A Collection of Terrorist Attacks, Nov-1990 to Aug-1998 by CPACT

Date City Country PerpetratorWeapon InjuriesFatalitiesDescription2-Nov-90 Abidjan Cote

d'IvoireUnknown Unknown0 1 IVORY COAST. The Italian

Ambassador was assassinated whiledining in a fashionable restaurant inAbidjan.

4-Nov-90 Vina DelMar

Chile ChileanCommitteeforDisarmamentandDenucleariza

Explosives8 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded outside arestaurant in Vina del Mar wheresailors from the USS Abraham Lincolnwere enjoying their leave. ThreeAmerican sailors, three Britishtourists and two waitresses wereinjured by the blast. A group callingitself the Chilean Committee forDisarmament and Denuclearizationhad previously issued a statementdenouncing the USS AbrahamLincoln, claiming that the carrier wastransporting nuclear weapons.

4-Nov-90 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Suspected MRTA terroristsfired a rifle-launched projectile at theU.S. Consulate to commemorate theanniversary of the group's founding.

5-Nov-90 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Other Unknown0 1 UNITED STATES. The founder of theJewish Defense League (JDL), RabbiMeir Kahane (Israeli), wasassassinated in New York City by a U.S. national of Egyptian descent.Kahane had left the United States in1971 and become a prominent forcein Israeli politics, but he frequentlyreturned to the U.S. to seek financialsupport for his ultranationalist anti-Arab Kach movement.

6-Nov-90 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Unknown0 1 VENEZUELA. A cultural attache withthe Indonesian Embassy was foundmurdered in his Caracas home.

7-Nov-90 Kabul AfghanistanOther Explosives0 3 AFGHANISTAN. Rockets were firedinto the Kabul International Airportby Mujahedin rebels. Three peoplewere killed.

7-Nov-90 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A small bomb went off nearthe U.S. Ambassador's residence inLima. MRTA guerrillas weresuspected.

7-Nov-90 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives1 0 PERU. One person was injured whena bomb detonated at the U.S.Cultural Center in the Mirafloressection of Lima.

9-Nov-90 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives2 0 PHILIPPINES. Two men on amotorcycle threw an explosivedevice at the Manila offices of ChinaAirlines. Two people were injured inthe attack.

9-Nov-90 Bangkok Thailand Other Explosives0 0 THAILAND. Two Burmese, reportedlycarrying bombs, hijacked a ThaiAirways plane shortly after it hadtaken off from Bangkok. The flightwas diverted to Calcutta, India,where the incident ended peacefully.The hijackers claimed that theywanted to draw world attention tothe plight of the pro-democracymovement in Burma.

10-Nov-90

Manila PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. The U.S. Embassy inManila was attacked with grenadesby suspected NPA members.

11-Nov-90

Kobe Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. The ultraleftist Chukakuha(Middle Core Faction) claimedresponsibility for two bombs thatwent off at the residence of the U.S.Consul General in Kobe. The actionwas carried out to protest U.S.aggression in the Persian Gulf.

11-Nov-90

Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Projectiles were fired at theAtsugi U.S. Naval Air Station inKanagawa Prefecture by the MiddleCore Faction.

12-Nov-90

Estella Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA claimed responsibility forthe bombing of a French autodealership in Estella. The groupissued a warning to the firm a fewminutes before the blast.

17-Nov-90

Chile PalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)

Explosives3 1 CHILE. A baseball bat filled with 10ounces of explosives blew up duringa U.S. Chamber of Commerce-sponsored amateur game, killing aCanadian businessman andwounding three others, including a U.S. Embassy employee. Ananonymous caller claimed the attackon behalf of the PLO, howeverPalestinian representatives in Chiledenied any connection with theincident.

18-Nov-90

Papua-NewGuinea

FreePapuaMovement(OPM-OrganisasiPapuaMerdeka)

Unknown0 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Irianese rebelskidnapped eight men including threeforeign missionaries from Australia,New Zealand and the United States,and three Filipino constructionworkers. The Free Papua Movementdemanded that the governmentrecognize their struggle for theindependence of Irian Jaya fromIndonesia. All the hostages werereleased a few weeks later.

20-Nov-90

PandacanPhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. Explosives werediscovered at a Shell Oil storagefacility in Pandacan.

21-Nov-90

Paris France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Two Molotov cocktails werethrown at the Turkish Consulate inParis.

24-Nov-90

Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. A speedboat carryingmembers of Ahmad Jibril's PalestinianPFLP-GC was intercepted by anIsraeli patrol. All of the guerrillaswere killed.

25-Nov-90

WestBank/Gaza

Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 WEST BANK. A Swedish nurse wasstabbed by a Palestinian whoobjected to foreign involvement inthe Gulf crisis.

25-Nov-90

Morocco Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 MOROCCO. An Iraqi diplomat wasfound stabbed to death at a beachresort. The victim had ignored ordersto return home after the invasion ofKuwait.

25-Nov-90

Israel PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Firearms26 4 ISRAEL. Four people were killed and26 others wounded when anEgyptian gunman crossed into Israeliterritory and opened fire on anumber of Israeli military and civilianvehicles. The assailant managed toescape back across the border.Several hours after the attack, acaller representing the Islamic Jihadclaimed responsibility.

