unknown0 1 ARGENTINA. Gunmen in BuenosAires killed an Argentine executive ofthe U.S. Chrysler Corporation.

17-Apr-76 Florence Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. A Molotov cocktail was thrownat the Spanish consulate in Florence.

17-Apr-76 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Miami, Florida,home of Vicente Dopico, a Cubanexile who had collaborated in apublication favoring coexistence withthe Castro regime, was bombed bythe Sons of Giron Movement.

18-Apr-76 Zimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Unknown0 3 ZIMBABWE. Zimbabwe guerrillaskilled three South Africans returningfrom a motorcycle visit sixty milesfrom the African border.

20-Apr-76 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Los Angelescorrespondent Joe Alex Morris waskidnapped by two armed men whiledriving home after work in westBeirut. He was taken to a desertedarea where his kidnappers forcedhim from the car, took his identitypapers, and released him.

20-Apr-76 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Gerald Utting, a visitingjournalist with the Toronto Star waskidnapped after leaving for the Beirutairport by taxi. He was released April22 after the intervention of PLOleader Yasir Arafat.

21-Apr-76 Rome Italy Other Unknown1 0 ITALY . The Armed CommunistFormation claimed credit for severelywounding the Italian president ofChevron Oil Italiano in Rome.Chevron is a subsidiary of StandardOil of California.

22-Apr-76 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded at theAthens branch of the First NationalCity Bank.

22-Apr-76 Lisbon Portugal Other Explosives4 2 PORTUGAL. A powerful bombshattered the Cuban embassy inLisbon. killing two Cubans andwounding at least four persons. TheELP (Portuguese Liberation Army)and the Democratic Movement forthe Liberation of Portugal weresuspected to be responsible in anaim to disrupt the elections.

23-Apr-76 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A powerful bomb explodedat a Spanish bank in Paris, causingextensive property damage but noinjuries.

23-Apr-76 MaracaiboVenezuelaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 VENEZUELA. An incendiary bombwas found in the Maracaibo store of aU.S. firm.

24-Apr-76 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded at theentrance to the American Languageand Trade Institute in Istanbul,causing some damage. The facility isa private girls' school funded by theAmerican Board Mission and theYWCA.

24-Apr-76 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives4 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded at theIran Air ticket office in Istanbul,causing extensive damage andinjuring four people. The bombingwas believed connected with the visitof the shah of Iran to Izmir.

29-Apr-76 Beijing China,People'sRepublicof

Other Explosives0 2 PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Apowerful bomb exploded at the gatesof the Soviet embassy on Peking'sAnti-Revisionist Street. Two Chineseguards were killed, as well as theperpetrator of the blast. There wereunconfirmed reports of one arrest ofa counterrevolutionary at the site ofthe explosion.

1-May-76 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Front InternationalRevolutionnaire, an anti-Zionistgroup, claimed responsibility forbombing a Rothschild bank branch inParis.

1-May-76 Ethiopia TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront(TPLF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. A British veterinarian, Dr.Lindsey Tyler, his wife and twochildren were kidnapped in Ethiopia'sTigre Province by the Tigre People'sLiberation Front. They were releasedon 5 January 1977 in Port Sudan,Sudan.

1-May-76 Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Three Britons whodisappeared in Ethiopia's Danakildesert were held by the EritreanLiberation Front. The three, IanMacChesney, Bruce Thomerson, andBrian Haslehurst, were released inearly October after SudanesePresident Numayri intervened atBritain's request.

1-May-76 ZamboangaPhilippinesOther Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. A Japanese pearltechnician was kidnapped by sevengunmen off the southern port city ofZamboanga. The kidnapping wasbelieved to have been carried out byMoslem rebels.

1-May-76 Santiago Chile Unknown Firearms0 0 CHILE. Shots were fired at the U.S.ambassador's residence from a carwith three occupants. There were noinjuries or damage.


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Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Pipe bombsexploded in New York at the FourContinents Bookstore, a Sovietpublication outlet, two banks, theCommunist Party headquarters, anda site near the United Nations library.An anonymous caller to the DailyNews claimed the Jewish ArmedResistance Strike Unit planted thebomb to protest Soviet treatment ofJewish people.


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3-May-76 JerusalemIsrael DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives29 1 ISRAEL. A booby-trapped motorscooter exploded in Jerusalem's mainshopping center, Ben Yehuda Street,injuring 29 persons. One person waskilled. The PDFLP claimedresponsibility.


ArgentinaUnknown Unknown0 1 ARGENTINA. An Italian executive ofthe Fiat automobile company inBuenos Aires was assassinated byterrorists.

6-May-76 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A pipe bomb exploded inthe yard of the U.S. Consul General'sresidence, causing property damage.

6-May-76 Izmir Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. The automobile of a DODinstructor at an air force facility inIzmir was set on fire and destroyed.

7-May-76 Asuncion Paraguay Other Firearms0 1 PARAGUAY. The Uruguayanambassador to Paraguay wasassassinated by a Croatian whothought he was shooting theYugoslav ambassador.

9-May-76 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The West German firm ofKocker and Thyussen was bombed inParis.

9-May-76 Nimes France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Daimler Benz office inNimes was bombed.

10-May-76

Toulouse France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The West German CulturalCenter in Toulouse was bombed,possibly in response to the suicide ofanarchist Ulrike Meinhof.

10-May-76

Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. The West German Touristoffice in Rome was bombed, possiblyin response to the suicide ofanarchist Ulrike Meinhof.

10-May-76

Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A German Academy Buildingin Rome was bombed, possibly inresponse to the suicide of anarchistUlrike Meinhof.

10-May-76

SantaCruz

Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb exploded at theentrance to the Uruguayan consulatein Santa Cruz nine hours before thearrival of the Uruguayan president.

11-May-76

Paris France Other Firearms0 1 FRANCE. Bolivian AmbassadorJoaquin Zentena Anaya, whocommanded the Bolivian forces thatcaptured and executed LatinAmerican revolutionary Ernesto (Che)Guevara in 1967, was shot and killedon a Paris street. A group callingitself The International Che GuevaraBrigade claimed credit for the attack.

11-May-76

Tel Aviv Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Unknown3 0 ISRAEL. Three Israelis were woundedin Tel Aviv. The operation had beencarried out under the orders of the'General Command of the PalestineForces.'

12-May-76

Rome Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. A German restaurant in Romewas the victim of attempted arson.Possibly in response to the death ofUlrike Meinhof.

12-May-76

BarcelonaSpain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A German firm was bombedin Barcelona, possibly in response tothe suicide of anarchist UlrikeMeinhof.

14-May-76

Milan Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. The offices of Volkswagen, aGerman firm, were bombed in Milan.

14-May-76

Milan Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. The office of Bosch Company,a German firm, was bombed in Milan.

14-May-76

Venice Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. The FRG Consulate in Venicewas firebombed.

14-May-76

Lisbon Portugal Other Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb exploded on thegrounds of Lisbon's internationalairport, heavily damaged a radartower, but caused no injuries.Although no group claimedresponsibility for the blast, thePortuguese Anti-Communist Leaguewas suspected.

15-May-76


0 0 FRANCE. A Spanish company wasfirebombed in Paris.

15-May-76

Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. The German ArchaelogicalInstitute in Rome was bombed.

16-May-76

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms1 1 LEBANON. Edouard Saab, editor ofthe French language daily L'Orient leJour and reporter for Le Monde, waskilled by a sniper's bullet whiledriving across a line dividingChristian and Moslem sectors ofBeirut. The writer was a passengerin a car driven by Henry Tanner ofthe New York Times, who was slightlyinjured.

16-May-76

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Twelve mortar rounds hitthe French embassy compound. Noone was injured.

17-May-76

Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Firebombs were thrown at theTurkish consulates in Cologne, Essenand Frankfurt.

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UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. In Manhattan, NewYork, a group calling itself a secretanti-Castro Cuban army, claimedresponsibility for an explosion set offoutside a Cuban social club.

19-May-76


0 0 ITALY. An arson attempt was madeagainst Lufthansa Airlines at theRome airport.

19-May-76


0 0 ITALY. Molotov cocktails werethrown into a German automobiledistribution firm in Rome.

20-May-76


0 0 BELGIUM. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the West GermanConsulate in Brussels.

21-May-76

Davao PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Firearms22 10 PHILIPPINES. (Mindanao Island) Sixmembers of the Moro NationalLiberation Front hijacked a PhilippineAirline BAC-111 with more than 100persons aboard in Davao anddemanded a $375,000 ransom and arequest to be flown to Libya. Thetwo-day siege ended in a gun battlethat left three hijackers and ten oftheir hostages dead. The remaining54 hostages escaped throughemergency exits during the gunfight.Twenty-two hostages were woundedin the clash. Seventeen otherhostages were released earlier.Three hijackers were captured asthey and other hostages rushed fromthe burning plane at Zamboangaairport on Eastern Mindanao Island.The $4 million BAC-111 jet was atotal loss.

22-May-76

BuenosAires

ArgentinaOther Unknown0 4 ARGENTINA. The bodies of fourUruguayan exiles were found in anabandoned car in Buenos Aires.They had been kidnapped from thecenter of Buenos Aires earlier in theweek. Papers found in the carclaimed credit for a leftist guerrillagroup, however; AmnestyInternational said that it was possiblethat the kidnap-murder had beenplanned by security forces of Chile,Argentina and Uruguguay.

23-May-76

UnitedStates


Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. Two shots werefired at an apartment in Maryland,injuring no one. The apartmentswere rented to two secondsecretaries of the Soviet embassy.FBI agents arrested the founder ofthe Washington, D.C. branch of theJDL, and charged him withconspiracy.

25-May-76

Tel Aviv Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives9 2 ISRAEL. Two people were killed andnine injured as a result of anexplosion at the Tel Aviv airport. ThePFLP claimed credit for the bombing.

26-May-76

NewDelhi

India Unknown Explosives0 0 INDIA. A vanity case addressed toAeroflot-New Delhi exploded in thecustoms area of New Delhi airport,causing slight property damage andno injuries. The case had been left inthe passenger cabin of a JapaneseAirlines plane arriving from Bangkokand was taken to the customs areawhen no one claimed it.

26-May-76

Bilbao Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. The West German Consulatewas the location of an arson attack inBilbao.

28-May-76

Paris France Unknown Explosives1 1 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in theArmenian Cultural Center in Paris,killing one and injuring another.

28-May-76

SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. The TurkishConsulate was devastated by abomb. Armenian extremists werepresumed responsible.

28-May-76

Zurich SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A Turkish bank inZurich was destroyed by a bomb.Armenian terrorists were blamed.

28-May-76

Sare France Unknown Firearms0 1 FRANCE. The bullet-riddled body of amember of the Spanish Basqueindependence movement was foundnear the border town of Sare.

29-May-76

Miami UnitedStates

Unknown Unknown0 1 UNITED STATES. The body of JesusGonzalez-Carter, leader of the right-wing group Accion Guiteras duringthe Cuban political gang wars of the1940s, was discovered south ofMiami.

1-Jun-76 Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CUBA. Cuban exiles shelled a Sovietship off the coast of Cuba.

1-Jun-76 Axum Ethiopia TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront(TPLF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Jon Swain, Britishcorrespondent for the Sunday Timesof London, was captured by the TigrePeople's Liberation Front near Axumin mid-June. He was released inKhartoum on September 5, 1976. Itwas not known what negotiations, ifany, led to his release.


ArgentinaCheGuevaraBrigade

Firearms0 1 ARGENTINA. Former President JuanJose Torres Gonzalez of Bolivia, livingin exile in Buenos Aires, disappearedfrom his home after telling his wifehe was going to run a few errands.His body was found two days later ona rural roadside, blindfolded and shotin the head. Torres had helped planand carry out the attack on CheGuevara's forces in 1967 thatresulted in Guevara's death. Therewas speculation that the Venezuelanterrorist Carlos had entered Uruguayand planned the operation with theChe Guevara International Brigade.

1-Jun-76 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives16 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two bombs exploded atHeadquarters U.S. Army V Corps,Frankfurt, injuring about 16 people.The Revolutionary Cell-Brigade UlrikeMeinhof claimed credit for thebombing, which they said was acontinuation of the struggle of theircolleagues who were in prison ordead.

2-Jun-76 Kuwait Other Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. The Syrian airline office inKuwait was destroyed by a bomb.There were no injuries. A Palestinianwith a Syrian passport was arrested,according to press reports. Thebombing occurred one day afterPalestinian organizations andresistance groups met in Kuwait andsent a cable to Arafat urging him toretaliate for the Phalangist andSyrian atrocities at the refugeecamps in Lebanon. A Palestinian wasarrested and sentenced on August 9,1976, by the Kuwait Criminal Court totwo years imprisonment, followed bydeportation from Kuwait.

2-Jun-76 WeisbadenFederalRepublicofGermany

2nd ofJuneMovement

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two U.S. military trucks were firebombed at the Lindsey Air Base inWeisbaden, causing propertydamage but no injuries. Members ofthe 2 June Movement weresuspected.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A package bombfound in the mail of the Republic ofChina's embassy was defused bypolice.

4-Jun-76 Paris France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the Mercedes Benz Officenear Paris. Mercedes Benz is a WestGerman firm.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedat the front door of the Cubanmission to the United Nations in NewYork. Associated receivedanonymous telephone calls from aperson who said the bombing waspart of a plan code named Omega 7to hit Communists everywhere.


UnitedStates

Other Explosives2 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explosionoccurred at the Yugoslav Embassy inWashington, D.C., injuring twoemployees. An anonymoustelephone caller stated that thebomb had been placed by the Pan-Epirotic Federation of America andCanada. The caller said their goalwas to support Greeks who areminorities in Albania, Yugoslavia, andBulgaria. An official of Pan-Epiroticdisclaimed any connection with thebombing.

9-Jun-76 Jamaica Unknown Explosives0 0 JAMAICA. A bomb exploded inluggage that was to be loaded onto aCuban plane.


ArgentinaOther Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Twenty-three Chileans,one Uruguayan, and oneParaguayan, all political exiles, werekidnapped from two hotels in BuenosAires by a band of right-wingterrorists. They were released onJune 12 and told to leave thecountry.

11-Jun-76 Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. The Italian vice consuland a companion were kidnapped.They were released on 26 June byEritrean insurgents without anydemands having been made.

16-Jun-76 Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 3 LEBANON. Three members of aTrotskyite cell, called theOrganization of RevolutionarySocialist Action, admitted to thekidnapping and murder of theAmerican Ambassador Francis E.Meloy, Jr., his economic counselor,Robert O. Waring, and their embassydriver. The PLO took charge of theinvestigation, promising to bring thekillers to justice. The PLO soonannounced that they had arrestedthree Lebanese who had confessedto the murders. Their affiliation wasnot definitely ascertained.ADDENDUM. On 18 March 1996, twoLebanese men were aquitted of thecharges of involvement in the abovemurders.

19-Jun-76 Milan Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. A Dutch and German ownedsupermarket was the location of anarson attack in Milan.

23-Jun-76 Chile Movementof theRevolutionaryLeft (MIR)(Chile)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The MIR claimed credit for aparcel bomb mailed to theArgentinian Airlines manager.


UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. Two Molotovcocktails were thrown from a car atthe South African embassy causingno injuries.

25-Jun-76 Clorinda ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at theParaguayan consulate in Clorinda,causing extensive damage justacross the border from Asuncion.

26-Jun-76 CorrientesArgentinaOther Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Two U.S. missionarieswere kidnapped in Corrientes by thePolitical Military Organization ofParaguay and taken to Paraguay.The missionaries were released on30 June after the police raided thekidnappers' hideout.

27-Jun-76 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A suitcase bomb wasdisarmed at Ben Gurion Airport in TelAviv. The luggage belonged to apassenger scheduled to leave on anAir France flight for the Far East.

27-Jun-76 Athens Greece PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Firearms8 25 GREECE. Four members of the PFLPhijacked an Air France jetliner with258 persons aboard shortly after ittook off from Athens, and ordered itto fly to Benghazi, Libya. There itwas refueled and then flown toEntebbe, Uganda. Six additionalterrorists joined the mission inUganda. Between June 30 and July 1a total of 149 non-Jewish passengerswere freed in Uganda after Israelagreed to negotiate the release ofextremists it held. The extremistsdemanded the release of 53 jailedfreedom fighters in Israel, Kenya, andEurope, in exchange for the 258hostages. On July 4, an Israeliairborne commando raid rescued theremaining 109 Jewish and Israelihostages in Uganda, surprising theten hijackers (seven of whom werekilled, three escaped). At least 20Uganda soldiers were also killed;three civilian hostages were killed inthe brief gun battle at the airport. AnIsraeli commando officer was alsokilled. Eight other persons werewounded. A British woman sent tothe hospital in Kampala when shebecame ill disappeared after therescue and is presumed dead.In July1981, the airline agreed tocompensate the Israelis who wereheld captive there. Air France willpay almost $2 million, to bedistributed among the 67 plaintiffs,made up of former hostages and theheirs of four civilians who were killedwhen the Israeli commandos stormedthe Entebbe airport.

27-Jun-76 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives5 1 LEBANON. A Middle East Airlines jetthat had arrived from Amman was hitby four rockets, presumably fired byright-wing Christians, and burned tothe frame. Five people were injured,including an American engineer. Thepilot was killed. Beirut internationalairport was closed after the shelling.

28-Jun-76 Clorinda ArgentinaOther Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. According togovernment sources, extremistgroups were responsible for a bombexplosion at the Paraguayanconsulate in Clorinda. The bombdestroyed parts of the building andalso damaged a house next door.Nobody was injured in the incident.

28-Jun-76 France Unknown Explosives0 1 FRANCE. A Yugoslav political refugeewas killed and several bystandersinjured when a bomb exploded in thevictim's automobile while it wasstopped at a traffic light. The deadman had been active in the localCroatian nationalist politicalmovement.

28-Jun-76 DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An unidentified person attempted toassassinate the Yugoslav vice consulas he was entering his office buildingin Dusseldorf. The vice consul wasnot injured. Yugoslav emigres,usually Croatians, have assassinatedother Yugoslav diplomats in the past.Two Croatian nationalists weresentenced on November 10, 1977,for the attempted murder. GunmanMarko Krpan, 26, was sentenced to12 years, and Pavle Perovic, 25, whodrove the getaway car, for 10-1/2years.

1-Jul-76 Taqah TrucialOmanStates


Explosives3 4 OMAN. The PFLP claimed credit forthe bombing of a military vehicle inTaqah. Four Britons were killed andthree others wounded.

1-Jul-76 SanFrancisco

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedat the South African consul'sresidence in San Francisco,California, causing extensive damagebut no injuries. An anonymous callerto a television station said the LucioCabanas Unit, New World LiberationFront was taking credit for thebombing.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Members of Alpha-66, allegedly acting on behalf ofCORU, bombed the Cuban Mission tothe United Nations in New York City.

9-Jul-76 Kingston Jamaica Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 JAMAICA. An explosion occurred in apiece of luggage intended for aCubana Airlines plane in Kingston,destroying the luggage cart. Therewere no injuries. Cuban exiles arebelieved responsible.

10-Jul-76 BridgetownBarbados Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 BARBADOS. A bomb exploded in abuilding in Bridgetown housing theBritish West Indian Airways offices.The Cuban exile organization CORUclaimed to have carried out thebombing because BWIA is theCubana Airlines agent in Barbados.

10-Jul-76 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at theheadquarters of an Israeliorganization in Paris, causingproperty damage. There were noinjuries.

10-Jul-76 DamascusSyria Other Explosives0 1 SYRIA. Syrian radio charged thatIraqis were responsible for a bomb inDamascus which killed Ahmed al-Azzawi, an Iraqi who defected toSyria eighteen months previouslyand who had been a leader of theArab Baath Socialist Party.

14-Jul-76 France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 1 FRANCE. The Avengers, a group ofWorld War ll Resistance fighters,claimed credit for burning the homeof ex-Waffen S.S. Colonel JoachimPeiper, who was killed in the blaze.Peiper had been condemned to deathfor ordering the execution ofseventy-one U.S. prisoners of warduring the Battle of the Bulge. Thedeath sentence was commuted to lifeimprisonment, but he was released in1957.

17-Jul-76 Bogota Colombia Anti-CastroCubans

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Alpha-66/CORUmembers are suspected as theculprits in three separate terroristattacks in Bogota: against EnriqueMejia, a Colombian economist, theAir Panama offices, and the CubanEmbassy.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The Cuban Embassy wasbombed. Alpha-66/CORU membersare suspected.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Alpha-66/CORUmembers are suspected as theculprits in an attack against the AirPanama office in Bogota.

18-Jul-76 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives11 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on a busnear Tel Aviv injuring 11 persons.Three Arabs who were injured by theexplosion in the Tel Aviv suburb ofRamat Gan were among thesuspects. The bombing was the firstsince the Israeli raid to rescue morethan 100 hijacked hostages inUganda, which brought threats ofreprisals from Arab guerrillas.

18-Jul-76 Colombia Unknown Unknown0 2 COLOMBIA. Two Americans werekilled by Spanish-speaking men whoboarded the Feisty, a fifty-four-footsloop, anchored ten miles off theColombian coast. There were twosurvivors.

20-Jul-76 Madrid Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb wrecked the door ofthe Netherlands embassy in Madrid.

20-Jul-76 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside theSyrian airlines office in Rome causingconsiderable damage. There wereno injuries. An anonymoustelephone call led to a leaflet whichdenounced Syria, the US-USSRaccords, and the union of Palestinianand Lebanese revolutionary forces.

21-Jul-76 Lisbon Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb destroyed alarge section of DETA, theMozambican airlines, in Lisbon butcaused no injuries.

21-Jul-76 Ireland ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives2 2 IRELAND. Britain's ambassador toIreland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, andhis secretary were killed by a mineexplosion under their limousine. Thechauffeur and a top British civilservant in Northern Ireland wereseriously wounded. The IRA wassuspected in the attack. Threeranking officials of the IRA's militantProvisional wing stated that theycarried out the assassinationbecause he was sent here tocoordinate British intelligenceactivities. The attack was also inretaliation for the killing of an IRAofficer earlier in the year.

23-Jul-76 Lisbon Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb causedextensive damage to the fourth floorroom of the Portuguese-GermanDemocratic Republic FriendshipSociety in Lisbon. The attack tookplace shortly before socialist leaderMario Soares was sworn in as primeminister of Portugal's firstdemocratically elected governmentin half a century.

23-Jul-76 Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb exploded at thePortugal-Poland FriendshipAssociation.

23-Jul-76 Rome Italy CheGuevaraBrigade

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded at theArgentine embassy in Rome,knocking out several windows andthe front door. A group calling itselfthe International Che GuevaraOrganization claimed credit for thebombing.

23-Jul-76 San Jose CostaRica

Other Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. The Argentine embassyin San Jose was badly damaged by abomb thrown by the RobertoSantucho Revolutionary Group.

23-Jul-76 Merida Mexico Anti-CastroCubans

Unknown0 1 MEXICO. Cuban exiles tried tokidnap the Cuban consul in Meridabut failed. They succeeded in killinghis companion, an official of theCuban Fisheries Institute. Theassailants, who were captured, weremembers of the FLNC.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Three members ofOmega-7 were arrested after theywere caught by police planting apipe-bomb near the box office of NewYork City's Academy of Music Theatrewhere a celebration was scheduledto be held in honor of the 26th of JulyMovement's victory in 1959, thatbrought Castro to power.

24-Jul-76 Bogota Colombia PopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Explosives6 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded at theChilean pavilion at the BogotaInternational Trade Fair, injuring sixand causing considerable damage.The Pedro Leon Arboleda commandoof the EPL (Popular Liberation Army)claimed responsibility. This was oneof several bombings which occurredat the Trade Fair and the groupreferred to the attacks as part ofOperation Tigre de Papel (PaperTiger).


Explosives2 0 COLOMBIA. Two people were injuredwhen a bomb exploded at the FRGpavilion at the International TradeFair in Bogota. The Pedro LeonArboleda commando of the EPL(Popular Liberation Army) claimedresponsibility. This was one ofseveral bombings which occurred atthe Trade Fair and the group referredto the attacks as part of OperationTigre de Papel (Paper Tiger).

25-Jul-76 Nablus WestBank/Gaza

Other Explosives3 1 ISRAEL. A bomb planted by Arabterrorists exploded in a restaurant inNablus's Balata refugee camp on theWest Bank. One person was killedand three others were wounded inthe blast.

25-Jul-76 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded on July25 at a commercial firm in Paris,which represents one Swiss and nineWest German companies, causingconsiderable damage. It wasbelieved the bombing was a protestagainst the arrest in Greece ofGerman terrorist Rolf Pohle.

26-Jul-76 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded outside aGreek travel agency, shatteringwindows in the building. There wereno injuries in either incident. It wasbelieved the bombing was a protestagainst the arrest in Greece ofGerman terrorist Rolf Pohle.


UnitedStates

Other Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. A New York Cityhotel cashier was wrestled to theground by security guards afterlunging at former Turkish PrimeMinister Bulent Ecevit with a loadedrevolver during a protestdemonstration. Ecevit was walkingthrough the lobby of the WaldorfAstoria Hotel when the attackoccurred. The attacker was aCypriot.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded at theU.S. pavilion of the InternationalTrade Fair in Bogota. The Pedro LeonArboleda commando of the EPL(Popular Liberation Army) claimedresponsibility. This was one ofseveral bombings which occurred atthe Trade Fair and the group referredto the attacks as part of OperationTigre de Papel (Paper Tiger).

29-Jul-76 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside theRome office of a subsidiary ofHoffman-La Roche, a Swiss chemicalfirm, causing considerable damagebut no injuries. Hoffman owns thechemical factory at Seveso fromwhich a highly toxic chemical hadescaped after an explosion in earlyJuly, injuring a number of people.

30-Jul-76 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. Two French tourists wereinjured when a booby-trappedpackage lying on the sidewalkexploded on a Jerusalem sidewalk.

1-Aug-76 Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Greek vessel Tinawas sunk by three limpet mines. Theattackers were believed to bemembers of a right wing LebaneseChristian Group. The vessel waspartly loaded with cargo believed tobe arms destined for the Al Fatahorganization.

1-Aug-76 Ethiopia Unknown Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Tom Davis, a Britishagricultural expert, was kidnappedbut freed eight weeks later.

4-Aug-76 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives5 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded at theSummer Linguistics Institute inBogota, injuring five U.S. citizens whohad just arrived from Peru.

4-Aug-76 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms1 1 EL SALVADOR. Unidentified gunmenattacked the residence of theNicaraguan ambassador. Onepoliceman was killed and anotherwounded in the attack. The motivefor the attack is unknown.


ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. Unidentified gunmenattacked the residence of theSpanish ambassador in San Salvador.The motive for the attack isunknown.

5-Aug-76 Moyale Ethiopia Other Explosives20 5 ETHIOPIA. Heavily armed membersof the Somali Liberation Frontstormed a tourist hotel at Moyalenear the Ethiopian-Kenyan border,killing five persons, including aFrench tourist and injuring twentypersons, including two Frenchschoolteachers touring the area. Thegroup ransacked the hotel, firedmachine guns, and threw grenades.They kidnapped Alain Galaup, aFrench teacher, but released him onAugust 17.

5-Aug-76 Moyale Ethiopia Other Firearms20 5 ETHIOPIA. Heavily armed membersof the Somali Liberation Frontstormed a tourist hotel at Moyalenear the Ethiopian-Kenyan border,killing five persons, including aFrench tourist and injuring twentypersons, including two Frenchschoolteachers touring the area. Thegroup ransacked the hotel, firedmachine guns, and threw grenades.They kidnapped Alain Galaup, aFrench teacher, but released him onAugust 17.

6-Aug-76 Cairo Egypt Unknown Unknown1 1 EGYPT. Mohammed Ali Haitham, aformer premier of South Yemen, wasslightly wounded and his driver waskilled in an assassination attempt inCairo.

6-Aug-76 Cairo Egypt Other Explosives14 0 EGYPT. Two time bombs exploded inthe afternoon on the fifth floor of acrowded government office complexin Cairo, wounding fourteen persons.The first explosion took place aboutnoon, and the second went off ninetyminutes later, injuring severalpolicemen investigating the firstblast. An Egyptian student who wasarrested confessed that he hadreceived $750 from Libyanauthorities as an advance paymentand was promised $2,500 more afterplanting the bombs in Tahrir Square.

6-Aug-76 Cairo Egypt Other Explosives3 0 EGYPT. Two time bombs exploded inthe afternoon on the fifth floor of acrowded government office complexin Cairo, wounding fourteen persons.The first explosion took place aboutnoon, and the second went off ninetyminutes later, injuring severalpolicemen investigating the firstblast. An Egyptian student who wasarrested confessed that he hadreceived $750 from Libyanauthorities as an advance paymentand was promised $2,500 more afterplanting the bombs in Tahrir Square.

9-Aug-76 Tyre Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosion in Tyre sankthe Athena, a Greek Cypriot cargoship. No one was on board at thetime.

9-Aug-76 BuenosAires


Unknown0 2 ARGENTINA. CORU claimed credit forkidnapping and murdering twoofficials with the Cuban Embassy inBuenos Aires. CORU was suspectedof having the assistance of theChilean DINA on this operation.

11-Aug-76

Istanbul Turkey PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives20 4 TURKEY. Two members of the Dr.George Habash Organization (PFLP)threw a hand grenade and sprayedsubmachine gun fire at a line ofpassengers waiting to board anIsraeli El Al jetliner at Istanbul'sYesilkoy airport. Four persons werekilled in the explosion and 20persons were injured. After the handgrenades and submachine guns werefired at the passengers, there was ascattering of people and theterrorists took a Turkish policewomanhostage. After an hour-long standoff,the terrorists surrendered. The twoguerrillas were sentenced to lifeimprisonment by a Turkish criminalcourt. The attack was regarded asrevenge for the Israeli rescue raid onUganda's Entebbe airport on July 3,1976.

13-Aug-76

Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. An automobile withdiplomatic plates belonging to anofficial of the Indian embassy inWashington, D.C. was totallydestroyed by fire. His home was seton fire in a separate incident a fewdays later.

14-Aug-76

AlexandriaEgypt Other Explosives59 8 EGYPT. A time bomb exploded in anAlexandria train killing eightpassengers and wounding 59. Therewere four perpetrators of theincident. It had been stated that theperpetrators were all Libyanintelligence agents, recruited by theLibyan intelligence service to carryout sabotage.

14-Aug-76

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Other Firearms0 1 EL SALVADOR. A policeman guardingthe Nicaraguan ambassador'sresidence was shot to death. Theattackers were believed to have beenguerrilla commandos.

14-Aug-76

Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Seventeen automobiles withAllied Forces in Italy license plateswere firebombed on Sardinia. Theautomobiles belonged to U.S. Navypersonnel. An incendiary devicehurled at the Naval Support ActivityHeadquarters building on LaMaddalena Base caused minor firedamage on August 15. There wereno injuries in any of the incidents.Speculation was that Sardinianseparatists were responsible. Theincidents might be related to theInternational Anti-Militarist Marchwhich was in progress.

16-Aug-76

UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. A fire wasextinguished at the home of anIndian embassy employee inMontgomery County, Maryland, whohad been victimized three daysearlier. Although four people were inthe home, no one was injured.

16-Aug-76

Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. An aluminum tube filled withgunpower exploded at the SouthAfrican embassy in Rome causingconsiderable property damage. Aleaflet left in a telephone boothidentified the attackers as membersof Proletarian Internationalism.

18-Aug-76

Panama Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PANAMA. A bomb causedconsiderable damage to Cubana'scheck-in desk at Belisario PorrasInternational Airport. Fifteen minuteslater a second bomb exploded at thedowntown office of Cubana. TheAnti-Castro Command claimedresponsibility for the two blasts.There were no injuries.

18-Aug-76

Panama Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PANAMA. A bomb causedconsiderable damage to Cubana'scheck-in desk at Belisario PorrasInternational Airport. Fifteen minuteslater a second bomb exploded at thedowntown office of Cubana. TheAnti-Castro Command claimedresponsibility for the two blasts.There were no injuries.

19-Aug-76

Cordoba ArgentinaOther Firearms0 1 ARGENTINA. Leftist guerrillasassassinated the deputy manager ofFiat's Materfer subsidiary. He wasshot several times by armed men ashe left his Cordoba home.

23-Aug-76

Cairo Egypt Other Unknown0 0 EGYPT. Three hijackerscommandeered an Egyptian Boeing737 after taking off from Cairo on aflight to Luxor. Once the plane hadlanded at Luxor, they asked for therelease of three Libyans imprisonedfor the attempted assassination of aformer member of the LibyanRevolutionary Command Council,who fled Libya in August 1975. Thesecond demand was for the releaseof two men, one a Yemeni and theother a Palestinian, who werearrested for the attemptedassassination of former South YemenPremier Mohammed Ali Haitham.Following an agreement with thegroup, it was possible to secure therelease of some of the 95passengers. Later, a force ofEgyptian commandos posing asmechanics managed to storm theplane and free the remainingpassengers at Luxor. None of thepassengers or crew was injured. Allthree hijackers were injured. Aftertheir arrest, the saboteurs confessedthat they were financed by Libyanleader Muammar Qaddafi for thepurpose of diverting the Egyptianplane to Tripoli, Libya, in return for$148,000. The Libyan governmentdenied the accusation. The threehijackers were sentenced by amilitary tribunal in Cairo to lifeimprisonment at hard labor. Theywere acquitted on charges ofcollusion with Libya in the incident.

23-Aug-76

Vienna Austria Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRIA. A homemade firebombwas removed from a staff car parkedin front of the U.S. embassy inVienna.

24-Aug-76

CostaRica

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives7 0 COSTA RICA. Bombs exploded at theIberian office and at the NanacoCompany office, injuring sevenpersons and causing heavy propertydamage. The attacks were believed apart of a terrorist wave allegedly inprotest against various companies'ties with the Cuban government.

27-Aug-76

BuenosAires


Explosives1 0 ARGENTINA. Three people wereinjured in separate incidents whenbombs hidden in flowers and othergift packages exploded in BuenosAires. One of the victims wasassociated with the Renaultautomobile company, another withIBM, and a third with a Fordsubsidiary. The Montoneros laterclaimed responsibility for sending thebombs.

27-Aug-76

BuenosAires



27-Aug-76

BuenosAires



28-Aug-76

Nice France Other Explosives7 1 FRANCE. A Yugoslav political refugeewas killed and seven bystandersinjured in Nice when a bombexploded in the refugee'sautomobile. The bombing wasbelieved to have been politicallymotivated. The dead man had beenactive in the local Croatiannationalist political movement. Noone claimed responsibility for thebombings.

28-Aug-76

Tehran Iran Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Firearms0 3 IRAN. Three U.S. employees ofRockwell International wereassassinated at 7am as they werebeing driven to work at an Iranian airforce installation in Tehran. ThePeople's Strugglers (Mujahiddin eKhalq) used a Volkswagen to cut offthe trio's Dodge from the front, whilea second car cut them off frombehind. Four gunmen jumped out,ordered the chauffeur to lie down,and blasted the car with Polish M-63machine pistols and a Browning 9-mm pistol. The group then fled onfoot and in the rear car. Reportsclaimed that the briefcase of one ofthe dead men was also stolen. Thethree had been working on projectIBEX, a $1 billion electronicsurveillance project for the Iranianmilitary.

31-Aug-76

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaAnti-CastroCubans

Explosives1 0 GUATEMALA. A bomb exploded atthe Mexican consulate in GuatemalaCity. A receptionist was slightlyinjured and there was some propertydamage. The Cuban CORU claimedresponsibility.

1-Sep-76 Port ofSpain

Trinidad-Tobago

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives3 0 TRINIDAD. A bomb exploded in frontof the Guyanese consulate general inPort of Spain, injuring three peopleand causing extensive damage.CORU claimed it placed the bomb toretaliate against Guyana for allowingCuban troops and aircraft to stop inGuyana en route to Angola.

5-Sep-76 Nice France PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Three Palestinian hijackersseized a KLM Royal Dutch jetlinerwith 80 people aboard in Nice,commandeering it to Tunisia and onto Cyprus. The hijackers took theairliner on a flight toward Israel anddemanded the release of eightPalestinians held in Israeli jails.[Israeli radio reported that thehijackers requested the release ofKozo Okamoto, a Japanese who tookpart in a 1972 guerrilla attack on TelAviv airport; and Greek CatholicArchbishop Hilarion Capucci,convicted for smuggling arms.] Theplane was flown from Nice to Tunis toCyprus and toward Israel and thenback to Cyprus to the LarnarcaAirport where the hijackers releasedtheir hostages in exchange for a safeconduct promise from Greek Cypriotauthorities. Although the hijackerswere guaranteed safe conduct toanother country, they becamestranded in Athens, Greece, shunnedby all the world's airlines. Thehijackers indicated that they hadoperated under orders from a Libyan-based unit of the Popular Front.

8-Sep-76 Medellin Colombia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the Argentine consulate inMedellin, causing property damagebut no personal injuries. No oneclaimed credit for the bombing.However, it was speculated that theattack might have been related toChilean solidarity week and mayhave been perpetrated by Argentineleftists.

9-Sep-76 Vienna Austria Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRIA. Fire in a Vienna officebuilding caused minor damage to theentrance of the Chilean embassy.Police believed the arsonists wereradical youths marking theanniversary of the overthrow ofAllende.



Unknown0 1 ARGENTINA. An Argentine executiveof the Chrysler factory in BuenosAires was assassinated in front of hishome. The Montoneros claimedresponsibility. This assassinationfollowed the firing of 121 workersaccused by Chrysler and Ford ofpromoting work stoppages andslowdowns.

10-Sep-76 Rome Italy Other Unknown0 0 ITALY. The six-year-old daughter ofthe Panamanian ambassador to Italywas kidnapped in Rome. She wasfound by police five hours after thekidnapping. No motive was knownfor the kidnapping. Three women, aPanamanian, an Ecuadorian, and aGuatemalan, were questioned.


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CroatianFreedomFighters

Unknown0 0 UNITED STATES. Five self-styledfighters for free Croatia hijacked aTWA jetliner with 87 persons abroad.The New York to Chicago plane wasdiverted to Montreal, then on toGander, Newfoundland, where 34 ofthe passengers were released, thenon to Paris. Their communiqueswere found along with a bomb in aNew York train station locker. Thebomb later exploded when policetried to defuse it, killing one officerand wounding three others. After theSeptember 11 bomb explosion, thehijackers warned that another bombwould explode somewhere in theUnited States unless an English-language newspaper in Paris andfour major American newspapersprinted a manifesto demandingCroatian independence fromYugoslavia. The 30-hour episodeended in Paris when the Croatiannationalists released the remaining53 hostages unharmed andsurrendered to French authorities.The hijackers were returned to NewYork by French military transport toface air piracy and murder charges.A press release in July 1977 disclosedthat Croatian nationalist ZvonkoBusic (the leader of the hijacking),and his wife Julienne were sentencedto life in prison in federal court inNew York City. Other accompliceswere sentenced later.

10-Sep-76 NewDelhi

India Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. An Indian Airlines B0737flying from New Delhi to Bombaywith eighty four passengers andseven crew members was hijackedby six armed men who claimed to beLibyans wanting to fly to the Moslemholy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia totake part in the Haj pilgrimage. Theplane landed in Pakistan and most ofthe passengers were allowed toleave. After nine hours on theground the hijackers said that theywould keep the remainingpassengers until the next day whenthey would issue further demands.The police managed to drug thewater that was brought on board theplane, however, and as the hijackersslept, the rest of the hostages werereleased. On January 6, 1977,Pakistan released the six hijackers,citing lack of evidence to bring themto trial.


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Explosives3 1 UNITED STATES. Five self-styledfighters for free Croatia hijacked aTWA jetliner with 87 persons abroad.The New York to Chicago plane wasdiverted to Montreal, then on toGander, Newfoundland, where 34 ofthe passengers were released, thenon to Paris. Their communiqueswere found along with a bomb in aNew York train station locker. Thebomb later exploded when policetried to defuse it, killing one officerand wounding three others. After theSeptember 11 bomb explosion, thehijackers warned that another bombwould explode somewhere in theUnited States unless an English-language newspaper in Paris andfour major American newspapersprinted a manifesto demandingCroatian independence fromYugoslavia. The 30-hour episodeended in Paris when the Croatiannationalists released the remaining53 hostages unharmed andsurrendered to French authorities.The hijackers were returned to NewYork by French military transport toface air piracy and murder charges.A press release in July 1977 disclosedthat Croatian nationalist ZvonkoBusic (the leader of the hijacking),and his wife Julienne were sentencedto life in prison in federal court inNew York City. Other accompliceswere sentenced later.

11-Sep-76 Rome Italy CheGuevaraBrigade

Explosives0 0 ITALY. Bombs exploded outside theoffices of the U.S. InformationService in Rome. The Che GuevaraInternationalist Brigade claimedcredit.


Explosives0 0 ITALY. Bombs exploded outside theoffices of the Chilean ambassador tothe Vatican. The Che GuevaraInternationalist Brigade claimedcredit.


Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded at the officeof the Brazilian Airlines Varig inRome. Che Guevara InternationalistBrigade claimed credit.

11-Sep-76 Rome Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the office of HoneywellInternational in Rome. Speculationwas that the bombings were to markthe third anniversary of the militarycoup in Chile that resulted in thedeath of Salvador Allende.

11-Sep-76 Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the automobile of a U.S.Navy enlisted man.

11-Sep-76 Rome Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the residence of the SaudiArabian ambassador.

11-Sep-76 Rome Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the office of an Israel-connected travel agency in Rome.



Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. Guerrillas firedsubmachine guns and hand grenadesagainst the house of an Argentineexecutive of the Ford MotorCompany in Buenos Aires. TheMontoneros claimed responsibility.


ArgentinaOther Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. The daughter of aMennonite missionary from theUnited States was abducted from herhome in Buenos Aires by five armedmen. Patricia Erb had apparentlybeen involved in leftist politics at theNational University.

16-Sep-76 PortElizabeth

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Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A Soviet cargo shipdocked at Port Elizabeth, New Jersey,was damaged by a bomb apparentlyplanted by an anti-Castro refugeegroup. The explosion caused noinjuries. A man claiming to representa Cuban anti-Communist group,Omega 7, claimed credit for theattack. He said a frogman hadattached the explosive to the bottomof the ship. The vessel had notifiedthe Coast Guard a half hour earlier ofa swimmer in the area.


Unknown0 1 ARGENTINA. The Montoneros weresuspected in the street cornerassassination of John G. Little,Argentine executive of ScheringPharmaceutical Company, asubsidiary of a German ownedbusiness.



0 0 ARGENTINA. Fire broke out in the U.S. Chancery building in BuenosAires. Damage was estimated at over$10,000. Inspecting officials believethe fire was intentionally set. Therewere no injuries reported.

20-Sep-76 SanFrancisco

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Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A powerful bombexploded at the residence of theSouth African consul general in SanFrancisco, causing property damagebut no injuries. The Lucio CabanasUnit of the NWLF claimedresponsibility for setting the bomb.They issued a communiquecondemning the racist policies ofSouth Africa.



Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. Several Montoneros ina truck fired on the Chrysleradministrative office outside BuenosAires.

21-Sep-76 Washington,D.C.

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Other Explosives1 2 UNITED STATES. Orlando Letelier,former foreign minister in the Chileangovernment under PresidentSalvador Allende, was killed when abomb exploded in his car alongEmbassy Row in Washington, D.C. Awoman assistant to Mr. Letelier wasalso killed. A third person wasinjured. Nine persons wereimplicated in the crime--threecounterrevolutionaries of Cubanorigin were tried in Washington, D.C.in March 1979, convicted andsentenced to life sentences. Themen were described as hit mencarrying out a revenge murder forChile's secret police. The UnitedStates tried to extradite three formerChilean secret police officials onmurder charges but was refused.Two of the defendants in the trial,Guillermo Novo Sampol and AlvinRoss Diaz, had their murderconvictions overturned, and in May1981, both were acquitted in thecharge of assassinating Letelier;however, Novo was convicted oflying to a grand jury, and in June1981, he was sentenced to 4-1/2years in prison; with the three yearshe had already served, he mustserve an additional 18 months beforebeing eligible for parole. A courtmartial in Santiago, Chile, onSeptember 18, 1981, dismissed thecharges against the three formerChilean intelligence officers.

22-Sep-76 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb damaged the Romeregional office of Westinghouse.


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Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Omega-7 bombedthe Palladium Theater in New York.

25-Sep-76 Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Ghassan KanafaniCommandos set bombs andfirebombs at the warehouse of anIsraeli-Italian company in protest ofSyria's intervention in Lebanon.

25-Sep-76 Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Ghassan KanafaniCommandos set bombs at threebranches of the Bank of America andItaly and inside a suburban office ofthe Avis car rental company. Theattacks were in protest of Syria'sinvolvement in Lebanon. The group'scommunique said, Death to Zionism.Death to imperialism.





0 0 ITALY. The Ghassan KanafaniCommandos threw molotov cocktailsat the Roman office of the UnitedHebrew Immigrant Aid Society andoutside a synagogue.


0 0 ITALY. The Ghassan KanafaniCommandos threw molotov cocktailsat the Roman office of the UnitedHebrew Immigrant Aid Society andoutside a synagogue.

26-Sep-76 DamascusSyria al-Fatah Unknown34 4 SYRIA. Four Palestinian guerrillasreportedly members of the BlackJune group seized the HotelSemiramis in Damascus and held 90persons hostage until Syrian troopsstormed the hotel in a three-hourbattle, killing one terrorist and fourhostages. Thirty-four other hostageswere wounded. The three remainingterrorists were captured by Syrianmilitary police and publicly hangedwithin 24 hours in front of the hotel.[In a television broadcast, theterrorists had claimed to bemembers of Al Fatah and that theirmain objective had been to bargainfor the release of Palestinians held inSyrian prisons and to protest Syrianinterference in Lebanon.]

27-Sep-76 Serrano Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown through the window of aSerrano store of a U.S. firm,damaging merchandise on display.

27-Sep-76 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives1 0 ECUADOR. A counselor of theArgentine embassy in Quito wasslightly wounded when a bombexploded at his residence. Thepersons responsible were unknown.

29-Sep-76 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two bombs weredetonated at Spanish facilities inFrance to commemorate the firstanniversary of the execution of fiveBasque terrorists in Spain. Hit werethe Basque Pastor in central Parisand a Spanish consular office insuburban Saint Denis. The blastscaused extensive property damagebut no injuries.

29-Sep-76 SaintDenis

France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two bombs weredetonated at Spanish facilities inFrance to commemorate the firstanniversary of the execution of fiveBasque terrorists in Spain. Hit werethe Basque Pastor in central Parisand a Spanish consular office insuburban Saint Denis. The blastscaused extensive property damagebut no injuries.

30-Sep-76 Karachi Pakistan PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. Syrian Arab airline officesin Rawalpindi and Karachi werefirebombed by unknown persons.There were unconfirmed reports thatPLO supporters were responsible.

30-Sep-76 RawalpindiPakistan PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. Syrian Arab airline officesin Rawalpindi and Karachi werefirebombed by unknown persons.There were unconfirmed reports thatPLO supporters were responsible.



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. AMolotov cocktail was thrown througha window of the Syrian Arab Airlinesoffice in Munich, resulting in minordamage. Police believe the purposewas to protest Syria's recent actionsagainst the Palestinians in Lebanon.

6-Oct-76 Barbados Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 73 BARBADOS. A Cubana airlines DC-8jetliner carrying 73 persons crashedjust after takeoff, off the coast ofBarbados, killing all 73 personsaboard. Four suspects in thefirebombing of the airplane are beingheld in Venezuela on murdercharges. Sufficient evidenceconvinced a Venezuelan judge thatthe plane was deliberately blown up.A military prosecutor withdrew thecharges September 17, 1980; thewithdrawal was due to a technicalreport prepared by Scotland Yardaccording to which the explosionmust have occurred in the plane'scargo area, to which neither HernanRicardo and Freddy Lugo(Venezuelans charged with actuallyplacing the bombs in the plane underinstructions from Cubans OrlandoBosch and Luis Posada Carriles) hadany access. According to records ofthe case, the two Venezuelancameramen flew to Barbadoscarrying only hand luggage whichthey still had with them when theyleft the plane. It was also verifiedthat the passport Bosch was usingunder the name of Paniagua hadbeen legally issued to him by theVenezuelan government underinstructions from the policedepartment. The Foreign Minister inCaracas said that there had been noacquittal so far: It was theprosecutor's decision to withdraw thecharges, but in penal judiciary issues,in crimes of this nature, once theprocedure begins, it only ends with asentence. Therefore, for the timebeing, the final decision is in thehands of the judge. He added that inthe event the judge absolves thedefendants, the case would have tobe reexamined, but the mostimportant point of this issue is aquestion of law.A consequence ofthis judgement could be acancellation of the air piracyagreement between Cuba andVenezuela. A great many of thevictims in the air crash were Cubanathletes, and it appeared that theincident was planned in Venezuela.President Castro of Cuba recalled allits diplomats from Venezuela onSeptember 28, 1980, as a protestagainst the acquittal of the fourdefendants.On August 8, 1982,Posada Carriles and Hernan Ricardoescaped from San Carlos prisons bysubduing a prison subordinate officialand, using military uniforms, left theprison accompanied by the official,whom they released as soon as theyreached the street. Theyimmediately went to the ChileanEmbassy where they requestedasylum. The Embassy handed themover to Venezuelan officials. Reportsfrom Caracas stated that pressurefrom the government and publicopinion forced the Chilean Embassyin Caracas to hand over theperpetrators of the aircraft sabotage.The escape created a politicalupheaval in Venezuela and a fullinvestigation was instigated. Reportsfiltered in from Cuba that FidelCastro had dispatched a group ofprofessional murderers to Venezuelawith orders to kill the two saboteurs.

6-Oct-76 Barbados Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 73 BARBADOS. A Cubana airlines DC-8jetliner carrying 73 persons crashedjust after takeoff, off the coast ofBarbados, killing all 73 personsaboard. Four suspects in thefirebombing of the airplane are beingheld in Venezuela on murdercharges. Sufficient evidenceconvinced a Venezuelan judge thatthe plane was deliberately blown up.A military prosecutor withdrew thecharges September 17, 1980; thewithdrawal was due to a technicalreport prepared by Scotland Yardaccording to which the explosionmust have occurred in the plane'scargo area, to which neither HernanRicardo and Freddy Lugo(Venezuelans charged with actuallyplacing the bombs in the plane underinstructions from Cubans OrlandoBosch and Luis Posada Carriles) hadany access. According to records ofthe case, the two Venezuelancameramen flew to Barbadoscarrying only hand luggage whichthey still had with them when theyleft the plane. It was also verifiedthat the passport Bosch was usingunder the name of Paniagua hadbeen legally issued to him by theVenezuelan government underinstructions from the policedepartment. The Foreign Minister inCaracas said that there had been noacquittal so far: It was theprosecutor's decision to withdraw thecharges, but in penal judiciary issues,in crimes of this nature, once theprocedure begins, it only ends with asentence. Therefore, for the timebeing, the final decision is in thehands of the judge. He added that inthe event the judge absolves thedefendants, the case would have tobe reexamined, but the mostimportant point of this issue is aquestion of law.A consequence ofthis judgement could be acancellation of the air piracyagreement between Cuba andVenezuela. A great many of thevictims in the air crash were Cubanathletes, and it appeared that theincident was planned in Venezuela.President Castro of Cuba recalled allits diplomats from Venezuela onSeptember 28, 1980, as a protestagainst the acquittal of the fourdefendants.On August 8, 1982,Posada Carriles and Hernan Ricardoescaped from San Carlos prisons bysubduing a prison subordinate officialand, using military uniforms, left theprison accompanied by the official,whom they released as soon as theyreached the street. Theyimmediately went to the ChileanEmbassy where they requestedasylum. The Embassy handed themover to Venezuelan officials. Reportsfrom Caracas stated that pressurefrom the government and publicopinion forced the Chilean Embassyin Caracas to hand over theperpetrators of the aircraft sabotage.The escape created a politicalupheaval in Venezuela and a fullinvestigation was instigated. Reportsfiltered in from Cuba that FidelCastro had dispatched a group ofprofessional murderers to Venezuelawith orders to kill the two saboteurs.

7-Oct-76 ArgentinaOther Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Argentine terroristsbombed several foreign businessesduring the night in commemorationof the capture and death ofArgentine-born Che Guevara.Primary targets were the showroomsof foreign-controlled automobilecompanies, including the Ford MotorCompany. A branch of the Bank ofBoston was also hit. There were noinjuries and property damage wasmoderate.

7-Oct-76 ArgentinaOther Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Argentine terroristsbombed several foreign businessesduring the night in commemorationof the capture and death ofArgentine-born Che Guevara.Primary targets were the showroomsof foreign-controlled automobilecompanies, including the Ford MotorCompany. A branch of the Bank ofBoston was also hit. There were noinjuries and property damage wasmoderate.

8-Oct-76 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms1 0 LEBANON. Ali Hassan Salamah,believed to be the Black Septemberplanner of the Munich Olympicsattack, was critically wounded whenhe was shot in the stomach as hewalked a long a Beirut street. TheIsraeli secret service was believedresponsible.

8-Oct-76 Caracas VenezuelaAnti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 0 VENEZUELA. The Cuban embassy inCaracas was hit by eight bullets froma passing station wagon during theearly morning hours. There were noinjuries. Although the attackers areunknown, police believe anti-Castroterrorists may be responsible.

10-Oct-76 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 1 ARGENTINA. The Argentinianmanager of the French-ownedRenault plant in Cordoba was killedby gunmen. The gunmen shotDomingo Lozano after he left churchservices.

11-Oct-76 Rome Italy Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms1 0 ITALY. Three Palestinians, membersof the Black June Movement, shottheir way into the Syrian embassy inRome, taking five hostages, thensurrendered to the police after twohours. A Syrian counselor waswounded in the leg when theinvaders opened fire withsubmachine guns. The guerrillaleader said that the embassy attackwas designed to draw the attentionof the world to the betrayal of theSyrian government and the plot ofArab states against the Palestinianpeople. The three Palestinians inRome were sentenced to 15 yearseach in prison. They were alsoordered to be under three years ofsupervised freedom afterimprisonment. The three also facepossible extradition to Syria.

11-Oct-76 IslamabadPakistan Other Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. In an apparent campaignagainst Palestinian guerrillas in theLebanese civil war in Islamabad,three Palestinians attacked theSyrian embassy and theambassador's residence.Unconfirmed reports said one of theraiders was killed and the other twowere wounded in a gun battle withpolice. The PLO denied anyconnection with the attack.

11-Oct-76 IslamabadPakistan Other Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. In an apparent campaignagainst Palestinian guerrillas in theLebanese civil war in Islamabad,three Palestinians attacked theSyrian embassy and theambassador's residence.Unconfirmed reports said one of theraiders was killed and the other twowere wounded in a gun battle withpolice. The PLO denied anyconnection with the attack.

13-Oct-76 Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb exploded infront of the Sheraton Hotel entrance.There were no injuries.

14-Oct-76 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. In what it claimed wasretaliation for the extradition of WestGerman terrorist Rolf Pohle, the ELAfirebombed the Athens office of theWest German Siemens Corporationduring the night, causing somedamage. A group identifying itself asELA subsequently claimed in anAthens newspaper to have carriedout the attacks in retaliation for theextradition of Rolf Pohle from Greeceto Germany.

16-Oct-76 Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A cleaning woman found abomb on top of an air conditioner ofthe Pan Am office in Izmir.

18-Oct-76 ArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 1 ARGENTINA. Five gunmen riding in acar assassinated Enrique ArozaGaray, the Argentine executive of theGerman-owned Borgward automobilefactory.

23-Oct-76 Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Three Greek vessels Eko,Riri, and Spiro were attacked at nightby frogmen who placed limpet mineson the hulls of the vessels. Theattackers were believed to bemembers of a right wing LebaneseChristian Group. All three vesselssank.




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Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. A firebombexploded at the Tunisian Mission tothe United Nations causing minordamage. The militant Jewishorganization Save our Israel Landclaimed responsibility.

25-Oct-76 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A series of bomb attacksoccurred in the Paris area prior toand during the visit of Spanish KingJuan Carlos. One of the bombs wentoff in a West German firm.

25-Oct-76 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A series of bomb attacksoccurred in the Paris area prior toand during the visit of Spanish KingJuan Carlos. One of the bombs wentoff in a Spanish bank.


Unknown Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. Aldo Vera Serafin,former head of the secret policeunder Castro and a member of CORUand the Fourth Republic, two groupswith ties with Orlando Bosch, wasassassinated by unknown gunmen.


0 0 COLOMBIA. A car belonging to theBritish embassy was firebombed inBogota.


0 0 COLOMBIA. A car belonging to the U.S. Military Group commander inBogota was firebombed byunidentified persons while it wasparked unattended on a Bogotastreet. Two youths reportedly placedthe bomb and then fled the scene.There were no injuries; the vehiclesustained minor damage. Anothercar, belonging to the Britishembassy, was burned the same day.Students are believed responsible.

27-Oct-76 Madrid Spain PolisarioFront

Explosives4 0 SPAIN. Two terrorists bombed theMoroccan embassy in Madrid,injuring four persons and causingextensive property damage. Theterrorists directed gunfire at thebuilding and then fled. The pressspeculated that the attackers weremembers of the Polisario Front but aPolisario spokesman in Algiers deniedit.

2-Nov-76 Paris France Other Firearms2 0 FRANCE. An Iranian diplomat wasshot and seriously wounded near hisParis residence by an unknownattacker on a motorcycle. A secondgunman wounded an off-dutypoliceman who tried to prevent theattack. Both assailants escaped. Ananonymous caller told a French newsagency that the Reza REZAIInternational Brigades wasresponsible for the shooting and hadattacked the diplomat because hewas a member of the Iranian stateSecurity police.

6-Nov-76 ArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 1 ARGENTINA. An Argentine executiveof the Chrysler Corporation was shotto death by two unknown assailantsas he was leaving his home.

6-Nov-76 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives1 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded inIstanbul at the El Al Airlines office.One person was injured. A groupprofessing to be followers of the lateMahir Cayan, a Turkish anti-government terrorist killed in 1972,claimed responsibility.

6-Nov-76 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded inIstanbul at the offices of a Dutchbusiness firm. A group professing tobe followers of the late Mahir Cayan,a Turkish anti-government terroristkilled in 1972, claimed responsibility.

6-Nov-76 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded inIstanbul at an Iranian business firm.A group professing to be followers ofthe late Mahir Cayan, a Turkish anti-government terrorist killed in 1972,claimed responsibility.

6-Nov-76 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded inIstanbul at the Egyptian consulate. Agroup professing to be followers ofthe late Mahir Cayan, a Turkish anti-government terrorist killed in 1972,claimed responsibility.

7-Nov-76 Madrid Spain Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at theMadrid office of Cubana Airlinescausing considerable damage. Ananonymous caller told the AP officein Puerto Rico that an anti-Castrogroup called the UnitedRevolutionary Organization hadplaced the bomb. (This is possiblythe CORU organization.)

8-Nov-76 San Jose CostaRica

Other Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb explodedoutside the Nicaraguan consulate inSan Jose. The FSLN claimedresponsibility.


Other Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb explodedoutside the Guatemalan embassy inSan Jose, causing little damage andno injuries. The FSLN claimedresponsibility.


Other Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb wasdiscovered outside the Salvadoranembassy in San Jose. The FSLNclaimed responsibility.


Other Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb was found atthe Honduran ambassador'sresidence. The FSLN claimedresponsibility.

9-Nov-76 Madrid Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Cuban Embassy inMadrid was bombed by anunidentified group or individual.

13-Nov-76

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in the carof a USAF sergeant in Athens. Twoother bombs, placed at the USAFexchange annex and in a USAFvehicle, were discovered anddeactivated. The personsresponsible are not known.

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13-Nov-76

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in the carbelonging to the Portugueseembassy in Athens.

13-Nov-76

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in the carbelonging to the Syrian embassy inAthens.

14-Nov-76

BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The residence of theChilean embassy's press attache inBuenos Aires was bombed andmachine-gunned by unknownattackers in a passing car. There wasconsiderable damage to the front ofthe building but no injuries.

17-Nov-76

Amman Jordan Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown5 4 JORDAN. Four Palestinian guerrillasseized the Intercontinental Hotel,taking some of the guests hostage.They were then overpowered byJordanian army commandos in anattack that left seven persons dead.(Three gunmen, two hotelemployees, and two soldiers werekilled. The fourth gunman wasseriously wounded.) Three guests, ahotel employee, and a soldier werealso wounded. The gunmenidentified themselves as members ofthe radical Palestinian group calledBlack June. The surviving terroristwas executed by the Jordaniangovernment on 18 December.

29-Nov-76

MexicoCity


Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A bomb was placed in theSoviet Embassy in Mexico City. TheFLNC was believed to have beenresponsible for the attack.

1-Dec-76 DamascusSyria Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms1 0 SYRIA. Syrian Foreign Minister Abd-al-Halim Khaddam was shot andwounded in an assassination attemptin Damascus. He was attacked whileriding in his car and was hospitalizedin good condition. The Black Juneorganization in a statement issued inMadrid claimed responsibility for theattack and said the operation wascarried out to comply withinstructions to liquidate Syrianofficials.

1-Dec-76 FederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives18 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded in the USAF officersclub at the Rhein- Main airbasecausing a fire which destroyed theclub and injured 18 people, nine ofwhom were Americans. TheRevolutionary Cells terrorist groupclaimed responsibility.

8-Dec-76 CuidadJuarez


Firearms0 1 MEXICO. A Mexican executive of aSylvania Company manufacturingplant in Ciudad Juarez was shot whenfive members of the 23rd ofSeptember Communist Leagueforcibly entered the plant and begandistributing propaganda literature toarriving workers. The shootingoccurred as the terrorists wereleaving the plant; the executive diedlater in a hospital. According to localpress stories, two or three suspectshave been identified but the pressstories disagree as to whether theywere put under arrest.

13-Dec-76

PhilippinesUnknown Firearms1 0 PHILIPPINES. Gunfire was directed ata bus taking three U.S. servicemen towork sixty miles north of Manila.One seaman was reported wounded.

13-Dec-76

MexicoCity


Firearms1 0 MEXICO. A Mexican employee at aChrysler plant in Mexico City wasshot by 23rd of SeptemberCommunist League members whenhe attempted to stop them fromdistributing the League's pamphletsto plant workers. This is the secondincident in a week in which aMexican employee of a U.S.-ownedcompany was shot by members ofthe 23rd of September terroristgroup.

15-Dec-76

Baghdad Iraq Other Explosives300 40 IRAQ. Free Iraq claimed credit for abomb that exploded inside a suitcaseon an Egyptian Airlines jet fromDamascus. The plane had justlanded at Baghdad internationalairport when the bomb went off.There were conflicting reports as tonumber of fatalities and injuries.Some press reports claimed thatforty people were killed and another300 injured by the blast.

17-Dec-76

Bogota Colombia Other Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb went off in thepocket of a boy walking through theChapinero store of a U.S. firm.Seventeen additional bombs werefound after the store was searched.

18-Dec-76

Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Kurdish rebels kidnapped fourPolish agricultural experts innortheast Iraq. The kidnappersdemanded the release of Kurdsimprisoned in Iraq in exchange forthe hostages.On Feb. 28, 1977, threemore foreign hostages were takenand kept with these hostages. TheKurdish kidnappers demanded thatthe Iraqi army stop their massacre ofthe Kurds. The hostages werereleased on March 29, 1977 onhumanitarian grounds, due to thestate of their health.

19-Dec-76

BadHersfeld



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An arson fire in thenoncommissioned officers' club of aU.S. Army barracks in Bad Hersfeldduring the night caused $1,040,000damage but no injuries.

20-Dec-76

Kariba Zimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Firearms0 1 ZIMBABWE. A South African whitetourist was killed when guerrillasfired machine guns at a ferry on LakeKariba.

24-Dec-76

Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An explosion at theAlbanian embassy in Paris resulted inconsiderable damage to the buildingbut did not inflict any injuries.Responsibility for the attack, in whicha rocket launcher was apparentlyused, was claimed by a militarycouncil which professed to befighting to free Albania fromcommunism.

24-Dec-76

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 2 LEBANON. Unknown gunmen firedtwelve rounds of gunfire at a centralcommittee member of the PFLP andhis wife in their western Beirut home.

28-Dec-76

San Jose CostaRica

Unknown Firearms1 0 COSTA RICA. Huber Matos, Jr., waswounded by two bullets as he walkedtoward his car in a parking lot nearhis San Jose restaurant. Matos is theson of a former commander of FidelCastro's forces, who had been jailedin Cuba for seventeen years. Matos'smother, a New Jersey resident,requested State Department aid inarranging a prisoner exchangesuggested by Chile in which herhusband would be released for JorgeMontes, a prominent Chileancommunist who was jailed after the1973 coup.

3-Jan-77 LasPalmas

CanaryIslands

CanaryIslandsIndependenceMovement

Explosives0 0 CANARY ISLANDS. The South AfricanAirways offices in Las Palmas werebombed causing some propertydamage but no injuries. Localauthorities believe the Algiers-basedCanary Islands IndependenceMovement is responsible.

3-Jan-77 Paris France Other Unknown0 1 FRANCE. A Palestinian militant,Mahmoud Saleh, was murderedoutside his bookshop in Paris. Duringa visit to Paris to attend Saleh'sfuneral and to discuss with Frenchofficials the assassination ofPalestinians in Paris (this was thefourth in four years), the Palestinianguerrilla Abu-Dawoud was arrestedby the French authorities. He waslater transported to Algeria.

4-Jan-77 Giessen FederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb explosion occurred at a fuelstorage tank in the U.S. Army depotat Giessen causing a small fire. TheRevolutionary Cells terrorist groupclaimed responsibility, saying theattack was part of a campaignagainst the pernicious influence ofthe United States..

6-Jan-77 ChittagongBangladeshUnknown Explosives1 0 BANGLADESH. A hand grenadethrown from a passing vehicleexploded at the USIS building inChittagong. The detonation causedminor damage to the building andslightly injured one Bangladeshcitizen. The attack was one ofseveral similar incidents inChittagong the same evening. It isnot known who was responsible.


Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. Juan Jose Peruyero,head of the Brigade 2506association, was assassinated by twogunmen following a dispute that hewas believed to have had overBrigade 2506's participation in theCORU alliance.


UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An explosionrocked a building which was beingrenovated for the Algerian Mission tothe United Nations. A group calledthe Young Lords, a militant PuertoRican organization, claimed credit.

15-Jan-77 Zaire(BelgianCongo)

Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ZAIRE. Three French technicianswere captured by members of theFront for the Liberation of theEnclave of Cabinda (FLEC) during aFLEC raid on a railway in the Congonear the Cabinda border. Theattackers also damaged a tunnelunder construction and blew up anumber of bridges. The threeFrenchmen were released by FLEC on30 January, apparently withoutpayment of ransom.

20-Jan-77 MexicoCity


Firearms2 2 MEXICO. Duraflex CorporationPresident Mitchell Andreski and aMexican associate were shot andkilled in a Mexico City suburb whileinspecting a construction site in anarea where a group of Mexicans weredistributing Communist propagandaliterature. Members of the groupkilled the two men and wounded twoother persons. The attackers weresaid to be 23d of SeptemberCommunist League members.

22-Jan-77 Lusaka Zambia Unknown Explosives4 1 ZAMBIA. Jason Moyo, a blackRhodesian nationalist official, waskilled in Lusaka when a bombdetonated in a parcel he wasopening. Four other persons werewounded in the explosion. Thepackage had been mailed to Moyofrom Botswana.



Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. The suburban BuenosAires home of a Goodyear executivewas attacked by the Montoneros withmachine gun fire and a pipe bomb.The house was vacant at the time ofthe attack. The Montoneros leftleaflets at the home, the Goodyearplant, and the surrounding areasupporting the workers in theirstruggles against the government.Goodyear has been experiencinglabor problems recently.

27-Jan-77 Bogota Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. The Paraguayanembassy in Bogota was machinegunned by three unidentified personswho fired at the building from a car.No one was injured. Colombianpolice believe FARC guerrillas areresponsible.

28-Jan-77 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. The Reverend MarioBernal Londono, a Colombian RomanCatholic priest and a localparishioner were kidnapped byguerrillas in front of the Apopachurch, seven miles outside SanSalvador. The parishioner was laterreleased in San Salvador.

31-Jan-77 Bogota Colombia Other Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Six low-powered bombsexploded in the Iberian Airlines officein Bogota causing some damage butno casualties. The RevolutionaryWorkers Party left pamphlets at thescene claiming responsibility for thebombing and appealing for supportfor the revolutionary organizations ofSpain, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina,Portugal, and Bolivia.

3-Feb-77 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Six bombs exploded in aPalestinian library in Paris, causingconsiderable property damage butno injuries. Responsibility for theattack was claimed by a previouslyunknown organization called thePhalangist Security Group.

6-Feb-77 Zimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Firearms0 7 RHODESIA. Twelve armed black menshot to death seven foreignmissionaries at the Masumi Catholicmission, fifty-seven miles east ofSalisbury. Those killed includedthree Jesuits--two British priests andan Irish brother-- and four Dominicannuns--three from West Germany andone from England. Rhodesian policefound 111 spent cartridges fromSoviet-made machine guns. Themission housed four hundredboarding students and one hundredfifty African staff members. Theguerrillas had been seeking youths torecruit and took more than threehundred of them across the borderinto Botswana.

10-Feb-77 Karbala Iraq Other Explosives0 0 IRAQ. A Syrian agent was arrestedafter placing a booby-trappedsuitcase in a Karbala mosque. Thedevice was dismantled minutesbefore it was to explode.

14-Feb-77 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. Approximately 50 FARCguerrillas attacked the village of LaMacarena, about 95 miles fromBogota. They looted shops, killedone policeman, and kidnapped a U.S.citizen, U.S. biologist and PeaceCorps member Richard C. Starr. Theguerrillas fled into the mountainsafter the attack. In May 1978, FARCmade an offer to the U.S. Embassy toexchange Starr for guerrilla JaimeGuaracas, who is regarded as apolitical prisoner by the group.Guaracas is serving a long sentenceat the island prison of Gorgona in thePacific. A government spokesmansaid the proposal was unacceptablebecause the government was not ina position to negotiate with outlaws.Three years later, on February 12,1980, Starr was released in Bogotainto American hands, after a ransompayment of $250,000 was raised andpaid by American columnist JackAnderson.

18-Feb-77 Izmir Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in theearly morning hours in the USISlibrary in Izmir. The detonationcaused moderate property damage,but no casualties. Several otherbombings occurred in widelyscattered areas of Izmir the samenight, all apparently against Turkishtargets. Several Turkish youths,believed to be members of theAcilciler faction of the TurkishPeoples Liberation Party , werearrested in late May and chargedwith responsibility for the bombingand a 29 March attack on the U.S.consul general's residence.

18-Feb-77 Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An early-morning bombexplosion caused moderate damageto the USIS library in Izmir. Noinjuries were reported.

22-Feb-77 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. Two bombs exploded at theLima home of the Cuban militaryattache, causing considerabledamage but no injuries. The personsresponsible are not known. Theattache's home is located adjacent tothe official residence of the Cubanambassador to Peru.

27-Feb-77 AlexandriaEgypt Other Explosives9 0 EGYPT. An Egyptian working forLibyan intelligence planted a timebomb that exploded in a smallAlexandria hotel, injuring nine.

28-Feb-77 Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Kurdish rebels kidnapped anAlgerian and two Frenchmen in thenorth and held them with four Poleswhom they had kidnapped onDecember 18. The group demandeda stop to what they called themassacre of Kurds by the Iraqi army.The hostages were released onMarch 29 on humanitarian grounds,as the state of their health had beendeteriorating.

1-Mar-77 Zimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Other 0 1 RHODESIA. The body of ReverendManuel Rubio Diaz, a Spanish-bornRoman Catholic missionary who hadlived in the country for twenty-eightyears, was found bludgeoned todeath in a remote area south of theMozambique border. The area hasbeen the scene of attacks byZimbabwe guerrillas.

6-Mar-77 Ankara Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded outsidethe Iraqi embassy in Ankara causingonly minor damage to the building.According to a leaflet left at thescene, the attack was in memory ofArab patriots and Kurds..

9-Mar-77 Al-Alamein

Egypt Other Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Police arrested five forplanting bombs on railway trackswest of Al-Alamein. The groupconfessed to working for Libyanintelligence, which had given themmilitary training.

15-Mar-77 RotterdamNetherlandsal-Fatah Unknown0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. Terroristssabotaged the Gulf Oil Companyrefinery in Rotterdam. The terroristswere reported to be Europeansoperating on a contract for anunderground organization controlledby Fatah.

19-Mar-77 DiyarbakirTurkey Other Firearms0 0 TURKEY. A domestic Turkish airlinesflight from Diyarbakir to Ankara washijacked by two Turkish youthsarmed with pistols who ordered theplane flown to Lebanon. Thehijackers demanded a visit to thenearest Palestinian refugee camp.Shortly after the aircraft's arrival inBeirut all 174 passengers, includingtwo Americans, were releasedunharmed. The hijackerssurrendered later the same day andwere taken into custody by Lebaneseauthorities.

20-Mar-77 AddisAbaba

Ethiopia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ETHIOPIA. Three Molotov cocktailswere thrown at the USIS building inAddis Ababa. The premises wereunoccupied at the time except forlocal guards. Two of the bombs,thrown from a moving car, fell shortof the building. The third struck anupper window but did not ignite. Thepersons responsible are not known.

26-Mar-77 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives9 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded in theSheraton Hotel in Buenos Airesinjuring nine persons, none of themU.S. citizens. The explosion was oneof six bombings in scattered parts ofthe city the same day.

27-Mar-77 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb explodedoutside a Buenos Aires buildingcontaining the offices of the Sovietcommercial attache and theresidences of members of the Sovietembassy. No one was injured. Theattack was one of several bombingsin the city on the same night.

27-Mar-77 Gode Ethiopia Unknown Firearms0 1 ETHIOPIA. An American missionarywas shot and killed on the lawn of hisGode home by an armed guerrillaband. His son and a representativefrom World Vision escaped afterbeing shot at by the attackers. Themissionary was packing to leaveEthiopia after living there for twenty-five years.


Unknown Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. George deMohrenschildt, a shadowy figure withconnections to the Cuban exiles andLee Harvey Oswald (John Kennedy'sassassin), was found dead in hishome, the victim of a fatal shotgunblast. At the time, he was workingon a biography of Oswald. (Seerelated incident 4/5/77)

29-Mar-77 Izmir Turkey Other Firearms0 0 TURKEY. Unknown persons fired anautomatic weapon from a passing carat the U.S. consul general's residencein Izmir. The attack causedconsiderable property damage butno injuries. The consul general andhis wife were in the residence at thetime of the attack. An unexplodedpipe bomb was found in the streetbehind the house. Turkish policeviewed the attack as part of aTurkish terrorist campaign tocommemorate the 30 Marchanniversary of the death of terroristMahir Cayhan. Several Turkishyouths, believed to be members ofthe Acilciler faction of the TurkishPeoples Liberation Party, werearrested in late May and chargedwith responsibility for this attack andthe 18 February bombing of the USISlibrary.

30-Mar-77 Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Approximately 18privately-owned vehicles with foreignservice license plates werefirebombed in downtown Athens andin the area adjacent to Hellenikon AirBase. At least 11 of the carsbelonged to U.S. personnel. (Thesebombings may be related to the 31March opening of the trial of severalyouths accused of earlier attacks onU.S.-owned private vehicles.)

31-Mar-77 Bogota Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Three bombs explodedin the Sears store in Bogota causingminor damage. The ELN claimedresponsibility for the attack which itsaid was to commemorate the deathof a university student killed during aconfrontation with police in l976.

1-Apr-77 Zaire(BelgianCongo)

Unknown Unknown0 1 ZAIRE. Glen J. R. Eschtruth, the headof the United Methodist MissionHospital in Kapanga was kidnappedby rebels and later killed.

5-Apr-77 Paris France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. The U.S. embassy in Pariswas firebombed.

7-Apr-77 Ethiopia Unknown Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Insurgents kidnapped aCanadian helicopter pilot butreleased him unharmed two dayslater.

10-Apr-77 London UnitedKingdom


Firearms0 3 UNITED KINGDOM. Zuhair Akachefired into a car near Hyde Park inLondon and killed Qadi Abdullah AliHajri, sixty-five, deputy chief of theNorth Yemen Supreme Court, whohad served as his nation's primeminister from 1972 to 1974; his wife,and Abdullah Ali Hammami, aminister at the North Yemeniembassy. The killer escaped into asubway station. It was reported thathe took an Iraqi Airways jet toBaghdad within five hours. He laterappeared as Captain Mamoud, wholed the October 13, 1977 Lufthansahijacking, where he died in ashootout with a rescue squad.

10-Apr-77 AlexandriaEgypt Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 EGYPT. The Libyan consulate inAlexandria was set on fire. Thiscame a day after demonstrators inBenghazi sacked the Egyptianembassy.

