List of various alleged terrorist acts 1945-2000
(Thanks to CQ Researcher, Centre for Defense and International
Security Studies and Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School, for the
information.)
Overview:
Chronology
1970s
Mounting Arab-Israeli tensions fuel a wave of
international terrorist incidents, while extremist offshoots of European leftist
parties engage in violent attacks at home.
1972
Members of Black September raid the Olympic
village in Munich. Seventeen people, including 11 Israeli athletes, are killed
in the raid and subsequent shootout with German police.
1976
Following revelations of widespread abuses in
the name of counter- terrorism, Attorney General Edward H. Levi issues
guidelines limiting the FBI's authority to conduct domestic intelligence
gathering.
1978
At the peak of anti-capitalist terrorism in
Western Europe, former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped and murdered.
1980s
The rise of Islamic fundamentalism adds to the
ranks of terrorist groups based in the Middle East.
April 1983
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is bombed,
causing 16 deaths and more than 100 injuries. The same year Attorney General
William French Smith eases restrictions on the FBI's powers of investigation.
October 1983
A suicide attacker drives a truck filled with
explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241.
June 1985
TWA Flight 847 is hijacked. U.S. Navy diver
Robert Stethem is murdered on board, his body dumped on the tarmac in Beirut.
Oct. 7, 1985
Palestinian terrorists hijack the Italian
cruise ship Achille Lauro off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, and murder Leon
Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old American invalid.
February 1988
Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins, a member of
the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, is kidnapped and later
murdered.
December 1988
A bomb destroys Pan American Flight 103 en
route from London to New York City over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
1990s
Devastating terrorist attacks occur on U.S.
territory amid an escalation of large-scale, indiscriminate attacks worldwide.
Feb. 26, 1993
Terrorists explode a bomb beneath New York
City's World Trade Center, killing six and injuring more than 1,000. Four
Islamic fundamentalists are convicted and each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
February 1995
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the alleged mastermind
behind the World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Pakistan and extradited to
the United States, where he awaits trial.
March 20, 1995
Release of poisonous gas in Tokyo's subway
system kills 12. Members of an obscure religious cult, Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme
Truth), are charged in the attack after an intensive investigation.
April 19, 1995
A truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children.
Two Americans are charged in the attack.
April 25, 1995
Gilbert Murray, a timber industry lobbyist, is
killed by a parcel bomb in Sacramento, Calif. The attack is believed to be the
16th in 17 years by an elusive terrorist known as the “Unabomber” because
many of his victims have been affiliated with universities. In a rare public
declaration, the Unabomber calls for “the destruction of the worldwide
industrial system.”
June 7, 1995
The Senate approves anti-terrorism legislation
aimed at strengthening the government's powers to fight terrorism at home and
abroad. With House passage of a similar bill expected in late July or early
August, the legislation is expected to become law before year's end.
June 27, 1995
The Unabomber warns in a letter that he plans
to blow up an airliner departing from Los Angeles International Airport over the
busy Fourth of July weekend, prompting massive security. In a later
communication, he says the threat was a hoax designed to gain publicity for his
cause and promises further violence if the media doesn't publish his lengthy
manifesto.
Detail
1940-1949
1945
October 31
Jewish terrorist offensive against British rule in Palestine begins, with a wave
of bomb attacks on police vehicles, railway sites and Haifa oil refinery. One
policeman, one soldier and two railway workers killed.
November 27
Eight British soldiers killed in bomb attack on police station Jerusalem,
Palestine, in Jewish Irgun terrorist attack.
1946
January 7
Three American civilian officials killed when Nazi "Werewolf"
terrorists burn down their house in Passau, Germany.
March 11
Iranian scholar Amhed Kashravi stabbed to death by Fedayyan-e eslam guerillas in
Iran.
July 22
Ninety people killed and forty five wounded after Jewish terrorists blow up the
King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Palestine, which was home to British government
and military offices. The terrorists held workers at pistol point while they
planted the explosives in the basement of the hotel.
September 30
One US soldier killed when ambushed by terrorists at Fort McKinley, Philippines.
October 31
British embassy in Rome, Italy, wrecked by two bombs in suit cases left by
Jewish Irgun terrorists. No casualties.
1947
July 12
Jewish Irgun terrorists kidnap and then hang two British Army sergeants. The
terrorists were trying to secure the release of three Irgun members who had been
sentenced to death by the British authorities in Palestine.
September 29
Jewish Irgun terrorists bomb police station in Haifa, Palestine, killing four
British and four Arab policemen, as well as two Arab civilians. Forty six people
injured.
December 3
Train derailed near Arras, France, by Communist terrorists killing twenty and
injuring forty.
December 12
Twenty Arabs, five Jews and two British soldiers killed and thirty wounded in
Jewish terrorist bomb attacks on buses in Haifa and Ramleh, Palestine. British
mandate to rule Palestine ends on 15 May 1948; state of Israel established.
December 29
Jewish Irgun terrorists throw grenades from passing taxi into café near the
Damascus gate, Jerusalem, Palestine, killing eleven Arabs and two British
policemen.
1948
January 30
Indian independence leader and statesman Mahatma Gandhi shot dead in Dehli,
India, by Nathuram Vinayak Godse.
March 7
Two American diplomats murdered by Viet Minh terrorists in Saigon, Indochina.
March 11
Headquarters of the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, Palestine, destroyed by Arab car
bomb killing thirteen and injuring eighty four.
April 9
Jewish Irgun terrorist group attacks Deir Yassim, Palestine, murdering two
hundred and fifty four Arab women and children captured in the remains of the
village.
Bomb explodes near US embassy in Bogota, Colombia, during Organisation of
American States conference.
May 8
American CBS correspondent George Polk murdered by three communists in Salonika,
Greece, after he was lured to a meeting on a boat in the city's harbour. His
body was dumped in the sea.
July 22
Pro-peace activist Stephen J Supina, drops home made dynamite bomb on United
Nations headquarters in New York, United States. No damage caused and he later
surrenders to the authorities.
September 17
United Nations mediator in Palestine, Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, murdered
by Jewish Stern gang extremist in Jerusalem, Palestine, who fired at point blank
range through window of his official car.
1949
December 3
British governor of Sibu, Sarawak, Duncan George Stewart, stabbed to death by
anti-British Malayans in North Borneo.
1950-1959
1950
November 1
Puerto Rican nationalists attack Blair House in Washington DC, United States, in
an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate US president Harry S Truman. One Secret
Service agent and one terrorist killed.
1951
July 20
King Abdullah of Jordan assassinated by Arab extremist in Jerusalem, Jordan,
while entering the Mosque of Omar to pray. The assassin and four others are
hanged for their part in the murder.
September 11
Pakistani prime minister Lisquat Ali Khan shot dead while addressing public
meeting in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by Afghan fanatic.
October 6
Sir Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner in Malaya, killed after his
motorcade was ambushed by Communist guerillas. Thirteen British soldiers
escorting Sir Henry were also killed in the attack. This leads to major shake up
of British counter-insurgency operations against the Communists.
1954
March 1
Five US congressmen were wounded when Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire in
the Capitol Building, Washington DC, United States. All four of the terrorists
were arrested after firing twenty five rounds.
March 17
Bus passengers killed when Palestinian terrorists cross into the Negev desert,
Israel, and ambush the vehicle.
1955
April 1
Greek Cypriot EOKA terrorist campaign for independence begins with a series of
bomb explosions around British controlled Cyprus.
August 20
Several dozen French civilians killed in the Philipevelle area of Algiers,
Algeria, by FLN guerrillas. French security forces stage retaliatory attacks on
Algerian civilians.
October 17
Five French soldiers and eight civilians killed in shooting attacks by Arab
nationalist guerillas in Algeria.
1956
February 29
New Greek Cypriot EOKA bombing campaign starts against British rule on Cyprus
leading to destruction of British Hermes aircraft at Nicosia airport on 3 March
and a Dakota on 27 April. Violence continues for four years until Cyprus is
granted independence by Britain.
October 3
Wife of a British soldier shot on Cyprus while shopping by Greek Cypriot EOKA
terrorists.
1957
September 27
Political prisoners being flown from Santa Cruz to La Paz, Bolivia, take over
the aircraft and force it to fly to Argentina, where they are granted political
asylum.
December 12
Irish Republican Army attack British Army barracks at Armagh, Northern Ireland,
but are repulsed after gun battle with guards.
1958
February 24
Argentine motor racing champion Juan Manuel Fangio is kidnapped from a hotel
lobby in Havana, Cuba, by Twenty Sixth of July Movement to stop him taking part
in a race and to embarrass the Cuban government.
June 27
Thirty US Marines kidnapped by Communist guerillas on Cuba, near the US naval
base at Guantanamo Bay. All are eventually released unharmed.
November 1
Cuban airliner hijacked by the Twenty Sixth of July Movement and forced to
attempt night landing in remote airfield in Cuba. The aircraft crashes killing
seventeen of the twenty people on board.
1960-1969
1960
March
One hundred killed and two hundred injured when anti-Castro rebels blow up
French freighter in Havana harbour, Cuba.
April 9
South African prime minister Henrik Verwoerd shot in face by anti-apartheid
white farmer at a fair in Johannesburg, South Africa.
August 29
Jordanian prime minister and eleven others killed by bomb in the foreign
ministry building, Amman, Jordan. Two of the bombers fled to safety and eleven
others are sentenced to death for the attack.
1961
February 23
Cruise liner hijacked by Portuguese rebels, who take more than 550 passengers
hostage. US and Brazilian warships intercept the ship and force the hijackers to
surrender to the Brazilian authorities.
May 1
First ever United States aircraft hi-jacked and forced to fly to Communist Cuba.
Puerto Rican born Abntulio Ramirez Ortiz forced the National Airlines Corvair
44O to fly to Havana at gun point and was then given asylum. He was jailed for
twenty years when he returned to Maimi, United States, in 1975.
September 9
Organisation Armee Secrete (Secret Army Organisation/OAS) terrorists protesting
about French moves to give Algeria independence attempt to blow up French
President Charles De Gaulle in Aube, France, but road side bomb fails to
explode.
December 16
African National Congress launch bombing campaign that damages government
buildings throughout South Africa. This first ANC terror campaign lasts for
eighteen months and involves some two hundred attacks.
1962
January
One women killed and thirteen people wounded when OAS terrorists bomb foreign
ministry building at Quai d'Orasy, Paris, France.
August 22
OAS terrorists stage machine gun attack on car carrying French President Charles
de Gaulle in a Paris suburb. The president escaped the attack unhurt and the
former French soldiers who carried out the attack were all later arrested.
Further unsuccessful assassination attempts were made by the OAS on 1 and 15
March 1963. Five more murder attempts on the president failed in 1964 and three
attacks were made on him in 1965.
1965
February 21
Black power leader Malcolm X shot dead during a public meeting in Auboadan
ballroom, in Harlem, New York City, United States.
May 25
Three Israeli civilians killed in Al Fatah Palestinian terrorist attack on
Jewish settlement at Ramat Hakovash, Israel.
September 1
British speaker of Aden state council murdered by Arab nationalists as he drove
to a tennis club, Aden City, South Arabia. This follows an assassination attempt
against a British police superintendent in August. Two weeks later seven British
children were injured when a grenade was thrown at the Aden airport terminal.
1966
August 4
An American and two Colombians killed by bomb planted by left wing rebels in the
Binational Centre, Bogota, Colombia.
September 26
El Condor nationalists hijack Argentine aircraft from Buenos Aires to British
occupied Falklands in a bid to bring attention to Argentina's claim to the
islands. They eventually surrendered their hostages and were returned to
Argentina by the British authorities.
November 22
A DC-3 aircraft blown up in mid-air near Aden, South Arabia, killing all twenty
eight people on board. Bomb was placed in baggage area of aircraft.
1967
March 23
Six government soldiers killed in Bolivia by Communist guerillas led by Cuban
Che Guevara. Seven months later his group was tracked down by government troops
and Guevara was killed.