25-Nov-90

Lebanon Other Explosives3 1 LEBANON. A female suicide bomberof the Syrian Nationalist Partyapproached an Israeli patrol insouthern Lebanon and blew herselfup. Two soldiers and a civilian wereinjured in the attack.

26-Nov-90

Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Unknown0 0 PERU. The MRTA kidnapped Coca-Cola executive Guillermo Sisley inLima.

1-Dec-90 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A grenade was thrown froma car into a busy Tel Avivintersection, but the device failed toexplode.

2-Dec-90 Tel Aviv Israel Other Unknown5 2 ISRAEL. A Palestinian attack on abus in Tel Aviv left one dead andthree wounded. Anti-terrorist policekilled one of the three assailants andinjured the other two.

3-Dec-90 France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Three incendiary deviceswent off along a railway linefrequented by U.S. military trains.

3-Dec-90 Paris France GracchusBabeuf

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A group calling itself theGracchus Babeuf organizationclaimed responsibility for bombingthe European University of Americain Paris while several Kuwaiti exileswere staying there. The leftist groupstated the attack was to protest thedeployment of U.S. troops in the Gulf.The movement takes its name from18th century French revolutionaryFrancois Noel Babeuf, alias Gracchus.

4-Dec-90 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb wasdeactivated at the British LloydsBank.

4-Dec-90 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb went offoutside a branch of the Bank ofBoston in Buenos Aires.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs detonatedoutside two branches of ChaseManhattan bank in Buenos Aireshours before President Bush was toarrive for a state visit.


ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Bombs detonatedoutside two branches of ChaseManhattan bank in Buenos Aireshours before President Bush was toarrive for a state visit.

9-Dec-90 BethlehemWestBank/Gaza

Other Explosives20 1 OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. Powerfulbombs went off at a militaryheadquarters in Bethlehem, killingone and injuring 20 others.

9-Dec-90 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 5 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillasattacked a Mobil oil prospectingcamp, leaving five people dead.

10-Dec-90


Explosives0 0 PERU. A powerful car bomb went offoutside of the U.S. Embassy in Lima.MRTA guerrillas were suspected.

10-Dec-90


Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb went off in front ofthe Japanese Embassy in Lima. MRTAguerrillas were suspected.

10-Dec-90


Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb went off in front ofthe Soviet Embassy in Lima. MRTAguerrillas were suspected.

10-Dec-90

La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb exploded near theU.S. Ambassador's residence in LaPaz.

11-Dec-90

Paris France GracchusBabeuf

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Gracchus Babeuf groupbombed a branch of the U.S. firmNew Cosmetics in Paris.

15-Dec-90

Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A small explosive went off ata Mormon Church in Santiago. TheFPMR claimed responsibility.

16-Dec-90

Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives2 0 GREECE. The Nov-17 organizationfired two anti-tank missiles at theEuropean Community offices inAthens. Two women were injured.

16-Dec-90

Santiago Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. A Mormon Church in Santiagowas completely destroyed by fireafter leftists threw incendiary devicesat it. The Lautaro Youth Movementleft leaflets at the scene.

17-Dec-90

Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Swiss citizensconducting a medical tour of theeastern rural plains were kidnappedby alleged guerrillas. They werereleased as a goodwill gesture onDecember 31, 1990.

19-Dec-90

Lahore Pakistan Other Unknown0 1 PAKISTAN. The director of theIranian Cultural Center wasassassinated in front of aninternational hotel in Lahore byPakistani Sunni fundamentalists.

28-Dec-90

Luanda Angola NationalFront fortheLiberationof Angola(FNLA)

Explosives0 0 ANGOLA. A suitcase bomb destroyedthe VIP lounge at Luanda'sInternational Airport. The attack wasclaimed by the National Front for theLiberation of Angola (FNLA), a groupthat seems to have been inactivesince the 1970s but has recentlybegun to distribute leaflets inLuanda.

2-Jan-91 ElSalvador

FarabundoMartiNationalLiberationFront(FMLN)

Firearms0 3 EL SALVADOR. Leftist guerrillas shotdown an American militaryhelicopter. One U.S. serviceman diedfrom injuries suffered in the clash,but two other servicemen found deadhad actually been executed bymembers of the FMLN after thecrash.

3-Jan-91 MogadishuSomalia Other Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. Rebels in Mogadishu tookover a Red Cross office and held thesix-member delegation hostage.

7-Jan-91 Finland Unknown Explosives0 0 FINLAND. A bomb went off inValkeala near a hotel which housesSomali refugees.

10-Jan-91 MogadishuSomalia Unknown Unknown0 1 SOMALIA. An Italian diplomat waskilled when rebels attacked theembassy compound in Mogadishu aspart of their assault on the capital.

12-Jan-91 AfghanistanOther Unknown0 0 AFGHANISTAN. Three Swiss nationalRed Cross workers were kidnappedby Afghan guerrillas. The three werereleased in late March.