11-Apr-77 San Jose CostaRica

RevolutionaryCommandosofSolidarity

Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A series of bombingsoccurred in San Jose. One high-powered bomb exploded outside theoffices of the U.S. military mission,causing considerable damage.Another explosion occurred at adowntown business office, and thePan American offices at the San Joseairport were also bombed. TheRevolutionary Commandos ofSolidarity claimed responsibility forthe bombings in a 12 Aprilcommunique. The attacks may havebeen in retaliation for the recentdeath in Nicaragua of Sandinistleader Carlos Aguero Echeverria, whowas a Costa Rican.

11-Apr-77 San Jose CostaRica

RevolutionaryCommandosofSolidarity

Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A series of bombingsoccurred in San Jose. One high-powered bomb exploded outside theoffices of the U.S. military mission,causing considerable damage.Another explosion occurred at adowntown business office, and thePan American offices at the San Joseairport were also bombed. TheRevolutionary Commandos ofSolidarity claimed responsibility forthe bombings in a 12 Aprilcommunique. The attacks may havebeen in retaliation for the recentdeath in Nicaragua of Sandinistleader Carlos Aguero Echeverria, whowas a Costa Rican.



Firearms0 1 ARGENTINA. An Argentina executiveof the Surrey Company, whichoperates under a license fromGeneral Motors Corporation, wasshot and killed in Buenos Aires.Anonymous callers to Buenos Airesnewspapers claimed the Montoneroswere responsible for the killing.

12-Apr-77 Paris France ActionFront fortheLiberationof theBalticCoun

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Firebombs exploded at theFrance-USSR Association offices andat the Editions de Moscou publishinghouse in Paris. The first blastresulted in only slight damage butthe explosion at the publishing housecaused extensive damage. A groupcalled the Action Front for theLiberation of the Baltic Countriesclaimed credit.

12-Apr-77 Paris France ActionFront fortheLiberationof theBalticCoun

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Firebombs exploded at theFrance-USSR Association offices andat the Editions de Moscou publishinghouse in Paris. The first blastresulted in only slight damage butthe explosion at the publishing housecaused extensive damage. A groupcalled the Action Front for theLiberation of the Baltic Countriesclaimed credit.

14-Apr-77 Tel Aviv Israel Other Firearms0 0 ISRAEL. Two Israelis armed with apistol took over a section of the WestGerman embassy in Tel Aviv, holdingit for five hours before surrendering.The pair held two empty rooms onthe second floor and said they wereangered over the slow progress ofand world apathy toward trials ofNazi war criminals. They cited theDusseldorf trial of fourteendefendants who were Nazi guards atthe Maidenek concentration camp inNazi-occupied Poland, a trial that hadlasted one year and was expected tocontinue for two more. Theypromised to surrender if they wereinterviewed on Israeli television andif the embassy was closed for theday. The first demand was granted.

15-Apr-77 Colombia PopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Firearms1 0 COLOMBIA. Victor Bigio, Britishmanager of the textile firm Vanytex,was seriously wounded when he wasshot several times by unknownassailants. The EPL issued acommunique claiming responsibilityfor the attack.

24-Apr-77 Israel Other Explosives28 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on boarda bus on its way to Beersheba,injuring twenty-eight and ripping outseats and smashing windows. Arabpassengers going to their jobs hadleft the bus ten minutes earlier andwere suspected in the bombing.

24-Apr-77 Krakow Poland Other Firearms0 0 POLAND. Polish police were reportedto have stopped a hijacking attemptat Krakow airport by a Polish soldierwho had seized a hostage and hadattempted to take over a TU134being prepared to fly to Nuremberg,West Germany. He fired severalshots before being overpowered bysoldiers dressed as mechanics.

26-Apr-77 Makale Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Firearms0 0 ETHIOPIA. Two members of the ELFattempted to hijack an EthiopianAirlines flight between Makale andGonder and divert it to Saudi Arabiaor Sudan. Security guards shot andkilled the attackers in a gun battle inwhich several passengers werewounded.

27-Apr-77 Lille France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Two Molotov cocktails werethrown at the West Germanconsulate in Lille, France, during thenight. One hit the first floor but didnot ignite. The persons responsiblefor the attack are not known.

1-May-77 ZouerateMauritaniaPolisarioFront

Explosives0 2 MAURITANIA. An unknown number ofPolisario guerrillas attacked aMauritanian mining facility nearZouerate with mortar and small armsfire. Two French citizens were killedduring the attack and six others werekidnapped by the raiding force.Facilities at the mining site wereextensively damaged.

8-May-77 Tokyo Japan Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 JAPAN. A Northwest Orient B-747flying from Tokyo to Honolulu wasthe scene of an attempted hijackingone hour after takeoff when atwenty-five year old American citizenheld a razor at the throat of astewardess and demanded to beflown to Moscow. The pilot laterradioed that the purser hadoverpowered the hijacker by injuringhim with a fire ax.

12-May-77

Tehran Iran Other Firearms2 0 IRAN. Two terrorists were killed byIranian security police whileattempting to enter a Jewish Agencyin Tehran. Two security men werealso wounded in the machine-gunbattle, which occurred twelve hoursbefore the scheduled arrival of U.S.Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.SAVAK claimed that the two weremembers of an Islamic-Marxistorganization.

14-May-77

Paris France NewArmenianResistance

Explosives1 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at theTurkish tourism office in Paris,slightly injuring the building'scaretaker. In telephone calls to theFrench press agency, the YouthAction Group and the New ArmenianResistance Group each claimed tohave conducted the attack, saying itwas in support of the Armenianpeople. French authorites believethe New Armenian Resistance Groupis probably responsible.

17-May-77

Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GR

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb explosion at the USISCultural Center in Madrid causedconsiderable damage to the buildingbut no serious injuries. The leftistgroup GRAPO claimed responsibilityfor the attack.

19-May-77

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A small bomb exploded inthe U.S. consulate compound inIstanbul. The detonation caused onlyslight property damage. The personsresponsible are not known.

23-May-77

GroningenNetherlandsOther Unknown0 2 THE NETHERLANDS. South Moluccanterrorists, in two separate actions,seized an express train nearGroningen and occupied a school inBovensmilde. Fifty-six people weretaken hostage in the train and 110children and teachers at the school.The terrorists demanded the releaseof 21 South Moluccans from Dutchprisons and air transport out of thecountry. All 105 children and oneteacher were released on 27 Mayafter a virus infection struck thehostages at the school. The fourterrorists in the school continued tohold the four remaining teachers.Three train hostages were freedbetween 4 and 8 June because ofpossible health problems. Afterseveral days of stalemated talks,Dutch troops on 11 June stormed thetrain and the school in simultaneousoperations and freed the hostages atboth locations. Six of the nineterrorists and two hostages werekilled in the assault on the train.There were no casualties at theschool. The seven survivingterrorists were taken into custody byDutch authorities. After trial theywere sentenced in September 1977to prison terms ranging from six tonine years. An eighth defendant,charged with assisting in planningthe operations, received a one-yearsentence.

23-May-77

BovensmildeNetherlandsOther Unknown0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. South Moluccanterrorists, in two separate actions,seized an express train nearGroningen and occupied a school inBovensmilde. Fifty-six people weretaken hostage in the train and 110children and teachers at the school.The terrorists demanded the releaseof 21 South Moluccans from Dutchprisons and air transport out of thecountry. All 105 children and oneteacher were released on 27 Mayafter a virus infection struck thehostages at the school. The fourterrorists in the school continued tohold the four remaining teachers.Three train hostages were freedbetween 4 and 8 June because ofpossible health problems. Afterseveral days of stalemated talks,Dutch troops on 11 June stormed thetrain and the school in simultaneousoperations and freed the hostages atboth locations. Six of the nineterrorists and two hostages werekilled in the assault on the train.There were no casualties at theschool. The seven survivingterrorists were taken into custody byDutch authorities. After trial theywere sentenced in September 1977to prison terms ranging from six tonine years. An eighth defendant,charged with assisting in planningthe operations, received a one-yearsentence.

25-May-77

FortLauderdale

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb exploded inthe Fort Lauderdale, Florida, officesof Mackey International Airlines,causing minor damage but noinjuries. An anonymous caller to theUPI office in Miami claimedresponsibility in the name of thePedro Luis Boitel Commandos, agroup named after a dead anti-Castro leader. Following the attack,Mackey Airlines president JosephMackey announced cancellation ofplans to resume regular flights toCuba.

28-May-77

Zurich SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. The Turkish Bank inZurich was devastated by a bombattack. Armenian terrorists werepresumed responsible.

28-May-77

Zurich SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. The TurkishConsulate in Zurich was severelydamaged by a bomb attack.Armenian terrorists were presumedresponsible.

29-May-77

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaGuerrillaArmy ofthe Poor(EGP)

Unknown1 0 GUATEMALA. SalvadoranAmbassador to Guatemala EduardoCasanova Sandoval was kidnappedfrom his car in Guatemala City bymembers of the Guatemalan Army ofthe Poor (EGP). In response to anEGP demand, a lengthy communiqueattacking the Salvadoran andGuatemalan governments was readon 30 May to delegates attending ameeting of the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank in GuatemalaCity. Casanova, who was slightlywounded during the kidnap action,was released on 31 May.

29-May-77

Istanbul Turkey 28 MayArmenianOrganization

Explosives42 5 TURKEY. A powerful bomb explodedin Istanbul's Yesilkoy airport, killingfive persons and injuring 42. One ofthe injured was a US. citizen.Damage to the building wasextensive. A similar bomb explodedthe same afternoon in the Sirkecitrain station, causing one death,approximately 10 injuries, andheavily damaging the terminalbuilding. In an anonymous telephonecall to the French press agency inAthens, a group calling itself the 28May Armenian Organization claimedresponsibility for the bombings.

6-Jun-77 Genoa Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. The Lufthansa Airlines officein Genoa was firebombed causingonly minor damage. A leftist studentwho was arrested and charged withthe attack said it was to protest WestGermany's policies concerningextremists.

8-Jun-77 Cali Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The U.S. consulate inCali was bombed, causing someproperty damage but no injuries. Theincident occurred during a day ofanti-government studentdemonstrations in Cali and two otherColombian cities. The personsresponsible for the bombing are notknown.

9-Jun-77 Rome Italy JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Firearms0 1 ITALY. The Turkish ambassador tothe Vatican was shot and fatallywounded outside his home in Romeby an unknown assailant. In atelephone call to the AssociatedPress office in Beirut, the JusticeCommandos for Armenian Genocideclaimed responsibility for the attack.


UnitedStates

Other Firearms1 0 UNITED STATES. Three Croatiannationalists, armed with small caliberhandguns, seized the offices of theYugoslav mission to the UN, butsurrendered after two hours. Themission chauffeur was wounded inthe takeover. The motivation for theattack appears to have beenpublicity for the cause ofindependence for Croatia. The threeCroatians were indicted on 23 Juneon charges of attempted murder,attempted kidnapping, assault,burglary, and criminal possession ofa weapon. On October 13, 1977, theCroatians were convicted of chargesof conspiracy to invade the YugoslavMission to the United Nations andseize Ambassador Jaksa Petric as ahostage in order to publicize apolitical cause. In addition to theconspiracy charge, the jury founddefendant Vladimir Dizdar, 23, ofChicago, guilty of shooting themission employee, Radimir Medic,who was crippled as a result of theshooting.

17-Jun-77 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Paris offices of themagazine France-USSR and theSoviet-owned Commercial Bank ofEurope were bombed. Theexplosions destroyed the magazine'soffices but caused only slightdamage at the bank. No one wasinjured at either location. Ananonymous telephone caller to theFrench press agency claimedresponsibility for the attack in thename of the Solidarist ResistanceMovement, and said the bombingswere to protest Soviet PresidentBrezhnev's upcoming visit to France.

17-Jun-77 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Paris offices of themagazine France-USSR and theSoviet-owned Commercial Bank ofEurope were bombed. Theexplosions destroyed the magazine'soffices but caused only slightdamage at the bank. No one wasinjured at either location. Ananonymous telephone caller to theFrench press agency claimedresponsibility for the attack in thename of the Solidarist ResistanceMovement, and said the bombingswere to protest Soviet PresidentBrezhnev's upcoming visit to France.

17-Jun-77 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A small bomb was throwninto the compound of theNetherlands consulate general inIstanbul. The incident occurredduring a demonstration protestingDutch policy toward the SouthMoluccans. Several windows wereshattered in the explosion, but noone was injured.

17-Jun-77 Nicosia Cyprus PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Unknown1 0 CYPRUS. Four Arabs driving a carwith diplomatic plates attempted tokidnap George Atallah, a Palestinianwho was living in Lebanon, and forcehim aboard a Middle East Airlinesflight to Beirut. Atallah, usingcrutches, had been admitted to aprivate Nicosia clinic with a leg injuryand was released on June 16. Thelocal press claimed that he was amember of Fatah who had expressedinterest in returning to his birthplace,Israel, where he had been arrestedfor anti-governmental activities. ThePLO was accused by the press ofbeing behind the kidnapping attemptand of intending to place Atallah ontrial and execute him.

21-Jun-77 AntofagastaChile Other Unknown0 0 CHILE. A Chilean man, employed byChile's Public Works Ministry inAntofagasta, hijacked a domesticLAN-Chile flight and forced it to fly toMendoza, Argentina. The hijackerinitially demanded a larger plane tofly him to Algeria, but was laterpersuaded to surrender. No motivefor the seizure was given.

25-Jun-77 PittsburghUnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, home of CroatianFraternal Union President JohnBadinovac was bombed. Theexplosion destroyed the interior ofthe house. Badinovac, who was notat home when the bombing occurred,attributed the attack to the CroatianLiberation Army.

28-Jun-77 San Jose CostaRica

Unknown Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb exploded in aSan Jose office building which housesthe Salvadoran and Nicaraguanconsulates. Damage was extensivebut no one was injured. Localauthorities believe the attack wasaimed at the Salvadoran rather thanthe Nicaraguan consulate.

29-Jun-77 Dubai UnitedArabEmirates

Other Firearms0 0 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. A Gulf Airflight, which had originated inLondon, was hijacked en route fromDubai to Muscat, Oman, by a loneLebanese man and forced to fly toDoha, Qatar. The hijacker, armedwith a pistol and hand grenades,demanded a $12,800 ransom for therelease of the 64 persons aboard theaircraft and intervention by theQatari government in the crisis inLebanon. He said he took over theplane to publicize the situation insouth Lebanon, which he said issubjected every day to thousands ofshells and savage, repeatedaggressions. He was later persuadedto release the passengers and crewmembers. Qatari troops thenboarded the plane and overpoweredthe hijacker.

1-Jul-77 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosion along theTurkish-Iraqi oil pipeline stopped thepipeline from functioning for 2weeks. As a result of tests andanalyses carried out by a firm in theFRG on pieces of metal collectedimmediately after the explosion, itwas determined that the explosionwas an act of sabotage.

2-Jul-77 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 TURKEY. Five unidentified menforced their way into the grounds ofthe French ambassador's summerresidence in Istanbul. They cuttelephone lines linking the gate tothe residence and fired at the gateguard. The men fled when the guardreturned their fire.

3-Jul-77 Salvador Brazil Other Firearms0 1 BRAZIL. Haiti's ambassador to Brazilwas shot and killed by two men inthe northeastern town of Salvador.The assassins claimed that they werehired by the Haitian embassy's firstsecretary, who denied their charges.

5-Jul-77 Arica Chile Other Unknown0 0 CHILE. A LADECO airliner on adomestic flight from Arica toSantiago, Chile, was seized by fourhijackers and forced to fly to Lima,Peru. Initial demands by the groupincluded the release of two menimprisoned in Chile and onwardtravel to Caracas and Paris. Afterthree hours of negotiations withPeruvian authorities, the hijackerssurrendered and were taken to theVenezuelan embassy in anticipationof being granted political asylum inVenezuela. However, theVenezuelan government refused toaccept the four, and on 9 July theywere flown to Cuba after the Cubangovernment agreed to grant themasylum.

6-Jul-77 Tel Aviv Israel DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives22 1 ISRAEL. A pipe bomb planted undera vegetable stand in Petah Tiqva, aTel Aviv suburb, killed one andinjured twenty-two, four of themseriously, in a crowded open-airmarket. In Beirut the PDFLP claimedcredit.

7-Jul-77 Paris France PolisarioFront

Firearms1 0 FRANCE. Two unknown gunmen shotand wounded the Mauritanianambassador to France near his Parishome. A Polisario Front groupclaimed responsibility for the attackin an anonymous phone call to theAgence France-Presse office.However, a Polisario spokesman inAlgiers denied the Front had carriedout the shooting.

8-Jul-77 Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A Kuwait Airways planeen route from Beirut to Kuwait washijacked by seven Palestinians. Theaircraft landed in Kuwait for refuelingand, during negotiations with Kuwaitiofficials, the hijackers released theirhostages in two groups on 8 and 9July in return for safe conduct toSouth Yemen. However, onceairborne, with three Arab officialswho had volunteered to serve ashostages, the hijackers directed theplane to Damascus. After l0 hours ofunsuccessful negotiations with Syrianauthorities, five of the hijackersoverpowered their leader on l0 Julyas the aircraft was preparing fortakeoff. All seven were taken intocustody. Their affiliation is unclear,as is their motivation for thehijacking.

11-Jul-77 Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GR

Explosives2 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at theFrench Cultural Institute in Madridcausing extensive damage to thebuilding and injuring two people.The October Group of Anti-FascistResistance (GRAPO) claimedresponsibility for placing the bomb.

11-Jul-77 Zurich SwitzerlandUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SWITZERLAND. The Air Iran offices inZurich were destroyed by arsonists.No one was injured in the fire. Localauthorities believe the attack waspolitically motivated.

14-Jul-77 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb explosion at theAmerican Express Company offices inAthens shattered windows anddamaged the main door.

14-Jul-77 Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. A car belonging to anAmerican professor at a U.S.-sponsored school was set ablaze.

14-Jul-77 Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb which failed toexplode was found in a storeroomand a second bomb, which had failedto explode, was found in a storeroomat the U.S. Armed Forces PostExchange. No injuries were reportedin any of the incidents which wereblamed on protestors against allegedU.S. support for the former militarygovernment and alleged U.S.tolerance of the Turkish invasion ofCyprus.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Cuban Missionto the United Nations was bombed byOmega-7 in New York City.



0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Two firebombswere thrown at the Vietnameseembassy in London, setting off smallfires. Damage was minor and therewere no injuries. The personsresponsible are not known.

20-Jul-77 Nahariya Israel Other Explosives5 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded at noon ina Nahariya supermarket, injuring fivepersons. Sixteen Arabs wererounded up.

22-Jul-77 Lima Peru Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 PERU. A Cuban fishing boat, dockedat a port near Lima, was bombed. Allof the crew escaped unhurt, but thevessel was a total loss. TheInternational Commandos of Zone 6of CORU claimed in a Puerto Ricannewspaper to have carried out theattack with two magnetic explosivemines, but there is no evidence tosupport this claim.

25-Jul-77 Rockville UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A dynamite bombexploded at 3:20 am at the Rockville,Maryland home of Morris J. Amitay,the executive director of theAmerican Israel Public AffairsCommittee, the major pro-Israellobby in Washington. Damage wasestimated at $50,000. Palestiniangroups denied responsibility.

28-Jul-77 BeershebaIsrael Other Explosives28 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian guerrillasclaimed credit for a bomb thatexploded in a Beersheba market,wounding 28.

29-Jul-77 Adana Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in back ofthe U.S. consulate in Adana, causingminor damage but no injuries. Asecond undetonated bomb wasdiscovered on the consulate grounds.

29-Jul-77 Milan Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A seven-pound dynamitebomb exploded in the Milan offices ofthe Swissair, causing minor damage.A leftist group calling itselfCombatants for Communism claimedresponsibility, saying the attack wasto protest the lengthy detention inSwitzerland of an alleged WestGerman anarchist, Petra Krause.

30-Jul-77 Milan Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Milan offices of the Sovietairline Aeroflot were bombed. Theviolent explosion caused severedamage to the offices as well asthree vehicles parked in front of thebuilding. There were no injuries.Although no group claimedresponsibility for the attack, the localmedia speculated that right-wingextremists carried it out in retaliationfor a bomb attack on the Swissairoffices in Milan the previous day by aleftist terrorist group.

2-Aug-77 Izmir Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 TURKEY. The U.S. consul general'sresidence in Izmir was sprayed withautomatic weapon fire during theearly morning hours. There were noinjuries. The persons responsible arenot known.

6-Aug-77 Istanbul Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationFront(TPLF)(THKP-C)

Firearms0 0 TURKEY. The Intercontinental Hotelin Istanbul, owned by Pan AmericanAirlines, was strafed with automaticweapon fire. Several windows werebroken, but no one was injured in theattack. Twenty-three members ofthe Acilciler faction of the TurkishPeople's Liberation Party/Front(TPLP/F) were arrested in late Augustfor involvement in this incident aswell as numerous bombings andseveral bank robberies.

6-Aug-77 SalisburyZimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Explosives76 11 RHODESIA. A bomb exploded inWoolworth's in Salisbury, killingeleven and injuring seventy-six,mostly black citizens. The secondfloor of the store was destroyed bythe blast, which knocked out a largesection of the eight- inch thick outerwall. The bomb was composed ofseventy-five pounds of TNT and hadbeen placed at a parcel check-in-site.Rhodesian guerrillas were blamedand a suspect was arrested inOctober.

9-Aug-77 Zimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Firearms0 2 RHODESIA. In an attack on St. Paul'sRoman Catholic mission, blacknationalist guerrillas shot in the backand killed two white womenmissionaries, one German and theother Austrian. The guerrillasassaulted and kicked nurses,threatened them with rape, andforced patients from their beds.

12-Aug-77

Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An Air France plane enroute from Paris to Cairo washijacked by a lone Egyptian youthafter a stopover in Nice. The aircrafteventually landed in Brindisi, Italy,after being turned away fromBenghazi and Athens. The hijacker,who had claimed to be carryingexplosives, was seized by Italianauthorities when he was pushed outof the aircraft and the door shutbehind him. He said he seized theplane in an effort to bring Egypt andLibya together after the recentfighting between the two countries.

13-Aug-77

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodednear a Venezuelan Air Force plane atMiami International Airport. Noinjuries or damage were reported. Acaller to the UPI office in Miami,claiming responsibility for thebombing in the name of the LuisBoitel Group, said the attack was inretaliation for the Venezuelangovernment's detention of CORUleader Orlando Bosch. (The BoitelGroup also claimed responsibility forthe 25 May bombing of the MackeyInternational Airlines office in FortLauderdale.)

15-Aug-77

SanFrancisco

UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. A fire was set infront of the Yugoslav consulate inSan Francisco during the earlymorning hours. The front of thebuilding was damaged in the blaze.The persons responsible were notknown.

16-Aug-77

Afula Israel Unknown Explosives8 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on anIsraeli bus at Afula injuring, 8.

17-Aug-77

Nablus WestBank/Gaza

Other Explosives6 0 ISRAEL. WEST BANK. A bombexploded in the square at Nablus, onthe West Bank, wounding 6.

21-Aug-77

Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded outsidethe Italian consulate in Paris,breaking most of the building'swindows. There were no injuries.Police found two pamphlets at thescene titled Solidarity with Kappler, areference to the German SS Colonelwho recently escaped fromimprisonment in Rome while servinga life sentence for war crimes.

26-Aug-77

Milan Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside theMilan offices of the Italy-GermanChamber of Commerce, injuring noone, in an apparent reprisal for theescape of Nazi war criminal HerbertKappler.

28-Aug-77

HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Molotov cocktails were thrown intoan IBM office building in Hamburg.Fire damage was slight and no onewas injured. The person responsiblefor the incident are not known.

29-Aug-77

CanberraAustralia AnandaMarga

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRALIA. Fire destroyed thechancery of the Indian HighCommission in Canberra. AnandaMarga is suspected.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Bombs placed bythe Luis Boitel Commandos on Route1 in Florida between Homestead andKey West exploded. The bombs werein protest of the Panama CanalTreaty signing being held inWashington, D.C., and also for theopening, six days earlier, of Cuba'sfirst diplomatic offices in Washington,D.C. in 17 years.

6-Sep-77 Cali Colombia Unknown Explosives3 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded in theSears store in Cali, injuring threepersons. Two other bombings, bothat local police stations, occurred thesame day. The persons responsibleare not known.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two predawnexplosions occurred in downtownWashington, D.C. In one bombing,the windows were blown out of abuilding housing the offices of theSoviet Union's Aeroflot Airlines andits maritime mission. The Pedro LuisBoitel Commandos, an anti-CastroCuban exile group, claimedresponsibility. The occasion was thesigning of the Canal Treaty.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two predawnexplosions occurred in downtownWashington, D.C. In one of theincidents a bomb detonated near TheWhite House fence. No injuries werereported in either blast. The PedroLuis Boitel Commandos, an anti-Castro Cuban exile group, claimedresponsibility. The occasion was thesigning of the Canal Treaty.

10-Sep-77 Adana Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in front ofthe Turkish American Association inAdana, shattering all the glass on thebuilding's ground floor. No injurieswere reported. The personsresponsible are not known.

10-Sep-77 Santiago Chile Other Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb was found at theSantiago Binational Center. Anextreme left group ResistenciaPopular claimed responsibility.

11-Sep-77 Azores Unknown Explosives0 0 AZORES. A bomb damaged the newofficial residence of General Galvaode Figueiredo, the residentPortuguese minister.

13-Sep-77 Cannes France Other Unknown1 1 FRANCE. Princess Ashraf Pahlavi,sister of the Shah of Iran, escapedunharmed from an assassinationattempt near Cannes. Her lady-in-waiting was killed in the attack andher driver was injured. Anti-Shahterrorists are presumed responsible,although no group has claimedresponsibility for the incident.

13-Sep-77 MexicoCity

Mexico Other Explosives5 0 MEXICO. During a wave of bombexplosions that hit Mexico City,Guadalajara, and Oaxaca, theWoolworths store was bombedduring the night. Altogether, fivepersons were injured and the totalproperty damage was estimated atUS $20 million, according to a pressreport. A small, independentterrorist group, the Union del Pueblo,is responsible for the attacks.

14-Sep-77 Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Bombs went off in a SearsRoebuck store, a General Motorsassembly plant and at theheadquarters of the ColgatePalmolive subsidiary.



14-Sep-77 Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A bomb exploded at theMexican-American Cultural Institute.

15-Sep-77 Australia AnandaMarga

Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 AUSTRALIA. The Indian HighCommission's military attache wasstabbed during an attempted kidnapattempt against him and his wife.The attache was able to disarm hisassailant who fled. The attacker wasapprehended later and claimed hewas seeking the release of P.R.Sarkar, the Ananda Marga leader.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Bombs exploded atfour hotels in Miami and Miami Beachin the early morning hours. Hit werethe Fontainebleau and Eden Rochotels in Miami Beach and theSheraton Four Ambassadors andDupont Plaza hotels in Miami.Damage was minor and no one wasinjured. A caller to the AssociatedPress office in Miami claimedresponsibility for the bombings in thename of the Luis Boitel Commandos,an anti- Castro Cuban exile group.This group is also responsible for the7 September bombings inWashington, D.C., and two earlierattacks in Florida.


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Anti-CastroCubans



Unknown0 0 INDIA. JRA guerrillas hijacked a JapanAirlines plane shortly after takeofffrom Bombay and forced it to land inDacca, Bangladesh. The Japanesegovernment agreed to the terrorists'demand for the release of nineimprisoned Japanese and US $6million in exchange for the more than150 hostages on the aircraft. Ten ofthe passengers were U.S. citizens.Eight passengers were released inDacca during the next two days.After the arrival on 1 October of theransom money and the six releasedJapanese prisoners who had agreedto join the hijackers, over 100 morepassengers were freed. The aircraft,carrying the remaining hostages, thehijackers, the released Japaneseprisoners, and the ransom money,departed Dacca on 2 October forAlgeria. During refueling stops enroute in Kuwait and Syria, a total of17 additional hostages werereleased. Upon arrival in Algiers on 3October, the JRA hijackers andreleased prisoners surrendered toAlgerian authorities and theremaining 19 passengers and crewwere freed.It was reported that theoperation was planned as long asthree months ago by Wadi Haddad'sPopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine (Revolutionary Command)-- superficially a breakaway fromGeorge Habash's PFLP, which is saidby the Israelis to maintain covertlinks with it. Haddad's headquartershave been in South Yemen since theeruption of civil was in Lebanon;however, the Bangladesh operationis said to have been planned, andcontrolled in detail, from Beirut.Themotive is said to have been primarilymoney. The Syrians in Lebanoncaptured large sums of moneystashed away by the Palestiniangroups. Although they turned oversome of the cash to the PalestineLiberation Organization (PLO), theyrefused to give any of it to factions,such as Haddad's, which belong tothe so-called 'Rejection Front.'Haddad and his lieutenantsapparently felt an urgent need toraise more finance.Bangladesh wasselected as the place to take thehijacked plane to because it is fairlyclose to Japan--from which theransom and the released prisonerswere to come-- and was consideredto be in such a state of internalconfusion that its government wouldbe exceedingly unlikely to adopt ahard line toward the hijackers. A1978 press release stated that thehijackers had been expelled fromAlgeria and that they did not havethe ransom money when they arrivedin Algeria.


Unknown0 0 INDIA. JRA guerrillas hijacked a JapanAirlines plane shortly after takeofffrom Bombay and forced it to land inDacca, Bangladesh. The Japanesegovernment agreed to the terrorists'demand for the release of nineimprisoned Japanese and US $6million in exchange for the more than150 hostages on the aircraft. Ten ofthe passengers were U.S. citizens.Eight passengers were released inDacca during the next two days.After the arrival on 1 October of theransom money and the six releasedJapanese prisoners who had agreedto join the hijackers, over 100 morepassengers were freed. The aircraft,carrying the remaining hostages, thehijackers, the released Japaneseprisoners, and the ransom money,departed Dacca on 2 October forAlgeria. During refueling stops enroute in Kuwait and Syria, a total of17 additional hostages werereleased. Upon arrival in Algiers on 3October, the JRA hijackers andreleased prisoners surrendered toAlgerian authorities and theremaining 19 passengers and crewwere freed.It was reported that theoperation was planned as long asthree months ago by Wadi Haddad'sPopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine (Revolutionary Command)-- superficially a breakaway fromGeorge Habash's PFLP, which is saidby the Israelis to maintain covertlinks with it. Haddad's headquartershave been in South Yemen since theeruption of civil was in Lebanon;however, the Bangladesh operationis said to have been planned, andcontrolled in detail, from Beirut.Themotive is said to have been primarilymoney. The Syrians in Lebanoncaptured large sums of moneystashed away by the Palestiniangroups. Although they turned oversome of the cash to the PalestineLiberation Organization (PLO), theyrefused to give any of it to factions,such as Haddad's, which belong tothe so-called 'Rejection Front.'Haddad and his lieutenantsapparently felt an urgent need toraise more finance.Bangladesh wasselected as the place to take thehijacked plane to because it is fairlyclose to Japan--from which theransom and the released prisonerswere to come-- and was consideredto be in such a state of internalconfusion that its government wouldbe exceedingly unlikely to adopt ahard line toward the hijackers. A1978 press release stated that thehijackers had been expelled fromAlgeria and that they did not havethe ransom money when they arrivedin Algeria.

1-Oct-77 ArgentinaMontoneros(Argentina)

Explosives0 2 ARGENTINA. Terrorists posing aspublic works employees, parked anexplosive-filled car outside the homeof Eduardo Beach, an Argentineexecutive of Chrysler Corporation,then set it off, killing a companybodyguard and a woman neighbor.The blast also damaged Beach'shome; Beach himself was not athome at the time. The incident wasthought to be the work of Montoneroguerrillas.

4-Oct-77 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

28 MayArmenianOrganization

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A crude bombexploded on the porch of a Turkishhistory professor's home in LosAngeles, California. No one wasinjured in the early morning blast. Aman later phoned United PressInternational that the bombing wasthe responsibility of the IranianGroup of 28 which in the past alsoclaimed credit for the assassinationof the Turkish ambassador in Paris.

4-Oct-77 PanamaCity

Panama Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PANAMA. Panama City universitystudents set fire to the U.S.Ambassador's car while the charged'affaires, who was using it, wasvisiting the campus. No one was inthe vehicle at the time of theincident. The students, whoprevented firemen from approachingthe car, were protesting against theterms of the Panama Canal Treaty.

6-Oct-77 RotterdamNetherlandsOther Firearms0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. Several shotswere fired into the West Germanconsulate building in Rotterdam.Only minor damage resulted and noinjuries. Members of the UniversalLiberation Front arrested in mid-December by Dutch police admittedstaging the armed attack.

7-Oct-77 RotterdamNetherlandsUnknown Firearms0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. Shots were firedat the U.S. Consul General'sresidence in Rotterdam.

8-Oct-77 Greece Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Three cars belonging toAmerican military men were hit byfirebombs. The attacks werebelieved to be the work of smallextremist groups trying to createtension in advance of nationalelections scheduled for November.





9-Oct-77 Yesilyurt Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was thrown intothe residence of U.S. Army personnelin Yesilyurt. The dwelling, located inthe American House apartmentcomplex, was occupied by tworesidents and three other U.S. Armypersonnel. The bomb, composed ofplastic explosive material, did notdetonate, but a small fire started,causing minor damage. There wereno injuries. No reason for the attackis known.

9-Oct-77 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded outside aU.S. Non-Commissioned Officers'Club in an Athens suburb. Thedetonation caused minor damage tothe building but no casualties werereported. Pamphlet fragments foundat the scene indicated that ELA, anextreme leftist organization, wasresponsible.

11-Oct-77 Beirut Lebanon ArabCommunistOrganization

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosion damagedthe First National Bank of Chicago indowntown Beirut. No injuries werereported. The Arab CommunistOrganization claimed reponsibility. Astatement found near the bankentrance demanded the release of aLebanese under death sentence forthe seizure of the Beirut branch ofthe Bank of America in October 1973.


UnitedStates

FuerzasArmadasdeLiberacionNacional(FALN)

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A pipe bombexploded outside the main entranceof the New York City public library;damage was minimal and no one wasinjured. On the same day, dynamitewas found near the Bank of Iranoffice in New York and dynamite wasalso found in a trash can nearby. TheFBI has determined that the FALN isprobably responsible since the PuertoRican terrorist group left acommunique nearby the incidents.

13-Oct-77 Spain PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Unknown0 1 SPAIN. A Lufthansa 737 Boeing jetwas hijacked by four Palestinianterrorists. The plane carried 86passengers and five crew membersand was scheduled for Frankfurt,Germany. The hijackers ordered theplane via Rome, Cyprus, Bahrain,Dubai, and Aden to Mogadishu,capital of Somalia, and demandedthe release of ll of their comradesfrom West German prisons, thefreeing of two Palestinians fromTurkish jails, and a $15 millionransom. A Palestinian splinter groupheaded by Waddi Haddad, PopularFront for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Operations, claimedresponsibility for the hijacking.During the ordeal, the pilot was killedat Aden. An elite 60-man WestGerman commando police unitliberated the hostages in a daringraid after the hostages had suffereda six-day ordeal. Three of theterrorists, two men and a woman,were killed outright; the fourth, awoman, was wounded andhospitalized. She was sentenced to20 years in prison, but Palestinianguerrillas later (January 1978) forcedthe government of Somalia torelease Suheila al Sayeh who went toBaghdad, the capital of Iraq.Palestinian sources in Beirut said shewas freed because Wadi Haddad, theradical guerrilla leader, threatenedan anti-Somali terrorist operation.InJanuary 1996 a woman went on trialon charges of acting as a Red ArmyFaction accomplice to the hijackingand supplying weapons andexplosives to the Palestinian terroristcommando.

13-Oct-77 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives2 2 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at thehome of an Argentine executive ofthe Chrysler subsidiary. Theexplosion, which went off inside a carparked in front of the residence,killed a man and a woman andinjured two other women.

15-Oct-77 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. The Arab RevolutionaryMovement claimed responsibility fora bomb that went off during themorning in the old city of Jerusalem,slightly injuring two tourists.

19-Oct-77 MelbourneAustralia AnandaMarga


1 0 AUSTRALIA. An Australian employeeof the Air India office in Melbournewas stabbed in the lung by anunidentified assailant. The salesrepresentative's attacker escaped,leaving behind a note from thepolitical wing of the Ananda Marga,which threatened further violence.

19-Oct-77 Italy Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives0 0 ITALY. Powerful explosives wreckedthree showrooms for German-madeautomobiles in northern Italian cities.Anonymous callers said the bombswere planted in memory of threeWest German anarchists whosedeaths in prison caused riots inLondon and Athens as well as Italyand Germany. The three weremembers of the Baader-MeinhofGang, including leader AndreasBaader.





19-Oct-77 Paris France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Firebombs were thrown atthree West German tourist buses inParis and two in Nice.

19-Oct-77 Nice France Unknown Fire orFirebomb


19-Oct-77 Nice France Unknown Fire orFirebomb


20-Oct-77 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. Armenian extremistsclaimed credit for planting a bombthat destroyed the car of MetinYalma, the assistant press attache ofthe Turkish embassy in Athens.

20-Oct-77 Athens Greece Other Firearms0 0 GREECE. Economist ChristosKassimis died after a gun battle withpolice after he was discoveredattempting to bomb a West Germanfactory in Athens. The leftist and twoaccomplices opened fire on policeafter they were asked to produceidentification.


UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. The Air India officein New York was the target of aMolotov cocktail. The bomb failed toexplode. The only damage was abroken window. The UniversalProutist Revolutionary Federationclaimed credit for the incident.

20-Oct-77 Antalya Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosive device wasthrown at the German consulate inAntalya. Following this incident, theoffice was set on fire. Furniture wasdamaged but no injuries werereported.

22-Oct-77 Toulouse France Baader-MeinhofGroup

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. The Andreas BaaderCommando group claimed credit forarson attacks against the WestGerman consulate in Toulouse.

22-Oct-77 Bolzano Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb slightly damaged aWest German tourist bus parked inBolzano.

22-Oct-77 Sassari Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A BMW auto showroom inSassari was damaged by a bomb.

22-Oct-77 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A West German business inRome was bombed.

25-Oct-77 Turkey Unknown Explosives3 0 TURKEY. Two bombs thrown at theWest German cultural center causedseveral injuries and extensivedamage. The explosions occurred asabout 40 young people, protestingthe deaths of three German terroristleaders, gathered in front of thecenter. Two Turkish bus drivers,waiting to take school children home,were injured.

26-Oct-77 AbuDhabi

UnitedArabEmirates

Other Firearms0 1 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. SaifGhobash, Minister of State of theUnited Arab Emirates, was shot andkilled in a burst of gunfire apparentlyintended for Syria's foreign minister.One Palestinian gunman wasarrested while trying to hijack aCzech cargo plane after the shootingat Abu Dhabi airport, but three othergunmen escaped. News agenciesagreed that the attempt was aimedat Khaddam by extremistPalestinians who object to Syria'sstated willingness to reach a politicalsettlement with Israel. The capturedgunman, Salah Muhammed Khalid, a19-year-old Palestinian, wasexecuted by firing squad onNovember16.

26-Oct-77 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. Bombs damaged three WestGerman showrooms in Rome.



27-Oct-77 NouakchottMauritaniaPolisarioFront

Unknown0 0 MAURITANIA. In Nouakchott, 17railwaymen, 15 Mauritanians and twoFrenchmen, were kidnapped bySaharan guerrillas believed to be thePolisario Front. The two Frenchmenbring to 8 the number of Frenchmenkidnapped since May by the PolisarioFront. The Algerian government-inspired newspaper El Moudjahidwarned France that the Algerianpeople will not let themselves beintimidated. It went on to say thattoo much Algerian blood had alreadybeen spilled by France.

28-Oct-77 Lisbon Portugal Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb exploded in thebasement of the Lisbon branch of theSiemens Company, a West Germanelectronics firm. There were noinjuries but property damage wasestimated at U.S.$50,000. A notewas left at the scene indicating thatthe incident was in retaliation for thedeaths of Baader-Meinhof Gangmembers.

1-Nov-77 Paris France CharlesMartelGroup

Unknown0 0 FRANCE. A group calling itself theCharles Martel Committee kidnappedtwo Algerians near Paris. Theabduction was probably in reprisalfor the Algerian-backed PolisarioFront's kidnapping of two Frenchnationals in late October.See incident10/27/77 in Mauritania.

1-Nov-77 Milan Italy Baader-MeinhofGroup

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Leftist extremists, protestingBaader-Meinhof Gang deaths, threwMolotov cocktails at the Mercedesshowrooms in Milan. Severalwindows were broken and a smallfire inside the building was quicklyextinguished.

3-Nov-77 Aleppo Cyprus Other Firearms0 1 CYPRUS. In a continuing war byassassination, Iraqi agentsassassinated Ali bin Abed el-Ali, oneof Syria's foremost agriculturalresearchers, on a street in Aleppo.Reports stated that two hirelings ofthe Baghdad regime shot Ali frombehind with automatic pistols. TheSyrian and Iraqi regimes aregoverned by rival factions of theSocialist Baath Party, and have beenlocked in an ideological battle,especially over Syrian attempts toreach a settlement with Israel.

6-Nov-77 Ammam Jordan JordanianFreeOfficersMovement

Unknown0 0 JORDAN. A Royal Jordanian Airlinesplane was hijacked between Ammanand Aqaba. The plane was flown toBenghazi, Libya, when Beirut airportofficials refused permission for it toland there. The hijackers, whoclaimed to be members of theJordanian Free Officers Movement,released the passengers and crewafter being granted asylum in Libya.

9-Nov-77 KatmanduNepal AnandaMarga

Explosives0 0 NEPAL. Two explosive devices werethrown against the gate of the Indianembassy in Katmandu, causing nodamage or injuries. A letterdemanding the release of AnandaMarga leader Sarkar was foundnearby.

11-Nov-77

StrasbourgFrance Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A gasoline bomb wasthrown at the Algerian consulate inStrasbourg. There were no injuriesor damage. A caller to a localnewspaper said the attack was inretaliation for Algerian support of thePolisario group, which was holdingeight French citizens hostage.

12-Nov-77

CopenhagenDenmark AnandaMarga

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 DENMARK. Two Molotov cocktailswere thrown at the residence of theIndian ambassador in Copenhagen.In letters received by the IndianEmbassy and a Danish newspaper,the Universal Army claimedresponsibility and demanded therelease of Ananda Marga leader P. R.Sakar.

13-Nov-77

JerusalemIsrael DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives4 1 ISRAEL. A PDFLP bomb explodednear an Arab school in the old city ofJerusalem's Christian section, killinga student and wounding four otherpersons. A second bomb explodedthree hours later in the Jewish suburbof Talpiot, across the street from anursery school. An Arab teenagerwas killed, and a man was injured.The PDFLP in Beirut said thebombings were in retaliation forIsraeli shelling in southern Lebanon.

13-Nov-77

Talpiot Israel DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives1 1 ISRAEL. A PDFLP bomb explodednear an Arab school in the old city ofJerusalem's Christian section, killinga student and wounding four otherpersons. A second bomb explodedthree hours later in the Jewish suburbof Talpiot, across the street from anursery school. An Arab teenagerwas killed, and a man was injured.The PDFLP in Beirut said thebombings were in retaliation forIsraeli shelling in southern Lebanon.

14-Nov-77

Algeria PolisarioFront

Explosives0 0 ALGERIA. The Algerian-backedPolisario Front guerrillas attacked aSpanish trawler with mortar andmachine-gun fire, and seized threeSpanish fishermen. The guerrillasused a rocket-armed inflatablespeedboat in the attack. Theguerrilla movement is fightingagainst the Moroccan andMauritanian annexation of the formerSpanish Sahara and claimed theyhad seized the trawler because it hadviolated the waters of the Sahararepublic to pillage its maritimeriches. The guerrillas announced onNovember 25 that they wouldrelease the three Spanish fishermen.On December 23, eight Frenchhostages who had been held captiveby the Polisario Front were handedover to UN Secretary General KurtWaldheim by a minister of thePolisario Front at the UN office inAlgiers. The eight French citizensand Dr. Waldheim boarded a DC-9aircraft in Algiers for Orly Airport inFrance.

15-Nov-77

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. New York Citypolice found a bomb in the Iran Airoffices and defused it. The Shah ofIran was visiting Washington, D.C. onan official visit.

16-Nov-77

Kuwait Unknown ChemicalAgent

0 1 KUWAIT. A British Embassycounselor in North Yemen died frompoison shortly before his personalcook vanished and a week after thecountry's head of state wasassassinated. George Clift had livedin the area 15 years and was wellinformed about Arab politics.

16-Nov-77

KualaLumpur

Malaysia Unknown Explosives1 0 MALAYSIA. An explosion occurred atthe Air India offices in downtownKuala Lumpur. The bomb went off inthe restroom, knocking out a walland injuring one person. Police hadreceived a phone call from anindividual (no affiliation was given)saying a bomb had been placed inthe area.

17-Nov-77

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives8 1 LEBANON. A rocket attack on theEgyptian Embassy in Beirut killed asecurity guard and wounded twoguards and six Saudi Arabiansoldiers.

17-Nov-77

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb explosion at theEgyptian state airline office indowntown Beirut was apparently inprotest of Egyptian President Sadat'sscheduled visit to Israel on the 19th.

17-Nov-77

DamascusSyria al-Fatah Explosives0 0 SYRIA. Two bombs exploded in theEgyptian embassy in Damascus,causing no injuries and slightdamage to the building. Fatahdenied responsibility for the eveningexplosion, which came afterPresident Sadat had departed Syriaafter meeting with President Asadregarding his decision to go to Israelto discuss his peace proposals.

19-Nov-77

Tripoli Libya Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LIBYA. A major fire was reported inthe Egyptian embassy in Tripoli.

19-Nov-77


0 0 FRANCE. A gasoline container wasset on fire outside the Egyptianembassy's Cultural Center in Paris,causing slight damage.

19-Nov-77

Karachi Pakistan Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. Six students drove up tothe Egyptian consulate in Karachi at5 pm and tried to set it on fire. Theysucceeded only in setting afire somecarpets, which were extinguishedbefore the blaze could do seriousdamage.

19-Nov-77

Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GR

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. An explosion at the Germancultural center resulted in thebreaking of all the windows in thebuilding. The blast also broke awindow of the German embassyacross the street. No personalinjuries were reported. GRAPO hasclaimed responsibility.

21-Nov-77

Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A bomb exploded at theEgyptian embassy, causing somedamage.

25-Nov-77

CanaryIslands

Other Explosives0 0 CANARY ISLANDS. According to apress release by the Movement forthe Self-Determination andIndependence of the Canary Islands(MPAIAC), the group exploded a timebomb at the High Command of theSpanish Forces in Tenerife. Therewas property damage but no injuries.

25-Nov-77

Madrid Spain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at aSpanish insurance company buildingin Madrid. The bombing causedproperty damage but there were noinjuries. The MPAIAC (Movement forthe Self-Determination andIndependence of the Canary Islands)group claimed responsibility.

25-Nov-77

Madrid Spain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at TheBank of Madrid. The bombingcaused property damage but noinjuries. The MPAIAC group claimedresponsibility.

27-Nov-77

France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Police dismantled adynamite bomb 10 minutes before itwas to explode in the bathroom of ahall where 500 members of theFrance-Israel Association, aninternational friendship group, wasmeeting.

27-Nov-77

Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Tal az-Za'tar groupclaimed credit for a predawnbombing of the Bank Leumi le Israelin Paris, which caused extensivedamage. A phone claimed that thebombing was a warning to the Zionistkillers who recently bombardedLebanon and those who supportthem. The group's name is takenfrom a Palestinian refugee camp inLebanon, which was overrun byChristian militia in August 1976 aftera fifty-four day siege.

29-Nov-77

Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 UNITED STATES. An Indian diplomatwas seriously wounded inWashington, D.C., when he wasstabbed by an assailant wielding twoknives. According to an embassyspokesman, the assailant is believedto be a member of the UniversalRevolutionary Proutist Movementwhich had been sending letters tothe embassy threatening its officials.The movement is called a spiritualand political organization whosechief, P. R. Sarkar, has beenimprisoned on a murder conviction.

29-Nov-77

IndonesiaOther Firearms1 1 INDONESIA. Gunmen claimingmembership in the Front for theLiberation of Aceh, Sumatra,attacked the Arun airstrip in the townof Lhok Sukon, where employees ofBechtel, a U.S. firm, were layingpipeline for a liquefield natural gasplant. The group, armed with oldrifles and machetes fired at randomat the workers. One American waskilled and another wounded.

30-Nov-77

Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. Four bombs exploded atBritish military bases on Cyprus. Twoexplosions at Dhekelia, a naval basenear Larnaca, damaged twotransformers on the base. Anotherbomb exploded at a nearby radioantenna field damaging both atransformer and some antennas.The fourth explosion at Akrotiri, anairbase near Limassol, damaged thepumps for the water system at thebase. No injuries were reported as aresult of any of the explosions.

30-Nov-77


30-Nov-77


30-Nov-77



ArgentinaUnknown Firearms1 2 ARGENTINA. Terrorists firedsubmachine guns at a car in BuenosAires in which three bodyguards of aChrysler executive were riding, killingtwo of the men and wounding theother.

2-Dec-77 ArgentinaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ARGENTINA. Gunfire and firebombattacks on Ford, Chrysler, andMercedes-Benz dealerships werereported. No motives were reported.


0 0 ARGENTINA. Gunfire and firebombattacks on Ford, Chrysler, andMercedes-Benz dealerships werereported. No motives were reported.


0 0 ARGENTINA. Gunfire and firebombattacks were reported at theMercedes-Benz dealership. Nomotive was reported.

2-Dec-77 France Other Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A night watchman at theEuropean Algerian Associationbuilding was gunned down by two orthree men who escaped in a car. Atelephone caller claiming to speak forthe Delta Group threatened toexecute organizers of all Algerianassociations in Europe if Frenchhostages taken by the PolisarioLiberation Front were not released byDecember 4. They were released onDecember 23.

3-Dec-77 Israel Unknown Explosives6 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in acrowded market street wounding sixpersons.

4-Dec-77 MelbourneAustralia Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. An explosion damagedthe Yugoslav Airlines office inMelbourne. The working area wastotally destroyed but no injuries werereported.

4-Dec-77 Penang Malaysia Unknown Explosives0 100 MALAYSIA. A Malaysian AirlineSystem Boeing 737 jet was hijackedshortly after it left Penang. Thehijackers ordered the pilot to fly toSingapore, but the plane crashed onthe Straits of Johore. Unconfirmedreports said there were explosionsaboard the plane before it wentdown. It was reported that the pilotradioed before the explosion that hisplane had been seized by terroristsof the Japanese Red Army, but thisappears doubtful as a check of thepassenger list shows only oneJapanese passenger, a minorgovernment official in Japan. Therewere no survivors among the 100people on board. The official reportstated that the pilots had been shotdead before the plane crashed into amangrove swamp; the dead includedMalaysian Agricultural Minister DatukHaji Ali Ahmad, the CubanAmbassador to Malaysia, a numberof Australians, Britons, Japanese,West Germans, and one American.No one ever claimed responsibility; itmay never be known why thehijackers suddenly incapacitated thecrew as the craft descended for alanding at Singapore.

4-Dec-77 Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A bomb exploded in thelavatory of the Belgrade expresstrain after it had left the Austrianborder station of Spielfeld andcrossed into Yugoslavia. No one wasreported injured.

5-Dec-77 YugoslaviaUnknown Explosives0 0 YUGOSLAVIA. Police discovered abomb aboard an international traintraveling from West Germany. All140 passengers were evacuatedbefore the bomb detonated. Thebomb had been planted in the lastcoach of the West German Railwaystrain. No details were available as tothe extent of the damage.

6-Dec-77 Cairo Egypt Other Firearms0 1 EGYPT. David Holden, chief foreigncorrespondent of the London SundayTimes, was found shot to death in aCairo suburb. His body was foundwithout identification papers,luggage or money. On December 16,Cairo police arrested two Arab menand a woman in connection with thecase. It was noted that Holden hadspotted the leader of a Palestinianguerrilla group on its way to Cairo todisrupt Israeli-Egyptian peace talks.The two were aboard the same planefrom Amman, recognized each other,and from then on, his life was indanger. It was believed that Holdenwas carrying a message from KingHussein to President Sadat promisinghim support in the peace talks.

7-Dec-77 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates


1 0 UNITED STATES. The nineteen yearold son of India's minister ofeducation and science was stabbedwhile in the stacks of GeorgetownUniversity's library by an assailantwho gave no explanation for hisattack. The press speculated thatthe attack was related to a recentstabbing of the Indian embassy'sattache by a member of theUniversal Proutist RevolutionaryMovement, which had beenthreatening the embassy.


ArgentinaOther Unknown0 2 ARGENTINA. Two French nuns werekidnapped in Buenos Aires byMontonero guerrillas together with11 other persons. A communiquereceived from the leftist Peronistguerrillas stated that they wantedthe Roman Catholic Church torepudiate the military governmentand the government to free 21prisoners. The communique alsocalled for the government to provideinformation on prisoners and missingpersons and demanded that theFrench government offer asylum toall persons persecuted for politicalreasons. The bodies of the two nunswere identified along with others onthe beaches near Bahia Blanca, 800km south of Buenos Aires.AlfredoAstiz, a former Argentine NavalOfficer, was tried and convicted inabsentia in a French court for themurder of the two nuns. InSeptember 2003 he turned himself into Argentine police. He will remain inArgentina where he will be tried forother human rights abuses that tookplace during Argentina's militarydictatorship.

10-Dec-77

Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Two bombs were thrown atbuildings used to house U.S. militarypersonnel. No injuries werereported.

11-Dec-77

LuxembourgCity

LuxembourgUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LUXEMBOURG. Two gasoline-filledwine bottles were thrown at the U.S.embassy. No injuries were sustainedand no group claimed responsibility.

12-Dec-77

Vienna Austria Baader-MeinhofGroup

Firearms0 0 AUSTRIA. Lotte Boehm, 42-year-oldwife of Austrian businessmanLeopold Boehm, was kidnapped bytwo masked gunmen outside theirVienna home. The kidnapping isbelieved to be linked to the WestGerman Baader-Meinholf Gang.

14-Dec-77

AshShariqah

UnitedArabEmirates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. A bombexploded in the office of the Egyptianairlines in Ash-Shariqah in the UAE.There were no casualties becausethe office was closed. The explosiondestroyed the window, furniture, andthe front of the Ash-Shariqah banknearby.

14-Dec-77

Belgrade YugoslaviaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 YUGOSLAVIA. Two men threw twoMolotov cocktails at the WestGerman embassy. The first fell onthe edge of the pavement and failedto explode. The second exploded infront of the embassy and started afire. The men escaped.

16-Dec-77

BuenosAires

ArgentinaOther Firearms1 1 ARGENTINA. Leftist guerrillas shotand killed Andre Gasparoux, thetechnical director of the Argentinesubsidiary of the French PeugeotMotor Company in Buenos Aires. Theseven guerrillas, including twowomen, ambushed the businessmanand his bodyguard (who wasseriously wounded) as he was drivingto work. They used a truck to blockhis car and then sprayed it withmachine-gun fire before making theirescape.

18-Dec-77

Beirut Lebanon LebaneseArabYouth

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosive-ladensuitcase was removed from theBeirut residence of a senior Egyptiandiplomat. Lebanese Arab Youthclaimed responsibility.

19-Dec-77


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A suitcase containingthirteen pounds of explosives wasfound inside the Egyptian embassyand defused. Lebanese Arab Youthclaimed responsibility.

20-Dec-77


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. During the night, anEgyptian bank and the adjacentoffice of Egyptair were slightlydamaged by a bomb in Beirut.Lebanese Arab Youth claimedresponsibility.

20-Dec-77


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Two 3.5-inch Katyusharockets and dynamite were foundhidden in a vegetable cart on abuilding near the Egyptian embassyin Beirut. The devices were defusedone hour before they were scheduledto fire. Lebanese Arab Youth claimedresponsibility.

20-Dec-77

Maicao Colombia Other Firearms0 1 COLOMBIA. Several Guajira RegionIndians fired shots at the Venezuelanconsulate in Maicao, killing a buildingwatchman.

20-Dec-77

Cyprus Other Unknown0 0 CYPRUS. Achilleas Kyprianou, theson of President Spyros Kyprianou,was kidnapped from his base in theTroodos mountains by members ofEOKA-B, a latter-day offshoot of theGreek-Cyprus resistance organizationthat fought the British until Cyprusgained its independence. The actwas universally condemned and asnegotiations went on for his release,his captors realized their act wasunpopular even among their ownpeople. Achilleas was released 3days later and brought back toNicosia where he was greeted by 500well-wishers. His abductors hadbeen promised pardons if Achilleaswas released unharmed.

20-Dec-77

ElizabethUnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Almacen elEspanol in Elizabeth, New Jersey, afirm that specializes in sendingmedical supplies to Cuba, wasbombed by Omega-7.

23-Dec-77

Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb exploded inthe Miami office of Venezuela's VIASAairlines. The explosion brokewindows and ripped a hole in thewall. No injuries were reported. Theincident occurred only hours afterthe departure of VIASA's firstscheduled flight from Chicago toCuba since the l960s. No person orgroup claimed responsibility for theincident, but anti-Castro groups weresuspected.

25-Dec-77

KuwaitCity

Kuwait Unknown Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. A bomb was found anddismantled outside the offices ofEgyptair in Kuwait City.

27-Dec-77

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A small bombexploded at the Venezuelan Missionto the United Nations, breakingwindows but causing no injuries. Ananonymous telephone caller toldUnited Press International thatOmega 7, an anti-Castro group,planted the device in a combinedaction with Condor and the PedroLuis Boitel commandos. The actionwas taken to demand freedom for Dr.Orlando Bosch, a Cuban imprisonedin Venezuela for allegedly planting abomb aboard a Cubana Airlines planethat exploded over Trinidad onOctober 6, 1976, killing scores ofpeople.

27-Dec-77

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A parcel bomb wasreceived by the U.S. embassy. Thebomb was discovered and renderedsafe by EOD (US) and the RSO.

28-Dec-77

Tehran Iran Other Explosives1 0 IRAN. A bomb exploded at a U.S.cultural center in Tehran, injuring adoorman and causing heavy damageto parts of the building. A telephonecaller to the Associated Press said itwas the first of several bombspromised by Marxists to protest thevisit of President Carter.

29-Dec-77

Malta Other Explosives0 1 MALTA. A doctor's daughter waskilled on Malta by a letter bomb. TheESOP terrorist organization claimedresponsibility.

29-Dec-77

Greece Other Explosives2 0 GREECE. A journalist's son and apostman were injured by theexplosion of a letter bomb. TheESOP terrorist organization claimedresponsibility.

29-Dec-77

SanJuan

PuertoRico

Unknown Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. FBI agents disarmeda bomb thrown from a passing car atthe Venezuelan consulate in SanJuan.

30-Dec-77


Other Explosives0 2 UNITED KINGDOM. Two employeesof the Syrian Embassy were killedwhen a bomb went off in their carparked near crowded PiccadillyCircus. On January 9, 1978, theLondon Sunday Times quoted Britishsecurity sources as saying the twoSyrian staff members must havebeen priming the device when itexploded. The theory is that themen were planning to blow up thenearby Egyptian tourist office.

2-Jan-78 Brussels Belgium NewArmenianResistance

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded inBrussels, shattering buildingshousing Turkish banking services. AnArmenian underground group, TheNew Armenian Resistance claimedresponsibility.


NewArmenianResistance

Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb explodedin London, shattering buildingshousing Turkish banking services. AnArmenian underground group, TheNew Armenian Resistance claimedresponsibility.

3-Jan-78 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An Egyptian security official defuseda four-pound bomb two minutesbefore it was set to explode in theEgyptian embassy. The bomb washidden in a plastic shopping bag inthe embassy garden, propped upagainst the wall. The two packagesof explosives were set to explode atnoon.

4-Jan-78 Athens Greece ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 GREECE. An organization callingitself the Secret Armenian Armyclaimed responsibility in the bombingattack on the car of Turkey'sAssistant Press Attache Metin Yalmanin Athens. A caller to the ReuterNews Agency said, We have notforgotten the murder of one millionArmenians. The Turks will pay for it.Our target is the Turkish diplomats inAthens.


Unknown Firearms0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. The chiefrepresentative of the PalestineLiberation Organization in Britain,Said Hammami, was shot dead in hisMayfair office by an assassin thoughtto be Arab. The PLO representativewas known to be a moderate and hadadvocated coexistence with Israel.

8-Jan-78 Izmir Turkey JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An Armenian revolutionarygroup claimed responsibility (in atelephone call to AFP) for severalattacks which it said took place inIzmir, Turkey. The anonymous callerdescribed the attacks as explosionsat an oil refinery and attacks at busand train stations. The Turkish undersecretary in Ankara denied anyattempted sabotage, but the groupwhich calls itself May 28 Group,Branch of the central organization ofJusticers of Armenian Genocide,claimed responsibility for severalattacks on Turkish targets motivatedby the Turkish army's massacres ofwhole populations in 1915.

8-Jan-78 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. A hand grenade exploded inthe bus station of East Jerusalem,slightly wounding three persons.Palestinian guerrillas have oftenstruck at the bus station todiscourage Arabs from the WestBank from working in Israel.

10-Jan-78 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A man walking his dog inBrussels, found two U.S.-made,armor-piercing, anti-tank rocketsaimed at the Israeli embassy from awall 164 feet away. Belgium armyengineers exploded the rockets in apark. The rockets were linked to amakeshift battery detonator andfitted to a stand. Apparently thedetonator failed.

11-Jan-78 Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Three unknown personsstopped in front of the Venezuelanconsulate and fired several machinegun bursts at the building, destroyingwindows and doors. No injuries werereported.

19-Jan-78 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded near theAmerican-owned Discount Bank incentral Paris and in a suburb,wrecking a van and shatteringwindows. At a fire in a Paris school atthe same time, police foundpamphlets swearing revenge for thedeath of urban guerrilla leaderAndreas Baader in a West Germanprison last year.

19-Jan-78 Cordoba ArgentinaOther Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Unknown individualsattacked the Chilean consulate inCordoba, causing some damage butno injuries to personnel. One of theattackers, a twenty-four-year oldbank employee, was killed. Theattackers painted slogans referring tothe Beagle Channel dispute.


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An explosion damaged the entrance,windows, and office furniture of theEgypt Travel Agency in Berlin. Noone was injured.

21-Jan-78 ThessalonikaGreece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Powerful time bombscaused heavy damage in twoAmerican offices in Thessaloniki,northeast Greece, just a few hoursbefore the scheduled arrival inAthens of U.S. Secretary of StateCyrus Vance. No one claimedresponsibility for the predawn blastsin the U.S. Information Agency andAmerican Express Bank and travelagency. There were no victims.

21-Jan-78 ThessalonikaGreece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Powerful time bombscaused heavy damage in twoAmerican offices in Thessaloniki,northeast Greece, just a few hoursbefore the scheduled arrival inAthens of U.S. Secretary of StateCyrus Vance. No one claimedresponsibility for the predawn blastsin the U.S. Information Agency andAmerican Express Bank and travelagency. There were no victims.

22-Jan-78 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosive device wasthrown into the U.S. Cultural Centerin Ankara. According to a TRTcorrespondent, the windows of the U.S. Cultural Center were broken butno one was injured.

25-Jan-78 Turkey Other Firearms3 0 TURKEY. A van belonging to the U.S.military in Turkey was fired uponwith automatic weapons as it wasbeing driven on a mountain roadnear Izmir. An American enlistedman and two Turkish nationals, thevan driver, and a cook from theinstallation, were attacked by severalmen who searched the victims andthe van before returning to their car,firing more shots and fleeing. TheAmerican and the van driver werehospitalized; the cook received minorinjuries. A Turkish official advisedthat the Begumcans Cell wasresponsible for this incident and isknown to plan acts of anti-Americanterrorism.


ArgentinaOther Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. The LAN-Chile office inBuenos Aires was the target of shotsfired from a passing car. TheArgentine Youth for Sovereigntyclaimed responsibility. Damage wasminor and there were no injuries.

29-Jan-78 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. One kilogram of TNTexploded at the Tunisian Embassy,causing some damage but noinjuries. The Tunisian RevolutionaryNational Organization claimed credit.

29-Jan-78 Chad Other Explosives0 3 CHAD. FROLINAT claimed to havekilled all those on board a DC3 that itshot down by antiaircraft fire. Atleast three French soldiers werekilled. They attacked another planewith antiaircraft fire, this time a DC4,and the French crew survived.

29-Jan-78 Chad Other Firearms0 0 CHAD. FROLINAT claimed to havekilled all those on board a DC3 that itshot down by antiaircraft fire. Atleast three French soldiers werekilled. They attacked another planewith antiaircraft fire, this time a DC4,and the French crew survived.

1-Feb-78 Bogota Colombia Other Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. In mid-February, theSeptember 14 Workers Self-DefenseCommand bombed the Nicaraguanembassy in solidarity with theexploited people of Nicaragua andwith the fighters of the SandinistNational Liberation Front.

1-Feb-78 NetherlandsOther ChemicalAgent

5 0 THE NETHERLANDS. A Palestiniangroup called the Arab RevolutionaryArmy claimed it injected exportedIsrael oranges with mercury to sowpanic and wreck the country'seconomy. Five Dutch children fell illand European officials checkedthousands of oranges. Two orangeswere found in Holland and WestGermany spiked with mercury. Agroup calling itself the ArabRevolutionary Army claimedresponsibility, saying, We do notintend to kill people in nations thatimport the oranges but to sabotagethe Israel economy. Authorities feltthe oranges must have been spikedin Rotterdam where they wereshipped for repackaging andshipment to Europe. A lemoninjected with mercury was found inHeverlee, Belgium, near theuniversity town of Louvain. And aLondon woman found an Israeliorange spiked with mercury in a bagof fruit she bought in a Londondepartment store on February 7,making England the fifth countrywhere poisoned fruit was discoveredin one week.


Other ChemicalAgent

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. APalestinian group called the ArabRevolutionary Army claimed itinjected exported Israel oranges withmercury to sow panic and wreck thecountry's economy. Five Dutchchildren fell ill and European officialschecked thousands of oranges. Twooranges were found in Holland andWest Germany spiked with mercury.A group calling itself the ArabRevolutionary Army claimedresponsibility, saying, We do notintend to kill people in nations thatimport the oranges but to sabotagethe Israel economy. Authorities feltthe oranges must have been spikedin Rotterdam where they wereshipped for repackaging andshipment to Europe. A lemoninjected with mercury was found inHeverlee, Belgium, near theuniversity town of Louvain. And aLondon woman found an Israeliorange spiked with mercury in a bagof fruit she bought in a Londondepartment store on February 7,making England the fifth countrywhere poisoned fruit was discoveredin one week.

1-Feb-78 Belgium Other ChemicalAgent

0 0 BELGIUM. A Palestinian group calledthe Arab Revolutionary Army claimedit injected exported Israel orangeswith mercury to sow panic and wreckthe country's economy. Five Dutchchildren fell ill and European officialschecked thousands of oranges. Twooranges were found in Holland andWest Germany spiked with mercury.A group calling itself the ArabRevolutionary Army claimedresponsibility, saying, We do notintend to kill people in nations thatimport the oranges but to sabotagethe Israel economy. Authorities feltthe oranges must have been spikedin Rotterdam where they wereshipped for repackaging andshipment to Europe. A lemoninjected with mercury was found inHeverlee, Belgium, near theuniversity town of Louvain. And aLondon woman found an Israeliorange spiked with mercury in a bagof fruit she bought in a Londondepartment store on February 7,making England the fifth countrywhere poisoned fruit was discoveredin one week. (Amos - ArabRevolutionary Army)

1-Feb-78 UnitedKingdom

Other ChemicalAgent

0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A Palestiniangroup called the Arab RevolutionaryArmy claimed it injected exportedIsrael oranges with mercury to sowpanic and wreck the country'seconomy. Five Dutch children fell illand European officials checkedthousands of oranges. Two orangeswere found in Holland and WestGermany spiked with mercury. Agroup calling itself the ArabRevolutionary Army claimedresponsibility, saying, We do notintend to kill people in nations thatimport the oranges but to sabotagethe Israel economy. Authorities feltthe oranges must have been spikedin Rotterdam where they wereshipped for repackaging andshipment to Europe. A lemoninjected with mercury was found inHeverlee, Belgium, near theuniversity town of Louvain. And aLondon woman found an Israeliorange spiked with mercury in a bagof fruit she bought in a Londondepartment store on February 7,making England the fifth countrywhere poisoned fruit was discoveredin one week. (Amos - ArabRevolutionary Army)

2-Feb-78 ElSalvador

Other Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Two dozen leftistguerrillas seized the United Nationsinformation center, took fivehostages, and demanded the releaseof political prisoners. The guerrillas,members of the PopularRevolutionary Bloc, disconnectedtelephones, set up a loudspeaker onthe roof of the building and said thefate of the hostages was in the handsof the government. The PopularRevolutionary Bloc is made up ofleftist peasant, student, and laborgroups.

3-Feb-78 IslamabadPakistan Other Explosives3 0 PAKISTAN. A male Pakistani armedwith a grenade attempted to hijack adomestic Pakistani B0747 flight fromIslamabad carrying 357 passengers.His grenade exploded, injuring threepersons. The plane landed safelyand the man was turned over topolice.

3-Feb-78 Chad Other Unknown0 0 CHAD. Libyan-backed Chad NationalLiberation Front guerrillas capturedthe main airport at Faya-Largeau inthe mountain region, killing areported 100 government troops andtaking hostage a Frenchman,Christian Masse. Unconfirmedreports indicate that the Front wasdemanding a ransom of up to $2.5million and the withdrawal of 300French military advisers in Chad.Also taken prisoner was Pierre-AndreKummerling, a Swiss electricalengineer. They were released inApril 1978. No ransom was paid.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The MexicanConsulate in New York City wasbombed by a group claiming to bethe Anti-Communist Latin AmericanArmy. The bombing, a spokesman ofthe group stated, was to demand thefreedom of the Anti-CommunistCubans, Oreste Ruiz, Gaspar Jiminez,and Gustavo Castillo who werearrested by Mexican authorities fortheir role in the attempted kidnapand murder of two Cuban officials inMerida, Mexico, in July 1976.


Other Firearms0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Four West German terrorists overrana sentry post at a Dutch NATO baseon the edge of the Luneburgerheide.The men forced their way into anarmy tent, overpowered foursoldiers, and made off with four UZImachine pistols. The terrorists werearmed and masked. There was noshooting.

7-Feb-78 Manila PhilippinesAnandaMarga


1 0 PHILIPPINES. Three Ananda Margamembers stabbed an Indian embassyofficial who was in the embassy atthe time. The embassy official, whowas the personal secretary to thecharge d'affaires, was stabbed in thechest and throat but survived theattack.

13-Feb-78 Sydney Australia AnandaMarga

Explosives7 3 AUSTRALIA. A bomb exploded in agarbage can outside the Hilton hotelin Sydney where 10 leaders from 12Asian and Pacific countries wereholding a Commonwealthconference. Three persons, includingtwo garbage collectors, were killedand seven injured. The injured werepolicemen on duty to guard thevisiting officials. Security chiefschanged transportation plans for theleaders and sent the dignitaries on totheir next stop via helicopter insteadof train. The bomb was believed tohave been made from one of the 15Australian army land mines that werestolen in 1977. Terrorists from theIndian religious sect Anana Margaare suspected of being involved.

14-Feb-78 Israel Other Explosives35 2 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in a busnear downtown Jerusalem, killing twopersons and wounding 35 in theworst terrorist action in Israel in morethan two years. Palestinian terroristswere blamed.

14-Feb-78 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

People'sLiberationForces(FPL)

Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Leftist guerrillasbelonging to the People's LiberationArmy bombed and machine gunnedthe Nicaraguan Embassy in SanSalvador as a symbolic attackagainst Nicaraguan PresidentAnastasio Somoza. The embassy'sdoors were destroyed and windowsshattered, but no one was seriouslyinjured.

15-Feb-78 UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. A firebomb wasthrown at the house of an Egyptianofficial of the World Bank, causingminor damage. A group called theJewish Committee for Concernclaimed responsibility for the secondsuch incident in a week. Ananonymous caller said that the grouphad thrown the bomb to protest aproposed sale of U.S. fighter planesto Egypt.

15-Feb-78 Thailand AnandaMarga

Explosives0 0 THAILAND. Three individualsaffiliated with Ananda Marga groupwere apprehended with explosivesand a map with the U.S. embassylocation encircled.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Alaska. Anexplosive charge deliberately placedunder the Alaska oil pipeline blew atwo-inch hole in the pipe, shuttingdown the entire 800-mile system andspewing thousands of gallons of oilover four acres of isolated forest justeast of Fairbanks. This was thebiggest spill in the history of thepipeline. The loss was estimated at8,000 gallons. During the day-longshutdown, repair crews put a sleeveover the damaged pipe. Oil beganflowing within 24 hours and tankershipments were not interrupted.Alaska state troopers said they didnot know what kind of explosive hadbeen used. Authorities found 20 feetof fuse lying near the leak. Suspectstaken into custody were localresidents. An anti-Castro groupclaimed credit for the bombing buttheir statement was not consideredcredible.

16-Feb-78 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosion at the USISbuilding resulted in broken glass. Noinjuries were reported. The incidenttook place following an unauthorizeddemonstration by local left-wing andright-wing groups.

17-Feb-78 Bogota Colombia Red ArmyFaction(RAF)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A medium-strengthbomb exploded in the hotel offices ofLufthansa in Bogota, causing noinjuries but some damage. TheAndreas Baader Brigade of theGerman Liberation Popular Frontclaimed credit and warned that thiswas the beginning of a number ofattacks against U.S. and Germanenterprises designed to manifestsolidarity with oppressed people.

17-Feb-78 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives1 1 ISRAEL. A PLO time bomb hidden ina trash can near a bench in the mainsquare of Hebrew University inJerusalem exploded, killing an Araband seriously wounding another. Thevictims were from the West Bank andwere not local students.

18-Feb-78 Nicosia Cyprus Other Firearms0 1 CYPRUS. Yusuf el Sebai, editor ofEgypt's Al ahram newspaper andformer Egyptian cultural minister,was assassinated by two gunmen atthe Nicosia Hilton Hotel. Sebai, aclose friend of President Sadat, wassecretary general of the Afro-AsianPeoples' Solidarity Organizationwhich was meeting in Nicosia. Oneof his attackers forced him to thefloor of the hotel lobby and pinnedhim down before proceeding to shoothim several times in the head. Theterrorists claimed they had killedSebai because he published goodthings about Israel and because hehad accompanied President Sadat onhis November 1977 trip to Israel. Theattackers then took thirty hostageswith them into a restaurant wherethey threatened to use theirgrenades to kill the hostages unlessCyprus flew them out of the country.Among the hostages were delegatesto the conference. They released allbut ten of the delegates anddemanded a plane to fly them to anundisclosed destination. Police inNicosia reported that there werethree guerrillas, two men and awoman, but later reported that onlytwo men were involved in theincident. Following negotations, theterrorists were taken to a jetliner thatflew them and their hostages out ofCyprus. Denied landing in the MiddleEast, the plane returned to Cypruswhere it was stormed by Egyptiancommandoes. The hostages werefreed and the Palestinian guerrillascaptured. The two Palestinians,Zayet Hussein Al Ali of Kuwait andSamir Mohammed Khadar of Jordan,were sentenced to be hanged.However, in November l978, CyprusPresident Spyros Kyprianoucommuted the death sentences tolife imprisonment in the generalinterests of Cyprus which is waging awar for physical survival.

18-Feb-78 Tabriz Iran Unknown Unknown0 0 IRAN. The IAS Binational Center inTabriz was attacked. All the windowswere broken.

19-Feb-78 Bogota Colombia Baader-MeinhofGroup

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Terrorists, invoking thename of dead West Germananarchist Andreas Baader, claimedresponsibility for bombing the Bogotahotel office of the German airlineLufthansa. It caused no injuries butfrightened the hotel guests. WestGerman authorities had previouslytold Colombian police that Germanterrorists might be hiding inColombia.


ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. Two armed menkidnapped a Bolivian national whowas employed by the United Nationsin El Salvador. The victim was forcedinto a car at gun point and driventhrough the city. As the car passedthe National Police Headquarters, thehostage seized the wheel and causedthe car to crash. The police, whoarrived immediately, arrested one ofthe pair but the other escaped. Noreason for the kidnapping was given;there were no injuries.

26-Feb-78 ZamboangaPhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Moslem rebelskidnapped a French Finance Ministryofficial identified as Pierre Huguetwho had arrived in Zamboanga witha tour group. Mr. Huguet was takingpictures from a bridge when a manpushed him into the water. Twoother men lifted him into a waitingboat and headed toward an island. Itwas the third kidnapping in 10 daysin the area. The Moro NationalLiberation Front is believedresponsible. The Moslem guerrillasare seeking self-rule for the southernPhilippines. Mr. Huguet wasreleased by the kidnappers on 12March in return for reimbursementby the Philippine authorities for theexpenses incurred while the rebelsheld him hostage.