June 30
Aircraft carrying Katangan rebel leader Moise Tshombe hijacked en route to
Ibiza, Spain, and forced to land in Algeria in a bid to extradite him to his
native Congo. The Algerians kept him under house arrest until he died two years
later.
October 12
British European Airways Comet airliner destroyed by a bomb that detonated in
the passenger cabin over Rhodes, Greece. All sixty six people on board died.
1968
February 21
A Delta Airlines DC8 was forced to fly to Havana, Cuba, in the first successful
hijacking of a US commercial airliner since 1961. The hijacker was granted
political asylum.
March 18
School bus hits land mine in Negev desert, Israel, killing two adults and
injuring twenty eight children. The Israelis stage major retaliatory raid into
Jordan to hunt down the Palestinian Al Fatah terrorists responsible.
April 4
Black civil rights activist Rev Martin Luther King shot dead in a hotel in
Memphis, United States with long range sniper rifle fired by James Earl Ray.
Large scale rioting erupts in many cities across America.
June 5
American presidential candidate Robert Kennedy murdered by Jordanian terrorist,
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, in Los Angeles, United States. His killer was arrested
and became the cause of further terrorist attacks, as Arab terrorist groups
demanded his release.
July 22
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine carry out first ever aircraft
hijacking, seizing an El Al Boeing 707 in Rome, Italy, and diverting it to
Algeria. Thirty two Jewish passengers held hostages for five weeks.
August 28
John Gordon Meir, US ambassador to Guatemala is murdered by a rebel faction when
they force his official car off the road in Guatemala City and machine gun the
vehicle. He is the first ever American ambassador to be assassinated by
terrorists.
September 4
Three bombs explode in central Tel Aviv, Israel, killing one Israeli and
wounding seventy one civilians.
October 12
A US Army officer serving as an advisor to the Brazilian army is gunned down in
his home, in San Paulo, Brazil by left wing guerillas, who falsely claim he is a
Vietnam "war criminal".
November 22
Mahaneh Yehuda market, Israel, bombed by Al Fatah Palestinian terrorists killing
twelve civilians and injuring fifty two.
December 26
One Israeli killed in Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine machine gun
attack on El Al aircraft at Athens airport, Greece. Two terrorists were captured
but later released by the Greek government after a Greek aircraft was hijacked
to Beirut. Three days after the Athens attack Israeli commandos raid Beirut
airport, Lebanon and blow up thirteen Arab airliners worth $43 million.
1969
February 18
Palestinian terrorists attack El Al Boeing 707 on runway at Zurich airport,
Switzerland, raking the fuselage with gunfire, killing the pilot and three
passengers. An Israeli skymarshall/secuirty guard returned fire killing one of
the terrorists and drove off the reminder.
February 21
Palestinian terrorists explode a bomb in a crowded supermarket in Jerusalem,
Israel, killing two people and injuring twenty.
August 29
TWA hijacked by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists after
taking off from Rome, Italy, led by Leila Khalid, and forced to fly to Damascus,
Syria. All the passengers and crew were released unharmed but the terrorists
exploded a bomb in the cockpit of the aircraft.
September 4
American ambassador Charles Elbrick kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by left
wing terrorists and freed after 15 terrorists were released from jail.
October 22
Four civilians killed by Palestinian bombs in two apartments in Haifa, Israeli,
and twenty others wounded.
December 12
Left wing anarchist terrorists kill sixteen and wound ninety when they blow up a
bank in Milan, Italy. In July 1970, the same group de-rails a train near Rome,
Italy, killing six and injuring one hundred.
1970-1979
1970
February 10
Three Arab terrorists attempt to hijack an El Al Boeing 707 at Munich airport,
Germany, but are thwarted by the pilot who grappled with a terrorist in the
terminal lounge. One Israeli is killed and eleven others wounded.
February 21
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine blow up a Swiss airliner just
after it has taken off from Zurich, Switzerland, killing all forty seven people
on board.
May 14
German left-wing terrorist leader Andreas Baader freed in rescue raid on West
Berlin jail led by fellow terrorist Ulrike Meinhof. The two become notorious as
leaders of the Baader-Meinhof gang.
September 6
"Skyjack Sunday" takes places at Dawson Field, in Jordan. TWA,
Swissair, BOAC aircraft, along with more than four hundred hostages, were
hijacked and ordered to the Jordanian airport by the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine. Another terrorist team tried to hijack an El Al Boeing
over London but security staff foiled the attempt and captured one of the
hijackers, Leila Khalid, alive. The German, Swiss and British Governments all
agreed to the PFLP's demands and released a number of terrorists, including
Khalid, held in their jails.
October 10
Quebec separatists kidnapped state government minister Pierre LaPorte and later
murdered him. The same group kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross
but released him unharmed.
1971
January 8
British ambassador to Uruguay Sir Geoffrey Jackson kidnapped and held for eight
months by Tupamaros terrorists, demanding the release of political prisoners.
May 17
Turkish radicals assassinate Israeli consul general in Istanbul, Turkey, as part
of a joint operation with Palestinian terrorists.
August 8
Black Panther leader George Jackson killed in gun battle inside San Quintin
jail, United States.
November 28
Jordanian prime minister Wasfi Tal shot and killed by Palestinian Black
September terrorists at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt. A month later the
Jordanian ambassador in London, England, is shot and wounded by a Black
September hit squad.
December 4
Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) terrorists explode bomb in Catholic area
of Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing fifteen civilians.
1972
February 22
Irish Republican Army bomb attack on the British Parachute Regiment Officers
Mess (club) in Aldershot, England, kills seven people.
March 4
Two killed and one hundred and thirty one people killed when Protestant
terrorists bomb the Abercorn restaurant in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
May 5
Italian terrorist and publisher Giangiancomo Feltrinelli blew himself up while
planting a bomb on an electricity pylon near Florence, Italy.
May 8
Israeli commandos storm hijacked Belgian Sabena airliner at Ben Gurion airport,
Israel, killing the four Palestinian Black September terrorists aboard the
aircraft and freeing the hostages. One passenger and five Israeli soldiers were
killed.
May 11
US Army headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, attacked by Red Army Faction car
bomb killing one American officer and injuring thirteen people. Three more US
servicemen injured in another Red Army Faction car bomb attack on the US Army
headquarters at Heidleburg, Germany, later in the month.
May 30
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Japanese Red Army terrorists
open fire in passenger terminal of Lod Airport, Israel, killing twenty six
civilians and wounding seventy eight others. Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto
survives and is captured by the Israelis.
July 21
Bloody Friday Irish Republican Army bombing attacks on Belfast, Northern
Ireland, kills eleven people and injures one hundred and thirty civilians. Ten
days IRA three car bomb attacks in the village of Claudy leave six dead.
September 5
Eight Palestinian Black September terrorists seize eleven Israeli athletes in
the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany. In a bungled rescue attempt by the West
German authorities nine of the hostages and five terrorists are killed.
September 9
Member of the Israeli embassy staff in London, England, killed by Palestinian
letter bomb.
1973
February 4
Irish Republican Army explode bomb on coach packed with British soldiers on M62
motorway, England, killing twelve people.
March 12
Palestinian Black September terrorists murder an Israeli businessman on Cyprus.
August 5
Black September suicide squad attacks passenger terminals at Athens airport,
Greece, killing three civilians and injuring fifty five.
August 4
Twelve people killed and forty eight injured when neo-fascists explode bomb on a
train approaching Bologna, Italy. In May another right wing bomb at a
demonstration in Brescia killed eight people.
December 17
Palestinian terrorists bomb Pan Am office at Fiumicino airport, Rome, Italy
killing thirty two and injuring fifty. The terrorist then take seven Italian
policemen hostage and hijack an aircraft to Athens, Greece, before flying on to
Kuwait after killing one of the hostages. They then surrendered.
December 20
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) terrorists kill Spanish Prime Minister
Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, in a spectacular bomb attack in Madrid, Spain.
1974
February 4
American heiress Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
terrorists and later joined the group, participating in a raid on the Hibernia
Bank in San Francisco, United States.
March 1
Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, seized by Black September terrorists
and a number of diplomats from Arab and western countries taken hostages. The
terrorists murder two American and one Belgian diplomat.
April 11
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command terrorists seize
part of the Qirayt Shemona settlement in northern Israel. Eighteen Israelis
killed after the terrorists detonate explosives during a rescue attempt.
May 15
Ninety children are held hostage by Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine terrorists in a school at Ma'alot, Israel. Twenty one people are
killed and seventy eight wounded during a bungled rescue attempt by Israeli
special forces troops.
May 17
Car bomb exploded in Dublin, Ireland, killing 22 people. Protestant Northern
Ireland terrorists blamed.
June 13
The Shamir kibbutz in Israel raided by the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine. The four terrorists and several Israelis killed in ensuing gun
battle.
June 26
Al Fatah Palestinian terrorists land by boat near Nahariya, Israel, and attempt
to take civilians hostage. Three Israelis and all the terrorists are killed in a
firefight.
November 21
Irish Republican Army sets off bombs in bars in Birmingham, England, killing 21
civilians, as part of major bombing campaign on the British mainland.
November 23
British DC-10 airliner hijacked at Dubai, UAE, by Palestinian Rejectionist front
terrorists and eventually flown to Tunisia where a German passenger was killed.
1975
January 19
Arab terrorists attack Orly airport, Paris, France, seizing ten hostages in a
terminal bathroom. Eventually the French provided the terrorists with a plane to
fly them to safety in Baghdad, Iraq.
January 21
Indian railway minister Narayan Mishra blown up in Bihar, India, by Anang Marg
terrorists.
January 27
Politician Peter Lorenz kidnapped in West Berlin, Germany, by June the Second
Movement terrorists. Four days later the German government gave into the
terrorists' demands for his release and five jailed terrorists were allowed to
fly to freedom in South Yemen.
April 24
German left wing terrorists seized the German embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, and
took twelve staff hostage to force the release of Baader-Meinhof gang
terrorists. One hostage was murdered and a terrorist killed when explosives went
off by accident. Led to formulation of the so-called "Stockholm
syndrome" theory, which holds that hostages start to sympathise with their
captors.
October 3
Irish Republican Army terrorists kidnap Dutch industrialist Teide Herrema in
Dublin, Ireland, after a month long hunt the Irish police surrounded the
terrorists hide out, forcing his release.
October 4
Left wing First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group (GRAPO) terrorists
murder four Spanish policemen after the execution of five members of the group
in Spanish custody.
November 27
British publisher Ross McWhirter shot by Irish Republican Army terrorists at his
home London, England, after offering a reward for information leading to the
arrest of terrorist bombers.
December 2
South Moluccan terrorists seize train at Beilen, Netherlands, for twelve days.
Three hostages were shot before the terrorists surrendered.
December 4
Seven South Moluccan terrorist seize the Indonesian embassy in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, beginning a two week long siege. One of the thirty six hostages
died jumping from a window to escape the terrorists.
December 6
Four Irish Republican Army terrorists seize two hostages in Balcombe Street,
London, England for six days before surrendering to police; hostages released
unharmed.
December 21
Top international terrorist, Carlos "The Jackal" holds eleven oil
ministers and fifty nine civilians hostage during the OPEC meeting in Vienna,
Austria. After flying to Algeria and taking delivery of several hundred million
dollars in ransom money, Carlos and his Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine terrorists escape.
1976
June 27
An Air France airliner is hijacked by a joint German Baader-Meinhof/Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group and its crew are forced to
fly to Entebbe airport in Uganda. Some two hundred and fifty eight passengers
and crew are held hostage but all non-Israeli passengers are eventually
released. On 4 July Israeli commandos fly to Uganda and rescue the remaining
hostages. All the terrorists were killed in the rescue, as are three passengers
and one commando.
July 21
British ambassador to Irish Republic Christopher Ewart Briggs killed when Irish
Republic Army landmine destroys his car near Dublin, Ireland.
August 11
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Japanese Red Army terrorists
attack passenger terminal at Istanbul airport, Turkey, killing four civilians
and injuring twenty.
September 21
Chilean exile Orlando Letelier murdered in car bomb in the centre of Washington
DC, United States, by Chilean secret service agents.