14-Jan-91 Tunis Tunisia Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 3 TUNISIA. Salah Khalif, aka Abu Iyad(Yassir Arafat's right hand man) andtwo others were assassinated inTunis. Hamya Abuzeid, a member ofAbu Nidal, was convicted.

15-Jan-91 Beijing China,People'sRepublicof

Unknown Explosives0 0 PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Asmall package bomb was sent to thevisa section of the U.S. Embassy inBeijing. The device, which bore aChinese postmark, was safelydismantled by authorities.

15-Jan-91 PanamaCity

Panama December20TorrijistPatrioticVanguard(VPT-20)

Explosives0 0 PANAMA. The December 20Movement (M-20) claimedresponsibility for having tossedgrenades at the U.S. embassy. ThePLO also claimed responsibility.

15-Jan-91 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A low-powered explosivewas thrown at the U.S. Embassy inQuito.

15-Jan-91 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A low-powered explosivewas thrown at the French Embassy inQuito.

15-Jan-91 Quito Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A low-powered explosivewas thrown at the German Embassyin Quito.

15-Jan-91 GuayaquilEcuador Other Unknown0 0 ECUADOR. Members of Alfaro Viveseized the French consulate inGuayaquil in response to theimpending violence in the Gulf. Thefive guerrilla members left peacefullythe next day.

16-Jan-91 Ecuador Unknown Explosives0 0 ECUADOR. A Mormon Church wasattacked with a dynamite bomb.

16-Jan-91 Turin Italy PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. The People's Front for theLiberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimedresponsibility for firebombing a PanAm office in Turin.

16-Jan-91 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. A Molotov cocktail washurled at the U.S. Consulate in EastJerusalem. A guard on duty spottedthe firebomb and managed toremove the burning rag from the topof the bottle, averting an explosion.

17-Jan-91 Amman Jordan Unknown Firearms0 0 JORDAN. An Amman branch ofCitibank was fired on.

17-Jan-91 Milan Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Molotov cocktails werethrown into the American VideoLibrary in Milan. The Direct ActionCommittee Against the War claimedresponsibility

17-Jan-91 Vina delMar

Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at anAmerican Express office in Vina delMar.

17-Jan-91 Paris France Unknown Unknown0 0 FRANCE. The offices of the YemeniAirlines in Paris were the target of anunspecified attack.

17-Jan-91 Cairo Egypt Unknown Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A bomb went off at theWestern Educational Institution inCairo.

17-Jan-91 NewDelhi

India Unknown Explosives0 0 INDIA. A bomb went off outside theoffices of American Airlines in NewDelhi.

17-Jan-91 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Firearms0 0 ISRAEL. Shots were fired at the U.S.Consulate in East Jerusalem. TheEmbassy denied the report.

17-Jan-91 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. AWoolworth's store in Bonn wasfirebombed.

17-Jan-91 EastBerlin

FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Molotov cocktails werethrown at police protecting the U.S.mission in East Berlin.

17-Jan-91 Florence Italy Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. An arson fire caused somedamage at a Harvard Universitycenter in Florence. The Direct ActionCommittee Against the War claimedresponsibility

17-Jan-91 Vina DelMar

Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon Churches inVina del Mar were bombed, causingextensive damage.


Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon Churches inVina del Mar were bombed, causingextensive damage.

17-Jan-91 SaoPaulo

Brazil Unknown Explosives0 0 BRAZIL. Police defused dynamiteoutside a Sao Paulo branch ofCitibank.

18-Jan-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Security Pacific and RepublicNational banks were both bombed inSantiago in an apparent protest to U.S. action in the Persian Gulf. A thirdbomb was defused at a branch ofBoston Bank.



18-Jan-91 Jakarta IndonesiaUnknown Explosives0 0 INDONESIA. A bomb was discoveredat the residence of the U.S.Ambassador in Jakarta.

18-Jan-91 BarquisimetoVenezuelaOther Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown at a Mormon church inBarquisimeto, west of Caracas. TheInternationalist Brigade claimedresponsibility in protest of the GulfWar.

18-Jan-91 Quito Ecuador Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ECUADOR. Incendiary bombs werethrown at the U.S. Consulate inQuito.

18-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded at theBritish Bank in Beirut.

19-Jan-91 Honduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. Fragmentationgrenades were thrown at the Frenchconsulate.

19-Jan-91 Brazil Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BRAZIL. Incendiary devices werethrown at a Mormon Church inAnapolis. A group calling itself thePalestine Support Group claimedresponsibility.

19-Jan-91 Quetta Pakistan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. Molotov cocktails werethrown into the compounds of theinternational aid organizationsDoctors Without Frontiers, andExperiment in International Living inQuetta.

19-Jan-91 Quetta Pakistan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. Molotov cocktails werethrown into the compounds of theinternational aid organizationsDoctors Without Frontiers, andExperiment in International Living inQuetta.

19-Jan-91 Manila PhilippinesOther Explosives1 1 PHILIPPINES. A bomb explodedprematurely as two Arab terroristsattempted to place it in the ThomasJefferson Library in Manila. One ofthe terrorists was killed and the otherinjured in the attack. Two Iraqistudents, sons of Baghdad'sambassador to Somalia, weredeported a few days after beinglinked to the attack.