28-Feb-78 Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Spanish office of theBechtel Corporation of San Franciscowas bombed. The company wasinvolved in the construction of anuclear plant near Bilbao. There wasproperty damage but no injurieswere reported.

4-Mar-78 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded in thevicinity of the Iraqi embassy inBrussels. The explosion damagedthe entrance of the embassy andshattered windows in nearbyapartments. No one claimedresponsibility. No one was hurt.

4-Mar-78 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in thevicinity of the Iraqi embassy in Paris.The blast destroyed a car parkednear the embassy. There were noinjuries reported and no claim ofresponsibility has been received.

4-Mar-78 SanFrancisco

UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. The Yugoslavconsulate in San Francisco wasfirebombed. There was damage tothe exterior of the building and toneighboring buildings. No injurieswere reported and no group claimedresponsibility.

10-Mar-78 Athens Greece ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives4 0 GREECE. Three small bombsexploded under cars owned byTurkish diplomats in the PaleonFaliron-Kalamaki area of Athens,slightly injuring a Turkish diplomat,two policemen and a passerby.Secret Armenian Army claimedresponsibility.





10-Mar-78 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Three bombs went offduring the night under the cars ofAmericans in the Terpsithea andGlifadha section of Athens.



11-Mar-78 Haifa Israel al-Fatah Unknown72 43 ISRAEL. Forty-three Israeli civilianswere killed and 72 wounded wheneleven Palestinian terrorists cameashore in boats south of Haifa, seizeda bus and raced to the outskirts ofTel Aviv, where the vehicle explodedin flames during an exchange ofgunfire with policemen, killing nine ofthe terrorists. Two of the terrorists,all members of Al Fatah, werecaptured. An Israeli military court inOctober 1979 sentenced the twoteenagers to life terms plus 10 yearsin spite of public clamors for thedeath penalty.

12-Mar-78 Athens Greece Other Explosives18 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in anAthens theater showing a Sovietmovie that evening, injuring eighteenpersons. Greek police blamedultrarightists.

12-Mar-78 Assen NetherlandsSouthMoluccanSuicideCommando

Firearms4 1 THE NETHERLANDS. Marinesstormed a provincial governmentcomplex in the northern Dutch city ofAssen and freed 70 hostages held bythree Moluccan terrorists who werepreparing to kill them. The gunmencalled themselves the SouthMoluccan Suicide Commando. A manwas killed and four others injuredinitially when the gunmen stormedinto the building housing theadministration of the province ofDrente. The terrorists captured 70hostages and threatened to kill themif the government did not meet theirdemands for the release of 21 jailedcomrades, a plane out of the countrywith some of the hostages, and a $13million ransom. Premier Andries vanAgt refused to make any deals withthe Moluccan extremists. When thedeadline came and went and theterrorists said they had killed ahostage, 60 Dutch marines stormedthe government complex,overpowered the terrorists andcaptured them unharmed. Moluccansources reported that the gunmenwere members of a breakawayfaction of the militants who havewaged a bloody terror campaign toforce the Dutch government tosupport their struggle forindependence of their ancestralislands in Indonesia. The threeyoung terrorists were sentenced to15 years in prison when they went ontrial in June 1978.

12-Mar-78 Adana Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded under acar belonging to the principal of theTarsus American School in Adana.The fender of the car was blown offand windows of nearby buildingsshattered. There were no injuries. Atypewritten letter, signed TIP, wasreceived the same day saying thatother explosives had been placedabout the campus of the school. Apolice search proved negative.

24-Mar-78 FederalRepublicofGermany

RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded at a U.S. army hotel.No injuries were reported.

25-Mar-78 CanberraAustralia AnandaMarga

Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. A time bomb was foundon the grounds of the residence ofJagdish Ajmani, the Indian HighCommissioner, India's ambassador toAustralia. It had been set to explodeabout six hours before it was found.Acting Ambassador to AustraliaJagdish Ajmani said he believed thebomb was planted by members ofthe Indian religious group AnandaMarga. The group has manyAustralian adherents and is hostile tothe Indian government.

26-Mar-78 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Brussels-based People's Army ofthe Oppressed in Zaire claimed creditfor leaving an incendiary device infront of the door of the Zairianembassy.

5-Apr-78 Lahore Pakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A terrorist riding amotorcycle lobbed a hand grenadeover the wall of the U.S. Consulate inLahore, but it exploded harmlessly inthe courtyard. No damage was doneand no arrests were made. Observersbelieved the attack may have beenby individuals seeking to avenge thedeath sentence of former PremierZulfiqar Ali Bhutto (who had accusedthe U.S. of causing his overthrow toprevent the building of a Pakistaninuclear reprocessing plant).

19-Apr-78 Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. An explosive device wasfound under a car used by a PeaceCorps employee in Bogota. A guardnoticed the package and pulled itfrom beneath the vehicle just beforeit exploded. M-19 had been writtenin the dust on a side window of thecar. There were no injuries; damageto the vehicle was minimal.

26-Apr-78 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives0 2 ISRAEL. Two West German citizenswere killed and several others injuredwhen a grenade which was thrownthrough an open bus windowexploded. They were returning toJerusalem from an outing in Galileewhen the attack took place. SeveralArabs were taken into custody duringthe search for the perpetrators.

30-Apr-78 PhilippinesOther Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. The Don Carlos wasboarded by armed members of aMoslem Separatist rebel group of theSouth Philippines. The cargo was off-loaded and the 37 crew andpassengers were taken as hostages.The Don Carlos was set adrift andstranded at Santa Cruz Island. Theboarders intercepted the vesselusing four fast motor boats.

2-May-78 Spain Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Four bottles filled withgasoline were thrown into a windowof the library of the Spanish-American Cultural Center. Theresulting fire damaged furnishingsand books before being put out byguards and cleaning personnel whowere in the building. No injurieswere reported. The VanguardiaFalangista claimed responsibility andsaid, in a telephone call, that thisincident was to celebrate the secondof May uprising against the French in1808 and to protest U.S. bases inSpain.

4-May-78 Paris France Other Unknown0 1 FRANCE. M. Henri Curiel, anEgyptian political refugee, wasassassinated in Paris. An anonymouscaller phoned the agency France-Presse stating Today...the agent ofKGB, Henry Curiel, militant of theArab cause, traitor to France whoadopted him, has been executed....The caller identified himself as amember of DELTA, a right-winggroup responsible for manyassassinations in France. Curiel wasa known supporter of variousliberation movements in the ThirdWorld and reputedly had assistedterrorist groups. He had beenexpelled from France but hadobtained a delay in the expulsion.

5-May-78 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosive wasdetonated between two buildings inAnkara. One of the buildings housesthe U.S. International CommunicationAgency. No injuries resulted andproperty damage was limited tobroken windows. No person or groupclaimed responsibility.

6-May-78 France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 CORSICA. Autonomist groups werebelieved responsible for a bomb thatdestroyed two buildings owned bythe Belgian army in the village ofSolaro.

8-May-78 Djibouti Other Unknown0 0 DJIBOUTI. Young Afar members ofthe National Independence Union,the Djibouti political party, kidnappedRene Boucault, a French technicianin northern Djibouti, and took him toEthiopia. He was released unharmedto the French embassy in AddisAbaba on May 16. The group hadcalled for democratic rights inDjibouti, the release of politicalprisoners, equality among thenationalities and workers of Djiboutiand the immediate establishment ofan all-party group to draft a newconstitution.

11-May-78

Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. The NicaraguanAmbassador to Colombia, WilliamBarquero Montiel, was dragged fromhis house in Bogota by four armedmen, and released unharmed twohours later. No comments wereforthcoming from the ambassador orembassy officials. Colombia'sclandestine revolutionary M-19Movement claimed responsibility forthe aborted kidnapping. Later theambassador indicated that hethought it was a bid for attention tothe Sandinist National LiberationFront's activities in Nicaragua.

12-May-78

Milan Italy RedBrigades

Firearms1 0 ITALY. Terrorists in Milan fired fourbullets into the legs of a director ofthe Milan branch of the U.S. ChemicalBank, Marzio Astarita, as he walkedto work. The Front Line Organizationof Communist Combatants, one of adozen small terrorist groups allied tothe Red Brigades, claimedresponsibility for the attack.

12-May-78

Milan Italy RedBrigades

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. A group of armed men burstinto a warehouse of the U.S.-ownedHoneywell company in Milan. Afteroverpowering the guards andcleaning crew, they emptied twocans of gasoline and ignited it beforefleeing. The resultant fire caused aloss of two million dollars, includingelectronic instruments stored in thebuilding. The perpetrators claimedto be from the Front Line (allied tothe Red Brigades).

12-May-78

Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb, apparently set byleftists protesting Frenchinvolvement in Western Sahara,exploded in front of the Frenchconsulate in Istanbul, shatteringwindows and wrecking the entranceto the building. There were noinjuries reported. An anonymoustelephone caller told UPI, Werevolutionaries, protesting the latestmassacres of French imperialismagainst the Polisario Liberation Frontguerrillas, have bombed the FrenchConsulate.

14-May-78

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Jewish ArmedResistance planted a bomb in theManhattan offices of NovoyeRusskoye Slovo, a Russian-languagedaily newspaper. The 3:30 amexplosion heavily damaged the firsttwo floors and the printing facilities.

17-May-78

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

ArmedForces ofNationalResistance(FARN)

Firearms1 1 EL SALVADOR. Japanese textilemagnate Fujio Matsumoto waskidnapped in San Salvador by sevenunidentified gunmen who shot anight watchman while making theirgetaway. The Armed Forces ofNational Resistance (FARN) tookcredit for the kidnapping, claimingthat Matsumoto is a representative ofJapanese imperialism which, with theGermans and the North Americans,divide among themsleves likevultures the profits of theirexploitation and control of theworld's underdeveloped peoples.FARN demanded the release of 33political prisoners, general amnestyfor the prisoners on trial under thelaw for the defense and guarantee ofpublic order, and the abolition of thislaw. Sources close to theinvestigation reveal that a ransom of$4 million was also demanded. Thegovernment rejected the demand forthe release of political prisoners,stating that there were no politicalprisoners in the country. It wasrevealed on August 11 by a capturedmember of the group thatMatsumoto died the same eveninghe was kidnapped when a gunaccidentally went off and killed him.He was buried on one of the cliffs ofCerro early the next morning. A laterreport stated that he was killed afterdemands for $4 million were not met.

19-May-78

Zimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Unknown0 3 RHODESIA. Two Swiss Red Crossworkers and their African assistantwere killed by guerrillas near theMozambique border.

21-May-78

Paris France Other Firearms5 1 FRANCE. Three gunmen opened fireon passengers in the departurelounge of Orly Airport near Paris;French security police killed theattackers. Three French tourists in agroup that had booked on an El Alflight bound for Tel Aviv werereported to have been slightlywounded. One policeman was killedand two were seriously wounded.One of the dead gunmen carriedpassports from Lebanon and Kuwait.The other two had Tunisianpassports. They carried submachineguns, extra clips of ammunition, aswell as grenades and plasticexplosives that appeared to be ofSoviet manufacture. Officialsbelieved that there was no questionbut that the attack had been aimedat El Al even though there were noIsraelis in the group waiting for theplane. A previously unknown groupcalling itself the Organization of theSons of Southern Lebanon claimedresponsibility. The group said thetarget had been a party of Israelimilitary officers supposedly boardingthe plane. The attack was made inFrance to remind France of itscolonial past. One of the gunmenwas tentatively identified as MahmudAwada, a Lebanese member of aclandestine leftist organization, whoheaded a squad that murderedFrancis Meloy, Jr., the U.S.ambassador to Lebanon, and hisecononic counselor, Robert Waring,in 1976 during the Lebanese civilwar.

24-May-78

Recife Brazil Unknown Firearms0 0 BRAZIL. An armed man seized theHonorary Mexican Consul and fouroffice workers in the consul's office inRecife. The gunman demanded safeconduct and transportation out ofBrazil to Mexico, Cuba, Sweden, orEast Europe. He released hishostages believing his demands wereto be met. When he surrendered topolice, he was immediately arrested.No injuries were reported.

25-May-78

Tokyo Japan RevolutionaryArmy

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. A group of masked menattacked a Korean Airlines crew andemployee dormitory nine kilometerswest of the new Tokyo internationalairport. The attackers cut thetelephone lines, broke windows, andset the interior of the building on fireby pouring gasoline into the roomsand igniting it. The men were heardto yell that they were theRevolutionary Army. No injurieswere reported.

26-May-78

Entebbe Uganda Unknown Explosives0 4 UGANDA. Kenya's Ministry of ForeignAffairs claimed that a bomb explodedon a Kenyan aircraft while it wasparked at Entebbe airport.Conflicting reports say that the planecrashed after the bomb explodedduring the flight, killing former U.S.cabinet member Bruce MacKenzie,the pilot, a visiting Britishbusinessman and the manager-director of Wilken AirTelecommunications.

30-May-78

Adana Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 TURKEY. Several rounds were firedat the U.S. Consulate in Adana. Localpolice chased but lost theperpetrators in traffic. Five bulletholes were found between twowindows one of which displays a signfor the U.S. consulate. There wereno injuries.

1-Jun-78 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in theEcuadorean embassy in Paris. Theambassador's office in the diplomaticmission was completely destroyed.No injuries were reported. No personor group claimed responsibility.

2-Jun-78 JerusalemIsrael PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Explosives20 5 ISRAEL. Five persons were killed andat least 20 injured in an explosion ona bus in Jerusalem. The bus was enroute from the Arab section in EastJerusalem to the Jewish section in thewest. The police suspected that theexplosive device had been left in thebus by one or more Arab terrorists.Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem saidhe thought that the explosion waslinked to plans for the forthcomingcelebrations of the 11th anniversaryof the unification of Jerusalem. Anews agency in Beirut reported thatPalestinian guerrillas callingthemselves the General Command ofthe Palestinian Revolution's Forceshad claimed responsibility.

2-Jun-78 Madrid Spain ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms0 3 SPAIN. Three young men dressed incoveralls sprayed the Turkishambassador's car with gunfire inMadrid, killing his wife, her brother,and a chauffeur. An anonymoustelephone caller said the attackagainst Ambassador Zeki Kuneralpwas justice for the turn of thecentury massacre of Armenians inTurkey. The political group behindthe terrorists is thought to be thepro-Western Armenian RevolutionaryFederation. On June 3 a callerclaimed that the Armenian SecretArmy for the Liberation of Armeniawas responsible. The caller alsoexpressed support for the Basquerevolutionaries.

9-Jun-78 Lisbon Portugal Other Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb was detonatedat the Argentine embassy in Lisbon.The Action Group for Communismleft a paper at a Portuguese newsagency which said the bombing wasin protest of the killings andimprisonment by the Argentinegovernment and had been timed tocoincide with the World Cup soccergames.

12-Jun-78 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The People's Army of the Oppressedin Zaire left two incendiary devicesthat were found in the morning at awindow of the Zairian embassy inBonn. One of the devices hadslightly singed a blind; the other hadnot ignited. This group had caused asimilar incident at this embassy inMarch.

15-Jun-78 Kuwait Other Firearms0 1 KUWAIT. Ali Yasin, regarded as amoderate in the Palestinianmovement, was shot to death. Theguerrilla organization Al Fatah, ofwhich he was a member, accusedextremist elements in Iraq of havinginstigated the murder. Al Fatah saidin Beirut that the killing had beencarried out by cowards who areprotected, sheltered, and guided bythe intelligence services of Baghdad.Yasin was a PLO representative.

15-Jun-78 CanaryIslands

Other Explosives0 0 CANARY ISLANDS. A bomb set by theMovement for the Autonomy andIndependence of the Canary IslandArchipelago wrecked the Las Palmasoffice of South African Airways.

17-Jun-78 Zimbabwe(Rhodesia)


0 1 ZIMBABWE. Archie Dunaway, a whiteAmerican Baptist evangelist, wasstabbed to death by black nationalistguerrillas at the Sanyati MissionHospital, where he was director ofthe nursing school. The facility is120 miles west of Salisbury.

18-Jun-78 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A large bombexploded at the Argentine embassyin downtown San Salvador. Theembassy was damaged; however, noinjuries were reported. Local pressindicated the People's RevolutionaryArmy (ERP) claimed responsibility viaan anonymous telephone call.


RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Agroup calling itself RevolutionaryCells claimed responsibility for abomb explosion that badly damagedthe Frankfurt office of an Israeli fruitimporter. Frankfurt police said that aletter received by West Germannews agency described the blast as acampaign against Israeli imports inWestern Europe.

21-Jun-78 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Ecuadorean ForeignMinistry has condemned theexplosion of a bomb in theEcuadorean Embassy. There was noapparent reason for the bombing at atime when Ecuador was about tocomplete another phase in itsjuridicial restructuring process forpresidential elections scheduled for16 July. The office of theambassador was completelydestroyed. The identify of theperpetrators is unknown.

21-Jun-78 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. During the night,unidentified persons fired from aPeugeot at an Iraqi embassy car inBeirut.

21-Jun-78 Bangkok Thailand Unknown Explosives0 0 THAILAND. A bomb was found aftera telephoned warning on the U.S.Operations Mission's third floor inBangkok.


ZimbabweAfricanNationalistUnion(ZANU)


0 12 ZIMBABWE. Black nationalistguerrillas bayonetted, axed andclubbed to death eight Britishmissionaries and four of theirchildren at an Elim Mission School inthe Vumba Mountains. Among thevictims was a three week old child.Several other Britains were woundedin the attack; one was raped. OnAugust 11 Zimbabwe security forceskilled two of the attackers, who werearmed with two AK rifles. Capturednotebooks led police to conclude thatthe guerrillas were under thecommand of Robert Mugabe, leaderof the Zimbabwe African NationalUnion, who had denied responsibility.Others believed that Joshua Nkomo'sZimbabwe African Peoples Union wasinvolved.


ZimbabweAfricanPeople'sUnion

Firearms0 2 ZIMBABWE. Three black gunmenbelieved to belong to the ZimbabweAfrican People's Union, killed twoWest German missionaries as theystood in front of their home.

30-Jun-78 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives47 2 ISRAEL. A bomb for which thePalestine Liberation Organizationtook responsibility ripped apart asection of a crowded marketplace inJerusalem, killing two persons andwounding 47. The blast occurred asWest German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher was making a two-day official visit to Israel on the eveof a visit by Vice President Mondaleof the United States. On January 26,1979, Israel troops smashed thePalestinian ring they blamed for atleast 10 terrorist attacks. Theyuncovered a large cache of arms.

1-Jul-78 Beirut Lebanon PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Two rockets were fired atthe Iraqi Embassy in Beirut bymembers of the PLO.

3-Jul-78 Saint-Jean-de-Luz

France Unknown Firearms1 1 FRANCE. Juan Jose EtchaveOrogengoa, a former ETA leader, wascritically injured when hit in thestomach by two machine-gun bulletsin Saint-Jean-de-Luz. His wife waskilled instantly as the two gunmenfired from the opposite side of thestreet.

4-Jul-78 SanJuan

PuertoRico

Other Unknown0 0 PUERTO RICO. Three men and awoman, all armed Independentistas,invaded the Chilean consular office inSan Juan, seized four hostages anddemanded freedom for four PuertoRican nationalists imprisoned in theUnited States. They also attacked byletter the Chilean militarygovernment. The nationals beingheld in the United States wereimprisoned for the attemptedassassination of President HarryTruman in 1950. They surrenderedand released their hostages after 17hours of negotiation.

4-Jul-78 SanSebastian

Spain Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Demonstrators protesting theshooting of former Basque guerrillaleader Juan Echave threw firebombsat the French consulate in thenorthern cities of San Sebastian andBilbao. The demonstrations followedmemorial ceremonies for Mr.Echave's wife Rosario who was killedin the attack in which Mr. Echave wasseriously wounded. An obscureSpanish rightist group calling itselfTriple A claimed responsibility for theattack.

4-Jul-78 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb caused heavydamage to a hall rented by thePalestine Liberation Organization inParis. No one was injured. Thepolice said a previously unknowngroup calling itself Talion Lawclaimed responsibility for the blastand said it was in retaliation for thePLO bombing of a Jerusalem streetmarket the week before in which twoIsraelis died and 47 injured.


Other Firearms0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. An Arab gunmanshot and killed former Iraqi PrimeMinister Abdul Razzak al-Naif, as hewalked from London'sIntercontinental Hotel in the MayfairDistrict toward a taxi. The doormanat a nearby hotel, a chauffeur and ataxi driver captured the gunman. Asecond man was later arrested atHeathrow Airport. On July 26,Saadovn Chaker, reputed Iraqiintelligence chief, was detained inLondon and charged with instigatingNaif's murder.



Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A small bomb wasfound in a stairwell on the eighthfloor of a Soviet tourist office. Policefound diesel fuel, pieces of a timer,and a dry-cell battery. The JewishArmed Resistance claimed credit.

19-Jul-78 Tripoli Libya al-Fatah Unknown1 2 LIBYA. Five members of YasirArafat's Fatah attacked the Tripolioffices of the Fatah RevolutionaryCouncil, killing two and woundingone. Killed were advanced cadregeophysical engineer Yusuf 'AliDarwaish (alias Ahmad Hassan) andsignal corrps Lieutenant 'Imadad=Din Mustafa Shakir 'Ayyad (alias'Imad Ash-Shaykh).

24-Jul-78 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. The RevolutionaryPeople's Army (ERP) bombed theGuatemalan embassy, destroyingwalls and glass windows but causingno injuries. The ERP was protestingthe climate of oppression inGuatemala and referred to thePanzos massacre in which over onehundred Indians were killed.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A powerful bombexploded at the site of the U.S.Embassy. The attack was attributedto the Popular Liberation Army (EPL),an urban guerrilla command.

28-Jul-78 Medellin Colombia Unknown Explosives1 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded at theColombian-Soviet house in Medellin,seriously wounding Guillermo ParraRamirez, secretary general of theorganization. No organizationclaimed responsibility.


Unknown Explosives2 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An attempt wasmade to assassinate IraqiAmbassador Taha Ahmed al-Dawoodin London. A woman tossed agrenade under the car he was aboutto enter. He escaped injury but twopassersby were wounded.

28-Jul-78 Calcutta India Unknown Explosives0 0 INDIA. Bombs were hurled near thehome of the Soviet consul inCalcutta. The individuals who hurledthe bombs also shouted slogans.

31-Jul-78 Paris France Other Firearms8 1 FRANCE. A fusillade of bullets endedan eight-hour siege of the IraqiEmbassy in Paris by two Arabic-speaking gunmen who hadthreatened to kill eight hostagesunless they got a plane to London tofree a woman comrade. Onepoliceman was killed and twowounded. It was reported that sixpersons were injured. The firingbegan soon after an Arab diplomatentered the embassy to negotiatewith the terrorists. The terrorists hadbeen holding a group of hostages inthe embassy. French police killedone Iraqi in the exchange of fire andwounded three others. The womanwhom the terrorists wished to freewas reportedly arrested in London onJuly 28 after a bomb went off underthe Iraqi ambassador's car, injuringtwo bystanders. One of the gunmenclaimed to be the brother of SaidHammami, a Palestine LiberationOrganization representative slain inLondon earlier this year.

2-Aug-78 PenhalongaZimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Unknown0 0 ZIMBABWE. A retired British armyofficer was kidnapped from his farmnear Penhalonga and taken acrossthe border into Mozambique by blacknationalist guerrillas.

2-Aug-78 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms2 0 PAKISTAN. Two Arab gunmenambushed an Iraqi diplomat outsidehis consulate in Karachi. Guardskilled one assailant and captured theother. The government said the Iraqiofficial, who was not identified, andone guard were hit by the gunfireand rushed to the hospital. Pakistaniauthorities said the gunmen were intheir twenties and carried SouthYemeni passports. A spokesman forthe Palestine Liberation Organizationsuggested that it was part of theongoing struggle between Iraqicommunists and Baathists. TheBaathists are the ruling party in Iraqwhich recently executed about 20Communists. More likely, however,is that it represented fightingbetween Fatah and Abu Nidal's Iraqi-supported rejection group, BlackJune.

2-Aug-78 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Iraq accused Palestinianrightists of having fired at the car ofIraqi Ambassador Qassem al-Samawiduring the night, causing no damageto the car and no injuries to thedriver or the ambassador'sbodyguard. The ambassador was notin the car at the time of the attack.

3-Aug-78 Paris France Other Firearms0 2 FRANCE. Two Arab gunmen attackedthe Paris offices of the PalestineLiberation Organization, assassinatedthe PLO's chief representative, andkilled another employee with agrenade before being captured bypolice. The PLO official, IzzedinQalak, was hit with l6 bullets. Hewas known as a supporter of PLOchief Yasser Arafat in his struggleagainst Iraqi-backed extremists whoreject any negotiations with Israel.An anonymous phone caller told theFrench news agency Agence France-Presse that the strike was mountedby the Rejection Front of StatelessPalestinian Arabs, an unheard-ofgroup. The caller also claimedresponsibility for the attack on theIraqi embassy earlier. Two Arabs,Husni Hatem, 26, and Assad Kayed,22, were apprehended. Put on trialfor the killing, they were found guiltyon March 8, 1980, and sentenced to15 years imprisonment after thecourt rejected a final defense pleathat their crime was political.

3-Aug-78 Tel Aviv Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives49 0 ISRAEL. An Arab terrorist bombexploded in a children's clothingstand in Tel Aviv's Carmel Market,wounding at least 49 people. Israeliwarplanes quickly retaliated byattacking Palestinian guerrillaconcentrations in Lebanon. The maintarget was a guerrilla training campfor the departure of guerrilla squadson attack missions in Israel. ThePalestine Liberation Organization'smilitary command issued astatement in Beirut stating one of itsspecial guerrilla units wasresponsible for the bomb attack.

3-Aug-78 Kuwait Other Firearms0 0 KUWAIT. Palestinian sources claimedthat an assassination attempt hadbeen made on PLO chief Yasir Arafat.Other sources claimed that theattack had been made in Lebanon,when Arafat's car, carrying Qataridiplomatic license number 2, wasfired on near Al-Masna' while Arafatwas traveling from Beirut to Syria.

5-Aug-78 IslamabadPakistan Other Firearms0 4 PAKISTAN. Terrorists, firingsubmachine guns, stormed into theIslamabad office of the PalestineLiberation Organization and killedfour persons in the latest round of aweek-old international war betweenpro-Iraqi radicals and the PLO.Witnesses said the two raiders weregunning for Yousaf Abu Hantash, thePLO representative in Pakistan; theyapparently were unable to pick himout from the more than a dozenexchange students in the office.Others killed besides an exchangestudent were a Pakistani police guardwho challenged the raiders at themission gate, a PLO guerrilla, and theoffice radio operator. The fightinginvolves Iraqi-backed radicalsseeking the dismantling of Israel whoare opposed to supporters of YasserArafat's relatively more moderatePLO.

7-Aug-78 PuertoRico

Other Explosives0 0 PUERTO RICO. An explosive devicewent off outside the auditoriumwhere the Cuban National Ballet wasperforming. There were no injuriesor damage, and the show went on.There were threatening phone callsbefore the performance, which wasboycotted by the Governor and otherofficials of the island's government.There are approximately 40,000Cuban exiles living in Puerto Rico.

9-Aug-78 GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. The kidnapping of MissViviana Soriano, daughter of theUruguayan ambassador toGuatemala, was intercepted by herbodyguard, national police agentFrancisco Flores, who prevented twounidentified men in a jeep fromkidnapping her from the diplomaticcar.

13-Aug-78

Beirut Lebanon PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A powerful bomb, madeof approximately 550 pounds ofplastic explosives, exploded in anine-story building in the Palestinianquarter of West Beirut. The target ofthe blast appeared to have been thePalestinian splinter group, thePalestinian Liberation Front, whoseheadquarters were housed in thebuilding. The PLF has opposed Arafat’s Fatah group in its policy over Israeland its cooperation with the UN. Thebuilding also has some offices forFatah. Members of both groups werekilled in the blast. About 150 peoplewere killed in the attack and fiftywounded. Although leaders of PLFblamed the Popular Front forLiberation of Palestine for the blast,PFLP denied involvement.Thesenumbers are estimates. Most sourcessay 150-200 people were killed ormissing. A few say that 160 werekilled.

15-Aug-78

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Croatian terroristsplanted a bomb on a United Nationswindow ledge in New York and in alocker in Grand Central Station todemand the release of SteveBilandzich, a German citizen ofCroatian birth who was the founderand chief of the Croatian People'sResistance, and who was arrested inDusseldorf, Germany, for attemptingto kill the Yugoslav ambassador toWest Germany. Neither deviceexploded. Notes found with thebombs claimed that they wereplanted by a group that seeks theseparation of Croatia fromYugoslavia. In May 1982, tenCroatian nationalists were put on trialin Manhattan, New York, for plottingbombings and murders against otherCroatians. Four defendants wereacquitted; six were convicted.

15-Aug-78

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Croatian terroristsplanted a bomb on a United Nationswindow ledge in New York and in alocker in Grand Central Station todemand the release of SteveBilandzich, a German citizen ofCroatian birth who was the founderand chief of the Croatian People'sResistance, and who was arrested inDusseldorf, Germany, for attemptingto kill the Yugoslav ambassador toWest Germany. Neither deviceexploded. Notes found with thebombs claimed that they wereplanted by a group that seeks theseparation of Croatia fromYugoslavia. In May 1982, tenCroatian nationalists were put on trialin Manhattan, New York, for plottingbombings and murders against otherCroatians. Four defendants wereacquitted; six were convicted.

17-Aug-78

Tripoli Libya al-Fatah Firearms0 1 LIBYA. A Fatah member fired threeshots at Husayn Muhammad'Ali, anIraqi embassy employee, as he wasentering the embassy in themorning. Ali died soon after.Mahmud Ayat Ahmad al-Katib, aliasDarrar Yusuf, twenty-five, wascaptured and found to be carrying aJordanian passport, which he hadused in traveling from Damascus onAugust 12. It was charged that hewas told to assassinate the Iraqiambassador by Khalid Abdullah, whoprovided his revolver.

17-Aug-78


Other Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. Two gunmen tookcontrol of the West Germanconsulate in Chicago, taking eighthostages and demanding tocommunicate with Stjepan Bilandzic,a Croatian being held in Cologne,West Germany. Bilandzic's brother,McLaughlin Evan Bilandzic, wasbrought to the building and spoke tothe gunmen and apparentlyconvinced them that it was futile tohold out. After a 10-hour siege, thegunmen (one a Chicago resident andthe other an out-of-towner) releasedthe hostages. Bilandzic is said to bethe founder of an alleged terroristorganization called the CroatianPeople's Resistance whose aim is theindependence of Croatia fromYugoslavia. On December 2, BozoKelava, 36, and Mile Kodzoman, 32,were acquitted of kidnap charges,but were convicted on a lessercharge of imprisoning West GermanVice Consul Werner Ickstadt afterseizing the consulate. The two menface a maximum sentence of 10years on the charge.

18-Aug-78

Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A command of the M-19,a Colombian guerrilla organization,occupied the headquarters of U.S.United Press International (UPI) NewsAgency to denounce that a rebelrecently arrested had been tortured.Before escaping, the guerrillaspainted death to the torturers inlarge red letters on the walls of theUPI office.

20-Aug-78



Explosives9 1 UNITED KINGDOM. Arab terrorists,firing submachine guns and throwinggrenades, attacked an Israeli El Alairline bus carrying cabin crewoutside London's Europa Hotel, killinga stewardess and wounding ninepersons. One terrorist was killedwhen a grenade exploded in his faceduring a shootout with El Al securitymen. Another man was arrested ashe was running down a street nearthe hotel. A radical guerrilla faction,the Popular Front for the Liberationof Palestine-Special OperationsBranch, claimed responsibility for theattack. The group also claimedresponsibility for last year'sLufthansa hijack to Mogadishu.

20-Aug-78



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Unidentified saboteurs set off eightexplosives at six British militarybases in West Germany. The blastsslightly injured a woman soldier andcaused structural damage. A ninthcharge failed to go off inMoenchengladback. In October theIRA claimed the bombing in WestGermany to establish our ability tostrike at British imperialismanywhere at any time.

20-Aug-78




20-Aug-78

MoenchengladbachFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Unidentified saboteurs set off eightexplosives at six British militarybases in West Germany. The blastsslightly injured a woman soldier andcaused structural damage. A ninthcharge failed to go off inMoenchengladbach. In October theIRA claimed the bombing in WestGermany to establish our ability tostrike at British imperialismanywhere at any time.

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25-Aug-78

Israel al-Fatah Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. 2 terrorists in a boat werecaptured by IDF navy patrol while ontheir way to an attack in Israel. (AM -Fatah)

1-Sep-78 Olivos ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded in theresidence of a U.S. executive (legaladvisor to General Motors) causingmajor damage but no injuries to theresidence in Olivos, 20 km north ofBuenos Aires.


Other ChemicalAgent

0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. Georgi Markov, aBulgarian defector, died in a Londonhospital several days after beingstabbed in the leg with an umbrellaby a strange man. Markov claimedhe had been poisoned by theumbrella tip. Markov worked for theBritish Broadcasting Corporation'sEast European service and reportedlyhad intimate knowledge of Bulgarianleadership. An autopsy revealed atiny metal bead with holes drilled init; it was so small, the toxin wouldhave had to be extremely powerful tohave had the effect that it did--kill aperson. No traces of poison werefound but studies are continuing todiscover the pinhead poison thatcaused Markov's death.On December19, 1979, a French court sentenced aBulgarian-born spy to three years inprison in connection with theunsolved poison attacks on Bulgariandissident refugees in London andParis. The defendant, Dino Dinev, anaturalized Frenchman, wasconvicted of working for theBulgarian secret service and tracingrefugees through contacts in Frenchcounterintelligence.

8-Sep-78 Athens Greece Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. A young Lebanese wasarrested in Athens after he threw afirebomb at the French consulate.Only light damage was caused. Theman, identified as Azzan HassanMasri, 27, of Beirut, was seizedbefore he could throw two similarbombs he was carrying.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives3 0 UNITED STATES. Omega-7 planted apowerful time bomb at Cuba's U.N.mission's doorway, blowing outscores of windows, wrecking severalparked cars, digging a crater in thesidewalk and injuring a mission guardand two other people.

10-Sep-78 Peru Other Unknown1 0 PERU. Police found Colombiannewsman Roberto Fanjul, physicallyabused and mentally distressed byhis kidnapping. He had apparentlybeen kidnapped by the so-calledPeruvian Anti-Communist Alliance(AAP). A note found near himaccused Fanjul of being an ArgentineMontonero and said that thenewsman came to Peru to contributeto Trotskyite plans in the country.

13-Sep-78 Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Two official U.S. Consulatecars were set on fire by Molotov-typeincendiary devices. Both vehicleswere damaged; no injuries werereported. The GruppoInternazionalista claimedresponsibility.



Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. A group callingitself the Jewish Armed Resistancetelephoned newspapers to claimresponsibility for the firebombing of acar owned by Dr. Malcolm Kerr, whowas named by President Carter as anadvisor on Middle Eastern affairs.The group called Dr. Kerr an Arabsympathizer and said the CampDavid summit is a waste of time. Thecar sustained approximately $700damage.

16-Sep-78 Nakasuji Japan Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. Okinawa. A man hurled twoMolotov cocktails, which failed toexplode, at the U.S. Marine Corpsheadquarters in Nakasuji, Okinawa.Guards arrested the man, who wasdemanding the abrogation of the U.S.-Japan security treaty.


ElSalvador


Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. A machine gun attackwas staged at dawn by theclandestine Popular Liberation Forces(FPL) against the U.S. Embassy inSan Salvador. The group called theoperation their war against Yankeeimperialism. A document left calledfor the release of so called politicalprisoners and a reduction in the costof housing, fertilizer, rents,agricultural land, water, and electricpower.

16-Sep-78 GuatemalaGuerrillaArmy ofthe Poor(EGP)

Firearms1 0 GUATEMALA. The Nicaraguanambassador to Guatemala, GeneralEdmundo Meneses Cantarero, wasgravely ill in hospital after being shotin a kidnapping attempt. The EjercitoGuerrillero de los Pobres (EGP) hasclaimed responsibility and said it wasdone in solidarity with the struggle inNicaragua. It is believed that he willbe paralyzed.

17-Sep-78 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two grenades were thrownover the fence of the Vietnameseembassy, causing no injuries ordamage.

20-Sep-78 Tel Aviv Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Terrorists aiming to plant abomb aboard a bus in Tel Aviv werecaptured before they could executetheir plan.

28-Sep-78 GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. Terrorists destroyedthe Guatemalan offices of theNicaraguan Airlines Company(LANICA) with a powerful time bomb.The explosion completely destroyedthe office equipment and furniture.

30-Sep-78 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was thrown atEgypt's Istanbul consulate, causingslight damage. The attackers hadapproached by boat.

30-Sep-78 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb detonated near theU.S. Consulate in Istanbul. Therewas no damage to the building andno injuries were reported; however,there was minimal damage to nearbybuildings.

1-Oct-78 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was thrown at theIsraeli consulate in Istanbul, causingno injuries.

2-Oct-78 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded in front ofthe Cuban Embassy to the Vatican inRome. An anonymous caller to IlTempo denounced the repressivegovernment of Nicaragua's Somoza.The Nicaraguan Embassy, which hadbeen housed in the same building asthe Cuban Embassy, had moved toanother location six months earlier.No damage or injuries were reported.

3-Oct-78 ElSalvador


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 EL SALVADOR. The NicaraguanAirlines office in El Salvador was firebombed by the FPL (Farabundo MartiPopular Liberation Forces). Noinjuries were reported


Other Unknown0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A secondBulgarian defector was found dead inhis home in London three weeksafter fellow defector Georgi Markovwas stabbed with a poison-tippedumbrella. Scotland Yard termed thedeath of Vladimir Simeonovsuspicious since Simeonov andMarkov had worked together in theBulgarian section of the radio andtelevision network of the BBC'sExternal Service. Simeonov wasemployed by BBC as a translator.The death of Simeonov hadheightened suspicions that an EastEuropean agent is killing defectorsand critics of the Bulgariangovernment. The exact cause ofboth deaths is still underinvestigation.On December 19, 1979,a French court sentenced aBulgarian-born spy, Dino Dinev, tothree years in prison for working forthe Bulgarian secret service andtracing refugees through contacts inFrench counterintelligence.

3-Oct-78 Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The sinking by the IsraeliNavy of a bomb-laden freighter offthe Sinai coast foiled a sensational AlFatah terrorist plot that could havecost the lives of hundreds ofvacationers. Apparently theguerrillas were launching a seaborneassault on Israel's Red Sea port ofEilat. Oil tank farms and the big oilpumping installations on the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline to theMediterranean may have been theintended target of the unsuccessfuloperation. They planned to unleash42 122-mm Katyusha rockets at theport of Eilat and simultaneously ramthe 600-ton boat, crammed withmore than three tons of explosives,onto the packed Eilat beach. Theship's keel would have exploded onimpact with the land. The sevenguerrillas were captured, the heavyarmament was seized, and the shipwas sunk after verbal orders to haltfrom an Israeli gunboat were ignoredand several warning shots had beenshot across its bow.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb placed on astreet outside Madison SquareGarden in New York City exploded.Miraculously, no one was hurt. Onlytwenty minutes earlier, the streethad been packed with fans who wereleaving a basketball game. Asporting goods store was damaged.The bombing, claimed to have beenperpetrated by Omega-7, was inprotest of Cuban boxers participatingin a match at the Garden.

8-Oct-78 AmsterdamNetherlandsOther Unknown0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. Ten members ofa little-known Dutch extremist groupoccupied the Amsterdam office ofAmnesty International, seizing twohostages. They demanded bettertreatment for three members of WestGermany's Baader-Meinhof terroristorganization held in Dutch jails.

10-Oct-78 Bogota Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. During the night,bodyguards fired on several armedmen who stopped the car ofNicaraguan Ambassador BarqueroMontiel in an apparent kidnapattempt. There were no injuries inthe Bogota incident.

10-Oct-78 KhorramshahrIran Unknown Firearms1 1 IRAN. Six gunmen attacked the Iraqiconsulate in Khorramshahr and triedto set it on fire. One of the securityguards was killed and one of theattackers wounded.

11-Oct-78 Isfahan Iran Unknown Explosives3 0 IRAN. A pipe bomb exploded afterbeing thrown through the window ofa bus belonging to Bell HelicopterInternational in Isfahan. ThreeAmericans received minor injuries.

13-Oct-78 Paris France Other Firearms0 1 FRANCE. Bruno Busic, a 39-year-oldYugoslav journalist living in exile inLondon, was shot dead as hereturned to the apartment of a friendin Paris. Busic, a member of theCroat nationalist organization Matika,had been warned by French police tostay away from Paris becauseYugoslav killers had been assigned tomurder him.

15-Oct-78 WestBerlin

GermanDemocraticRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 EAST GERMANY. A bomb was foundoutside a Jewish restaurant in WestBerlin. A passerby took it home butlater called police after which thebomb detonated, damaging two carsand breaking windows. A secondbomb was found under a car parkedin front of the Jewish Cultural Centerand Synagogue.

15-Oct-78 WestBerlin

GermanDemocraticRepublic

Unknown Explosives0 0 EAST GERMANY. A bomb was foundoutside a Jewish restaurant in WestBerlin. A passerby took it home butlater called police after which thebomb detonated, damaging two carsand breaking windows. A secondbomb was found under a car parkedin front of the Jewish Cultural Centerand Synagogue.

17-Oct-78 Paris France Other Firearms0 0 FRANCE. Attackers entered aPalestinian library in Paris, held itsoccupants at gunpoint and started afire. Fighters for the Defense ofIsrael claimed responsibility for theact.

20-Oct-78 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosion at the officesof Pan American Airlines in Istanbulcaused property damage. No injurieswere reported and no group claimedresponsibility.

21-Oct-78 Ethiopia EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 ETHIOPIA. Eritrean guerrillaskidnapped George W. Krois, anAmerican pilot, when he landed ahelicopter in guerrilla-held territoryto repair a UN locust control planethat had crashed there. He wasreleased on January 9, 1979.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Omega-7 bombedthe offices of El Diario-La Prensanewspaper in lower Manhattan (NewYork City). The life of the paper'seditor, Rudy Garcia, had beenthreatened previously after he haddenounced terrorism.

21-Oct-78 Italy Red ArmyFaction(RAF)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A VW showroom in Italy wasthe target of a bomb that causedminor property damage. Ananonymous telephone caller statedthat the attack had been carried outby the German Red Army Faction inhonor of Italian RAF comrades.

22-Oct-78 Brussels Belgium Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown through the window of aPhilips Warehouse in Brussels. Thefire was confined to the warehousebelonging to the Dutch controlledmultinational electronic corporation.No injuries were reported.

23-Oct-78 Tehran Iran Other Other 4 0 IRAN. Buses carrying LockheedAircraft employees to their homes inTehran were attacked by a group ofPersian men with bricks and rocks. Itwas believed the attackers werestudents. Four passengers wereinjured.

25-Oct-78 Isfahan Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. A bomb was thrown throughthe window of a French restaurant inIsfahan. The resultant fire wasconfined to the storeroom; no injurieswere reported.

25-Oct-78 ChalchuapaElSalvador


Explosives0 1 EL SALVADOR. A powerful bombexploded at the GuatemalanConsulate in the city of Chalchuapa,killing Manuel de Jesus Lopez, awatchman. The Farabundo MartiPopular Liberation Forces, FPL,claimed responsibility, saying that itwas staged in solidarity with thestruggle being waged by the peopleof Guatemala.

25-Oct-78 Isfahan Iran Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 IRAN. Molotov cocktails were thrownat a youth hostel in Isfahan. Firedestroyed two vehicles parked in thearea. Sixteen foreigners, includingAmericans, were residing in thehostel; no injuries were reported.

26-Oct-78 Istanbul Turkey Other Firearms0 0 TURKEY. A mob of left-wing Turkishyouths attacked a van carrying U.S.cultural attache John F. Ritchotte,ordered him and two aides out andthen burned the vehicle at a busyIstanbul intersection. No one washurt but one of the attackers waswounded in a brief exchange ofgunfire with police. An anonymouscaller told a news agency that theleftists were protesting the reopeningof U.S. bases in Turkey.

27-Oct-78 Santiago Chile Movementof theRevolutionaryLeft (MIR)(Chile)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded at theArgentine Consulate in Santiagoresulting in broken windows. Noinjuries were reported. The devicewas of the same type used by theMovement of the Revolutionary Left(MIR). No group claimedresponsibility.

1-Nov-78 NetherlandsOther Firearms2 1 THE NETHERLANDS. A Dutchcustoms officer was killed and twoothers wounded during an exchangeof gunfire with two West Germanterrorists on the West German-Dutchborder. The two, a man and awoman, fled in a stolen van.

1-Nov-78 Sydney Australia Other ChemicalAgent

0 0 AUSTRALIA. Several delegates to aninternational Assyrian Congressmeeting in Sydney were made illfrom food poisoned with mustinehydrochloride. Delegates from Iraqallegedly provided the food. Twodelegates who receivedcontaminated food had previouslycriticized the Iraqi Government's useof violence.

1-Nov-78 Tehran Iran Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 IRAN. A car owned by a U.S. AirForce officer was set on fire inTehran. No injuries were reported.

7-Nov-78 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaOther Unknown0 10 GUATEMALA. Ten Salvadorans werefound dead in Guatemala City.Circumstances of the case ledobservers to believe that a terroristgroup that kidnaps, tortures, andmurders its victims was responsible.In 1977, the news media receivedanonymous announcements of thecreation of the Guatemalan Anti-Salvadoran Liberation Action Group,which pledged to kill Salvadoranswho took the jobs of Guatemalans.

11-Nov-78

KonstanzFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown2 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three terrorists, apparently Yugoslavemigres, attacked several Yugoslavcitizens in Konstanz during the night,killing one and wounding two others.

13-Nov-78

Ahvaz Iran Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 IRAN. Three Iranians threw at leastone Molotov cocktail at the car of theDeputy Director of Oil ServicesCompany in Ahvaz. The Americanchased the attackers withoutsuccess. The car caught on fire andexploded; there were no injuries.

14-Nov-78

Semnan Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. Two explosive devicesrendered a transportation businoperable in Semnan. No injurieswere reported to the U.S. citizenswho used the bus to travel 40 milesto and from their residences.

17-Nov-78

SantoDomingo

DominicanRepublic

Other Unknown0 0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. A DominicanAir Force private took a Dominicansecretary hostage in the ArgentineEmbassy in Santo Domingo. Hedemanded a ransom of US $100,000,safe conduct to Mexico or Uruguay,and to have Partido RevolucionarioDominicano (PRD) leaders involved inthe negotiating process. Localauthorities were able to disarm himand secure the release of thehostage. No injuries resulted.

17-Nov-78

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A bomb exploded atMcDonald's restaurant in SanSalvador. No injuries were reportedand damage was minimal. TheFarabundo Marti Popular LiberationForces (FPL) claimed responsibility.

18-Nov-78

ThessalonikiGreece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two bombs went off at theCoca-Cola plant near Thessaloniki.Damage was estimated atapproximately US$6,000. No injurieswere reported. The RevolutionaryPeople's Struggle claimedresponsibility in a manifesto datedNovember 19.

19-Nov-78

Israel al-Fatah Explosives30 4 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on a buscarrying tourists from a day's outing.Four persons died and over 30 wereinjured. Passengers includedpersons from Great Britain, Sweden,Canada and Belgium. An Al Fatahspokesman claimed responsibility forthe incident which occurred on thefirst anniversary of EgyptianPresident Sadat's visit to Jerusalem.The Democratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine also claimedresponsibility. An Arab woman,Fatmah Kaasur, was arrested onFebruary 2, 1979, by Israeli securityauthorities in Jerusalem on suspicionof planting the bomb.

19-Nov-78

Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. The Sears Roebuckdepartment store in Lima wasbombed; several people wereinjured.

22-Nov-78

Glendale UnitedStates

Other Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. A 36-year-old tooland die manufacturer in Glendale,California, was shot to death in frontof his home. An American ofCroatian descent, he was killed bytwo shots from a .32 caliberautomatic. He had been active inCroatian political groups and hadreceived an extortion letter earlier inJune that appeared to come from aCroatian organization in Germany.The FBI said at least 25 such lettershad been mailed to Croatian-Americans in New York, Cleveland,Chicago, San Francisco, and LosAngeles.

24-Nov-78

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Other Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. Dutch businessman,Fritz Schuitema, director-general ofPhilips of El Salvador, a Dutchappliance manufacturer, waskidnapped by armed guerrillas as hewas driving his car in downtown SanSalvador.

24-Nov-78

UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. The Egyptianconsulate was firebombed,shattering the wood and glass door.The Jewish Defense League claimedresponsibility.

25-Nov-78

SanMarcos

ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A bomb exploded inthe warehouse of the German-ownedBayer Company in San Marcos. Noinjuries were reported. The FPL(Farabundo Marti Popular LiberationForces) claimed responsibility for thebombing and resultant fire.

30-Nov-78

ElSalvador


Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Guerrillas belongingto the left-wing Fuerzas Armadas deResistencia Nacional (FARN)kidnapped two British bankexecutives (Ian Massie and MichaelChatterton) and threatened toexecute them on December 30 inview of the indifference of theLondon government and theinstitution for which they work, whichrefused to negotiate for the twoBritons release. At the same timethey kidnapped Japanese TakakasuSuzuki, sales manager of a textilecompany jointly financed bySalvadoran and Japanese capital.The kidnappers demanded money,the publication of manifestos innewspapers in El Salvador and therest of the world, and the release offive political prisoners in El Salvador.The Salvador government refused toallow the publication of themanifestos in the country andclaimed it did not have the politicalprisoners demanded by theguerrillas. The kidnapperspostponed the execution of theBritons heeding the public appeal bythe Human Rights Commission of ElSalvador....Unofficial sources saidSuzuki's family had also been sent aletter demanding an unknownamount of money and publication ofstatements from the group in majorworld newspapers. Two of theprisoners whose release is demandedare Professor Manuel Rivera and LilMilagro Ramirez, a student, bothcharged with being members of FPL(Popular Forces of Liberation). InFebruary 1979, according to a FARNannouncement, the two Britons hadbeen executed. However, the twowere released unharmed in mid-1979.

30-Nov-78

Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives2 0 IRAN. A pipe bomb exploded in theapartment of a member of the U.S.military in Tehran. The explosioncaused property damage and minorinjury to two persons.

30-Nov-78

Bologna Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb detonated in Bolognaat the International BusinessMachines warehouse. Damage wasminimal and no injuries werereported. A group calling itself theProletarian Squad claimedresponsibility for the bombing.

3-Dec-78 Tehran Iran Unknown Firearms0 0 IRAN. Police guards at the Egyptianembassy were fired upon. No onewas reported hit.

5-Dec-78 Tehran Iran Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 IRAN. The homes of three Americansin Tehran's northern and easternsectors were firebombed.

5-Dec-78 Tehran Iran Unknown Firearms0 0 IRAN. The homes of three Americansin Tehran's northern and easternsectors were firebombed.


0 0 IRAN. The homes of three Americansin Tehran's northern and easternsectors were firebombed.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. A group callingitself The New Jewish DefenseLeague claimed responsibility fordestroying an Egyptian diplomat'scar with a firebomb. It was the thirdattack on property owned byEgyptian diplomats in New York Cityin six weeks, all apparentlyprotesting the peace treaty beingnegotiated between Israel and Egypt.

7-Dec-78 ElSalvador


Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. A Japanese executiveof the Synthetics Industry of CentralAmerica (INSINCA) representing theJapanese firm Tore Textile, waskidnapped in El Salvador. The ArmedForces of National Resistance (FARN)issued demands for money, releaseof political prisoners, and publicationof its manifesto in return for therelease of the executive.

7-Dec-78 Geneva SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. An explosionoccurred in front of the TurkishConsulate in Geneva. The explosiondamaged the building but there wereno casualties. No organization hasclaimed responsibility.


0 0 IRAN. The home of a British citizen inTehran was firebombed.

10-Dec-78

JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A Katyusha rocket andlauncher were found in the Jewishsuburb of Gilo, east of Jerusalem.The launcher appeared to have beenset up in readiness for firing whilelarge numbers of Israelis and foreigndignitaries were in Jerusalem for thefuneral of Golda Meir.

12-Dec-78

QiryatArba


Explosives0 5 ISRAEL. Commandos of theDemocratic Front for the Liberationof Palestine claimed they had killedor wounded five Israelis with timebombs planted in Qiryat Arbaasettlement in the Hebron area. Theexplosive was set off in a big shop.

12-Dec-78

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. The New JewishDefense League doused withgasoline and set on fire the ConeyIsland home of Farouk Mansour, vice-consul of Egypt's U.N. mission. Thenext-door home of an elderly Jewishcouple was heavily damaged.

13-Dec-78

Anglet France Unknown Explosives0 1 FRANCE. Jose Miguel Penaran, aleader of the Basque terrorist groupETA, was killed by a car bomb in theFrench town of Anglet. No oneclaimed responsibility. Penaran, anETA hardliner, reportedly directedthe assassination of Premier LuisCarrero Blanco (of Spain) in 1973.

14-Dec-78

ComodoroRivadavia

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded infront of the Chilean consulate inComodoro Rivadavia.

17-Dec-78


Explosives22 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on aJerusalem bus, wounding 22 persons.The explosion occurred in the Jewishdistrict of Bayit Vegan on the city'swest side. The bus operatesbetween that neighborhood and EastJerusalem and included five U.S.citizens. The PLO claimedresponsibility.

18-Dec-78

Geneva SwitzerlandArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. An explosive devicewas thrown at the Turkish airlinesoffice in Geneva. No one was injuredin the explosion which shattered thewindows of the building. A personphoned the AFP office in Genevaafter the explosion, stating that hewas a member of a secret Armenianorganization and claimingresponsibility for the incident.

18-Dec-78

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two men, onecarrying a dynamite bomb, and theother an officer of the new JewishDefense League, were arrested inNew York on charges of plotting tobomb the Egyptian governmenttourist office in Rockefeller Center.The two men were identified asBruce Barry Berger and Victor G.Vancier.

22-Dec-78

Tehran Iran Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 IRAN. No one was injured when agasoline bomb was thrown throughthe window of an American's Tehranhome.

23-Dec-78

Ahvaz Iran Other Unknown0 2 IRAN. The assassination of a keyAmerican Texaco oil official, PaulGrimm, in Ahvaz, along with theslaying on the same day of an Iraniancolleague, Malek Bourojerdi, hasdramatically accelerated theeconomic decline of Iran. Theassassinations were apparently thework of a small, hard-core terroristgroup with ties to Palestinianguerrillas. The killers apparentlythought drastic measures werenecessary to reverse a trend in thegovernment's favor.... A link issuspected with the Sovietintelligence agency KGB, in weaponssupply, electronic training, andgeneral funding.

23-Dec-78

Tehran Iran Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 IRAN. During the night, a U.S.military official's car was set on firein Tehran.

24-Dec-78

PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Firearms0 1 CAMBODIA. Malcolm Caldwell, a 47-year old British scholar andjournalist, was shot and killed inPhnom Penh when at least oneterrorist broke into a governmentguest house where he was staying.Two American journalists escapedunhurt. Cambodian Deputy PremierLeng Sary called the killing an act ofpolitical assassination meant todiscredit Cambodia. Caldwell, aMarxist economist, had writtenfavorably about the CambodianCommunist administration.

26-Dec-78

Zimbabwe(Rhodesia)

ZimbabweAfricanNationalistUnion(ZANU)

Firearms0 1 ZIMBABWE. A German Jesuit who ranthe Kangaire Mission northeast ofMount Darwin, was shot and killed byZANU guerrillas. The terroristsaccused him of not providing highereducation for the local population.

26-Dec-78

Izmir Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. The cars of two Americansin Izmir were firebombed, causing noinjuries.

26-Dec-78

Izmir Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. The cars of two Americansin Izmir were firebombed, causing noinjuries.

29-Dec-78

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Explosions rockedthe Cuban UN Mission and a LincolnCenter theater in New York. A mantelephoned the Associated Pressshortly after the second explosion,claiming responsibility on behalf ofan anti-Castro group called Omega 7.No one was reported injured but theexplosion caused considerabledamage resulting in the cancellationof the second and third performancesof the Cuban orchestra, OrquestraAragon.

29-Dec-78

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Avery FisherConcert Hall at Lincoln Center in NewYork City was bombed by Omega-7.Earlier, a Cuban musical group hadperformed there. No one was injuredin the blast, but the bomb destroyedthree flights of the building's floor-to-ceiling glass windows. No one wasreported injured but the explosioncaused considerable damageresulting in the cancellation of thesecond and third performances of theCuban orchestra, Orquestra Aragon.

1-Jan-79 Portugal Other Other 0 0 PORTUGAL. U.S. environmentalistsseriously damaged the whaler Sierraby ramming it with a ship called SeaShepherd. The subjects werearrested but fled the country. Theywere believed to be members of theFund for the Animals; Green Peace.

1-Jan-79 Zimbabwe(Rhodesia)

Other Firearms0 1 ZIMBABWE. A Swiss Roman Catholicmissionary at the Selukwe ruralAfrican reservation was kidnapped,apparently by nationalist guerrillas,while on his way to conduct NewYear's mass. His bullet-riddled bodywas found two days later. He haddisappeared five days after anotherCatholic missionary was shot dead ina remote outpost in the northeasternpart of the country.

8-Jan-79 Vienna Austria Other Firearms2 0 AUSTRIA. Two unidentified menattempted to assassinate MasmondBarzani, son and successor of thelegendary Kurdish leader GeneralBarzani in Vienna. Barzani hadarrived in Austria for secret talks withKurdish underground fighters. Thetwo gunmen opened fire on him inthe stairway of an apartmentbuilding after he and two bodyguardsleft the apartment where the talkswere held. Both the bodyguardswere seriously wounded in protectingBarzani; the assassins escaped in awaiting cab. Barzani claimed thatthe attack was not conducted by rivalKurdish groups but was theresponsibility of the Iraqi secretservice of the embassy, onBaghdad's orders.

12-Jan-79 Tunisia Other Unknown0 0 TUNISIA. A Tunis-Air Boeing 707carrying 75 passengers was seizedand flown to Libya by four hijackerswho demanded the release of twoprominent Tunisian oppositionpoliticians. The plane was scheduledfor the resort island of Djerba; itlanded in Tripoli for refueling afterbeing refused permission to touchdown on the islands of Malta. Libyanauthorities said they were unawarethe plane had been commandeeredand told the hijackers to eitherrelease the hostages or refuel andleave. The hijackers demanded therelease of labor union official HabibAchou, who had been condemned to10 years in prison at forced labor oncharges of organizing anti-government riots in January 1977.The hijackers also asked for theliberation of former Foreign MinisterMohammed Masmoudi, a supporterof Achou. After hours in the air, theplane landed in the Libyan capitaland the 75 passengers were freed.The hijackers, armed with pistols andgrenades, returned to Tripoli in theplane where they freed the crewmembers and surrendered.

13-Jan-79 France SpanishBasqueBattalion(BBE)(rightist)

Firearms0 1 FRANCE. Jose M. Pagoaga, said tobe the third ranking man in theBasque separatist organization ETA,was killed by gunfire apparently bySpanish rightists in retaliation for themurders of policemen in Spain.

14-Jan-79 Kerman Iran Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 IRAN. Martin Berkowitz, 53, of SanFrancisco, California, a former AirForce colonel working for the RalphM. Parsons Company, an Americanconstruction firm, was stabbed todeath in his kitchen in Kerman,southern Iran. The words go back toyour own country were scrawled onthe wall. He was the secondAmerican slain since anti-Shahturmoil broke out a year ago.

14-Jan-79 Maalot Israel Other Unknown5 1 ISRAEL. Three Palestinian terroristswere killed Saturday in a raid on aresidential hotel housing 230 civiliansin Maalot in north-central Israel. Aunit of Israeli soldiers intercepted thePalestinian team before they couldtake hostages. The Palestinianscrossed over from Lebanon through aborder fence and carried lettersdemanding the release of otherPalestinians held in Israel jails andthreatening to kill hostages toenforce the demands. One womanwas killed when she fell from awindow as she tried to flee from theattackers; five others wounded.

16-Jan-79 Beirut Lebanon Amal Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Six Lebanese Moslemhijackers armed with guns andgrenades hijacked a Lebanese MiddleEast Airlines jet with 82 passengersand nine crew members to protestthe disappearance of their religiousleader last August. After six hours offlying from Beirut to Amman toCyprus and back to Beirut, thegunmen surrendered and released allhostages. The surrender came afterone of the hijackers was allowed tohold a press conference at Beirutairport to tell the group's grievances.The gunmen said they were followersof the Imam Musa Sadr, a ShiiteMoslem leader in Lebanon whodisappeared mysteriously with twocompanions while on a visit to Libyain August of 1978. They felt that thegovernment of Colonel MoammarQaddafi was responsible for theirleader's disappearance.


ElSalvador

Other Firearms1 0 EL SALVADOR. Young leftist gunmendemanding freedom for politicalprisoners took over the Mexicanembassy and an Organization ofAmerican States office and held atleast 156 persons hostage. Mexicanembassy officials said that onesecurity guard in the building wasinjured in the leg resisting theoccupation, but there were no otherimmediate reports of violence.Spokesmen said [the gunmen wereholding hostage about 150Salvadoreans and six embassystaffers]. The youths demanded[hundreds of political prisoners] andthe publication of a manifesto lashingout at the military regime ofPresident Carlos Romero. The youthssaid they belonged to the UnitedPopular Action Front. They alsodemanded an accounting of the 108persons they said had disappeared, aeuphemism for persons who mayhave been killed after they werepicked up by plainclothesmen of ElSalvador's harsh military regime.They also demanded the lifting of ayear-old Public Order Law that gavepolice wide-ranging authority to putdown public demonstrations andpolitical activities. Eventually 90freed hostages (mostly women) leftthe embassy and negotiations wenton for freeing the others. Thehostages were freed on January 18upon promise of asylum in Mexico.


ElSalvador


Unknown0 1 EL SALVADOR. Members of FARNkidnapped Ernesto Liebes, Israel'sconsul general and local millionairecoffee exporter. The attack tookplace five kilometers from downtownSan Salvador on the PanamericanHighway when Liebe's vehicle was hitby a similar vehicle carrying fourmen. He was forced to enter theircar, along with a woman who hadaccompanied him. On January 22 theFARN claimed the kidnapping anddemanded the release of severalpolitical prisoners. The group set aMarch 21 deadline. Liebes' body wasfound March 22.

18-Jan-79 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives21 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in acrowded open air market in theJewish sector of Jerusalem, injuring atleast 21 persons. The bomb hadbeen concealed near a fruit andvegetable stall. The PalestineLiberation Organization said in Beirutthat one of its underground units inIsrael was responsible.

22-Jan-79 Beirut Lebanon Other Remote-detonatedexplosive

18 10 LEBANON. The Palestinian guerrillaleader who reportedly planned theattack on the Israeli Olympic team atMunich in 1972 was fatally woundedin Beirut in the explosion of aremote-controlled bomb. Fourbodyguards and five passers-by alsodied in the blast and eighteen otherswere injured. WAFA, the Palestiniannews agency, charged Israeliintelligence with responsibility for thedeath of 38-year old Ali HassanSalameh, the security chief of the AlFatah guerrilla group. Ali HassanSalameh, better known as AbuHassan, headed Israel's list of most-wanted guerrillas. His SpecialOperations unit is known toconcentrate much of its energy onterror strikes in Israel such as bombsexploding in crowded markets and inIsraeli-occupied territory.

28-Jan-79 Tehran Iran Other Firearms1 0 IRAN. A U.S. Air Force Major wasshot and wounded as he wasreturning to his home in Tehran. Anunknown Iranian fired two pistolshots which struck the Major in thearm and back of the neck.

29-Jan-79 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A high-powered explosivedevice was thrown into the Turkish-British Cultural Center in Ankara,causing damage to the building butinjuring no one.

29-Jan-79 Netanya Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives34 2 ISRAEL. Two persons were killed and34 wounded when a time bomb,planted by Palestinian guerrillas,exploded in a crowded businesssection of Netanya. The bomb,planted in a garbage can near amarket area crowded with womenshoppers, exploded at the peak ofthe mid-morning shopping period.The PLO claimed responsibility,declaring As long as Israel continuesto occupy a foreign country, it willhave to expect resistance fromoppressed people. WAFA reportedthat the bomb had been planted bymembers of the Palestiniancommando unit headed by AbuHassan, the slain Palestinian leader.

31-Jan-79 BarcelonaSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. The Commando of Solidaritywith Euzkadi, a Basque separatistgroup, claimed credit for throwing apetrol bomb into a French touristoffice in Barcelona.

4-Feb-79 TegucigalpaHonduras Other Unknown0 0 HONDURAS. Terrorists attacked theGuatemalan Embassy in Tegucigalpa,the capital of Honduras. Theassailants took certain items whichwere not valuable, searched the filesand soiled the ambassador's desk.Unidentified persons claimed that theSandinist National Liberation Front(FSLN) of Nicaragua was responsible;however, the Sandinists criticized theirresponsible way in which the mediadisseminated this information whichthey claim is false.

12-Feb-79 Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GR

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A low-power bomb explodedin the basement of the FrenchEmbassy in Madrid. The 1 OctoberAntifascist Resistance Group(GRAPO) claimed responsibility. In acommunique, GRAPO explains theaction is in response to the latestmeasures adopted by France againstBasque refugees in France.

13-Feb-79 Cairo Egypt Al-Sa'iqa Explosives7 0 EGYPT. A bomb exploded in theCairo Sheraton Hotel injuring sevenpeople. Authorities arrested severalPalestinians and Jordanians who werein the hotel when the bomb went off.No group has claimed responsibility,but Al-Sa'iqa was suspected.

14-Feb-79 Tehran Iran Other Firearms5 1 IRAN. Approximately 200 armedurban guerrillas attacked the U.S.embassy and held U.S. AmbassadorWilliam H. Sullivan and 101 membersof the embassy staff for more thantwo hours. The attack began at 10:15 am when guerrillas opened firewith heavy machineguns from theroof of a hotel and other buildings inthe area. Other youths then pinneddown 19 marine guards while othersscaled the walls and embassy gatesfrom three sides and fired at thechancery. During the attack oneembassy employee was killed andfive were wounded. The siege endedwhen forces loyal to the governmentof Ayatollah Khomeini engaged theattackers and eventually placed theembassy under protection of themilitia.

14-Feb-79 Kabul AfghanistanOther Firearms0 1 AFGHANISTAN. The U.S.Ambassador to Afghanistan, AdolphDubs, was abducted by a group ofAfghans described as right-wingMoslem terrorists and then shot todeath. It was uncertain whether Mr.Dubs was killed by his abductors, asthey had threatened, or was shotwhen government security aidesrushed into the hotel where he wasbeing held and opened fire.According to American Embassysources, the government forcerushed the building in spite of awarning from the American Embassyin Kabul not to attack the hotel oropen fire on the abductors whileefforts were being made to obtainthe Ambassador's release peacefully.After the shooting, Mr. Dubs wasfound dead of gunshot wounds in thehead and heart. Three of theabductors were killed in theshootout, and one was captured.The kidnappers were believed to beseeking the release of three recentlyimprisoned Moslem religious leaders.Deputy Secretary of State WarrenChristopher expressed shock at theSoviet actions while advising policein Kabul, blaming the Soviets forfailure to heed the U.S. repeatedrequests that the assault not beundertaken. The Afghan governmentclaimed that it was a regrettable butunavoidable response to terrorists.The affair left many unansweredquestions: the number and identifyof the abductors, their motive, and amissing .22 caliber that fired severalshots.

19-Feb-79 Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb, thrown from apassing car, exploded outside thePan Am office in Izmir. The explosionbroke windows in the office and invarious offices in the hotel locatedabove the offices. No injuries werereported and no group has claimedresponsibility.

20-Feb-79 Izmir Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. The car of a U.S.serviceman attached to thesoutheast NATO headquarters inIzmir was firebombed.

27-Feb-79 Oslo Norway AnandaMarga

Unknown0 0 NORWAY. Four persons claiming tobe members of a mediation grouphijacked a Soviet jetliner on a flightfrom Oslo, Norway, to Moscow butsurrendered to police after ascheduled landing in Stockholm. Thefour said they were members of agroup whose action was an attemptto focus world attention onconditions in the Soviet Union. Thehijackers were a Swede, a WestGerman woman, an Indian and aBrazilian woman. They claimed to bemembers of the Ananda Marga sect.

27-Feb-79 Santiago Chile Movementof theRevolutionaryLeft (MIR)(Chile)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded at the Bi-National Center, a cultural centerjointly sponsored by the UnitedStates and Chile in Santiago. Theexplosion broke windows and causedminor damage to the building. Aflyer left in the mailbox claimed theMovement of the Revolutionary Left(MIR) was responsible.


Other Explosives1 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb in a bookmailed to a Roman Catholic priestwho has written for a Croatian-language newspaper, explodedoutside a parochial elementaryschool, injuring a police detectivewho was trying to remove it. TheReverend Timothy Majic, pastor, saidthe bomb might have been linked tohis work as editor of the MorningStar, a Croatian-language newspaperpublished in Chicago. He said he hadwritten many anti-Communisteditorials and stories since he cameto the United States in l951. TheMorning Star takes the politicalposition of pleading for a freeCroatia, which is part of Yugoslavia.

28-Feb-79 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives6 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded inJerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-airmarket wounding six persons. ThePalestine news agency WAFAreported later that Palestiniancommandos had claimedresponsibility for the incident. Thebomb was wrapped in a plastic bagand went off in an alley outside abutcher shop.

1-Mar-79 Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The M-19 was blamedfor a bomb that was found in front ofan elevator on the third floor of theJapanese embassy in Bogota.

4-Mar-79 Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The rail service betweenJerusalem and Tel Aviv wassuspended for several hoursfollowing an explosion on the railwayline in which a train was derailed. Asecond mine found on the line wasdismantled. A Palestinian militaryspokesman claimed responsibility,claiming that a number of Israelishad been killed or wounded.

6-Mar-79 Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Two engineers, one aYugoslav national, the other anEgyptian, employed by a Yugoslavcompany, were kidnapped and heldhostage, according to a letterdelivered by the PDK (DemocraticKurdistan Party of Iraq) to the pressin Tehran. The letter, received inApril, stated they would be freedwhen the crimes of the Iraqi regimeagainst the Kurds have been broughtto light.

8-Mar-79 Israel DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives12 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian terrorists plantedthree bombs on Israeli tourist busesto protest President Carter'sweekend Mid East peace mission.Twelve persons were injured. ThePro-Moscow Democratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine claimed creditfor the incident. The guerrilla groupssaid orders had been issued to itsfighters [to step up the militaryoperations against Israel to protestCarter's visit.] Time bombs plantedat Tel Aviv's Plaza Hotel exploded,gutting the upper stories andwounding an unspecified number ofIsraelis.

9-Mar-79 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosive device wasthrown onto the patio of the AnkaraUS officers' mess. Gunfire was heardand shell casings were found acrossthe street. There were no injuriesand damage was minimal.

10-Mar-79 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Israeli troops killed fourPalestinian infiltrators in Tel Avivapparently planning on takinghostages in Israel during PresidentCarter's visit. The guerrillas carriedexplosives and sabotage material, aswell as leaflets indicating theyintended to take hostages in a bid toforce Israel to free Arab prisoners.

11-Mar-79 Izmir Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown against the front of theAmerican APO in Izmir. A fireresulted, damaging the wooden frontdoors; no injuries were reported. AnAmerican high school located in thesame building was the target of rockthrowing by unknown persons. Noinjuries were reported.

15-Mar-79 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb was found in awashroom near the library in theAmerican Consulate in Karachi. Abomb squad removed and explodedthe device without incident.

22-Mar-79 TheHague

NetherlandsProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Firearms0 2 THE NETHERLANDS. The Britishambassador to The Netherlands, SirRichard Sykes, and his Dutchfootman were shot to death justoutside the ambassador's residencein The Hague in what sources therebelieve was a terrorist attack by theIrish Republican Army. Sykes, asecurity expert and an authority onIRA terrorism, had investigatedattacks on British diplomats but hadno bodyguard with him when gunneddown by two men who weredescribed by police as highly trainedprofessionals possibly linked to theProvisional Wing of the IRA. InFebruary 1980, the Provisional IRAclaimed that its activists were behinda string of other attacks in WesternEurope, including the Sykes murder.

22-Mar-79 NetherlandsRedBrigades

Firearms0 1 THE NETHERLANDS. Two men shotand killed a Belgium National Bankofficial, Andre Michaux, as he parkedhis car in front of his home. Policespeculated that the slaying wasconnected with the assassination ofthe British ambassador (Sykes) sinceMr. Michaux lived across the streetfrom Britain's deputy ambassador toNATO. The IRA is believedresponsible although Italy's RedBrigade also claimed responsibility.

23-Mar-79 IslamabadPakistan Unknown Firearms0 1 PAKISTAN. An official of thePalestinian Liberation Organization,Muazzam Zaki, was shot and killed inhis home in Islamabad. PakistaniPLO chief Yousuf Abu Hantash saidthat Mr. Zaki belonged to the politicalwing of the PLO and came toPakistan from Beirut to serve as acounselor.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives4 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb in a flightbag about to be loaded aboard a LosAngeles-bound jet at Kennedy Airportin New York exploded, injuring fourbaggage handlers. A caller to UnitedPress International claimedresponsibility for the bomb at theairport plus bomb blasts that rockedtwo New Jersey buildings populatedby Cuban refugees. He said thebombings were the work of the anti-Castro terrorist group Omega 7 toprotest tourist flights from the UnitedStates to Cuba. The caller said theyintended to blow up the planewithout anyone in it. There were 157passengers aboard and a crew offive.

26-Mar-79 Ankara Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosive device wasthrown at the Israeli embassy inAnkara, Turkey. The TurkishRevolutionaries claimedresponsibility. They were protestingthe signing of the Egyptian-Israelipeace treaty.

26-Mar-79 DamascusSyria Unknown Explosives0 0 SYRIA. A bomb explosion shook theU.S. Embassy in Damascus, causingsome damage, on the eve of thesigning of the peace treaty betweenEgypt and Israel.

26-Mar-79 WeehawkenUnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedat the Cuban Refugee storefront inWeehawken, New Jersey. No injurieswere reported. Omega 7 claimedresponsibility.

26-Mar-79 UnionCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The AlmacenPharmacy in Union City, New Jersey,a firm specializing in sendingmedicine to Cuba and which wasbombed once before by Omega-7 inDecember 1977, was again bombedby the group. Spokesmen forOmega-7 announced that thebombings were the beginning of acampaign to attack businesses thatdealt with Castro's Cuba.

27-Mar-79 Dhaka BangladeshUnknown Unknown0 0 BANGLADESH. Radical Arabsstormed the Egyptian Embassy andheld the ambassador hostage forseveral hours to protest the peacetreaty signing between Israel andEgypt.

27-Mar-79 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A Jewish-owned perfumeshop was bombed in Paris,apparently by terrorists as a result ofthe peace treaty signed betweenIsrael and Egypt.

27-Mar-79 Paris France AutonomousInterventionCollectiveAgainstthe Zio

Explosives32 0 FRANCE. Terrorists, callingthemselves the AutonomousIntervention Collective Against TheZionist Presence in France and theIsraeli Egyptian Peace, set off a bombin a Jewish restaurant in Paris as aresult of the peace treaty signingbetween Israel and Egypt. Thirty-twopersons were injured.

27-Mar-79 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives14 1 ISRAEL. One person was killed and14 wounded when a bomb explodedin downtown Jerusalem in whatapparently was the Palestinian's firstblow against the newly approvedEgyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Theblast rocked Zion Square. Aspokesman for the PalestinianLiberation Organization claimedresponsibility, stating the bombingwas within the framework of theescalation of our armed resistance tothe Zionist occupation of ourhomeland.

27-Mar-79 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in theentrance of a U.S. InternationalCommunication Agency AssociatedCultural Center in Ankara. Noinjuries were reported, althoughthere were over 100 persons present.Damage was limited. No groupclaimed responsibility.

28-Mar-79 SanSebastian


Unknown0 0 SPAIN. ETA claimed credit for anattack on the offices of the CreditLyonnais in San Sebastian.

29-Mar-79 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. The private vehicle of a U.S. Consulate official was hit by fivegun shots and a gasoline bomb in thegarage of his residence in Istanbul.Windows were broken and firecaused extensive damage but therewere no injuries reported. No groupclaimed responsibility.