September 10
A TWA airliner flying from New York, United States, to Paris, France is hijacked
by Croatian terrorists, seizing ninety three hostages. The terrorists
surrendered in Paris and released their hostages. A New York policeman was
killed by a bomb left by the terrorists in a locker in Grand Central Station.
October 10
Seventy three people killed when Miami,United States, based El Condor Cuban
exiles explode a bomb aboard a Cuban Airlines jet as it takes off from Barbados.
1977
January 10
Ten civilians killed when their mini-bus was ambushed by Irish Republican Army
at Kingsmills, Northern Ireland.
May 23
Thirteen South Moluccan terrorists seize eighty five hostages on a train at
Assen, Netherlands. Two hostages were killed when Dutch Marines stormed the
train to end a nineteen day siege.
September 5
West German business leader Hans Martin Schleyer kidnapped by the Baader-Meinhof
gang. He was later murdered.
October 13
Four Palestinian terrorists hijack a German Lufthansa Boeing 737 and order it to
fly around a number of Middle East destinations for four days. After the plane's
pilot is killed by the terrorists, it is stormed by German GSG9
counter-terrorist troops, assisted by two British Army Special Air Service
soldiers, when it puts down at Mogadishu, Somalia. All the ninety hostages are
rescued and three terrorists killed.
1978
February 17
Irish Republican Army kill twelve civilians when they explode bomb in La Mon
House restaurant, Comber, Northern Ireland
February 19
Airliner hijacked at Larnica, Cyprus, airport by Arab terrorist who had just
murdered a leading Egyptian publisher at a nearby hotel. After being refused
permission to land at a number of Arab capitals the hijacker return to Larnica.
Egyptian commandos land and try to attack the plane but end up in gun battle
with Cypriot troops. Fifteen Egyptian troops, seven Cypriot soldiers and a
German cameraman are killed.
March 11
A nine strong Al Fatah Palestinian seaborne raiding party lands in Israel and
hijacks a bus, killing twenty six civilians and wounding seventy. All the
terrorists are killed by Israeli security forces. The Israelis retaliate by
invading southern Lebanon, under codename Operation Litani.
March 16
Italian industrialist Aldo Moro kidnapped by the Red Brigades terrorist group
and later murdered after fifty five days in captivity.
May 16
One person hurt in a package bomb explosion at Northwestern University, United
States, which is designated as the first ever attack by the so-called Unabomber.
August 20
El Al stewardess killed when crew bus ambushed by Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine terrorists outside Europa Hotel, London, England.
September 7
Bulgarian exile journalist Georgi Markov murdered by Bulgarian secret service
agents who injected him with poison on a street in London, England, using a
specially modified umbrella.
1979
March 30
British politician Airey Neave is killed when a bomb planted under his car
explodes in the car park of the House of Commons, London, England, by the Irish
National Liberation Army.
May 9
One person hurt in a bomb explosion at Northwestern University, United States,
which is blamed on the so-called Unabomber.
June 18
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexander Haig escapes death
after a terrorist bomb explodes under a bridge just after his motorcade has
passed over it. The German Red Army Faction is blamed by western intelligence
sources.
August 27
Eighteen British Parachute Regiment soldiers killed in two bomb attacks on
patrols operating near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. The Irish Republican Army
detonated the bombs by remote control from across the border in the Irish
Republic. Earl Mountbatten of Burma murdered by a Irish Republican Army bomb
which destroyed his boat during a fishing trip off the coast of the Irish
Republic.
November 4
Iranian radicals seize the US Embassy in Tehran, taking sixty-six American
diplomats hostage. The crisis continues until 20 January 1981 when the hostages
are released by diplomatic means. A US rescue effort led by the Delta Force
counter terrorist unit failed on 25 April 1980 when a Marine Corps CH-53
helicopter crashed into a USAF C-130 transport aircraft at forward refueling
site in central Iran, killing eight Americans and injuring five.
November 15
Twelve people injured in a bomb explosion on a American Airlines flight in the
United States, that is blamed on the so-called Unabomber.
November 20
Two hundred Islamic terrorists seize Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, taking
hundred of pilgrims hostage. Saudi and French security forces retake the Islamic
world's most holy shrine after a intense battle, in which some two hundred and
fifty people were killed and six hundred wounded.
1980-1989
1980
February 1
Six Spanish policemen killed in an ambush by Basque terrorists, near Bilbao,
Spain.
February 27
Fifty four hostages seized by Colombian terrorists in the Dominican republic
embassy in Bogota demanding the release of three hundred and eleven prisoners.
Eventually the terrorists were give sanctuary in Cuba after they released the
hostages.
March 24
Archbishop Oscar Romero is killed in his San Salvador cathedral, El Salvador, by
right wing terrorists while holding a mass.
April 30
Six Iraqi-backed Iranians storm the Iranian Embassy in Princess Gate, London,
taking twenty hostages. Six days later British Special Air Service
anti-terrorist troops re-captured the embassy killing five of the terrorists and
freeing the hostages. Two hostages were killed and two more wounded by the
terrorists.
May 2
British Special Air Service officer killed in gun battle with Irish Republican
Army active service unit armed with M60 heavy machine gun in Belfast, Northern
Ireland.
June 1
African National Congress bombs strategic oil-from-coal plants in South Africa
causing $7 million worth of damage.
July 17
Two people killed in failed Iranian attempt to assassinate the Shah's last prime
minister, Shahpour Bakhtiar, in Paris, France. Five terrorists captured by
police.
July 21
Christian militiamen shoot down Palestinian terrorist team attempting attack on
Israel from Lebanon in hot air balloon.
August 1
Bologna railway station, Italy, devastated by a massive bomb, believed planted
by right wing terrorists linked to rogue elements in the country's intelligence
services. 85 people killed and 300 injured.
August 13
Air Florida flight from Key West to Miami, United States, hijacked by seven
Cubans and flown to Cuba, where they released their hostages and then taken into
custody. Six further US airliners were hijacked to Cuba over the next month. All
the passengers were freed without harm. Three passengers were killed when Cubans
hijacked an aircraft in Peru and demanded to be flown to the United States.
October 3
Four Jews killed and twelve injured in Palestinian bomb attack on synagogue in
Paris, France.
October 6
The president of United Airlines injured in a bomb attack in Chicago, United
States, that is blamed on the Unabomber.
October 13
Four Iranian hijackers killed when Turkish security forces stormed a hijacked
Turkish Airlines aircraft after it landed in eastern Turkey. One of the one
hundred and fifty five hostages killed by the terrorists.
October 26
Neo-Nazi bomb attack on October beer festival, in Munich, Germany leaves
thirteen people dead and seventy two wounded.
1981
January 21
Sir Norman Stronge, former speaker of the Stormont Parliament, and his son shot
by Irish Republican Army during an attack on their home in Northern Ireland.
March 3
Swedish prime minister Olof Palme shot by lone gunman as he leaves a cinema in
Stockholm, Sweden. He was not protected by bodyguards and Swedish police have
yet to make any arrest for the crime.
April 16
Palestinian terrorist team attempt attack on Israel from Lebanon in hot air
balloon. Israeli air defences shoot down the balloon killing all the crew.
May 13
Pope John Paul II seriously wounded in assassination attempt in Rome, Italy, by
Turkish "Grey Wolves" terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. It emerges he was
trained by a number of Middle Eastern terrorists groups and had links to the
Soviet intelligence services.
August 31
Large bomb explodes in the car park of the USAF base at Ramstein, Germany,
injuring twenty people. The Red Army Faction claims responsibility.
September 15
Red Army Faction terrorists make unsuccessful rocket attack on the car of US
Army commander in West Germany, General Fred Kroesen.
October 6
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat shot dead by rebel troops who machine gunned the
reviewing stand at a military parade in Cairo, Egypt. Seven other people are
killed and twenty eight wounded. The assassins are later executed.
October 8
Unexploded bomb found and made safe at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
United States. The so-called Unabomber is linked to the attack.
October 10
Irish Republican Army bomb in London, England, kills two civilians and injured
forty others outside Chelsea Army Barracks. Seven days later another bomb
injures, Lieutenant-General Sir Steuart Pringle, a senior Royal Marines officer,
out side his home in London.
1982
June 3
The Israeli ambassador in London, England, Shlomo Argov, shot and seriously
injured by terrorists from the Abu Nidal group. The attack is used to justify
the Israeli invasion of Lebanon that started immediately after the attack.
July 2
A professor is injured in a bomb attack at the University of California,
Berkley, United States, which is attributed to the so-called Unabomber.
July 20
Four Household Cavalry soldiers and seven horses are killed when the Irish
Republican Army explodes a bomb in Hyde Park, London, England. Two hours later
another bomb explodes under a band stand in Regent Park killing another seven
soldiers. Some fifty one people were injured in the two incidents.
September 14
Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel assassinated by a massive car bomb at a Beirut
political meeting, by a pro-Syrian Lebanese group. Scores of civilians were
injured in the blast. Two days later with the support of Israeli defence
minister Arial Sharon, Phalange Christian militiamen occupy the Sabra/Shatilla
Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut Lebanon and start to massacre civilians in
revenge for the death of Gemayel. Some four hundred and sixty men, women and
children were killed in that attack that took place while nearby Israeli troops
watched.
August 22
Goldenberg restaurant attack in Paris, France, by the Action Directe terrorist
group leaves six civilians dead.
November 11
Israeli military headquarters in Tyre, Lebanon, destroyed by Islamic suicide
bomber leaving seventy five Israeli soldiers dead, along with fifteen Lebanese
and Palestinian prisoners.
December 6
Seventeen people killed and sixty injured after an Irish Republican Army bomb
destroys a bar at Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.
December 12
Anti-nuclear protestor holds eight tourists hostage in the Washington Monument,
in Washington DC, United States, before he is shot dead by a police sniper.
1983
April 18
Sixty three people, including the CIA's Middle East Director, are killed and 120
injured in a 400 lb suicide truck bomb attack on the US Embassy in Beirut,
Lebanon. The driver is killed. Responsibility is claimed by Islamic Jihad.
July 23
Eight people killed and fifty five injured when a suitcase bomb explodes near
check in desk at Orly airport, Paris, France. Armenian terrorists are later
arrested by French security forces for the attack.
July 27
Armenian terrorists seize the Turkish embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, taking the
staff hostage. Five terrorists, a Portuguese policemen and Turkish women are
killed when a terrorist bomb prematurely explodes.
October 9
The Martyr's Mausoleum bombing in Rangoon, Burma, leaves five South Korean
cabinet ministers and fifteen other people dead. South Korea's President Chun
survives the attack which is blamed on North Korean intelligence agents.
October 23
Italian right wing terrorists explode a bomb on a train killing fifteen people
and injuring one hundred and fifteen.
Simultaneous suicide truck bombs on American and French compounds in Beirut,
Lebanon. A 12,000 lb bomb destroys a US Marine Corps base killing two hundred
and forty one Americans; another fifty eight Frenchmen are killed when a 400 lb
device destroys one of their bases. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility. US and
French aircraft strike suspected terrorist bases in the Baka'a valley in
retaliation.
November 4
Twenty eight Israeli soldiers, along with thirty Palestinian and Lebanese
civilians are killed in another suicide truck bomb attack on the Israeli
military headquarters in Tyre, in southern Lebanon.
November 15
US Naval officer shot by November 17 terrorist group in Athens, Greece, when his
car stopped at traffic lights.
December 12
US Embassy in Kuwait was targeted by Iranian backed Iraqi Shia terrorist who
attempted to destroy the building with a truck bomb. The attack was foiled by
guards and the device exploded in the Embassy fore-court killing five people.
December 17
The climax of an Irish Republican Army Christmas bombing campaign in London,
England, saw two policemen and three civilians killed during an car bomb attack
on Harrods department store.
US Army Brigadier General James Dozier kidnapped from his home in Verona, Italy,
by Italian Red Brigades terrorists. He was held for forty five days until
Italian special forces rescued him on 26 January 1982.
1984
March 8
Car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon, kills eighty and wounds more than two hundred
civilians, in what is believed to have been a American CIA backed attempt to
kill the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist group.