20-Jan-91 PanamaCity

Panama PopularArmy ofNationalLiberation

Explosives0 0 PANAMA. The Popular Army ofNational Liberation claimedresponsibility for a fragmentationgrenade attack on the U.S. Embassy.

20-Jan-91 Brazil Unknown Explosives0 0 BRAZIL. A synagogue in PortoAllegre was bombed. The attack isbelieved to have been affiliated withthe crisis in the Gulf.

20-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A rocket-propelledgrenade hit the Italian Embassy.

21-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded at theLebno-Francaise bank in Beirut.

21-Jan-91 Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. The leftist group Dev Solclaimed responsibility for anexplosion which severely damaged aU.S. military customs clearancedepot in Istanbul. The group said theaction was taken to protest U.S.imperialism and the use of force inthe Persian Gulf.


Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Mormon Churches in Vina delMar and Valparaiso were bombed.

22-Jan-91 ValparaisoChile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Mormon Churches in Vina delMar and Valparaiso were bombed.

22-Jan-91 Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs went off at Ford andCoca-Cola subsidiaries.

22-Jan-91 Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs went off at Ford andCoca-Cola subsidiaries.

22-Jan-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb was defused at aMormon Church north of Santiago,after police were alerted by ananonymous phone call.

22-Jan-91 NuremburgFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.Three firebombs were thrown at theTurkish Consulate in Nuremberg. Nogroup claimed responsibility.

22-Jan-91 Seville Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Molotov cocktails werethrown into a restaurant named CafeBar Tel Aviv in Seville. Therestaurant is owned by a DutchJewish family.

23-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosion occurrednear the French Embassy.

23-Jan-91 Sydney Australia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRALIA. A petrol bomb explodedat the Rooty Hill Islamic Center inSydney.

23-Jan-91 Turkey Dev Sol Explosives1 0 TURKEY. A woman was injured whena bomb detonated at the AmericanBoard of Foreign Missions, part of theU.S.-based United Church of Christ.Dev-Sol claimed responsibility.

23-Jan-91 Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb went off at theoffice of the American Bureau ofShipping in Istanbul. Dev-Solclaimed responsibility.

23-Jan-91 Baalbek Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 1 LEBANON. A security guard waskilled when a bomb went off at thepartly French-owned Fransabank inBaalbek.

23-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosion occurredoutside the Beirut-Riyadh Bank inwestern Beirut.

23-Jan-91 Chiclayo Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Presumed terrorists threwexplosives at the Peruvian-U.S.Institute in Chiclayo, north of Lima.Property damage was considerable.

24-Jan-91 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 0 GUATEMALA. Unidentified gunmenfired at the local headquarters of theUnited Nations in Guatemala City.

24-Jan-91 Algiers Algeria Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ALGERIA. Pro-Iraqi extremists set fireto the offices of the French PressAgency in Algiers.

25-Jan-91 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Businesses affiliatedwith French interests (Renault, BancoFrances) or are owned by membersof the Buenos Aires Jewishcommunity were attacked, leadingpolice to believe that there could bean Iraqi, pro-Arab or anti-coalitionlink to the attacks.

25-Jan-91 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Unknown0 0 ARGENTINA. Businesses affiliatedwith French interests (Renault, BancoFrances) or are owned by membersof the Buenos Aires Jewishcommunity were attacked, leadingpolice to believe that there could bean Iraqi, pro-Arab or anti-coalitionlink to the attacks.

25-Jan-91 Jordan ArabCommunistRevolutionaryParty

Explosives0 0 JORDAN. An explosive device wasdiscovered at the British Bank of theMiddle East. The Arab CommunistRevolutionary Party claimedresponsibility.

25-Jan-91 Tel Aviv Israel Unknown Unknown0 2 ISRAEL. A Moslem priest and hisbrother were assassinated on astreet corner in Jaffa, Tel Aviv.

25-Jan-91 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Members of the pro-CubanTupac Amaru RevolutionaryMovement fired a bazooka at the U.S.Embassy in Lima, causing slightdamage.

25-Jan-91 KualaLumpur

Malaysia Unknown Explosives0 0 MALAYSIA. A bomb found outside anAmerican Airlines office in KualaLumpur was safely detonated bypolice. A call was received by theoffice warning that the device hadbeen planted. Many threats havebeen made against American andBritish firms in Malaysia in retaliationfor the countries' involvement inOperation Desert Storm.

25-Jan-91 MontevideoUruguay Unknown Firearms0 0 URUGUAY. Unidentified individualsshot at the U.S. Embassy inMontevideo.

25-Jan-91 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives20 2 PERU. A car bomb exploded in theparking lot of Lima's internationalairport, killing two people andwounding 20 others. SenderoLuminoso claimed responsibility.

25-Jan-91 Kampala Uganda Unknown Explosives0 0 UGANDA. A bomb exploded on atennis court of an Americanrecreational club in Kampala,moments after the U.S. Ambassadorfinished playing a round of tennisthere. The device had been thrownover a wall.