30-Mar-79 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Two explosive devices wereleft on the grounds of the U.S.Chancery in Ankara. One explodednear a fence; the second was foundnearby but did not explode. Noinjuries were reported and damagewas minimal to the ground near thefence. No group claimedresponsibility.

30-Mar-79 London UnitedKingdom


Explosives0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A leadingmember of Parliament was killed inLondon when a bomb apparently setby Irish terrorists exploded in his caras he was driving out of theParliament grounds. The victim,Airey M.S. Neave, was a close advisorto the Conservative Party leader,Margaret Thatcher. Both theProvisional IRA and the Irish NationalLiberation Army claimedresponsibility for the attack.

1-Apr-79 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bombing attempt wasmade on the El Al office in Istanbul.

2-Apr-79 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Three men fired tworocket-propelled grenades at the U.S.Embassy in Beirut, following threatsby Palestinian guerrillas to strike atAmerican interests because of thesigning of the Egyptian-Israeli treaty.The explosions shattered windowsand damaged a second floor office.There were no injuries.

4-Apr-79 Sydney Australia Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. A bomb-wieldinghijacker who demanded to go toMoscow and held a knife to awoman's throat was criticallywounded by police who overpoweredhim inside a Pan American jet atSydney's Mascot Airport. Police saidthe hijacker, identified as an Italian,Dimiscus Sperantzo, later died fromhis wounds. He carried bombs on hisbody and held the knife in his hand inan attempt to gain passage to theSoviet Union via Singapore andRome. An anti-hijack squad rescuedthe woman after her abductorsnatched her from the customs hallof the airport terminal and forced heraboard the 747 jumbo jet bound forLos Angeles. It was the firstattempted hijacking in Australia of anoverseas aircraft.

4-Apr-79 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives10 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Authorities claim terrorists set off abomb that exploded in the airmaildistribution station of LufthansaAirlines in Frankfurt. Ten personswere injured. It is believed the bombwas placed in a mailbag waiting to besorted. The package was bound forIsrael.

5-Apr-79 Nicosia Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb exploded at theIsraeli Embassy in Nicosia. Noinjuries were reported; only minordamage was sustained.

5-Apr-79 Nicosia Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb exploded at theoffices of a tour agency thatrepresents Egyptair, Egypt's nationalairline, in Nicosia. No injuries werereported and only minor damage wassustained.

6-Apr-79 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives13 0 ISRAEL. Terrorists bombed a busstop in Arab Jerusalem, injuring 13persons, and struck Israeli andEgyptian targets in Cyprus.Authorities said the bomb was in abag placed beside a bus that runsthrough both Arab and JewishJerusalem. No one claimedresponsibility for the bombings butthey followed the pattern ofPalestinian attacks carried out inreprisal for the signing of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, denounced bythe PLO and almost all Arab statesbecause it does not provide forreturn of all Arab lands held by Israelor the establishment of anindependent Palestinian state.

6-Apr-79 SaintSebastian


Explosives2 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at theFrench consulate at Saint Sebastianin Spanish Basque territory. Thebuilding was severely damaged andtwo policemen on sentry duty wereinjured.

7-Apr-79 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The residences oftwo men active in California'sCroatian community were bombed.Explosive devices (pipe bombs) wereused which caused extensivedamage. The bombs exploded at thehomes of Mario Forgiarini and FrankStriskovich, who are friends living inthe neighboring communities ofRossmoor and Cerritos. Forgiarini ispresident of the Croatian communityin Los Angeles FBI agents areinvestigating if there is a linkbetween the two incidents.

7-Apr-79 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The residences oftwo men active in California'sCroatian community were bombed.Explosive devices (pipe bombs) wereused which caused extensivedamage. The bombs exploded at thehomes of Mario Forgiarini and FrankStriskovich, who are friends living inthe neighboring communities ofRossmoor and Cerritos. Forgiarini ispresident of the Croatian communityin Los Angeles FBI agents areinvestigating if there is a linkbetween the two incidents.

7-Apr-79 France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A time bomb wasdiscovered at a Jewish culture weekevent.

8-Apr-79 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in theIsraeli consulate in Ankara. Therewere no injuries.

8-Apr-79 SanJuan

PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Unknown0 1 PUERTO RICO. Omega-7,implementing its prior warning thatany Cuban, Puerto Rican, orAmerican who traveled to Cubawould be punished accordingly,murdered Carlos Muniz Varela, thedirector of a travel agency thatspecialized in organizing tours toCuba. In January, Omega-7 hadbombed his San Juan office. Afterthe assassination, a spokesman forthe terrorist group announced that,Who travels to Cuba, regardless ofhis motives, is considered ourenemy.... We will be forced to judgethem as we did Muniz.

10-Apr-79 Tel Aviv Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives36 1 ISRAEL. A mid-day bomb set off inthe open-air Carmel market in TelAviv killed one Israeli and wounded36. The PLO said in a communiquethat it had been responsible for theblast. In turn, Israeli planes madereprisal attacks against targets atDamur, six miles south of Beirut,Lebanon, and in the Tyre area insouthern Lebanon, which resulted indozens of casualties. One Palestinianreport said that at least threepersons had been killed.

13-Apr-79 Izmir Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationFront(TPLF)(THKP-C)

Firearms1 1 TURKEY. Turkish terrorists, firingfrom a speeding automobile, killedone American soldier and criticallywounded another in a suburb ofIzmir. Both men were assigned toNATO headquarters in Izmir. TheTurkish People's Liberation FrontParty claimed responsibility.

14-Apr-79 DiyarbakirTurkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb detonated on astreet in Diyarbakir, damaging aprivately owned vehicle of a GeneralElectric employee, a U.S. citizen.There was extensive damage to thecar and street; no group claimedresponsibility.

15-Apr-79 Israel al-Fatah Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. Four terrorists penetratinginto Israel from Jordan were killed byIDF near kibbutz Tirat Zir.

15-Apr-79 Cairo Egypt Al-Sa'iqa Explosives0 0 EGYPT. Police arrested a Lebaneseupon his arrival at Cairo airport fromBeirut and discovered that hissuitcase contained explosives similarto those of a colleague who had beenarrested on March 16. The Egyptiansclaimed that he was a first lieutenantin the Syrian intelligence service whowas attached to the Sai'qa office inBeirut. Named Ali Samih Najm, hewas to conduct three operations inEgypt; the bombing of the SheratonHotel, one in the At-Tahrir Square,and a third to cause fear among thepublic and police. The Egyptiansclaimed that he cooperated withthem during the interrogation,providing information on Cubansupervision of Sai'qa training andplanning. His release was laterdemanded by terrorists who tookover the Egytian embassy in Ankaraon July 13, 1979.

16-Apr-79 Brussels Belgium Other Explosives12 0 BELGIUM. A Palestinian guerrillateam tossed grenades into ZaventemAirport lounge in Brussels in abotched attack on Israeli passengersand then shot it out with policebefore being captured. The attackleft 12 persons wounded. Airlinesources said airport workerscaptured four terrorists and turnedthem over to Belgium authorities.The El Al plane had not yet let itspassengers off to enter the airportlounge where the guerrillas whocarried submachine guns hadpositioned themselves in an abortedattempt to hijack the El Al airliner. Apreviously unheard of Palestinianterrorist organization calling itselfBlack March claimed responsibility.The reference to Black Marchappears to indicate that the groupwas formed to oppose the March 26signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peacetreaty. Two Palestinians, Hoseini RadMahoud, 3l, and Dayekh KhaledDokh, 26, confessed that theyintended to injure as many El Alpassengers as possible. They werefound guilty on August 16 ofattempted murder and sentenced toeight years each.

16-Apr-79 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb apparently plantedby guerrillas exploded on a busminutes after a 13-year-old boyspotted a satchel and the driverordered his passengers off. The blasttotally wrecked the bus. The PLOdissociated itself from the attack.

16-Apr-79 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosive charge wasdetonated at the ICA Center (U.S.International CommunicationAgency) in Beirut. Structuraldamage resulted but no injuries werereported. No group claimedresponsibility.

17-Apr-79 Israel Other Explosives6 1 ISRAEL. Israeli troops suffered theheaviest casualty toll of any borderclash with guerrillas after a majorskirmish on the Lebanese frontier inwhich an army patrol intercepted andwiped out a six-man death squad in afierce fight. It was a grenade andmachine gun battle in which anIsraeli soldier was killed and sixothers wounded. The suicide squadapparently entered Israel at a farmsettlement in Zarit and was found bythe patrol a mile inside Israel. Itmarked the third Palestinian terroristattack foiled by Israeli security forcesin less than 48 hours.

19-Apr-79 Cairo Egypt al-Fatah Explosives4 1 EGYPT. A box of cigars exploded atCairo's main post office, killing awoman customs inspector andinjuring four persons. A little-knownPalestinian group called the Eagles ofthe Palestinian Revolution tookresponsibility. The blast occurred asEgyptians voted in a referendum onPresident Sadat's peace treaty withIsrael. Egypt accused Syria ofdirecting a plot of terrorist bombingsto stir up panic and discouragetourism.

19-Apr-79 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Firearms0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The body of Jozo Molos, a Croatianemigre, was found in the Colognewoods with two bullet holes in thehead and chest. He had beenimprisoned in West Germany in theearly 1970s on charges of planningto assassinate a Yugoslav consul. Amember of his group said that theybelieved the Yugoslav secret serviceprobably had him killed.

19-Apr-79 Valencia Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GR

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. GRAPO claimed credit for anexplosion in the Valencia showroomof a Ford agent. It damaged thirteencars and blew out the windows.

22-Apr-79 Vienna Austria al-Fatah Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. Explosives were detonatedat a Jewish center in Vienna. Noinjuries or damage were reported. Agroup calling itself the Eagles of thePalestinian Revolution claimedresponsibility.

22-Apr-79 Nahariya Israel Other Unknown4 4 ISRAEL. Four Palestinian terroristsfrom Lebanon raided the resort townof Nahariya from the sea. FourIsraeli civilians and two of theattackers were killed in the raid; fourIsraelis were wounded. Israeli shipsshelled suspected Palestinianguerrilla bases in Lebanon in reprisal.

23-Apr-79 Maputo MozambiqueUnknown Explosives6 0 MOZAMBIQUE. A package mailedfrom Ghana to Maputo exploded inthe post office, injuring six postalworkers. The package wasaddressed to the Zimbabwe AfricanNational Union (ZANU).

24-Apr-79 Vienna Austria al-Fatah Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. The Eagles of the PalestineRevolution claimed credit for thebombing of a Jewish synagogue inVienna.

26-Apr-79 Seville Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two bombs detonated inSeville, one at the French consulateand another at a branch of a Frenchbank. There was minor damage. TheETA claimed responsibility.

26-Apr-79 Seville Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Two bombs detonated inSeville, one at the French consulateand another at a branch of a Frenchbank. There was minor damage. TheETA claimed responsibility.

28-Apr-79 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosion outside theapartment building where the U.S.Consul General resides resulted inbroken windows. There were noinjuries reported. Authorities believethe blast was in protest against thepresence of the U.S. Consulate. Nogroup claimed responsibility.

28-Apr-79 WestBerlin


al-Fatah Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.West Berlin police arrested sevenLebanese who were planning to blowup the city's largest fuel depot.Eighteen kilograms of explosives hadbeen hidden in a locker in Berlin'smain railway station. Al Fatahguerrillas suspected.

28-Apr-79 SanJuan

PuertoRico

Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 1 PUERTO RICO. The Anti-Castro groupOmega-7 claimed credit for shootinga Cuban exile who was president ofVaradero Tours, which organizedvisits to Cuba for San Juan's Cubancommunity.

30-Apr-79 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A homemade bombdetonated outside the Renaultshowroom in Bilbao. No injuries werereported; however, there wasdamage. Local police believe thatBasque separatists were responsibleas a protest against a Frenchcrackdown on Basque refugees.

1-May-79 Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. The Turkish-Iraqi pipelinenear Kayri village was bombed byKurdish militants who, whencaptured in early 1982 claimed thatthey had been sent by the KurdishNational Unity Party leader JalalTalabani in Syria. The pipeline carriesIraqi oil from Kirkuk to the Turkishport of Iskenderun.

1-May-79 Bogota Colombia PopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Explosives3 0 COLOMBIA. Leftist urban guerrillasset off a bomb at the home of the U.S. Marines who guard the U.S.Embassy in Bogota, injuring onemarine and two maids. Phone callsto radio stations claimed that theantigovernment Maoist PopularLiberation Army (EPL) wasresponsible for the bombing.

3-May-79 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Rev. ManuelEspinosa was the victim of anassassination attempt in Miami.Although a bullet struck his car,Espinosa was unharmed. He isamong the best known proponents ofnormalizing relations with Cuba andmaintaining a dialogue between theU.S. and Cuba. Omega-7 waspresumbably responsible for theattack although credit was notclaimed by any group.

4-May-79 Ankara Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Two cars were burned inAnkara by unknown individuals. Thecars were parked outside theresidence of U.S. embassy personnel.

5-May-79 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Other Firearms1 0 EL SALVADOR. The People'sRevolutionary Bloc (BPR) extremiststook over the embassies of Franceand Costa Rica in San Salvador. Oneof the guards at the Costa Ricanembassy was shot but in satisfactorycondition in a hospital. Thegovernment refused to negotiatewith the terrorists. The People'sRevolutionary Bloc submitted acommunique to the local office ofAgence France Presse (AFP) in whichthey demanded the release ofpolitical prisoners and that thegovernments report to the humanrights commissions of the UnitedNations. Both ambassadors, MichelDondenne of France and JulioEsquivel of Costa Rica, were amongthe hostages. By May 7, safeconduct out of the country was beingoffered the rebels if they wouldrelease the hostages. Costa Rica'sambassador escaped with fourwomen while his captors were eatingdinner. On the 11th, the Frenchambassador refused to be liberatedwithout his coworkers. The PopularRevolutionary Bloc continued to holdthe French and Venezuelanembassies. (See incident of 5/11/79).Finally, on June 1, the rebels endedtheir occupation, freed the Frenchambasssador and five other hostagesheld since May 4, and were flown outof the country. Mexico grantedasylum to 25.

5-May-79 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Other Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. The People'sRevolutionary Bloc (BPR) extremiststook over the embassies of Franceand Costa Rica in San Salvador. Oneof the guards at the Costa Ricanembassy was shot but in satisfactorycondition in a hospital. Thegovernment refused to negotiatewith the terrorists. The People'sRevolutionary Bloc submitted acommunique to the local office ofAgence France Presse (AFP) in whichthey demanded the release ofpolitical prisoners and that thegovernments report to the humanrights commissions of the UnitedNations. Both ambassadors, MichelDondenne of France and JulioEsquivel of Costa Rica, were amongthe hostages. By May 7, safeconduct out of the country was beingoffered the rebels if they wouldrelease the hostages. Costa Rica'sambassador escaped with fourwomen while his captors were eatingdinner. On the 11th, the Frenchambassador refused to be liberatedwithout his coworkers. The PopularRevolutionary Bloc continued to holdthe French and Venezuelanembassies. (See incident of 5/11/79).Finally, on June 1, the rebels endedtheir occupation, freed the Frenchambasssador and five other hostagesheld since May 4, and were flown outof the country. Mexico grantedasylum to 25.

5-May-79 Tarsus Turkey Unknown Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Weapons were fired intothe walls of the home of the directorof Tarsus American College in Tarsus.No injuries resulted.

6-May-79 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Two explosive devices weredetonated at the internationalterminal of the Yesilkoy Airport inIstanbul. There was extensivedamage but no injuries werereported.

7-May-79 Bern SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb exploded atthe Spanish Embassy in Bern. Therewas damage to the building but noinjuries were reported. The July 8Autonomous Group claimedresponsibility.

11-May-79

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Other Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. Nine armed militantsforced their way into the VenezuelanEmbassy in San Salvador anddeclared Ambassador SantiagoOchoa, three other Venezuelandiplomats and four local employeeshostages of the PopularRevolutionary Bloc. The terroristswere part of the Bloc involved in thetakeover of the French and CostaRican embassies earlier in themonth. On May 2l, the Venezuelanambassador, with a pistol smuggledto him by his wife, and four otherhostages escaped by threatening hiscaptors with a nonexistentsubmachine gun. After the fivehostages escaped, dozens of heavilyarmed militia surrounded theembassy. The rebels, althoughholding an empty embassy, refusedto leave until instructed by theirleaders.

12-May-79

Istanbul Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationArmy

Firearms1 1 TURKEY. Terrorists fired on a groupof U.S. servicemen, in Istanbul,killing one, Thomas Mosley, andwounding another. A Marxist-Leninist group calling itself theTurkish People's Liberation Armyclaimed responsibility for the attack.The U.S. servicemen were attachedto a NATO munitions supply depotjointly run by Turkish and Americanmilitary in Cakmakli. A telephonecaller said the victims weremercenaries serving at U.S.installations in Turkey. On June 6,the Istanbul Security Departmentsaid 13 extremists were captured inconnection with the attack and werealso suspected of other terrorist acts.

13-May-79

SanPedroSula

Honduras Other Unknown1 0 HONDURAS. The female Costa Ricanconsul in San Pedro Sula wasseverely injured when two men beather unconscious and then robbed herin her office. The attackers, who hadNicaraguan accents, had requesteddocuments to enter her country,claiming that they had fled Nicaraguabecause of its political violence.They painted slogans on her walls,Somoza yes, dirty Costa Ricans no.According to Panamanian radio, shebelieved the two men wereNicaraguan agents displeased withCosta Rica's views of the Somozaregime.

14-May-79

Tiberias Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives32 2 ISRAEL. A bomb hidden in a trashcontainer exploded in the midst of aholiday crowd in Tiberias, killing twostudents and wounding 32, fourseriously. The Palestine LiberationOrganization claimed responsibilityfor the bombing. In August, Ziad AbuEian, a Palestinian, was arrested inChicago, Illinois, and charged withthe bombing. Following a two-yearlegal battle over his freedom, andlosing a U.S. Supreme Court fight toavoid extradition, Eian was sent backto Israel on December 12, 1981, tostand trial. On June 17, 1982, Eianwas sentenced to life imprisonment.

15-May-79

SantaAna

ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Four of five bombsplanted against the doors of theCosta Rican consulate in Santa Anaby the Popular Liberation Forcesexploded, causing considerabledamage.

15-May-79

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Unknown0 2 EL SALVADOR. Eight members of theFPL attacked revenue police guardingthe South African embassy, seizedthe rifles of two slain policemen, andescaped in two cars.

18-May-79

Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedbehind the building that houses theCuban mission in Washington,breaking windows but causing noinjuries. A man telephoned theAssociated Press saying theybelonged to a group called Omega 7and that it was responsible for thebombing.

20-May-79

Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Omega-7 bombedthe Cuban Interests Section at theCzechoslovakian Embassy inWashington, D.C.

20-May-79

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

FarabundoMartiNationalLiberationFront(FMLN)

Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. The Farabundo MartiPopular Liberation Forces claimedcredit for the strafing of an IBMinstallation in San Salvador. Noinjuries were reported.

23-May-79

PetachTikva

Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives13 3 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded at acrowded bus stop in Petach Tikva,killing three persons and wounding13. A Palestinian LiberationOrganization spokesman said thebomb had been planted by a teamoperating in the occupied territory.They asserted that the target hadbeen an Israeli Army food store.

23-May-79

LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 2 UNITED STATES. Los Angeles policeand FBI agents are seeking a motivefor a bomb blast that killed two men,Zvonko Simic, 24, and MarinkoRudela, 20, who sat in a parked carin San Pedro, California. There wasspeculation that the explosion mighthave been related to a recent waveof violence against leaders of theSouthern California Croatiancommunity. Croatian emigres haveblamed the Yugoslavian secret policefor the attacks. The explosionoccurred in an area populated largelyby Croatian families. There was alsospeculation that the two men weretransporting the pipe bomb and thatit exploded accidentally in theirpickup.

24-May-79

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. A West German citizen, acorrespondent for STERN magazine,was shot four times outside his homein Beirut by unidentified gunmen. Hedied later.

28-May-79

Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosion occurred neara building housing the offices of theU.S. International CommunicationAgency in Ankara. Damage wasminor. No injuries were reported.

29-May-79

Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A pipe bomb exploded atthe Turkish-American Association inAnkara. No injuries were reportedand damage was minor.

29-May-79

IskenderunTurkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosive device wasthrown over the wall of a U.S.military compound in Iskenderun.There was minor damage; no injurieswere reported. No group claimedresponsibility.

30-May-79

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Firearms0 1 EL SALVADOR. Terrorists shot andkilled Switzerland's charge d'affaires,Hugo Wey, in an apparent attempt tokidnap him. The car in which he wasdriving to work in San Salvador wasintercepted by another automobile.He was killed with a pistol shot whenhe tried to drive out of the trap. ThePopular Liberation Forces, who hadclaimed responsibility for earlierassassinations and kidnappings offoreigners, was suspected.

2-Jun-79 Adana Turkey Unknown Firearms0 1 TURKEY. Two gunmen shot andkilled an American schoolteacher inthe southeastern Turkish town ofAdana. The victim was identified asDavid Goodman who had beenrunning a private English languageschool for two years.

3-Jun-79 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in abookstore in the business center ofJerusalem. The charge had beenconcealed in a package of booksbrought into the store earlier by ayoung Arab. Three people wereslightly injured. The Palestinian newsagency WAFA said the action wascarried out by a Palestinian unitnamed after Abu-Hasan, the codename for Arafat's personal securitychief who was killed in Beirut inJanuary.

3-Jun-79 Tarsus Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 TURKEY. The off-campus residenceof an American faculty member ofthe Tarsus American College wasstrafed in Tarsus. No injuries werereported.

5-Jun-79 Leon NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. The FSLN captured aGuatemalan military attache near thecity of Leon as he was driving toManagua from Guatemala. On June13 he sent a letter to PresidentSomoza asking him to relinquishpower. He was released to the CostaRican government at the Nicaraguanborder on June 14



0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Robert E. D. Straker Commandoof the Territorial Resistance Armyclaimed credit for leaving a five-litercan of combustible liquid which burstinto flames in the Aeroflot office inFrankfurt. The group's communiquesaid it would continue its struggleagainst left-wing and right-wingextremist parties, communists,fascists, left-wing and right-wingterrorists.


UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An AmericanAirlines jet flying from New York washijacked over Michigan by a Serbiannationalist who burst into the cockpitcarrying bags that he said containedexplosives. When the plane landedin Chicago, all passengers andwomen crew members werereleased. The hijacker, identified bylaw enforcement officials as NikolaKavaja of Paterson, New Jersey, keptthe pilot, copilot and a male flightattendant aboard as hostages whilehe made his demand for the releaseof the Rev. Stojiko Kajevic, anotherSerbian in prison, and to be flown toPeru. However, the pilot refused tofly him anywhere. Kavaja was out onbail awaiting sentencing on chargesof conspiracy to commit murder in a1975 bombing in Chicago. He forcedthe airliner to fly him back to NewYork where he switched to a Boeing707 at Kennedy Airport. The 707,carrying only Kavaja, his New Yorkattorney, and three crew memberslanded in Ireland where it wasquickly surrounded by policemen;Kavaja was taken into custody anddeported back to the United Stateswhere he was indicted by a GrandJury for air piracy and bail jumping.The incident is considered asuccessful hijacking since Kavajasucceeded in fleeing the UnitedStates. On November 29, Kavaja wassentenced to 40 years in prison by afederal court in Chicago. He willserve the sentence concurrently witha 20-year sentence for his part in abombing conspiracy.

20-Jun-79 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. Adil Wasfi, an Iraqinational and deputy editor in chief ofthe Palestine Revolution, the PLOnews magazine, was assassinated inBeirut in a morning attack. Iraqdenied involvement.

21-Jun-79 Libreville Gabon Unknown Explosives0 2 GABON. A French citizen, managerof Diesel-Gabon, and his wife werekilled when their car blew up inLibreville. No group has claimedresponsibility.

25-Jun-79 Brussels Belgium Baader-MeinhofGroup

Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 BELGIUM. General Alexander Haig,scheduled to retire in four days asNATO Supreme Commander inEurope, escaped a terrorist bombing.The bomb was aimed at Haig's car asit crossed a small bridge enroute tohis office. Guards traveling in asecond car were slightly injured. Thebridge, not far from Brussels, waswired with a land mine with acommand-detonated device.Apparently the would-be assassinswere off on their timing because theland mine exploded between the twocars. Haig's car was only slightlydamaged; the chase car was totallydestroyed but its occupants receivedonly minor injuries. In July, theAndreas Baader Commando of theRed Army Faction (RAF), explainedthe failure of its attemptedassassination in a letter to LE SOIR:We made a technical error; thegeneral's car was traveling at aspeed of 2 meters per tenth of asecond and this was the time it tookto manually detonate the 20 kg. ofexplosives. As a result, the explosionoccurred between the general's carand that of the escort following it.An organization calling itself theJulien Lehant Brigade of the 25 ofJune 1979 also claimed responsibilityon June 28 in a letter addressed tothe press agency BELGA. Bombexperts said it seemed more like thework of the Irish Republican Army.

26-Jun-79 IslamabadPakistan Other Unknown2 0 PAKISTAN. France's ambassador toPakistan and another Frenchdiplomat were ambushed and beatennear Islamabad. Ambassador Pol leGourrierce suffered a broken toothand possible internal injuries; FirstSecretary Jean Forlot's skull wasfractured. A spokesman quoted oneof the attackers as saying This willteach foreigners to meddle inPakistani affairs.


Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Robert E. D. Straker Commandoof the Territorial Resistance Armyclaimed credit for planting a bombthat failed to go off in the SovietIntourist information office inFrankfurt-am-Main. The terroristsscattered leaflets at the scene.

30-Jun-79 Marbella Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives2 0 SPAIN. Two Belgian tourists wereseriously injured when a bombexploded at a beach near Marbella.ETA claimed responsibility.

1-Jul-79 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. The FSLN kidnappedColin Avery, an engineer fromBrighton, England, while visiting afriend in Jinotepe, twenty-five milesnorth of Matagalpa.

2-Jul-79 France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Firearms0 0 FRANCE. The Paris-Madrid expresswas ambushed and machine gunnedsouth of St. Jean de Luz in the FrenchBasque region. The train wasstationary when the shooting brokeout because the driver had stoppedto avoid a barrage of tires which hadbeen placed across the line. When heheard the gunfire, the driver set thetrain going and smashed through thebarricade, arriving 20 minutes late atHendaye on the Spanish border. Noone claimed responsibility for theincident but authorities believe thatthe Basque separatist movement(ETA) was to blame. More than 15bullet holes were found in the firstthree cars.

5-Jul-79 Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GRA

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A terrorist bomb exploded inthe newly opened offices of theBanque Nationale de Paris causingconsiderable damage but no injuries.Two more bombs were found in thebank and were set off by policedemolition experts in controlledexplosions. A telephone callerclaiming to represent the ultra-leftistOct. 1 Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups(GRAPO) told Madrid newspapersthat the bank had been bombed inretaliation for the assassination oftwo leftists in Paris recently.

6-Jul-79 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. The PLO claimed credit forplanting a bomb in a grove near theU.N. mission in East Jerusalem. Itwounded three French tourists whohad gotten off the bus to takepictures.

8-Jul-79 Paris France JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Three Turkish organizationswere bombed in Paris: TurkishAirlines, Turkish Tourist Office, andvarious premises of the Turkishembassy. Property damage wasminor but a custodian at one of thebuildings was slightly injured.Responsibility was claimed by acommando of the avengers of theArmenian genocide in an anonymouscall to Agence France- Presse.





9-Jul-79 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An organization callingitself Odessa claimed responsibilityfor the bomb explosions thatdestroyed the car of Nazi-huntersSerge and Beate Klarsfeld. Mr.Klarsfeld was warned in a letter thatif he failed to stop his activities, thenext stage would be a bloody one.Klarsfeld said he believed the writerswere ideological sympathizers;Odessa stands for organization offormer SS members.

9-Jul-79 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. An Israeli Army patrolintercepted three Palestinianguerrillas heading for Israel andkilled them in a brief battle. Therewere no Israeli casualties in the clashwhich occurred inside Lebanon nearthe western flank of Mount Hermon.The Palestinians were reported to becarrying weapons, explosives,loudspeakers, and leaflets attestingthat their intention was to takehostages and bargain for them.


Unknown Firearms2 0 COSTA RICA. Several gunmen firedfrom a car in a morning attack on theNicaraguan embassy, wounding twopeople, including the Nicaraguanconsul.

10-Jul-79 FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs, believed planted by the IRA,exploded in two British Armybarracks, damaging two mess halls,and a parked car, but there were noreported injuries.



Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs, believed planted by the IRA,exploded in two British Armybarracks, damaging two mess halls,and a parked car, but there were noreported injuries.

13-Jul-79 Beirut Lebanon Amal Explosives2 0 LEBANON. A bomb ripped throughthe Libyan-Tunisian Bank in Beirutcausing heavy damage to thebuilding and injuring two passingmotorists. Guerrillas of the MoslemShiite Sadr Brigade organizationclaimed responsibility for the blastand said the attack was part of acampaign against Libyan targetseverywhere. We shall keep up theattacks until Libyan authorities arecompelled to release Imam Mousa alSadr. Sadr is the top religious leaderof Lebanon's Shiites who make upthe country's largest Moslem sect.

13-Jul-79 Ankara Turkey al-Fatah Firearms1 3 TURKEY. Four Arabic-speaking menleaped from a car and started firing;their first victims--two Turkish guardsat the Egyptian embassy in Ankara --were killed instantly. The terroristsjumped over the embassy's fenceand headed for its entrance, sprayingautomatic rifle fire and tossing agrenade as they ran. After a sharpgun battle with police in which onepoliceman was wounded, the fourattackers had the embassy withabout 20 hostages, includingAmbassador Ahmed Kamal Olama,under their control. The gunmenidentified themselves as the Eaglesof the Palestinian Revolution. Theythreatened to blow up the embassyand kill their hostages unless severaldemands were met: they wantedTurkey to recognize the Palestinianstate, cut diplomatic relations withthe government of EgyptianPresident Anwar Sadat, and givethem safe conduct out of thecountry. They also called for therelease of two colleagues fromEgyptian jails. The terrorists freedone hostage, Olama's Turkishsecretary; the next morning twohostages escaped from a ground-floor window; two other men jumpedfrom a window on the third floor(one, landing on his head, died laterin the hospital). After an all-nightnegotiating session with Turkishofficials, the guerrillas agreed tosurrender unconditionally. The fourPalestinians, Mervan Shebanu, 24,Hussein Suleiman Abdullah, 23,Mohammed Abourezat, l9, andMustafe Besheishi, l9, weresentenced to death on October 25,1979, by a martial law court inAnkara. An appeals court ruled thattheir offense was not covered bymartial law and sent the case backfor retrial in October 1980. InDecember 1980, the four Palestinianswere sentenced to die; a Turkishcivilian who aided them wassentenced to 21 years in prison.


ElSalvador

Other Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. The United PopularAction Front threw stones and smallhomemade bombs at the U.S.embassy during the afternoon,breaking windows.

15-Jul-79 Nablus WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives0 0 WEST BANK. A bomb exploded in aplayground next to a high school inthe West Bank city of Nablus. Noinjuries or damage was reported.


Unknown Firearms0 0 COSTA RICA. An unidentified numberof gunmen fired at the San Joseresidence of U.S. AmbassadorMarvin Weissman from a passingautomobile. No injuries werereported.

21-Jul-79 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Explosives expertsdeactivated a bomb just a minutebefore it was timed to go off atoffices of the Renault automotiveconcern in Bilbao. ETA, the separatistgroup, had threatened Frenchconcerns in Spain after the Frenchgovernment canceled residencepermits of a number of guerrillasresiding in France.

24-Jul-79 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in theIstanbul offices of the U.S. WellsFargo Bank, causing damage but noinjuries. The Revolutionary Leftclaimed credit. The bank had beeninvolved in a controversial loan of$125 million to Turkey, securedagainst various Turkish agriculturalexports. The government was forcedto repeal the agreement followingaccusations that it was mortgagingthe country's products.

25-Jul-79 France Other Firearms0 1 FRANCE. Zuhayr Muhsin, the militaryoperations commander of thePalestine Liberation Organization,member of the PLO ExecutiveCommittee, and chief of the Saiga(Thunderbolt) terrorist forcescontrolled by Syria and virtually thespecial forces division of the SyrianArmy, was shot in the head by anassassin and died 36 hours later.Muhsin was believed to be themilitary planner of the hostage-taking assault on the Egyptianembassy in Ankara, Turkey, earlier inthe month. A 22-year-old Lebanese,Mohsen Jaroudi, was arrested onAugust 21 in Geneva, Switzerland, onsuspicion of perpetrating theassassination. France requestedextradition of Jaroudi, to whichSwitzerland agreed provided that hewas not re-extradited or expelled byFrance to a third country withoutSwitzerland's permission.

1-Aug-79 Beirut Lebanon Amal Explosives1 0 LEBANON. The Imam as-SadrBrigades threw a bomb at the LibyanNews Agency office in Beirut, injuringan employee.

2-Aug-79 France SpanishNationalAction

Firearms1 1 FRANCE. Two ETA members wereshot just across the French border.One of them died later in a hospital.A San Sebastian newspaper receiveda call from the Spanish NationalAction vowing, These attacks werejust the beginning of the armedoffensive against ETA.

5-Aug-79 Anglet France SpanishNationalAction

Unknown0 1 FRANCE. The Spanish NationalAction, an extreme right-wing group,claimed responsibility for the murderin Anglet of militant Basqueseparatist Juan Lopategui-Carrasco.

7-Aug-79 BethesdaUnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Police found abomb on the grounds of theBethesda, Maryland interests missionof Taiwan, which handles diplomaticfunctions.


ElSalvador

Unknown Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Spanishbusinessman, Jaime Conde Feijoo,was kidnapped by severalunidentified individuals in SanSalvador; his wife tried to pursue hiscaptors but was pushed to theground.

11-Aug-79

Durango Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. An ETA bomb ripped throughthe Renault offices in Durango.Extensive damage was caused, butno injuries were reported.

13-Aug-79

Lebanon PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives3 0 LEBANON. A rocket-propelledgrenade and machine-gun fire wasdirected at the car of the Iraqiambassador, who was wounded inthe back and foot. His aide anddriver were also wounded. Theshooting came less than 24 hoursafter a verbal attack against the Iraqiregime by a senior aide to YasserArafat, the Palestine guerrilla leader.He blamed Iraq for the killing of aPalestinian journalist in Beirut 40days ago.

17-Aug-79

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded at theWest German embassy in Beirut.

17-Aug-79

Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAN. Two rocket-propelledgrenades were fired early in themorning at the U.S. Embassy after acaller told the Revolutionary Guardsto vacate the compound. One of thegrenades failed to detonate, theother caused some damage. Noinjuries were reported. The attackmay have been carried out bymilitiamen who had been removedfrom their posts at the embassy theprevious week.

21-Aug-79

Italy RedBrigades

Unknown1 0 ITALY. The Red Guerrillas claimedcredit for kidnapping Britishbusinessman Rolf Schild, his wife andtheir fifteen year old daughter inSardinia. On September 6, Schile,joint chief executive of the HuntleighGroup Electronics Company, wasreleased in very bad condition by thekidnappers, who demanded $24.5million ransom for his family. Thecompany refused. On November 1the kidnappers threatened to cut offthe ears of the women if negotiationswere not quickly resumed with thecompany. By October 13 all contacthad broken off when go-betweens forSchild were badly beaten when thekidnappers found they had broughtno money. On February 19, 1980Sardinian police arrested eleven menin connection with the Schildepisode. The group was believed tohave links with the Red Brigadesgroup. Schild's family was releasedMarch 22, 1980 after the family paid$650,000 ransom.

21-Aug-79

Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded inside abranch of French bank CreditLyonnaise in Bilbao, causing noinjuries but damaging the offices.Police blamed the Basque separatistorganization ETA, which hadthreatened to bomb French firms inthe Basque area after the Frenchgovernment recently canceledresidence permits to a number ofETA members in southern France.

22-Aug-79

Geneva SwitzerlandOther Explosives3 0 SWITZERLAND. The ArmenianLiberation Army claimed credit forthrowing a bomb at the Turkishconsulate in Geneva shortly after theVice Consul had driven away. Thedriver of a passing car and twopedestrians were slightly injured,although there was little damage.

22-Aug-79

Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. Two bomb explosions 10minutes apart ripped through crowdsof adults and children in anamusement park, wounding threepersons. Police closed off the TelAviv park, blaming Palestinianterrorists.

23-Aug-79

Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The Sa'id Hamami claimedresponsibility for bombing a Zionistarms plant that produces nuclearweapons in Tel Aviv. The explosionsresulted in killing or wounding a largenumber of the enemy, including agroup of experts and technicians whospecialize in nuclear power,destroying large parts of the experts'residences; damaging several enemymilitary vehicles as well asdestroying power, water andtelephone installations in the area.

23-Aug-79

Irun Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. There was an explosion atthe French Immigration Departmentoffice in Irun. There was no report ofpersonal injuries nor a claim ofresponsibility for the bombings.

23-Aug-79

France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. An explosion occurred in thedoorway of the branch of the Frenchbank Societe Generale. No one wasinjured but there was considerabledamage. There was no claim ofresponsibility for the bombings.

23-Aug-79

Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded in theCordoba branch of the Israeli bank,causing some damage but noinjuries.

27-Aug-79

Sligo Ireland ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 4 IRELAND. Earl Mountbatten of Burmaand three others were assassinatedby the explosion of a bomb placed onor in the proximity of the Earl's cabincruiser in Sligo. It was the beginningof a technically sophisticatedcampaign by terrorists operating onbehalf of Irish revolutionarynationalism. Responsibility for theMountbatten killing was initiallyclaimed by the Trotskyist IrishNational Liberation Army (INLA); thearmed branch of the Irish RepublicanSocialist Party (IRSP); and later bythe Provisional wing of the IrishRepublican Army (PIRA). However,the method involved--the planting ofa high-powered bomb and itsdetonation by remote control--ischaracteristic of INLA techniquesused in previous assassinations andattempted attacks (the murder of theBritish ambassador to Eire in 1976;the murder of Parliament memberAirey Neave in March.) A 3l-year oldIrishman, Thomas McMahon, aleading expert on remote controlledbombs in the provisional wing of theIrish Republican Army, was foundguilty on November 23 andsentenced to life in prison. Anotherdefendant, Francis McGirl, 24, wasfound not guilty of the murdercharge. There was no jury and thereis no appeal. In January 1980,McMahon was acquitted on chargesof belonging to the Irish RepublicArmy. Frank McGirl was acquitted ofbeing an IRA member.In March 1982,two Irish nationalists who allegedlytried to enter the United Statesillegally at Buffalo, New York, to buyarms and ammunition, weresuspected of being involved in themurder of Lord Mountbatten. TheBuffalo Evening News said DesmondEllis was described in classifieddocuments as the possibleelectronics expert and EdwardHowell as the brains behindMountbatten's bomb death. Ellissought political asylum in the UnitedStates; Howell was returned toCanada after posting $10,000 bondand was arrested by Canadianimmigration officials. U.S.Immigration and NaturalizationService Director Benedict Ferrorrefused comment on the story.

27-Aug-79


ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb shattered a Turkish Air Linesoffice in central Frankfurt, injuring awoman in a streetcar passing by thebuilding. An anonymous callernotified the Associated Press that abomb would be detonated at aTurkish institution 20 minutes earlier.The Armenian Secret Liberation Armylater claimed responsibility.

28-Aug-79

Brussels Belgium ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives20 0 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded inBrussels injuring four members of aBritish army band and 16 spectatorsattending their concert. Irishguerrillas have been accused ofresponsibility. In February 1980, theProvisional IRA claimed responsibilityfor this incident. British intelligencebelieves that the Provisionals have acell based in Amsterdam where theyare believed to have refugeesprovided by leftist sympathizers. It isbelieved that the cell has links withother European terrorist groupsincluding the Red Army Faction inWest Germany and the Red Brigadesin Italy.

28-Aug-79

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Two unidentified personsthrew a bomb at the IranianConsulate in Istanbul. Securityforces defused it before it couldexplode.

30-Aug-79

Bilbao Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Police defused two bombs setat the Bilbao showroom of a Frenchauto firm.

3-Sep-79 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Explosives were thrown atthe Libyan embassy in Ankara. Thewindows of the embassy andsurrounding buildings were shatteredduring the explosion. Investigation iscontinuing.

4-Sep-79 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb damaged theWest German Lufthansa Airline officein Beirut. A group calling itself theOrganization of Avenging PalestinianYouth claimed responsibility.

7-Sep-79 Tehran Iran Amal Unknown0 0 IRAN. Three Lebanese gunmenhijacked an Italian Alitalia flightoriginating from Tehran with a stopin Beirut to protest thedisappearance of their religiousleader. The plane carrying 185people was hijacked after thescheduled stop in Beirut. Thehijackers were members of the ImamSadr movement and residents of aShiite suburb in Tehran. Thehijackers commandeered the DC-8jet over Cyprus; denied permission toland in France, they put down atRome's Fiumicino Airport and satthrough a 13-hour siege. Theyreleased 147 passengers two hoursafter touching down and let the last28 passengers deplane later. Theplane then departed and flew to Iranwhere they surrendered. Thehijackers, students, denouncedLibyan leader Qaddafi for thedisappearance of their religiousleader, Imam Musa Sadr.

7-Sep-79 Kabul AfghanistanUnknown Firearms0 6 AFGHANISTAN. Six West Germanswere shot and killed in the Kabularea. The Germans--two teachers,their wives and children--were on apicnic eight miles from Kabul whenthey were slain either by bandits orMoslem rebels trying to overthrowthe Soviet backed government ofPresident Nur Mohammed Taraki.

8-Sep-79 Kabul AfghanistanUnknown Unknown1 0 AFGHANISTAN. Lt. Col. MichaelCavanaugh, a U.S. military attache,was dragged from his car and beatenwhile returning home from areception in Kabul. He was rescuedby other diplomats in a following carand was not seriously injured.

8-Sep-79 Hialeah UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb planted byOmega-7 outside a church in Hialeah,Florida, where the Reverend ManuelEspinosa was pastor, exploded.Espinosa is a member of the so-called Committee of 75, a group ofCuban exiles who have negotiatedthe release of political prisoners fromCuban jails.

8-Sep-79 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A group of unidentifiedgunmen riding in a Mercedes Benzsprayed gunfire on the U.S. Embassyin Beirut shortly after a Lebanesepolice officer arrested a man whotried to enter the building by force.No injuries were reported.

9-Sep-79 AfghanistanOther Firearms1 2 AFGHANISTAN. Afghanistan rebelsambushed a tourist bus chartered bya British firm, the Masic BusCompany, on a trip from Istanbul toNew Delhi. A young Canadian wasshot dead; a Swiss man was killed ashe crouched for cover on the floor.Another tourist was in criticalcondition in a hospital in Herat withmultiple bullet wounds. The Turkishbus driver apparently cut across thecountryside in order to save fuel;after the attack he disappeared anda Swiss tourist took over the bus anddrove it back to Herat. The attackbrings to eight the number ofWesterners murdered in Afghanistanduring the past week.

13-Sep-79 France Unknown Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A Spanish Basqueseparatist, Justo Elizaran, wasattacked and shot by twounidentified persons. He later diedin the hospital.

15-Sep-79 Tel Aviv Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in BatYam, a suburb of Tel Aviv, injuring apoliceman who was trying to movethe bomb. The Palestine LiberationOrganization claimed responsibility.

16-Sep-79 WestBerlin


Unknown Explosives1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An explosion in a U.S. Army barracksin West Berlin injured one Americansoldier and caused considerabledamage. There was no officialcomment from U.S. authorities.

17-Sep-79 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Spanish NationalAssociation said that it bombed acountry house belonging to relativesof Spanish exile Jose Maria Zaldua.

19-Sep-79 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives38 1 ISRAEL. One person was killed andat least 38 injured when a bombexploded during evening rush hour ata crowded pedestrian mall inJerusalem. The explosive charge wasplanted on a bicycle and went offoutside a popular cafe. A seconddevice found nearby was dismantledby police. The PLO claimedresponsibility.

20-Sep-79 Santurce Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Police reported that threebombs exploded in a stationaryfreight train in Santurce; it wascarrying a consignment for theFrench automaker Renault. Theysaid the bombs destroyed part of theload and damaged two of the train'sseven carriages. Basque guerrillasprotesting a French crackdown onSpanish refugees are believedresponsible for the attack.


ElSalvador

Other Firearms0 1 EL SALVADOR. Gunmen kidnappedtwo American businessmen andkilled their Salvadoran driver onlyhours after leftist guerrillas attackedfour different national guard posts,killing one soldier. The abductionoccurred near San Salvador'sInternational Airport. The two menwere identified as Dennis McDonald,37, and Fausto Bucheli, bothemployees of the BeckmanInstrument Company, of Fullerton,California. McDonald was generalmanager of the company'sSalvadoran subsidiary, Aplar; Bucheliwas an engineer. The slain driver,Jose Luis Paz Tartara, was shot whenhe tried to resist. The RevolutionaryParty of Central American Workersclaimed responsibility for thekidnapping; the terrorists demandedthat the Beckman ElectronicsCompany run ads in CentralAmerican, European, and U.S. paperscalling for a leftist overthrow of thegovernment of El Salvador. The adswere in clumsy English poorlytranslated from Spanish; theyillustrated photos of bloody bodieswhile the text condemned bestialsadism by the government of ElSalvador and says the executiveswere kidnapped as representatives ofa fundamental enemy of the CentralAmerican revolution, the NorthAmerican imperialst. The Americanswere released November 7, 1979,after a reported $10 million ransomwas paid and two-page ads appearedin the October 11 Los Angeles Timesand New York Times calling for apopular insurrection and liberationwar against the government of ElSalvador. The ads, signed by theCentral American Workers'Revolutionary Party, also appeared inCentral American and Europeannewspapers. Fred Rayne, thenegotiator and security advisor forBeckman stated that the terroristswere very cooperative and appearedto be a group of young studentsdedicated to a cause.


Unknown Firearms1 0 UNITED STATES. Tony Veciana, aformer leader of the anti-CastroCuban exile organization, Alpha-66,was wounded in the head by shotsfired from a car that pulled alongsidehis automobile. The attemptedassassination was believed to berelated to Veciana's testimony beforethe Senate Committee onAssassinations, whose report had justbeen published.

23-Sep-79 GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 2 GUATEMALA. The German owner ofa ranch with several thousand headof cattle, and the ranch's Austrianadministrator, were kidnapped in avillage five hundred kilometers fromGuatemala City. Their bullet-riddledbodies were found in the Cedro Riveron October 2.

25-Sep-79 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A small bomb exploded in aJerusalem cafe, but caused noinjuries. The explosion was suspectedto be the act of Palestinian terrorists.

27-Sep-79 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives6 0 ISRAEL. Three bombs apparentlyplaced by Palestinian terroristsexploded in the business section ofTel Aviv, injuring six persons. Earlier,a bomb exploded a half mile awaybut caused no casualties.

27-Sep-79 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Three bombs apparentlyplaced by Palestinian terroristsexploded in the business section ofTel Aviv, injuring six persons. Earlier,a bomb exploded a half mile awaybut caused no casualties.

1-Oct-79 Tripoli Libya Unknown ChemicalAgent

1 0 LIBYA. A high-ranking Fatahcommander, Abu Khaled Sulayman,narrowly escaped serious injury inTripoli, after opening a lettercontaining poison gas.

7-Oct-79 ManaguaNicaraguaOther Firearms0 0 NICARAGUA. A Colombian embassybuilding was machine-gunned by fourmen believed to be Sandinistas.

8-Oct-79 ManaguaNicaraguaUnknown Firearms0 0 NICARAGUA. A shot was firedthrough the front door of the Spanishembassy.

11-Oct-79 ElSalvador


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 EL SALVADOR. The Farabundo MartiPopular Liberation Forces set on firefour cars belonging to the U.S. PeaceCorps, which were parked in theCorps's parking lot.

13-Oct-79 TheHague

NetherlandsJusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Firearms0 1 THE NETHERLANDS. Ahmet Benler,the only son of Ozdemir Benler, theTurkish ambassador to The Hague,was shot and killed in an ambush in abusy intersection of the capital. Tenwitnesses watched as the post-graduate student was cut down byfive bullets as his car pulled awayfrom a traffic light. The gunmanescaped. The Justice Commando forArmenian Genocide Responsibilitycalled a French news agency to claimresponsibility for the killing to avengethe deaths of more than 600,000Armenians in 1915 at the hands ofthe Turks, and has claimedresponsibility for six earlier murdersof Turkish diplomats in Europe.

15-Oct-79 Tehran Iran Other Firearms0 1 IRAN. A West German businessmanwas shot to death by terrorists inTehran. A little-known Forghanguerrilla group claimed responsibilityfor the killing. The death of Hans-Joachim Leib, financial manager ofthe Iranian subsidiary of Merck &Company, was the first assassinationof a foreigner since the Februaryrevolution.

15-Oct-79 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. During the night, an explosiondamaged part of the FrenchEmbassy's garage and parked cars inRome. A woman, in a telephone callto the paper Il Messaggero, claimedthe bombing on behalf of the BrigateInternazionali Contro la RepressioneIn Europa (International Brigadesagainst Repression in Europe), andindicated that the Bank of France inanother section of Rome would beattacked.

19-Oct-79 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A hand grenade wasthrown during the morning into theresidence of the Libyan ambassadorin Beirut. The grenade exploded afew yards from the residence.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives3 0 UNITED STATES. An explosiondamaged the side entrance to theCuban Mission to the UN, injuringthree persons and shatteringwindows. Omega 7 claimedresponsibility.


Unknown Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. An unidentifiedindividual fired two shots at the carof a Czech diplomat.


ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A powerful bombexploded at the Bank of America'soffice in San Salvador, causing heavydamage but no casualties. A leftistgroup, the Farabundo Marti PopularNational Liberation Forces, claimedresponsibility.

2-Nov-79 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. An explosion under theengine of an Israeli passenger trainripped up a section of track butcaused no injuries. The engineermanaged to bring the train safelyinto Tel Aviv; if the train hadderailed, it would have plunged intoa river. Police blamed Palestinianguerrillas.

4-Nov-79 Tehran Iran Other Unknown0 0 IRAN. Moslem students occupied theU.S. Embassy in Tehran, grabbingtwo cultural affairs officers outsidethe compound and placing them with60 to 90 captured American captives.The students issued a communiquestating, The center of plotting andspying for America will remain underour occupation until the realization ofthe final result. We are firmlystanding by our positions. Thestudents demanded that the deposedShah be extradited to Iran to faceIslamic justice. The Shah was in NewYork for treatment of cancer.Following the seizure of the Americanembassy, the students stormed theBritish embassy on the 5th and held27 British citizens hostage. Theviolence forced the resignation ofMehdi Barzargin who had been PrimeMinister of Iran for only 238 days.The resignation followed thegovernment's apparent failure toclear the occupied U.S. Embassy ofhundreds of Moslem students for thethird day.Iran released one womanand two black Marine Security guardson November 19 and four womenand six black hostages on the 20th.Six members of the Embassy hadescaped from the Consular sectionduring the takeover and foundshelter and eventual return to theUnited States through the Canadianembassy. Canada closed itsembassy on January 28, 1980, andbrought the six Americans out thenext day.The United States brokerelations with Iran on April 7, l980,and banned travel to Iran on April 20.An attempt on April 25 to rescue thehostages failed, resulting in thedeaths of 8 American militarypersonnel. Richard Queen, aconsular officer, was released on July10 due to poor health.Following thedeath of the Shah on June 27, Iranmodified its demands to include thereturn of the Shah's wealth,cancellation of American claimsagainst Iran, unfreezing of assets,and a promise of _____? in Iranianaffairs. On November 3, 1980 theIranian militants turned the hostagesover to the Iranian government andnegotiations leading to the release ofthe hostages began in Algiers onNovember 10.The hostages werereleased on January 20, 1981 after444 days minutes after RonaldReagan was inaugurated asPresident of the US.

4-Nov-79 Tehran Iran Other Unknown0 0 IRAN. Moslem students occupied theU.S. Embassy in Tehran, grabbingtwo cultural affairs officers outsidethe compound and placing them with60 to 90 captured American captives.The students issued a communiquestating, The center of plotting andspying for America will remain underour occupation until the realization ofthe final result. We are firmlystanding by our positions. Thestudents demanded that the deposedShah be extradited to Iran to faceIslamic justice. The Shah was in NewYork for treatment of cancer.Following the seizure of the Americanembassy, the students stormed theBritish embassy on the 5th and held27 British citizens hostage. Theviolence forced the resignation ofMehdi Barzargin who had been PrimeMinister of Iran for only 238 days.The resignation followed thegovernment's apparent failure toclear the occupied U.S. Embassy ofhundreds of Moslem students for thethird day.Iran released one womanand two black Marine Security guardson November 19 and four womenand six black hostages on the 20th.Six members of the Embassy hadescaped from the Consular sectionduring the takeover and foundshelter and eventual return to theUnited States through the Canadianembassy. Canada closed itsembassy on January 28, 1980, andbrought the six Americans out thenext day.The United States brokerelations with Iran on April 7, l980,and banned travel to Iran on April 20.An attempt on April 25 to rescue thehostages failed, resulting in thedeaths of 8 American militarypersonnel. Richard Queen, aconsular officer, was released on July10 due to poor health.Following thedeath of the Shah on June 27, Iranmodified its demands to include thereturn of the Shah's wealth,cancellation of American claimsagainst Iran, unfreezing of assets,and a promise of _____? in Iranianaffairs. On November 3, 1980 theIranian militants turned the hostagesover to the Iranian government andnegotiations leading to the release ofthe hostages began in Algiers onNovember 10.The hostages werereleased on January 20, 1981 after444 days minutes after RonaldReagan was inaugurated asPresident of the US.

5-Nov-79 Tehran Iran Other Unknown0 0 IRAN. Moslem students took over theBritish embassy and held twenty-seven British citizens hostage afterAyatollah Khomeini accused the UKof sheltering former Iranian PrimeMinister Shahpour Bakhtiar.Thestudents left six hours later afterthey understood that Bakhtiar wasresident in France.

5-Nov-79 UnionCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. Eulalio Jose Negrin,a Cuban American who has beeninstrumental in establishing adialogue between Cuban exiles in theUnited States and the Cubangovernment, was assassinated nearhis home in Union City, New Jersey.Omega 7 claimed responsibility.Negrin was shot from a moving carby two men wearing ski masks.

7-Nov-79 QiryatGat

Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian guerrillasclaimed credit for setting offexplosives at a market in Qiray Gatin southern Israel. There wasdamage to trucks and goods; nomention was made of any casualties.

9-Nov-79 Luanda Angola Unknown Explosives5 1 ANGOLA. A bomb went off near theLuanda embassy of the GermanDemocratic Republic, killing one andinjuring five employees.

9-Nov-79 MinneapolisUnitedStates

Other Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. Five persons werearrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota,at the governor's mansion oncharges of conspiring to kidnapGovernor Al Quie. A reliable sourcesaid four were Iranian students andone was Sudanese. Two shotgunsand a handgun were taken from theircar. Demonstrations were heldduring the day at the nearbyUniversity of Minnesota.

9-Nov-79 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Explosives0 1 EL SALVADOR. The PopularLiberation Forces bombed theMcDonald's restaurant in SanSalvador, killing one person.

13-Nov-79

Lisbon Portugal Other Firearms4 1 PORTUGAL. Two terrorists woundedIsrael's ambassador to Portugal andkilled his bodyguard in a grenadeand machine gun ambush in Lisbon.Three other persons were injured.Portuguese national radio said itreceived a telephone call from apreviously unheard of group, theInternational Militant Workers,claiming responsibility for the attack.The caller claimed the group foughtagainst capitalism and imperialismas represented by Zionists. Theunmasked men attackedAmbassador Ephraim Eldar's car as itdrove up to the Israeli chancellery.The PLO in Madrid issued astatement denying any responsibilityfor the attack and claimed it wasaimed at damaging Portuguese-Palestinian relations. However, it isnow believed that the terrorists weremembers of a Portugese extremistgroup operating under PLOsupervision.

15-Nov-79

ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 1 NICARAGUA. A U.S. citizen andlongtime resident in Masaya waskilled execution style, the fourth suchkilling of supporters of the newgovernment.

15-Nov-79


Other Explosives12 0 UNITED STATES. A mail bombexploded in the cargo section of anAmerican Airlines jetliner enroute toWashington from Chicago with 88passengers. The Boeing 727 wasforced to make an emergencylanding at Dulles InternationalAirport; only slight damage occurredto the cargo area. Twelve peoplewere injured from smoke inhalation.The FBI found an explosive device,including batteries and an altimeter,in the mail container. The altimeterapparently was used to detonate thebomb. An Iranian student group inChicago claimed credit and saidthere would be more if Iranians weredeported. President Carter hadordered Iranian students deported iftheir visas were not in order.According to RISKS (February 28,1986), this incident may have beenpart of a series of bombings thathave occurred over an eight yearperiod. See 2/19/86 incident fordetails.

16-Nov-79

BaltimoreUnitedStates

Other Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. Eight Iranianscarrying rifles, telescopic sights, andammunition in three suitcases werearrested by federal agents inBaltimore-Washington Airport as theywere about to board a Trans Worldflight to New York. One piece ofluggage reportedly contained a mapof Washington on which severalembassies were marked. There arestrong presumptions that the groupplanned to seize the airport loungeand take hostages.

17-Nov-79

Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives2 0 FRANCE. The Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia claimedresponsibility for three bombexplosions at airline offices in centralParis. Two policemen were injured inthe attacks which occurredsuccessively at the offices of TurkishAirlines, the Dutch airline KLM, andthe German line Lufthansa. Aspokesman for the group in atelephone call to AFP, said: Letimperialism and its collaborators allover the world know that theirinstitutions are targets for our heroesand will be destroyed. We will killand destroy because that is the onlylanguage understood by imperialists.

17-Nov-79



17-Nov-79



19-Nov-79


Explosives13 0 ISRAEL. Thirteen people waiting toboard a bus in Jerusalem wereinjured when a bomb exploded onthe bus. The driver of another busescaped injury while trying to driveto safety after a bomb had beendiscovered and the passengersevacuated. The PLO claimedresponsibility.

20-Nov-79

Mecca SaudiArabia

Other Firearms560 158 SAUDI ARABIA. The Grand Mosque inMecca was seized by 500 armedgunmen early in the morning. Mostof the gunmen were from the Oteibatribe from the south. The leader,Mohammed Abdullah Kahtani, waskilled during the siege. The mosquewas retaken two days later by Saudiforces. Twenty six worshippers werekilled and 109 injured. 127 Saudisoldiers were killed and 451 injured.One objective was to destabilize theSaudi government. In Jan 1980, 63of the attackers were beheaded;another 107 were jailed.

23-Nov-79

Japan Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 JAPAN. A man armed with a bottleopener and a small plastic knifehijacked a Japan Air Lines DC-10 anddiverted it to Narita Airport nearTokyo. He was overpowered by thecrew after ordering that the plane berefueled for a flight to the SovietUnion. Kazumi Nomura tookcommand of the flight a few minutesafter takeoff but the motive was notentirely clear.

25-Nov-79

Madrid Spain ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Armenian Secret Armyfor the Liberation of Armenia claimedcredit for two bombs that went off infront of the Madrid offices of BritishAirways, and Trans World Airlines.The ASALA said these were airlines ofworld imperialists, and that theattack was to serve as a warning toPope John Paul ll to cancel his trip toTurkey.

25-Nov-79

Madrid Spain ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Armenian Secret Armyfor the Liberation of Armenia claimedcredit for two bombs that went off infront of the Madrid offices of BritishAirways, and Trans World Airlines.The ASALA said these were airlines ofworld imperialists, and that theattack was to serve as a warning toPope John Paul to cancel his trip toTurkey.

27-Nov-79

WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms0 0 ISRAEL. Six Jewish settlers on theoccupied West Bank were chargedwith smashing windows and firingshots into a school for Arab girls in arefugee camp. The assault on theschool was the latest in a series ofvigilante attacks on Arabs by Jewishmilitants.

27-Nov-79

Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Firebombs destroyed twoSoviet Embassy cars and a minibus.The police said a Ukrainiannationalist group took responsibilityfor the attacks through ananonymous telephone call.

28-Nov-79

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Firearms0 1 EL SALVADOR. About 20 unidentifiedleftist gunmen abducted the SouthAfrican ambassador, ArchibaldGardner Dunn, as he left his embassyin downtown San Salvador, draggedhim into a waiting stolen pickup andsped away. A group calling itself thePopular Liberation Front may havebeen responsible as the kidnappingoccurred only hours after gunmenkilled Lino Guzman, the former Mayorof San Martin, a town 12 miles eastof the capital. Two left-wing groupsalso took credit for the slaying twoweeks ago of 11 peasants accused ofbelonging to a right-wingorganization known as Order. On aradio program, Mr. Dunn's son,Robin, appealed to the kidnappers tolet him join his father in captivity.Leftists guerrillas vowed to executehim within six days unless the mediaof 104 nations published theircommuniques. They said Mr. Dunnwas kidnapped to demonstrate theguerrilla's opposition to SouthAfrica's apartheid policies. In January1980, Christian Barnard, the SouthAfrican heart transplant surgeon,offered to carry out, free of charge,all heart surgery necessary in ElSalvador in return for the release ofAmbassador Dunn. After two lettersto family and friends at Christmas,nothing was heard of theambassador. On October 10, 1980, itbecame known that the PopularLiberation Forces had killed theambassador because his governmenthad refused to comply with theirdemands ($20 million from the SouthAfrican government and publicationof a leftist manifesto in 102(4?)newspapers around the world).

30-Nov-79

Bangkok Thailand Unknown Explosives0 0 THAILAND. Two M-79 grenades weredetonated at the U.S. embassy,causing no injuries and onlysuperficial damage to a fountain infront of the main embassy building.No one claimed responsibility.

1-Dec-79 Manama Bahrain Other Explosives0 0 BAHRAIN. The Sons of OccupiedTerritory Organization claimed creditfor a bomb which shattered the glassfront of a Manama complex housingthe offices of Gulf Air and KLM RoyalDutch Airlines. No injuries werereported. The group, apparentlyPalestinians, said they wereprotesting against airline companiesallied with imperialism and Arabreactionaries.

3-Dec-79 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb explosion damaged theFrankfurt branch of the American-owned Morgan Guaranty TrustCompany. No one was reportedinjured in the blast.


UnitedStates

Other Explosives2 0 UNITED STATES. A powerfulexplosive shattered a New Yorktravel agency. Self-styled Croatianfreedom fighters had threatened todetonate two additional bombs iftheir political demands were notpublicized. Two employees of theUnion Travel Service were slightlyinjured by the bombs, which causedextensive damage to the building.

6-Dec-79 Tripoli Libya Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LIBYA. The U.S. embassy wasattacked by a Libyan mob led byuniformed Libyan militiamen. Thefront door was smashed in by abattering ram; fire was set byattackers which gutted the first floorand damaged the second floor. Theattack was believed to be caused bypro-Iranian sympathizers andcondoned by the Tripoli governmentof Qaddafi. The United Statesgovernment is reviewing its relationswith Libya and has recalled allAmerican dependents of embassystaff. The United States threatenedto take additional steps if Libyarefused to accept responsibility forthe attack.

7-Dec-79 Paris France Other Unknown0 1 FRANCE. An Iranian assassin huntingthe sister of the Shah of Iran killedthe deposed monarch's nephew,Prince Shahryar Shafik, as he walkedalong the street to his mother'shome in Paris. The extremist MoslemFedayane Islam Organization claimedcredit. Iranian Governmentspokesmen disassociated themselvesfrom the group.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives2 0 UNITED STATES. The anti-Castroterrorist group Omega 7 exploded abomb outside the Cuban Mission tothe United Nations, slightly injuringtwo policemen.

9-Dec-79 Rome Italy NewArmenianResistance

Explosives9 0 ITALY. Two bombs exploded in thecenter of Rome, injuring nine peopleand damaging several offices,including those of Pan AmericanWorld Airways, British Airways, andPhilippine Airways. A group callingitself the New Armenian ResistanceMovement claimed responsibility in atelephone call to a news agency,saying the airlines had been singledout in our fight against Turkishfascism and world imperialism.

9-Dec-79 Rome Italy NewArmenianResistance

Explosives9 0 ITALY. Two bombs exploded in thecenter of Rome, injuring nine peopleand damaging several offices,including those of Pan AmericanWorld Airways, British Airways, andPhilippine Airways. A group callingitself the New Armenian ResistanceMovement claimed responsibility in atelephone call to a news agency,saying the airlines had been singledout in our fight against Turkishfascism and world imperialism.

11-Dec-79

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives8 0 UNITED STATES. Four police officersand four Soviets were injured in abomb blast that rocked the Sovietmission to the United Nations,shattering windows of nearbybuildings and sending shards of glassinto the street. The explosion blew ahuge hole in the ground anddamaged nearby walls. A callertelephoned United PressInternational stating that he was withOmega 7 and claiming responsibilityfor the bombing. He denouncedSoviet colonialism, which threatensour Hispanic America and the freeworld. A later caller apologized forinjuring the four officers.

12-Dec-79

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Explosives0 4 EL SALVADOR. A bomb planted byERP guerrillas exploded on thegrounds of the Israeli embassy thisweek, killing three policemen and anembassy security guard. The ERPsaid the attack on the embassy wasin solidarity with FPL guerrillas, whorecently captured the South Africanambassador, demanding that thegovernment cut relations with SouthAfrica, Israel, and Chile. Theguerrillas also claimed the embassywas bombed because Israel is Zionistand racist. The Israeli ambassador,Abraham Sarious, was not in thebuilding at the time and could not bereached for comment.

13-Dec-79

Tehran Iran Unknown Firearms0 0 IRAN. Shots were fired at theJapanese embassy. No one wasinjured.

13-Dec-79

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

February28PopularLeague(ElSalvador)

Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Leftists held anAmerican Peace Corps volunteerhostage with other people in adowntown market in San Salvador.The hostage was identified asDeborah Loft, 24. The PopularLeagues, one of three major leftistgroups, said they would hold thehostages until their demands aremet. The demands include cuts install rents and disbandment ofmarket police. Loft was freed after10 days captivity.

14-Dec-79

Istanbul Turkey Other Firearms0 4 TURKEY. Turkish terrorists killed fourAmericans waiting at a bus stop inIstanbul. One was a serviceman andthe other three were civilians; all fourworked at the U.S. Air ForceCakmakli base, one with the BoeingCorporation. A witness reportedthat five men and one womansprayed the Americans withautomatic weapons from a speedingcar. On February 13, 1980, theIstanbul Martial Law Commandannounced the arrest of the allegedassassins. They were identified asmembers of the pro-Moscow Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Union,an outlawed organization that hadclaimed responsibility for themurders. The authorities claimedthat the four Americans were killedas the result of a an armed attackagainst Americans assigned toIstanbul.

17-Dec-79


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb badlydamaged the Turkish Airlines officein the center of London but causedno casualties. A group calling itselfthe Front for the Liberation ofArmenia claimed responsibility. Theanonymous caller said This is awarning for Turkish fascism andBritish imperialism. We will continueour struggle against worldimperialism and its pet, Turkishfascism, until the liberation ofArmenia. As well, we back the IRAand all revolutionary movements inIreland in their fight against Britishfascism.

18-Dec-79

Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An arson attack was carried outagainst the office of the Sovietairline, Aeroflot, in Munich's citycenter. The airline's offices werecompletely burned out. Ananonymous man telephoned DPA inMunich reading a statement from the15 October Commando to the effectthat the Commando was fighting forthe liberation of the Ukraine andagainst the Russian imperialists.

20-Dec-79

StockholmSweden Other ChemicalAgent

0 1 SWEDEN. Secret police areinvestigating the mysterious death ofZaire's ambassador, Mobutu DongoYema, brother of Zaire PresidentMobutu Sese Seko. The ambassador,43, died after he was rushed to thehospital suffering from what doctorssaid may have been poisoning. Hoursearlier, Mobutu had asked Swedishauthorities for more protection. Hementioned threats to his life fromoppositional elements from myhomeland.

23-Dec-79

Paris France Other Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A Turkish official was slainby a machine-gun-wielding terroristin Paris. Responsibility for themurder was accepted by Armenianextremists. The victim, YilmazKolpan, press attache at the TurkishEmbassy was director of the TurkishGovernment tourist office. Ananonymous caller to Agence France-Presse identified himself as arepresentative of the Commando ofArmenian Militants Against Genocide.The genocide refers to 1915 whennearly a million Armenians died inTurkey in the course of deportation.

23-Dec-79

Rome Italy ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives12 0 ITALY. Three bombs exploded inthree different parts of downtownRome; they were placed by anArmenian nationalist group inreprisal against the repressivemeasures of French authoritiesagainst Armenians in France. Thethree bombs exploded in front of theRome offices of Air France, and TWA.A dozen people were injured. TheArmenian Secret Army claimedcredit.

23-Dec-79


Explosives0 0 ITALY. Three bombs exploded inthree different parts of downtownRome; they were placed by anArmenian nationalist group inreprisal against the repressivemeasures of French authoritiesagainst Armenians in France. Thethree bombs exploded in front of theRome offices of Air France, and TWA.A dozen people were injured. TheArmenian Secret Army claimedcredit.

23-Dec-79


Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb placed by ASALAexploded in front of the DinaBoarding House. The home is arefugee center and a part of Ansha inRome, responsible for the transfer ofmany Armenians to the United Statesand other countries. ASALA said thebombing was a warning to theItalians to halt what they call theArmenian diaspora.

27-Dec-79

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives6 0 UNITED STATES. U.S. authorities arebeginning an extensive review ofsecurity measures used to safeguardNew York City's diplomaticcommunity in the wake of a powerfulexplosion near the Soviet Mission tothe UN that injured six persons.

28-Dec-79

Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Palestinian commandos setoff a bomb under a culvert on thekey north-south highway betweencentral Israel and the southern portof Eilat and escaped into Jordan.Military officials said it was a newstrategy of radical groups within thePalestine Liberation Organization tostrike Israel from Jordanian territory.The blast caused no serious damageand no injuries.

1-Jan-80 Montreal Canada Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CANADA. The Cuban Mission inMontreal was bombed by Omega-7.

1-Jan-80 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Iraqi Embassy inBeirut, Lebanon, was attackedcausing heavy damage. A series ofrockets tore into the building.

2-Jan-80 Istanbul Turkey Other Unknown0 1 TURKEY. A Turkish terroristorganization calling itself the Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Unitclaimed responsibility for the slayingof an Israeli head of El Al airlinesoffice in an Istanbul suburb. Theslaying of Abraham Elazar wasdesigned to retaliate against theIsraeli massacre of Palestinians. Theorganization claimed that Elazar wasan agent of the Israeli state securityorganization.


ElSalvador


Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Approximately 50leftist militants of the Popular Leagueof 28 February seized thePanamanian Embassy in SanSalvador, taking 7 persons hostage,including the ambassadors of CostaRica and Panama. The militantsdemanded the release of members oftheir group who had been arrestedthe previous month. Thegovernment of El Salvador accededto their demands and the groupreleased their hostages on the 14thof January.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives3 0 UNITED STATES. Three people wereinjured in an explosion at the mid-Manhattan offices of the Sovietairline Aeroflot. An anonymouscaller, identifying himself as amember of the militant JewishDefense League, told news agenciesthat the group had planted the bombat Aeroflot to protest theimprisonment of Soviet dissidents. Afew minutes later, a man identifyinghimself as a member of Omega 7, ananti-Castro group, also claimedresponsibility.

13-Jan-80 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Padron CigarFactory in Miami's Little Havana wasbombed by Omega-7.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. In New York, policedefused a bomb found in the mailboxof an official of the Taiwan consulate.The device was a bag of blackexplosive powder soaked in gasolineattached to a timing mechanismmade from a Mickey Mouse watch.

14-Jan-80 Miami UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedagainst the cigar factory door of JoseOrlando Padron in Miami's LittleHavana section, causing significantdamage. No injuries were reported.A caller to the Associated Pressclaimed the bombing was the work ofOmega 7, an anti-Communist group.Padron declared that he will continueto make cigars in his cigar factoryand bring political prisoners out ofCuba. He accused Miami police ofprotecting the bombers, claiming noone is ever prosecuted for bombings.

15-Jan-80 Bat Yam Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Two explosive devices werefound and defused in Bat Yam. (AM -Fatah)

15-Jan-80 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. An unarmed Tunisian hijackerheld 89 persons hostage on an ItalianAlitalia DC-9 for 12 hours claiming hehad an accomplice with a bomb. The28-year-old hijacker demanded thatthe passengers be exchanged atTunis Airport in Tunisia for 25 jailedunion leaders who, he said, must alsobe given their jobs back. He hadseized the plane midway through itsscheduled flight from Rome to Tunis.However, the Tripoli airport where hewanted the flight diverted was closeddue to a sand storm; the Malteseauthorities refused landing at Maltawhich resulted in a final landing atPalermo where, after a stalemate,the hijacker surrendered to Italianauthorities.

17-Jan-80 DamascusSyria Unknown Explosives1 0 SYRIA. One person was slightlyinjured when a bomb explodedoutside the Soviet Aeroflot office inDamascus. The building was quitedamaged. The attack coincided witha meeting in the city of four pro-Soviet Arab countries; Syria, Libya,Algeria and South Yemen. Themeeting was to discuss Moslemsentiments after the Soviet invasionof Afghanistan.

18-Jan-80 Beirut Lebanon Amal Firearms0 0 LEBANON. A teenage gunmanhijacked a Middle East Airline Boeing720B with 72 passengers and a crewof 10. The jet was en route fromBeirut to Larnaca, Cyprus. Using a .32 caliber pistol and a hand grenade,the hijacker demanded that theplane return to Beirut to refuel for aflight to Tehran. The hijacker wantedto call attention to the disappearanceof the Shiite religious leader, ImanMusa Sadr, in Libya during 1978.The passengers were eventuallyfreed in Beirut and the hijackersurrendered shortly thereafter, whenthe captain of the airliner talked himout of the hijacking.

20-Jan-80 Madrid Spain JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Responsibility for bombattacks against airline offices inMadrid has been claimed by aCommando for Justice for theGenocide of Armenians. The sameArmenian group claimedresponsibility for a number of attackslast year in Madrid, Rome, Paris.Bomb attacks occurred at TWA(several injuries), British Airways,Swissair, and Sabena (Belgian).







22-Jan-80 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A homemade bombexploded on a baggage conveyer atthe China Airlines facility at LosAngeles International Airport. Itcaused as much as $50,000 damagebut injured no one. The explosionoccurred in the Taiwan-basedairline's airport facility, which wasclosed at the time. The airlinerepresentative said the Taiwanconsulate had received threats froma group calling itself the TaiwanIndependence Movement but no oneclaimed responsibility for thisincident.

28-Jan-80 Baghdad Iraq Amal Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 IRAQ. A Lebanese man hijacked aMiddle East Airlines Boeing 707 with137 people on board. The jet wasenroute from Baghdad, Iraq to Beirut.The hijacker used a kitchen knife.The hijacker demanded that a pressconference be held at the Beirutairport. He surrendered to securityagents when the plane landed.There were no injuries. The hijackersaid at the press conference: I wantthe Islamic foreign ministersconference to clear the mystery thatsurrounds the disappearance of ImanMousa Sadr. A number of otherhijackings were related to the samedisappearance.

29-Jan-80 Paris France PalestinianResistance

Explosives8 1 FRANCE. A bomb blast wrecked theground floor of the Syrian embassy inParis, killing one employee andwounding eight people. Theexplosion occurred shortly beforeForeign Minister Abdel HalimKhaddam arrived from Damascus foran official visit. Each of three groupsclaimed responsibility for theincident: the Palestinian Resistance,the Jewish Brigades, and the AfghanCollective.

30-Jan-80 UnionCity

UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Almacen elEspanol in Union City, New Jersey,was bombed for a third time byOmega-7.

31-Jan-80 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. No one has claimedresponsibility for a bomb set at theU.S. Embassy in La Paz. The bombcaused some damage, but noinjuries.

31-Jan-80 Beirut Lebanon Amal Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Three Lebanese, armedwith pistols and hand grenades, werearrested at the Beirut airport as theytried to board an Air France planeduring an attempted hijacking.Police sources said the three wantedto draw attention to thedisappearance of the spiritual leaderof Lebanon's 800,000 ShiiteMoslems.