March 16
CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, William Buckley, kidnapped by the Iranian
backed Islamic Jihad. He was tortured and then executed by his captors.
April 12
Eighteen US servicemen killed and eighty three people injured in bomb attack on
restaurant near USAF base in Torrejon, Spain. Responsibility claimed by
Hezbollah as revenge for March bombing in Beirut.
April 17
British security forces including Special Air Service counter-terrorist troops
lay siege to Libyan People's Bureau (embassy) in London after a British
policewomen is killed by small arms fire originating from inside the building.
After threats were made to UK citizens living in Libya, the British government
decided to respect the diplomatic immunity of the staff of the People's Bureau
and allowed them to leave for Tripoli. No one was arrested for the murder.
April 22
Four Palestinian terrorist hijack bus carrying Israelis in Gaza, occupied
territories. Israeli special forces storm the bus and kill two of the terrorist
after they had been captured.
June 5
Sikh terrorists seize the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India; hundreds die after
the holy shrine is retaken by Indian security forces.
August 2
Tamil Tiger terrorists blow up Madras airport terminal, India, killing thirty
people and injuring twenty four more. The bomb was intended to blow up a Sri
Lankan airliner.
September 20
Suicide bomb attack on US Embassy in East Beirut kills twenty three people and
injures twenty one others. The US and British ambassadors were slightly injured
in the explosion which was attributed to the Iranian backed Hezbollah group.
October 12
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet escape death during an
Irish Republican Army bomb attack on the Grand Hotel, Brighton, England, during
the Conservative Party Congress. Five people killed and thirty injured in the
attack which destroyed the front of the hotel.
October 31
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is gunned down by her own Sikh bodyguards in
Dehli, India. Almost three thousand people die in riots that follow Gandhi's
assassination.
December 4
Kuwaiti airliner hijacked en-route to Pakistan from Dubai by Iranian backed
Iraqi Shia terrorists. The aircraft was forced to land in the Iranian capital,
Tehran, after two Americans had been killed. The terrorists surrendered to the
Iranian authorities and are later released.
1985
January 15
General Rene Audan, head of French international arms sales, shot dead at his
home in Paris France by terrorists from the Action-Directe-Red Army Faction,
pan-European radical group, linked to the German Baader-Meinhof gang. Two weeks
later Industrialist Ernst Zimmerman and his wife murdered in their home, in
Munich, Germany, by Red Army Faction terrorists.
February 28
Nine Royal Ulster Constabulary officers killed and fifty seven people wounded in
an Irish Republican Army mortar attack on Newry police station in Northern
Ireland.
March 16
US journalist Terry Anderson is kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon, by Iranian backed
Islamic radicals. He is finally released in December 1991.
April 5
Bomb explodes outside Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut killing 80 people. CIA
backed Christians are blamed.
May 15
One person injured in bomb explosion in a computer room at the University of
California, Berkeley. The so-called Unabomber is held responsible. On 13 July
the Unabomber sent another device by post to Boeing aircraft company
headquarters, Washington state, United States.
May 20
African National Congress bombs air force headquarters in Pretoria, South
Africa, killing nineteen civilians and injuring more than two hundred people.
June 6
Red Army Faction bomb explodes at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, killing three
people. A TWA Boeing 727 was hijacked enroute to Rome, Italy, from Athens,
Greece, by two Lebanese Hezbollah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut,
Lebanon. The eight crews and one hundred and forty five passengers were then
held for seventeen days, during which one American hostage was murdered. After
being flown twice to Algiers, on the aircraft's return to Beirut the hostages
were released after the US Government pressured the Israelis to release four
hundred and thirty five Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
June 9
US academic, Thomas Sutherland, at the American University, Beirut, Lebanon
kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and held until 18 November 1991.
June 23
Air India Boeing 747 is destroyed by a bomb over the Atlantic, killing all three
hundred and twenty nine people aboard the aircraft. Sikh terrorists are blamed
for the attack, which is the worse single terrorist incident to date. Two cargo
handlers killed at Tokyo airport when another Sikh bomb explodes in an Air
Canada aircraft en-route to India.
July 9
Industrialist Karl-Heinz Beckurte killed in car bomb attack in Munich, Germany.
Red Army Faction claim responsibility.
July 10
French DSGE secret agents plant bomb on Green Peace ship Rainbow Warrior in
Auckland harbour, New Zealand that kills one protest group member.
August 8
Three US servicemen and seventeen injured in Red Army Faction bomb and gun
attack on Rhein-Main airbase, Germany.
September 25
Palestine Liberation Organisation Force 17 commando squad kills three Israeli
tourists aboard at yacht in Larnica marina, Cyprus. The three strong group,
including Briton Ian Davidson, are imprisoned by the Cypriots.
September 30
Four Soviet diplomats kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon by Islamic Liberation
Organisation, which was thought to be a front for the Iranian backed Hezbollah.
One of the Russians was killed but the other three were released unharmed after
a relative of the terrorist group's leaders was kidnapped and killed by the
Soviet KGB.
October 7
Four Palestinian Liberation Front terrorists seize the Italian cruise liner,
Achille Lauro, during a cruise in the eastern Mediterranean, taking more than
seven hundred people hostage. One US passenger was murdered before the Egyptian
Government offered the terrorists safe haven in return for the hostages'
freedom. US Navy fighters incepted the Egyptian aircraft flying the terrorists
to safety in Tunis and forced it to land at the NATO airbase in Italy, where the
terrorists were arrested. The Italian authorities however let two of the
terrorists leaders escape on diplomatic passports.
October 11
Jewish Defense League bomb Arab-American lobbying office in Los Angles, United
States, killing its director Alex Odeh.
November 10
Senior government official Gerold von Braunmuhl, shot at his home in Bonn,
Germany, by Red Army Faction terrorists.
November 11
Two hurt in alleged Unabomber attack on the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
United States. A month later a computer store owner is killed in another
Unabomber attack in Sacramento, California, United States.
November 13
Palace of Justice in Bogota, Colombia, seized by left wing M-19 terrorists and
one hundred hostages taken, including a number of judges. All the terrorists and
most of the hostages killed when the Colombian army stormed the building.
November 23
Ninety eight passengers and crew of an Egyptair aircraft are held hostage by
Palestinian terrorists at Luqa, Malta. Five passengers were shot by the
terrorists and two died. An ill-planned assault by Egyptian Force 777 commandos
resulted in some fifty seven passengers being killed when the terrorists set off
explosives in the aircraft.
December 23
ANC bomb explodes in Durban, South Africa, shopping area kills five and injures
48.
December 27
Suicide grenade and gun attacks against passenger terminals at Rome and Vienna
airports by the Abu Nidal terrorist group results in sixteen people being killed
and more than 100 civilians injured.
1986
February 2
Basque ETA terrorists assassinate Spanish admiral in Madrid, Spain.
April 5
Two US soldiers are killed and seventy nine American servicemen are wounded in
Libyan bomb attack on a night club in West Berlin, Germany. Ten days later US
Air Force and Navy jets bomb targets in Libya in reprisal for the raids, hitting
targets in Tripoli and Benghazi. One USAF F-111 is shot down in the raid killing
its two crew. Some ninety three Libya civilians are killed in raids. Three
British hostages held by Islamic groups in the Lebanon are killed in response to
the raid.
April 17
British television journalist John McCarthy seized in Beirut by Iranian backed
terrorist and held hostage with a large group of other westerners until 8 August
1991.
May 1
Cargese holiday camp, Corsica, seized by separatist rebels, who kill two
hostages and injure three.
June 26
Maoist Shinning Path guerrillas bomb train in Peru killing eight.
September 5
Pan American Boeing 747 seized by Arab terrorists in Pakistan. They kill
seventeen hostages and wound another one hundred and twenty seven after
panicking and thinking they were under attack. Pakistani security forces then
stormed aircraft and freed the hostages.
September 12
US academic at the American University in Beirut Joseph Cicippio seized in
Beirut by Iranian backed Islamic terrorists. He is eventually released on 1
December 1991.
September 17
A ten month series of bomb attacks in France attributed to Lebanese and Armenian
terrorists begins. One bomb in Paris kills five and injures 52.
October 21
American businessman Edward Tracy kidnapped in the Lebanon by Islamic terrorists
and held for almost five years until 11 August 1991.
November 11
President of Renault car company is killed in terrorist attack by Action Directe
in Paris, France.
1987
January 10
British church envoy Terry Waite, disappears in Beirut, Lebanon, while on a
mission to secure the release of other western hostages held in the city by
Iranian backed groups. Eventually released on 18 November 1991.
January 24
American citizens Jesse Turner and Alann Steen seized in Beirut by Islamic
terrorists. Turner was held until 22 October 1991 and Steen is released on 3
December 1991.
February 20
One person injured in a bomb attack on computer store in Salt Lake City, United
States, which is attributed to the so-called Unabomber.
April 14
US Navy club in Naples, Italy, bombed by Japanese Red Army killing five.
May 8
An Irish Republican Army team moving to attack Loughgall police station,
Northern Ireland, is ambushed by British Army Special Air Service commandos. All
eight terrorists are killed and a civilian is injured in the shoot-out.
November 11
An Irish Republican Army bombs kills eleven civilians and injures sixty others
during the Enniskillen Rememberance Sunday ceremony in Northern Ireland.
November 25
Two hang gliders used by Palestinian terrorist to cross into Israel from
Lebanon. Six Israeli soldiers are killed during an attack on an army camp and
eight wounded.
1988
February
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel W. Higgens, kidnapped and murdered by the
Iranian backed Hezbollah while serving with the United Nations Truce Supervisory
Organisation in southern Lebanon.
March 6
Three Irish Republican Army terrorists preparing to explode a bomb in the
British colony of Gibralter are ambushed and killed by undercover British Army
soldiers.
March 16
During the funeral in Belfast, Northern Ireland, of the three Irish terrorists
killed in Gibralter, an Ulster protestant, Michael Stone, throws hand grenades
and opens fire on mourners killing three and wounding fifty. Four days later two
British soldiers are dragged from a car in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during an
Irish Republican Army funeral procession, beaten and then shot at point blank
range.
Four thousand Kurdish civilians killed during Iraqi nerve gas attack against
Halabja in northern Iraq, after Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ordered weapons to
be used to put down Kurdish revolt against rule from Baghdad.
April 5
One hundred and twenty two people were held hostage after a Kuwaiti Boeing 747
was hijacked and diverted to Mashad, Iran, before flying on to Cyprus. The
Kuwait Government refused requests by the Iranian backed Shia hijackers to
release 17 convicted terrorists. After 15 days the hijackers were granted asylum
in Algeria and released their hostages unharmed.
May 1
Three British servicemen killed in two shooting and bombing incidents in Holland
by the Irish Republican Army.
June 15
Six British soldiers killed during a charity sports run in Lisburn, Northern
Ireland, by Irish Republican Army bomb. On 1 August Mill Hill British Army base
in London, England, bombed by Irish Republican Army. Eight British soldiers
killed and 27 injured when Irish Republican Army blew up their bus carrying them
to their barracks in Tyrone, Northern Ireland, later in August.
June 26
US Naval Attache killed in Athens, Greece, by Nov 17th terrorist group.
August 8
Pakistan president Zia Al Haq and US ambassador are killed, along with thirty
seven other people, when a bomb explodes on a C-130 Hercules aircraft just after
take off from Bahawalpu, Pakistan.
December 21
Pan Am Boeing 747 blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb believed to have
been placed on the aircraft at Frankfurt Airport, Germany. All 259 people on the
aircraft were killed by the blast which has been attributed to a number of
Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Two Libyan intelligence operatives are being
tried in connection with this attack.
1989
May 12
British World War Two veteran Jackie Mann seized by Iranian backed terrorists in
Beirut, Lebanon, and held until 23 September 1991. Four days latter German aid
workers Heinrich Struebig and Thomas Kemptner were also kidnapped in the Lebanon
by Islamic terrorists and held until June 1992. They were the last of some 80
westerners held hostage in Lebanon to be released.