25-Jan-91 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Bombs went off at twobranches of Citibank in Athens. TheNovember 17 organization claimedthe attack as a protest to the alliedmilitary operation in the Persian Gulf.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. Bombs went off at twobranches of Citibank in Athens. TheNovember 17 organization claimedthe attack as a protest to the alliedmilitary operation in the Persian Gulf.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb went off at thehome of the French military attachein Athens. The November 17organization claimed the attack as aprotest to the allied militaryoperation in the Persian Gulf.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb went off at theBritish-based Barclays bank inAthens. The November 17organization claimed the attack as aprotest to the allied militaryoperation in the Persian Gulf.

25-Jan-91 Copiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded in theentrance of a Mormon Church inCopiago, causing considerabledamage.

25-Jan-91 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb discovered at anAmerican bank in Ankara was safelydefused.

26-Jan-91 Baalbek Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb went off at theagricultural branch of the AmericanUniversity of Beirut near Baalbek.

26-Jan-91 Adana Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb damaged a caroutside of the U.S. Consulate, and abomb caused moderate damage at aTurkish-American club. No injurieswere reported. The attacks occurredin Adana, which is near the Incirlikbase being used by U.S. warplanes inthe war on Iraq. No group claimedresponsibility.

26-Jan-91 Adana Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb damaged a caroutside of the U.S. Consulate, and abomb caused moderate damage at aTurkish-American club. No injurieswere reported. The attacks occurredin Adana, which is near the Incirlikbase being used by U.S. warplanes inthe war on Iraq. No group claimedresponsibility.

26-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb went off in frontof the Saudi Bank east of Beirut.

27-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded at theEgyptian Embassy in Beirut.

27-Jan-91 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb went off at theBanque Libano-Francaise in theSyrian-controlled Bekka Valley. Thiswas the fourth attack against Frenchinterests in Lebanon since the GulfWar began.

27-Jan-91 Ankara Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb went off at the jointJapanese-Saudi ticket office inAnkara. Dev Sol claimedresponsibility.

27-Jan-91 Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Dev Sol claimedresponsibility for a bomb that wentoff at the Air France agency.

27-Jan-91 Marseille France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb went off at theForeign Center in Marseilles. Thebuilding houses cultural and groupevents linked to immigrants. Theattack was claimed in the name of anIsraeli Zionist movement.

28-Jan-91 UnitedStates

Unknown Firearms0 0 UNITED STATES. Shots were fired atthe home of Trinidad and Tobago'scounsul general in the Scarsdale areaof New York.

28-Jan-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon churches inSantiago were bombed.

28-Jan-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon churches inSantiago were bombed.

28-Jan-91 MexicoCity

Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A small bomb went off atthe American Express office inMexico City.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. Offices of British Petroleumin Athens were damaged by a rocketgrenade. The November 17organization claimed the attack as aprotest to the allied militaryoperation in the Persian Gulf.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. An antitank missile wasfired at an American Express office inAthens. The November 17organization claimed the attack as aprotest to the allied militaryoperation in the Persian Gulf.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb went off at theInter-American insurance company inAthens. The November 17organization claimed the attack as aprotest to the allied militaryoperation in the Persian Gulf.

29-Jan-91 Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Dev Sol claimedresponsibility for a bomb explosion atthe French Consulate.

29-Jan-91 Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Dev Sol claimedresponsibility for a bomb at a U.S.depot.

29-Jan-91 Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Dev Sol claimedresponsibility for a bomb at theAmerican Cultural Center.

29-Jan-91 Milan Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Two Molotov cocktails werethrown at a Coca-Cola warehouse inMilan.

30-Jan-91 Perugia Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 ITALY. A mosque in Perugia wasbombed in an attack believed relatedto the Gulf War.

30-Jan-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. An incendiary device wasthrown at a Chase Manhattan bank inSantiago.

30-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb went off at theKuwaiti Embassy in Beirut.

30-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb which had beenplaced in a trash barrel detonatednear the Qatari Embassy.

30-Jan-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb went off near anItalian bank in Beirut.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Suspected Tupac Amaruguerrillas tossed an explosive at theItalian Embassy.

30-Jan-91 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Suspected Tupac Amaruguerrillas tossed explosives at the U.S. Cultural Center and at amonument honoring former U.S.President John F. Kennedy.

30-Jan-91 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Suspected Tupac Amaruguerrillas tossed explosives at the U.S. Cultural Center and at amonument honoring former U.S.President John F. Kennedy.

31-Jan-91 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Firearms0 0 YEMEN. Unidentified gunmen firedon the residence of the Americanambassador.

31-Jan-91 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. Bombs were thrown at theresidence of the Turkish ambassador.

31-Jan-91 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. Bombs were thrown at theresidence of the Japaneseambassador.

31-Jan-91 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. Five mortar rounds were firedat the U.S. Embassy from a parkacross the street. No group claimedresponsibility.

31-Jan-91 Lima Peru Unknown Unknown0 0 PERU. An attempted attack on theresidence of the AmericanAmbassador was repelled by police.

31-Jan-91 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PHILIPPINES. A large firecrackerapparently was responsible for anexplosion at the building housing theSaudi Arabian Embassy.