GuatemalaOther Fire orFirebomb

2 39 GUATEMALA. About 30 people,including several women, enteredthe Spanish Embassy and held 15people present as hostages. Thehostages included the Spanishambassador, several other Spanishdiplomats, some Spanish embassyemployees and a few visitingGuatemalans. All the while insistingtheir occupation was non-violent, thegroup was armed with machetes, oneor two revolvers, and a few Molotovcocktails. The intruders were for themost part landless peasants, havingarrived several days before fromtheir province of Quiche to ask themilitary government to stop its armyfrom terrorizing them. They hadbeen refused time with governmentofficials and after occupying a fewradio stations had been branded asterrorists. They went to the Spanishambassador for support and weredetermined to occupy the embassyuntil they received attention for theirrequest for an independentcommission to investigate theircharges of murders anddisappearances at the hands ofmilitary officials who, they said,wanted their land. During discussionsbetween the ambassador and thepeasants nearly 400 policemensurrounded the building and beganto launch an assault. They brokedown doors and windows in spite ofthe ambassador's imploring toGuatemalan officials to call off theirforces and settle the affairpeacefully. The police stormed theembassy and the cornered peasantsthrew a Molotov cocktail and set thebuilding ablaze. At least 39 peopledied, including the embassy staff.The ambassador and one of thepeasants escaped by jumping from awindow. Later the surviving peasantwas kidnapped from his hospitalroom by a group of unknown armedmen. The ambassador denouncedthe actions of the police as brutaland senseless and in violation of oneof the most elementary rules ofinternational law. He also stronglydenied Guatemalan claims that localauthorities had been called in byembassy officials. Outraged by theassault, on February 1, 1980, Spainbroke diplomatic relations withGuatemala.



2 39 GUATEMALA. About 30 people,including several women, enteredthe Spanish Embassy and held 15people present as hostages. Thehostages included the Spanishambassador, several other Spanishdiplomats, some Spanish embassyemployees and a few visitingGuatemalans. All the while insistingtheir occupation was non-violent, thegroup was armed with machetes, oneor two revolvers, and a few Molotovcocktails. The intruders were for themost part landless peasants, havingarrived several days before fromtheir province of Quiche to ask themilitary government to stop its armyfrom terrorizing them. They hadbeen refused time with governmentofficials and after occupying a fewradio stations had been branded asterrorists. They went to the Spanishambassador for support and weredetermined to occupy the embassyuntil they received attention for theirrequest for an independentcommission to investigate theircharges of murders anddisappearances at the hands ofmilitary officials who, they said,wanted their land. During discussionsbetween the ambassador and thepeasants nearly 400 policemensurrounded the building and beganto launch an assault. They brokedown doors and windows in spite ofthe ambassador's imploring toGuatemalan officials to call off theirforces and settle the affairpeacefully. The police stormed theembassy and the cornered peasantsthrew a Molotov cocktail and set thebuilding ablaze. At least 39 peopledied, including the embassy staff.The ambassador and one of thepeasants escaped by jumping from awindow. Later the surviving peasantwas kidnapped from his hospitalroom by a group of unknown armedmen. The ambassador denouncedthe actions of the police as brutaland senseless and in violation of oneof the most elementary rules ofinternational law. He also stronglydenied Guatemalan claims that localauthorities had been called in byembassy officials. Outraged by theassault, on February 1, 1980, Spainbroke diplomatic relations withGuatemala.

1-Feb-80 Brussels Belgium NewArmenianResistance

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. Armenians claimed creditfor bombing the offices of Aeroflot inBrussels. Two explosions within fiveminutes of each other extensivelydamaged the downtown Brusselsoffices of both the Soviet and TurkishAirlines. The explosives wereconcealed in plastic bags and placedin front of the two offices. No injurieswere reported as a result of eitherexplosion. The New ArmenianResistance claimed responsibility forboth bombings in a communique to apress agency.

1-Feb-80 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. A London-based anti-Qaddafi newspaper editor was fatallyshot in Beirut after attending hismother's funeral.

1-Feb-80 Brussels Belgium NewArmenianResistance

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. Armenians claimed creditfor bombing the Turkish airlinesoffice in Brussels. Two explosionswithin five minutes of each otherextensively damaged the downtownBrussels offices of both the Sovietand Turkish Airlines. The explosiveswere concealed in plastic bags andplaced in front of the two offices. Noinjuries were reported as a result ofeither explosion. The New ArmenianResistance claimed responsibility forboth bombings in a communique to apress agency.

2-Feb-80 Paris France NewArmenianResistance

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Paris. The New ArmenianResistance claimed responsibility forthe bombing of Aeroflot. There wereno injuries.

3-Feb-80 Tel Aviv Israel DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Explosives6 0 ISRAEL. A bomb, apparently plantedby Arab terrorists, exploded in asuburb outside of Tel Aviv, woundingsix people. In Damascus, Syria, anote distributed to foreign reporterssaid the Democratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine wasresponsible for the bombing.

4-Feb-80 Tripoli Libya Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LIBYA. The French Embassy wassacked and burned by Libyandemonstrators in Tripoli. Theembassy personnel escaped as themob set fire to the building. Therewere no injuries. The demonstrationwas presumably against Frenchintervention in Africa and was mostlikely inspired by recent Frenchaction in neighboring Tunisia. Franceprovided military aid to the town ofGafsa during an allegedly Libyan-backed guerrilla attack. Libyan radioclaimed that France was trying toreassert its old colonial role over allof northern Africa.French authoritiesclaim the embassy takeover couldonly have been decided by Libyanauthorities. The embassy wasguarded by only 2 Libyan policemen;a request for more protection as themob approached went unheeded.Fire trucks arrived hours after beingcalled. France has recalled itsAmbassador and full diplomatic staffand sent home a comparable numberof Paris-based Libyan diplomats.


ElSalvador


Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. Leftist militants tookover the Spanish embassy in SanSalvador, holding the ambassador,Victor Sanchez-Mesa y Juste, andeleven hostages. Duringnegotiations the leftists laterreleased four. The February 28Popular Leagues said they weredemanding an investigation ofalleged human rights violations bythe Red Cross and the Organizationof American States as well as a breakin relations between Spain and otherdemocratic governments and ElSalvador's repressive regime. Theyalso called for the release of otherleftists imprisoned in Salvadoranjails. The takeover sparked threatsof reprisals from right-wing groupswho said they would burn theSpanish Embassy in a replay of anattack by police on the SpanishMission in Guatemala City theprevious week in which 39 peoplewere killed. On February 11, aspokesman said, if they don't releaseour comrades or tell us where theirbodies are buried, we will be here formonths. The Leagues weredemanding the release of threeLeagues leaders and two members ofthe leftist Popular Revolutionary Bloc,another of El Salvador's powerfulleftist alliances. The siege ended onthe 18th of February when thegovernment allegedly acceded to thedemands for the release of prisoners.

7-Feb-80 Bern SwitzerlandJusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Firearms1 0 SWITZERLAND. Gunmen firing froma sidewalk shot and wounded Turkishambassador Dogan Turkheim as herode in a car in the Swiss capital ofBern. An Armenian group called theJustice Commandos of the ArmenianGenocide claimed responsibility.Max Kilnajian, a French citizen ofArmenian background, wassentenced to a French jail for twoyears after his trial in Aix-en-Provence January 24, 1982. Courtofficials said Kilnajian would bereleased almost immediatelybecause of the amount of time hehas already spent in jail waiting trial.

10-Feb-80 Iraq PatrioticUnion ofKurdistan(PUK)

Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Two Yugoslav engineers weretaken hostage by the Patriotic Unionof Kurdistan. The spokesman for theKurdish rebels said that the actionwas to protest Iraqi-Yugoslav militarycooperation, alleging that Iraqiofficers were being trained inYugoslavia to fight the Kurdish rebelsin Iraq. The whereabouts of theengineers are unknown and nodemands have been made.

11-Feb-80 PetahTikva

Israel Other Explosives10 0 ISRAEL. A bomb planted in a trashcan by suspected Palestinianguerrillas exploded in Petah Tikva,wounding 10 persons, one seriously.Police rounded up 100 Arab suspectsfor questioning but could charge noone.


ElSalvador

Other Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. A group of leftistmilitants seized the PanamanianEmbassy in San Salvador for thesecond time in a month, taking threehostages, including the PanamanianAmbassador. The militantsdemanded the release of prisoners.They left the embassy after theambassador promised that he wouldpresent their demands to thegovernment of El Salvador.

16-Feb-80 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. California. Thebombing of a Porter Ranch home inthe San Fernando Valley is believedto be the work of Taiwan militantsseeking recognition from theNationalist Chinese government.However, the people believed to beinvolved had moved from the homesix months earlier. The bombingmay be related to similar ones inNew York; the FBI has joined theinvestigation.

16-Feb-80 Bielefeld FederalRepublicofGermany


Firearms0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. ABritish colonel was fatally shotoutside his home in Bielefeld in aterrorist attack. Col. Mark Coe, 44,was shot three times as he wasparking his car at his home. TheProvisional Irish Republican Armyclaimed responsibility for the murderand for other terrorist acts inWestern Europe during the past fewyears. Authorities have longbelieved that a cell of the IRA hasbeen operating out of Amsterdam,but this is the first admission by theterrorists.


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. California. Anotherbombing of a home in SouthernCalifornia's Orange County isbelieved to be the work of Taiwanmilitants. No one claimed credit forthe attacks but the authorities feelthey are on the right track based onincidents and threats which haveoccurred since the arrests of 65persons in Taiwan following an anti-government demonstration on WorldHuman Rights Day, December 10,1979

18-Feb-80 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. The home of two U.S.Embassy counselors was bombed inAnkara. There was some damagebut no one was hurt.

18-Feb-80 Izmir Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Terrorists used gas-soakedrags to set fire to two cars belongingto two soldiers stationed with NATOheadquarters in Izmir. No one washurt, but due to this additionalterrorist incident, the NationalSecurity Council of Turkey agreed toextend the period and scope ofpresent martial law, includingoutlying areas that have beenvictims of continuing unrest.

18-Feb-80 Rome Italy ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Secret Armenian Army forthe Liberation of Armenia claimedcredit for a bomb in Rome thatdamaged the offices of Swissair. Ananonymous telephone caller latertold the Rome office of the U.S.Associated Press that the bombswere set off at 1) Swissair as awarning that it must not repeat itsmistake and jail innocent Armeniancitizens, 2) Lufthansa as apunishment for the Germangovernment which helps Turkishfascism..., and 3) El Al because of itsrole of Zionism....


Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Secret Armenian Army forthe Liberation of Armenia claimedcredit for a bomb in Rome thatdamaged the offices of Lufthansa. Anannonymous telephone caller latertold the Rome office of the U.S.Associated Press that the bombswere set off at 1) Swissair as awarning that it must not repeat itsmistake and jail innocent Armeniancitizens, 2) Lufthansa as apunishment for the Germangovernment which helps Turkishfascism..., and 3) El Al because of itsrole of Zionism....


Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Secret Armenian Army forthe Liberation of Armenia claimedcredit for a bomb in Rome thatdamaged the offices of El Al. Ananonymous telephone caller latertold the Rome office of the U.S.Associated Press that the bombswere set off at 1) Swissair as awarning that it must not repeat itsmistake and jail innocent Armeniancitizens, 2) Lufthansa as apunishment for the Germangovernment which helps Turkishfascism..., and 3) El Al because of itsrole of Zionism....

24-Feb-80 Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. About 30 youths wroughtconsiderable damage to the Parisoffice of the Soviet airline Aeroflot onthe Champs-Elysees. A policemanwas on duty but was unable tosummon help in time to apprehendthe vandals. A window wassmashed, computer consolesdestroyed, and firebombs werethrown. The fire was extinguishedbefore it spread and there were noinjuries. The attack, which lastedonly a few minutes, was claimed by agroup calling itself The Collective forMoral Order and Anti-CommunistYouth. In a statement released laterby the news media the groupdeclared This action is the beginningof a long series until thedisintegration of Marxist groups inFrance.

27-Feb-80 Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Firearms7 2 COLOMBIA. Heavily armed M-19guerrillas shot their way into theDominican Republic Embassy duringa reception for that country'sIndependence Day and took 80hostages, including 18 ambassadorsfrom various countries. DiegoAsencio, the U.S. ambassador since1977, was among those taken. Theguerrillas threatened to kill all thehostages if the police who quicklysurrounded the embassy attemptedto rush the building. The guerrillasnumbered 18 and initially allayedsuspicion by posing as an athleticteam jogging nearby wearing orangeand black sweatshirts and carryingautomatic weapons in their exercisebags. A gunfight ensued withsecurity forces and one guerrilla waskilled, one wounded. Four soldierswere wounded, as well as theParaguayan consul and hisbodyguard.Within hours theguerrillas released a detailed list ofdemands: ransom of $50 million,publication of a guerrilla manifestoby all the countries the hostagesrepresented, release of over 300political prisoners (200 of whom aresuspected M-19 terrorists taken in1979 during an army crackdown onterrorism) and safe passage from thecountry. They called themselves theJorge Marco Zambrano Commando.Zambrano was a 23 year old M-19member who was recently capturedduring an attempted kidnapping.One day after being taken forquestioning by the army, he wasfound dead; he had been tortured,then drowned.On February 28, theleader of the group, called simplyComandante Uno, allowed therelease of 10 women, one boy, andthe wounded consul and hisbodyguard. He received food andsupplies from the Red Cross inexchange for the 13. Twoneurologists examined the woundedterrorist, but he died shortly after. Inresponse to this gesture and to opennegotiations with the governmentthe terrorists released the remainingfive women the following day.Subsequent meetings between twogovernment officials and a youngwoman guerrilla accompanied by theMexican ambassador, Ricardo Galan,took place in an

27-Feb-80 Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Firearms7 2 COLOMBIA. Heavily armed M-19guerrillas shot their way into theDominican Republic Embassy duringa reception for that country'sIndependence Day and took 80hostages, including 18 ambassadorsfrom various countries. DiegoAsencio, the U.S. ambassador since1977, was among those taken. Theguerrillas threatened to kill all thehostages if the police who quicklysurrounded the embassy attemptedto rush the building. The guerrillasnumbered 18 and initially allayedsuspicion by posing as an athleticteam jogging nearby wearing orangeand black sweatshirts and carryingautomatic weapons in their exercisebags. A gunfight ensued withsecurity forces and one guerrilla waskilled, one wounded. Four soldierswere wounded, as well as theParaguayan consul and hisbodyguard.Within hours theguerrillas released a detailed list ofdemands: ransom of $50 million,publication of a guerrilla manifestoby all the countries the hostagesrepresented, release of over 300political prisoners (200 of whom aresuspected M-19 terrorists taken in1979 during an army crackdown onterrorism) and safe passage from thecountry. They called themselves theJorge Marco Zambrano Commando.Zambrano was a 23 year old M-19member who was recently capturedduring an attempted kidnapping.One day after being taken forquestioning by the army, he wasfound dead; he had been tortured,then drowned.On February 28, theleader of the group, called simplyComandante Uno, allowed therelease of 10 women, one boy, andthe wounded consul and hisbodyguard. He received food andsupplies from the Red Cross inexchange for the 13. Twoneurologists examined the woundedterrorist, but he died shortly after. Inresponse to this gesture and to opennegotiations with the governmentthe terrorists released the remainingfive women the following day.Subsequent meetings between twogovernment officials and a youngwoman guerrilla accompanied by theMexican ambassador, Ricardo Galan,took place in an

28-Feb-80 PanamaCity

Panama Other Unknown0 0 PANAMA. Militant Panamanianstudents seized the Embassy of ElSalvador, taking six hostages. Thespokesman for the group saidmembers of the StudentsRevolutionary Front (FER) occupiedthe embassy as a show of solidarityfor the oppressed Salvadoran people.

4-Mar-80 Spain Other Firearms0 1 SPAIN. An Arab attacker, apparentlyseeking to kill a Jewish leader,mistakenly killed a Spanish lawyer.The police arrested a suspect, SaidAli Salman, 27, for the submachinegun attack. He was carrying a photoof Max Mazin, president of theSpanish branch of B'nai B'rith , wholived in the same apartment buildingas the lawyer and looks like him.

6-Mar-80 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The consulate of Tunisiawas bombed in Paris during thenight. There were no injuries but thedamage was considerable. No oneclaimed credit for the bombing.


Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Afghan People's Mujahaddeen,an anti-Communist Afghanistanresistance group, is believedresponsible for a bomb planted atAeroflot office in Frankfurt. Thebomb failed to explode.

7-Mar-80 WestBerlin


Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An Afghanistan resistance group, theAfghanistan People's Mujahaddeen(Islamic crusaders), claimedresponsibility for a bomb at theSoviet consulate in West Berlin.

10-Mar-80 Rome Italy ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives12 2 ITALY. Armenians claimed credit fortwo bombs at Turkish Airlines inRome's Piazza della Repubblica,killing two and injuring 12.Responsibility for the attack wasclaimed by the Armenian SecretArmy. A second bomb was calculatedto kill or wound the curious whocame to watch after the first bombwent off. A telephoned warning waslater received warning againstTurkish fascism and Italianimperialism which ignore theArmenian cause.

10-Mar-80 Rome Italy ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 ITALY. Armenians claimed credit fortwo bombs at Turkish Airlines inRome's Piazza della Repubblica,killing two and injuring 12.Responsibility for the attack wasclaimed by the Armenian SecretArmy. A second bomb was calculatedto kill or wound the curious whocame to watch after the first bombwent off. A telephoned warning waslater received warning againstTurkish fascism and Italianimperialism which ignore theArmenian cause.

11-Mar-80 MauritaniaUnknown Explosives0 36 MAURITANIA. The 236,000-tonSpanish supertanker Maria Alejandraexploded and sank off Mauritania,West Africa. Thirty-six of the 43persons on board were lost. The shipwas in ballast and was only threeyears old with modern safetyequipment.

11-Mar-80 OsnabrueckFederalRepublicofGermany


Firearms1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Irish Republican Army claimed itsthird attack on British soldiers inGermany in a month. The IRA tookresponsibility for the ambush of aBritish soldier who was shot fivetimes while jogging in Osnabrueck.The soldier was reported recovering.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. In New York, a firecaused by an incendiary bombextensively damaged the AngolanMission to the United Nations.Responsibility for the attack wasclaimed by Omega 7, an anti-CastroCuban group that has greatlyescalated its terrorist attacks overthe past winter against the Sovietand Cuban UN missions and relatedtargets.


UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb blastripped through a Yugoslav bankoffice in a skyscraper in New YorkCity. Glass rained from windows ofthe 30th-floor offices. There were noreported injuries although police saidseveral persons were treated forshock. An anonymous male callertold the FBI later that CroatianFreedom Fighters had placed thebomb and directed agents to a PortAuthority bus terminal locker where aletter was found. He said itscontents should be made public earlythat evening or two more bombswould be set off. The major networkssummarized the demands for theirnews programs. The letter stated,There will be coordinated actions byCroats at home and in emigrationuntil Yugoslavia is destroyed and afree and independent Croatian stateis established. Also, if even one Croatis delivered up to Yugoslavia or toany other country, Croats throughoutthe world will take action ofunforeseen proportions. The officeswere severely damaged.

21-Mar-80 Rome Italy Other Unknown0 1 ITALY. The body of MohammedSalem Retemi, a Libyanbusinessman, was found in the trunkof his abandoned sports car in Rome,weeks after his murder. Retemi hadleft Libya in 1977, resentful of thenationalization of his business byQaddafi. Several incidents againstthe lives of Libyan dissidents havebrought speculation about a state-run campaign, directed by Qaddafi.


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An explosiondestroyed the Italian consulate inLondon's Belgravia district;apparently there were no casualties.An Italian national was arrested athis home soon after the blast butCommander Peter Duffy of ScotlandYard's anti-terrorist squad declined tolink the explosion to Italian terrorists.The building was not occupied at thetime. The resultant fire, which mayhave ignited due to gas buildup,completely destroyed the building.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. According to Cubanofficials, an explosive device wasplaced under the limousine of Cuba'sU.N. Ambassador Raul Roa Kouri inan effort to assassinate him. It waslocated and later defused. Ananonymous phone call to UPI claimedresponsibility for the attemptedbombing for Omega 7. On October2, 1982, three men were arrested inNew Jersey and one in Miami, Florida,by FBI agents, who had spent overtwo years investigating the incident.A fifth man is being sought. Thegovernment men are under courtorder not to discuss the case. Themen involved are Andre Garcia andAlberto Perez, of Elizabeth, NewJersey, Eduardo Losado-Fernandez ofNewark, New Jersey, and PedroRemon of Miami, Florida. Thecomplaint charged all five men withtransporting explosives from NewJersey to New York. If convicted,they face up to 10 years in prisonand a $10,000 fine. An informantwho was an accomplice in thetransportation of the explosives hadprovided the information to the FBI.


ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Terrorists machinegunned and bombed the installationsof El Salvador-United States CulturalCenter in San Salvador. Ananonymous caller claiming to be amember of the clandestine PopularLiberation Forces took credit for theattack. There were no casualties.


ElSalvador

Other Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. Gunmen in SanSalvador failed in an attempt toassassinate Carlos Lemus Gallardo,Guatemala's ambassador to ElSalvador. The gunmen fired onLemus from a pickup truck but thediplomat and his bodyguardreportedly fought them off withsubmachine guns. The attack wasthe third in three years.

7-Apr-80 Israel ArabLiberationFront(ALF)

Unknown4 3 ISRAEL. Palestinian guerrillas slippedacross the Lebanese border andseized approximately 9 infants ashostages in a children's dormitory ina kibbutz near the frontier. Theguerrilla strike came on the last dayof the Jewish Passover holiday.Palestinian extremists have pledgedto disrupt the current Middle Eastpeace talks. Israeli troops thenstormed the children's dormitory atthe kibbutz, killing five Palestinianterrorists who had taken the childrenhostage in a bid for the release ofguerrillas from Israeli prisons. Asmall boy was killed and four otherchildren wounded. The kibbutzsecretary and an Israeli soldier werekilled during a first unsuccessfulrescue attempt. The terrorist attackcoincided with the departure ofPresident Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt fortalks in Washington on granting self-rule to Palestinians under Israelioccupation. The Arab LiberationFront, an extremist Iraqi-backedPalestinian group, claimed credit forthe raid.

8-Apr-80 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. Several unidentifiedindividuals riding in a car attackedthe Japanese embassy in GuatemalaCity. Several bullets shot from themoving vehicle broke the mainwindow and hit the walls. Therewere no injuries.


Other Firearms0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. MohammadMustafa Ramadan, a Libyan journalistand a bitter opponent of ColonelQaddafi, was shot and killed as hewas handing out copies of an Arabpublication outside the IslamicCenter in London. The journalistworked for the Arabic newspaper ona free-lance basis and was describedas a Moslem activist and a politicalexile from Libya. The two gunmenwere believed to be Libyans. Qaddafirecently made a speech calling forthe killing of opponents of hisrevolution who live abroad.Ramadan had recently receivedthreatening letters from a groupcalling themselves PopularCommittee for the Elimination ofEnemies of the Revolution. The twogunmen were arrested, and inSeptember 1980 were sentenced tolife imprisonment.

15-Apr-80 Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The 19 April Movement(M-19) failed in an effort to kidnapRaul Liar, charge d'affaires at theUruguayan embassy in Bogota.According to reports, an M-19 shocktroop consisting of four or fiveindividuals broke into the Uruguayanembassy in an attempt to kidnap thecharge in reprisal for AmbassadorFernando Gomez Fyn's escape fromthe Dominican Republic embassy inmid-March. However, the charge andother officials were in Montevideowith Fyn.

16-Apr-80 Istanbul Turkey Other Firearms4 2 TURKEY. Three gunmen identified asleftist terrorists shot and killed NavyChief Petty Officer Sam Novello, anAmerican naval officer and hisTurkish driver, in a residential sectionof Istanbul. One of the attackers waskilled in a gun battle with policefollowing the shooting and two otherswere captured. Three securityagents and a passer-by werewounded. Police said the gunmenwere members of the undergroundMarxist-Leninist Armed PropagandaUnion, an extreme leftistorganization that has claimedresponsibility for the murders ofother Americans. The two capturedgunmen were tried and sentenced todeath October 13, 1980.

17-Apr-80 Rome Italy JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Firearms2 0 ITALY. Armenian guerrillas shot andwounded the Turkish ambassador tothe Vatican and his driver in acampaign to remind the world ofwhat they call the genocide ofArmenians in Turkey in 1915. Agroup called the Justice Commandosof the Armenian Genocidetelephoned Reuters news agency toclaim responsibility. The caller said,Our only aim is to strike againstTurkish personalities and Turkishinstitutions all over the world.

18-Apr-80 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms1 0 LEBANON. Iran's charge d'affaires,Jawad Yirdajaei, was shot andwounded by pro-Iraqi Palestiniangunmen in front of the IranianEmbassy in Beirut. The diplomat washospitalized in serious condition.

18-Apr-80 SanPedroSula

Honduras Other Firearms0 0 HONDURAS. Arnoldo Quiroz,manager of the U.S. Texaco OilCompany in Honduras, waskidnapped in the city of San PedroSula in the northern part of thecountry. The perpetrators were saidto be four armed individuals whocamouflaged their pistols behindnewspapers. Quiroz was withoutdriver or bodyguard. He was shovedinto a car without a license plate; noransom demand has been received.He was born in Costa Rica and is anaturalized U.S. citizen.

18-Apr-80 Lebanon Other Firearms0 2 LEBANON. Two Irish troopers of a U.N. convoy were abducted by teenagemilitiamen four miles from the Israeliborder. They were later found shotinside the border enclave controlledby rebel Lebanese Army Maj.Haddad. Maj. Haddad denied that hisIsraeli-backed men carried out theexecution-style slayings. Clashesbetween the U.N. force and theChristians have reached their mostserious level since the force was setup in 1978; the two troopers werethe 40th and 41st U.N. soldiers killedin southern Lebanon. Maj. Haddad ofthe Christian militia has demandedthat the Irish battalion leave the U.N.peace-keeping force because it hasbecome sympathetic to thePalestinian Liberation Organization.

19-Apr-80 Rome Italy Other Firearms0 1 ITALY. Another Libyan businessman,Abdul Aref, was shot to death in thefashionable Cafe de Paris, in Rome.Two days after his death, aspokesman for the Libyan Embassyin Rome told reporters the LibyanRevolutionary Committees haddecided to eliminate all traitors whodid not return to Libya by June 10.

19-Apr-80 Marseille France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A rocket directed at theTurkish Consulate in Marseilles wasdiscovered and dismantled before itexploded. A cleaning person wassaid to have noticed the rocket in thegarden of the consulate general andcalled the police who summonedexperts to disarm the weapon. Therocket was connected to a timer andwas positioned to enter the consulateand explode inside the building. AnArmenian terrorist group wasbelieved responsible. The incidentwas claimed by a group calling itselfAvril Noir (Black April--a date whichmost likely refers to the 1915massacre of Armenians by theTurks--April was the height of themassacre and is commemorated bythe Armenians.)

21-Apr-80 SwitzerlandOther Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Israeli securityagents foiled a plot to blow up an ElAl jetliner when they found a bomb inthe luggage of a German who wasbooked aboard a flight to Tel Aviv.The bomb was connected to a timingdevice. Demolition experts placedthe bomb in a special vault where itexploded before it could bedismantled. A spokesman for Israelsaid in Tel Aviv that it was believedterrorists placed the bomb in theGerman's luggage without hisknowledge. Israel had warned itscitizens to be alert to possibleterrorist attacks, as Israelis werecelebrating their Independence Daymarking the creation of a Jewishstate 32 years ago.

22-Apr-80 Israel al-Fatah Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A grenade was thrown at abus between Jerusalem-Ofra. (AM -Fatah)

22-Apr-80 Belgrade YugoslaviaOther Explosives3 0 YUGOSLAVIA. In Belgrade, abombing attack was made on thePLO liaison office in which a vehicleparked outside the office wasdemolished and three occupantsbelieved to be PLO operatives wereinjured.


Other Firearms0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. Two Libyangunmen entered the London officesof an Arab legal consultant, asked forhim by name, then shot him asemployees looked on. The victim,Mahmoud Nafa, was known as aleading Qaddafi opponent. The twogunmen were arrested and later inSeptember 1980, were sentenced tolife imprisonment.

25-Apr-80 Toulouse France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Considerable damageoccurred when a bomb went off inthe Toulouse suburb offices of anAmerican agricultural equipmentcompany. The attack was claimed ina telephone call by a group callingitself Self-Defense Against AllAuthority as a reprisal against theAmerican intervention in Iran.

26-Apr-80 Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A commando group of theextreme right composed of some 20young people set fire to 2 cars of theParis-Moscow express train with thehelp of several Molotov cocktails.The cars were severely damaged.Fortunately the train was almostempty. The group painted NationalYouth Front, and Boycott on the sideof the train. Later the Agence FrancePresse received an anonymous letteradding that the demonstration wasto persuade the French to boycottthe Jeux (games) de Goulag.


Other Firearms0 2 UNITED KINGDOM. Six armedIranians took over the IranianEmbassy in London and held 26hostages for nearly six days. Threeof the hostages were British; theremaining were Iranian diplomatsand staff with some foreign visitors.Police cordoned off the embassy andtried patiently to negotiate with thegunmen through the embassywindows and by telephone. Thegunmen were from Khuzistan, the oil-producing province of Iran on thesouthern border with Iraq. Theyclaimed to be members of the Groupof the Martyrs and were demandingautonomy for their province inaddition to the release of 91prisoners being held in Khuzistan.They wanted the prisoners flown toLondon and then safe passageguaranteed for all, including thehostages, out of the country. Theypledged to not harm non-Iranianhostages and apologized for thetrouble they were causing London.They wanted to deal with theKhomeini government but got littleresponse. Iran sent an open letter tothe gunmen refusing their demandsand stating that the Khuzistanprisoners would be executed if any ofthe embassy staff came to harm.Bani-Sadr said his government isready to accept the martyrdom ofour children in England rather thansubmit to blackmail.During thecourse of the negotiations thegunmen released 5 hostages atseparate times. On the 5th of May,shots were heard and a deadhostage was dumped out the frontdoor of the embassy. The gunmeninformed police that they would killan additional hostage every 30minutes until their demands weremet--those demands being nowsimply safe passage out of thecountry. Authorities immediately sentinto action their one plan in reserve.Commandos of the Army's anti-terrorist unit of the Special AirService Regiment (SAS) stormed theembassy, killing five terrorists andrescuing 19 hostages. When theblack-garbed commandos entered bylowering themselves by ropes fromthe roof and crawling in windows thegunmen panicked and opened fire ontheir hostages, wounding several andkilling one. Explosions caused bystun-grenades used by thecommandos to disorient theterrorists and catch them bysurprise, quickly spread flamesthrough the building and eventuallygutted the embassy. As thehostages were rushed out of thebuilding to safety, their identitieswere checked. Mistaken at first for ahostage, one of the gunmen, FowziNejad, 23, was discovered andarrested. Nicknamed Baby Face bythe hostages, he was called a goodboy by some of the Iranians butnevertheless was packed off to jail.Later, in January of 1981, he wassentenced to life imprisonment.


Other Firearms0 2 UNITED KINGDOM. Six armedIranians took over the IranianEmbassy in London and held 26hostages for nearly six days. Threeof the hostages were British; theremaining were Iranian diplomatsand staff with some foreign visitors.Police cordoned off the embassy andtried patiently to negotiate with thegunmen through the embassywindows and by telephone. Thegunmen were from Khuzistan, the oil-producing province of Iran on thesouthern border with Iraq. Theyclaimed to be members of the Groupof the Martyrs and were demandingautonomy for their province inaddition to the release of 91prisoners being held in Khuzistan.They wanted the prisoners flown toLondon and then safe passageguaranteed for all, including thehostages, out of the country. Theypledged to not harm non-Iranianhostages and apologized for thetrouble they were causing London.They wanted to deal with theKhomeini government but got littleresponse. Iran sent an open letter tothe gunmen refusing their demandsand stating that the Khuzistanprisoners would be executed if any ofthe embassy staff came to harm.Bani-Sadr said his government isready to accept the martyrdom ofour children in England rather thansubmit to blackmail.During thecourse of the negotiations thegunmen released 5 hostages atseparate times. On the 5th of May,shots were heard and a deadhostage was dumped out the frontdoor of the embassy. The gunmeninformed police that they would killan additional hostage every 30minutes until their demands weremet--those demands being nowsimply safe passage out of thecountry. Authorities immediately sentinto action their one plan in reserve.Commandos of the Army's anti-terrorist unit of the Special AirService Regiment (SAS) stormed theembassy, killing five terrorists andrescuing 19 hostages. When theblack-garbed commandos entered bylowering themselves by ropes fromthe roof and crawling in windows thegunmen panicked and opened fire ontheir hostages, wounding several andkilling one. Explosions caused bystun-grenades used by thecommandos to disorient theterrorists and catch them bysurprise, quickly spread flamesthrough the building and eventuallygutted the embassy. As thehostages were rushed out of thebuilding to safety, their identitieswere checked. Mistaken at first for ahostage, one of the gunmen, FowziNejad, 23, was discovered andarrested. Nicknamed Baby Face bythe hostages, he was called a goodboy by some of the Iranians butnevertheless was packed off to jail.Later, in January of 1981, he wassentenced to life imprisonment.

1-May-80 Paris France Other Unknown5 0 FRANCE. A group of young peopleattacked the Soviet news stand atthe Foire de Paris. They destroyedpublications and wounded fiveemployees of French nationality whowere distributing tracts in favor ofthe Olympic Games. Credit for theaction has been claimed by theJewish Defense Organization, untilthe present time unknown to thepolice.

6-May-80 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Zionist MilitantResistance made its first appearancewith a bombing of a building of theLibyan Embassy in Paris. Nineteenparked cars were damaged as well asa section of the building. Ananonymous caller claimed the attackand stated this action is a reply tothe tortures Jews are subjected to inall Arab countries, and should showParis that the resistance isorganizing.

7-May-80 France CharlesMartelGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb damaged abuilding housing the North AfricanMoslem Students Association and theoutlawed Charles Martel organizationclaimed responsibility for the blast.The group has been blamed for anumber of terrorist attacks againstArab targets in France.

8-May-80 Colombia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. Unidentified personsattempted to burn down theVenezuelan Consulate during thenight. They set fire to the mainentrance and then fled when theywere discovered. There was minordamage. Security has beentightened.

8-May-80 Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. A 19 April Movement (M-19) commando group occupied theColombian-American Cultural Centerfor several minutes. Seven men andone woman, several hooded and allheavily armed, intimidated about500 students whom they haranguedon behalf of the Salvadoran peopleand against the recent fuel priceincrease in Colombia. After paintingrevolutionary slogans on the wallsand distributing propaganda, the M-19 members destroyed thetelephone system and fled.

10-May-80

Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. A series of bombsdestroyed or badly damaged at least20 cars owned by foreigners inAthens. No one was hurt. Thebombs appear to have been plantedby an ultra-left Greek organization.

10-May-80

Rome Italy Other Firearms0 1 ITALY. Abdullah Mohammad ElKazmil, a foe of Colonel Qaddafi anda Libyan businessman, was shot todeath at the Turin Hotel in Rome.After a conversation with two of hisfellow countrymen, whom heapparently knew, one of the two menshot Kazmil and fled. El Kazmil hadapplied for Italian citizenship.

10-May-80


Other Firearms0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Omran el-Mehdawi, former secretaryfor economics and finance in Libya'sWest German embassy, was shot andkilled by a pistol-wielding gunmanwho said he worked for the LibyanInformation office. The capturedgunman stated he did it for non-payment of a personal debt since1975. However, it was in 1975 thatthe Libyan government announced itwould nationalize all industries. El-Mehdawi was one of many Libyanbusinessmen who fled Libya in 1975,taking their funds with them toEurope, thus incurring the wrath ofQaddafi.

10-May-80

Cali Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two terrorists who wereattempting to plant a bomb in the U.S. consulate in Cali were killed whenthe bomb exploded early. It wasdetermined that they were membersof the 19 April Movement (M-19).The U.S. Consul, Roy J. Apel, againstwhom the attack was directed, wassubsequently transferred to anothercountry.

11-May-80

Paris France CharlesMartelGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Algerian consulate inAubervelliers, a suburb of Paris, wasbombed. The explosion damagedthe door of the building. Credit wasclaimed by the Charles Martel Club ina handwritten tract left inside theconsulate. The tract stated theorganization was against the church,the Jews, the starving of the ThirdWorld, and for the white race. TheCharles Martel Club, a xenophobicorganization of the extreme right,first came to public attention in 1973for the bombing of the AlgerianConsulate in Marseilles.

12-May-80

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Unidentified personsexploded a bomb during the night infront of the U.S. Embassy in SanSalvador. Reports state they threwthe explosive device from their car,fired several shots into the air, thendrove off. The incident occurred onlyhours after the end of the siege onthe residence of the Americanambassador.

12-May-80

SanSalvador

ElSalvador


0 0 EL SALVADOR. U.S. Marines andAmerican Ambassador RobertWhite's bodyguards used tear gasand a bulletproof truck to break asiege of White's residence in SanSalvador by Salvadoran rightists.The Marines and bodyguards lobbedtear gas canisters to scatter about 30rightists. No one was injured. Therightists accused White of being aCommunist and demanded that hepressure the government to releasethe jailed leader (Major Robertod'Abuisson) of an attempted right-wing coup. Hundreds ofdemonstrators announced theywould continue to lay siege to the U.S. embassy until the United Statesorders his withdrawal. Thedemonstrators accuse AmbassadorWhite of meddling too much inSalvadoran internal affairs.

15-May-80

Paris France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives4 0 FRANCE. Corsican terrorists tossed agrenade and opened fire at Frenchpolice guarding the Iranian embassyin Paris. Four policemen werewounded, one seriously. Theoutlawed Corsican NationalLiberation Front claimedresponsibility for the attack. Aseparatist spokesman telephonedpolice to say the attack was directedat the French government and notthe Iranian embassy.

20-May-80

Rome Italy Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ITALY. Mohammed Fouad Buohjar, aLibyan-born owner of a lumbertrading company in Rome, wasstabbed and choked to death in ahotel room. His killers left a notesigned Libyan RevolutionaryCommittees in Rome warning theenemies of the people will bereached wherever they are.

21-May-80

Haidari Greece Other Unknown0 1 GREECE. Abu Bakr, a recentimmigrant to Greece, was killed inhis apartment in Haidari. A formerLibyan Army officer, turned factoryemployee in Athens, he was anopponent of the Qaddafi governmentbecause he viewed it as inhumanand oppressive. His killers painted aslogan in Arabic on the wall of hisroom which read, The Revolution WillLive Forever. Death and no mercy toimperialists. Similar statements havebeen found by police on the walls ofrooms where Libyans have beenkilled in Rome.

21-May-80

Rome Italy Other Firearms0 0 ITALY. A Libyan restaurant owner inRome escaped an attempt on his life.Salem Mohammed Fezzani, anaturalized Italian citizen, was shotat by another Libyan, MonsurMezaroni Belgozem, who dined in therestaurant with two other Libyans.Three shots missed and the assailantwas captured by police while tryingto flee. Under police questioning,Belgazem said he was sent by thepeople to kill Fezzani. Libyan citizenshave been killed recently in Britain,West Germany, and Greece.

26-May-80

LosAngeles

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. San Pedro,California. A store and restaurantowned by two Americans ofYugoslavian descent were bombed,reportedly by the Croatian FreedomFighters. There was damage, but noinjuries. One of the owners was asupporter of Tito, and the other wasan anti-Communist.

26-May-80

LosAngeles

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. San Pedro,California. A store and restaurantowned by two Americans ofYugoslavian descent were bombed,reportedly by the Croatian FreedomFighters. There was damage, but noinjuries. One of the owners was asupporter of Tito, and the other wasan anti-Communist.

31-May-80

Spain Other Unknown0 0 SPAIN. A Spanish fishing boat wasseized and sunk apparently by theAlgerian Polisario Front. The crewmembers were kidnapped. TheSpanish authorities are taking stepsto ascertain the situation.

1-Jun-80 Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. The Turkish-Iraqi pipelinenear Kayri village was bombed byKurdish militants who, whencaptured in early 1982 claimed thatthey been sent by the KurdishNational Unity Party leader JalalTalabani in Syria. The pipelinecarries Iraqi oil from Kirkuk to theTurkish port of Iskenderun. The twoKurds arrested were allegedlyresponsible for a similar bombing ofthe pipeline in May 1979.

1-Jun-80 Brussels Belgium Unknown Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. An explosive was thrownfrom a car as it passed the SaudiArabian Embassy in Brussels.Reports indicated only materialdamage was sustained.

1-Jun-80 London UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb explodedin London's West End at the offices ofthe Kuwait Oil Company. Damagewas reported but no injuries. Theone-pound bomb blew out the frontof the building at a time whenvirtually no one was in the area.

3-Jun-80 Yemen Other Unknown0 1 SOUTH YEMEN. An Iraqi professor,Toufik Rushdi, who was teaching atAden University, was murdered at hishome. The Aden News Agencyreported that two Iraqis were seenleaving the scene in a car withdiplomatic plates. ANA accusedthem of killing Rushdi and of takingrefuge in the Iraqi Embassy. Troopsand tanks surrounded the embassythe next day and threatened tostorm the building unless thesuspects were handed over. On the5th of June the embassy was stormedand 5 Iraqis were taken into custody.

4-Jun-80 Rome Italy Other Firearms1 1 ITALY. Two Arabic-speaking gunmenwalked into the Iraqi Embassy inRome, pulled their weapons andordered an embassy chauffeur to callIraqi consular officials. As thechauffeur began phoning, one of thegunmen bolted and began shooting,then was wounded by a guard. Hispartner seemed to lose control, shotand killed the chauffeur, and escapedthrough a side entrance. Theassailants who shouted VivaKhomeini as they fired, left a brownleather suitcase containing a timebomb when they fled. The bomb wasdeactivated by police experts threeminutes before it was set to go off.Atfirst police sources thought theassailants were Iranians and that theincident was part of the continuinghostility between Iran and Iraq. Butlater they reported that the onewounded gunmen who was captured,claimed they were both Iraqi. InBeirut, Lebanon, news organizationsreceived telephone calls from a manwho said an anti-Government Iraqimilitant group known as Iraq'sMujahedeen Islam was responsiblefor the attack.

4-Jun-80 WesternSahara

PolisarioFront

Unknown0 0 WESTERN SAHARA. The Portugueseflag trawler Rio Vouga was boardedoff the coast of Western Sahara byPolisario guerrillas who kidnappedthe crew.


UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An explosionrocked the Statue of Liberty in NewYork Harbor, burying in rubble aplaque bearing the famous Give meyour tired, your poor.... poem. Noone was injured. There was noimmediate indication of who set offthe explosion; at least three terroristgroups called police to claimresponsibility. The police and FBIwere leaning heavily to thepossibility that Croatians wereresponsible; two letters werereceived claiming credit and callingfor the world to notice the demandsand rights and situation of theCroatian people.

4-Jun-80 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Unknown Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. The Iranian embassy wasdamaged by an explosion whichshattered doors and windows butcaused no injuries. The blast wascaused by an explosive tossed from acar or by a rocket-propelled grenade.


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Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A powerful bombripped through the Washington, D.C.,home of Yugoslavia's charged'affaires, Vladimir Sindjelic. Thebomb had been placed in a windowbox outside their sitting room. Noone was injured although there was agreat deal of internal and externaldamage. A group of Croatiannationalists (Croatian FreedomFighters) claimed full responsibilityfor the act which they said, in a lettermailed to the Washington Post, was asign of protest against the Yugoslavgovernment and its treatment of theCroatian movement's supporters.Croatian terrorists have beeninvolved since 1971 in a series ofassassination attempts in variouscountries ranging from WestGermany to Paraguay. At least 50persons have died since 1972 invarious acts of terrorism instigatedby Croatians or their supporters.

11-Jun-80 Milan Italy Other Firearms0 1 ITALY. A Libyan was shot and killedin Milan's Central Railroad station asa Libyan deadline for dissidents toreturn home expired. It was the ninthmurder of a Libyan in Europe and thefifth in Italy in two months. Qaddafireiterated that he could notguarantee the safety of Libyanopponents of his regime whoremained abroad.

12-Jun-80 Paris France ActionDirecte

Explosives7 0 FRANCE. Seven immigrant cleaningworkers were injured when a bombexploded in a hallway of Orly Airportin Paris. The March 27-28 DirectAction Group claimed responsibilityin a phone call to Agence France-Presse. They left the bomb in asuitcase which they said contained 2kilos of plastic explosives. Followingthe first claim, another caller deniedthat Action Directe was responsible.

12-Jun-80 GuatemalaRebelArmedForces ofGuatemala(FAR)

Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. Jose A. de Lima,president of Sindal, a Nestlesubsidiary in Guatemala, waskidnapped by members of FAR, anarmed extreme leftist organization.Nestle's offices in Mexico said nonegotiations should be held with asubversive organization for therelease of company officials.However, on June 26, the Nestlecompany and the Rebel ArmedForces (FAR) were negotiating. Forthe release of Lima, FAR demandedthe publication in Guatemala andabroad of a FAR manifesto and thepayment of a war tax which will helppromote the revolutionary struggle.In early September, Lima wasreleased, after three months ofcaptivity. Guatemalan newspapersreported that the Swiss companypaid $4.7 million for his release. Inaddition to the ransom, Nestleagreed to distribute one million cansof powdered milk among children inrural areas of Guatemala, and topublish the FAR manifesto in Bonn,Paris, and London.

14-Jun-80 Tripoli Libya Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LIBYA. A mob of demonstratorsattacked and set fire to the BritishEmbassy while the staff was inside.However, no injuries were reportedand there was little damage to thebuilding. The attack seemedprovoked by the expulsion of Libya'sChief of Mission from England.

14-Jun-80 Paris France Unknown Unknown0 1 FRANCE. An Egyptian, Yahia ElMeshad, was found murdered in hisroom at the Meridien Hotel in Paris.Authorities released his identityseveral days later. El Meshad was anuclear scientist who worked for theIraqi Atomic Energy Commission.Egyptian-born, trained by the SovietUnion, he was on loan to Iraq for 5years and was considered to be thekey technical liaison with France forinstallation and operation of theOsiris research reactor in Iraq. Hewas regarded as an expert in theoperation of all types of reactors.Two days before his death, he hadjust completed a week-long visit atthe French Commissariat a l'EnergieAtomique which included a 3 daytraining session in thermonuclearfusion and nuclear safety. His deathhas intimations of political intriguebecause of his involvement with theFrench-Iraqi reactor deal. Saboteursblew up the reactors' maincomponents in April 1979, just priorto delivery, but fulfillment of the dealto Iraq was merely postponed to1981. (See April 6, 1979)(NUCLEONICS WEEK, NEW YORKTIMES, AND INTERNATIONAL HERALDTRIBUNE).On July 12, 1980, the onlywitness to the murder was killed,when, apparently drunk, she got intoa quarrel with a man driving a cardown the Boulevard Saint-Germain inParis. He slapped her; she fell to theground and was hit and killedinstantly by a passing car. (SCIENCE8/29/80)

16-Jun-80 Israel al-Fatah Unknown1 0 ISRAEL. An IDF navy patrolintercepted a terrorist boat south ofRosh Hanikra. Boat was sunk andthe 3 terrorists killed, 1 soldierinjured. (AM - Fatah)

19-Jun-80 Baghdad Iraq Amal Firearms0 0 IRAQ. Three terrorists took over theBritish Embassy in Baghdad on theeve of Iraq's first parliamentaryelection in 22 years, but died an hourlater in a shootout with Iraqi securityforces. Iraqi authorities receivedpermission from the Britishambassador to storm the building.The embassy staff members werenot injured.An anonymous callerclaimed the attack on behalf of the AlDawa party in Iraq. The newspaperquoted the caller as saying only thatthe attack was mounted to liquidatea group of British experts sent tohelp the Iraqi regime suppress theuprising of the Iraqi masses insouthern Iraq. Shiite Moslems are inthe majority in southern Iraq, and allAl Dawa members are Shiites. Thegovernment of President SaddamHussein outlawed Al Dawa earlier inthe year, charging the party withattempts to overthrow thegovernment through bombings,assassinations and sabotage.

20-Jun-80 Colombia Other Firearms1 0 COLOMBIA. Two people were shotand wounded when alleged guerrillasunsuccessfully attempted to kidnapKenneth H. Reysen, manager of theColgate-Palmolive Company. Sixheavily armed men surprised Reysenas he was leaving his home. Hischauffeur, the watchman at hishome, and several policemenengaged the attackers in gunfire,forcing them to flee. The watchmanwas wounded, as was one of theguerrillas.

24-Jun-80 GuatemalaOther Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. Dr. Richard Newman,an employee of the World HealthOrganization working for a U.S.supported agency, was abductedtogether with Dr. Carlos TejadaValenzuela, a Guatemalan, at a staffmeeting of the Institute of CentralAmerican Workers. The gunmen wholater identified themselves asmembers of the outlawedRevolutionary Party of CentralAmerican Workers, burst into themeeting and grabbed the two men.A message distributed to localnewspapers said the two officialswould be released once the institutemet a set of demands that were notmade public. Fifty days later, onAugust 15, the guerrillas freed thetwo men. The mysterious finaloutcome of the kidnapping showedthat part of the negotiations for therelease of the two men were heldoutside Guatemala with unidentifiedindividuals and organizations. Theefforts were undertaken by theUnited Nations which sought tomaintain complete secrecy regardingthe contacts with the kidnappers andthe way the release was obtained.

2-Jul-80 Morocco PolisarioFront

Explosives0 0 MOROCCO. The Moroccan flagtrawler Cap Juby II was bombardedand attacked by Polisario guerrillasoff Morocco. The vessel wasabandoned and was a total loss.

4-Jul-80 Kingston Jamaica Unknown Firearms0 0 JAMAICA. The home of N. RichardKinsman, a member of the U.S.Embassy in Kingston, was fired ontwo days after he was publiclydescribed as the chief of station ofthe U.S. CIA. No one was injured bythe gunmen. Kinsman was pointedout by Louis Wolf, co-editor of CovertAction Information Bulletin, anewsletter published in Washington.Mr. Wolf accused the intelligenceagency of trying to undermine thesocialist Government of Jamaica.

5-Jul-80 Baku USSR Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SOVIET UNION. A group of expatriateIranians attempted to set fire to theIranian Consulate in Baku, near theIranian border. The Iranians weredemanding to return to theirhomeland.

9-Jul-80 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms3 1 LEBANON. Gunmen firing from aspeeding automobile shot and killedan Iraqi diplomat, Ibrahim Khazaal.Three other Iraqis were wounded asthey walked near LebaneseUniversity in Beirut. Two of thewounded were diplomats; the thirdwas a student. No one tookresponsibility for the attack but theshooting came a week afterunidentified gunmen killed twoIranian students in a similar attack.


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Firearms0 1 EL SALVADOR. About 15 leftists shottheir way into the Costa RicanEmbassy, killing a policeman, thenled about 100 peasants, most ofthem women and children, inside tostage a protest occupation. Theleftists were members of the 28February People's League. The CostaRican Ambassador and embassyemployees said they were not beingheld hostage. Police rushed to thescene but pulled back from thebuilding at the demand of theambassador. The peasants toldreporters they were seeking politicalrefuge and they would stay in theembassy until they were able tospeak with a group of foreignambassadors, including U.S.Ambassador Robert White, abouttheir demands for an end togovernment repression in theSalvadoran countryside. Accordingto the spokesman, the army is killingand torturing peasants.The CostaRican Ambassador was recalled byhis government the next day andbegan negotiations with hisgovernment for political asylum forthe peasants.On July 17th, the leftistsled another 115 peasants into thealready packed eight-room embassy.The living conditions becameunbearable. The following day CostaRica announced that due tofrustations over the deadlock innegotiations it was abandoning allefforts and was moving its embassy.On the 19th of July, the embassy lostits diplomatic status and theInternational Red Cross came in toairlift the peasants home. Theleftists refused the airlift and broughtin 10 more peasants. Costa Ricafinally did provide asylum to the near230 peasants, who by now wereshowing symptoms of contagiousdiseases. Two airlifts were necessaryto carry them to a quarantine in theestate of former Nicaraguan dictator,Somoza, in Costa Rica, under thecare of the International Red Cross.

15-Jul-80 Spain Other Explosives2 0 SPAIN. A French couple wasseriously injured and two carsregistered in France were destroyedby bombs in the Basque region ofBiscay. Credit for the attacks was notclaimed but well-informed Basquecircles believed it could have beenthe action of a group of extremistswho accused France of giving asylumto ETA terrorists.

17-Jul-80 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Molotov cocktails werethrown against the Afghanistanembassy in Paris but did not explode.Tracts were found on the site signedwith the acronym GIN (grouped'intervention nationaliste)-- possiblyAfghan reactionaries.


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Other Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A powerful bombdamaged the Nicaraguan embassy ina warning by Salvadoran rightiststhat they will resist a leftist offensiveaimed at toppling the government.The blast came on the eve of the firstanniversary of the victory of leftistSandinista guerrillas over the forcesof former Nicaraguan presidentSomoza.

18-Jul-80 Paris France Other Firearms4 2 FRANCE. Four armed men attemptedto assassinate the former IranianPrime Minister, Shahpur Bakhtiar, inParis. Dr. Bakhtiar is a leadingopponent of Ayatollah Khomeini. Hewas unhurt but two other personswere killed and four wounded. Thegunmen were captured. They wereidentified as Palestinians; theycarried Syrian and Lebanesepassports. In April 1982 they weresentenced to life in prison. Manysubsequent terrorist incidents havebeen undertaken with the demandthat France release these men.In July1990, Anis Naccache and his fouraccomplices were pardoned byFrench President Mitterrand.

21-Jul-80 Paris France Other Firearms0 1 FRANCE. In Paris, a gunman with asilencer-equipped pistol assassinatedformer Premier Salah Eddin Bitar ofSyria. Bitar edited the politicaljournal Arab Renaissance. Arabsources speculated that Bitar waskilled in an effort to crippleopposition among Syrian exiles tothe government of President HafezAssad; that Bitar was a likely leaderof a new effort to unify variousmovements opposed to the Assadgovernment in Damascus. No oneclaimed responsibility for the killing.

22-Jul-80 Danli Honduras Other Firearms0 0 HONDURAS. Fabio Ponce,Nicaraguan consul in Danli, cameclose to being fatally shot whenunidentified persons machinegunned the Nicaraguan Consulate.The attack was attributed toSomozists living in Honduras.


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Unknown0 0 EL SALVADOR. The Salvadoranmilitary authorities claimed to havethwarted the seizure of the Italianembassy by peasants controlled byleftist groups. At least 131 peasantswere being brought in to SanSalvador by six leaders of the 28February People's League. A buscarrying the peasants wasintercepted by troops 34 km east ofSan Salvador.

23-Jul-80 BethesdaUnitedStates

Other Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. An Iranian whoserved as press attache at hiscountry's embassy in Washingtonduring the Shah's reign and who hadbeen an outspoken critic of AyatollahKhomeini, was shot and killed at hishome in Bethesda, Md., by anassailant dressed as a postal worker.Ali Akbar Tabatabai, president of theAmerican branch Iran FreedomFoundation, a nonprofit corporationheaded by Bakhtiar and dedicated tothe creation of a secular democracyin Iran, was well known amongdiplomats and often appeared onradio and television to speak againstthe Ayatollah. Authorities describedthe slaying as a carefully plottedattempt to silence Khomeini's leadingcritic. David Belfield, a black Muslimalso known as Daoud Salahuddin,was identified by witnesses within 2hours of the killing as the keysuspect. Tyrone Frazier, a postalworker, was also detained andcharged with being an accessory tomurder. Frazier said his mail truckhad been hijacked, but it wasdiscovered after hours of questioningthat he had rented the truck toBelfield for $500. It was laterdiscovered by investigators thatBelfield flew to Iran within 3 days ofthe shooting. With broken diplomaticties between Iran and the U.S. therewas little hope of extraditing him forprosecution. Later a fourth suspectwas named in the case, but he toohad fled the country. A virtualarsenal of weapons was discoveredduring a search of his home and waslikely Belfield's source of weaponssupply. During the investigation,authorities made a connectionbetween this incident and a group ofloosely organized black AmericanMuslims who embraced the Islamicbeliefs of Khomeini and wereviolently opposed to his critics.In thesummer of 1981, Ahmed Rauf, alsoknown as Horace A. Butler, AliAbdul-Mani, also known as CurtisManning, and William Caffee, Jr., alsoknown as Kalid, were indictedtogether with Daoud Salahuddin, alsoknown as David Belfield who fled thecountry, for the execution-stylemurder of Tabatabai. The indictmentcharged the suspects with conspiracyin the killing for a cash payment. Itwas revealed that the defendantswere overheard in separateconversations during …electronicsurveillance, approved by the specialForeign Intelligence SurveillanceCourt, a 7-member panel created in1978 by Congress to reviewelectronic surveillance requests bythe FBI and the National SecurityAgency.

23-Jul-80 BethesdaUnitedStates

Other Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. An Iranian whoserved as press attache at hiscountry's embassy in Washingtonduring the Shah's reign and who hadbeen an outspoken critic of AyatollahKhomeini, was shot and killed at hishome in Bethesda, Md., by anassailant dressed as a postal worker.Ali Akbar Tabatabai, president of theAmerican branch Iran FreedomFoundation, a nonprofit corporationheaded by Bakhtiar and dedicated tothe creation of a secular democracyin Iran, was well known amongdiplomats and often appeared onradio and television to speak againstthe Ayatollah. Authorities describedthe slaying as a carefully plottedattempt to silence Khomeini's leadingcritic. David Belfield, a black Muslimalso known as Daoud Salahuddin,was identified by witnesses within 2hours of the killing as the keysuspect. Tyrone Frazier, a postalworker, was also detained andcharged with being an accessory tomurder. Frazier said his mail truckhad been hijacked, but it wasdiscovered after hours of questioningthat he had rented the truck toBelfield for $500. It was laterdiscovered by investigators thatBelfield flew to Iran within 3 days ofthe shooting. With broken diplomaticties between Iran and the U.S. therewas little hope of extraditing him forprosecution. Later a fourth suspectwas named in the case, but he toohad fled the country. A virtualarsenal of weapons was discoveredduring a search of his home and waslikely Belfield's source of weaponssupply. During the investigation,authorities made a connectionbetween this incident and a group ofloosely organized black AmericanMuslims who embraced the Islamicbeliefs of Khomeini and wereviolently opposed to his critics.In thesummer of 1981, Ahmed Rauf, alsoknown as Horace A. Butler, AliAbdul-Mani, also known as CurtisManning, and William Caffee, Jr., alsoknown as Kalid, were indictedtogether with Daoud Salahuddin, alsoknown as David Belfield who fled thecountry, for the execution-stylemurder of Tabatabai. The indictmentcharged the suspects with conspiracyin the killing for a cash payment. Itwas revealed that the defendantswere overheard in separateconversations during …electronicsurveillance, approved by the specialForeign Intelligence SurveillanceCourt, a 7-member panel created in1978 by Congress to reviewelectronic surveillance requests bythe FBI and the National SecurityAgency.

25-Jul-80 WestBank/Gaza

al-Fatah Unknown0 1 WEST BANK. A resident of Selwadwas murdered. (AM - Fatah)

27-Jul-80 Brussels Belgium Other Unknown0 0 BELGIUM. Palestinian terrorists whoattempted to attack arrivingpassengers on an El Al flight toBrussels from Tel Aviv were foiledwhen the plane arrived 30 minutesearly.

28-Jul-80 Antwerp Belgium Other Explosives17 1 BELGIUM. An Arab hurled two handgrenades into a group of about 40young Jews in Antwerp, killing DavidKuhan, l5, and injuring 17 moreteenagers waiting for a bus to takethem to a summer camp. Thecaptured suspect had a Moroccanidentity document but identifiedhimself as a Palestinian who said Iacted for my ideals.

29-Jul-80 Lyon France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms2 2 FRANCE. Two gunmen, purportedlyfrom a clandestine Armenianorganization, the Secret LiberationArmy of Armenia, shot up the TurkishConsulate in Lyon, killing two peopleand seriously wounding two others.A telephone caller to French newsorganizations claimed the attack wascarried out in revenge for a massacreof Armenians in Turkey 65 years ago.

30-Jul-80 AlhambraUnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. California. A nativeTaiwanese terrorist organization isbelieved responsible for planting anexplosive device in an Alhambramedical building where a number ofChinese doctors have offices. TheLos Angeles County's bomb squadwas able to defuse the pipe bombbefore it exploded.

30-Jul-80 Torrance UnitedStates

Other Unknown0 1 UNITED STATES. California. Aworldwide organization of nativeTaiwanese is believed responsible forthe bombing death of Chang Lin Lee,a Nationalist Chinese visitor inTorrance.


UnitedStates

Other Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. Los Angeles,California. An assassination attempttook place outside the home ofCambyse Shah-Rais, leader of theanti-Khomeini movement and afriend of former Embassy pressattache Ali Tabatabai, assassinatedJuly 22 by a team of three Americanblack Muslims. A black gunman in ajogging suit fired five shots at ananti-Khomeini Iranian student waitingoutside the home of Shah-Rais,striking him in the stomach. Shah-Rais had received assassinationattempt warnings from other Iraniansliving in the U.S. plus telephoneddeath threats.

31-Jul-80 Athens Greece ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms2 2 GREECE. The Armenian Secret Armyclaimed responsibility for the slayingof a Turkish diplomat and hisdaughter in Athens. Gunmen firedrepeatedly into the back window ofthe car where Jalipe Ozmen and hisfamily were sitting. The wife and sonof the diplomat were wounded.

1-Aug-80 WestBerlin


Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Two staff members of the Iraqiembassy in East Berlin were arrestedin West Berlin and charged withattempted murder, preparing anattempted bomb attack and illegalpossession of firearms. The twodiplomats were without diplomaticstatus in West Berlin. First SecretaryKhalid J. Jaber and embassytechnician Hay-Ali Mahmoud werearrested after they handed a suitcaseof explosives to accomplicesplanning to blow up a youth centerwhere a Kurdish students' congresswas being held with about 100participants. At the request of theWest German authorities, the WestBerlin Senate dropped the chargesand deported the two diplomats,presumably to preserve relationswith Iraq.

6-Aug-80 Valleta Malta Unknown Explosives0 0 MALTA. A bomb was found by policein front of the Libyan Arab Airlinesoffice in Valletta. The bomb had afaulty fuse and failed to explode.

6-Aug-80 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The leftist PeoplesRevolutionary Struggle assumedresponsibility for a homemade bombthat damaged the Athens offices ofShell Petroleum (Oil). There wasdamage but no casualties werereported.

6-Aug-80 Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Offices of British Petroleum(oil) were bombed by the LeftistPeoples Revolutionary Stuggle. Theblast coincided with one at theoffices of Shell.

7-Aug-80 France Amal Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An attack against abookseller's home was discovered tobe in error when the Committee forSafeguarding the Islamic Revolution,(Comite de sauvegarde de larevolution islamique) heretoforeunknown, claimed credit for the act.The bookseller's only crime was inhaving the same name as aresearcher who had participated inthe work on the nuclear researchreactor Osirak sold by France to Iraq.The Committee claimed the bombingwas in protest that he received theLegion of Honor by making atomicweapons and we have given himwhat he deserved for his workagainst our revolution. We areconcerned about all collaborators inthe renegade regime of Iraq.Thebombing followed a meeting in whichthe French Prime Minister reassuredIraq's ambassador that France woulddeliver both the research reactorsand the highly-enriched uraniumwhich Iraq insists on using as fuel.The French are developing a lower-enriched fuel but Iraq will not acceptit.The Committee was involved inother actions on that same day. Abombing in Italy was claimed by thesame group. Several telephonethreats were received by someFrench scientists and by companiesparticipating in construction of thereactors. One manager was told, Ifyou continue to make atomicweapons, that will lead to trouble foryou and your qualified personnel.

7-Aug-80 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. In Rome, a bomb assault tookplace against the SNIA-Techint. Thedamage was devastating. Thecompany had furnished Iraq withnuclear technology. The attack wasclaimed by the Committee for theDefense of the Islamic Revolution(Comite de sauvegarde de larevolution islamique). On the sameday in France another bombing wasclaimed by this Committee. (SeeFrance, August 7, l980) (LE MONDE,8/9/80)

16-Aug-80

TegucigalpaHonduras Other Firearms0 0 HONDURAS. Nine young leftistswaving pistols raided the office of theOrganization of American States inTegucigalpa and took 12 hostages,including 2 Chilean colonels. Theyidentified themselves as members ofthe previously unknownRevolutionary Union of the Peopleand said they were protestinggenocide by the Honduras armyagainst Salvadoran peasants fleeinginto the country the previous May.Said to be dissident members of theoutlawed Honduran CommunistParty, the militants demanded anend to alleged complicity betweenHonduran and Salvadoran troopsagainst Salvadoran refugees. Theydemanded official refugee status forabout 4,000 Salvadorans now inHonduras. They also demanded thatthe Honduran government decree abroad and unconditional amnesty forall political prisoners, and issued acommunique of solidarity with theSalvadoran leftist struggle.

20-Aug-80

Berkeley UnitedStates

Other Explosives2 0 UNITED STATES. A meeting of theIranian Students Association inBerkeley was bombed resulting intwo injuries. The Iranian StudentsAssociation is a pro-Khomeini groupclaiming over one thousandmembers. Two persons claiming tobe from the Iranian Liberation Armytelephoned a warning to policesaying they did not want Americansto be injured by a blast. Aspokesman for the Iranian StudentsAssociation stated that the IranianLiberation Army is made up of pro-shah supporters, SAVAK agents, andpeople who back (former primeminister) Bakhtiar.

24-Aug-80

JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded at aJerusalem gas station injuring threepeople. A Palestinian militaryspokesman claimed credit for theincident over the Voice of Palestineradio station.

28-Aug-80

Beirut Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Firearms0 0 LEBANON. U.S. Ambassador JohnGunther Dean escaped unharmedafter gunmen in a speedingautomobile attacked his bulletprooflimousine as he was leaving hisHazmieh residence in a convoy. Theensuing battle between theambassador's bodyguards and thegunmen left the embassy cardemolished on the passenger side,glass shattered, and tires flat. TwoLebanese suspected of being linkedto the assassination attempt weretaken into custody for questioning.The attack came just hours afterDean said the United States wasworking with Israel and the UnitedNations to end the violence amongChristian militiamen and Palestinianguerrillas in southern Lebanon. Deanhad also created an uproar in Augustwhen he condemned an Israeli raidon Palestinian guerrilla strongholds inthe area. Responsibility for the attackwas later claimed by the Front for theLiberation of Lebanon fromForeigners, a shadowy right-winggroup.


GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. The U.S. Embassysustained a machine gun attack froma moving car in the early morninghours. There were no injuries; luckilyno employees were present and thesecurity guards were the onlywitnesses. There was considerabledamage to the building; theattackers were not identified.


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Anti-CastroCubans

Unknown0 1 UNITED STATES. Omega-7assassinated Felix Garcia Rodriquez,a chauffeur for the Cuban Mission tothe United Nations, as he drove hiscar along a busy thoroughfare in theQueens section of New York City.This was the first murder of a U.N.official in the 35-years existence ofthe organization.

11-Sep-80 Lisbon Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. The Chilean Embassy inLisbon, Portugal, was bombed,causing considerable damage but noinjuries. Dynamite was used.


ElSalvador


Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. The GuatemalanEmbassy was the scene of a shootoutbetween policemen guarding theembassy and members of thePeople's Liberation Front (FPL).There were no casualties.


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Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. New York. A busyarea of Queens was the scene for anearly evening ambush of a Cubanattache with the United Nations.Callers to newspapers later claimedthe act for Omega-7, an anti-Castroterrorist organization. They alsowarned that the Cuban ambassadorto the United Nations would be next.The attache died instantly at thewheel of his car, apparently shot by asniper from a nearby cemetery.Investigators found that the edges ofhis license plates had been bent,perhaps for positive identification bythe attacker. Listed as a Cubanattache, he performed administrativeduties for the most part. Thisincident may have marked a changein tactics for Omega-7--frombombings to murders.


GuatemalaUnknown Explosives2 0 GUATEMALA. Unidentified persons ina moving car threw a grenade at theNicaraguan Embassy during the nightand injured two policemen. Theembassy was providing diplomaticasylum to several persons. Theembassy compound was damaged aswas the Nicaraguan ambassador'scar.

16-Sep-80 ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Left-wing guerrillasfired several Chinese-manufacturedantitank rockets at the U.S.Embassy, slightly damaging a third-floor office. The People'sRevolutionary Army (ERP) claimedcredit for the attack. The rocketswere fired from a building about 50yards away from the embassycompound. The attack took place atlunch time when most employeeswere out of the building. There wereno casualties.

17-Sep-80 ElSalvador

Other Firearms0 1 EL SALVADOR. Eighteen leftistguerrillas led by a woman shot theirway into the Organization ofAmerican States local offices, killinga guard, seizing the building andtaking eleven hostages to demandan end to Salvadoran governmentrepression against leftistsympathizers. They also demandedthe release of political prisoners.Government troops in tanks ringedthe mission and then pulled back toallow negotiations to take place. Theguerrillas were members of theRevolutionary Democratic Front. Thehostages included the OAS delegatefrom Nicaragua, as well as 10 otherdiplomats and OAS employees. Onthe fifth day negotiations startedwith a representative of the OASfrom Washington. On the 10th dayan OAS assistant director wasreleased due to his cardiac condition.On the 11th day, September 28, theleftists freed the remaining hostages.The OAS special envoy stated heconvinced the leftists that thegovernment of El Salvador promisedto investigate the status of allegedpolitical prisoners and thedisappearances of hundreds ofleftists.

17-Sep-80 Asuncion Paraguay People'sRevolutionaryArmy(ERP)

Explosives0 3 PARAGUAY. Exiled formerNicaraguan dictator AnastasioSomoza Debayle was assassinatedwhen a band of men blew up his carwith a bazooka shell, then sprayed itwith sub-machine gun fire on asuburban Asuncion street near hisresidence. Two other people werekilled in the attack, the driver andSomoza's financial adviser. Severalof the assassins were wounded in anensuing gunfight with bodyguards ina following car. The bazooka hadbeen fired from a nearby house,Other assailants attacked from apickup truck which pulled alongsideSomaza's car.Somoza's family of old-style Latin American dictators hadruled Nicaragua for 43 years.President from 1967, Anastasio wastoppled as ruler in July 1979 by theSandinista National Liberation Frontand took up residence in Paraguay.Fearing assassination, Somoza neverleft Paraguay and was always heavilyguarded. Members of theNicaraguan junta expressed joy overhis death but denied directgovernment involvement in themurder. Some sources claim he waskilled by Paraguay revolutionaryforces who did not want the presenceof Somoza to stain their country. Butlater two Argentines were named bypolice as the organizers of the crime.One of them, Hugo Alfredo Yrurzun,an Argentine terrorist with closerelations with the Sandinist guerrillasof Nicaragua, was shot to death whiletrying to escape police. He hadentered Paraguay with a falsepassport and police said he hadmasterminded the plot toassassinate Somoza. Othermembers of the Argentine extremistorganization, the Marxist People'sRevolutionary Army were identifiedas in the group of attackers. Thearms had been smuggled in fromNicaragua. Paraguay broke offrelations with Nicaragua claiming ithad proof of Sandinist involvement inconnection with Argentine terroristgroups.ADD INFO: In October 1995,the leader of Argentina's People'sRevolutionary Army (ERP)(of the1970's), Enrique Gorriaran Merlo wasarrested and stood trial for severaloffences. The assassination ofSomoza was one in which he claimedresponsibility.

17-Sep-80 Asuncion Paraguay People'sRevolutionaryArmy(ERP)

Explosives0 3 PARAGUAY. Exiled formerNicaraguan dictator AnastasioSomoza Debayle was assassinatedwhen a band of men blew up his carwith a bazooka shell, then sprayed itwith sub-machine gun fire on asuburban Asuncion street near hisresidence. Two other people werekilled in the attack, the driver andSomoza's financial adviser. Severalof the assassins were wounded in anensuing gunfight with bodyguards ina following car. The bazooka hadbeen fired from a nearby house,Other assailants attacked from apickup truck which pulled alongsideSomaza's car.Somoza's family of old-style Latin American dictators hadruled Nicaragua for 43 years.President from 1967, Anastasio wastoppled as ruler in July 1979 by theSandinista National Liberation Frontand took up residence in Paraguay.Fearing assassination, Somoza neverleft Paraguay and was always heavilyguarded. Members of theNicaraguan junta expressed joy overhis death but denied directgovernment involvement in themurder. Some sources claim he waskilled by Paraguay revolutionaryforces who did not want the presenceof Somoza to stain their country. Butlater two Argentines were named bypolice as the organizers of the crime.One of them, Hugo Alfredo Yrurzun,an Argentine terrorist with closerelations with the Sandinist guerrillasof Nicaragua, was shot to death whiletrying to escape police. He hadentered Paraguay with a falsepassport and police said he hadmasterminded the plot toassassinate Somoza. Othermembers of the Argentine extremistorganization, the Marxist People'sRevolutionary Army were identifiedas in the group of attackers. Thearms had been smuggled in fromNicaragua. Paraguay broke offrelations with Nicaragua claiming ithad proof of Sandinist involvement inconnection with Argentine terroristgroups.ADD INFO: In October 1995,the leader of Argentina's People'sRevolutionary Army (ERP)(of the1970's), Enrique Gorriaran Merlo wasarrested and stood trial for severaloffences. The assassination ofSomoza was one in which he claimedresponsibility.

26-Sep-80 Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms1 0 FRANCE. The press secretary of theTurkish Embassy in Paris waswounded as he entered his home.Authorities received an anonymoustelephone call claiming the attack forthe Armenian Secret ArmyOrganization. Police discovered theenvoy lying in the street, shot twice,but still conscious. Afterhospitalization, he was pronouncedin satisfactory condition.

27-Sep-80 Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A pipeline that carried oilfrom northern Iraq to theMediterranean was blown up inTurkey. The oil industry reportedthat the attack was carried out byKurdish rebels but leaflets left at thescene claimed credit for the IraqiLiberation Army. The pipeline hasbeen blown up six times since it wasopened and all the attacks havebeen in the Kurdish region of Turkey.This explosion occurred only a fewmiles from the Syrian and Iraqiborders. The resulting fire causedthe halt of the oil flow through thepipeline. The pipelines are the onlyoil outlets still available to Iraq,because of the fighting at the headof the Persian Gulf, since the start ofthe Iran/Iraq war.

29-Sep-80 MauritaniaPolisarioFront

Unknown0 0 MAURITANIA. The Spanish flagfishing vessel Sarita was boarded offMauritania by Polisario guerrillas whokidnapped the crew.

29-Sep-80 MauritaniaPolisarioFront

Unknown0 0 MAURITANIA. The Spanish flagtrawler Costa de Terranova wasboarded off Mauritania by Polisarioguerrillas who kidnapped the crew.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb wasdiscovered and dismantled at theMiami office of American AirwaysCharter, a travel agency bookingflights from the United States toCuba. Omega-7 claimed to haveplanted the bomb.

1-Oct-80 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Iranian Embassy inBeirut, Lebanon, was attackedcausing heavy damage. A series ofrockets tore into the building.

3-Oct-80 ElizabethUnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb, planted byOmega-7, destroyed two homes inElizabeth, New Jersey. No one washurt, though 15 persons were lefthomeless.

3-Oct-80 Milan Italy ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Turkish Airlines (THY)office in Milan, Italy, was bombedcausing some damage but noinjuries. An unidentified personphoned the Rome bureau of theItalian news agency ANSA right afterthe explosion claiming that the bombwas planted by the Secret ArmenianLiberation Army as part of acampaign to stop the flow ofArmenian emigrants to the U.S.

3-Oct-80 Paris France Other Explosives12 4 FRANCE. A massive bomb explosionat a Paris synagogue caused thedeaths of four passersby andwounded 12 others. The street was amass of wreckage. Half an hourlater, the synagogue would havebeen emptying itself of over 300worshippers involved in the sabbathservice.An anonymous phone call toAgence France-Presse claimedresponsibility for a small group of theextreme right--the neo-nazi EuropeanNationalist Fascists. In the previousmonth several anti-semitic attackshad already taken place includingmachine gunning of several Jewishestablishments. Public opinion andthe press attributed this attack to arising wave of anti-semitism from theextreme right within France. Policeimmediately made dozens of arrestsamong members of the named groupand began intensive questioning.The group's leader, MarcFrederikson, already awaiting trial onanother charge, disclaimed thebombing. After interrogating manyof the members and releasing themfor lack of evidence, the police cameupon the author of the phone call.Excited and pleased with himself, the29 year old admitted to the call,adding that he was an agent from aJewish organization infiltrating theFrench neo-nazi group. I wanted toridicule and discredit the EuropeanNationalist Fascists.Subsequentinvestigations, as reported in theFrench press, raised doubts that thebombing was the work of Europeanright-wing extremists. In siftingthrough the debris of the blast,authorities determined the bomb wasattached to a moped, the onlyunclaimed item. From the enginenumber, the moped was traced to anArab, believed to be a Palestinian,who had entered the country on afalse passport along with four otherknown Palestinians. With his falseidentification he rented a car untilOctober 4 (the day after thebombing.) The car was later foundabandoned. The five Palestinians,identified as members of a hard-linebranch of the PLO, were laterdiscovered to have left the countryon board a flight

4-Oct-80 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The grounds of the SaudiArabian Embassy in Beirut werebombed. There were no injuries.The explosion was caused by a stickof dynamite tossed from a passingcar. A pro-Iranian group claimedresponsibility.