September 19
One hundred and seventy people killed when French UTA airliner explodes in
mid-air over Niger. The French government issued warrants for the arrest of four
Libyans.
September 22
Deal Barracks, England attack by Irish Republican Army and eleven British Army
bandsmen killed.
September 26
Greek politician Pavlos Bakoyiannis assassinated by 17 November terrorists
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March 22
Canadian scientist Gerald Bull murdered in his flat in Brussels, Belgium, by an
unknown gunman. In 1996 the Belgian police asked for the extradition of Victor
Ostrovsky from Canada.
April 10
Irish Republican Army bomb at the Baltic Exchange in the City of London,
England, kills three and injures ninety one civilians.
May 20
Seven Palestinian civilians murdered in Palestine when off-duty Israeli soldier
Ami Popper goes mad and runs amok with assault rifle.
July 30
Conservative politician Ian Gow killed by Irish Republican Army bomb at his home
in England.
August 1
Iraqi troops invade Kuwait and seize 10,000 western civilians living in Iraq and
Kuwait as human shield hostages in response to US and allied military
deployments aimed at recapturing the Gulf state. All the hostages are eventually
released by the end of the year.
October 7
Israeli police open fire on Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque,
Jerusalem, Israeli occupied West Bank, killing seventeen and wounding nearly one
hundred and fifty. The incident began after Israeli police overreacted to stone
throwing by the Palestinians.
1991
February 7
Irish Republican Army fired mortar at Downing Street residence of British Prime
Minister John Major in central London, England. No one injured and terrorists
escape.
April 1
Red Army Faction terrorists kill German industrial chief Detlev Rohwedder at his
home in Dusseldorf, Germany, in their last reported action.
May 21
Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi shares the fate of his mother and is
assassinated by Tamil Tiger suicide bomber in Madras, India.
June 4
Three Irish Republican Army terrorists killed in gun battle with British Special
Air Service troops in Coagh, Northern Ireland, during an attempt to kill local
Protestant civilians.
1992
February 5
Five Catholic civilians killed by Protestant terrorists in betting shop,
Belfast, Northern Ireland.
February 16
Four Irish Republic Army terrorists killed by British Special Air Service troops
during abortive attack on a police station in Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
March 17
Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, devastated by bomb killing twenty
and injuring scores more. Islamic terrorists suspected.
May 2
One tourist was killed by Islamic Jihad terrorist who attacked the Israeli Red
Sea resort of Eilat. Two terrorists were killed and one captured during the
Israeli Defence Force follow-up operation.
October 21
British female tourist shot during Islamic terrorist attack on tourist group at
Beirut, Egypt.
1993
January 8
Islamic terrorists attempt to bomb bus carrying German tourists in Egypt. No one
injured in attack. A day earlier Japanese tourists had been fired upon by
terrorists in southern Egypt.
February 26
World Trade Centre in New York, USA, badly damaged by a massive bomb planted by
Islamic terrorists. The car bomb was planted in an underground garage and left
six people dead and more than one thousand people injured.
February 28
Branch Davidion cult barricade themselves into their compound at Waco, United
States, after an abortive Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms raid leaves
four Federal agents and six cult members dead. Eighty six cult members,
including their leader David Koresh, die when the compound burns down during an
assault by Federal agents on 19 April.
March 20
Irish Republican Army bomb shopping mall in Warrington, England, killing two
children and injury fifty six civilians.
April 14
Iraqi intelligence service attempt to assassinate former US President, George
Bush, during a visit to Kuwait. Two months later the US launches a cruise
missile attack on the Iraqi capital Baghdad in retaliation.
April 24
City of London financial district devastated by Irish Republican Army bomb,
killing one civilian and causing US$1.5 billion in damage.
May 1
Sri Lankan president Ranasingle Premadasa blown up by Tamil Tiger suicide bomber
who had explosives wrapped around chest.
June 22
A geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, United States,
injured in a bomb attack attributed to the so-called Unabomber.
June 24
A computer scientist is injured in another Unabomber attack on Yale University,
New Haven, United States.
June 27
German GSG9 anti-terrorist commando killed in shoot out with Red Army Faction
terrorists at Bad Kleinen, Germany. One of the terrorists was killed and another
captured.
September 8
Nineteen killed and twenty two injured in Johannesburg, South Africa, by
pro-Zulu terrorists in run up to general election.
September 12
Dr Adimael Guzman, leader of the Shinning Path guerrilla group is captured by
the Peruvian Security forces but he still is thought to lead the group's
terrorist campaign from his jail cell.
October 23
Irish Republican Army bomb shop in Belfast, Northern Ireland, leaving ten dead.
A week later seven civilians were shot dead in retaliation for the Shankill
bombing by Protestant terrorists in a bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland.
December 2
Colombian drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar is killed in gun battle with security
forces in Medellin, Columbia. To maintain control of his drug empire he is said
to have been responsible for the death of 1,000 civilians and 500 policemen.
1994
February 25
Jewish right wing extremist Baruch Goldstein machine guns twenty nine
worshippers at a mosque in Hebron, Palestine. Israeli security forces criticised
for not intervening sooner to stop the killing.
April 6
Rwandan president Juvenel Habyarimana killed when his aircraft shot down by
surface-to-air missile while approaching Kigali airport, Rwanda, on his return
from a regional government leaders meeting. The incident sparks massive outbreak
of ethnic violence that results in more than a million people being killed. Ten
Belgian paratroopers serving with the United Nations in Kigali are hacked to
death by rebels.
April 24
African National Congress offices in Johannesburg, South Africa, devastated by
90 kg bomb killing nine civilians and injuring ninety two. Right-wing extremists
trying to disrupt the country's first democratic election are blamed. Three days
later another right-ring bomb wounds twenty, including four seriously, at Jan
Smuts airport.
June 14
Chechen rebels take one thousand hostages at Budennovsk, Russia. Some one
hundred and fifty are killed during abortive rescue attempt by Russian Army. The
Chechens are later allowed to escape by the Russian Government in return for the
freedom of the remaining hostages.
June 20
Six civilians were gunned down in bar at Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, by
Irish Republican Army terrorists.
Bomb explosion at Mashhad, Iran, kills twenty five civilians. Opposition groups
fighting to overthrow the country's Islamic regime are blamed for the attack.
July 18
Forty civilians killed in bomb attack on Jewish social centre in Buneos Aires,
Argentina. Iranians diplomats in the city are expelled after being connected
with the incident.
July 26
Khmer Rogue terrorists kidnap Australian, British and French tourists in
Cambodia. Along with two other western tourists they are all killed later in the
year.
September 19
November 17 terrorists explode bomb on bus in Greece, killing one policeman and
injuring thirteen others.
October 19
Hamas suicide bomber kills twenty two civilians and injures forty seven on a bus
in the centre of Tel Aviv, Israel.
October 23
Two Spanish nuns murdered by Islamic GIA terrorists in Algeria.
December 12
The second fatal victim of the so-called Unabomber, an advertising executive, is
killed in a bomb attack at North Caldwell, New Jersey, United States.
December 24
Air France Airbus seized by Algerian Islamic terrorists and forced to fly to
Marseilles airport, France. All the terrorists were killed when French CIGN
counter-terrorist troops stormed the aircraft and rescued the 170 passengers and
crew, 16 of whom suffered minor injuries.
1995
March 20
Twelve civilians killed and thousands injured in a Sarin nerve gas attack on the
Kasumigaski subway station in the centre of Tokyo, Japan. The Aum Shinrikyo cult
were blamed for the attack which involved placing gas containers in subway
stations and trains. A major police clamp down on the cult followed the attack
with its leader Shoko Asahara being arrested two months later. The previous June
seven people died and one hundred and fifty were injured in a gas attack in
Matsumoto, Japan, also perpetrated by the Aum. In that attack, the gas was
sprayed from tanks in a van in an attempt to assassinate a judge. Subsequent
investigation identified the gas as Sarin nerve agent.
April 19
Federal Building in Oklahoma City, United States, totally destroyed by massive
truck bomb killing 166 people and injuring hundreds more. Rightwing extremists
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholson arrested for the largest terrorist attack in
modern American history.
April 24
The third and final victim of the Unabomber, a lumber lobbyist, is killed in
Sacramento, United States. On 4 April 1996, Theodore J. Kaczynski is finally
arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under suspicion of being the
so-called Unabomber. In total three people were killed and 23 wounded in the 16
bombings attributed to Kaczynski since 1978.
May 5
Five foreign oil workers murdered by Islamic GIA terrorists in Algeria, as their
campaign against the military regime gathers pace.
May 26
More than 360 United Nations peacekeepers held hostage by the Bosnian Serb army
as "human shields" after NATO air strikes on their capital Pale. The
UN personnel are tied to key military targets for several days until released
during June.
June 19
Bomb planted by Basque ETA terrorists kills a policeman in Madrid, Spain.
June 26
Assassination attempt made against Egyptian President Honsi Mubarak in Addis
Abbaba by Islamic radicals who ambushed his motorcade.
July 7
Five British, German, Norwegian and American tourists kidnapped by Kashmiri
rebels in the north of the disputed province of India. One was found beheaded in
October and the other four were never seen again. In May 1996 it emerged that
they had been shot and buried by their captors, as they tried to escape from
pursuing Indian security forces. No confirmation has yet been found to support
these claims.
July 25
Algerian GIC Islamic terrorists explode bomb in metro station in Paris, France,
killing seven people and injuring eighty four.
October 20
Eight civilians die when mosque bombed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
November 4
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin assassinated by right wing Jewish radical
Yigal Amir when leaving a peace rally in Tel Aviv, Israel.
November 13
Seven foreigners, including a number of US servicemen, are killed in bomb attack
on National Guard training centre at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
November 19
Islamic radicals plant bomb in Egyptian embassy in Pakistan killing seventeen.
December 11
Large bomb planted by Basque ETA terrorists kills six sailors and injured
eighteen civilians in Madrid, Spain. Prompts a large anti-ETA demonstration in
the city.
15 car bombings in Algiers by Algerian GIA Islamic terrorists kill fifteen
civilians and hundreds more injured.
December 25
Six hundred Zulu Inkatha Party supporters seize Shobashobane village, South
Africa, killing nineteen African National Congress supporters.
1996
January 9
Nine Chechen rebels seize three thousand civilian hostages in Kizlyar, Dagestan,
in protest at the continued Russian occupation of their homeland. Russian troops
try to rescue the hostages but the operations turn into a bloody battle, with
the security forces using artillery and attack helicopters to kill the rebels.
Hundreds killed and most of the Chechens escape. Other Chechen rebels seize a
ship in Turkey, taking 118 Russians and 4 Turks hostage before they surrendered
to the Turkish authorities. No loss of life.
Three civilians killed in gun attack on bus in Turkey by Del Sol left wing
terrorist.
January 31
Tamil Tiger suicide bombers set off massive car bomb in the centre of business
district of Columbo, Sri Lanka, killing eight and injuring 1,400 civilians.
Security forces intercept other suicide bombers and prevent further carnage.
February 11
Algerian GIA terrorists explode car bomb in Algiers killing seventeen. The
following month, two more are killed in another GIA bomb in the Berroughi and
ten are killed in a train ambush in western Algeria.
February 16
Irish Republican Army breaks its 18 month old ceasefire by exploding a massive
bomb in the Dockland's district of London, England. Two civilians are killed and
scores injured. Two days later a member of the terrorist organisation was killed
when a bomb he was carrying exploded prematurely on a London bus. Several other
passengers were seriously injured.
February 24
Two Cuban MiG fighters shoot down a light aircraft flown by four Cuban exiles of
the "Brothers to the Rescue" organisation over the Gulf of Mexico.
February 25
Hamas suicide bomber kills 26 Israeli civilians on a bus in the Palestinian town
of Hebron. An hour later one Israeli is killed and thirty five injured in
Ashkelon, Israel, by another Hamas bomb. The following day a Palestinian rams a
bus queue in Tel Aviv Israel, killing one and wounding twenty three civilians.