31-Jan-91 Amman Jordan JihadBrigades

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JORDAN. A group calling itself theJihad Brigades set fire to a FrenchCultural Center in Amman.

31-Jan-91 France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. An arson fire damaged amosque in the northern part of thecountry.

1-Feb-91 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru terrorists threwexplosives from a van at the U.S.Embassy in Lima.

1-Feb-91 Peru Unknown Unknown0 0 PERU. A Brazilian businessman waskidnapped as he left his home forwork.

1-Feb-91 Madrid Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. A fire was set at a Forddealership in Madrid.

1-Feb-91 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. An explosion occurred at thePeruvian-British Institute in theMiraflores neighborhood of Lima.

1-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb went off at theTurkish Embassy in Beirut.

1-Feb-91 Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A stick of dynamite wasthrown at the main branch of theBritish Bank of the Middle East inAmman.

1-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb caused extensivedamage to the Kuwait & LebanonBank south of Beirut.

1-Feb-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb placed on a windowsill exploded at the Chilean-GermanCultural Institute in Santiago.

2-Feb-91 KualaLumpur

Malaysia Unknown Unknown1 0 MALAYSIA. A Malaysian securityguard at the U.S. Embassy waswounded by an assailant in front ofthe chancery in Kuala Lumpur.

2-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives2 0 LEBANON. For the second time in 24hours, the Bank of Kuwait and theArab World-Khaldah Branch wasattacked with explosives.

2-Feb-91 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives4 0 PERU. Tupac Amaru guerrillasentered a Kentucky Fried Chickenrestaurant in Lima, ordered thepatrons out, and detonated severalbombs which injured four people.Damage was reported several blocksaway.

2-Feb-91 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. A bomb went off in front ofthe French Embassy in Sanaa.

3-Feb-91 Medellin Colombia Heroes ofPalestine

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A group calling itself theHeroes of Palestine claimedresponsibility for bombing a Mormontemple near Medellin.

3-Feb-91 Larnaca Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb went off in front ofthe offices of Barclays Bank andAmerican Express in Lanarca.

3-Feb-91 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. A small explosive wastossed on the roof of the ItalianEmbassy, causing minor damage.

4-Feb-91 Jeddah SaudiArabia

Unknown Firearms2 0 SAUDI ARABIA. An unidentifiedgunman fired on a bus carryingAmerican military personnel in theport city of Jidda, hundreds of milesfrom the battlefield. Two servicemenwere wounded by flying glass in theattack.

4-Feb-91 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives1 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded at thehome of a Saudi consul general inKarachi, injuring a guard.

4-Feb-91 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. The offices of British Airwayswere torched in Jerusalem.

4-Feb-91 Vienna Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A bomb was discovered ata British Petroleum office in Vienna.

5-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. An explosion took placeat an Egyptian-Lebanese bank inBeirut.

5-Feb-91 Amman Jordan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JORDAN. The car of the Americanmilitary attache in Amman was seton fire.

6-Feb-91 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A U.S. bank was bombed inAthens.

7-Feb-91 Malmo Sweden Unknown Other 0 0 SWEDEN. Letters containing threatsto Americans and small quantities ofplastic explosives, fuses and bulletswere sent to a local newspaper, alocal television station and anextremist organization in Malmo.

7-Feb-91 Adana Turkey Dev Sol Unknown0 1 TURKEY. An American civilian wasassassinated by the leftwing groupDev Sol in Adana. The man had beensingled out because he worked at aTurkish air base and was believed tobe a CIA agent.

7-Feb-91 Izmir Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was thrown intothe garden of a NATO command postin Izmir. Dev-Sol claimedresponsibility.

7-Feb-91 Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A time bomb wasdiscovered under the car of a FrenchEmbassy secretary which was parkednear the American College of Greece.

8-Feb-91 Kerala India Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. Maoist guerrillas were blamedfor an attack on a British bank inKerala in protest of the Gulf War.

8-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded nearthe French Embassy in Beirut.

8-Feb-91 Israel Other Explosives4 3 ISRAEL. Three terrorists infiltratedfrom Jordan and attacked a buscarrying soldiers on the Aravahighway. The terrorists fired off agrenade inside of the bus before theywere killed by gunfire from thesoldiers. Four soldiers were injured.

8-Feb-91 Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in thegarden of the French Consulate inIstanbul. Dev-Sol claimedresponsibility.

9-Feb-91 Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A stretch of track nearInnsbruck used to transport U.S.tanks from Germany to the PersianGulf was bombed, leaving a six-footcrater underneath the track. Asecond bomb was found nearby on aparallel track. Many Austrians havebeen angered by the moving of thetanks which they feel violates theircountry's neutrality.

10-Feb-91 Kochi India Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. Maoist guerrillas were blamedfor an attack on four World Bankemployees in the town of Kochi. Thebank executives were en route to anindustrial training institute when theattack occurred.

10-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A small bomb exploded atthe Saudi Embassy in Beirut.

13-Feb-91 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb went off near theJapanese Embassy in Lima. A flagwith the Shining Path symbol wasfound at the scene.