4-Oct-80 Manila PhilippinesOther Explosives7 0 PHILIPPINES. Several hotels,including the Peninsula Hotel, theMarlim Mansion Hotel, the CenturyPark Sheraton, and the PhilippinePlaza, were bombed in a terroristattack by the April 6 LiberationMovement, which is calling for theoverthrow of the regime of PresidentFerdinand E. Marcos. The bombingappeared to be part of a campaign todiscourage foreign tourism in whichfour luxury hotels were attacked andat least 7 people were injured. TheApril 6 group, in a statement, saidthe bombings were to inform Mr.Marcos that he can no longer controlthe people's anger and to servenotice to all foreign tourists not totravel to the Philippines.



4-Oct-80 Manila PhilippinesOther Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Several hotels,including the Peninsula Hotel, theMarlim Mansion Hotel, the CenturyPark Sheraton, and the PhilippinePlaza, were bombed in a terroristattack by the April 6 LiberationMovement, which is calling for theoverthrow of the regime of PresidentFerdinand E. Marcos. The bombingappeared to be part of a campaign todiscourage foreign tourism in whichfour luxury hotels were attacked andat least 7 people were injured. TheApril 6 group, in a statement, saidthe bombings were to, inform Mr.Marcos that he can no longer controlthe people's anger and to servenotice to all foreign tourists not totravel to the Philippines.

5-Oct-80 Madrid Spain ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives12 0 SPAIN. In Madrid, the office ofAlitalia was bombed by a groupcalling itself the Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia. Althoughphysical damage was minimal, 12persons were injured. The bombexploded at a time calculated toinjure a large number of people.

6-Oct-80 LosAngeles

UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. The home ofTurkish Consul General Kemal Arikanwas slightly damaged in Bel-Air,California, when two Molotovcocktails were thrown at a garageattached to his house. No one wasinjured and the Los Angeles FireDepartment said only one of thehomemade bombs exploded. Policesuspected an Armenian organizationresponsible for several bombingsagainst Turkish targets. However,Harout Sassounian, 21, a LebaneseArmenian living in the United States,was eventually indicted in 1982 by afederal Grand Jury for the attack. Hewas found guilty of the firebombingby a jury in June 1982, andsentenced to six years in prison.

6-Oct-80 Tel Aviv Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 3 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded in a postoffice near Tel Aviv, killing threepeople as the Israeli Cabinet wasdrafting a condemnation of theFriday night bombing of a synagoguein Paris. The PLO claimedresponsibility.

10-Oct-80 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The offices of Iran Airwere bombed in the predominantlyMuslim west Beirut. There were noreports of damage or injuries.

10-Oct-80 Beirut Lebanon Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb directed at aSwiss business exploded in thepredominantly Muslim section ofwest Beirut. The October ThirdOrganization claimed responsibility.

10-Oct-80 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The offices of theJordanian national airlines werebombed in the predominantly Muslimwest Beirut. There were no reportsof damage or injuries.

10-Oct-80 Beirut Lebanon Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A Swiss diplomat's carwas bombed in the predominantlyMuslim west Beirut. The car wasdestroyed. The October ThirdOrganization later claimedresponsibility in a call to Agence-France Presse. There were noreports of injuries.

12-Oct-80 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A group calling itselfMojaheden Saff claimedresponsibility for firing three rocketsat the American Embassy in Beirutduring the night. There were noinjuries and the embassy was not hit.Adjacent buildings sustained minordamage. The pro-Iranian militiagroup said the embassy was targetedfor attack because America supportsIraq in its aggression on Iran.



Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A Turkish Airlinesoffice was bombed in London causingdamage but no injuries. Anunidentified caller said a group calledthe Armenian Secret Army wasresponsible. The caller said thebomb was meant to protest theTurkish goverment's bloody actionagainst Kurds and Armenians. Thebombing might also have beenrelated to bombings in Hollywood,Paris, and an almost simultaneousone in London. Scotland Yard saidthat it would be an extraordinarycoincidence if the two Londonbombings were not related.


UnitedStates

JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Explosives4 0 UNITED STATES. New York. A stolencar parked in front of the TurkishMission to the United Nations wasbombed. Four people were injuredand several other offices weredamaged. A man who said herepresented the Justice Commandosof Armenian Genocide called newsmedia a few minutes after the blastto claim responsibility for thebombing as well as an almostsimultaneous one in Hollywood. Thebombing might also have beenrelated to bombings in London andParis. The caller said the bombingswere in retaliation for the slaughterof Armenian people by the Turks andfor the harassment of Armenians byTurkish people in America.


Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A Swissrestaurant and a shopping centerwere bombed in London causingdamage but no injuries. A caller toseveral news agencies said that theOctober Third Organization wasresponsible. The caller said that Weshall continue attacking Swissinstitutions all over the world. TheSwiss Government knows why. ASwiss spokesman in Geneva said wedon't know what this is about.

12-Oct-80 HollywoodUnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A travel agency inHollywood was bombed, destroyingone building and causing damage toothers. One person was injured. Aman who said he represented theJustice Commandos of ArmenianGenocide called news media a fewminutes after the blast to claimresponsibility for the bombing as wellas for a simultaneous one in NewYork. The bombing might also havebeen related to bombings in Londonand Paris. The caller said thebombings were in retaliation for theslaughter of Armenian people by theTurks and for the harassment ofArmenians by Turkish people inAmerica. The building was owned bya native of Turkey who is now anAmerican citizen. He said, If aterrorist group is claimingresponsibility for this, they arebarking up the wrong tree. I am anAmerican citizen, am a peacefulhuman being. This is probably notaddressed to me, but to Turkishofficials.

13-Oct-80 Paris France Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A Swiss Tourist Office inParis was bombed causing damagebut no injuries. This was the secondbombing in two days aimed at Swissbuildings and possibly the fourthrelated to bombings in which theOrganization of October 3rd, anArmenian terrorist group, claimedresponsibility.

13-Oct-80 Istanbul Turkey Amal Explosives7 1 TURKEY. Four armed Moslemextremists hijacked a Turkish AirlinesBoeing 727 with 155 persons aboard.The jet was bound from Istanbul toAnkara, having originated in Munich.They demanded to be flown toTehran, Iran, but the pilot refused,insisting he had to refuel and couldnot fly to Iran because it had beendesignated as a war zone. Otherdemands were not reported, butduring the hijacking the hijackersannounced that, (the plane) is nowunder the control of the Sheria (theholy Islamic law). They forced thewomen on board to cover their headsIslamic style.The plane landed inDiyarbakir to refuel and the hijackersreleased 40 passengers. The planewas surrounded by Turkish troops.The hijackers set a deadline anddemanded to be flown to SaudiArabia or they would blow up theplane. The Turkish authoritiesrefused to grant any demands andthe deadline passed without incident.At dawn on the 14th, Turkishcommandos cut a hole in the back ofthe plane and entered the aircraft ina flurry of shooting. They usedautomatic weapons with blanks andrevolvers with live ammunition. Latera military communique stated allpassengers were rescued and all fourterrorists were captured. The fourhijackers were wounded in thestorming, as well as six passengersand one flight attendant. Thestatement did not indicate anydeaths but the passengers said theybelieved one hostage was killed.


Other Firearms1 0 UNITED STATES. A Libyan graduatestudent at Colorado State Universitywho had been critical of the Libyanregime was seriously wounded inwhat appeared to be a politicallymotivated execution attempt. FaisalZagallai was to be interviewed for aninterpreter's job; when Zagallai's wifeleft the room, the interviewer shotZagallai with a pistol. He was instable condition later in the hospital.Two days later, JANA, the officialLibyan news agency, reported thatthe shooting was carried out by theWorld Revolutionary Committee andtermed Zagallai an American spy.JANA reported: Zagallai had studiedat the expense of the Libyancommunity for 10 years to obtain alegal degree and doctorate, butinstead of returning to serve hiscountry and people, he became anagent and spy for Americanintelligence, supplying it withinformation about his country.Authorities reported that Zagallai hadreceived threats lately as had otherLibyan students at the university.Zagallai said his assailant appearedto be American and pretended to bea corporate recruiter.Eugene A.Tafoya, a former Green Beret, wascharged with the attempted murderof Zagallai, a vocal opponent ofColonel el Qaddafi, the Libyan leader.He claimed he had acted in self-defense and believed he was workingfor the CIA when he met withZagallai to ask him to refrain from hisopen criticism of Qaddafi. The CIAdisclaimed any association withTafoya. Tafoya fled to Englandwhere he lived for four months on afarm owned by a former Americanintelligence agent, Edwin P. Wilson,who is a fugitive in Libya. FBI agentssuspect that Wilson may have beenresponsible for arranging the attackagainst Zagallai. Wilson was indictedin 1980 on charges of exportingexplosives to Libya to help trainterrorists. The trial of Tafoya beganon November 12. 1981. OnDecember 5, 1981, Tafoya was foundguilty of third degree assault andconspiracy. The conviction carries amaximum sentence of two years.

21-Oct-80 SwitzerlandThird ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A time bomb wasplaced aboard a train enroute fromParis to Interlaken in Switzerland, butfailed to explode. Authoritiesbelieved the bomb was planted bythe October 3 Organization.

21-Oct-80 Manila PhilippinesOther Explosives20 0 PHILIPPINES. A bombing of aconvention of the American Societyof Travel Agents in Manilla injured 20people, 7 of whom were Americans.The bomb exploded during a moviewhich started directly after PresidentFedinand Marcos gave the openingaddress. Marcos and the AmericanAmbassador, who was sitting nearby,were not among those injured. Thebombing led to the issuing of anarrest warrant for 30 people whoMarcos claimed were involved in aplot to destabilize the countrythrough the use of terrorism. Thearrest warrant was issued based onevidence given by a Philippines bornAmerican named Victor Burns Lovelywho as a member of an anti-martiallaw terrorist group, was severelyinjured while assembling a bomb inSeptember. He had since turnedstate's witness. The list of thirtynames included some prominentpolitical figures in the Philippines,including a former senator. Thesenator, who had been injured in aterrorist attack in 1971, denied anyinvolvement in the bombing.Thirteen people believed responsiblewere sentenced on February 11,1982, to four to six months in jail butthe judge said they would be freed intwo weeks because they had alredybeen held more than a year. One ofthose sentenced was Doris NuvalBaffrey, 28, a U.S. resident.


ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. Unidentifiedindividuals machinegunned theNicaraguan Embassy; there were noinjuries.

25-Oct-80 Tel Aviv Israel PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives2 0 ISRAEL. A bus stop near Tel Aviv wasbombed causing minor injuries to twopeople. The Palestine LiberationOrganization (PLO) claimedresponsibility. The bombing wasthought to be an attempt to discreditIsraeli claims that terrorist acts hadbeen halted.

25-Oct-80 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives14 0 ISRAEL. A roadside station on theoutskirts of Jerusalem was bombedinjuring 13 soldiers and 1 civilian.The Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO) claimed responsibility. Thestation is used as a shelter byhitchhikers. The bombing wasthought to be an attempt to discreditIsraeli claims that terrorist acts hadbeen halted.

27-Oct-80 Lisbon Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. The automobile of thehead of the Unified Democratic Frontof Mozambique a clandestineopposition movement, was bombedin Lisbon. The car was destroyed butthere were no injuries. Noorganization claimed responsibility.

29-Oct-80 Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. An anonymous caller toAgence France-Presse claimedresponsibility on behalf of theMaltese Liberation Front for a bombattack on a Libyan gunboat anchoredin the port of Genoa. The bomb wasplaced between the boat's hull andthe dock, apparently by frogmen.The caller stated We will continue ouraction until Malta is free ofimperialist companies from Libya.

30-Oct-80 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb blast at the Turko-American cultural center near Ankaracaused extensive damage but nocasualties. It was the first attack onan American building since themilitary coup in Turkey onSeptember 12.

31-Oct-80 TegucigalpaHonduras Other Unknown0 0 HONDURAS. Unidentified personsattacked the U.S. Embassy inTegucigalpa, but no one was injured.The attack took place at thebeginning of a national radio andtelevision broadcast of the ceremonyduring which Honduras and ElSalvador signed a peace treaty.Members of a previously unknowngroup called Lorenzo Zelaya GuerrillaCommando claimed responsibility.Lorenzo Zelaya was a peasant leaderand former member of the outlawedCommunist Party, who was killed bygovernment troops in 1963.

1-Nov-80 TegucigalpaHonduras Other Explosives4 0 HONDURAS. The Chilean Embassy inTegucigalpa was bombed criticallyinjuring four police guards. TheLorenzo Zelaya Guerrilla Commandoclaimed responsibility.

4-Nov-80 Geneva SwitzerlandThird ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. The Palace of Justice,in Geneva, Switzerland, was bombedcausing considerable damage, but noinjuries. Swiss officials said theybelieve that the bombing is relatedto the arrest of two Armenians whowere injured while making a bomb ina Geneva hotel room, on October 3.

8-Nov-80 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A U.S. military aircraftsupport depot in the Emek district ofAnkara, Turkey, was bombed. Thebombing caused considerabledamage, but no injuries.

10-Nov-80

StrasbourgFrance ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Turkish Consulate inStrasbourg, France was bombedcausing significant material damagebut no injuries. The Armenian SecretLiberation Army and the TurkishKurdish Worker's Party claimedresponsibility. In a telephone call tothe Agence France-Presse office, aspokesman said the blast was a jointoperation and marked the start of afruitful collaboration between the twonatonalist organizations.

10-Nov-80

Rome Italy Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives3 0 ITALY. Two bombings, one at a SwissAirlines office, and one at a SwissTourist bureau, injured 5 people inRome, Italy. The bombings were firstclaimed by the October Third Groupwhich said it was protesting Swissand Italian fascism. However, in acall to Agence France-Presse, theArmenian Secret Liberation Army andthe Turkish Kurdish Worker's Partyclaimed responsibility. They saidthat while they regretted injury toinnocent people, there would bemore attacks against private andpublic establishments in Turkeybecause of growing opposition to thegovernment and in Switzerlandbecause it locks up our militants.

10-Nov-80

Rome Italy Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives2 0 ITALY. Two bombings, one at a SwissAirlines office, and one at a SwissTourist bureau, injured 5 people inRome, Italy. The bombings were firstclaimed by the October Third Groupwhich said it was protesting [Swissand Italian fascism]. However, in acall to Agence France-Presse, theArmenian Secret Liberation Army andthe Turkish Kurdish Worker's Partyclaimed responsibility. They saidthat while they regretted injury toinnocent people, there would bemore attacks against private andpublic establishments in Turkeybecause of growing opposition to thegovernment and in Switzerlandbecause it locks up our militants.

15-Nov-80

Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationArmy

Firearms0 1 TURKEY. Two unidentified gunmenshot down an American Air Forcesergeant as he was leaving home forhis job at a nearby NATO base. Hewas accompanied by a senior airmanwho escaped. Both were in uniform.The sergeant was the first Americanto die in Turkey since a military coupon September 12 which launched anall-out offensive against terrorism.The attack was presumably the workof left-wing terrorists, the TurkishPeople's Liberation Army, in defianceof the announced military crackdownon terrorism.

19-Nov-80

Arhus Denmark Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 DENMARK. Responsibility for a fire ata factory owned by the British consulin Arhus was claimed by a pro-IRAgroup through a series of letterswritten to newspaper editors in thattown. In the letters the anonymousauthor expressed his sympathy forthe IRA and accused the Britishgovernment of murdering the IRAmembers on hunger strike in prison.

19-Nov-80


Explosives0 0 ITALY. In Rome, the offices of theTurkish Airlines were damaged whena powerful bomb exploded. TheArmenian Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia claimedresponsibility for the incident in a callto the Rome office of AP shortly afterthe explosion.

21-Nov-80

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A grenade attack waslaunched against the U.S. Embassyin San Salvador, but wasunsuccessful. The grenade wasthrown from a speeding taxi butexploded before hitting its target,seriously injuring the attacker.

23-Nov-80

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. The home ofUruguayan Consul Julio Gandara wasbombed causing damage but noinjuries. No threats had beenreceived nor did anyone claimresponsibility.

23-Nov-80

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. The home of ArgentineAmbassador Robert Tiscornia wasbombed causing considerabledamage but no injuries. No threatshad been received nor did anyoneclaim responsibility.

23-Nov-80

Hendaye France Other Firearms10 2 FRANCE. Three men machine-gunned a cafe in Hendaye on theFrench side of the Spanish border,killing two and wounding 10. Thecafe is regularly frequented by E.T.A.members, which may have promptedthe attack. The three men took off intheir car and broke through a nearbyfrontier post in Spain. Across theborder, they were held briefly bypolice and then released beforeFrench authorities could even obtaintheir identities, despite urgent phonecalls from France. A presumption isthat the three men had connectionswith the Spanish police, and were, infact, sent on police business.

25-Nov-80

Paris France Unknown Unknown1 2 FRANCE. An unidentified Arabterrorist broke into a travel agency inParis and killed the owner and hiswife and wounded his secretary. Theowners of the agency were Egyptian-born Jews and were sympathetic tothe Camp David Middle East peaceaccords and specialized in organizingtrips between the cities of the twocountries, naming them hopevoyages. The attacker escaped,leaving behind his weapon, whichwas later announced to be of thesame type as that used in the attackon former Iranian Premier Bakhtiarand the slaying of a Syrian exileearlier this year.

25-Nov-80

Geneva SwitzerlandThird ofOctoberGroup

Explosives1 0 SWITZERLAND. An explosion injuredone person and caused lightdamages at the offices of the Unionof Swiss Banks in Geneva. Credit forthe bombing was claimed by theMovement of the Third of October, anorganization of Armenian extremists,which also has claimed credit for thebombing of the Palace of Justice onNovember 4.

1-Dec-80 ManchesterUnitedKingdom


0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A Libyan studentwas found stabbed to death in aManchester apartment. Theapartment had been rented threeweeks earlier by a couple who saidthey were from Libya.

2-Dec-80 GuatemalaCity


Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. The Uruguayanembassy in Guatemala City wasbombed. The People's GuerrillaArmy, the EGP, claimedresponsibility.

3-Dec-80 Brussels Belgium ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Firearms0 0 BELGIUM. The IRA claimedresponsibility for the unsuccessfulshooting assassination attemptdirected at Christopher Tugendhat,Britain's senior commissioner to theEuropean Community. The incidentoccurred at the European CommonMarket headquarters in Brussels.

4-Dec-80 Silwad Israel al-Fatah Unknown0 1 ISRAEL. Muhammed Jaber Mirhal wasmurdered in Silwad. (AM - Fatah)



Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. The SalvadoranEmbassy in Guatemala was bombed,causing serious property damage,but no injuries. A commando groupof twelve men carrying machine gunswarned diplomatic personnel andpassersby to get out before the blast.The People's Guerrilla Army, alsoknown as the EGP, claimedresponsibility in a communique.Members of the Otto Reme CastilloGuerrilla Front planted the bomb ascombative support for the struggle ofthe sister Salvadoran people andtheir mass fronts and to repudiatethe killing of six leaders of theRevolutionary Democratic Front lastweek in El Salvador. The EGPreiterated its unconditional supportof the Farabundo Marti NationalLiberation Front of El Salvador andappealed to all Guatemalan Workersto condemn the repressionunleashed by the Salvadoran militaryjunta.

5-Dec-80 Marseille France Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An employee of the Swissconsulate in Marseille discovered atime bomb upon arriving for work.The consulate was unoccupied due tothe early hour. A police bomb expertdefused the bomb before it exploded.The bomb was made of sticks ofdynamite activated by asophisticated electronic igniter, butthe timer apparently malfunctioned.The Armenian terrorist group theThird of October is believedresponsible.



Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GUATEMALA. The Salvadoran TacaAirline office in Guatemala City wasfirebombed, causing extensivedamage but no injuries. Officialssuspected that this bombing wasrelated to the earlier bombings of theSalvadoran Embassy.

7-Dec-80 GuatemalaGuerrillaArmy ofthe Poor(EGP)

Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Fifteen men dressed aspolicemen and armed with machineguns entered the apartment of anAmerican factory manager andabducted him. The victim, CliffordBevens, a U.S. citizen, was managerof Ginsa Tire Company, a subsidiaryof Goodyear. Reportedly thekidnappers contacted his relativesand demanded a $10 million ransomfor the Poor People's Guerrilla Army(EGP).For more than seven monthsnothing was heard from him. OnAugust 13, Guatemalan securityforces burst into a suspectedguerrilla hideout, apparentlyoblivious to Bevens' presence there.During the ensuing gunfight Bevensdied along with five guerrillas.

9-Dec-80 SanSalvador

ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Leftists planted abomb at the Israeli Embassy in SanSalvador to show support for thePLO. The bomb exploded causingextensive damage but no injuries.The attack was claimed by thePeople's Revolutionary Army. Thespokesman for the group said theembassy was bombed because Israelis Zionist and racist, and to showsupport for the PLO and the peoplesof Africa, Asia and Latin America.

10-Dec-80

Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Washington, D. C.An unexploded bomb was discoveredat the Palestine Information Office(PIO), the PLO's unofficial embassy,after UPI received a letter in Hebrewtaking credit for an expectedexplosion on behalf of a previouslyunknown group, Hatikva Leumi (Hopeof the Nation).

12-Dec-80

Paris France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Front for the NationalLiberation of Corsica (FNLC) bombeda U.S.-owned oil storage tank outsideof Paris. The FNLC bombing teamapparently approached theinstallation during the night from theSeine River by boat, cut through aperimeter fence, placed theexplosive charge attached to atiming device next to the tank andmanaged to get away unnoticed.Damage is estimated at severalhundred thousand dollars. (RisksInternational, Inc., ExecutiveAssessment, Oct-Dec 1980)

14-Dec-80

Zarit Israel al-Fatah Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. One attacker was killed and2 others captured by an army patrolwhich intercepted them at Zarit. (AM- Fatah)

15-Dec-80


Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Two explosivedevices were placed in front of theFrench tourism office in London bymembers of an extremist Armeniangroup. A Scotland Yard bomb squadwas able to disarm the bombs beforethey detonated, having been alertedby an anonymous phone call. Thecaller claimed the bombs were awarning to French fascism which hesaid had contributed to an inquiryinto attacks in Geneva in the name ofArmenian nationalists.

15-Dec-80

Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. Unknown persons made twodynamite attacks against theChinese Embassy. There was somedamage but no injuries. There havebeen several other dynamite attacksin the country; about 100 haveoccurred since July. There have alsobeen several slogans paintedthroughout the city of Lima, wherethe embassy is located, insulting theChinese government and supportingMao's widow who is on trial.

15-Dec-80

Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A Colombian airlinerhijacked by seven members of the M-19 group was taken across theCaribbean to Cuba and returned toBogota with 51 passengers and crewmembers. The hijackers used pistols,hand grenades, and bombs. Thehijacking of the Avianca Boeing 727was an apparent attempt to disrupt anine nation Latin American summit inColombia. The plane landed inHavana after stops in four othercities, during which some of thepassengers were released. Thehijackers surrendered to Cubanauthorities.

17-Dec-80

Sydney Australia JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Firearms0 2 AUSTRALIA. Two gunmen on amotorcycle shot and killed theTurkish consulgeneral and hisbodyguard in Sydney. The JusticeCommandos of the Armeniangenocide claimed responsibility forthe assassinations in a phone call toa news agency. The woman callerwho had a foreign accent, added thatthe Justice Commandos have noconnection with the so-called SecretArmenian Army. She said that hergroup's revolutionary movementbegan in 1975 with attacks againstTurkish targets and would continue.The consul, Sarik Ariyak, hadreceived a death threat that day, andtook it seriously enough to swap carswith his bodyguard. Themotorcyclists opened fire on thebodyguard, then realizing they hadnot hit their intended target, caughtup with Mr. Ariyak's fleeing car andfired several shots through thewindshield, killing him instantly. Noone was apprehended. In theirphone call to the newspaper, theassassins said they would continue toattack Turkish diplomats and Turkishinstitutions.

18-Dec-80

TegucigalpaHonduras Other Firearms1 1 HONDURAS. Three men and twowomen, armed with submachineguns, abducted Paul Vinnelli,president of the Chase-Manhattanowned Atlantida Bank, during theday in downtown Tegucigalpa.During the struggle, the kidnapperskilled Vinnelli's driver and woundedhis bodyguard, and then forced theexecutive into a car bearing officiallicense plates. Vinnelli is consideredHonduras' most powerful banker. Noone has claimed responsibility for thekidnapping, and no ransom has beendemanded.

19-Dec-80

Erlangen FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Firearms0 2 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Aformer Israeli officer and aide decamp of General Moshe Dayanduring the fight for IsraeliIndependence, Shlomo Levin, wasshot to death in his home inErlangen, near Nuremberg. Alsokilled was his companion FridaPoshke. Since moving to WestGermany in 1960, Lewin had becomea leader of Nuremberg's Jewishcommunity. Investigators ruled outrobbery and said the killers couldprobably be found among theenemies of Israel and were politicallymotivated.

25-Dec-80


Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. Some 20 armed menentered the Naturista Institute, ahealth food company also known asthe Adventist National Institute, andkidnapped its director of 7 years.The victim, Long Cummings, is a U.S.citizen and a naturopath. Hiskidnappers forced him immediatelyout of the building and into a pickuptruck. An envelope was left behindwith the letterhead of the People'sGuerrilla Army. Later in January of1981 he was released. His companyreported the guerrillas haddemanded $10 million in ransom forhis return.

25-Dec-80

Zurich SwitzerlandThird ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Authorities creditedthe Third of October Group of theArmenian Secret Liberation Army(ASALA) with a bomb explosion whichdestroyed a radar monitor at KlotenAirport (Zurich). A second bomb onthe main runway was defused byexplosives experts.

25-Dec-80

Zurich SwitzerlandThird ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Authorities creditedthe Third of October Group of theArmenian Secret Liberation Army(ASALA) with a bomb explosion whichdestroyed a radar monitor at KlotenAirport (Zurich). A second bomb onthe main runway was defused byexplosives experts.

26-Dec-80

Point-a-Pitre

GuadeloupeOther Explosives2 0 GUADELOUPE. A bomb planted in anairport luggage locker at Point-a-Pitreexploded a few hours beforevacationing French PresidentD'Estang and his family were to passthrough. The bomb injured oneChilean tourist and a cleaner, andcaused considerable damage. Theattack was attributed to the ArmedLiberation Group of Guadeloupe(GLA), which is believed to havestrong ties to Cuba.

27-Dec-80

Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The French Embassy onWest Beirut's Rue Clemenceau wasshelled in the night with rockets. Anunknown group calling itself theMujaheddin- Saff (The Warrior'sRank) claimed responsibility for theattack to protest France's granting ofasylum to Shahpour Bakhtiar, theformer premier of Iran.

28-Dec-80


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A small bombexploded in the doorway of theLondon offices of Libyan ArabAirlines, causing a small fire but noinjuries.

29-Dec-80

Madrid Spain Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives5 0 SPAIN. A newspaper reporter wassaid to be in serious condition after abomb planted in a telephone boothhe was using exploded and blew offboth his legs. The man had come tothe scene to investigate an explosionat the Swissair airline office whichhad taken place shortly before, andwas using the phone booth to reportto his newspaper. The second bombwas directed at the TWA airlineoffice. The two explosions wereclaimed by the October Third group,a secret Armenian organization, in aphone call to the press. The callertermed the attacks retaliation for ascheme planned by Americanintelligence against a defense lawyerfor Armenians who was assaulted inGeneva several days ago. A total ofseven people were injured in theattacks.

29-Dec-80

Madrid Spain Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives2 0 SPAIN. A newspaper reporter wassaid to be in serious condition after abomb planted in a telephone boothhe was using exploded and blew offboth his legs. The man had come tothe scene to investigate an explosionat the Swissair airline office whichhad taken place shortly before, andwas using the phone booth to reportto his newspaper. The second bombwas directed at the TWA airlineoffice. The two explosions wereclaimed by the October Third group,an Armenian organization, in a phonecall to the press. The caller termedthe attacks retaliation for a schemeplanned by American intelligenceagainst a defense lawyer forArmenians who was assaulted inGeneva several days ago. A total ofseven people were injured in theattacks.

30-Dec-80

Biarritz France Other Explosives0 1 FRANCE. A leader of the Basqueseparatist organization E.T.A. wasassassinated in Biarritz, in the southof France. Jose Martin Sagardia, a29-year old Spaniard, died instantlywhen a bomb attached to theaccelerator of his car detonated. Theassassination appeared to be thework of a Spanish parallel policegroup operating in southern Francewhich E.T.A. members use as asanctuary between operations in thenearby Spanish Basque region.France has registered protestsagainst such cross- borderoperations, while Spain maintainsthat the French authorities have notbeen cooperative in extraditingknown E.T.A. killers. In Madrid,officials said Sagardia had beensought for killing three members ofSpain's national police.

31-Dec-80

Nairobi Kenya PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives85 15 KENYA. The historic Norfolk Hotelwas bombed on New Year's Everesulting in considerable damage andmany casualties. Fifteen peoplewere killed, including two Americans,85 were injured, and half the hotelwas destroyed. The Norfolk Hotel,built at the turn of the century whenthe British were building a railroadfrom the Indian Ocean to Kampala,Uganda, attracted many famousworld travelers, writers, and biggame hunters. The owners aremembers of a Kenyan Jewish family.Kenyan officials suspect the bombingto be revenge against Kenya by thePalestinians for aiding the Israelicommando team that rescuedhostages hijacked by Palestinians toEntebbe airport in neighboringUganda in July 1976. Their chiefsuspect is a Moroccan national whoarrived December 23 in Nairobi andinsisted on a room directly over thedining room where New Year's Evefestivities would be held. It wasdiscovered later that he had boardeda plane for Saudi Arabia severalhours before the explosion. He wasalso identified as a member of thePopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine (PFLP), the terrorist groupthat masterminded the Entebbehijacking. Both the PFLP and the PLOdenied any involvement in the hotelbombing.



Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. 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. In November of 1987Vicken Tcharkhutian, a member ofASALA, admitted to having takenpart in this extortion/bombingscheme.

1-Jan-81 Limassol Cyprus Other Explosives1 0 CYPRUS. A car bomb explosion inLimassol maimed Hamid Hindi, 52, aSyrian editor and publisher who onceserved briefly in his nation's Cabinet.Police arrested a man with aCanadian passport as a suspect. Hehad been seen loitering suspiciouslyoutside Hindi's home a few hoursbefore the explosion. Authoritiesidentified the suspect as MosheAntoine Bavli, an Israeli of Frenchorigin and a Swiss resident. There isspeculation in the press that he is inreality an Israeli agent, avenging theNew Year's Eve bombing of theJewish-owned hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.The Kenyan government hadaccused a Moroccan citizen who wasalso a member of the Popular Frontfor the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),and it is presumed that the carbombing was a swift move by theIsraeli secret service to attack thatorganization. Hindi, during his time inthe Syrian cabinet, was consideredone of the founders of the PFLP.

2-Jan-81 BuedingenFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Black Bloc terrorist association,formed to support the Red ArmyFaction, is believed responsible foran attack on two U.S. Armyhelicopters in Buedingen.


ElSalvador

Other Firearms0 3 EL SALVADOR. Unidentified gunmenassassinated two American laborlawyers and a high-rankingSalvadoran agrarian reform official inthe dining room of the SheratonHotel in San Salvador. While havingcoffee after dinner, the three weregunned down in their seats. Thegunmen left the hotel by way of thecrowded main lobby. The victimswere identified as Jose Rodolfo Viera,president of the AgrarianTransformation Institute, and MarkPearlman and Michael Hammer, bothlawyers for an auxiliary of the AFL-CIO. Pearlman and Hammer, the twoAmericans slain, were with the U.S.-supported American Institute for FreeLabor Development, and wereworking under contract advising theSalvadorans on their land reformprogram. Since its inception inMarch 1980, the reform program hasbeen under fire by both politicalextremes: the right, because it hastaken land away from some of thecountry's wealthiest families, and theleft, because it attempts to takemuch of the steam out of theirMarxist promises.In April, authoritiesarrested Ricardo Sol Meza, one of thewealthiest men in El Salvador, afterhe was overheard advocating a coupagainst Duarte's civilian-militaryjunta. The day after his arrest, hisbrother-in-law, Hans Christ, whoauthorities believed was alsoinvolved in the coup conspiracy,arrived in Miami, Florida. Manyformer landowners, members of theSalvadoran oligarchy that ruled ElSalvador for decades, have settled inMiami. They have been accused byDuarte and some U.S. officials offunding death squads aimed atmoderate and leftist reformers in ElSalvador. One week later, FBI agentsarrested Christ who was preparing toleave the country for Germany.Christ holds dual citizenship in WestGermany and El Salvador. He washeld in Miami pending extradition. InSeptember 1981, authoritiesreleased Meza for lack of evidencethat he set up the killings of theAmericans.In July 1982, investigatorsin El Salvador secretly reopened aninquiry into the slaying of the two USland reform advisors in anticipationof a review of Salvadoran humanrights progress by President Reagan.The probe was said to have beenreopened with the help of the USEmbassy, the National Guard and ElSalvador's new right-winggovernment.A Salvadoran armyofficer suspected of ordering themurders at the behest of Christ wasfreed by a Salvadoran court for lackof evidence. Lt Rodolfo Isidrio LopezSibrian was ordered released despitetestimony from two national guardcorporals who confessed to thekillings. The corporals alleged LopezSibrian and Capt. Eduardo Avilaordered the murders. The corporalsconfessed to gunning down the threemen and stated that Hans Christ hadwaved them into the room. UnderSalvadoran law, however, thetestimony of anyone accused of acrime cannot be used againstanother. The ruling brought a sharpprotest from the American Embassy.

4-Jan-81 Paris France Other Explosives1 0 FRANCE. A powerful bombcompletely destroyed the Chanelfashion and perfume store in centralParis and an anonymous telephonecaller said the blast was the work ofthe Guadeloupe Liberation Armyseeking independence for the islandfrom the French. There was noimmediate estimate of the damagebut racks of high fashion clotheswere destroyed along with thousandsof bottles of expensive Frenchperfume, as well as the extensivedamage to the building itself. Anight watchman was slightly injuredby flying glass.Guadeloupe, two mainislands and five smaller ones with apopulation of about 335,000, is in theLesser Antilles southeast of PuertoRico. It has been a Frenchprotectorate since 1635, and is nowa French overseas department. Itspeople have the same rights andprivileges as the French and haverepresentation in the Parliament.TheGuadeloupe Liberation Army claimedresponsibility for a series of attackscarried out on the island last year.They recently gave French settlerson the island until the end of 1980 toleave the island. The telephonecaller made a statement for thegroup: We demand the departure ofthe French colonial forces fromGuadeloupe and have begun as ofJanuary 1, 1981, the war of nationalliberation. This morning, in the heartof Paris, French prestige was struck.From now on, we will fight on the soilof the continent for nationalindependence.

13-Jan-81 Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in the carof Ahmet Erdeyli, the financialadviser of the Turkish Embassy inParis. He escaped without injury. Aninvestigation by French officialsshowed that the explosion wascaused by a hand grenade placedunder the front fender of the car. TheAlex Yenikomeshian Commando ofthe Armenian Secret Army claimedreponsibility for the attack (Armenia -stated that diplomat was heavilywounded.)

19-Jan-81 Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. The April 19 Movement(M-19), a leftist guerrilla group, tookresponsibility for the kidnapping ofChester Bitterman, an Americanlinguist. The guerrillas burst into theinstitute, disguised as police officers,looking for the director, Al Wheeler,who was not there. After searchingthe offices and questioning theworkers, they took Bittermaninstead. A spokesman for theMovement said that they wouldrelease Bitterman when theColombian government agreed toexpel the Summer Institute ofLinguistics. The Institute, known asWycliffe Bible Co. at itsheadquarters in Huntington Beach,California, is regarded by M-19 as aCIA front. Wycliffe is aninterdenominational oranization thattrains workers planning to studyindigenous languages in LatinAmerica. Their specialty isdeveloping alphabets for languagesthat have never been written beforeand translating the Bible. An officialfor the Institute disclaimed anyconnection with the United StatesGovernment. A deadline of February19 was imposed for the expulsion;the deadline was then extended for15 days. The Institute denied theaccusations and refused to yield tothe demands and stated it wouldcooperate fully with the Colombiangovernment in its stand against theguerrillas. In spite of continuingnegotiations with the guerrillas, thesecond deadline passed. After 48days in captivity, Chester Bittermandied at the hands of the leftists. Hisbody was found the day after thedeadline on an abandoned bus. Hehad been shot through the heart buthad been drugged with a heavysedative beforehand. His body wasthen wrapped in an M-19 flag.InMarch, the M-19 named three of itsdissident members as responsible forthe kidnapping and slaying ofBitterman. Leaders of the movementsent a communique to Bogotanewspapers professing innocence inthe murder.

21-Jan-81 CopenhagenDenmark Other Unknown1 0 DENMARK. Danish police reportedthat the Copenhagen manager ofIsrael's El Al Airlines was badlybeaten at his office by an intruderwho painted swastikas over theoffice. Zvi Kedan used a specialsignal to alert the police who tookhim to a hospital where he was too illto tell what had happened.


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Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. New York. A pipebomb exploded in the sub-basementof the New York State Supreme CourtBuilding in lower Manhattan, NewYork, halting trial sessions andforcing over 2000 employees, jurors,lawyers, and others into the street.There were no injuries; the explosiondamaged water pipes and shatteredglass. A caller, identifying himself asa member of the Croatian FreedomFighters, telephoned UPI and warnedthat a bomb would go off somewherein the city. The caller did not identifythe building. He claimed that hisgroup was protesting the Americangovernment's ignorance andapproval of Yugoslavian persecutionof Croatian dissidents. Although afterthe bomb exploded, another caller,identifying himself as a member of aPuerto Rican terrorist organization,claimed responsibility for theincident, investigators thought thebombing was the work of a Croatiangroup due to the type of device used.

26-Jan-81 SanFrancisco

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Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. San Francisco,California. A bomb exploded at anIranian bank in San Francisco,shattering windows and damagingthe wall of the building where theexplosive was planted. No injurieswere reported at the Bank Melli Iranand no arrests were made. A callerfrom the the Jewish Defense Leagueclaimed credit for the attack, statingthat it was in protest for thepersecution of Iranian Jewry. Later aman called the media claiming thatthe American Revenge Committee,formed to take revenge against Iranfor the treatment of the formerhostages, was responsible. Thecaller claimed the group wouldcontinue bombing Iranian targetsand threatened to kill Khomeinisupporters. FBI investigators tookthe threats seriously because thecaller gave certain authenticatorsindicating intimate knowledge of thebombing.

27-Jan-81 Milan Italy Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives2 0 ITALY. The office of Swissair and theSwiss Tourist Office in Milan werebombed. Damage was heavy to theentrances of both offices, windowswere broken in nearby buildings andseveral cars parked outside thebuilding were damaged. Two Italianwomen were injured. In ananonymous phone call to localmedia, October 3, a faction of theArmenian Liberation Army, claimedresponsibility for the bombing.


ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. The NicaraguanEmbassy in San Salvador was shot upand bombed by what was believed tobe rightist gunmen; the mission wasnearly destroyed and several youthswere injured.

3-Feb-81 Lisbon Portugal Unknown Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb exploded infront of the Brazilian embassy inLisbon. There was only minordamage. The Brazilian president wasmaking an official visit to Portugal.

3-Feb-81 LosAngeles

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Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Los Angeles,California. Los Angeles policedismantled a bomb discovered onthe doorstep of the Swiss consulate.A man with a foreign accent hadcalled the Associated Press earlierand warned there was a bomb in thebuilding. Ninety minutes later hecalled again identifying himself asOperation Three, and stating, Wedon't want to explode it ... they haveto release our friend. The editor of anArmenian newspaper published inLos Angeles said it evidently waslinked to the case of an Armeniannationalist being held by Swissauthorities as a suspected terroristbomber. An Armenian group callingitself October 3 has claimedresponsibility for the bombing of anumber of Swiss government andcommercial buildings throughoutEurope in recent months. The grouphas been seeking the release of AlexYenikomeshian, who was with aCanoga Park woman in a Genevahotel when a bomb they wereapparently assembling went off,injuring the woman. The woman,identified as Suzy Mahseredjian, wasreleased by a Swiss court andallowed to return to the UnitedStates after she was accused ofaffiliation with the Secret Army forthe Liberation of Armenia. InNovember, 1987, VickenTcharkhutian admitted in federalcourt that he had built the weaponsused in this attack. Tcharkhutian is amember of ASALA.


ElSalvador


0 2 EL SALVADOR. Leftist guerrillasfirebombed a section of the U.S.-owned Esso Standard Oil compoundin San Salvador in a raid that left twopersons dead and damaged one ofthe buildings. Plant guards beatback the group of young rebels. U.S.companies in El Salvador have beenthe target of frequent attacks byrebels who view the U.S. governmentas the only foreign force propping upEl Salvador's military-civilian junta.

5-Feb-81 Paris France Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives1 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded at the AirFrance airline offices in Paris, causingdamage and injuring one person.Responsibility for the attacks waslater claimed by the 3 OctoberArmenian Nationalism Movement, ina call to Agence France-Presse, whichwas also the target of a false bombalert.

5-Feb-81 Paris France Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives1 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded at theTWA airline offices in Paris, causingdamage and injuring one person.Responsibility for the attacks waslater claimed by the 3 OctoberArmenian Nationalism Movement, ina call to Agence France- Presse,which was also the target of a falsebomb alert.

5-Feb-81 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Three mail bombs,postmarked from Spain, exploded inthe homes of three Romaniandissidents, a writer, a former interiorminister, and an engineer. Theexiled Romanians, writer Paul Goma,former minister Nicolas Penescu, andengineer, Serbran Orasco, eachreceived a package containing twobooks by former Soviet premierKhrushchev, to which explosivedevices were wired. Goma wassuspicious, threw his package intothe bathroom and called the police.A bomb-detonating expert touchedthe package whereupon it exploded;he received slight hand injuries.Penescu was seriously injured in anidentical attack and was taken to thehospital with face, hand, and torsoinjuries. He is a member of theNational Romanian Council in Exile.Orasco, in Cologne, opened hisidentical package and received mildinjuries when it exploded.Thepackages were undeniably from thesame source. In addition, the threeRomanians had all attended theConference on Security andCooperation recently held in Madrid.Presumably, they had been targetedthere during a press conference theyheld afterwards. All three of themwere known for their exposure ofhuman rights violations in their homecountry. Goma stated that he hadreceived numerous death threats inRomanian since his exile three yearsago. He believed the bombs to bethe work of the Romanian secretpolice. French police authorities saythat in their opinion the bombs werenot meant to kill but to intimidate.

5-Feb-81 France Other Explosives1 0 FRANCE. Three mail bombs,postmarked from Spain, exploded inthe homes of three Romaniandissidents, a writer, a former interiorminister, and an engineer. Theexiled Romanians, writer Paul Goma,former minister Nicolas Penescu, andengineer, Serbran Orasco, eachreceived a package containing twobooks by former Soviet premierKhrushchev, to which explosivedevices were wired. Goma wassuspicious, threw his package intothe bathroom and called the police.A bomb-detonating expert touchedthe package whereupon it exploded;he received slight hand injuries.Penescu was seriously injured in anidentical attack and was taken to thehospital with face, hand, and torsoinjuries. He is a member of theNational Romanian Council in Exile.Orasco, in Cologne, opened hisidentical package and received mildinjuries when it exploded.Thepackages were undeniably from thesame source. In addition, the threeRomanians had all attended theConference on Security andCooperation recently held in Madrid.Presumably, they had been targetedthere during a press conference theyheld afterwards. All three of themwere known for their exposure ofhuman rights violations in their homecountry. Goma stated that he hadreceived numerous death threats inRomanian since his exile three yearsago. He believed the bombs to bethe work of the Romanian secretpolice. French police authorities saythat in their opinion the bombs werenot meant to kill but to intimidate.

6-Feb-81 Colombia Other Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Two young gunmen,armed with submachine guns,hijacked a Colombian jetliner andthreatened to kill its crewmembersunless they were flown to Mexico orPanama. The hijackers allowed the60 passengers to disembark but heldthe remaining five crew members ashostages. After an 11-hour siege,the government still refused to honorthe demands. The two hijackerssurrendered to authorities.

6-Feb-81 Beirut Lebanon al-Fatah Firearms0 0 LEBANON. An armed attack on anofficial car of the Iraqi embassy inBeirut was claimed by Eagles of theRevolution.

6-Feb-81 Beirut Lebanon Al-Sa'iqa Unknown0 3 LEBANON. Jordanian Charged'Affaires Hisham Muheissen waskidnapped in Beirut and theabduction rekindled a potentiallyexplosive dispute between Jordanand Syria, since the Jordan officiallived and worked on the western sideof Lebanon, where security is underthe control of Syrian troops of theArab Deterrent Force. Threebodyguards were slain in theabduction of the diplomat and ahousemaid (probably mistaken forhis wife.) Credit for the attack wasclaimed by two pro-Syrian groups.The calls from the Eagles of theRevolution (a unit of al-Saiqa)appeared to be staged; at one pointthey claimed that they had executedMuheissen and hidden his body.Credit was properly due an unknownyouth militia. Leaflets were left atthe scene by the Pan-Arab LeftistOrganization, vanguards ofrevolutionary violence- Lebaneseregion. One of the attackers, acivilian, was found dead in a carnearby. Jordanian leaders wereconvinced that Syrian agents wereresponsible for the kidnapping andwere threatening reprisals if he wasnot returned unharmed. The Syriangovernment denied any complicity inthe incident. A caller who claimed torepresent the terrorists, threatenedto kill the charge d'affaires unlessJordan and Iraq surrender sevenSyrian defectors within 48 hours.However, it was a little-knownMuslim youth militia who releasedthe diplomat on April 14 after holdinghim captive for 67 days. TheNational Confrontation Front said itreleased Muheissen because ofpressure from Damascus.The Augustissue of Risks International ExecutiveAssessment stated that thekidnapping was conducted by thedissident Palestinian group Assifa,led by Abu Nidal.

7-Feb-81 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. Terrorists demandingfreedom for Mao Tse-tung's widowapparently bombed the TaiwanEmbassy in Rome in error, mistakingit for the Chinese Embassy severalblocks away. The crude bomb, madeof about one pound of gunpowder,caused heavy damage but noinjuries. An anonymous womancalled an Italian news agency,identified herself as a member ofOrganized Comrades for FeministPower, and claimed responsibility forthe bombing. Freedom for the 'Gangof Four', she stated to the newsagency. Police described the groupas being made up of extreme left-wing feminists. They were knownfrom a previous incident inDecember 1979 when they claimedresponsibilitiy for the bombing ofpornographic movie houses.

13-Feb-81 Havana Cuba Other Explosives1 0 CUBA. Thirty Cubans, some armedwith machine guns, hand grenades,pistols and knives, seized theambassador and three other peoplein the Ecuadorean Embassy inHavana and demanded politicalasylum and safe passage out of thecountry. A Cuban security guard wasbeaten and his weapons taken beforethe takeover. The invaders were 19men, 4 women, and 6 children.Taken hostage were AmbassadorJorge Perez Concha, Embassysecretary Guillermo Bazante,Embassy counselor Francisco Proano,and Mercedes Vazques, a Cubansecretary at the Embassy. TheEmbassy invaders vowed to remainuntil they were granted safe conductout of Cuba. Cuban authorities saidthey would not give in to anydemands, and diplomatic sourcessaid Ecuador was not prepared tolegitimize the Cubans' actions bygranting them asylum. Cubanofficials claimed that if asked, itsforces would attack the embassy andfree it from the armed anti-socialelements. After 7 days, on March 20,the assailants handed over theirweapons to the hostages whoimmediately left the embassy. Thegroup of Cubans remained, and onMarch 21, the eighth day, they gaveup their bid to emigrate andsurrendered to Cuban troops whostormed the embassy with tear gas.They offered no resistance and therewas no bloodshed. Ecuador deniedthat permission had been given forthe assault, and issued an energeticprotest. The Ecuadorean ambassadorhad promised the group they couldremain in the embassy under itsprotection and care after they gaveup their weapons.Cuba's newsagency reported that 13 dissidentshad been arrested in what theycalled a lightning commando raid.There was no explanation for earlierreports that as many as 30 peoplehad taken over the embassy. Thewomen and children were freed whilethe remaining dissidents were jailed.Reportedly they included severalformer Cuban military officers.Authorities in Cuba stated that at therequest of the Ecuadoreans, thedissidents would not be executed.

16-Feb-81 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The embassy of SouthYemen in Paris was blasted by tworockets which were set in launcherswith timers and fired from thecourtyard of a neighboringapartment house. The perpetratorsclaimed to represent the victims of abomb attack on a Paris synagogue inOctober 1980. An anonymoustelephone call, pamphlets found nearthe embassy, and the wordsRemember Copernic daubed on anearby wall showed that the raid wasintended as a reprisal for the deathof four persons in that bomb blast onthe Rue Copernic. South Yemen wasimplicated because the one manlinked to the affair was traced to analleged Palestinian training camp inthat country. In Aden, the Marxistgovernment accused agents ofimperialism and Zionism for theattack and demanded that theFrench government apprehend thoseresponsible. The blast tore into thefirst floor of the embassy, causingserious structural damage.

19-Feb-81 Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Unidentified gunmen firedon the limousine of PatriarchMaximos V. Hakim, head of theGreek Catholic Church in the MiddleEast and Western Hemisphere,riddling the car with bullets but nothitting the 78-year-old prelate ormembers of his party.

19-Feb-81 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Unknown0 0 SPAIN. In a bid for national attention,three commando groups of hoodedBasque guerrillas kidnapped threehonorary consuls from their homes innorthern Spain. The three menabducted were representatives ofAustria, Uruguay and El Salvador. Inreaction to the alleged torture deathby police of a jailed Basque terroristsuspect, ETA/PM, the political-militarywing of Basque Fatherland andLiberty, demanded that varioussectors of the media should publicizean Amnesty International report onalleged police torture of prisoners inSpain, a report by the Human RightsCommission of the BasqueParliament on alleged mistreatmentof prisoners by police and 18 photosof the separatist guerrilla allegedlytortured to death by police in Madrid.One week later and just five daysafter the attempted rightist militarycoup in the Spanish Parliament, theguerrillas released the consuls anddeclared a cease-fire in its fightagainst the Spanish government inorder to allow political forces to workout problems in the region. Themoderate political wing of the ETAsaid it was asking the ETA militarywing to go along with themoratorium on terrorism. It was notclear whether the separatistsreleased the hostages because theyfelt their demands had been satisfiedor because of the coup attempt.

19-Feb-81 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Unknown0 0 SPAIN. In a bid for national attention,three commando groups of hoodedBasque guerrillas kidnapped threehonorary consuls from their homes innorthern Spain. The three menabducted were representatives ofAustria, Uruguay and El Salvador. Inreaction to the alleged torture deathby police of a jailed Basque terroristsuspect, ETA/PM, the political-militarywing of Basque Fatherland andLiberty, demanded that varioussectors of the media should publicizean Amnesty International report onalleged police torture of prisoners inSpain, a report by the Human RightsCommission of the BasqueParliament on alleged mistreatmentof prisoners by police and 18 photosof the separatist guerrilla allegedlytortured to death by police in Madrid.One week later and just five daysafter the attempted rightist militarycoup in the Spanish Parliament, theguerrillas released the consuls anddeclared a cease-fire in its fightagainst the Spanish government inorder to allow political forces to workout problems in the region. Themoderate political wing of the ETAsaid it was asking the ETA militarywing to go along with themoratorium on terrorism. It was notclear whether the separatistsreleased the hostages because theyfelt their demands had been satisfiedor because of the coup attempt.

21-Feb-81 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives8 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Apowerful bomb exploded in theMunich headquarters of U.S.-financedRadio Free Europe and Radio Liberty,wounding eight people, threeseriously, and causing extensivedamage. The building was almostempty at the time. There were noclues as to the cause but in earlyMarch, two different groups claimedresponsibility: Commando ofCroatian Revolutionaries in Europeand Armed Secret Organization-Execution Group, the former throughletters written in Croatian, the latterthrough a letter written in Polish.

23-Feb-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Unidentified gunmen firedgrenades at the Egyptian embassy ina coordinated attack against theSudanese, U.S. and Egyptianembassies. Egyptian presidentAnwar Sadat had just taken part in ameeting the day before withSudanese president Gaafar Nimeiri,and had made his first move towardsrejoining Arab ranks since the Arab-Israeli peace treaty. There were noinjuries.

23-Feb-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Unidentified gunmen firedgrenades at the Sudanese embassyin a coordinated attack against theSudanese, U.S. and Egyptianembassies. Egyptian presidentAnwar Sadat had just taken part in ameeting the day before withSudanese president Gaafar Nimeiri,and had made his first move towardsrejoining Arab ranks since the Arab-Israeli peace treaty. There were noinjuries.

23-Feb-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Unidentified gunmen firedgrenades at the U.S. embassy in acoordinated attack against theSudanese, U.S. and Egyptianembassies. Egyptian presidentAnwar Sadat had just taken part in ameeting the day before withSudanese president Gaafar Nimeiri,and had made his first move towardsrejoining Arab ranks since the Arab-Israeli peace treaty. There were noinjuries.

24-Feb-81 Rome Italy Other Firearms4 0 ITALY. Four persons were injured bygunmen who fired into a group ofpassengers at the Fiumicino airportin Rome. Security forces at theairport arrested a Libyan and threeAlgerians. The Libyan told police, Iam a guerrilla of the LibyanRevolution and our action wasdirected against an enemy of ColonelQaddafi. He added that the target ofthe shooting was a Libyan doctor,Ada Garief, but airport officials saidno one of that name was listed onthe flight from Algeria. One of thewounded who was a Lebanese citizenwas in critical condition. The otherthree victims were Libyans. The nextday, the Libyan People's Bureau,which has replaced the LibyanMission in Italy, issued a statementdenying any involvement in theshooting.

27-Feb-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 2 LEBANON. Two officials of the Iraqiembassy were murdered while theywere on their way to work. Theywere shot from a passing automobileby assailants reportedly armed withmachine guns. The car wasgenerally used by the ambassador,Abdel Razzak Laftah, who justrecently had asked the Lebanesegovernment for added security forthe embassy and other Iraqiestablishments due to the borderconflict between Iran and Iraq.


ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. The San Salvadoroffices of Citibank were destroyed bya powerful bomb. Several men setthe bomb and escaped in a car.

2-Mar-81 Karachi Pakistan AlZulfikar

Unknown0 1 PAKISTAN. Three armed hijackersseized a Pakistani InternationalBoeing 720 while it was on a flightbetween Karachi and Peshawar, nearthe border of Soviet-occupiedAfghanistan. They were believed tobe members of Al Zulfikar, a group ofpro-Bhutto extremists. Zia ul-Haq,presently in power in Pakistan,became president after topplingPrime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,who was executed in 1979.Thehijackers held 141 people ashostage, including three Americans,two U.S. residents, and 11 crewmembers. The hijackers demandedthat Pakistan release at least 70political prisoners and relatives ofleftists or there would be seriousconsequences. They threatened tokill the passengers one by one andblow up the plane. The plane landedin Kabul, Afghanistan, where onediplomat, Tariq Rahim, was shot andhis body dumped unceremoniouslyon the runway. The shooting tookplace during a beating incident andmay not have been premeditated.Rahim was Pakistan's diplomat toTeheran. He was a former aide toBhutto and suspected of complicity inthe 1977 coup that installed Zia aspresident. The leader of thehijackers, a Pakistani identified lateras Salamullah Khan, said he wasprepared to release the women andchildren if the government ofPakistan would apologize publicly forsaying that he belonged to theoutlawed Pakistan People's Party.Twenty nine hostages--women,children and sick men--were releasedon March 7 in Kabul.Without warning,the plane with more than 100hostages still on board flew toDamascus, Syria, on March 9 wherethe terrorists reopened negotiationswith Syrian officials and Pakistan'sambassador to Syria. Pakistaniofficials had agreed to release only20 political prisoners. On March 12,the Pakistani government agreed torelease 55 prisoners; Libya agreed toreceive the hijackers and thereleased prisoners. In addition, thehijackers also asked for $50,000.The Pakistanis quickly agreed to thatdemand. The leader of the hijackersalso asked that a few members oftheir families be allowed to staybehind in Pakistan to sell any familyhouses or land, with a promise fromIslamabad government that theywould be allowed to leave Pakistanfreely once their holdings had beenliquidated. Once again, thePakistanis agreed.The Pakistaniprisoners were rounded up and puton a plane headed for Libya.Enroute, however, Libya inexplicablyreversed its original acceptance ofthe hijackers. On March 15, after a13-day siege, Syria agreed to givethem asylum with their politicalprisoners. The hijackers surrenderedas the plane returning from Libyawith the 54 political prisoners (onecould not be located) was flown toSyria. There, the hostages werereleased unharmed. The hijackerssurrendered to Syrian authorities.Theadmitted victory for the threehijackers brought a storm of criticismfrom the US and Pakistan for the partplayed in the negotiations by theSoviets and Afghanistan. Someofficials suggested that the Soviets'lack of action could have been fromthe fact that the hijackers, politicalfoes of Zia, were almost certainlysupported by the Soviet-installedregime of Karmal in Kabul. Thisassessment ascertained that not onlydid the Kabul regime support thehijackers' aims, but may havesmuggled automatic weapons aboardthe aircraft when it was in Kabul.Hostages later reported they arrivedwith pistols and left with machineguns.

2-Mar-81 Karachi Pakistan AlZulfikar

Unknown0 1 PAKISTAN. Three armed hijackersseized a Pakistani InternationalBoeing 720 while it was on a flightbetween Karachi and Peshawar, nearthe border of Soviet-occupiedAfghanistan. They were believed tobe members of Al Zulfikar, a group ofpro-Bhutto extremists. Zia ul-Haq,presently in power in Pakistan,became president after topplingPrime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,who was executed in 1979.Thehijackers held 141 people ashostage, including three Americans,two U.S. residents, and 11 crewmembers. The hijackers demandedthat Pakistan release at least 70political prisoners and relatives ofleftists or there would be seriousconsequences. They threatened tokill the passengers one by one andblow up the plane. The plane landedin Kabul, Afghanistan, where onediplomat, Tariq Rahim, was shot andhis body dumped unceremoniouslyon the runway. The shooting tookplace during a beating incident andmay not have been premeditated.Rahim was Pakistan's diplomat toTeheran. He was a former aide toBhutto and suspected of complicity inthe 1977 coup that installed Zia aspresident. The leader of thehijackers, a Pakistani identified lateras Salamullah Khan, said he wasprepared to release the women andchildren if the government ofPakistan would apologize publicly forsaying that he belonged to theoutlawed Pakistan People's Party.Twenty nine hostages--women,children and sick men--were releasedon March 7 in Kabul.Without warning,the plane with more than 100hostages still on board flew toDamascus, Syria, on March 9 wherethe terrorists reopened negotiationswith Syrian officials and Pakistan'sambassador to Syria. Pakistaniofficials had agreed to release only20 political prisoners. On March 12,the Pakistani government agreed torelease 55 prisoners; Libya agreed toreceive the hijackers and thereleased prisoners. In addition, thehijackers also asked for $50,000.The Pakistanis quickly agreed to thatdemand. The leader of the hijackersalso asked that a few members oftheir families be allowed to staybehind in Pakistan to sell any familyhouses or land, with a promise fromIslamabad government that theywould be allowed to leave Pakistanfreely once their holdings had beenliquidated. Once again, thePakistanis agreed.The Pakistaniprisoners were rounded up and puton a plane headed for Libya.Enroute, however, Libya inexplicablyreversed its original acceptance ofthe hijackers. On March 15, after a13-day siege, Syria agreed to givethem asylum with their politicalprisoners. The hijackers surrenderedas the plane returning from Libyawith the 54 political prisoners (onecould not be located) was flown toSyria. There, the hostages werereleased unharmed. The hijackerssurrendered to Syrian authorities.Theadmitted victory for the threehijackers brought a storm of criticismfrom the US and Pakistan for the partplayed in the negotiations by theSoviets and Afghanistan. Someofficials suggested that the Soviets'lack of action could have been fromthe fact that the hijackers, politicalfoes of Zia, were almost certainlysupported by the Soviet-installedregime of Karmal in Kabul. Thisassessment ascertained that not onlydid the Kabul regime support thehijackers' aims, but may havesmuggled automatic weapons aboardthe aircraft when it was in Kabul.Hostages later reported they arrivedwith pistols and left with machineguns.

4-Mar-81 Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms0 2 FRANCE. The Turkish labor attache,Resat Morali, was shot and killed inParis by three terrorists. A religiousofficial, Tecelli Ari, was wounded inthe same incident, and later died inthe hospital. A terrorist organizationcalling itself the Secret ArmenianArmy took responsibility for theincident, which was looked on byauthorities as part of a currentArmenian terrorist campaign againstTurkish diplomats.


ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. Several individuals ina van machine gunned the U.S.Embassy in San Salvador. Therewere no injuries. The attackprompted a public statement fromacting ambassador Frederic Chapinto show support for the currentcoalition government headed byChristian Democrat Jose NapoleonDuarte. Chapin reported that theincident had the hallmarks of right-wing terrorism directed byD'Aubuisson, the ex-major who hasspent months in hiding and is fearedto be mounting a right-wing coupagainst Duarte.

5-Mar-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. The ambassador-select toSyria, an Iranian from the Iranianembassy, was killed in Beirut. Twomen in a vehicle overtook his car andshot him to death. The assassinationwas believed related to the ongoingwar between Iran and Iraq.

5-Mar-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. Three gunmen in aspeeding car and using silencers ontheir weapons shot and killed anIranian student leader as he walkedon a Beirut street. MohammadSaleh, president of the IranianStudent Association, was the secondpresident of the Association to bekilled since the beginning of theIranian-Iraqi war.

6-Mar-81 Lebanon PalestineLiberationFront(PLF)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Israel's defense ministryconfirmed that 2 Palestinians hadattempted to cross into Israel fromLebanon using hang-gliders. Thereport said the two planned to bomban oil refinery in Haifa. However, onewas arrested by the Israelis when helanded near Haifa and the otherglider mistakenly came down inLebanon, was picked up by Haddad'sFree Lebanese Army and turned overto the Jewish state. Later in themonth, the Palestine Liberation Frontclaimed responsibility for theunsuccessful operation, claiming thata unit from the P.L.F. air forceattacked Israeli positions.

8-Mar-81 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A gas station in Jerusalemwas hit by a hand grenade. Therewere no injuries.

10-Mar-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Ambassador John GuntherDean of the United States escapedunharmed from a sniper attack on hiscar as he was riding from theChristian sector of Beirut to theMoslem side. No one was injured.The shooting occurred as PresidentElias Sarkis met President Hafez al-Assad of Syria in Damascus todiscuss continuing political violencein Lebanon. Mr. Dean has varied hisroutes to work since a previousassassination attempt in August1980.


Unknown Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A civil guarddiscovered an unexploded grenadeat the residence of the Nicaraguanambassador, Dr. Javier ChamorroMora.

15-Mar-81 Israel Other Firearms1 0 ISRAEL. Attackers believed to bePalestinian guerrillas machinegunned a bus traveling throughRamot, a Jewish suburb of northernJerusalem. One passenger wasslightly wounded by broken glass.Ramot was built on land captured byIsrael in the 1967 Middle East warand later annexed. It was believedto be the first time guerrillas hadventured into the Jewishneighborhood. A massive manhuntwas launched but the attackersescaped into the surrounding gullies.


ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. Several unidentifiedindividuals opened fire on the U.S.Embassy in San Salvador. Therewere no casualties. The attackseemed to be aimed at the office ofthe ambassador on the third floor ofthe embassy and occurred some 10minutes after a news conference byU.S. Democratic CongressmanClarence D. Long. This was thesecond attack in two weeks.


Other Explosives0 0 COSTA RICA. A bomb went off at adowntown building housing theHonduran Embassy in San Jose,where the offices were damaged butno injuries were reported. TheCommander Carlos AgueroEcheverria Command claimedresponsibility in an anonymousphone call. In addition the caller toldpolice that a bomb had been placedin the presidential palace, but noexplosive device was found. Theterrorists are apparently waging apsychological campaign in CostaRica, making constant telephonecalls to institutions and various newsmedia to announce that bombs havebeen placed. Threats to bomb theimmigration office and the Argentineembassy were found to begroundless.


Other Explosives5 0 COSTA RICA. Terrorists launchedrockets from a speeding car at a U.S.government van carrying marines toguard duty at the American Embassyin San Jose. Three marines and twoother persons were injured. TheCommander Carlos AgueroEcheverria Command, named for aCosta Rican who died fightingalongside Nicaragua's Sandinistguerrillas against the Somozaregime, claimed responsibility andcalled the latest attacks reprisalsagainst American and Honduransupport for El Salvador's civilian-military junta. In late April, three ofthe terrorists were arrested. Theybelong to the Costa Rican groupcalled the People's Avant-GardeOrganization. The organization is atleast two years old and is made up ofcommando groups independent ofeach other.

17-Mar-81 France SpanishBasqueBattalion(BBE)(rightist)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Special anti-Basquecommandos, self-styled strugglersagainst the militant branch of ETA,claimed responsibility for anattempted bombing in the name ofthe Spanish Basque Battalion. Fivekilos of explosives were discoveredunder the car of a militant ETAmember, currently a refugee in theFrench Basque region.

21-Mar-81 France SpanishBasqueBattalion(BBE)(rightist)

Firearms0 0 FRANCE. Three men opened firefrom a speeding car on three SpanishBasques in the French Basqueregion. Everyone fled the scene, butone occupant of the car was arrestedat the border. The shooting wasclaimed by the Spanish BasqueBattalion. There were no injuries.

22-Mar-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Unidentified gunmen in aspeeding car fired automaticweapons at the American Embassy inthe western sector of Beirut;Lebanese guards returned fire. Noone was reported injured nor wasany damage incurred.


ElSalvador


Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. More than a dozenmen in three groups attacked the U.S. Embassy building with machinegun fire and self-propelled grenades,but no one was injured. Two groupsof men each fired on the buildingfrom opposite ends as a diversionarytactic while a third group fired aChinese-made rocket-propelledgrenade which damaged the buildingseverely. The clandestine People'sLiberation Forces (FPL) claimed creditfor the attack with the purpose ofrepudiating the United States' directintervention in the Salvadoranconflict. The charge d'affaires, FrankChapin, was not in the embassy. Hehas been the highest rankingdiplomat in El Salvador sincePresident Reagan removedAmbassador Robert White from theoffice.

27-Mar-81 NicaraguaCinchonerosPopularLiberationMovement

Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. Five hijackerscommandeered a Honduran jetlinerwith 87 passengers aboard shortlyafter takeoff. The New Orleans-bound plane was then directed toNicaragua by the hijackers, wheresome 30 women and children werereleased. The leftists claimed to bemembers of the Cinchonero PopularLiberation Front, a Honduran leftistgroup. They threatened to destroythe plane and its occupants unlessHonduras agreed to release 16Salvadoran leftists from Honduranprisons, including leftist leaderFacundo Guardado. They demandedneutrality of Honduras in theSalvador struggle against itsgoverning junta, and guarantees ofsecurity for 35 Honduran leftistleaders. The prisoners held inHonduras had been arrested inJanuary for alleged illegal armstrafficking-- Honduran authoritiessuspected them of smuggling armsto Salvador leftists. Problems arosein Nicaragua as the hijackers waitedfor a negotiating team to arrive.Hours passed with the loaded planewaiting in the hot sun while theHonduran and Nicaraguangovernments bickered; each claimedthe other was responsible forresolving the crisis. In a complicateddeal, the Panamanian ambassador toNicaragua boarded the plane andtook on negotiations with thehijackers. The Hondurangovernment agreed to release theprisoners if the plane's passengersand crew were released to thecustody of the Panamaniangovernment. The plane was flown toPanama on March 28, where thehijackers surrendered to authoritiesimmediately after touchdown. Thereleased prisoners arrived in Panamaa day later where they remainedwhile applying for political asylum inCuba.

28-Mar-81 IndonesiaKomandoJihad(Indonesian)

Explosives4 0 INDONESIA. Five members of theCommando Jihad, or Holy WarCommand, a group of Muslimextremists dedicated to Iran-styleIslamic revolution, brandishedmachine guns and dynamite as theyhijacked a DC-9 belonging toGarauda Indonesian Airways, with 57passengers including 3 Americans,on a domestic flight over Indonesia.They diverted the plane to Bangkokafter refueling in Malaysia. Therethey presented their demands for therelease of 20 political prisoners heldin Indonesia. Their other demandsincluded the punishment of theIndonesian Vice President forallegedly taking kickbacks from a U.S. aircraft company and theexpulsion of all Jew officials andIsraeli militarists from Indonesia.They also requested $1.5 milliondollars as well. The Indonesiangovernment agreed to all theirdemands but asked for time toassemble the prisoners and find acountry to accept them all. Sri Lankawas requested by the hijackers butthat country refused, saying thecrisis should be resolved elsewhere.The hijackers upped their demandsto 80 prisoners and the Indonesiansagreed. Simultaneously, IndonesianPresident Suharto requestedpermission of the Thai government tosend in commandos and use force tooverpower the hijackers.Reluctantly, Thai officials gavepermission but they still hoped toresolve the issue peacefully.At onetime during the second day of thehijacking, a British passengerexecuted a daring escape from theplane by way of an emergency exit.Another passenger, an American,attempted to duplicate this escapebut was shot in the back during theattempt and was dumped on therunway. A stretcher was sent in andhe was hospitalized. At anotherpoint a crewman was wounded anddumped off the plane when he wascaught making hand signals to arefueling crew. With information fromthe escaped Briton, the Indonesiancommandos set up a daring rescueattempt. Very early on the fourthday of the hijacking, on March 31,the commandos stormed the airlinerand killed four out of five of thehijackers. The pilot and a member ofthe assault team were wounded, butall hostages were freed. It was laterreported that a small military teamtrained in antiterrorist tactics hadbeen flow in from the United Statesto assist the commandos in theirassault. With only one day availableto them, the team gave instructionsin the use of sophisticatedequipment designed especially foruse in commando operations.Members of the team did not takepart in the raid. The survivinghijacker was sentenced to prison onMarch 13, 1982.

28-Mar-81 IndonesiaKomandoJihad(Indonesian)

Explosives4 0 INDONESIA. Five members of theCommando Jihad, or Holy WarCommand, a group of Muslimextremists dedicated to Iran-styleIslamic revolution, brandishedmachine guns and dynamite as theyhijacked a DC-9 belonging toGarauda Indonesian Airways, with 57passengers including 3 Americans,on a domestic flight over Indonesia.They diverted the plane to Bangkokafter refueling in Malaysia. Therethey presented their demands for therelease of 20 political prisoners heldin Indonesia. Their other demandsincluded the punishment of theIndonesian Vice President forallegedly taking kickbacks from a U.S. aircraft company and theexpulsion of all Jew officials andIsraeli militarists from Indonesia.They also requested $1.5 milliondollars as well. The Indonesiangovernment agreed to all theirdemands but asked for time toassemble the prisoners and find acountry to accept them all. Sri Lankawas requested by the hijackers butthat country refused, saying thecrisis should be resolved elsewhere.The hijackers upped their demandsto 80 prisoners and the Indonesiansagreed. Simultaneously, IndonesianPresident Suharto requestedpermission of the Thai government tosend in commandos and use force tooverpower the hijackers.Reluctantly, Thai officials gavepermission but they still hoped toresolve the issue peacefully.At onetime during the second day of thehijacking, a British passengerexecuted a daring escape from theplane by way of an emergency exit.Another passenger, an American,attempted to duplicate this escapebut was shot in the back during theattempt and was dumped on therunway. A stretcher was sent in andhe was hospitalized. At anotherpoint a crewman was wounded anddumped off the plane when he wascaught making hand signals to arefueling crew. With information fromthe escaped Briton, the Indonesiancommandos set up a daring rescueattempt. Very early on the fourthday of the hijacking, on March 31,the commandos stormed the airlinerand killed four out of five of thehijackers. The pilot and a member ofthe assault team were wounded, butall hostages were freed. It was laterreported that a small military teamtrained in antiterrorist tactics hadbeen flow in from the United Statesto assist the commandos in theirassault. With only one day availableto them, the team gave instructionsin the use of sophisticatedequipment designed especially foruse in commando operations.Members of the team did not takepart in the raid. The survivinghijacker was sentenced to prison onMarch 13, 1982.

29-Mar-81 Brussels Belgium Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. The airline office of theYugoslav airline JAT in Brussels wasset afire. Albanian nationalists weresuspected.

29-Mar-81 Giessen FederalRepublicofGermany

Red ArmyFaction(RAF)

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded at a U.S. Armysecurity office in Giessen, 35 milesnorth of Frankfurt, causing about$50,000 damage. No one wasreported injured. Letters claimingresponsibility for the attack linkedthe incidents with supporters of jailedmembers of the Red Army Factionwho were staging a hunger strike atthe time for improved prisonconditions.



Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Attackers threw firebombs throughthe windows of a U.S. militaryemployment office in Frankfurt,causing about $5,000 damage but noinjuries. The attackers also painted afive-pointed star-- symbol of theultraleft Red Army Faction--andDeath to the U.S. Imperialists on awall of the civilian personnel office.


ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives3 0 EL SALVADOR. A bomb demolishedthe San Salvador office of Citibank,shattering windows 200 feet awayand wounding three people. Sixother offices were severely damaged.No group immediately claimedresponsibility. U.S.-based businessesin El Salvador have often beentargeted by the far left.


ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Two Chinese-madeRPG-2 projectiles were fired from amoving vehicle at the U.S. Embassyin San Salvador. The missiles hit anearby building belonging to theFederation of Credit Funds. Therewere no injuries but the building wasdamaged. This was the fourth suchattack on the embassy in the pastmonth.

1-Apr-81 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The French Embassy inBeirut was attacked by rocketsduring the night. The MujaheddinSaff (The Warriors) claimedresponsibility for the attack and saidit was to protest France's sale ofMirage jets to Iraq, with whom theIranians are warring.

2-Apr-81 CopenhagenDenmark JusticeCommandosfor theArmenianGenocide

Firearms1 0 DENMARK. Cavit Demir, the laboradviser at the Turkish Embassy inCopenhagen, was seriously woundedby an unidentified number ofterrorists as he entered hisapartment building elevator. Callersto the Associated Press stated thatthe Commandos of Retribution forthe Armenian Genocide wereresponsible for the attack. Demirsurvived the six bullet wounds hereceived from the attackers.


ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. The U.S. Embassywas machinegunned again--the fifthattack in the past 30 days. Therewere no victims and no organizationclaimed credit. A police patrolguarding the Embassy seemed to bethe target. The attack coincided withthe appointment in Washington ofDeane Hinton as new U.S.ambassador in El Salvador.

5-Apr-81 Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Firebombs exploded underfour automobiles belonging toAmericans assigned to the U.S. AirForce facility at Athens airport. Thebombs were placed under vehicles infour different residential areas of thecity. There were no casualties, onlymaterial damage.

5-Apr-81 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Firebombs exploded underfour automobiles belonging toAmericans assigned to the U.S. AirForce facility at Athens airport. Thebombs were placed under vehicles infour different residential areas of thecity. There were no casualties, onlymaterial damage.




GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A bomb exploded atthe home of British Consul Michael J.Wilmshurps in Guatemala Citywithout causing property damage orharm to anyone. Nobody claimedresponsibility for the attack.


ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. The U.S. Embassywas attacked by unidentifiedindividuals for the sixth time in thepast month. Eyewitnesses near theembassy reported that guerrillasfired heavy-caliber weapons at thebuilding for several minutes.Embassy security forces pursued theattackers and presumably woundedone of the guerrillas.

15-Apr-81 GuatemalaOther Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. Protection has beenstepped up at oil wells operating inthe country's northern provincessince recent attacks by leftistguerrillas. The latest attack was atthe oil plant in Alta Verapz Province.The assailants placed explosives incertain plant installations whichbelong to the French company ELFAquitaine, resulting in propertydamage and the interruption of plantoperations.

16-Apr-81 WiesbadenFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Anine-pound bomb was discoveredand defused at a military communitycenter on the U.S. Air Force base inWiesbaden. Sigurd Debus, a jailedleftist member of the Red ArmyFaction died from a two-monthhunger strike on the same day.

16-Apr-81 Lebanon PalestineLiberationFront(PLF)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Israeli troops shot downand killed two young Palestinianguerrillas who were attempting tocross the border into Israel using ahot- air balloon. The attempt wasclaimed by the Palestine LiberationFront. Israeli spokesmen said theballoon was carrying arms andexplosives. The balloonists carrieddocuments stating their mission wasto seize hostages and demandrelease of 15 Israeli-held guerrillas,including two who had tried to crossthe border on hang-gliders in earlyMarch.


GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. The Japanese Embassyin Guatemala City was attacked byunidentified gunmen. The embassywas vacant save for police guards onduty.

24-Apr-81 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A homemade bombexploded at an electrical applianceshop in Athens causing slightdamage to the show window. Twoother homemade bombs werediscovered planted outside othershops; these bombs were defused bypolice explosive experts. All threeshops sold West German electricalproducts. An organization known asthe Revolutionary People's Armyclaimed responsibility. According toa telephone call to Athens papers, anunidentified person said the terroristactivities were carried out to protestthe recent death, following a hungerstrike, of West German anarchistSigurd Debus.





29-Apr-81 RubelsaltoGuatemalaOther Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. For the second time ina month guerrillas have attacked theFrench oil-drilling company inRubelsalto owned by ELF Aquitaine.Saboteurs planted and detonatedexplosives at the pipeline used totransport the pumped crude oil. Thecompany is carrying out thenecessary repairs to reestablishnormal production.

1-May-81 Vienna Austria Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 1 AUSTRIA. Vienna city councilman,Heinz Nittel was assassinated by aPalestinian gunman. Nittel was alsohead of the Austrian-IsraeliFriendship Society. Some sourcesstated that Nittel had beeninstrumental in arranging a secretmeeting between Israel and the PLO.The Fatah Revolution Committee, orAl-Assifa, headed by Abu Nidal andwhich takes a hard-line stance withIsrael, claimed responsibility for thekilling in an Austrian news magazineinterview.Husham Rajih, a Jordaniantraveling on an Iraqi passport, wasapprehended in Salzburg after anattack on a synagogue in August atwhich time he admitted to Austrianpolice that he had acted for the hard-line Abu Nadal group. Rajih admittedshooting the Vienna councilor outsidehis home. In his apartment policediscovered firearms, explosives andthe passports of two of thesynagogue attackers. Themastermind of the murder was BahijMohammed Younis, also picked up inSalzburg, who told the court at histrial that he was a member of aPalestinian group called Harkat Fatahand was the victim of a dissidentPalestinian group called Al-Asifahthat, he said, often blamed othermovements for crimes it committed.In January 1982, the two synagogueattackers were brought to trial. Bothwere sentenced to life imprisonmentfor the incident, and Rajih for hisinvolvement in the Heinz Nittelmurder as well.

2-May-81 Brussels Belgium Other Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. There was a bomb attackagainst the Yugoslav Office ofTourism. The attack has beenblamed on the Albanianindependence movement which hasclaimed responsibility for many ofthe bomb attacks perpetrated inBrussels against Yugoslavs sinceMarch.

2-May-81 Bolivia Other Firearms0 0 BOLIVIA. Armed members of theBolivian Socialist Falange (FSB) ledby former presidential candidate,Carlos Valverde Barbery, took overan oil refinery owned by the localsubsidiary of the U.S. OccidentalPetroleum at La Tita, some 200 kmfrom Santa Cruz. They held 52hostages, including a U.S. technician.They presented their demands to thegovernment threatening to blow upthe refinery and oil and gas fields inthe region. Among other things theywere demanding the resignation ofBolivia's President, General LuisGarcia Meza within 48 hours.Government forces surrounded theplant and after 48 hours stormed therightists inside. The plant wassuccessfully retaken without anyharm being done to the hostages,but several soldiers were injuredincluding a division commander,apparently by one of his own soldierscarelessly handling a machinegun.The government claimed after thetakeover that the plant had beenmined in strategic locations. Thiswas later denied by Barbery, whosaid the plant was taken over for itsstrategic nature. Barbery escapedfrom his captors in July afterspending two months in jail andsought asylum in the Colombianembassy. He was given a visa andleft for Colombia stating he wouldreturn within the month with a newgroup of exiled Bolivians.

3-May-81 France Other Firearms0 0 FRANCE. A previously unknowngroup, the Jewish group Pessach(Passover) claimed responsibility forshots fired during the night at theSyrian Airlines office in central Paris.In a telephoned statement to AFP,Pessach stated that the attack was areply to Syrian persecutions of Jewsand the massacre of Christians inLibya. The movement also claimedresponsibility for shots fired a weekearlier at an extreme right-wingbookshop also in central Paris. Therewere no casualties reported in eitherincident. On May 13, three membersof the Pessah group were arrested.They claimed the attack on thebookshop was motivated by a recentdesecration of a Jewish cemetery inFrance. The three were tracedthrough the licence plate number oftheir car, taken down by a passer-by.

5-May-81 Italy RedBrigades

Explosives0 0 ITALY. The Red Brigades expressedtheir outrage at the death of BobbySands, IRA hunger striker, bybombing the third floor office of theBritish Chamber of Commerce.

6-May-81 Lisbon Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Explosives0 0 PORTUGAL. A bomb attack outsidethe Royal British Club in Lisbon wasclaimed by the Popular Forces ofApril 25.

10-May-81

Paris France Other Firearms0 0 FRANCE. A previously unknowngroup, the Jewish group Pessach(Passover) claimed responsibility forshots fired during the night at theSyrian Airlines office in central Paris.In a telephoned statement to AFP,Pessach stated that the attack was areply to Syrian persecutions of Jewsand the massacre of Christians inLibya. The movement also claimedresponsibility for shots fired a weekearlier at an extreme right-wingbookshop also in central Paris. Therewere no casualties reported in eitherincident. On May 13, three membersof the Pessah group were arrested.They claimed the attack on thebookshop was motivated by a recentdesecration of a Jewish cemetery inFrance. The three were tracedthrough the licence plate number oftheir car, taken down by a passer-by.

13-May-81

Rome Italy Other Firearms3 0 ITALY. Pope John Paul II was shotand seriously wounded as he drovethrough crowds gathered for hisweekly public audience in St. Peter'sSquare in Vatican City. Policearrested an escaped Turkish terroristwho was identified as Mehmet AliAgca, 23. Two women standing bywere injured, one seriously. ThePope recovered from his woundsafter two operations. The assailantapparently hoped to strike at Sovietand U.S. imperialism but theconnection to the Pope was not madeclear. He escaped from a Turkishprison shortly before the Popearrived in Turkey in 1979 where hehad made death threats against thePope. He had been convicted of theassassination of a prominent Turkisheditor in the wave of terrorism thatsubsequently led to a militarytakeover, and had been sentenced todeath.In July 1981, after a three-daytrial, Agca was sentenced to lifeimprisonment by an Italian court inRome. The first year of thatsentence was to be spent in solitaryconfinement. When read thesentence in his jail cell because hehad boycotted the court proceedingson the grounds that the Italian courtscould not prosecute him for a crimecommitted in the Vatican, Agcashowed no sign of emotion and toldhis Italian lawyer that he did not wishto appeal. He will be eligible to befreed after serving 28 years of his lifesentence. Contrary to the hopes ofmany, the speedy trial did not serveto answer the questions of motive,and whether Agca had acted alone orhad been part of a conspiracy in theassassination attempt. The courthad refused to admit any psychiatricevidence but the overridingimpression of Agca was of a fanatic,though as one Turkish journaliststated, Agca likes to play the fanatic,but he's not really like that at all.High-ranking Turkish officials areconvinced that Agca did not actalone but have not been able toidentify any accomplices.On August10, 1982, Italian authorities wereexpected to file charges againstseveral people suspected of helpingMehmet Ali Agca in his assassinationattempt. Investigators wereexpected to go to Switzerland andthen possibly West Germany, Austria,and Spain to gather information.Authorities would give no details butsaid they are continuing toinvestigate links between Agca, whois Turkish, and a gun-smuggling ringoperating in Bulgaria and Turkey. OnNovember 25, 1982, Serge IvanovAntonov, an employee of theBulgarian national airline and touristoffice in Rome, was arrested andcharged with complicity in theshooting. There have been noindications of an international plot.The Bulgarian Communistgovernment demanded the releaseof the suspect stating that his arrestwas groundless and a hostile actagainst Soviet-aligned Bulgaria.However, Italian authorities contentthere were two other gunmen in St.Peter's Square ready to shoot thePope; Antonov's companion has notbeen identified.In September 1996the Turkish gunman made a plea toItaly asking to be pardoned from hislife sentence there and to be movedto a prison in Turkey.

13-May-81

Rome Italy Other Firearms3 0 ITALY. Pope John Paul II was shotand seriously wounded as he drovethrough crowds gathered for hisweekly public audience in St. Peter'sSquare in Vatican City. Policearrested an escaped Turkish terroristwho was identified as Mehmet AliAgca, 23. Two women standing bywere injured, one seriously. ThePope recovered from his woundsafter two operations. The assailantapparently hoped to strike at Sovietand U.S. imperialism but theconnection to the Pope was not madeclear. He escaped from a Turkishprison shortly before the Popearrived in Turkey in 1979 where hehad made death threats against thePope. He had been convicted of theassassination of a prominent Turkisheditor in the wave of terrorism thatsubsequently led to a militarytakeover, and had been sentenced todeath.In July 1981, after a three-daytrial, Agca was sentenced to lifeimprisonment by an Italian court inRome. The first year of thatsentence was to be spent in solitaryconfinement. When read thesentence in his jail cell because hehad boycotted the court proceedingson the grounds that the Italian courtscould not prosecute him for a crimecommitted in the Vatican, Agcashowed no sign of emotion and toldhis Italian lawyer that he did not wishto appeal. He will be eligible to befreed after serving 28 years of his lifesentence. Contrary to the hopes ofmany, the speedy trial did not serveto answer the questions of motive,and whether Agca had acted alone orhad been part of a conspiracy in theassassination attempt. The courthad refused to admit any psychiatricevidence but the overridingimpression of Agca was of a fanatic,though as one Turkish journaliststated, Agca likes to play the fanatic,but he's not really like that at all.High-ranking Turkish officials areconvinced that Agca did not actalone but have not been able toidentify any accomplices.On August10, 1982, Italian authorities wereexpected to file charges againstseveral people suspected of helpingMehmet Ali Agca in his assassinationattempt. Investigators wereexpected to go to Switzerland andthen possibly West Germany, Austria,and Spain to gather information.Authorities would give no details butsaid they are continuing toinvestigate links between Agca, whois Turkish, and a gun-smuggling ringoperating in Bulgaria and Turkey. OnNovember 25, 1982, Serge IvanovAntonov, an employee of theBulgarian national airline and touristoffice in Rome, was arrested andcharged with complicity in theshooting. There have been noindications of an international plot.The Bulgarian Communistgovernment demanded the releaseof the suspect stating that his arrestwas groundless and a hostile actagainst Soviet-aligned Bulgaria.However, Italian authorities contentthere were two other gunmen in St.Peter's Square ready to shoot thePope; Antonov's companion has notbeen identified.In September 1996the Turkish gunman made a plea toItaly asking to be pardoned from hislife sentence there and to be movedto a prison in Turkey.

15-May-81

Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside theRome office of Israel's state airline, ElAl. There were no reports of injuriesor damage.

18-May-81

Bogota Colombia Other Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The outlawed Workers'Self-Defense Movement (MAO)claimed responsibility for a dynamiteattack on a bank in northern Bogota.Two bombs exploded at the Anglo-American bank, causing greatdamage but no injuries. In acommunique, MAO explained that itsaction was to repudiate the death ofIrish guerrillas Bobby Sands andFrancis Hughes at the hands of theBritish forces. An attack on theBritish Caledonian Airways had alsobeen planned but was canceled dueto the heavy police protection in thearea where the company building islocated.

18-May-81

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. New York.Hundreds of workers were evacuatedfrom a mid- Manhattan office buildingwhile policemen removed a bomb atthe U.S. Mission to the UnitedNations. The bomb had been mailedand was defused when suspiciousemployees called authorities. A five-inch pipe bomb was uncovered at theU.N. mission. Police said the bombswere similar to three discovered atPan American World Airways.Authorities suspect the same groupcalled the Puerto Rican ArmedResistance.

18-May-81

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. New York. Anothermid-Manhattan office building wasevacuated while police removed abomb from the Honduran Consulate.The bomb had been mailed and wasdefused when suspicious employeescalled authorities. The nine-inch pipebomb was similar to three discoveredat Pan American World Airways.Authorities suspect the same groupcalled the Puerto Rican ArmedResistance.

21-May-81

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A garbage truckwas discovered to have a live pipebomb taped to its chassis as itentered the United Nations garage.An hour earlier a telephone callerhad warned police that six bombshad been placed in the basement ofthe UN complex in Manhattan.

23-May-81

Tirana Albania Other Explosives0 0 ALBANIA. The Yugoslav Embassywas bombed in the capital of Tirana.No one claimed responsibility thoughthe Albanian government insinuatedthat the Yugoslavs set their ownbomb.

24-May-81

Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Unidentified personsplaced a homemade bomb on the carof a female U.S. noncommissionedofficer from Ellinikon base. The carwas severely damaged.

24-May-81

Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Firearms7 0 TURKEY. Four leftist gunmenhijacked a Turkish Airlines DC-9 enroute from Istanbul to Ankara as itleft Yesilkoy International Airport.They ordered the pilot to land at thesmall military airfield at Burgas inBulgaria. The hijackers demanded$500,000 and freedom for 47prisoners in Turkish jails. Theythreatened to kill five Americanbanking executives among the 112passengers aboard and also to blowup the plane if their demands werenot met. Twenty-five women,children, and men with chronicailments were allowed to leave theplane at Burgas, a resort city on theBlack Sea, leaving 91 passengers stillin the plane, plus a crew of six. TheTurkish government refused tonegotiate and asked Bulgaria to keepthe plane from leaving Burgas.Twopassengers escaped by jumping fromthe plane through an emergencyexit. Bulgarian officials maintainedcontact with the hijackers by radio.The hijackers threatened to kill thefive American passengers if theirdemands were not met by a specifiedtime. This deadline was extended,then finally abandoned. Thehijackers then asked for 200envelopes and a quantity of paper sothat the hostages could writefarewell letters. The Turkishgovernment continued to refuse toaccede to the demands of theterrorists and threatened to executethe 47 jailed leftists if the hijackerscarried out their threat to blow upthe plane.Twenty-four hours later, onMay 25, a dramatic end came to thehijacking. Two of the terrorists werelured from the plane by the promisethat they could make a statement tothe press. Once on the ground, theywere immediately overpowered. Inan escape set up by hand signals,the pilot of the jetliner sent the planelurching forward, knocking everyonestanding in the plane off their feet.Some of the passengers then tookadvantage of the confusion tooverpower the two gunmen left. Oneterrorist lost his weapon and eitherjumped or was thrown from theplane. All 91 passengers were freed.Five incurred minor injuries when oneof the attacked hijackers began toshoot his pistol wildly. Two of thehijackers were also wounded.Thegunmen were identified as membersof an extremist Marxist group, DevSol, whose members had beenseverely cracked down on by theTurkish military authorities. Thelatter had seized power in September1980, saying the elected governmenthad been unable to quell violencebetween the left and right. Sincethen, thousands of suspectedpolitical extremists have beenarrested.

24-May-81

Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Firearms7 0 TURKEY. Four leftist gunmenhijacked a Turkish Airlines DC-9 enroute from Istanbul to Ankara as itleft Yesilkoy International Airport.They ordered the pilot to land at thesmall military airfield at Burgas inBulgaria. The hijackers demanded$500,000 and freedom for 47prisoners in Turkish jails. Theythreatened to kill five Americanbanking executives among the 112passengers aboard and also to blowup the plane if their demands werenot met. Twenty-five women,children, and men with chronicailments were allowed to leave theplane at Burgas, a resort city on theBlack Sea, leaving 91 passengers stillin the plane, plus a crew of six. TheTurkish government refused tonegotiate and asked Bulgaria to keepthe plane from leaving Burgas.Twopassengers escaped by jumping fromthe plane through an emergencyexit. Bulgarian officials maintainedcontact with the hijackers by radio.The hijackers threatened to kill thefive American passengers if theirdemands were not met by a specifiedtime. This deadline was extended,then finally abandoned. Thehijackers then asked for 200envelopes and a quantity of paper sothat the hostages could writefarewell letters. The Turkishgovernment continued to refuse toaccede to the demands of theterrorists and threatened to executethe 47 jailed leftists if the hijackerscarried out their threat to blow upthe plane.Twenty-four hours later, onMay 25, a dramatic end came to thehijacking. Two of the terrorists werelured from the plane by the promisethat they could make a statement tothe press. Once on the ground, theywere immediately overpowered. Inan escape set up by hand signals,the pilot of the jetliner sent the planelurching forward, knocking everyonestanding in the plane off their feet.Some of the passengers then tookadvantage of the confusion tooverpower the two gunmen left. Oneterrorist lost his weapon and eitherjumped or was thrown from theplane. All 91 passengers were freed.Five incurred minor injuries when oneof the attacked hijackers began toshoot his pistol wildly. Two of thehijackers were also wounded.Thegunmen were identified as membersof an extremist Marxist group, DevSol, whose members had beenseverely cracked down on by theTurkish military authorities. Thelatter had seized power in September1980, saying the elected governmenthad been unable to quell violencebetween the left and right. Sincethen, thousands of suspectedpolitical extremists have beenarrested.

25-May-81

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 LEBANON. Following the visit ofEgyptian President Sadat to Sudan,rockets were fired at the U.S.,Egyptian, and Sudanese embassiesin Beirut. A Lebanese security guardat the U.S. embassy and an Egyptianconsular official were injured.

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28-May-81

Paris France Other Explosives0 1 FRANCE. A bomb exploded outsidethe Armenian Cultural Center inParis, killing the caretaker of anadjacent building. The attack wasclaimed a few days later by theTurkish Islamic Revolutionary Army.The anti- Armenian attack wasunprecedented in Paris, but officialsnoted, may be due to the recentArmenian terrorist attacks againstTurkish diplomats. One Armenianofficial noted that the bomb was setprobably to mark the anniversarydate of the creation of the Republicof Armenia on May 28, 1918.Armenian was later divided betweenTurkey and the Soviet Union in 1920.

28-May-81

Salonika Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. The British Consulate inSalonica was heavily damaged by abomb. There were no injuries. Policespeculated that it was caused bysympathisers of the Provisional IRA.Damage was estimated at $40,000.In a telephone call to the citynewspaper later the next day theGreek Armed Group for Support tothe Northern Irish Struggle claimedresponsibility for the explosion.

29-May-81

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. The guard of theGuatemalan Embassy was fired uponby unidentified individuals in amoving vehicle. There were noinjuries and no damage.

1-Jun-81 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Explosives1 0 ISRAEL. A suspicious package foundin a Jerusalem cafe turned out to bea bomb. It exploded, wounding abomb disposal specialist who wasattempting to dismantle it.

1-Jun-81 Brussels Belgium Unknown Firearms0 1 BELGIUM. An unidentified gunmanshot and killed the Brusselsrepresentative of the PalestinianLiberation Organization outside of hisresidence--an attack that provoked asharp verbal exchange between thePLO and the Israeli Embassy inBelgium. The PLO accused theIsraelis of killing Naim Khader, 41, akey figure in relations betweenWestern Europe and the Arab world.The Israelis denied the allegation,stating that We know the variousPalestinian movements kill eachother. Khader was unpopular withextremist Palestinians because hefavored limited compromise.Thegunman was described as dark-skinned with a mustache. He firedsix bullets at Khader at close range,and although bystanders pursuedhim, he escaped in a waiting car.

3-Jun-81 Anaheim UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Turkish FolkDance Troupe was frustrated in itsefforts to give performances inSouthern California. A bombing atthe Anaheim Convention Centercaused officials to cancel twoshowings in the area for theweekend, one at the Center and theother at Disneyland. Officials werealso worried about reports of a largeplanned demonstration convergingon the Center. The demonstrationwas being planned by the ArmenianNational Committee to protest theTurkish Republic's centennialcelebration and to commemorate themassacre of Armenians 65 years ago.A State Department spokesmanexpressed regret at the cancellationsparticularly because Turkey is a closeally of the United States.

4-Jun-81 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A powerful bomb set at anArmenian church was discovered intime and defused. The attempt wasclaimed by the Turkish IslamicRevolutionary Army.

5-Jun-81 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. In the third such attack ineight days another Armenian churchin Paris was bombed. The bomb wasnot powerful and caused slightdamage to the door of the building.No one was hurt. The attack, like theothers, was claimed by the TurkishIslamic Revolutionary Army. Turkishauthorities stated that there was nosuch group as the Turkish IslamicRevolutionary Army and that thebombings must have been staged bythe Armenians themselves to inciteother Armenians.

7-Jun-81 Dimona Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Two bombs were found in anational park near Dimona. Bombsquad experts detonated theexplosives.

7-Jun-81 Dimona Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Two bombs were found in anational park near Dimona. Bombsquad experts detonated theexplosives.

7-Jun-81 Kirkuk Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Five employees of a WestGerman construction firm werekidnapped in Iraq north of Kirkuk byKurdish guerrillas. A statement fromofficials in West Germany's Embassyin Tehran said that all five werereleased in August 1981 in goodhealth, but no other details of theincident were given.

9-Jun-81 Geneva SwitzerlandArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms0 1 SWITZERLAND. An Armenianterrorist shot and killed MehmetArguz, a secretary at the TurkishConsulate in Geneva. The assailantwas immediately apprehended andresponded to questions in Englishthat he was Armenian. He carried a9mm pistol and a hand grenade. TheSecret Army for the Liberation ofArmenia claimed credit for theassassination in a phone call toauthorities. (Claimed in the name ofthe Antranig Pasha SuicideCommando - Armenia)The arrest ofthis Armenian, later identified asMardiros Jamgotchian, led to theformation of the group called theNinth of June Organizationresponsible for several bombings inEurope and Switzerland againstSwiss targets.

17-Jun-81 Hanover FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb set off by suspectedantimilitary terrorists ripped througha half-finished NATO arms depotsouthwest of Hanover, causing anestimated $130,000 in damage.There were no injuries. This was thefourth such attack this year againstUS military targets. Terrorists linkedto the Red Army Faction weresuspected.

19-Jun-81 Tehran Iran Ninth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives0 0 IRAN. The Ninth of JuneOrganization, an Armenian groupnamed after the day of the arrest ofan Armenian in Geneva, claimedresponsibility for a small bomb set offat Swissair offices in Tehran.

22-Jun-81 UnitedKingdom

Other ChemicalAgent

0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A Libyan airlineworker left a package of poisonedpeanuts at the home of a Libyanexpatriate he was trying to kill. Thepeanuts had reportedly been eatenby the children as well as by thefamily dog, killing the animal andmaking the children seriously ill.

26-Jun-81 LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Ninth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. California. A smallbomb detonated outside the SwissBanking Corporation in Los Angeles.The action was claimed by the Ninthof June Organization, an Armeniangroup pressing for the release of anArmenian held by Switzerland for themurder of a Turkish consulateemployee in Geneva.

1-Jul-81 Brussels Belgium Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. A series of violentincidents in Brussels were linked todisturbances by ethnic Albaniannationalists in Yugoslavia's KosovoProvince earlier in the year. Belgianauthorities reported numerousthreats made against Yugoslaviancitizens as well as fires at theYugoslav airline and tourist office inBrussels.

1-Jul-81 Brussels Belgium Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. A series of violentincidents in Brussels were linked todisturbances by ethnic Albaniannationalists in Yugoslavia's KosovoProvince earlier in the year. Belgianauthorities reported numerousthreats made against Yugoslaviancitizens as well as fires at theYugoslav airline and tourist office inBrussels.



Explosives0 1 GUATEMALA. A bomb hidden in asuitcase exploded killing a baggagehandler as he loaded it onto anEastern Airlines flight bound forMiami from Guatemala City. Theexplosion was claimed by theGuerrilla Army of the Poor, whichsaid it was intended to explodeaboard the plane as a warning to theairline not to promote tourism toGuatemala. The mid-air explosionwould have caused mass casualties.



Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A bomb exploded inthe offices of the U.S. Chamber ofCommerce in Guatemala City. Therewere no injuries, but some damage.The initials of the Peoples GuerrillaArmy, EGP, were painted on the wallsof the bombed building.

10-Jul-81 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. Unidentified persons threwtwo powerful explosives at theChinese Embassy from the window oftheir speeding car. There were noinjuries but the guard forces at thebuilding were put on alert.

11-Jul-81 Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Two small firebombs werethrown at the home of the Britishconsul, Norman Lister. Mr Lister toldpolice he had recently found thewords Freedom for Ireland scrawledon a wall of his house. There waslittle damage from the firebombs.One made a small hole in the roofand the other extinguished itself. Agroup calling itself theExtraparliamentiary Group forCommunism claimed responsibilityfor the attack, staged as part of astruggle against British and worldimperialism.

14-Jul-81 Brussels Belgium Other Firearms2 0 BELGIUM. A gunman opened fire ona diplomat in the Yugoslav Embassywounding him and a Yugoslav porter.The gunman escaped in a car. Thediplomat was shot three times andwas in serious condition. The attackwas later claimed by an AlbanianCroat organization calling itself HDP(expansion not known). The callerstated that his group seeksindependence for Croatia and thereturn of Albanian territory currentlyunder Yugoslav control.

16-Jul-81 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded outsidethe Iranian Cultural Center in Paris.No one claimed responsibility for theattack.

17-Jul-81 Ogden UnitedStates

Other Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. The death of aLibyan student in Ogden, Utah, wasdeclared by the FBI to be politicallymotivated. Investigators claimedthat positive indications haddeveloped that linked the killing tointernal Libyan politics. A suspect,another Libyan student, was arrestedin connection with the death of NabilAbuzed Mansour who had beendiscovered in the trunk of hisautomobile, shot five times at closerange. The suspect, MohamedShabata, was arrested in Chicago,Illinois as he prepared to board aflight for London on his way toTripoli. Authorities believe that thekilling is connected to otherassassinations of Libyan exiles.

19-Jul-81 Bern SwitzerlandNinth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb exploded ina rubbish bin at the Swiss parliamentbuilding in Bern, causing slightdamage. Authorities reported thatonly one of the two charges in anempty gas bottle placed in the binexploded; a nearby car was damagedbut there were no injuries. The Swissnews agency said that a callerrepresenting a group called theNinth of June Organization hadclaimed responsibility for the blast.June 9 was the date that Swiss policearrested an Armenian on charges ofmurdering a Turkish consulateemployee in Geneva.

20-Jul-81 Zurich SwitzerlandNinth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives5 0 SWITZERLAND. Five persons wereslightly injured from an explosion inan area that connects the airportlobby with a railway station beneathand destroyed an automatic-photobooth at Zurich's internationalairport. The incident was claimed bythe Ninth of June Organization, anArmenian group. The blast caused anestimated $150,000 dollars damage.

21-Jul-81 Kirkuk Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Two French engineers workingfor a French construction company,and their Iraqi chauffeur werekidnapped in northern Iraq nearKirkuk. On September 24, 1981,members of the Iraqi CommunistParty-Central Military Bureau (PC-BMC) published a communique inBeirut outlining their demands forrelease of the Frenchmen. Theystated that Maurice Harlet and GuyMaure were in excellent health andwere being well treated.Negotiations they said should gothrough the International Red Cross.They demanded that France use itsinfluence with the Iraqi regime toobtain the freedom of politicalprisoners in Iraq. They emphasizedthat the release of the engineersdepended on the efforts of all thoseconcerned to convince the Iraqiregime to accede to their demands.Officials of the construction companydeclined to comment.

21-Jul-81 LausanneSwitzerlandNinth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives20 0 SWITZERLAND. In its third bombingin three days, the Ninth of JuneOrganization claimed credit for anexplosion which ripped through adepartment store in Lausanne,injuring twenty people. The injurieswere mainly to women shoppers inthe women's wear department butnone were serious. The explosioncaused heavy damage to the store.The Swiss authorities speculated thatthe bombings were in response tothe arrest of an Armenian militantsuspected of the assassination of aTurkish consulate employee.

21-Jul-81 SanFrancisco

UnitedStates

Other Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. A pro-Hanoiorganizer and editor of a pro-Hanoimonthly was fatally shot on a streetin San Francisco. The assailant wasdescribed as a Vietnamese man. OnJuly 25, AP in New York received aletter from the Anti-Communist VietsOrganization (AVCO) stating that theAVCO Shock Squad punished theeditor for using his paper to bolsterthe image of the hated VNcommunist regime and to incite theVietnamese Community in the UnitedStates to revolt against laws andorders.

22-Jul-81 Geneva SwitzerlandNinth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives4 0 SWITZERLAND. A bomb left in acoin-operated locker at the mainrailway station in Geneva explodedlate in the afternoon, injuring fourpeople. This was the fourth bombingin Switzerland in four days. The firstthree were claimed by the Ninth ofJune Organization and authoritiesnamed them as the perpetrators.(Later claimed in a listing of actionspublished in Armenia.)

22-Jul-81 Geneva SwitzerlandNinth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. A second bomb leftin a coin-operated locker at the mainrailway station in Geneva explodedabout one hour after a first one hadcaused several injuries. The secondbomb caused no injuries becausepolice had cordonned off the area.These were the 4th and 5thbombings in Switzerland in four days.The first three were claimed by theNinth of June Organization andauthorities named them as theperpetrators of the last two.

22-Jul-81 Piraeus Greece PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives70 2 GREECE. The Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine claimedresponsibility for the gun and bombattack on a Piraeus shipping andtravel agency in which 2 people werekilled and 70 injured. The PopularFront said the agency was serving asa front organization for Israeliintelligence interests and wasinvolved in the killing of one of thePalestinian group's members. Thetwo killed were Evgenia Angelikoussi,owner of the agency and anassociate, Dimitrios Malatasis. ThePFLP insisted that Angelikoussi was amember of Mossad, the Israeliintelligence agency. The next day thePLO Liaison and Information Bureauin Athens disclaimed responsibilityfor the attack.

23-Jul-81 Lisbon Portugal PopularForces ofApril 25

Firearms2 0 PORTUGAL. A two-man hit team ofthe Popular Forces of April 25 (FP-25)attempted to assassinate aPortuguese executive of StandardElectrica, the local subsidiary of a U.S. company. The gunmen openedfire with submachine guns on theexecutive as his car approached thegates of the company's factory in theLisbon suburb of Cascais, woundingthe executive and his chauffeur. Theattackers escaped in a waitingvehicle. The FP-25 targetsmultinational business interests inPortugal.

26-Jul-81 KhartoumSudan Unknown Explosives0 2 SUDAN. A suitcase bomb explodedinside Chad's embassy, killing atleast two people.

28-Jul-81 GuatemalaOther Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Members of a right-wing death squad are assumed to bethe murderers of Reverend StanleyRother, an American missionary whohad lived and worked for 13 yearsamong the Cakchiquel Indians. Nunsfound him in his rectory, shot twice inthe head. It was later reported thatRother had probably died resisting akidnap attempt. Only one monthearlier, in an interview with the LosAngeles Times, Rother was quoted assaying I have found that I am on alist of those to be killed. Manymembers of his village had beenmurdered previously, suspected ofsympathizing with leftist guerrillas.Rother had, on this account, writtena letter to authorities describing thearmy's atrocities against innocentpeasants.A week after Rother waskilled, Guatemalan authoritiesannounced the arrest of three localmen who they said killed the priestduring a robbery. Rother's churchwas very poor and had nothing torob. The State Department hasissued a demand to the Guatemalangovernment for a satisfactoryinvestigation of the case.



1 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. ARomanian-born employee of the U.S.-financed Radio Free Europe wasstabbed outside his home. Hesurvived the attack. Authorities saidthe motive for the attack wasunclear. The victim was identified asEmil Georgescu, 51, supervisingprogram editor in the station'sRomanian service. Local policearrested the attacker and anaccomplice--both French citizens.Mrs. Georgescu identified theattacker.

30-Jul-81 Tarma Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. Two dynamite chargesexploded in the Peruvian-AmericanCultural Institute in Tarma, in JuninDepartment.

1-Aug-81 WestBeirut

Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. In the Syrian-controlledarea of west Beirut, there wereseveral attacks against Frenchinterests, including bombings of twoFrench banks. Some sources suspectAbu Nidal's Syrian backed group, AlAssifa, because of France's efforts tomediate the PLO question.

1-Aug-81 WestBeirut


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. In the Syrian-controlledarea of west Beirut, there wereseveral attacks against Frenchinterests, including bombings of twoFrench banks. Some sources suspectAbu Nidal's Syrian backed group, AlAssifa, because of France's efforts tomediate the PLO question.

1-Aug-81 WestBeirut


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. In the Syrian-controlledarea of west Beirut, there wereseveral attacks against Frenchinterests, including a bombing at anAir France airlines office. Somesources suspect Abu Nidal's Syrianbacked group, Al Assifa, because ofFrance's efforts to mediate the PLOquestion.

1-Aug-81 Beirut Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A rocket attack againstthe Saudi Arabian Embassy wasbelieved to be perpetrated by theSyrian-controlled Abu Nidal dissidentPLO group, Al-Assifa.

1-Aug-81 Warsaw Poland Other Firearms3 0 POLAND. Abu Daoud, a Palestinianguerrilla leader reputed to havemasterminded the 1972 MunichOlympics massacre of 11 Israeliathletes was shot and seriouslywounded. Daoud was gunned downin a coffee shop of Warsaw's VictoriaInter-Continental Hotel by a younggunman who fired five bullets thencalmly walked out of the hotel. TwoPolish women were also wounded inthe shooting. Daoud is a seniormember of Fatah, and was a memberof Black September until it disbandedin 1974.


UnitedStates

Other Other 0 0 UNITED STATES. A sympathizer ofthe IRA claimed he had a bombstrapped to his wrist and took overthe British Consulate in New York fortwo hours. He demanded to speak toBritish Prime Minister MargaretThatcher. He was arrested afterpolice discovered that the piece ofsteel and alarm clock strapped to hiswrist with adhesive tape washarmless. Medical authorities saidthe man, identified as Tom Jack ofNew Jersey was upset about theworld and wanted to make astatement.

4-Aug-81 Brussels Belgium Other Firearms1 1 BELGIUM. An early morning shootingat a Brussels cafe resulted in thedeath of an accountant and thewounding of a porter. Both wereemployees of the Yugoslav embassy.The killer escaped. The attack wasclaimed by an Albanianindependence movement, whichdeclared the purpose of its act was toavenge our thousands of Albanianbrothers pursued and persecuted inKosovo. On March 18, 1982,however, Musi Hoti, a Yugoslavnational born in Kosovo but who hadbeen living in Brussels for severalyears, was arrested for the murder ofthe accountant Stojan Djeric, andwounding the bodyguard, RedzoZuko. There is a question aboutwhether or not there was a politicalmotivation in the shooting orwhether it was really just a barroomfight.

4-Aug-81 Brussels Belgium Other Firearms1 1 BELGIUM. A clerk at the YugoslavianEmbassy in Brussels was fatally shotand a guard slightly wounded by aman who opened fire with a pistol.The clerk died on the way to thehospital. A similar attack the sameday had been claimed by an Albanianindependence movement.

5-Aug-81 GuatemalaCity


0 0 GUATEMALA. Unidentified personsset fire to the offices of Pan AmericanAirways in Guatemala City. Thefirebombs caused severe damage tothe building. Credit for the attackwas later claimed by the 31 JanuaryPeople's Front (FP-31).

5-Aug-81 Brussels Belgium Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. Gasoline bombs werethrown at a small Yugoslav shop inBrussels, starting a small fire. Theattack was claimed by an anonymouscaller speaking in the name of anindependent Albanian movement.

7-Aug-81 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Unknown3 0 UNITED STATES. Twenty-four peopleclaiming to be members of theMujahedeen Khalq took over theIranian interests section of theAlgerian embassy and held sixhostages for less than an hour beforepolice broke the siege. Three peoplewere injured in the takeover,including one person who was shot.

8-Aug-81 Malatya Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 TURKEY. Two or possibly four menarmed with automatic weaponsopened fire on a U.S. Air Force pickuptruck carrying three U.S. nationals,two of whom were USAF airmen, anda Turkish national on the road justoutside Malatya. None of the truck'soccupants was injured; the trucksustained some damage.

9-Aug-81 Rome Italy May 15Organizationfor theLiberationofPalestin

Explosives2 0 ITALY. The May 15 for the Liberationof Palestine group in Beirut claimedresponsibility for the bombing of anEl Al office at Rome's InternationalFiumicino Airport, slightly injuringtwo people and gutting the Israeliairline facilities. The attack was inretaliation against the savageoperations aimed at the annihilationof the Arab and Palestinian peoples.

9-Aug-81 Stuttgart FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The R.S. Schulz publishing housenear Stuttgart was bombed by aCroatian group which warned thepublisher not to publish the memoirsof Tito or another bigger explosionwould occur at the publisher's home.The Croatian Revolutionary Cell,Bruno Busic Department, tookresponsibility for the attack. Theanonymous caller, claiming that thegroup was based in Paris said thatthe Croatian Revolutionary Cell wasfighting the unjust regime inYugoslavia. Authorities have noprevious knowledge of this group.

9-Aug-81 JerusalemIsrael PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The PLO claimedresponsibility for the planting ofseveral bombs near the entrance tothe Wailing Wall in Jerusalem andnear the town of Neve Ya' Acov. Theboobytrapped bombs weresuccessfully detonated by Israelisecurity personnel in a safe location.

10-Aug-81

Vienna Austria May 15Organizationfor theLiberationofPalestin

Explosives1 0 AUSTRIA. Two small bombs explodedin a garden adjacent to the heavilyguarded Israeli Embassy in Vienna.One woman was slightly injured. TheMay 15 Arab Organization for theLiberation of Palestine distributed astatement in Beirut claimingresponsibility for this attack andanother in Athens on the same day.

10-Aug-81

Athens Greece May 15Organizationfor theLiberationofPalestin

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two small bombs explodedat the front and back door of theIsraeli diplomatic mission in Athens,causing little damage and no injuries.Later that day, in Beirut the May 15Arab Organization for the Liberationof Palestine claimed responsibility forthe attack and a similar one inVienna on the same day.

11-Aug-81

CopenhagenDenmark Ninth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives1 0 DENMARK. The Ninth of JuneOrganization claimed responsibilityfor two bombs that destroyed aSwissair office in Copenhagen. OneAmerican tourist was injured byflying glass. The bombing wasapparently in retaliation for therecent arrest in Switzerland of anArmenian accused of assassinating aTurkish national.

14-Aug-81

Tripoli Libya Amal Explosives0 0 LIBYA. Explosives were discoveredaboard a Middle East Airlines planewhen it landed in Tripoli. MilitantShi'ites are suspected because ofsimilar actions perpetrated to protestthe disappearance of their leaderduring a visit to Libya in 1978.

18-Aug-81

WestBerlin

SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded at a U.S. militaryhousing complex in West Berlin.There was no damage and no injuriesreported.

18-Aug-81


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.An explosion occurred outside aBritish hotel for transients near theBritish Army club for soldiers. Therewas no damage and no injuriesreported.

20-Aug-81

LosAngeles

UnitedStates

Ninth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. California. A smallbomb was detonated outside theoffices of the Swiss PrecisionInstruments, Inc. in Los Angeles. AnArmenian group, the Ninth of JuneOrganization claimed responsibility.

20-Aug-81

Paris France Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An explosion in the earlymorning hours in front of the AlitaliaAirline office on the Champs Elyseein Paris broke the front window butcaused no injuries. A call to theFrench news agency by anunidentified caller claimed theArmenian Movement 3 October wasresponsible for the bombing.

22-Aug-81

Paris France Third ofOctoberGroup

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in theearly morning hours in front of theOlympic Airways office in Paris. Theblast caused only minor damage andno injuries were reported. A caller tothe French news agency claimed thatthe 3 October Armenian Movementwas responsible. The caller also saidthe attacks took place late at nightso no one would be hurt.

22-Aug-81

Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An unexploded bomb wasdiscovered and defused outside theHouse of Iran on the Champs-Elyseesin Paris. Authorities stated that itappeared to be of the same kindused in a similar attack on theIranian Cultural Center recently (seeJuly 16).

22-Aug-81

Spain Other Unknown0 0 SPAIN. Iran's monarchists launcheda terrorist campaign of their ownagainst the Khomeini regime. Theyhijacked on high seas a missile patrolboat purchased by the Iranian Navyfrom France. The seizure of theTarbarzin took place off the coast ofSpain while the boat was en route toIran. The 25-man attack was led byex-Admiral Kamal Habibollahi, formercommander-in-chief of the ImperialNavy under the Shah. Themonarchist or Azadegan (freedom)movement is headed by the formercommander-in-chief of the Iranianarmed forces, General BahramAryana.

27-Aug-81

BarranquillaColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A tin can filled withdynamite exploded in the men'sroom of the U.S.-run Colombo-American Institute in Barranquilla.No injuries were reported.

29-Aug-81

Paris France ActionDirecte

Explosives18 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in thelobby of the U.S.-owned Inter-Continental Hotel in Paris about 9:30p.m. Eighteen persons were injuredand there was considerable damageto a hallway and a conference room.Witnesses claim a man entered thelobby and then left, leaving asuitcase behind. Several days laterAction Directe claimed responsibilityfor the attack in a communiquewhich declared that the purpose ofthe bombing was to protest theimprisonment of five of its memberswho were on hunger strike at thetime.

29-Aug-81

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives2 1 LEBANON. One person was killedand two persons were seriouslywounded in an explosion at the Iranradio and television bureau in Beirut.The explosion also damaged theoffices of the Turkish commercialattache, which are in the samebuilding. No one has claimedresponsibility for the attack.

29-Aug-81

Vienna Austria Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown23 2 AUSTRIA. Two people died and 20people were wounded when two mendescribed as Arabs attacked asynagogue in Vienna as the peoplewere leaving the service. ThreeAustrian police officers were alsowounded. The two assailants werearrested, along with a third Arabbelieved to have been involved. Atleast one of the attackers claimed tobelong to the Al Asifa (Abu Nidal)group. The Palestine LiberationOrganization vehemently denied anyinvolvement in the attack. Thecaptured terrorists were a Syrianstudent and an Iraqi who had lived inAustria since 1979. (The Iraqi laterconfessed to the murder of HeinzNittel--see May 1). In late October1981, a Jordanian, Husham Rajih,traveling on an Iraqi passport and thepresumed organizer of thesynagogue attack (and the HeinzNittel murder) was apprehended inSalzburg. In his apartment policediscovered firearms, explosives andthe passports of the two synagogueattackers. Rajih later admitted to theNittel murder and that he had actedfor the Abu Nidal group.In January1982, the two synagogue attackerswere brought to trial. Both weresentenced to life imprisonment forthe incident, and the Iraqi, for hisinvolvement in the Heinz Nittelmurder as well.

31-Aug-81

Lebanon Amal Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded in anempty Middle East Airlines Boeing720. There were no casualties.Lebanese officials suspected that thedevice was planted by LebaneseShi'ite groups protesting the 1978disappearance of their leader,Iranian-born Imam Musa Sadr, whileon a visit in Libya.

31-Aug-81



Explosives20 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Aterrorist bomb smuggled onto theguarded Ramstein Air Base explodeddamaging the U.S. Air Force'sEuropean headquarters and injuring20 people, 13 Americans, including ageneral, and two Germans. Thebomb went off in a parking lotoutside the Air Force headquartersbuilding, which also serves asheadquarters for the NATO air forcefor central Europe. The explosiontook place in a parked car at 7 a.m.,and caught people arriving for work.The attack was the fourth this yearagainst American installations inWest Germany, and came amidgrowing hostility in Western Europeover defense policies, includingPresident Reagan's recent decision tobegin full production of neutronweapons. No one immediatelyclaimed responsibility for the attack,but suspicion centered on the RedArmy Faction, a group containingmembers of the former Baader-Meinhof Group. Plans for an attackon the Ramstein base had beenfound in the apartment of JuliannePlambeck, a member of the Baader-Meinhof who was killed last year in atraffic accident near Heidelberg.Onthe 2nd of September a letter wasreceived from the Red Army Factionclaiming responsibility for the attack.The letter, dated August 31, stated,Today with the Sigurd Debuscommando, we attacked theheadquarters of the U.S. Air ForceEurope in Ramstein. Sigurd Debus,an imprisoned terrorist, died on April16 after a two-month long hungerstrike in a Hamburg hospital. Thegroup declared that it had attackedthe base as part of its war againstimperialist war.

31-Aug-81

Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb exploded outside theU.S. embassy in Lima, blowing out115 windows. Sendero Luminosowas suspected.

31-Aug-81


Explosives0 0 PERU. The residence of theAmerican Ambassador, Edwin G.Corr, was damaged slightly by abomb explosion. There were noinjuries. Sendero Luminoso wassuspected.

31-Aug-81


Explosives0 0 PERU. In a bombing campaigndirected against U.S. firms in Lima,the local offices of the Ford MotorCompany was bombed, as was theBank of America, the Coca-ColaCompany and the G. BerckemeyerCo. (representative of the CarnationCompany). Sendero Luminoso wassuspected.

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Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. A flare was fired atthe Long Island home of the Sovietambassador to the United Nations.Soviet Foreign Minister AndreiGromyko was a guest at the time inthe ambassador's home. Later inNovember (see November 14, 1981)a teenager was arrested and chargedwith the attack after several similaractions were carried out againstSoviet interests and were claimed bythe Jewish Defense League.

1-Sep-81 WiesbadenFederalRepublicofGermany


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Seven automobiles were set on fireand destroyed at different locationsinside the military housing area inWiesbaden. The attack came lessthan 24 hours after the car-bombexplosion at Ramstein Air Base. Thegas tanks of the destroyed cars hadbeen punctured with an ice pick andthe gasoline ignited, militaryauthorities reported.

2-Sep-81 Maseru Lesotho Other Explosives0 0 LESOTHO. A bomb exploded outsidethe U.S. Cultural Center. The attackwas part of several other bombexplosions in the city Maseru on thesame day and were presumed to beby the Lesotho Liberation Army.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. New York. A smallfirebomb was discovered underneatha car parked near the Soviet Missionto the U.N. The unexploded deviceswere discovered after a phone call topolice from an unidentified caller whoclaimed responsibility for the attack.The caller said he was a member ofthe militant wing of the JewishDefense League called the Thunderof Zion, and the bombings were togain the release of two imprisonedSoviet Jewish dissidents. Thenational director of the JDL deniedresponsibility for the attack butapplauded the perpetrators for theiractions.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. New York. A carbelonging to a Nigerian diplomat wasfirebombed. There were no injuriesand little damage. The car wasparked at the Soviet U.N. missionand it was believed that the bombwas aimed at the Soviets. TheThunder of Zion branch of the JewishDefense League claimedresponsibility for the act but a latercall from the JDL deniedresponsibility for the bombing butapplauded it.

4-Sep-81 WestBeirut


Firearms0 1 LEBANON. The French Ambassadorto Lebanon, Louis Delamare, wasshot and killed by assassins as hedrove to his home in West Beirut.Three gunmen stopped his car a fewyards from his residence, and, inwhat seems to be an attemptedkidnapping, tried to enter the car.Failing to open the door, they shotthe ambassador several timesthrough the windshield, then fled intheir car driven by a fourth man.Delamare's driver was unharmed andsped the ambassador to the hospital.A few hours later he was pronounceddead from the multiple head andchest wounds.At first, with no oneclaiming responsibility for theincident, there was speculation thatpro-Iranian elements were involvedbecause of the political asylum beinggranted in France to Iran's formerpresident, Bani- Sadr. Other Arabsources, however, claimed that Syriawas responsible for theassassination, possibly through theradical Palestinian group Assifa, ledby Abu Nidal. It is said that SyrianPresident Assad's well-knowndispleasure with Arafat's recentindependent diplomacy has led to hissupport of the radical group.Delamare's only crime may havebeen his escort only days before ofFrench Foreign Minister ClaudeCheysson to a meeting with Arafat inBeirut.


UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A small bombknocked out the window of aManhattan bookstore that specializesin books published in the SovietUnion. There were no injuries. Amilitant Jewish group called theThunder of Zion, protesting thetreatment of Soviet Jews, claimedcredit for the bombing. The groupdemanded the release of twodissident Soviet Jews, or else Sovietblood will flow in the streets of NewYork. The bomb was the eighth anti-Soviet bomb planted in New Yorkthat week.

7-Sep-81 Bogota Colombia Other Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb exploded in themain entrance of the ChileanEmbassy in Bogota, causing onlyslight damage. The Workers' Self-Defense Movement has calledBogota radio stations claiming creditfor the attack.

7-Sep-81 Bogota Colombia Other Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb was set off atthe Venezuelan Consulate in aresidential district of northernBogota. There was only minordamage. The Workers' Self-DefenseMovement claimed credit for theexplosion.

7-Sep-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Dynamite was throwninto the garden of the TurkishEmbassy in Beirut, resulting in noinjuries and a few broken windows.No group claimed responsibility.

8-Sep-81 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. An Italian-owned furniturefirm was bombed in Lima. SenderoLuminoso was suspected.

8-Sep-81 GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. A Mexican consularofficial who was investigating thedisappearance of a Mexican nationalwas himself reported missing. Hewas last seen in a city on theGuatemalan-Mexican border.


Explosives0 0 PERU. During another wave ofbombings in Lima, one of the targetswas a textile firm with U.S.connections. Sendero Luminoso wassuspected.


Explosives0 0 PERU. A Japanese company dealingin electrical appliances was thetarget in the latest wave of bombingsin Lima. Sendero Luminoso wassuspected.

10-Sep-81 LuxembourgOther Fire orFirebomb

0 0 LUXEMBOURG. Two Molotovcocktails were thrown at the office ofthe American Fletcher National Bank.No injuries were reported. Leafletsleft at the scene claimed the October18 Movement was responsible for theattack. The leaflets said theinternational struggle against U.S.imperialism and capitalisticmonopoly had come to Luxembourgand called for solidarity with the RedArmy Faction.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Florida. Miami'sMexican Consulate was completelydestroyed by a massive explosion setduring the night. The attack wasclaimed by Omega-7, an anti-Castrogroup, in a phone call to a Spanishradio station. The bomb blast caused$2 million in damage to theRivergate Plaza, the office building inwhich the consulate had its fourth-floor quarters. No one was injured.


UnitedStates

Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. New York. An anti-Castro terrorist group claimedresponsibility for the bombing of theMexican consular building six blocksfrom the United Nations. There wereno injuries from the early morningblast but severe damage. A manclaiming to be a member of Omega-7called a Spanish radio station 15minutes after the explosion to takeresponsibility for the blast. Heidentified himself as Omar, anOmega Commando.

12-Sep-81 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The U.S. consul general's house inFrankfurt was firebombed during thenight but resulted in little damage.Three gasoline bombs were thrownat the house but only one explodedand was extinguished quickly bypeople in the house. The consulgeneral was not at home at the time.In a letter received by Germanauthorities responsibility was claimedby the Red Army Faction for thefirebomb attack.

12-Sep-81 JerusalemIsrael Other Explosives28 1 ISRAEL. A hand grenade was throwninto a group of Italian pilgrimsoutside the old walled city ofJerusalem, killing one of them andwounding 28 others. Police roundedup several Arab suspects.

13-Sep-81 Sidon Lebanon al-Fatah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Kidnapping of Lebanesearmy officer near Sidon. (AM - Fatah)

15-Sep-81 CopenhagenDenmark ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives2 0 DENMARK. A group calling itself theSixth Armenian Liberation Armycalled the Danish media and claimedresponsibility for an explosion duringthe night at the Turkish AirlinesOffice in Copenhagen. Two peoplewere injured in the attack, one ofthem seriously. The offices wereseverely damaged. A man was seenshortly before the explosion placingtwo plastic bags outside the building.Only one of the bags containingexplosives went off. The secondbomb was detonated by armyexperts. (ASALA claimed in Armenia,in name of Martyr Hagop DarakjianCommando, with one death.)

15-Sep-81 HeidelbergFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives2 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Terrorists hidden on a wooded hillfired Soviet-made RPG-7 rocketgrenades at the armorplated car ofthe commander of U.S. forces inEurope, General Frederick J.Kroesen. The General's wife and twoothers were traveling with him to U.S. headquarters in Heidelberg.General Kroesen and his wifesustained only minor injuries and aslight loss of hearing. Thearmorplating probably saved theirlives--the first grenade caved in thetrunk and caused the back window toshatter, causing some minor injuriesto the occupants from the flyingglass. The U.S. military escortvehicle pulled up and the policesearched the area. The assailantsescaped immediately after theattack. Police discovered a Soviet-made bazooka, a small tent, sleepingbags and provisions as well aswireless radio equipment.The RedArmy Faction claimed responsibilityfor the attempted assassination. Theletter claimed credit for the GudrunEnsslin Commando stating that thegeneral is the one who ordersdevastation by conventionalweapons and decides when andwhere neutron warheads will befired....Later in September,investigating authorities announcedthat through fingerprint analysis ithad been determined that BrigitteMohnhaupt, currently being soughtas a terrorist member of the June 2ndMovement, was involved in theattack on the general.

16-Sep-81 FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Red Army Faction is believedresponsible for two time bombs seton a rail line supplying the U.S. AirForce Rhein Main Air Base. Two alertAmerican soldiers found the bombsticking away hidden in 13-pound fireextinguishers. Explosives expertsdefused the bombs.

17-Sep-81 GuatemalaUnknown Firearms1 1 GUATEMALA. Terrorists shoutinganti-American slogans ransacked anAmerican missionary's home andthen shot him to death in front of hiswife and five children. AnotherAmerican missionary was seriouslywounded. The U.S. Embassyidentified the murdered man as JohnDave Troyer, 28, of Mio, Michiganwho had worked in Guatemala forseven years as a ConservativeMennonite missionary.

17-Sep-81 Tehran Iran Ninth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives0 0 IRAN. A bomb damaged the doorsand windows of a Swiss Embassybuilding in Tehran and an Armeniangroup claimed responsibility. No onewas hurt in the explosion. The Ninthof June Organization has beentargeting Swiss interests to obtainthe release of one of their members.

17-Sep-81 Sidon Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives108 29 LEBANON. A bomb charge estimatedat 300 kilograms blew up outside theguerrilla regional command center inSidon of the Palestinian-Lebaneseleftist alliance, killing at least 29people and wounding 108 others,mainly women and children fromnearby apartments. Palestiniansources said four guerrillas wereamong the dead. The explosiondamaged six buildings, rippingconcrete facades from several, andburned a dozen cars. A nearlysimultaneous explosion took place ata cement factory owned by the PLO.A telephone caller claiming torepresent anti-Palestinian rightiststook responsibility for the blasts. Thecaller, a spokesman for the Front forthe Liberation of Lebanon fromForeigners, said Lebanon will neverbe the base or passageway of anyaliens or usurpers.

17-Sep-81 Chekka Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives8 4 LEBANON. A cement factory inChekka, northern Lebanon,purportedly owned by the PLO butofficially owned by the pro-Palestinian former president ofLebanon, was the target of apowerful explosion which demolishedthe factory, killing 4 people andwounding eight others. The attackwas almost simultaneous to a similarbombing in Sidon at PLO regionaloffices. The Front for the Liberationof Lebanon from Foreigners claimedcredit for the attack stating thatLebanon will never be the base orpassageway of any aliens orusurpers.

18-Sep-81 Beirut Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives2 2 LEBANON. A booby-trapped carexploded in a Beirut suburb killingtwo of its occupants and seriouslywounding two other passengers.Police said the device was concealedinside the small car and consisted of11 pounds of TNT, but that therewere indications that the bombexploded enroute to an unknowntarget. The mysterious rightist Frontfor the Liberation of Lebanon fromForeigners claimed responsibility forthe bombing--the third by the groupin a 24-hour period. A calleridentifying himself as a member ofthe group stated Our objectives arevery clear and we will continue ourstruggle until not a single alien orconspirator remains on Lebanesesoil. The spokesman also said whileLebanon is our military base ofoperations, our main headquarters isin West Germany... We are notconnected with any Lebanese factionoperating inside Lebanon, beingrightist or otherwise.

20-Sep-81 Beirut Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives36 4 LEBANON. The fourth terrorist bombin as many days exploded in acrowded movie theater in theMoslem section of west Beirut, killingat least four people and wounding 36others. As in the other bombings,the Front for the Liberation ofLebanon from Foreigners claimedresponsibility for the attack in atelephone call to AFP. The caller saidthat this operation of ours is to proveto the PLO that we are not a fictitiousgroup and all the threats in the worldagainst us will remain fictitious, astatement which possibly referred tothe PLO's assertion that the groupwas merely a fictitious front forIsraeli operations.

22-Sep-81 Albany UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Hours before thecontroversial South African rugbyteam, the Springboks played anAmerican all-star team in Albany, N.Y., a bomb exploded near theEastern Rugby Union's offices inSchenectady. The explosion caused$50,000 in damage to the buildingand minor damage to the rugbyunion's offices.

22-Sep-81 Kabul AfghanistanOther Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. The Soviet Embassyin Kabul was bombarded with rocketsby Muslim guerrillas. An Afghanexile, who monitors Radio Kabul,says this was the fourth rebel attackthis month on the embassy whichhas suffered considerable damage.

23-Sep-81 Honduras Other Firearms2 0 HONDURAS. Gunmen in a taxisprayed the vehicle of two U.S.soldiers wounding them both. AirForce Sgt. Russel L. McFall andArmy Sgt. Robert L. Smith had botharrived two months earlier as part ofa team of 15 U.S. advisers.Honduras asked for U.S. aid earlierthis year to help train its armedforces against guerrilla violence. In amessage delivered to a local radiostation, the Lorenzo Zelaya PopularRevolutionary Command, a littleknown group named after aCommunist killed by the army in1963, took responsibility for theshooting.

23-Sep-81 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. Four hooded men evidentlyattempting to toss explosives at theChilean Embassy in Lima were takenby surprise during the night as theircar approached the Embassygrounds. A police car patrolling thearea gave pursuit but was unable toapprehend the terrorists.

23-Sep-81 Limassol Cyprus Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives5 0 CYPRUS. The Shoham shippingcompany in Limassol, southernCyprus, was the target of a grenadeattack which resulted in thewounding of five young GreekCypriot employees. The companyrepresented the Israeli shipping firm,Zim. Two Arabs were arrested inconnection with the attack andclaimed to be members of thedissident Palestinian group headedby Abu Nidal. The two carried mapsand instructions for attacks on othertargets in Cyprus and authoritiesbelieved the group intended toblackmail the Cypriot government forthe release of two Jordanian convictsserving life sentences in the Cyprusjails.

24-Sep-81 FrenchPolynesia

Other Firearms0 1 NEW CALEDONIA. A 20-year oldFrench citizen was formally chargedwith the murder of Pierre Declercq, aleader of the Union Caledoniennemovement seeking independence forNew Caledonia. Declercq was one ofthe few French supporters ofindependence for the French SouthPacific territory. He was killed by ashot fired into his house through anopen window. Dominique Canon,known for publicly threatening to useviolence against advocates ofindependence, was charged after thediscovery of a shotgun in his garage,along with a list of independenceleaders to receive threatening lettersin his home.

24-Sep-81 Paris France ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms2 1 FRANCE. Four armed members ofthe Armenian Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia, SuicideCommandos of Yeghia Kechichian,shot their way into Turkish consularoffices in Paris shortly before noon.They were armed with automaticweapons and grenades. Aftershooting their way past two Frenchpolicemen at the door the terroristsmade their way upstairs into theconsulate proper where they held 51people hostage, mostly Turkishimmigrant workers. A Turkish guardwas killed. The Turkish vice consulwas also seriously wounded in thechest and was released by thegunmen. At the same time, one ofthe terrorists (identified as VaskenSicilian, the leader of the group)surrendered with a gunshot wound inthe shoulder.In Beirut an ASALAspokesman, Ara Toranian, said theattackers would kill their hostages iftheir demands were not met andwould blow up the building if theFrench tried to intervene. Theydemanded the Turkish governmentfree Armenian political prisonerswithin 12 hours and fly them to Paris.The Turks refused to deal with thegunmen and said there were nopolitical prisoners in Turkish jails,only extremists of the left and right.Negotiations were carried out by anArmenian newsman in Armenian,with a gunman at the window whoused a hostage as a shield. Noteswere tossed from the window listingdemands identical to those issued inBeirut indicating coordinated actions.Anti-terrorist commandos weregathered at the consulate but it wasdifficult to have a clear-cut course ofaction. After 15 hours, when thedeadline had passed withoutincident, the remaining threeterrorists, one of which was slightlywounded, surrendered peacefullyrequesting political asylum from theFrench government. None of thehostages were harmed.One of theterrorists hanged himself in his cellon April 13, 1985. He, along withthree others, had been sentenced toseven years imprisonment.

25-Sep-81 Stuttgart FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three cars were set on fire while theywere parked within a U.S. Armyhousing area in Stuttgart. One carwas completely destroyed. Twoother cars were damaged. Noinjuries were reported.

26-Sep-81 WesternSahara

PolisarioFront

Unknown3 1 WESTERN SAHARA. The Portuguesefishing vessel Porto Ceu wasattacked by Polisario guerrillas offthe Western Sahara Coast. Onefisherman was killed, and threeothers wounded.

28-Sep-81 Australia Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. Police used dogs toferret out a suspicious package in achurch across the street from whereQueen Elizabeth was to attendchurch services. A caller hadthreatened to blow up the churchattended by the queen.

29-Sep-81 NewDelhi

India Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 INDIA. An Indian Airlines planecarrying 111 passengers and a crewof six was hijacked by five Sikhmilitants carrying the knives andswords customary of the Sikhwarriors, and a hand grenade. TheSikhs are a religious group fromnorthern India, seeking a separate,independent Sikh state. Thehijackers forced the crew of thedomestic flight from New Delhi, to flythem to Lahore, Pakistan,threatening them with small daggerscalled kirpans which all orthodox Sikhmen are required to carry at all timesin their hair. Six hours after thelanding in Lahore, the hijackersreleased 67 passengers, includingwomen, children, foreigners, andmembers of their own Sikh sect. Thehijackers refused to negotiatedirectly with Indian governmentrepresentatives and made nodemands. Instead, in the Indian cityof Amritsar, the site of the Sikhs'holiest shrine, a Sikh separatistorganization claimed responsibilityfor the hijacking and demanded therelease of Sikh militants from Indianjails. A member of the governingcouncil of the group said thehijacking was intended to focus theattention of the world to thedemands of the Sikhs. Theirdemands included the release ofJarnail Singh Bhinderwale, leader ofthe militant Sikh sect, who wasarrested last week in connection withthe slaying of a Hindu journalist whohad criticized Sikh separatism. Theyalso demanded a half-million dollarransom and a meeting with thepress, and set a deadline for themorning of the following day.Ninetyminutes before the deadline,Pakistani commandos dressed ascleaning men entered the plane,overpowered the hijackers andrescued all the remaining hostages.None of the hostages were injured inthe operation.Indian Airlines officialsreported that the leader of the grouphad been identified as GajenderSingh, an officer of the Dal Khalsa, orSociety of the Pure, an organizationof students and other young Sikhswho seek an independent state.Seven weeks ago, in an interview,Mr. Singh had said that his group wasseeking to pattern itself after thePalestine Liberation Organization andthat it was prepared to use terrorism,which he called the political languageof the 20th century.

29-Sep-81 NewDelhi

India Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 INDIA. An Indian Airlines planecarrying 111 passengers and a crewof six was hijacked by five Sikhmilitants carrying the knives andswords customary of the Sikhwarriors, and a hand grenade. TheSikhs are a religious group fromnorthern India, seeking a separate,independent Sikh state. Thehijackers forced the crew of thedomestic flight from New Delhi, to flythem to Lahore, Pakistan,threatening them with small daggerscalled kirpans which all orthodox Sikhmen are required to carry at all timesin their hair. Six hours after thelanding in Lahore, the hijackersreleased 67 passengers, includingwomen, children, foreigners, andmembers of their own Sikh sect. Thehijackers refused to negotiatedirectly with Indian governmentrepresentatives and made nodemands. Instead, in the Indian cityof Amritsar, the site of the Sikhs'holiest shrine, a Sikh separatistorganization claimed responsibilityfor the hijacking and demanded therelease of Sikh militants from Indianjails. A member of the governingcouncil of the group said thehijacking was intended to focus theattention of the world to thedemands of the Sikhs. Theirdemands included the release ofJarnail Singh Bhinderwale, leader ofthe militant Sikh sect, who wasarrested last week in connection withthe slaying of a Hindu journalist whohad criticized Sikh separatism. Theyalso demanded a half-million dollarransom and a meeting with thepress, and set a deadline for themorning of the following day.Ninetyminutes before the deadline,Pakistani commandos dressed ascleaning men entered the plane,overpowered the hijackers andrescued all the remaining hostages.None of the hostages were injured inthe operation.Indian Airlines officialsreported that the leader of the grouphad been identified as GajenderSingh, an officer of the Dal Khalsa, orSociety of the Pure, an organizationof students and other young Sikhswho seek an independent state.Seven weeks ago, in an interview,Mr. Singh had said that his group wasseeking to pattern itself after thePalestine Liberation Organization andthat it was prepared to use terrorism,which he called the political languageof the 20th century.

29-Sep-81 Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives40 15 LEBANON. A Mercedes-Benz parkednear a restaurant in a south Lebanonvillage exploded killing 15 peopleand injuring at least 40 others,mainly pedestrians. The carexploded a short distance from acheckpoint where two militia unitswere searching for explosive devices.Witnesses said several guerrillasmanning the checkpoint were victimsin the blast. Similar bombings in thepast month have been claimed bythe Front for the Liberation ofLebanon from Foreigners, a rightistgroup intent on freeing Lebanon ofPalestinian and Syrian troops.

30-Sep-81 Vina DelMar

Chile Unknown Firearms0 0 CHILE. Unknown personsperpetrated an attack againstgasoline tanks in Vina Del Mar, firinggunshots from a cab. The group shotat one of the Shell Oil Companytanks, holding 10,000 liters ofpremium gasoline, but hit a rail onthe side of the tank causing nodamage. A little later, the vehicleused in the attack was found. Thecar's owner and driver explained thathe had been held up, bound and putinside the car's trunk.

1-Oct-81 Rio deJaneiro


0 0 BRAZIL. A small firebomb wasthrown from a passing car at the U.S.Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, butcaused little damage and no injuries.No one claimed responsibility for theattack.

1-Oct-81 Beirut Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Explosives300 83 LEBANON. A huge car bombexploded in the crowded Palestinianquarter of Beirut killing 83 peopleand wounding another 300. Theexplosion took place on BustaniStreet, an area of small shops andbuildings housing some of the officesof the PLO, including that of AbuIyad, second in command to YasserArafat of the Fatah guerrillas. AbuIyad was not injured in the explosion.A PLO spokesman laid the blame forthe explosion on the United Statesand Israel, even if a Lebanese groupwas involved. The attack wasclaimed by the Front for theLiberation of Lebanon fromForeigners, a group responsible forseveral such bombings in the pastmonth. The explosion on the busystreet killed mainly pedestrians,burying them under the rubble ofconcrete from nearby buildings.Palestinians carrying machine gunshung out the windows of theambulances, spraying bullets in theair to keep traffic out of the way.Beirut radio quoted security sourcesas saying that two other booby-trapped cars were found in the samearea and the explosive chargesdefused. Heavily armed guerrillaserected checkpoints in a four-blockperimeter around the PLO offices.

3-Oct-81 Geneva SwitzerlandNinth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives1 0 SWITZERLAND. Two bombs went offin the center of Geneva andArmenian extremists claimedresponsibility. The police said oneperson was injured slightly and someshop windows were shattered. Theexplosive devices were set off at theentrance of the main post office andat the city courthouse, where amember of the Armenian SecretArmy for the Liberation of Armenia isto be tried for murder. A caller to theGeneva bureau of Agence France-Presse said the bombs were placedby the June 9 Organization.

3-Oct-81 Geneva SwitzerlandNinth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Two bombs went offin the center of Geneva andArmenian extremists claimedresponsibility. The police said oneperson was injured slightly and someshop windows were shattered. Theexplosive devices were set off at theentrance of the main post office andat the city courthouse, where amember of the Armenian SecretArmy for the Liberation of Armenia isto be tried for murder. A caller to theGeneva bureau of Agence France-Presse said the bombs were placedby the June 9 Organization.

4-Oct-81 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A package bombapparently intended for a high-ranking South African emissary wasdiscovered on the steps of the QatarEmbassy in Washington, D.C. andwas later exploded in a truck by apolice bomb squad. The package,discovered by a maid at theEmbassy, was addressed to thenearby home of Sybrand Visagie,South Africa's top representative tothe International Monetary Fund. Noone claimed responsibility fordelivering the package and themotive is unknown. South Africa hasbeen the object of much controversywith its apartheid policies.

6-Oct-81 Rome Italy Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 1 ITALY. A bomb killed a senior officialof the PLO in his Rome hotel room.Majed Abu Sharar, also a member ofFatah's Executive Committee, wasattending a writer's conference inRome. A PLO spokesman blamedIsrael for the attack, calling AbuSharar a victim of the homicidalmadness of Israeli terrorists.However, shortly after the explosion,which was believed to have beencaused by a booby-trappedtelephone, the assassination wasclaimed in the name of the GeneralCommand of Al Assifa, which is thename of the military wing of Al Fatahand also the name used by theSyrian-supported group headed bythe Palestinian dissident, Abu Nidal.Nidal broke with Arafat in the early70s and waged a war of the shadowsin which eight PLO representativeswere killed. The caller from thegroup stated that Sharar had beenkilled because he represented theline of surrender and was trying tocompromise about the principles ofour revolution.

6-Oct-81 Istanbul Turkey Other Firearms3 0 TURKEY. Anti-Khomeini forces shotup and ransacked the Iranianconsulate in Istanbul to protest themounting number of executions andoppressions of the Khomeini regime.Three people were wounded in theshooting during the seizure. The 26masked Iranians, said to be students,held the consulate for about 50minutes before Turkish policesurrounded the building and brokethe seige. The Consul General andeight staff members had been takenhostage at gunpoint and led to thebasement, while the dissidents threwout furniture and caused extensivedamage to the interior of theconsulate.

6-Oct-81 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb heavily damaged amonument to John F. Kennedy in anaffluent suburb of Lima. There wereno injuries, but the dynamite blewout part of the marble basesupporting the bust of theassassinated U.S. president.

7-Oct-81 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives1 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded at a touristinformation office of Israel's El Alnational airlines on Rome's ViaVeneto. One person was injured inthe attack which officials said wastimed to coincide with Yom Kippur,the Jewish Day of Atonement.

7-Oct-81 Colombia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. Students burned threevehicles, including the Mexicanambassador's car. The NationalUniversity was closed because ofviolence on and off the campus,exhorted by a hooded man with asubmachine gun.

7-Oct-81 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives5 0 ITALY. At about the same time as abombing at El Al airlines office, therewas a powerful bomb explosion in abusy square in Ostia, west of Rome,where thousands of Soviet Jews live,waiting for visas to the United Statesand other Western countries. Fivepeople, two of them Soviet Jews,three of them Italians, were injured inthe attack on the square where theJews traditionally gather in theevening to chat. Officials believe theattack was timed to coincide withYom Kippur, the Jewish Day ofAtonement.


Unknown Unknown0 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Munich police reported the murder ofa 38- year old Croat who lived inexile in Munich.Two days l ater, twobombs exploded in suspectedretaliation of this killing.

9-Oct-81 Lebanon Other Unknown2 0 LEBANON. Palestinian guerrillaswounded the chief of staff of the U.N.peace-keeping force in southernLebanon as he drove through thePalestinian area of the U.N. sector.Brigadier General James Onoja ofNigeria suffered a wound in his leftshoulder in the attack. His driverwas also wounded. The U.N. peace-keeping force has protested theincident to PLO headquarters inBeirut.

10-Oct-81 GuatemalaCity


Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Gunmen firing fromseveral vehicles killed a Guatemalanpolice officer guarding the U.S.Embassy in Guatemala City. Nogroup claimed immediateresponsibility for the attack, but itwas believed to have been carriedout by one or more of the four leftistguerrilla groups battling Guatemala'sconservative military government. Afew days later leaflets weredistributed in the city crediting thePeople's Guerrilla Army with theterrorist attack.


Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs exploded at two differentYugoslav restaurants in Munichwithin a few hours of each other.Police suspect that the bombs wereplanted in protest against the recentmurder of a Croatian exile living inMunich. Two people were injured inthe bombings and there was anestimated $50,000 in damage.


Other Explosives2 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Bombs exploded at two differentYugoslav restaurants in Munichwithin a few hours of each other.Police suspect that the bombs wereplanted in protest against the recentmurder of a Croatian exile living inMunich. Two people were injured inthe bombings and there was anestimated $50,000 in damage.

19-Oct-81 Paris France Unknown Explosives1 1 FRANCE. A Croatian activist waskilled by a bomb planted under hiscar in the south of Paris. Mate Kolic,41, detonated the plastic explosivewhen he switched on the ignition.His wife, who was also in the caroutside their home in Cachan, wasseriously wounded. Kolic, a Yugoslavcitizen, was a member of a Croatianautonomist organization. Over thepast seven years several Croatianactivists have been slain in Franceand Croatian groups have claimedresponsibility for a number of violentincidents.

19-Oct-81 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An explosion in a phonebooth in Paris and a series of similarattacks during the following weekbaffled police. Some of the attackswere claimed by a mysteriousLiberation Army of Canaque, but themilitant separatists of New Caledoniadenied responsibility. A new groupcalled September-France (perhaps anArmenian group protesting the arrestof four Armenians after the takeoverof the Turkish consulate onSeptember 24) also claimed creditfor many of the attacks. Authoritiesalso suspect the extreme right andAction Directe.

20-Oct-81 Antwerp Belgium BlackSeptember

Explosives95 4 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded in atruck near a synagogue in the heartof the diamond center in Antwerpshortly before a scheduled Jewishceremony in a tremendous blast thatkilled four people and injured 95others. The bomb had been plantedin a delivery truck parked the nightbefore. It was parked illegally but awheel had been removed as if it hadbroken down. The blast heavilydamaged buildings in the thrivingdiamond district of Antwerp's Jewishquarter. An anonymous caller toldthe Belgian news agency Belga theattack was carried out by the Groupof Direct Action, Belgian Section. Thisrefers to the French group which hasnever before perpetrated an actionoutside French borders. A callerclaiming to be from Direct Actioncalled the French press anddisclaimed the incident entirely.Thenext day the attack was claimed by acaller speaking for Black September.The caller said that three more bombattacks were planned for Belgium.He ended the call shouting severaltimes Palestine will conquer.On thesame feast day last year, a bombattached to a parked motorbikeexploded in Paris outside asynagogue on the Rue Copernic,killing four people. (See October 3,1980) Other similarities with theParis synagogue attack and theAntwerp one appeared when theowner of the van was traced. The vanhad been purchased only a few daysearlier by a Nicolas Brazzi from aused car dealer. Brazzi, and hisfemale companion who could speaksome French, were traced to aBrussels hotel, where he registeredclaiming Cypriot nationality, just aswas claimed by the owner, Panadryu,of the motorbike which blew upoutside the Paris synagogue.

23-Oct-81 NicaraguaOther Firearms0 2 NICARAGUA. Daniel Ortega, theleader of Nicaragua's ruling juntaannounced the shooting deaths oftwo Cuban school teachers byantigovernment terrorists in aremote village.

23-Oct-81 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. Bombs exploded outside theoffices in Rome of Reader's Digest,the Bank of America and the AvisRental Car Company. Callers tonewspapers and news agenciesclaimed responsibility for thebombings in the name of theCommunist Groups for ProletarianInternationalism, a previouslyunknown group.



23-Oct-81 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside theoffices in Rome of Chile's Embassy tothe Vatican. Callers to newspapersand news agencies claimedresponsibility for the bombings in thename of the Communist Groups forProletarian Internationalism, apreviously unknown group.

25-Oct-81 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded in Romeoutside the offices of AmericanExpress. The blast, which causeddamage but no injuries, was claimedby the Communist Groups forProletarian Internationalism.

25-Oct-81 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded in Romeoutside the offices of the Argentinegovernment. The blast caused noinjuries and was claimed by theCommunist Groups for ProletarianInternationalism.

25-Oct-81 Rome Italy Other Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded in Romeoutside the offices of the Guatemalangovernment. The blast caused noinjuries and was claimed by theCommunist Groups for ProletarianInternationalism.

25-Oct-81 Paris France September-FranceExplosives3 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in thefashionable Paris restaurant,Fouquet's, on the Champs-Elysees,slightly injuring three employees.The attack was later claimed bymilitant separatists of the LiberationArmy of Canaque. but officials werenot convinced of the source becauseof speculation concerning severalother bombings during the week. Aclaim was also made by a new groupcalling itself September-France.(ASALA listed this incident in itschronology of actions in Armenia.)


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. The Egyptiangovernment tourist office wasfirebombed in New York but resultedin no injuries. The two bombs werethrown through the window but onlyone exploded causing severedamage. A caller claiming to be amember of the Jewish DefenseLeague claimed responsibility for thebombing and said it was a protestagainst the Camp David peaceagreement which should be buriedwith Sadat.