March 3
Eighteen killed and ten wounded in Hamas suicide bomb attack on bus in
Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine. Thirteen civilians are killed and scores wounded
the following day when another Hamas suicide bomber attacks a shopping mall in
Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv.
March 25
The so-called Montana Freemen begin a confrontation with Federal authorities in
Montana, United States. Some twenty five members of the group hold out until
surrendering in June 1996.
April 19
Eighteen Greek tourists were gunned down near the historic Pyramids in Egypt by
Islamic terrorists aiming to destroy the country's tourist industry.
June 15
Irish Republican Army terrorists devastate the centre of Manchester, United
Kingdom, with a truck bomb that injures hundreds of civilians and causes several
hundred million dollars worth of damage. In April the IRA tried to blow up
Hammersmith bridge in London but the large device failed to explode.
June 25
Islamic radical terrorists opposed to the western military presence in the Gulf
region, explode a truck bomb next to a USAF housing area at Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia, killing 19 American servicemen and 385 injuring more.
June 29
A British Army base in Osnabruck, Germany, comes under Irish Republican Army
mortar fire. No casualties are caused after the mortars miss their target, a
petroleum storage area.
July 17
Tamil Tiger guerillas explode a train bomb killing 70 and injuring 600 people in
Sri Lanka after Government troops mounted in successful offensive on the east of
the island.
August 3
One person killed and 111 people killed in small bomb explosion in Centennial
Square during Atlanta Olympics Games. Another person dies of heart attack after
the explosion for which responsibility is not claimed by any group.
August 26
Six Iraqi dissidents hijack a Sudan Airways A310 Airbus airliner en route from
Khartoom to Jordan and divert it to Stanstead, England. After eight and one half
hours negotiating with British authorities the hijackers release all the 13 crew
and 180 passengers unharmed.
September 23
A major Irish Republican Army bombing campaign in London, England, is thwarted
when British police raid a house in the capital. Police marksmen shoot dead IRA
member Diatmuid O'Neill in the raid and arrest five other people. Further raids
in London net 10 tones of improvised explosives, three AK-47 assault rifles, two
pistols and bomb making equipment.
October 7
Irish Republican Army terrorists penetrate security at the British Army's
Northern Ireland Headquarters at Lisburn, south of Belfast, to plant two car
bombs. One soldier is killed in the blasts and 30 other people injured.
November 23
Ethopian Airways Boeing 767 hijacked enroute from Addis Adaba to Niarobi and
diverted to Australia. It runs out of fuel and crashes into the Indian Ocean
near Comoros Islands killing 123 people, 52 people including two hijackers
survive.
December 20
Irish Republican Army terrorists try to kill Unionist politician in a Belfast
hospital, injuring a policeman. The attack sparks a series of bomb attacks,
mortar and rocket attacks on the security forces that continue on a daily basis
into January. Protestant terrorists also stage car bomb attacks on republicans.
December 23
Corsican militants explode a bomb at the French national statistics office in
Paris causing no casualties.
A car bomb in the Algerian capital, Algiers, kills three and injures 70 people
in cafe near the port. Islamic GIA guerillas are blamed. The day before a child
had been killed in a bomb explosion at a school in the west of the country.
December 24
21 UN observers taken hostage by Tajik guerillas loyal to warlord Rizvon Sadirov.
They were all eventually freed unharmed.
Four people killed by pipe bomb in supermarket in Worcester, near Cape Town,
South Africa, and dozen injured in the blast, which was attributed to white
extremists of the Afrikaaner Resistance Movement (AWB).
December 25
Tibetan activists explode bomb in Lhassa, Tibet, near government offices in
protest at Chinese rule, injuring five people.
December 29
A car bomb in the centre of Algiers, Algeria, kills 28 people and injures 35
people. This is the third GIA car bomb in the past week, killing 13 people and
injuring more than 250.
December 31
60 people killed when train is blown up by bomb in Sensapani, Assam, India, by
tribal guerillas and some 60 people injured. Three more bridges were destroyed
in a series of bombings during the following week.
1997
January 1
Jewish fanatic, Noam Friedman, opens fire with machine gun in Hebron market
injuring 11 Palestinians in protests of concessions by the Israeli Government to
the Palestinians.
January 3
Four killed when Muslim rebels opposing Indian rule explode car bomb in Kashmiri
capital, Srinigar, and injure three policemen.
January 7
Two killed and 15 injured when bomb explodes near army headquarters in Lagos,
Nigeria, when a bus full of soldiers were driving past.
A car bomb in Algiers, Algeria, kills 13 and wounds 100 after being exploded in
a shopping centre. GIA rebels kill 34 in two attacks on villages over the
previous week.
January 9
Basque ETA terrorists shot dead a Spanish army colonel outside his home in
Madrid.
Two Arab bombs in Tel Aviv, Israel, leaves 13 injured.
January 13
GIA Islamic rebels slit the throats of 14 villagers and behead them in an attack
near the city of Bilda, Algeria.
January 14
Letter bombs explode at the officers of the Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, in London
and at the UN Building in New York. Two security guards were injured in London.
January 16
Two bombs explode outside abortion clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, injuring
several bystanders. No group claimed responsibility.
A car bomb in Boufarik, Algeria, kills 12 and injures dozens more in attack by
the GIA Islamic guerillas.
An ethnic Albania university lecturer is injured by a remotely controlled car
bomb in Pristina, capital of the Kosovo region of Serbia.
January 19
A car bomb in Algiers kills 45 and wounds 60, hours after another 36 people were
killed by Algerian rebels south of the capital. A further 79 people were killed
in attacks on villages the following day. A further bombing on the next day
killed 18 and injured 44.
January 21
Seven people were killed when gunmen attacked the Iranian cultural centre in
Multan, Pakistan. The centre's director was killed in the attack, which was
claimed by a Shite religious group.
Five people were killed in bomb attack on the Algerian garrison town of Blida.
January 30
Four killed and 40 injured by 155 lb dynamite bomb in city centre of Medellin,
Colombia. Left wing rebels were blamed for the attack on the civic group
building.
Muslim fundamentalist guerillas in Algeria kill 28 people with knives in attack
on village to south of Algiers.
February 10
Spanish supreme court judge killed by two masked gunman outside his home in
Madrid. A military driver was killed and seven men injured in a car bomb attack
in Granada. Basque terrorist group ETA suspected of both attacks.
February 12
British Army soldier shot by sniper in South Armagh, Northern Ireland.
February 16
North Korean exile defector gunned down in the South Korean capital, Seoul.
February 18
Policeman killed in Bilbao, Spain, by car bomb, blamed on Basque group ETA.
February 24
One killed and 13 injured in bomb attack in Algeria.
March 7
Two people killed in bus bomb attack in Beijing, China, which is blamed on
Muslim extremists.
March 22
32 civilians killed with knives and axes in attack by Muslim guerillas in
northeast Algeria.
April 6
More than 90 civilians killed by Muslim guerillas in a series of attacks in
Algeria, using chain saws and knives, other victims were burnt alive.
April 22
93 attackers killed with knives, axes and shovels by Muslim guerillas to the
south of the Algerian capital, Algiers. A further 42 people were killed in a
similar attack the following day.
Peruvian security forces retake the Japanese Ambassador's residence in Lima,
freeing 72 hostages held by left wing guerillas since 17 December 1996. One
hostage died during the rescue, and 14 rebels were killed in the assault.
May 4
Two car bombs killed 15 people and wounded 23 people in attack in northwest
Algeria.
July 30
Suicide bomb attack in Israel and another attack on 4 September kills a total of
20 Israelis. Palestinian extremists blamed.
September 18
Nine German tourists killed when Muslim fundamentalists fire bombed and machine
gunned a bus in central Cairo, Egypt. The following day a policeman was killed
in southern Egypt in a gun attack.
September 22
200 people massacred by Muslim guerillas in suburb of Algerian capital, in
attack with axes and knives.
November 17
58 western tourists killed and dozens injured in gun attack on party visiting
historic monuments in southern Egypt. Attack blamed on Islamic guerillas after
six are killed in shoot out with police.
December 23
Three killed and 70 wounded in car bomb attack in central district of the
Algerian capital, Algiers.
1998
January 31
Basque ETA gunman shoots dead the leader of a Spanish political party and his
wife in Seville.
June 24
Spanish Boeing 727 airliner hijacked on internal flight, with 130 people
onboard. All eventually freed unharmed after the single hijacker gave himself
up.
August 7
US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar-es-Salem, Tanzania, heavily damaged by
massive bomb attacks. In the Nairobi attack 247 people were killed, including 12
Americans, and 4,000 injured. Ten people were killed and 74 injured in Tanzania
incident. US intelligence blames Islamic groups linked to Saudi dissident Osama
Bin Laden.
August 15
24 dead and 220 injured when large car bomb destroys centre of Omagh, Northern
Ireland. Breakaway Republican group, the Real IRA, claims responsibility.
August 20
US President Bill Clinton orders reprisal strikes for embassy bombings against
"terrorist" bases in Afghanistan and Sudan. Attacks coincide with
Congressional questioning of Monica Lewinsky. No other nation is able to confirm
terrorist links of targets.
August 25
Three people killed and 25 injured in bomb attack on Planet Hollywood restaurant
in Cape Town, South Africa. Muslims Against Global Oppression claims
responsibility.
August 27
18 injured in Tel Aviv bombing.
October 19
Ulster Loyalist leader, Billy Wright, murdered by IRA prisoner inside the Maze
Prison, Northern Ireland.
December 28
Yemini militants kidnap a group of western tourists, including 12 Britons, 2
Americans, and 2 Australians on the main road to Aden. Four victims were killed
during a rescue attempt the next day.
January 2000
3 January
Namibia
Unidentified assailants attacked four vehicles in Rundu, killing three French
children and wounding their parents. The gunmen also injured two humanitarian
aid workers--one Scottish citizen and one Namibian national. National Union
for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) guerrillas are suspected, but
UNITA leaders denied the group's involvement in the attack.
8 January
Sudan
Humanitarian Aid Commission officials reported Sudanese People's Liberation
Army (SPLA) rebels attacked a CARE vehicle in Al Wahdah State, killing the
CARE office director and his driver, and abducting two others. An SPLA
spokesperson denied the group's involvement.
9 January
Namibia
Five suspected UNITA rebels entered a private residence in western Kavango and
attacked the occupants, killing two Namibian nationals and injuring one other,
according to police officials. No one claimed responsibility.
14 January
Namibia
Military officials reported UNITA gunmen attacked a privately owned vehicle
near Divundu, killing four persons and injuring five others.
18 January
Yemen
Armed tribesmen kidnapped two French nationals and their two Yemeni guides,
according to press reports. The Al-Shamian tribe claimed responsibility. The
tribesmen released the hostages on 18 January but recaptured them the same day
after authorities attempted to arrest the kidnappers. The hostages were
released again unharmed on 19 January.
21 January
Namibia
UNITA gunmen entered a private residence near Mayara and opened fire, killing
three persons and injuring six others, according to local press accounts.
25 January
Angola
Local press reported UNITA militants ambushed a vehicle near Soyo, killing one
Portuguese national. No one claimed responsibility.
26 January
Yemen
Armed tribesmen in Ma'rib kidnapped a US citizen working for the Halliburton
Company, according to press reports. On 10 February, the kidnappers released
the hostage unharmed.
27 January
Spain
Police officials reported unidentified individuals set fire to a Citroen car
dealership in Iturreta, causing extensive damage to the building and
destroying 12 vehicles. The attack bore the hallmark of the Basque Fatherland
and Liberty (ETA).
29 January
Colombia
According to press reporting, suspected Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC) or National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels bombed a section of the
Cano-Limon pipeline in Arauquita, causing major damage and suspending oil
production for three days.
February
2 February
Yugoslavia
Government officials reported unidentified individuals fired an antitank
missile at a refugee convoy escorted by KFOR soldiers in Mitrovica, killing
two Serbians and injuring five others. No one claimed responsibility.
3 February
Colombia
In Putumayo, according to press reporting, suspected FARC or ELN rebels bombed
a section of the Cano-Limon pipeline, causing major damage, including an oil
spill, and halting production for three days.