13-Feb-91 PeshawarPakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. An explosion rocked theoffices of a British-sponsoredhumanitarian organization for Afghanrefugees in Peshawar.

13-Feb-91 GuatemalaUnknown Unknown0 1 GUATEMALA. An American wasfound dead in the EsquintlaDepartment. The victim showedsigns of torture.

13-Feb-91 Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb went offunderneath the car of a Frenchdiplomat. The November 17Organization was believedresponsible.

13-Feb-91 Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb went offunderneath the car of an Americancitizen. The November 17Organization was believedresponsible.

13-Feb-91 FederalRepublicofGermany

Red ArmyFaction(RAF)

Firearms0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.The Red Army Faction fired on the U.S. Embassy from across the Rhineriver, causing only minor damage. Aletter found near the scene claimedresponsibility for the attack andalthough the contents of the letterwere not made public, reportedlymade mention of the Gulf War.

14-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Unidentified gunmenkidnapped a French national and anItalian in southern Beirut.

14-Feb-91 Dubai UnitedArabEmirates

Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. An Italiansailor was killed after being stabbedwhile on leave from his ship in theGulf emirate of Dubai.

15-Feb-91 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 0 PAKISTAN. Gunmen opened fire onthe Saudi airlines office in Karachi.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillaswere suspected of having thrown anexplosive at the Egyptian Embassy inLima.

15-Feb-91 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A stick of dynamiteexploded near the Saudi-LebaneseBank.

15-Feb-91 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A 5.5-pound bomb wasdefused near the Egypt-LebanonBank.

15-Feb-91 Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb was discovered anddetonated by police at a U.S. miningcompany.

15-Feb-91 Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A noise bomb went off at theBank of Boston.

16-Feb-91 Amman Jordan Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 JORDAN. A Jordanian man entered aTurkish Airlines office in Amman andheld an airline employee hostage.The man had a knife and what wasreportedly a fake bomb. He wasprotesting Turkey's Gulf policy andasked to meet with the Jordanianparliamentary speaker. The incidentended peacefully.

16-Feb-91 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Seven terrorists, believed tobe members of the Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement (MRTA)hurled grenades at a restaurant in ashopping center that is part of the U.S. Kentucky Fried Chicken chain.Several people were injured in theattack, the second against the chainthis year. An attack was also carriedout against a Pizza Hut restaurant.

16-Feb-91 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Seven terrorists, believed tobe members of the Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement (MRTA)hurled grenades at a restaurant in ashopping center that is part of the U.S. Kentucky Fried Chicken chain.Several people were injured in theattack, the second against the chainthis year. An attack was also carriedout against a Pizza Hut restaurant.

16-Feb-91 Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives1 0 CHILE. A U.S. marine was woundedwhen a rocket was fired on the U.S.Embassy's Marine House in Santiago.The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Frontclaimed responsibility and said theattack was meant to convey rejectionfor imperialist interference in ThirdWorld countries by the United States.

17-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A rocket was discoveredhidden inside a water pipe and aimedat the Italian Embassy in west Beirut.The device was safely dismantled.

17-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives2 0 LEBANON. A bomb went off under acar near the French Embassy inClemenceau, causing heavy damage.Two people were injured.

17-Feb-91 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb went off close toa bank owned by Gulf Arab investors.

20-Feb-91 Sydney Australia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRALIA. Molotov cocktails werehurled at a building housing theAustralia-American Association, aclub in Sydney which caters to U.S.naval personnel. A man with aMiddle Eastern accent called atelevision station to announce thatthe attack was linked with thePersian Gulf War.

20-Feb-91 Freiburg FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Afirebomb was thrown through awindow at an IBM office in Freiburg.Officials believe the attack was toprotest the U.S. role in the PersianGulf war.

20-Feb-91 Freiburg FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. Afirebomb hit a Coca-Cola truck at alocal bottling subsidiary in Freiburg.Officials believe the attack was toprotest the U.S. role in the PersianGulf war.

20-Feb-91 Tehran Iran Hizballah Explosives0 0 IRAN. Grenades were thrown at theBritish Embassy in Tehran. IslamicJihad claimed responsibility.

20-Feb-91 Tehran Iran Hizballah Explosives0 0 IRAN. An explosive was thrown atthe Italian Embassy in Tehran.Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

20-Feb-91 Tehran Iran Hizballah Explosives0 0 IRAN. An explosive was thrown atthe Turkish Embassy in Tehran.Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.


0 0 JORDAN. Arsonists set fire to the carof the military attache at theEgyptian Embassy.

21-Feb-91 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaIslamicBrotherhood

Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A group calling itselfthe Islamic Brotherhood claimedresponsibility for planting a powerfulbomb which went off in front of theBritish Embassy in Guatemala City.

24-Feb-91 PeshawarPakistan Unknown Explosives1 0 PAKISTAN. One person was woundedwhen a bomb exploded at a Swedishhumanitarian agency in Peshawar.

24-Feb-91 YokohamaJapan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. The Middle Core Factionclaimed responsibility for projectilesfired at a residential area inYokohama which is used by U.S.Navy personnel. The attack wasmeant to protest the presence of U.S.-led multinational forces in the Gulf.