25-Oct-81 Rome Italy ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms0 0 ITALY. A lone gunman attempted toassassinate a Turkish diplomat inRome. The diplomat, GokbekErgenekon, was attacked while hewas riding in his car. He returnedfire and possibly wounded theterrorist before he fled. TheArmenian group ASALA claimedresponsibility for the attack in thename of the 24th of SeptemberSuicide Commandos--a namereferring to date of the takeover ofthe Turkish consulate in Paris whichled to the arrest of four Armenianterrorists, members of ASALA.ASALA added, We are hunting downfascist Turkish diplomats around theworld. Victory is ours.

26-Oct-81 Paris France September-FranceExplosives0 0 FRANCE. An explosion in a booby-trapped car on the Champs-Elyseesin Paris destroyed the parked car butinjured no one. The explosion was infront of a fashionable snack and shopestablishment called Le Drugstore. Aseries of similar attacks during thefollowing week baffled police. Someof the attacks were claimed by amysterious Liberation Army ofCanaque, but the militant separatistsof New Caledonia deniedresponsibility. A new group calledSeptember-France (perhaps anArmenian group protesting the arrestof four Armenians after the takeoverof the Turkish consulate onSeptember 24) also claimed creditfor many of the attacks. Authoritiesalso suspect the extreme right andAction Directe. (ASALA listed thisincident in its chronology of actionsin Armenia)

26-Oct-81 Ireland ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 0 IRELAND. Police arrested twosuspected IRA guerrillas as the pairslept on a hilltop beside thedetonator for a 500-pound bomb thatwas apparently targeted for Britishsecurity forces. The explosives,packed in four metal beer kegs and amilk churn, were wired to thedetonator, which was on a small hill200 yards inside the Irish Republic,while the bomb was hidden acrossthe border in Northern Ireland in ahedge on a narrow country road.

27-Oct-81 Paris France September-FranceExplosives0 0 FRANCE. Another explosion at RoissyAirport in Paris came from a deviceplanted in a garbage can near a busyescalator. There were no victims. Aseries of similar attacks during theweek baffled police. Some of theattacks were claimed by amysterious Liberation Army ofCanaque, but the militant separatistsof New Caledonia deniedresponsibility. A new group calledSeptember-France (perhaps anArmenian group protesting the arrestof four Armenians after the takeoverof the Turkish consulate onSeptember 24) also claimed creditfor many of the attacks. Authoritiesalso suspect the extreme right andAction Directe. (ASALA listed thisincident in its chronology in Armenia)

28-Oct-81 Paris France September-FranceExplosives3 0 FRANCE. An explosion in a crowdedmovie theater in Paris, injuring threepeople was the latest in a series ofsimilar attacks during the weekwhich baffled police. Some of theattacks were claimed by amysterious Liberation Army ofCanaque, but the militant separatistsof New Caledonia deniedresponsibility. A new group calledSeptember-France (perhaps anArmenian group protesting the arrestof four Armenians after the takeoverof the Turkish consulate onSeptember 24) also claimed creditfor many of the attacks. Authoritiesalso suspect the extreme right andAction Directe. (ASALA listed thisincident in its chronology in Armenia)

29-Oct-81 CostaRica

Other Unknown0 0 COSTA RICA. A small plane with 26passengers and three crewmemberswas hijacked by five Nicaraguanrightists demanding the release ofsix Nicaraguans convicted of tryingto blow up a Costa Rican radiostation that they said broadcastpropaganda for the leftist rulers ofNicaragua. The plane was takenover during a domestic flight and washeld at the Juan Santamaria Airportin Costa Rica. Four Americans werelisted aboard the plane. Shortly afterlanding, the hijackers released eightpassengers, including women,children and two sick passengers.The group, called the NicaraguanAnti-Communist DemocraticMovement released a communiquelisting the names of the prisoners tobe released within 4 hours, anddeclared that noncompliance withtheir demands would result in theexecution of one hostage for eachhour past the deadline. They alsorequested fuel and a navigation mapof South America.The six prisonerswere surrendered to the hijackersand the remaining hostages werefreed except for the pilot. He wasforced under pain of death to flythem to an undisclosed location. Thepilot returned with his empty planefour hours later. Later, in ElSalvador, the eleven fugitives werearrested on an isolated air strip nearSan Miguel. A Salvadoran militaryspokesman said the hijackers, whowere believed to be three men andtwo women, were detained alongwith the freed prisoners in ElSalvador pending extraditionproceedings. Later in mid-NovemberEl Salvador denied the extraditionrequest.

30-Oct-81 France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown into a car parked outside theoffice of a French senator, causing afire which destroyed the vehicle.Police suspected that this assaultwas related to a wave of bombingswhich had taken place in the pastweek throughout the capitol, someclaimed by a militant separatistgroup from New Caledonia, as well asothers.See incidents 10/25/81through 10/27/81.

2-Nov-81 Nantes France IrishNationalLiberationArmy(INLA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. French Navy diversdisarmed a bomb attached to thehull of a British research ship.Officials said most of the 120 crewmembers of the Royal Navyhydrographic vessel Hecate, dockedin Nantes for three days wereevacuated before dawn after a slightexplosion was heard on the dockwhere it was moored. Divers thenwent searching and discovered abomb containing 2.2 pounds ofplastic explosives on the ship's hulljust below the waterline. The causeof the first blast was not discovered.An anonymous caller later told thepress that he represented the BobbySands group which had planted thedevice to support the political andmilitary combat of Irish republicansfor freedom and nationalindependence. According to Risks,November 1981, the INLA wasresponsible for this attempt.

3-Nov-81 Madrid Spain ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives3 0 SPAIN. Three people were injured inan explosion on the Swissair officesin Madrid. In a phone call to AFP theSecret Army for the Liberation ofArmenia claimed credit for the attackwhich caused considerable damageto the offices and surroundingbuildings. Two Lebanese, apparentlyof Armenian ancestry, were arrestedin connection with the attack. Thetwo are students attending school inMadrid.

5-Nov-81 Paris France OrlyOrganization

Explosives1 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at Paris'Gare de Lyon train station injuring atleast one person and destroyingmore than two dozen luggagelockers. Officials said the explosionoccurred in an underground level ofthe station, which houses thesuburban subway line. Later, theattack was claimed by the previouslyunknown Orly Organization, anArmenian group.

6-Nov-81 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Ahome-made pipe bomb exploded inthe basement of the Austrian generalconsulate but no injuries werereported. Authorities believe theexplosion is connected to a series ofdemonstrations and firebombingsprotesting a new runway at Frankfurtairport. The Austrian consulate wasa target presumably becauseAustrian lumberjacks have beenemployed to clear the trees from thearea.

7-Nov-81 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Unknown0 0 HONDURAS. A United States A.I.D.official was kidnapped by two armedmen but escaped seven hours laterwhen they were involved in a carcrash. John Olson, 51, arepresentative of the Agency forInternational Development, wasabducted after his car was halted bythe two men in Tegucigalpa just aftermidnight. The men blindfolded himand drove him off in his own carsome 150 miles north to San PedroSula. Shortly after arriving, theycrashed into another vehicle, causingthe kidnappers to flee, leaving Mr.Olson unharmed.

7-Nov-81 Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms1 0 LEBANON. In an incident similar tothe attempted kidnapping of theFrench Ambassador Louis Delamare(Sept. 4), the Saudi Arabiancommercial attache escaped asimilar fate when three gunmenattempted to enter the official's car.The diplomat's security guards ridingwith him fought off the potentialkidnappers. The diplomat,Muhammad Salih Al-Madani waswounded in the leg during theshootout. The Syrian-directed radicalPalestinian group Assifa is suspectedof involvement in the incident.

7-Nov-81 Stuttgart FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Yugoslav cultural center wasbombed in Stuttgart. Albaniannationalists were suspected.

12-Nov-81

Paris France LebaneseArmedRevolutionaryFaction(LARF)

Firearms0 0 FRANCE. A youth fired a half-dozenshots at the top-ranking U.S.diplomat in France in anassassination attempt outside thediplomat's apartment near the EiffelTower. Charge d'Affaires ChristianChapman, 60, said he escaped injuryby ducking behind his chauffeur-driven embassy sedan after seeing aman reach into his black leatherjacket. Chapman described thegunman as a Middle Eastern type.The assailant fled the scene on foot,and Paris police reported no arrests.Responsibility for the attack waslater claimed by the Lebanese ArmedRevolutionary Faction.

12-Nov-81

Beirut Lebanon OrlyOrganization

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Orly Group, anArmenian organization, claimedcredit for two anti-French bombattacks in Beirut. The group isnamed for an event at Orly Airport inParis, the arrest of an Armenian bythe French police for carrying a falsepassport. The group demanded hisimmediate release or threatened thatFrench diplomats would becometargets, giving 11 a.m. Sunday as thedeadline.

12-Nov-81


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Orly Group, anArmenian organization, claimedcredit for two anti-French bombattacks in Beirut. The group isnamed for an event at Orly Airport inParis, the arrest of an Armenian bythe French police for carrying a falsepassport. The group demanded hisimmediate release or threatened thatFrench diplomats would becometargets, giving 11 a.m. Sunday as thedeadline.

14-Nov-81

Paris France OrlyOrganization

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb slightly damagedan automobile parked near the EiffelTower. Moments after the blast,which injured no one, the Orly group,an Armenian organization telephonedAFP in Beirut and Paris and claimedresponsibility for the incident. TheParis caller said the explosion wasthe first warning.

14-Nov-81


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. In the late evening therewas a grenade attack against agroup of tourists coming off asightseeing boat on the Seine River.No one was hurt. The attack wasclaimed by the Orly Organization andwas called the first warning.

14-Nov-81

UnitedStates


Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. The Long Islandhome of the Soviet delegate to the U.N. was fired upon but Oleg A.Troyanovsky and his wife were not athome at the time. The dozen or soshots shattered windows but causedno injuries and little damage. A manclaiming to represent the JewishDefense League telephoned wireservices and claimed the attack wason the behalf of Soviet Jews. Later,Meir Kahane, the internationaldirector of the League deniedresponsibility for the shooting butsaid, We heartily applaud the act.OnMarch 25, 1982, two Long Islandteenagers pleaded guilty to theshooting into the Glen Cove mansion.They were accused of harassing,annoying, and alarming theoccupants, against a section of thestate civil rights law pertaining toharassment based on national origin.The youths face up to one year in jailand a $1000 fine.

15-Nov-81


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A late evening explosiondamaged the Air France offices inEast Beirut. There were no injuries.The attack was claimed by the OrlyOrganization.

15-Nov-81


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Banque LibanoFrancaise and the Union desAssurances de Paris were bombed inEast Beirut. Damage was extensivebut there were no injuries. Theattacks were claimed by the OrlyOrganization. (ASALA later listed inits chronology of Orly actions inArmenia, the bombing of the FransaBank in Zouk Michael, Beirut; thebombing of the Banque Union deParis in Bourj Hamoud, Beirut.)

15-Nov-81


Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The Banque LibanoFrancaise and the Union desAssurances de Paris were bombed inEast Beirut. Damage was extensivebut there were no injuries. Theattacks were claimed by the OrlyOrganization. (ASALA later listed inits chronology of Orly actions inArmenia, the bombing of the FransaBank in Zouk Michael, Beirut; thebombing of the Banque Union deParis in Bourj Hamoud, Beirut.)

15-Nov-81


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded in thebasement of the MacDonald'sRestaurant in Paris at 11:30 in theevening. Earlier, at 9:45pm a callerclaimed that the September Franceand the Orly Organization hadbombed MacDonald's.

15-Nov-81

Sydney Australia Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 AUSTRALIA. The Greek consulgeneral in Sydney was found dead inhis home with a head wound and aknife in his back. Police said thebody of Constantine Giannaris wasfound by a janitor. The home hadbeen ransacked. Giannaris' deathwas the second murder in theSydney diplomatic corps in less thana year. Two youths, aged 16 and 19,were charged with the murder ofGiannaris.

16-Nov-81


Explosives2 0 FRANCE. A bomb placed in aluggage locker exploded in the Garede l'Est railway terminal, woundingtwo people. Thirty lockers weredestroyed. Responsibility for theattack was claimed by the Orly Groupof Armenian extremists.

17-Nov-81

Honduras Other Unknown0 2 HONDURAS. Salvadoran troopsinvaded Honduras and killed twoHonduran soldiers near a refugeecamp where four U.S. congressionalaides and Bianca Jagger, the formerwife of rock star Mick Jagger, werevisiting.

17-Nov-81

Honduras Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 HONDURAS. Honduran rightists setfire to a private plane that shuttledBianca Jagger, the former wife ofrock star Mick Jagger, and four U.S.Congressional aides to the La VirtudRefugee Camp. No injuries werereported.

21-Nov-81

LosAngeles

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A bomb explodedoutside the door of the TurkishConsulate in Beverly Hills, California,causing heavy damage but injuringno one. The blast took place at 7:30p.m. and fortunately the building wasnot occupied. About 50 minutesafter the explosion a man claiming torepresent the Justice Commandos ofthe Armenian Genocide called theLos Angeles office of the AssociatedPress to claim credit for the incident.The Turkish Vice Consul made astatement that the consulate hadreceived several threats during theday regarding the impending visit toLos Angeles of a Turkish diplomat.

24-Nov-81

Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Responsibiliity for a firebomb attack that destroyed twoSoviet Embassy vehicles parked on aParis street was claimed by Ukrainiannationalists. The caller claimed to bea member of a group called Bandera,a reference to Etienne Bandera, aUkrainian nationalist who was activein the 1930s, and was murdered. Hesaid the attack was to commemoratethe rebirth of Ukraine.

25-Nov-81

HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

IrishNationalLiberationArmy(INLA)

Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Irish National Liberation Armyclaimed responsibility for thebombing of the British Consulate inHamburg. The explosion broke a fewwindows and hurt no one.

25-Nov-81

Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Three Austrians werekidnapped by Kurds in Iraq and takento a camp in a mountainous region ofIran. A special emissary of theAustrian Foreign Ministry wasdispatched to Iran to obtain theirrelease. He reported that there wereno ransom demands and all threeAustrians were well and waiting to bereleased.

26-Nov-81

Orito Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. M-19 guerrillas attackedan oil exploration camp near Orito.Nelson Rodriquez Pinillas, a geologistemployed by the U.S.-owned WesternPetroleum Corporation, wasassassinated during this action. Hewas accused of being an 'armyinformer'.

30-Nov-81

Luanda Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Explosives0 0 ANGOLA. The Union for the TotalIndependence of Angola (UNITA)bombed a Belgian-owned oil refineryin Luanda as a part of its struggle todestroy the economic base of thecurrent Marxist government whichcounts on oil production for 80% ofits foreign exchange earnings. Thesabotage team managed to destroyone of the three distillation units, anact which is expected to put therefinery out of operation for at leasttwo months.

30-Nov-81

DamascusSyria Other Explosives135 64 SYRIA. A car bomb planted in acrowded Damascus street killed 64people and wounded 135 more. TheOrganization for the Liberation ofLebanon from Foreigners claimedresponsibility.

7-Dec-81 Zurich SwitzerlandAmal Firearms1 0 SWITZERLAND. In a bid to forceLibya's Colonel Qaddafi to return aShiite Moslem leader missing sincean official visit to Libya in August1978, three men hijacked a LibyanAirlines jet carrying 47 passengers ona flight from Zurich to Tripoli. Thehijack took place over Italianairspace and the hijackers forced thecrew to fly to Beirut. There, afternegotiations with Shiite andLebanese officials, a pregnantwoman and two children werereleased. At one time, it wasreported that the gunmen shot andwounded a hostage and declaredthey would kill the wounded man andother hostages if the plane were notrefueled. After refueling, theterrorists took the plane andhostages on an arduous 3-day trip toAthens, Rome, Tehran, and twoadditional landings in Beirut. Duringlandings in Beirut, it was reportedthat they picked up additionalmembers of their Shia sect untilthere were five armed militantsaboard. On the last landing in Beirut,the terrorists gave themselves upand freed their hostages after fivehours of negotiations.This was thesixth hijacking by the Shiites to try touncover the truth about their leader'sdisappearance. Qaddafi claims thatthe Imam Musa Sadr completed hisvisit in Tripoli and boarded a planefor Rome. Italian police reported thatthe Imam's luggage did arrive in thecity but there was no evidence thatthe Imam accompanied it. Many ofthe Imam's followers believe that heis dead but there is hope in somequarters that he was kidnapped andmay still be alive.

7-Dec-81 VenezuelaOther Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. A group of eleven,hooded, armed terrorists claiming tobe Puerto Rican independencefighters and backers of El Salvador'sleftist guerrillas hijacked threeVenezuelan airliners with more than260 people on board in ameticulously planned and executedoperation. In a 30-hour ordeal whichended in Cuba, the planes traveledfrom Venezuela to Honduras,Guatemala, Colombia, Panama forrefueling and the release of some130 of the passengers, mainlywomen and children in exchange formaps of Central America, food,medical supplies and fuel.There wasconfusion as to the actual identity ofthe hijackers--one referred to thegroup as members of the RamonEmeterio Betances Puerto RicoIndependence Commandos. Somereleased passengers stated that theywore armbands El Salvador will win!,and passed out leaflets with thesignature of FMLN (Farabundo MartiNational Liberation Front), whileground controllers said that one hada Venezuelan accent. In Caracas,authorities said they believed thegunmen were linked to Venezuela'sRed Flag guerrilla group, orColombia's M-19. One priest said theterrorists on his plane identifiedthemselves to him as a Salvadoran, aPuerto Rican, and a Venezuelan. Theleaders of each plane's group wereknown simply as Commandantes 9,10, and 11.There was also confusionabout what the terrorists weredemanding. Each of the respectivegovernments were secretive abouttheir dealings with the terrorists.Bogota Radio, however, read thegroup's communique over the air inwhich they requested the release ofseveral Venezuelan politicalprisoners being held in Caracas, aransom of $10 million, and thepublication of their communique inthe countries of El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras, andVenezuela.In a 1973 hijackingagreement signed with Venezuela,Cuba is obligated to return the threeVenezuelan planes, the hijackers andall others aboard. On arrival inHavana, the gunmen were taken intocustody by Cuban police, but therewas no immediate indication of theirfate. Cuba has stated only that theyare under arrest and will be tried inCuba.

7-Dec-81 VenezuelaOther Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. A group of eleven,hooded, armed terrorists claiming tobe Puerto Rican independencefighters and backers of El Salvador'sleftist guerrillas hijacked threeVenezuelan airliners with more than260 people on board in ameticulously planned and executedoperation. In a 30-hour ordeal whichended in Cuba, the planes traveledfrom Venezuela to Honduras,Guatemala, Colombia, Panama forrefueling and the release of some130 of the passengers, mainlywomen and children in exchange formaps of Central America, food,medical supplies and fuel.There wasconfusion as to the actual identity ofthe hijackers--one referred to thegroup as members of the RamonEmeterio Betances Puerto RicoIndependence Commandos. Somereleased passengers stated that theywore armbands El Salvador will win!,and passed out leaflets with thesignature of FMLN (Farabundo MartiNational Liberation Front), whileground controllers said that one hada Venezuelan accent. In Caracas,authorities said they believed thegunmen were linked to Venezuela'sRed Flag guerrilla group, orColombia's M-19. One priest said theterrorists on his plane identifiedthemselves to him as a Salvadoran, aPuerto Rican, and a Venezuelan. Theleaders of each plane's group wereknown simply as Commandantes 9,10, and 11.There was also confusionabout what the terrorists weredemanding. Each of the respectivegovernments were secretive abouttheir dealings with the terrorists.Bogota Radio, however, read thegroup's communique over the air inwhich they requested the release ofseveral Venezuelan politicalprisoners being held in Caracas, aransom of $10 million, and thepublication of their communique inthe countries of El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras, andVenezuela.In a 1973 hijackingagreement signed with Venezuela,Cuba is obligated to return the threeVenezuelan planes, the hijackers andall others aboard. On arrival inHavana, the gunmen were taken intocustody by Cuban police, but therewas no immediate indication of theirfate. Cuba has stated only that theyare under arrest and will be tried inCuba.

7-Dec-81 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives2 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. InBonn, attackers threw an explosivedevice through the window of aUnited States Army office nearKassel, slightly injuring two soldiers.Explosives packed into a fireextinguisher and hurled into the unitcommander's office failed to go off.But the detonator discharged andinjured the two soldiers.

7-Dec-81 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. Unidentified gunmen shotand killed Dr. Abdel Wahab Kayyali, aPalestine leader and a member of thePalestine National council, at hisoffice in Beirut. He also owned apublishing house in Beirut and apublishing business in London wherehe lived. Dr. Kayyali had formerlyserved as head of the educationaland cultural affairs department of thePalestine Liberation Organization'sexecutive committee.

7-Dec-81 Mexico Unknown Unknown0 0 MEXICO. Le Monde reported thataccording to a reliable source, Mr.Valentin Ferrat, an Argentinejournalist has disappeared. Mr.Ferrat is the international coordinatorof the Latin American Federation ofJournalists and a member of theAssociation for Foreign Journalists inMexico.

8-Dec-81 WestBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Explosives4 1 LEBANON. A bomb exploded nearthe residence of the newly-arrivedFrench ambassador, killing a manand wounding four others. The bombhad been hidden in a fruit cartparked in predominantly MoslemWest Beirut near the border with EastBeirut. The residence of the FrenchAmbassador Paul March-Henry wasnot damaged. His predecessor, LouisDelamare, was killed in Septemberby unidentified gunmen. (See 9/4incident.)

12-Dec-81


Explosives0 0 PERU. Terrorists hurled an explosiveat the Peruvian-American CulturalInstitute in Lima. No one wasinjured. Police suspected SenderoLuminoso guerrillas of the attack.

12-Dec-81

Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Suspected leftist terroristshurled explosives from speeding carsin coordinated attacks on the officesof major U.S. firms. The post-midnight explosions shatteredwindows and caused minor damageat the IBM building and the maindowntown offices of Citibank. No onewas injured. Police said the attacksappeared to be coordinated by theMaoist Sendero Luminoso (ShiningPath) terrorist group. Sendero hasbeen held responsible for over 700bombings that have wrecked mostlystate property since the SouthAmerican country returned to acivilian government in July 1980.

12-Dec-81

Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Suspected leftist terroristshurled explosives from speeding carsin coordinated attacks on the officesof major U.S. firms. The post-midnight explosions shatteredwindows and caused minor damageat the IBM building and the maindowntown offices of Citibank. No onewas injured. Police said the attacksappeared to be coordinated by theMaoist Sendero Luminoso (LightedPath) terrorist group. Sendero hasbeen held responsible for over 700bombings that have wrecked mostlystate property since the SouthAmerican country returned to acivilian government in July 1980.

12-Dec-81

GuatemalaCity


Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. A member of thesecurity corps of U.S. Ambassador inGuatemala Frederic Chapin, waskilled in a guerrilla ambush bymembers of the Poor People'sGuerrilla Army. The bodyguard,Maximiliano Sosa Zecena, wasGuatemalan.

13-Dec-81

Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. A left-wing grouppreviously unknown to authoritiesclaimed credit for an explosion at theoffices of the Soviet trade mission toGreece in Athens. The caller, amember of Autonomous Resistance,said the bomb was to protest thedeclaration of a state of emergencyin Poland. There was some damagebut no injuries.

13-Dec-81


Unknown Explosives1 2 UNITED KINGDOM. Amid a wave ofIRA bombings in London in recentweeks, a car bomb exploded in acentral London square, killing two ofthe occupants of the car andseriously injuring the driver. Thesuspicion that the explosion was thework of the IRA was not borne out,Scotland Yard reported. The victimswere all of Middle Eastern origin.

13-Dec-81

MexicoCity

Mexico Unknown Explosives6 0 MEXICO. A bomb exploded in aluggage compartment of aNicaraguan jetliner at the Mexico Cityairport shortly before it was to takeoff for Managua via El Salvador. Thepilot, two flight attendants and threebaggage handlers were injured byflying metal. The blast tore a 12-foothole in the rear of the Boeing 727 ofAeronica, the Nicaraguan nationalairline. The flight was about 50minutes behind schedule, andauthorities said that if it had been onschedule, the blast would have takenplace while the plane was in the airwith more than 100 passengersaboard.

15-Dec-81

Beirut Lebanon Army fortheLiberationofKurdistan

Firearms100 61 LEBANON. A suicide terrorist drivinga car packed with explosives spedthrough machine gun fire into thecompound of the Iraqi Embassycausing two explosions whichcompletely demolished the buildingand resulted in over 100 woundedand at least 61 dead. The explosiondamaged nearby buildings and cars,injuring many within the block. TheIraqi Ambassador, Abdul RazzakLafta was among the dead; his bodywas found 10 days later.Thedisastrous attack was claimed by theArmy for the Liberation of Kurdistan,an area of Iran under Iraqi control.Another call to AFP claimedresponsibility for the attack underthe name of the Iraqi Liberation Army- General Command.On December17, a spokesman for an Iraqi Moslemfundamentalist group, al Dawa,whose name means the call, said hisgroup was responsible for theexplosion that destroyed the IraqiEmbassy.

16-Dec-81

MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. The MozambicanNational Resistance kidnapped BritonJohn Burlison and Chilean MoisesCarril along with an unspecifiednumber of Mozambican aides fromthe Chitengo wildlife school, nearAfrica's most famous animalpreserve. This was the first reportedforeign kidnapping by the groupsince it began its five-year bush waragainst the Marxist regime. Westernintelligence sources in Lisbon haveconfirmed Mozambican charges thatthe rebels are receiving SouthAfrican armaments and logisticalsupport to fight the Marxistgovernment that won independencefrom Portugal in 1975.

16-Dec-81

Naples Italy RedBrigades

Unknown0 0 ITALY. Italian police reported that U.S. Air Force General Wilson Cooney,may have been the object of anattempted kidnapping. The Generalwas away at a meeting at the NATObase in Naples when a commandocalled at his home, but his wiferefused to answer the door. GeneralDozier was attending the samemeeting but returned home toVerona. A van similar to the oneused in the Dozier kidnapping thefollowing day (see December 17) wasseen near Cooney's house. The U.S.Embassy confirmed the police report,saying they had been aware forsome time of suspicious activityoutside the general's home.

17-Dec-81

Verona Italy RedBrigades

Firearms0 0 ITALY. Red Brigades terroristskidnapped Brigadier General JamesLee Dozier from his home in Verona.The two armed assailants, who weredisguised as plumbers when theyentered his apartment around 6pm,overpowered the general and carriedhim off in a trunk, brought in by twoadditional plumbers. Later it wasrevealed that as many as eightterrorists were involved in theoperation, using a rented van and astandby car. His wife, Judith, wasbound and gagged with chains andplastic tape. She alerted neighborsseveral hours later by banging on theapartment walls. A telephone callerto ANSA announced: We claim thekidnapping of the NATO hangmanJames Dozier. He is confined to apeople's prison and will be subjectedto the judgment of the proletariat. Acommunique will follow.The generalis the first American kidnapped bythe Red Brigades, although the grouphas kidnapped several Italianofficials, including former primeminister Aldo Moro, who was killed in1978. Dozier, 50, is deputy chief ofstaff of logistics and administrationat Verona headquarters for alliedland forces in southern Europe, andthe senior U.S. Army officer.OnDecember 19 the Red Brigades' firstcommunique was received. It statedthat the operation had been a jointmaneuver between the Venice,Milan, Naples, and Rome sectionsand had been carried out by theAnna Maria Ludman-Cecilia Column.No demands were listed for therelease of the general. The six-pagecommunique was a manifestoagainst NATO, the Geneva armstalks, and against multinationalcorporations. It called for a class waragainst imperialism, an action thatwould include all the other .revolutionary forces of Europe,mentioning ETA, and the IRA. Thestriking feature of the communiquewas that it dealt largely withinternational matters, while in thepast the group has concerned itselfmainly with attacks on the Italiansocial system and governing class.OnDecember 22, the ANSA Beirut officereceived a cal

21-Dec-81

GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaRoqueDaltonCommando

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GUATEMALA. Leftist guerrillasburned the El Salvador Consulate inGuatemala City. The consulate wascompletely burned out and all thedocuments of Salvadoran citizens inGuatemala were destroyed. At thesame time rockets were fired at thepolice station and the Chamber ofCommerce. A previously unknowngroup, the Roque Dalton Commando,claimed responsibility for the attack.The name is apparently that of aSalvadoran Communist poet.

24-Dec-81

NewYorkCity

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An anonymoustelephone caller said the JewishDefense League planted a small pipebomb that was found beneath a carwith diplomatic plates near theSoviet Union's mission to the UnitedNations. The 6-inch pipe bomb wasdefused.

26-Dec-81

Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb placed to protest the Sovietoccupation of Afghanistan was foundoutside the residence of the SovietAmbassador Vladimir Semyonev inBonn. Police dismantled the bombafter an anonymous callertelephoned the West German newsagency DPA saying it had beenplaced to mark the secondanniversary of the Soviet invasion ofAfghanistan. The bomb was verycrudely made and authorities said itwould have caused little damage if ithad exploded.

30-Dec-81

Peru Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. Six Molotov cocktails werehurled at the offices of the Italianautomotive enterprise, Fiat, causinga fire which resulted in damagesestimated at $30,000.

6-Jan-82 Idil Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosion was reportedin the Iraq-Iskenderun pipeline whichcarries crude oil from Kirkuk to theMediterranean terminal ofYumurtalik. The explosion occurred7km from Idil, a town in MardinProvince, and teams wereinvestigating the cause. Oil wasleaking out of the damaged sectionof the pipeline. This is an Iraqipipeline. (See 1/8/82)

6-Jan-82 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. The MozambiqueNational Resistance Movement (MNR)is believed responsible for thedestruction of the pipeline which runsfrom the Mozambican port of Beira toMutare in eastern Zimbabwe. Thepipeline was about to have beenreopened following the sabotage inthis same area last month.

6-Jan-82 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Unknown0 0 SPAIN. Basque separatist guerrillaskidnapped Josef Lipperheide, a WestGerman industrialist, from his homein northern Spain and said theywould demand a huge ransom for hisrelease, according to the victim'sservants. They said eight peopleabducted Josef Lipperheide, 76,identifying themselves as membersof the Basque separatist group,Basque Homeland and Freedom(ETA). The group seeksindependence of Spain's Basqueprovinces to establish a Marxiststate.

7-Jan-82 NuevoConcepcion

GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 1 GUATEMALA. A Belgian RomanCatholic priest and a Guatemalanpriest were kidnapped in Guatemala,and, in another incident, in EscuintlaProvince, gunmen abducted a nun,Victoria de la Roca, after setting theconvent on fire. Authorities said thatFather Paul Schildermans, 34, andFather Roberto Paredes, 28, werekidnapped in the town of NuevoConcepcion. A church caretaker,Eludio Aguilar, 43, was killed tryingto prevent the abduction. Churchsources blamed right-wing extremistsfor the incidents.

8-Jan-82 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An Iraqi oil pipeline hasbeen cut by an explosion for thesecond time in a week. Turkishauthorities said the 625-mile pipelinethat brings Iraqi oil to Turkey'sMediterranean coast exploded 42miles inside the Turkish border andsabotage was suspected. Theexplosions on Iraqi lines havedamaged the country's efforts toincrease its oil exports. (see 1/6/82)

9-Jan-82 Istanbul Turkey May 15Organizationfor theLiberationofPalestin

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. The Arab May 15Organization for the Liberation ofPalestine claimed responsibility for abomb attack on an Israeli airlineoffice in Istanbul.

10-Jan-82 Paris France GroupBakuninGdanskParisGuatemalaSalvador(BGP

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Three bombs explodednearly simultaneously in Paris. Theattacks were directed againstcompanies with direct relations withEast European countries, namely,Poland and the Soviet Union. Therewas considerable damage but noinjuries. The attacks were claimedby the Bakounine Gdansk ParisGroup, named after a Russianrevolutionary anarchist of the mid-1800s.





13-Jan-82 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. An Algerian seniordiplomat, Rabah Kharwa, was foundslain after he was reportedlyabducted from his home. His bullet-ridden body was found on a street ina Moslem suburb of Beirut. The right-wing Voice of Lebanon radio stationreported the slaying but gave nodetails. The motive for theassassination is not known.

14-Jan-82 Milan Italy NucleiArmatiComunista

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. In Milan, the ANSA answeringservice and the Milan daily La Nottereceived telephone calls frompersons claiming to be members ofthe Nuclei Armati Comunista, sayingthat they had placed two gasolinebombs at the U.S. Consulate office.A janitor found an explosive device ina stairwell leading to the consulateoffice located in the seventh floor ofthe building. It had not gone offbecause the detonator was notproperly opened. A sign left at thescene read: Get NATO out of Italy;break the Italian link in theimperialist chain.... It was signedNuclei de Avanguardia Communist,and had a roughly drawn red star inthe lower left corner of the page.


May 15Organizationfor theLiberationofPalestin

Explosives25 1 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Police searched for the perpetratorsof a bomb explosion that rippedthrough an Israeli specialtyrestaurant (Mifgash-IsraelRestaurant) in West Berlin, killing a14-month old girl and injuring 25persons. Six Palestinians belongingto the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine wereinvestigated but no concreteevidence was found linking them tothe attack. The Berlin bureau of theDeutsche Presse-Agentur, the WestGerman news agency, received twoanonymous phone calls in connectionwith the explosion, one claiming apro-Palestinian group wasresponsible, the other saying a Dutchgroup was involved. Both callerswere described as having foreignaccents. According to a Bonn InteriorMinistry report, West Germany ingeneral has seen an increase ofviolent activity in recent months byforeign political groups and byextremist factions on both the leftand the right.On the 16th, callers tothe media claimed responsibility forthe bombings: the People's Leagueof Free Palestine and the Arab May15 Organization for the Liberation ofPalestine.

17-Jan-82 Paris France OrlyOrganization

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Armenian group, theOrly Organization, claimed credit foran explosion in a branch of the Unionof Banks of Paris, as well as theplacement of another bomb whichwas dismantled in time at a branchof the Credit Lyonnaise. According tothe anonymous caller to AFP thesetwo actions were to protest thecontinued imprisonment of Armenianmilitants.

17-Jan-82 Paris France OrlyOrganization

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Armenian group, theOrly Organization, claimed credit foran explosion in a branch of the Unionof Banks of Paris, as well as theplacement of another bomb whichwas dismantled in time at a branchof the Credit Lyonnaise. According tothe anonymous caller to AFP thesetwo actions were to protest thecontinued imprisonment of Armenianmilitants.

17-Jan-82 Geneva SwitzerlandNinth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Armenianextremists, pressing for the releaseof a convicted murderer, MardirosJamgotchian, who had beensentenced to jail in December forkilling a Turkish diplomat, said theywere responsible for setting off twoexplosive devices near parked cars inGeneva. Authorities said no one wasinjured. These were the 9th and10th blasts in Switzerland since anavowed member of the Secret Armyfor the Liberation of Armenia wasarrested June 9 in the fatal shootingof a Turkish consular employee.

17-Jan-82 Geneva SwitzerlandNinth ofJuneOrganization

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. Armenianextremists, pressing for the releaseof a convicted murderer, MardirosJamgotchian, who had beensentenced to jail in December forkilling a Turkish diplomat, said theywere responsible for setting off twoexplosive devices near parked cars inGeneva. Authorities said no one wasinjured. These were the 9th and10th blasts in Switzerland since anavowed member of the Secret Armyfor the Liberation of Armenia wasarrested June 9 in the fatal shootingof a Turkish consular employee.

17-Jan-82 Tel Aviv Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded outsidethe main office of West Germany'sLufthansa Airlines in Tel Aviv'sseaside hotel district. The blastbroke windows and damaged thebuilding but caused no injuries.According to police, the incident maybe linked to a recent bomb attack ona Jewish restaurant in West Berlin inwhich 25 people were injured.

18-Jan-82 Paris France LebaneseArmedRevolutionaryFaction(LARF)

Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A U.S. military attache inParis, Lt. Col. Charles R. Ray, wasassassinated by a man who escapedafter firing a single shot at closerange outside the victim's home. InBeirut, a group calling itself theLebanese Armed RevolutionaryFaction claimed responsibility for themurder but there was no immediateevidence about the identify ormotives of any group. The attackcame two months after theattempted shooting of ChristianChapman, the charge d'affaires atthe U.S. Embassy in Paris. Securitymeasures were stepped up to protectU.S. Embassy officials, although itwas agreed that it would beimpossible to protect everyone 24hours a day. ADDINFO: In February1987 Georges Ibahim Abdallah wasfound guilty of having planned andorder the assassination of Ray, theassassination of an Israeli diplomat in1982 and the attemptedassassination of U.S. Consul Hommein 1984. He was sentenced to life inprison. LARF had carried out severalbombing campaigns in France priorto the trial in order to secureAbdallah's release.

18-Jan-82 Bogota Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An urban commando ofthe Colombian Army of NationalLiberation (ELN) kidnapped RicardoRondas, a diplomat of the HonduranEmbassy in Bogota. In acommunique sent to the press, theguerrilla organization explained thatRondas had been kidnapped toprotest Honduran interference in thedomestic affairs of Nicaragua and ElSalvador.

19-Jan-82 France OrlyOrganization

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb destroyed a row oflockers at the Air France office in thePalais des Congress conventioncenter. No injuries were reported.The blast was claimed by the OrlyGroup and was designed as a finalwarning to the French to grantpolitical prisoner status to fourArmenians arrested in September inan attack on a Turkish consular officein Paris. The Turkish governmenthad warned the French thatArmenian activists might attempt tosabotage the trial of the Armeniansin Marseilles.

20-Jan-82 Rome Italy Groups ofInternationalistCommunist

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside theoffice of the Italian Chamber ofCommerce for the United States inRome leaving a large hole in the floorof the U.S. trade office. The bombdestroyed a door, shatteredwindows, and damaged an elevatorshaft in the building. No injurieswere reported. An anonymous callerto the Italian news agency ANSAclaimed the bombing was carried outby the Groups of InternationalistCommunist.

22-Jan-82 Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. The Commission for CulturalExchange between Italy and theUnited States (an affiliate of theFulbright program) was the target ofan incendiary device. The Bank ofIran on the same floor was alsotargeted. Damage was confined tocharring of walls. No injuries werereported.

22-Jan-82 Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. The Bank of Iran was thetarget of an incendiary device. Theattack coincided with an attack in thesame building on the Commission forCultural Exchange between Italy andthe U.S. No injuries were reported.

23-Jan-82 Geneva SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives1 0 SWITZERLAND. A self-exiledRomanian was seriously injured inGeneva when a bomb explodedunder his car. The explosionoccurred as he was backing his carout of a Geneva hotel parking lot.

25-Jan-82 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The police reported that theexplosion of a bomb destroyed thedoor and several windows of thehonorary Salvadoran Consulatebuilding in Cologne. The explosiondid not damage any records ordocuments. The police have no cluesas to the motive for the attack.

26-Jan-82 Iraq Other Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Paramilitaries of the KurdishSocialists Party reported they hadcaptured two French surveyors whowere working in Iraq. They said theywould release the surveyors inexchange for Kurdish prisoners jailedby the Iraqis. The group said thecaptives were supposedly involved inmilitary and nuclear projects.


Unknown Firearms0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Gunmen fired four shots at U.S.soldiers' quarters in Frankfurt,causing slight damage but noinjuries, according to a spokesmanfor the U.S. Army's V Corps.

27-Jan-82 DortmundFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb exploded at the YugoslavCultural Office in Dortmund. Theblast caused $22,000 damage to thefront of the building. No injurieswere reported.

27-Jan-82 Bogota Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Seven guerrillas hijackeda Colombian 727 jetliner with 128aboard shortly after takeoff fromBogota's El Dorado Airport on a flightto Pereira, and forced the pilot toreturn to the Bogota airport. Theheavily-armed hijackers toldauthorities that they were membersof the April 19 Movement (M-19),Colombia's most active rebel groupwhich reportedly received militarytraining in Cuba. They threatened toblow up the plane if the army movedin, and demanded that a reporterfrom the Bogota newspaper ElEspectador come aboard the plane totake the hijackers' demands to theColombian authorities. They alsoasked to see a member of a peacecommission which was set up in1981 to negotiate an end to guerrillaactivities in Colombia. It is notknown if the authorities met any ofthe demands before the plane flewon to Cali, where the hijackersreleased 47 of the passengers. The727 was damaged during a takeofffrom Cali. In a deal with the Army,the hijackers released the rest of thepassengers and crew in return for alight executive plane which flewthem to Cuba.

28-Jan-82 LosAngeles

UnitedStates


Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. The Turkish consulgeneral in Los Angeles, Kemal Arikan,was shot to death as he sat in his carat a stoplight in West Los Angeles.Witnesses said that two young menapproached the consul's car, onegoing to the window on the consul'sside, the other to the window on thepassenger side of the front seat.Both fired point blank into the car.The assailants fled into theresidential area while the consul'scar swerved across the street,coming to rest against a tree. Policelater found two pistols in a bushbeside a house two blocks from thescene.An unidentified lawyerfollowed the assailants in his car asthey ran and saw them jump into acar and speed away, at which timethe witness obtained the licensenumber, which was traced to aPasadena address. Four people werelater taken into custody at the home;one of the four, identified as HarrySassounian, 19, was booked onsuspicion of murder. Two malejuveniles were released and thefourth person, a woman, remained incustody. Sassounian was eventuallycharged with the murder; hisaccomplice, believed to be Krikor(Koko) Saliba, is still at large and isthe object of an intense search,including by Interpol.The UnitedPress International received a callshortly after the shooting on behalfof the Justice Commandos ofArmenian Genocide, claimingresponsibility for the killing. Thegroup, which has claimedresponsibility for other terroristattacks against Turkish diplomats, isbased in Beirut where HarrySassounian was born. HarrySassounian's brother, HaroutSassounian, is also in custodycharged with the October 6, 1980,firebombing of Arikan's Bel-Air home.The federal indictment charges himwith using Molotov cocktails tofirebomb Arikan's home.

3-Feb-82 Thailand Other Unknown0 0 THAILAND. Six Western tourists saidthat they had been kidnapped byguerrillas loyal to a reputed opiumsmuggler and held hostage for threedays in Burma. The tourists, threeAmericans, an Australian, a WestGerman, and an Israeli living inNorway, told a news conference thatthey were kidnapped by 30 membersof Khun Sa's rebel Shan United Armyon a narrow jungle path near theBurmese border. The abduction,they said, appeared to be an attemptto use them as hostages to gain therelease of about 100 villagersdetained by Thai security forces twoweeks ago. The tourists said theywere freed after local rebel leaderslearned that the Thai governmenthad released the villagers before theabduction.

9-Feb-82 GuatemalaOther Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. During a rebel-causedblackout, guerrillas fired rockets attwo empty Texaco fuel storage tanksin the area, but caused little damage.

11-Feb-82 France GroupBakuninGdanskParisGuatemalaSalvador(BGP

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded at theFrench headquarters of the U.S.appliance firm Bendix, and anelectrical appliance shop selling U.S.products. A group calling itselfBakounine-Gdansk-Paris-Guatemala-Salvador claimed responsibility forthe bombings in a communique to anews agency.


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded at theFrench headquarters of the U.S.appliance firm Bendix, and anelectrical appliance shop selling U.S.products. A group calling itselfBakounine-Gdansk-Paris-Guatemala-Salvador claimed responsibility forthe bombings in a communique to anews agency.


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs exploded at theFrench headquarters of theColombian steel firm Acerias Paz delRio. A group calling itself Bakounine-Gdansk-Paris-Guatemala-Salvadorclaimed responsibility for thebombing in a communique to a newsagency.


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at aChilean airline office. A group callingitself Bakounine-Gdansk-Paris-Guatemala-Salvador claimedresponsibility for the bombing in acommunique to a news agency.


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at a firmimporting meat from Argentina. Agroup calling itself Bakounine-Gdansk-Paris-Guatemala-Salvadorclaimed responsibility for thebombings in a communique to anews agency.

12-Feb-82 Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Iranian activists blew upthe house outside Paris, now empty,where the Ayatollah Khomeini livedfor five months before returning toTehran in 1979. The house, in theYvelines district, was completelydestroyed.

13-Feb-82 HuehuetenangoGuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Four hooded gunmenshot and killed a 37-year-oldAmerican missionary, ChristianBrother James Arnold Miller, ofCuster, Wisconsin, as he fixed awindow outside of a school inHuehuetenango where he taught. Noone claimed responsibility for theslaying. Right-wing Guatemalansclaim that priests and nuns are oftenlinked to leftist guerrillas fighting totopple Guatemala's militarygovernment, but there has been noevidence of such a link in this case.

18-Feb-82 BucaramangaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The Honduran Consulatein Bucaramanga was machinegunned and bombed. The attackersused at least 100 submachine roundsand a high-powered bomb in theiroperation, which practicallydestroyed the front part of theconsulate building and the consul'sprivate car. Bogata Radio CadenaNacional reported that a NationalLiberation Army (ELN) member calledthe station to claim credit, statingthat this was the ELN's way ofrejecting the support that the UnitedStates is currently offering to severalLatin American countries, especiallyto those where public order problemsare more serious.


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb, planted in a bush near the U.S. cultural center in Berlin, shatteredmore than three dozen windows. Thebulletproof outer windows of thebuilding were not affected by theblast but inner windows weredestroyed. No one assumedresponsibility.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Omega-7 claimedresponsibility for bombing the officesof Republica Magazine in Miami.Atalmost the same moment, anotherbomb placed by Omega-7 explodedin the offices of the Trans CubaCorporation in Miami.


Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Omega-7 claimedresponsibility for bombing the officesof Republica Magazine in Miami.Atalmost the same moment, anotherbomb placed by Omega-7 explodedin the offices of the Trans CubaCorporation in Miami.

19-Feb-82 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two bombsexploded outside the Washingtonoffice of the Soviet airline Aeroflot,shattering a glass door but injuringno one. A man later telephoned TheAssociated Press and said that theexplosions, about 200 feet down thestreet from the Soviet Embassy, werethe work of the Jewish DefenseLeague. The caller said that theorganization was demanding therelease of a teen-age girl heldprisoner in the Soviet Union. In asimilar call to the Washington Post,the girl was identified as MarinaTiemkin. The Soviet Embassy issueda protest to the U.S. StateDepartment against this vicious actof terrorism.


Anti-CastroCubans

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED STATES. A firebomb wasthrown and a machine gun fired intoa cigar company, El Padron Cigars,which over the years has been thetarget of five terrorist attacks, butcaused only minor damage. Theowner of the cigar company, JoseOrlando Padron, has voiced hissupport of efforts to normalizerelations between the U.S. and Cuba.Less than an hour later, unknowngunmen (presumed to belong toOmega- 7) shattered windows at theHispania Freight Company, whichhandles shipments to Cuba. Thefirm's Hialeah office was alsoattacked.


Anti-CastroCubans

Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. A firebomb wasthrown and a machine gun fired intoa cigar company, El Padron Cigars,which over the years has been thetarget of five terrorist attacks, butcaused only minor damage. Theowner of the cigar company, JoseOrlando Padron, has voiced hissupport of efforts to normalizerelations between the U.S. and Cuba.Less than an hour later, unknowngunmen (presumed to belong toOmega- 7) shattered windows at theHispania Freight Company, whichhandles shipments to Cuba. Thefirm's Hialeah office was alsoattacked.

22-Feb-82 ManaguaNicaraguaOther Explosives0 4 NICARAGUA. Interior Minister TomasBorge blamed U.S.-trained rightistsfor a bomb blast at Managua airport.The bomb arrived in luggage aboarda Honduran airline flight from NewOrleans. Junta leader Daniel Ortegacharged that the blast that killed fourporters was not unconnected withthe CIA.

25-Feb-82 Beirut Lebanon Amal Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Twelve Shiite Moslemgunmen, firing automatic weaponsinto the air, seized a parked Kuwaitijetliner with 105 people aboardshortly after it landed at Beirutairport on a flight from Libya. Thegunmen, who were seeking to drawattention to the disappearance of areligious leader in Libya, threatenedto blow up the plane unless theywere permitted to take off in it.There had been six previoushijackings by Shiites protesting forthe return of Imam Moussa Sadr, anIranian-born Shiite Moslem leaderwho vanished in Libya more thanthree years ago. The leader of thehijacking, who said he was calledHamze, has been involved in five ofsix other hijackings by ShiiteMoslems demanding a UNinvestigation of the disappearance ofImam Musa Sadr. The gunmensurrendered when a Shiite leaderagreed that Islamic leaders fromLebanon, Syria, Algeria, and Iranwould form delegations to press theircase at the United Nations and theInternational Court of Justice. The105 hostages were releasedunharmed after being held for ninehours. Lebanese security officialsreleased the gunmen after 12 hours.Asked where the hijackers had gone,a Lebanese official said, They havegone home.... They are probablysipping hot coffee with their kin.

26-Feb-82 Tanzania Other Explosives0 0 TANZANIA. An Air Tanzanian airlineBoeing 737 with 99 passengers andcrew members on a domestic flightto Dar es Salaam wascommandeered by five Tanzaniansand forced to land at Nairobi forrefueling. The plane made morerefueling stops in Kenya, Jidda, SaudiArabia, and Athens before landing inStansted, England. The Englishpolice authorities refused to allowthe plane to refuel and take off. Apregnant woman and a child werefreed earlier in the day by thehijackers who demanded the removalof Tanzania's socialist leader,President Julius Nyerere. They hadalso released six passengers inNairobi and two in Athens. Theremaining passengers were believedto be Tanzanians. One of the freedpassengers reported that there werefour hijackers armed with pistols,hand grenades and machine gunswho said they belonged to theTanzanian Youth DemocraticMovement. The hijackers threatenedto blow up the plane if it wasapproached.After three days, thehijackers freed the last 90passengers and surrendered toBritish police who arrested them.They accused Nyerere of imposingintolerable economic conditions ontheir East African nation. Nyerere hasbeen attempting to combinesocialism with democracy. Thedrama was brought to an end withthe intervention of former TanzanianForeign Minister Oscar Kambona, anexile, who persuaded the youths tosurrender. The youths wereremanded by a court to face trial.On September 18, the five youthswere convicted and sentenced toprison terms of between four andeight years.

28-Feb-82 GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. Unidentified gunmenkidnapped George Wollack, 27, whenthey stopped his car on a road in theremote Peten Province. News of thekidnapping did not reach the capitaluntil the weekend. The police saidthe kidnappers also abducted aGuatemalan lumber dealer, RobertoBoles, who was negotiating to selltimber to Mr. Wollack for export toCanada. It was unclear if thekidnappers were common criminalsor members of one of the factionsinvolved in political violence inGuatemala that took about 3,000lives last year. Government troopssearched the area near the Belizeborder but found no clues. It wasunknown if a ransom had beendemanded.

1-Mar-82 Madrid Spain Unknown Firearms0 1 SPAIN. Nabil 'Aranki Hawwad, aPalestinian born in Haifa, Israel, whohad been living in Spain for 12 yearswith his Spanish wife and twochildren, was shot dead by a gunmanwho opened fire in broad daylight inthe center of Madrid, then fled thescene. Hawwad was a member ofthe Arab Liberation Front, aBaghdad-based dissident movementof the Palestinian Fatah organization.Seven Palestinians and Jordanianswere arrested after the attack butlater released. Representatives ofthe PLO issued a communiqueblaming Israeli Secret Service agentsfor the attack, claiming that terroristacts would be committed by Israelbefore April 25, the day Israel wasscheduled to turn the Sinai Peninsulaover to Egypt.

3-Mar-82 Brussels Belgium Other Firearms3 2 BELGIUM. A man wielding asubmachine gun opened fire on agroup of Yugoslav soccer fanswatching television at a culturalcenter in Brussels. Two people werekilled and three injured. All thevictims were Yugoslavs. The Belganews agency said an exile groupfrom Yugoslav's Kosovo regionclaimed responsibility for the attack,but a spokesman for the groupdenied any involvement and saidmany of the fans who made thejourney were government agents.

9-Mar-82 Tyre Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Explosives blew up aLebanese cargo ship at thePalestinian guerrilla-controlled portof Tyre. The blast occurred despitesevere security precautions by localarmed elements. There was noestimate of damage; authoritiesnoted that the ship had beenfollowed for quite a while intoLebanese waters by an Israeligunboat. The Israeli military deniedany responsibility for the attack.

14-Mar-82 BordeauxFrance Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A lighted bottle of gasolinewas thrown at a ground floor windowof the U.S. Consulate in Bordeaux. Aroving police patrol saw the flamesand called the fire department, whichput it out before it did great damage(approximately $500 worth).Witnesses reported that a youngman on foot threw the fire bomb andfled into a nearby amusement park.No group claimed responsibility forthe incident.


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An explosioncaused by a 10 pound bomb rippedthrough the North London offices ofthe African National Congress, amilitant black nationalist organizationoutlawed in South Africa. The blastseverely damaged the building andsurrounding property.

15-Mar-82 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives13 0 LEBANON. A 5-kilo bomb demolishedthe French cultural center in Beirut.Eleven students and two professorswere injured.

15-Mar-82 KhartoumSudan Other Explosives0 0 SUDAN. U.S. intelligence has what itcalls physical evidence of a Libyanplot to kill several hundredAmericans living in the Sudanesecapital of Khartoum. According to anofficial account, two bombs disguisedas stereo speakers, each packed withmore than 40 pounds of plastiqueexplosive, were to have been plantedin the dance hall in the Americanrecreation club in Khartoum and setto go off over a weekend when thehall would be full of Americandiplomats, workers, and theirfamilies. Fortunately, the bombswere discovered in Nairobi, en routeto Khartoum. U.S. governmentsources say that Libyan intelligenceofficers working out of Kenyaprepared the bombs and personallyassured that the bombs wereboarded on a flight to Khartoum.

16-Mar-82 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives15 1 LEBANON. A car bomb exploded in aresidential, predominately Moslemarea of western Beirut, killing onewoman and wounding 15 otherpeople. The car was booby-trappedwith 70 pounds of explosives; it wasonly a few yards to the abandonedEgyptian Embassy, which had beenclosed for three years since Lebanonjoined other Arab nations breakingdiplomatic relations with Egyptbecause of its peace treaty withIsrael.

16-Mar-82 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two bombs went offoutside the branch office of Citibankin Athens, causing slight damage.The second bomb also caused minordamage to a parked car. The twodevices had been placed in trashcans. Leaflets found at the sites ofthe blasts bore the signatures AOI,Solidarity with El Salvador and 4August National Organization.


Other Firearms0 0 COSTA RICA. Four people werearrested in San Jose for apparentlyplotting to kidnap an Americandiplomat. They were smugglingarms destined for rebels fighting theU.S.-supported junta in El Salvador.Embassy security agents had beenfollowing the smugglers and hadseen them staking out in strategiclocations near the U.S. diplomaticmission, watching the movements ofofficials. Nine suspects were taken inaltogether for investigation: threeSalvadorans, two Nicaraguans, aChilean, an Argentine, a Costa Rican,and one still not identified as tonationality.

17-Mar-82 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 0 LEBANON. The second secretary ofthe British embassy, a LebaneseBritish subject, Mohammed al-Mikdad, was kidnapped in Beirut andlater released. The family did not saywho the abductors were or if the$150,000 ransom demanded bythem was paid. Lebanese authoritiesviewed the incident as another in aseries of recent terrorist actionsaimed at diplomats.

18-Mar-82 WestBerlin


Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb placed outside the AmerikaHaus, the U.S. Cultural Center inWest Berlin, exploded, damagingmany windows. The device washidden in the bushes at the back ofthe building. Amerika Haus has beenthe object of several anti-Americandemonstrations in the past in protestat NATO's decision to placeAmerican-made nuclear missiles inWestern Europe.

19-Mar-82 Pusan Korea,South


3 1 SOUTH KOREA. A South Koreanstudent died and three other sufferedburns in an hour-long blaze in the U.S. government offices in Pusan, 205miles south of Seoul. Leafletsdistributed at the mission just beforethe fire warned of more anti-American attacks. The leafletsdemanded that the United Stateswithdraw from this land and...stopmaking this country a subjectstate.... Police were looking forseveral people in their twenties whoentered the building with plastic bagscontaining gasoline and, whenquestioned by a Korean janitor,spread the gasoline over the carpetand ignited it. On April 4, nineuniversity students were arrested inconnection with the fire. Almost sixthousand people were arrested in ananti-crime crackdown as a result ofthe arson blaze; most were releasedlater with a fine or a warning.Sixteen people eventually went ontrial in June 1982. The prosecutoraccused the planner, Kim Hyon Jang,of scheming to force U.S. troops towithdraw from South Korea so hecould set up a socialist regime. Hedenied the allegation. Nine face thedeath penalty if convicted.On August11, 1982, two of the South Koreanyouths were sentenced to death andtwo others to life imprisonment forsetting the fire. The court orderedprison terms of two to 15 years for10 other people charged in the blaze.Appeals were expected in all cases.

19-Mar-82 St.EtiennedeBaigorry

France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Firearms1 1 FRANCE. In St. Etienne-de-Baigorrygunmen using automatic pistols shottwo French policemen. The attack inFrench Basque country wasattributed to Spanish Basqueseparatists. Police speculated that itmay have been a response to thequestioning of five Basques in FrenchBasque territory in the morning ofthe shooting. One policeman died ofhis wounds; the other will bepermanently paralyzed.

19-Mar-82 ThessalonikaGreece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two cars belonging to U.S.military personnel and displaying U.S. military license plates werebombed in Thessalonika. The carswere destroyed; no injuries werereported. No group claimedresponsibility.

19-Mar-82 Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. In Athens an Americanschool was damaged by fire. Localauthorities believe the fire was arson.No group claimed responsibility.

20-Mar-82 GuatemalaGuerrillaArmy ofthe Poor(EGP)

Firearms0 1 GUATEMALA. Armed men, whoidentified themselves as leftistguerrillas and members of theGuerrilla Army of the Poor, shot andkilled a U.S. citizen, J. Pitts Jarvis, athis plantation where he had lived foreight years. The rebels raided Mr.Jarvis' farm, demanded money andarms, ordered his wife to flee, thenrepeatedly shot him. Mrs. Jarvis wasnot injured. The guerrillas set fire tothe farm and tried to escape but apassing army helicopter spottedthem and gave chase, opening fire,which the guerrillas returned. It isnot known if they were captured orescaped.

22-Mar-82 EastBeirut

Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. The third secretary of theIraqi embassy, Ali Hajem Sultan, wasshot in the head and killed instantlyby three unidentified gunmen from acar in the Christian-held suburb ofHazmiye, East Beirut where the Iraqismoved for the sake of safety after ahuge explosion in December wreckedtheir embassy building inpredominantly Moslem West Beirut.The ambassador and at least 60people died in that explosion. Sultanwas driving home in the afternoonwhen the attack occurred. Many ofthe recent violent incidents in thearea appear to have stemmed from amajor split within the Arab world,over Syria's support of Iran, a non-Arab power, in its war against Iraq.

22-Mar-82 CambridgeUnitedStates


Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A Cambridge,Mass., import shop owned by OrhanGunduz, honorary Turkish consulgeneral, was bombed, causingsevere damage. Police stated a callerclaiming to represent an Armeniannationalist group had claimed credit.Such a group has spread a reign ofterror by assassinating Turkishofficials in the United States. TheJustice Commandos of the ArmenianGenocide contend that the Turksmassacred over a million Armeniansin Turkey in 1915 and drovehundreds of thousands more intoexile. The group demands reparationfor the relatives plus anacknowledgment from the Turkishgovernment that it is responsible forthe crime.

22-Mar-82 FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. AYugoslav bookstore was set afire. Itwas the latest in a series of attacksin Western Europe on Yugoslavinterests. The police have nosuspects.

25-Mar-82 Bombay India AzadHindSena

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 INDIA. The U.S. consulate in Bombaywas assaulted by about 50 peoplewho hurled gas bombs and rocks atthe building and burned at least 8cars belonging to the diplomaticstaff. One of the attackers was killedwhen police finally showed up.About 30 people were arrested.Bandu Shingre, the leader of thereligious-oriented Azad Hind Sena,stated he had staged the attack sohe could become famous, then laterthat he was protesting US armsshipments to India's traditional foe,Pakistan.

25-Mar-82 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Saboteurs blew up apipeline carrying Iraqi crude oil toLebanon for the second time in threemonths. The explosion, just insideLebanese territory, started a fire.Pumping was halted but resumed 10hours later. No one claimedresponsibility.

26-Mar-82 Beirut Lebanon ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives16 2 LEBANON. ASALA claimed credit forthe bombing of a movie theater inthe Armenian section of Beirut whichcaused two deaths and more than 16injuries. ASALA said the movietheater frequently featured filmseither made in Turkey or spoken inTurkish.

29-Mar-82 Paris France SpanishBasqueBattalion(BBE)(rightist)

Explosives27 5 FRANCE. A high explosive tore upthe second coach of the Paris-Toulouse express, killing fivepassengers and injuring 27 others.The police believed the explosionwas caused either by a deliberatelyset bomb or by explosives beingtransported clandestinely. Theengineer was able to stop the trainwithout a derailment; thenproceeded slowly to Limoges wherethe injured were taken off the train.No claim for responsibility wasreceived from any terrorist groupoperating in France. In the absenceof other evidence, the press andpublic will probably link the incidentwith the terrorist Ilyich RamirezSanchez, known internationally asCarlos, who has threatened acampaign against France ifcolleagues of his are not releasedfrom prison.On March 31, the ultra-rightist group opposed to the Basqueseparatists, the Spanish BasqueBattalion (BBE), said it carried outthe bomb attack. An anonymoustelephone caller told the daily DEIAthat the BBE would attack in Franceevery time that the military wing ofthe ETA (Basque AutonomousMovement) carried one out in Spain.According to DEIA, extreme rightgroups in Spain frequently claim thatETA militants carry out terroristattacks against police and armyofficers and then obtain refuge insouthern France. The police do notconsider the claim credible since thegroup has often made unfoundedclaims. Some other groups, such asthe Terrorist Internationale, the DeltaCommandos (far right) and the far-left movement called the GroupeBakounine-Gdansk-Paris-Guatemala-Salvador also claimed responsibilityfor the attack on the Capitole. Oneclaim was from the Friends of Carlos,and though it was no more crediblethan other claims, the possibility thatCarlos might really have beeninvolved was not ruled out.

29-Mar-82 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. An attack with explosives wasperpetrated against the offices of theSalvadoran consulate in Santiago.There were no casualties and onlyslight damage to the building. Theattackers planted miguelitos, smallmultipointed nails, in the area tocover their escape.

29-Mar-82 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. The police bomb squaddefused a plastic explosive placedoutside the office of El Al IsraelAirlines in central Rome. Theexplosive was found a few minutesafter a Jewish-owned clothing storewas bombed about a half-mile away.Investigators were unable to link thetwo incidents. No group or personclaimed responsibility for eitherattack.

29-Mar-82 Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A Jewish-owned clothing storewas bombed about a half-mile awayfrom where a bomb squad defused aplastic explosive at El Al.Investigators were unable to link thetwo incidents. No group or personclaimed responsibility for eitherattack.



Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. The Guerrilla Army ofthe Poor claimed responsibility forthe rocket and automatic weaponsattack on the U.S. embassy inGuatemala City. No one was injuredin the blitz which took the guards atthe embassy by surprise. The rebelslaunched a pair of Chinese-maderockets at the building and cut loosewith automatic weapons fire, whichdamaged the embassy superficially.The attack was claimed in a call tothe media. The attack came a dayafter the United States recognizedthe new three-man military juntainstalled in power after the March 23coup.

31-Mar-82 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb with a strongexplosive mechanism and anelectronic ignition was sent by mailfrom West Germany to the IsraeliDiplomatic Representation in PalioPsykhiko. The bomb arrived in anenvelope that aroused the suspicionof the gendarme who received themail; he called the Athens Suburbs'Security who in turn called in apyrotechnist from the army whodismantled the bomb and destroyedit. It was a powerful bomb thatwould have exploded at the openingof the envelope.

31-Mar-82 Paris France LebaneseArmedRevolutionaryFaction(LARF)

Firearms0 0 FRANCE. Paris. A hooded man witha machine pistol, along with twohooded companions, fired 25 shotsat a building housing an officialIsraeli arms purchasing mission inParis. No one was injured. Theembassy blamed the PLO, however,police traced the ammunitionthrough ballistics tests to a Sten gunpreviously used in attacks by ActionDirecte. The attack, however, hadbeen claimed by the LebaneseArmed Revolutionary Faction inBeirut. This group had also claimedthe assassinations of a U.S. Embassymilitary attache in January and anIsraeli Embassy official on April 3,both in Paris.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. An explosion in a U.S.-owned bank in Buenos Aires causedsome damage.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Revolutionary People'sStruggle took responsibility for abomb that exploded outside a wall atthe home of American ambassadorMonteagle Stearns. There were noinjuries and damage was limited tosome broken windows and thegarden wall.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. A police guard noticed apowerful plastic explosive deviceplanted in a gutter of the home ofthe U.S. ambassador in Athens. Theguard found the bomb shortly beforeit was to blow up. Athens securitypolice were called and the armyexplosives expert removed it fromthe scene and destroyed it. TheRevolutionary People's Strugglegroup was suspected. A small bombhad exploded at the ambassador'shome the day before.

3-Apr-82 Paris France LebaneseArmedRevolutionaryFaction(LARF)

Firearms0 1 FRANCE. An Israeli diplomat, YacovBarsimantov, was assassinated inParis by an unidentified woman inthe lobby of his apartment, in front ofhis wife and family. The assailantran from the lobby of the apartmentbuilding and escaped into a subwaystation. The same gun, a Czech 7.65mm pistol, was used to kill a U.S.embassy military attache in January.The Israeli Cabinet considered theattack a clear violation of the July 30ceasefire in southern Lebanon, andlaunched a retaliatory strike intoLebanon. The PLO denied anyresponsibility for the murder. Theattack was claimed by the LebaneseArmed Revolutionary Faction (LARF)known also to have claimed theassassination of U.S. Colonel Ray(1/18/82) and the attemptedassassination of Christian Chapman(11/12/81). ADDINFO: In February1987 Georges Ibahim Abdallah wasfound guilty of having planned andordered the assassination ofAmerican military attache CharlesRay in 1982, the assassination ofBarsimantov and the attemptedassassination of American ConsulHomme in 1984. He was sentencedto life in prison. LARF had carried outseveral bombing campaigns inFrance prior to the trial in order tosecure Abdallah's release.

5-Apr-82 TegucigalpaHonduras Unknown Firearms0 0 HONDURAS. Gunmen in a speedingtaxi raked the U.S. embassy buildingin Tegucigalpa with pistol andsubmachine gun fire, causing minordamage but no injuries. An embassyspokesman said the attack causedminor damage to the office of the U.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment and the embassy'scommunication unit.


UnitedStates


Fire orFirebomb

0 1 UNITED STATES. A deliberately-setfire destroyed a Lebanese restaurantin Brooklyn, New York, killing awoman who lived upstairs. Theattack was claimed by callers whosaid they represented the JewishDefense League (JDL) andmaintained that the restaurant wasused as a headquarters for the PLO.The JDL officially denied anyinvolvement in the incident.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb partiallydestroyed the home of CaptainMitchell, British naval attache inBuenos Aires. The bomb causeddamage but no casualties werereported. The Swiss Embassy, whichis in charge of British diplomaticaffairs since diplomatic relations withArgentina were broken, refused togive any details on the explosion; thecaptain and his family had received awarning just before the blast.

7-Apr-82 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Abomb blew out windows at theAmerican Memorial Library in Berlin.There were no claims ofresponsibility for the blast, whichcaused no casualties but did damageto the building, which had been builtwith U.S. donations to commemoratethe 1948-50 Berlin airlift.

8-Apr-82 Ottawa Canada ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms1 0 CANADA. Kani Gungor, a commercialcounselor at the Turkish embassy inOttawa, was seriously wounded bygunmen in the parking garage of histown- house. In Beirut, Lebanon, theArmenian Secret Army for theLiberation of Armenia assumedresponsibility in a call to the media.A letter from the group was alsomailed to the media in Los Angeles,California. It reinforced the claim inthe name of the Zaven AbedianCommando Group of ASALA. Theattack prompted Canadianauthorities to improve securitymeasures at the U.S., French, andSwiss embassies. All three countrieshad Armenians in custody for attackson Turkish targets.

9-Apr-82 Paris France Other Firearms1 0 FRANCE. Mr. Hamo Mosgofian, a 28-year old Armenian from Lebanon,was reported in satisfactory conditionfollowing an attempt on his life in abusy Paris street. He received abullet wound in the neck. Frenchauthorities believe the incidentresulted from a feud amongArmenian radical groups. Mr.Mosgofian was suspected of havingdropped out of the Ramgavar partyto join radical Armenian groups. Hewas believed to have close links witha wing of ASALA that sought to carryout political terrorism inside Turkeyrather than outside. In August 1983,after the accidental bombing deathof a radical Armenian, PierreGulumian, a gun was found in theArmenian's Paris apartment whichwas linked to the attempt againstMosgofian.

11-Apr-82 Madrid Spain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. In Madrid, bombs heavilydamaged a building housing aJordanian Alia airline office. Theblast also severely damaged theChilean national airlines offices ofLan Chile. There were no claims ofresponsibility, although the policesaid they suspected Palestinianextremists.

11-Apr-82 Madrid Spain Other Explosives0 0 SPAIN. In Madrid, a bomb explosionheavily damaged the Egyptian touristoffices of Egypt Tours. Althoughthere was no claim of responsibility,police suspect Palestinian extremists.

11-Apr-82 JerusalemIsrael Other Firearms175 2 ISRAEL. An American-born Jew, AlanGoodman from Tenafly, New Jersey,wearing an Israeli army uniform,sprayed Islam's Dome of the Rockshrine with automatic rifle fire, killingtwo Arabs and touching off some ofthe worst Arab rioting in Jerusalemsince Israel captured and annexedthe eastern part of the city in 1967.At least 25 people were woundedand 150 required medical treatmentfor injuries or tear gas inhalation.Police captured the gunman andhustled him away to save him fromthe angry Arabs. Goodman had beenstudying at a Jewish seminary inJerusalem for six years andapparently was an Israeli armyreservist. A lot of my friends andrelatives have been killed, and I musttake revenge, he told police after hiscapture. The Jewish community andofficials denied that the Jewish nationwould condone or abet such anaction which was obviously the act ofa deranged man. The act set offdemonstrations in the West Banktowns and a resumption of thegeneral disorder that had afflictedthe area for several weeks. Goodmanwent on trial on September 8th, afterdoctors testified that although helived in a fantasy world, he wasresponsible for his actions.

12-Apr-82 OffenbachFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. AU.S. Army truck was destroyed in afirebomb explosion that alsodamaged a number of other vehiclesin a motor pool at a base inOffenbach, near Frankfurt. No oneclaimed responsibility for the blast,but officials believe German militantsresponsible for similar attacks areinvolved.

13-Apr-82 Beirut Lebanon al-Fatah Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A rocket-propelledgrenade hit the third floor of the U.S.embassy in Beirut; no casualtieswere reported. A previouslyunknown organization calling itselfthe Aqsa Group contacted two Beirutradio stations and said it wasresponsible for the attack. Al-Aqsa isthe name of one of the two Mosquesthat stand on the Temple Mount inJerusalem, where a Jewish-Americanopened fire with an automatic rifle oncrowds visiting the holy site.

14-Apr-82 Geneva SwitzerlandPeykar Unknown0 0 SWITZERLAND. Eighteen Iranianleftists belonging to a Marxist groupcalled Peykar ransacked the Iranianconsulate in Geneva and held sixofficials hostage for several hours.Slogans attacking Ayatollah Khomeiniwere scrawled on the office walls.The group was protesting theexecution in Iran of members of theirorganization. The hostages werelater freed unharmed.

15-Apr-82 GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 1 GUATEMALA. An executive of theCoca-Cola Company wasassassinated.

15-Apr-82 Beirut Lebanon Front fortheLiberationofLebanonfromForeigner

Firearms0 2 LEBANON. A gunman shot down GuyCavalot, an administrative employeeat the French embassy in Beirut, andhis wife when they opened the doorto their home. They were expectingguests and the gunman posed as aflower delivery man. Cavallo had nodiplomatic status, but had told theLebanese Foreign Ministry earlierthat he had received anonymouscalls from people who threatened tokill him and other embassy officials.The murders are believed to be thework of the Front for the Liberation ofLebanon from Foreigners who haveclaimed responsibility for a string ofrecent attacks.

18-Apr-82 Vienna Austria Amal Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. The Vienna office of AirFrance was bombed. A search forthe perpetrator was unsuccessful. Agroup calling itself the IslamicRevolutionary Guard claimed creditfor the bombing, but the AustrianInterior Minister Erwin Lanc saidthere was no proof that such anorganization was really involved. Adaily newspaper received a call froma man who claimed credit for thegroup.

18-Apr-82 Vienna Austria Amal Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. The French embassy inVienna was bombed. A search forthe perpetrator was unsuccessful. Adaily newspaper received a call froma man who claimed credit for thebombing in the name of the IslamicRevolutionary Group, but theAustrian Interior Minister Erwin Lancsaid that there was no proof thatsuch an organization was reallyinvolved.

20-Apr-82 Vienna Austria Unknown Unknown1 0 AUSTRIA. A man about 30 years oldattacked the policeman guarding theoffice of the French military attachein Vienna. The guard was knockeddown and suffered serious injuries.The search for the perpetrator hasbeen unsuccessful.

21-Apr-82 TegucigalpaHonduras Other Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb exploded in thePamira residential area in front of theChilean embassy. The bomb wasapparently thrown by six people in amoving car. Police detained sevensuspects found near the area forinvestigation. The Lorenzo ZelayaRevolutionary People's Commandclaimed credit for the explosion.

21-Apr-82 TegucigalpaHonduras Other Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb exploded in thePamira residential area in front of theArgentinian embassy. The bomb wasapparently thrown by six people in amoving car. Police detained sevensuspects found near the area forinvestigation. The Lorenzo ZelayaRevolutionary People's Commandclaimed credit for the explosions.

21-Apr-82 TegucigalpaHonduras Other Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb exploded in thePamira residential area in front of thePeruvian embassy. The bomb wasapparently thrown by six people in amoving car. Police detained sevensuspects found near the area forinvestigation. The Lorenzo ZelayaRevolutionary People's Commandclaimed credit for the explosions.

22-Apr-82 Paris France Other Explosives63 1 FRANCE. A car bomb exploded inheavy morning traffic, killing oneperson and injuring 63 others in anattack the French governmentimplicitly blamed on Syria. Threehours after the blast, two Syriandiplomats were ordered from Franceand the French ambassador toDamascus was recalled to Paris.French Interior Minister GastonDefferre declared the method of thebombing was indicative of thementality of the perpetrators of thistype of attack, who do not hesitate tospill blood on French territory tosettle accounts in which France hasno involvement. The explosion wasoutside the office of the Lebanese-based weekly Al Watan Al-Arabi,which accused the Syrian secretservices, and notably those in Paris,of having organized the attack. Itwas not the first attempt on the lifeof the owner of the publication.

24-Apr-82 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded outsidethe offices of Agence France Pressein west Beirut causing considerabledamage but no injuries to the fourmen working inside. There was noclaim for this action.

25-Apr-82 Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two bombings wereperpetrated during the night againststores selling IBM products. Theattacks were claimed by theRevolutionary People's Struggle.

25-Apr-82 Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two bombings wereperpetrated during the night againststores selling IBM products. Theattacks were claimed by theRevolutionary People's Struggle.

26-Apr-82 TheHague

NetherlandsUnknown Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. A powerful bombwas discovered and disarmed in timeat the Kuwaiti consulate in theHague.

26-Apr-82 Vienna Austria Unknown Firearms0 1 AUSTRIA. After numerous attacksagainst French interests in recentweeks in Vienna, the discovery of thedead body of an Austrian guardposted at the French commercialmission, was taken to be anotheranti-French action. The guard hadbeen shot in the head with his owngun, but suicide was ruled out.There was no claim for responsibilityin any of the recent attacks.

26-Apr-82 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms1 0 LEBANON. A French officer,belonging to the U.N. peacekeepingforces, was seriously injured when agroup of armed men in west Beirutopened fire as he drove through thatsection of the city. Officials feel thatthis attack is related to other recentanti-French attacks which have takenplace in the city, notably, the April 24bombing of the AFP offices in Beirut.The officer, Gerard Dogniaux, hadnot regained consciousness andcould not give officials any details ofhis attackers.

26-Apr-82 Madrid Spain Unknown Firearms0 0 SPAIN. The cultural attache of theSyrian Embassy in Madrid, HassanDayoub, narrowly escaped anassassination attempt as he wasdriving home in the center of Madrid.A gunman opened fire on Dayoub'scar, but the attache respondedquickly with gunfire of his own afterleaping out of the car and theassassin fled.

a collection of terrorist attacks, feb-1968 to apr-1982 by cpact

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