8 February
Colombia
Government officials reported suspected ELN guerrillas bombed the ONCESA
(Canadian-British-Colombian consortium) oil pipeline near Campo Hermoso,
causing extensive damage to the pipeline, an oil spill, and a forest fire.
11 February
Spain
Four individuals set fire to and destroyed a Citroen car dealership in
Amorebieta, according to press reports. The attack bore the hallmark of the
ETA.
13 February
Yugoslavia
According to press accounts, unidentified individuals shot and wounded two
French KFOR soldiers in Mitrovica. No one claimed responsibility.
27 February
India
A bomb exploded at a railroad station in New Delhi, injuring eight persons and
causing major damage, according to military reporting. Indian authorities
suspect Kashmiri Militants or Sikhs were responsible.
29 February
Yugoslavia
According to press accounts, an unidentified assailant shot and killed a
Russian KFOR soldier while he was on patrol in Srbica. An ethnic Albanian
youth was arrested.
Near Pristina, an unidentified gunman shot a UN official, according
to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
March
2 March
Yemen
Armed tribesmen kidnapped the Polish Ambassador in Sanaa, according to press
reports. The Khawlan tribe claimed responsibility. On 4 March, the Ambassador
was released unharmed.
3 March
India
A bomb exploded on a bus in Sirhand, Punjab, killing eight persons and
injuring seven others. The Indian Government suspects either Kashmiri
militants or Sikhs were responsible.
4 March
Uganda
Armed militants kidnapped two Italian missionaries in Kampala, according to
press reports. The hostages were released unharmed several hours later. The
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) probably was responsible.
10 March
El Salvador
US Embassy officials reported unidentified gunmen kidnapped a US citizen and
his
El Salvadoran nephew from their vehicle near San Antonio Pajonal. On 21 March,
the hostages were released unharmed following a ransom payment of $34,000.
14 March
Nigeria
Press reported armed youths occupied Shell Oil Company buildings in Lagos and
held hostage 30 Nigerian employees and four guards of the Anglo-Dutch-owned
company. No group claimed responsibility. On 15 March the Nigerian army
rescued the 34 hostages unharmed.
21 March
India
Armed militants killed 35 Sikhs in Chadisinghpoora Village, according to press
reports. Police officers arrested Muslim militants, who confessed to helping
two groups suspected in the massacre--the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and the Hizb
ul-Mujahedin--two of the principal Muslim groups in Kashmir.
27 March
India
Armed militants threw a grenade at a group of police officers, missing their
target but killing three civilians and injuring 11 others in Srinagar,
according to press reports. The Hizb ul-Mujahedin may be responsible.
April
4 April
Pakistan
Armed militants fired on an Afghan vehicle, killing the Governor of the
Taliban-held northern Afghan province of Kondoz and his militia commander, and
wounding his driver and another passenger, according to press reports. No one
claimed responsibility.
7 April
Nigeria
Armed militants kidnapped 40 persons--15 British, 15 French, and 10 Korean
citizens--from residences belonging to the Elf Aquitaine Oil Company in Port
Harcourt, according to press reports. The 40 hostages were released unharmed
several hours later. Disgruntled landowners were suspected.
12 April
Colombia
Police officials reported ELN rebels kidnapped a Mexican citizen in Cali and
demanded $5 million ransom. On 16 April, police arrested three of the
kidnappers
and freed the hostage unharmed.
India
Militants using a remote-controlled device detonated a car bomb near an army
convoy in Srinagar, killing one bystander, according to press reports. No one
claimed responsibility.
13 April
Colombia
Press reported a bomb exploded on the Cano-Limon oil pipeline near La Cadena,
causing major damage and suspending oil production for several days. Police
suspect either FARC or ELN rebels were responsible.
14 April
Nigeria
In Warri, armed militants kidnapped 19 employees of the Noble Drilling Oil
Company, a firm contracted by the Anglo-Dutch-owned Shell Oil Company,
according to press reports. Ijaw youths probably were responsible.
15 April
India
Armed militants killed 12 persons, wounded seven others, and torched several
huts in Tripura, according to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
19 April
France
Press reported a bomb exploded at a McDonald's restaurant in Quevert, killing
one person and causing major damage. Although no group claimed responsibility,
authorities suspect the Breton Liberation Army (ARB). Nine persons associated
with ARB were arrested.
20 April
Pakistan
A bomb exploded near the Jamaat-E-Islami headquarters in Mansuren, injuring
two persons in a nearby residence, according to press reports. No one claimed
responsibility.
24 April
Malaysia
In Kampong Pulau Tiga, Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) militants kidnapped 21
persons--two French, three Germans, two South Africans, two Finns, two
Filipinos, one Lebanese, and nine Malaysians--according to press reports.
Tajikistan
According to government officials, a group of armed Afghans broke into a
residence in Khatlon Oblast and opened fire, killing one person, injuring
another, and kidnapping one other. No one claimed responsibility.
28 April
India
A bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in Srinagar, killing one civilian and
wounding four police officers and one civilian, according to press reports. No
one claimed responsibility.
In Srinagar, militants threw a grenade at a security patrol but hit
a bus stop instead, injuring two civilians, according to press accounts. No
one claimed responsibility.
May
1 May
Sierra Leone
On 1 May in Makeni, Revolutionary United Front (RUF) militants kidnapped at
least 20 members of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)
and surrounded and opened fire on a UNAMSIL facility, according to press
reports. The militants killed five UN soldiers in the attack.
In Kailahun, RUF militants kidnapped 27 members of the UNAMSIL. The
hostages were released unharmed on 28 May.
2 May
Sierra Leone
Unidentified militants kidnapped five Kenyan soldiers from the UNAMSIL
peacekeeping force in Magburaka, according to press reports. RUF militants
were probably responsible. On 10 May, the hostages escaped.
3 May
Angola
Armed militants attacked a World Food Program humanitarian convoy in Luanda,
killing one person, wounding one other, and setting the trucks on fire. The
UNITA was probably responsible.
5 May
Sierra Leone
RUF militants kidnapped 300 UNAMSIL peacekeepers throughout the country,
according to press reports. On 15 May in Foya, Liberia, the kidnappers
released 139 hostages. On 28 May, on the Liberia and Sierra Leone border,
armed militants released unharmed the last of the UN peacekeepers.
8 May
Sierra Leone
In Freetown, armed militants shot down a United Nations helicopter, causing
major damage to the helicopter but no injuries, according to press reports.
The RUF was probably responsible.
9 May
Sierra Leone
In Freetown, armed militants kidnapped two British citizens working for a
humanitarian organization, according to press reports. The RUF was probably
responsible. On 19 June one of the hostages was released unharmed.
10 May
India
In Kupwara, armed militants kidnapped a civilian from his residence and then
killed him, according to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
11 May
India
In Bihar, according to press reports, armed militants killed 11 persons and
injured four others. No one claimed responsibility.
14 May
Colombia
Press reported unidentified individuals kidnapped an Australian missionary and
three Colombians in Canito. Several hours later, the Colombian hostages were
released unharmed. No group claimed responsibility.
Iran
A bomb exploded in the cultural/sports center in Kermanshah, injuring two
civilians, according to press reports. The Mujahedin-e Khalq claimed
responsibility.
15 May
India
A landmine exploded in Chabran, killing Kashmir's power minister and four
other government employees and destroying their vehicle, according to press
reports. No one claimed responsibility.
19 May
India
In Amludesa, armed militants killed six persons--one magistrate, four police
officers, and one civilian--according to press reports. No one claimed
responsibility.
A rocket hit a private residence in Srinagar, injuring six persons,
according to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
20 May
India
Armed militants threw several bombs at a government vehicle near a bus stop in
Srinagar, injuring four police officers and three civilians, according to
press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
23 May
India
Militants fired six grenades at the Civil Secretariat building in Kashmir,
killing one
civilian and injuring three others, according to press reports. No one claimed
responsibility.
24 May
Angola
Press reported suspected Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave
rebels kidnapped three Portuguese construction company workers in Cabinda. No
one claimed responsibility.
25 May
Sierra Leone
In Freetown, according to press reports, armed militants ambushed two military
vehicles carrying four journalists. A Spaniard and one US citizen were killed,
and one Greek and one South African were injured in the attack. The RUF was
probably responsible.
27 May
Indonesia
According to press reporting, armed militants, who claimed to be members of
the Free Aceh Movement, occupied a Mobil Oil production plant. The rebels
ordered the workers and all Indonesian nationals to shut down production and
held six hostages for several hours before releasing them unharmed and
allowing production to resume. The militants demanded $500,000 ransom to
restore operations.
June
1 June
Georgia
In Kodori Gorge, police officials reported unidentified gunmen kidnapped two
Danish UN military observers, a British Government employee, and two Abkhaz
citizens, demanding a $500,000 ransom. On 3 June, one Abkhaz hostage was
released. On 5 June, the remaining hostages were released unharmed.
2 June
Namibia
In Mut'jiku, press reported suspected UNITA militants kidnapped a woman from
her residence. No one claimed responsibility.
In Rundu, according to press accounts, suspected UNITA militants
kidnapped a man.
India
Police officials reported a bomb exploded at a religious meeting in Srinagar,
killing
12 persons and injuring seven others, including a senior legislator. The Hizb
ul-Mujahedin claimed responsibility.
6 June
Sierra Leone
Suspected RUF rebels kidnapped 21 Indian UN peacekeepers in Freetown,
according to press accounts. No one claimed responsibility.
8 June
Greece
In Athens, press reported two unidentified gunmen killed British Defense
Attache Stephen Saunders in an ambush. The Revolutionary Organization 17
November claimed responsibility.
India
Press reported unidentified individuals threw a handgrenade into a crowded
marketplace in Sopur, injuring 30 civilians and causing major damage. No one
claimed responsibility.
11 June
Yemen
Four unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Norwegian diplomat and his son, according
to press reports. Later the same day, Yemeni police opened fire on the
kidnappers, killing the diplomat and one gunman. The son escaped unharmed. The
three remaining assailants escaped. No one claimed responsibility.
16 June
Yemen
In the Ma'rib region, according to press reports, armed tribesmen kidnapped an
Italian archaeologist. On 20 July, the kidnappers released the hostage
unharmed. Yemeni tribesmen claimed responsibility.
17 June
India
Armed militants shot and injured four civilians in Jammu and Kashmir,
according to press reports.
18 June
Nigeria
In the Niger Delta region, press reported armed militants kidnapped 22
Nigerian citizens and two unidentified foreign nationals working for Chevron,
a US-owned oil company. The militants later released the two foreign nationals
and four Nigerians. No one claimed responsibility.
26 June
Yugoslavia
In Prizren, press reported a bomb exploded outside a shop located below a UN
police officer's residence, slightly injuring the officer and destroying the
shop. No one claimed responsibility.
27 June
Colombia
In Bogota, according to press reporting, ELN militants kidnapped a
five-year-old US citizen and his Colombian mother, demanding an undisclosed
ransom.
30 June
India
A landmine exploded in Srinagar, killing one person, injuring three military
personnel and five civilians, damaging several vehicles, and shattering the
windows in several nearby hotels, according to press reports. No one claimed
responsibility.
July
2 July
Philippines
Unidentified militants kidnapped a German journalist working for Der Spiegel
magazine, according to police authorities. The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) claimed
responsibility. On 27 July, the journalist was released unharmed.
4 July
India
In Jammu and Kashmir, armed militants killed one person and injured one other,
according to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
9 July
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Near the Rwandan border, Rwandan Interahamwe militiamen attacked a
refugee camp, killing 30 persons and kidnapping four others, according to
press accounts.
10 July
Afghanistan
Press reported a bomb exploded at the Pakistani Embassy, causing major damage
but no injuries. No one claimed responsibility.
13 July
India
In Leh, Kashmir, armed militants killed three Buddhist monks, according to
press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
14 July
India
In the Himalaya Mountains, press reported armed militants attacked two German
hikers, killing one and injuring the other. No one claimed responsibility.
15 July
India
In Doda, Kashmir, armed militants killed the Doda National Conference district
president and his bodyguard, according to press reports. No one claimed
responsibility.
Sierra Leone
Press reported suspected RUF militants attacked UNAMSIL troops, near Kailahun,
killing one Indian soldier and wounding one other Indian soldier. No one
claimed responsibility.
India
In Srinagar, Kashmir, militants fired nine rifle grenades toward the Civil
Secretariat building, according to press reports. The Chief Minister was in
his office at the time but was unharmed in the attack, which injured four
civilians and damaged two vehicles nearby. The Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed
responsibility.
India
In Tangmarg, Kashmir, armed militants killed one Indian soldier and one
civilian, according to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
16 July
Sierra Leone
Unidentified militants killed a Nigerian UNAMSIL soldier in Rogberi, press
reported. No one claimed responsibility.
Germany
In Ludwigshafen, the US Consulate reported unidentified individuals firebombed
a refugee shelter housing Albanian Kosovars, injuring three children and
causing minor damage. No one claimed responsibility.
18 July
Angola
Press reported UNITA troops kidnapped 14 clergy members from the Dunge
Catholic Mission in Benguela. According to press accounts, two persons were
killed and several escaped during the kidnapping. On 26 July all remaining
hostages were released unharmed.
20 July
Angola
Unidentified militants kidnapped four Namibian citizens from their residence
in Kavango, according to press accounts. The militants shot and killed two of
the hostages. A third hostage was injured but escaped with a child. UNITA is
suspected.
24 July
India
A bomb exploded on a private bus in Ballen, killing six persons and injuring
10 others, according to press reports. Kashmiri militants or Sikhs may have
been responsible.
27 July
Colombia
In Bogota, suspected Guevarist Revolutionary Army (ARG) militants kidnapped a
French aid worker affiliated with Doctors Without Borders, according to press
reports. The ARG is a suspected faction of the ELN.
29 July
Namibia
In Nginga, suspected UNITA rebels crossed into Namibia and kidnapped five
Namibian men, according to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
30 July
India
Militants threw a grenade into a crowded marketplace in Gulmarg, killing one
person and injuring five others, according to press reports. No one claimed
responsibility.
Sierra Leone
In Masiaka, suspected RUF militants fired on Jordanian UNAMSIL troops, killing
one soldier and wounding three others, according to press accounts. No one
claimed responsibility.
31 July
India
A remote-controlled landmine exploded in Gulmarg, killing one person, injuring
five others, and destroying their vehicle, according to press reports. No one
claimed responsibility.
Nigeria
Press reported armed youth stormed two oil drilling rigs, taking 165 persons
hostage. The hostages included 145 Nigerians, seven US citizens, five Britons,
eight Australian and Lebanese nationals. All were employed by service
contractors of Shell Oil Company. No one claimed responsibility, but the
gunmen were believed to be ethnic Ijaw. On 4 August all hostages were released
unharmed.
Sierra Leone
Press reported RUF militants ambushed a UNAMSIL patrol in Freetown, killing
one Nigerian soldier. No one else was injured.
August
2 August
India
In Rajwas, armed militants killed 30 persons and injured 47 others when they
threw a grenade and then opened fire on a community kitchen, according to
press reports. The Lashkar-e-Tayyiba claimed responsibility.
4 August
Georgia
Ethnic Kists kidnapped two Red Cross workers and their driver in Pankisi. No
injuries were reported, and all hostages were released on 13 August.
Namibia
Press reported suspected UNITA rebels shot and killed one Namibian rebel
inside her residence in Mwitjiku. No one claimed responsibility.
8 August
Angola
Suspected UNITA rebels attacked a diamond mine in Lunda Norte Province,
killing eight South African security personnel, according to press accounts.
No one claimed responsibility.
9 August
Angola
Press reported suspected UNITA rebels shot and killed one South African
national and abducted seven Angolan workers during a raid on a diamond mine in
northeast Angola. No one claimed responsibility.
10 August
India
A remote-controlled car bomb exploded in Srinagar, killing nine persons,
injuring 25 others, and damaging four cars, according to press reports. Eight
police officers were among those killed, and five journalists were among the
wounded. No one claimed responsibility.
11 August
Colombia
Police authorities reported suspected ELN militants kidnapped a group of 27
tourists in Antioquia. A US professor and a German student were among the
hostages. On 12 August the rebels released all hostages unharmed.
In Tolima, according to press reports, the FARC kidnapped then
killed two persons--one Colombian and one Irish citizen.
12 August
India
A grenade exploded near a historic mosque in Srinagar, injuring four
persons--two Hungarians and two Indians--according to press accounts. No one
claimed responsibility.
Kyrgyzstan
In the Kara-Su Valley, according to press accounts, Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan rebels took four US citizens and one Kyrgyzstani soldier hostage.
The rebels killed the soldier, but the four US citizens escaped on 18 August.
14 August
India
Armed militants kidnapped three persons from their residences in Kot Dhara and
later killed them, according to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
India
Militants threw a grenade at a bus in Pulwama, injuring 14 passengers. No one
claimed responsibility.
16 August
Greece
Militants in Athens set fire to a car belonging to an Italian Embassy
official, according to press accounts. No one was injured. The Mavro Asteri
(Black Star) called a local newspaper and claimed responsibility.
September
6 September
Indonesia
A militia-led mob attacked a UNHCR aid office in Atambua, West Timor, killing
three aid workers--one US citizen, one Ethiopian, and a Croatian--and
destroying the compound.
7 September
Guinea
Suspected RUF rebels kidnapped three Catholic missionaries--one US citizen and
two Italian priests--in Pamlap, according to press accounts. In early
December, the two Italian priests escaped.
13 September
Colombia
According to press reports, ELN militants set up a fake roadblock in Antioquia
and kidnapped two Russian civil engineers. On 21 September the hostages were
freed.
15 September
Colombia
According to police officials, a group of armed militants kidnapped three
Italians in Medellin. No one claimed responsibility.
17 September
Guinea
Unidentified rebels attacked and killed a Togolese United Nations refugee
agency employee in Macenta, according to press accounts. The rebels also
kidnapped an Ivorian secretary. No one claimed responsibility.
30 September
India
Armed militants killed five persons in their private residence in Jammu,
according to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
October
1 October
Tajikistan
Unidentified militants detonated two bombs in a Christian church in Dushanbe,
killing seven persons and injuring 70 others, according to press reports. The
church was founded by a Korean-born US citizen, and most of those killed and
wounded were Korean. No one claimed responsibility.
2 October
Uganda
Press reported LRA rebels shot and killed an Italian priest as he drove to
church in Kitgum. No one else was injured.
12 October
Ecuador
In Napo, according to press reports, possible FARC members hijacked an
Ecuadorian-owned helicopter and took hostage 10 aviation company employees and
oilworkers--five US citizens, two French nationals, one Argentine, one
Chilean, and one Ecuadorian. On 16 October the two French citizens escaped.
(On 31 January, the US Embassy in Quito confirmed the death of one US
hostage.)
Yemen
In Aden, a small dingy carrying explosives rammed the US destroyer, USS Cole,
killing 17 sailors and injuring 39 others. Supporters of Usama Bin Ladin are
suspected.
13 October
Bosnia
In Sarajevo, four German NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) soldiers were
injured when they attempted to arrest a Bosnian, according to press accounts.
The suspect detonated a handgrenade, killing himself and wounding the soldiers
and one civilian.
Indonesia
A powerful bomb exploded in Lombok, damaging the offices of the PT Newmont
Nusa Tenggara Mining Company, which is jointly owned by the United States,
Japan, and Indonesia, according to press reports. No one claimed
responsibility.
Yemen
A small bomb detonated on the compound of the British Embassy in Sanaa, but
there were no injuries.
14 October
South Africa
Demonstrators, possibly supported by PAGAD members, vandalized and threw rocks
at a McDonald's restaurant in Cape Town, according to press reports. No one
was injured, but significant damage was done to the restaurant and customers'
vehicles.
19 October
Sri Lanka
In Colombo, a suicide bomber detonated the explosives he was wearing near the
town hall, killing four persons and wounding 23 others, including two US
citizens, according to press reports. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
were probably responsible.
November
14 November
Yemen
In Sanaa, an armed group from the Gahm Tribe kidnapped a Swedish employee of a
local power station. On 30 November the hostage was released.
19 November
Namibia
Armed militants in Mahane Village kidnapped seven men and their cattle and
moved them to Angola. Three men escaped. UNITA rebels were probably
responsible.
Jordan
In Amman, armed militants attempted to assassinate the Israeli Vice Consul,
according to press reports. The Movement for the Struggle of the Jordanian
Islamic Resistance Movement and Ahmad al-Daqamisah Group both claimed
responsibility.
24 November
India
In Akhala, armed militants kidnapped six persons from a bus stop and killed
five of them, according to press reports. The fate of the sixth individual was
unknown. The Lashkar-e-Tayyiba was probably responsible.
27 November
Chile
In Santiago, a bomb planted in front of the Colombian Embassy exploded,
causing some property damage. No one was injured. No one claimed
responsibility.
December
1 December
India
A grenade thrown at a passing security vehicle missed its target and exploded
in a crowded street in Pattan, injuring 12 persons, according to press
reports. No one claimed responsibility.
India
Press reported armed militants barged into the private residence of a village
defense committee member in Udhampur, killing four children and injuring two
others. No one claimed responsibility.
India
Militants threw a grenade at a military vehicle in Srinagar, missing their
target but injuring three civilians. No one claimed responsibility.
5 December
Burundi
Small-arms fire struck a Sabena airliner as it was landing in Bujumbura,
injuring two persons, a Belgian stewardess, and a Tunisian passenger,
according to press reports. The airliner was on a routine flight from
Brussels. No one claimed responsibility.
Jordan
In Amman, an unidentified assailant shot and wounded an Israeli diplomat as
he, his wife, and his bodyguard were leaving a grocery store. The Movement for
the Struggle of the Jordanian Islamic Resistance claimed responsibility.
6 December
India
A bomb destroyed a vendor's cart, injuring four persons and damaging roadside
shops in Muzaffarabad, according to press reporting. No one claimed
responsibility.
7 December
India
Armed militants threw a grenade at a bus stop in Kupwara, injuring 24 persons,
including one special police officer, according to press reports. No one
claimed responsibility.
India
A bomb exploded near a mosque in Shopian, injuring 31 persons, including three
police officers, according to press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
India
A bomb exploded in Gohlan, killing a father and injuring his son, according to
press reports. No one claimed responsibility.
9 December
India
A bomb exploded in Neelum Valley, killing three persons, including a young
boy, according to press accounts. No one claimed responsibility.
12 December
India
A grenade thrown at an outdoor marketplace in Chadoura injured 12 civilians
and four police officers, according to press reports. The Jaish-e-Mohammed was
probably responsible.
India
In Qamarwari, a police vehicle activated a remote-controlled bomb, killing
five police officers and injuring five civilians. The Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed
responsibility.
13 December
Nambia
A landmine placed near a private residence in Shighuru exploded, injuring the
owner, according to press reports. UNITA was probably responsible.
25 December
India
A car bomb exploded at the main gate of a military base in Srinagar, killing
nine persons--six military personnel and three civilians--and injuring 23
civilians, according to press reports. The Jaish-e-Mohammed and
Jamiat-ul-Mujahedin claimed responsibility.
25 December
Greece
A bomb placed at a Citibank ATM in Athens exploded, causing major damage to
the exterior ATM and to the bank interior, according to press reports. The
Anarchists Attack Team claimed responsibility for the attack to show support
for the dead prisoners in Turkey.
30 December
Philippines
A bomb exploded in a plaza across the street from the US Embassy in Manila,
injuring nine persons, according to press reports. The Moro Islamic Liberation
Front was possibly responsible.
31 December
Thailand
Armed militants attacked a grocery store in Suan Phung during New Year
celebrations, killing six persons, according to press reports. The Burmese
group, God's Army, was probably responsible.
Spain
A vehicle carrying explosives exploded in Seville, but no injuries resulted.
The vehicle had been stolen from Toulouse, France. No one claimed
responsibilit