25-Feb-91 Paris France Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. An incendiary device wasthrown at the Albanian Embassy inParis.

25-Feb-91 Limassol Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb went off at aBarclay's Bank in Limassol.

25-Feb-91 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A bomb wasdiscovered at the home of theJapanese Ambassador in GuatemalaCity. The explosive was safelydefused.

26-Feb-91 Amman Jordan Unknown Firearms0 0 JORDAN. A gunman opened fire on aSoviet diplomatic car in Amman.There were no injuries.

26-Feb-91 Nicosia Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb went off at aNicosia branch of Barclay's Bank.

26-Feb-91 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 GERMANY. Three Americanemployees of a U.S. governmentagency were fired on and a grenadewas tossed at the hotel in which theywere staying in Berlin. A Lebaneseman was later taken into custody inconnection with the attack.

27-Feb-91 Caracas VenezuelaVenceremosExplosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A bomb was safelydefused at a McDonald's restaurantin Caracas. A group calling itselfVenceremos claimed responsibilityfor placing the bomb, saying that itwas done to protest the war in theGulf.

27-Feb-91 Tunis Tunisia Other Unknown0 1 TUNISIA. A pro-Iraqi terroristorganization, under the leadership ofAbu-al-'Abbas, was allegedlyresponsible for the assassination ofDutch diplomat Robert Jan Akkermanat his home in Tunis. According to aPLO spokesperson, the gunmen wereplanning to kill about 30 dinnerguests, many of them diplomats, whowere about to arrive at Akkerman'shome. Akkerman apparentlysurprised the gunmen who fled afterkilling him. In carrying out theattack, the terrorists had hoped tosupport Saddam Hussein in his waragainst the allies.Some doubts havebeen raised as to the motivation forthe killing. The possiblity of personalproblems being the motive has beenconsidered.

28-Feb-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded nearthe Kuwaiti Airlines and Kuwait-Lebanon Bank building in Beirut.

28-Feb-91 Turkey Dev Sol Firearms1 0 TURKEY. An American Air ForceNATO officer was shot in the face bytwo unidentified men who had riddenin the same elevator with him in hisapartment building in westernTurkey. He was able to ward off asecond shot by throwing hisbriefcase at the attackers, and hechased them. Dev Sol claimedresponsibility.

28-Feb-91 Algiers Algeria Unknown Unknown0 1 ALGERIA. The chief correspondentfor Reuters was murdered in hisapartment in Algiers.

2-Mar-91 Brazil RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown9 3 BRAZIL. A 40-member FARC columnattacked a Brazilian Army camp inthe northwestern part of the country,killing three Brazilian soldiers andwounding 9 others. The groupcarried off military andcommunications equipment.

4-Mar-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon churches werebombed with plastic explosives inseparate areas of Santiago. Onlyminor damage was sustained.

4-Mar-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon churches werebombed with plastic explosives inseparate areas of Santiago. Onlyminor damage was sustained.

5-Mar-91 LeningradUSSR Unknown Explosives0 1 SOVIET UNION. A man in Leningradtried to hijack a domestic flight toSweden. The man threatened thecrew with an anti-tank grenade whichdetonated. The hijacker was killed inthe attack.

6-Mar-91 Riga Latvia Unknown Explosives0 0 LATVIA. Explosions occurred outsidea building used to house Sovietmilitary families in Riga. Otherexplosions occurred at a buildingowned by the interior ministry andunder a bridge.

10-Mar-91 JerusalemIsrael Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 4 ISRAEL. In what was described as amessage to Baker, a Palestinianfatally stabbed four Israeli women ata bus stop in Jerusalem. Secretary ofState James A. Baker III was to arrivethe next day on a peace-seekingmission in Israel.

12-Mar-91 Glyfadha Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 1 GREECE. An American Air Forcesergeant was killed by a powerfulremote-controlled bomb as hewalked to his home in Glyfada. TheNovember 17 Organization said thatthey killed the sergeant to avengeIraqi dead in the Persian Gulf war andvowed to attack more Americansoldiers on duty in Greece orvacationing on its islands.

12-Mar-91 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Firearms0 1 GERMANY. Unidentified persons firedshots at the Turkish Consulate inBerlin, killing a German guard.

15-Mar-91 Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives0 1 TURKEY. An individual who threw anexplosive into a warehousebelonging to Americans in Izmir waskilled in the attempt.

21-Mar-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A small bomb was detonatedin front of a Bank of Boston branch inSantiago.

21-Mar-91 Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Unknown3 6 ISRAEL. Six heavily-armed Arabswere killed after crossing the JordanRiver and ambushing a passingpatrol. Three Israeli soldiers werewounded in the attack. The raid wasapparently an aborted attempt tostrike a nearby kibbutz. The attackoccurred a few hours before U.S.Secretary of State James Baker wasto arrive in Israel as part of hispostwar Middle East peace-processtalks. The terrorists were believed tobe members of Islamic Jihad orHamas.

22-Mar-91 Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Unknown0 1 TURKEY. Three members of Dev Solentered the offices of the U.S.-ownedVinell, Brown and Root in Istanbuland, after moving other employeesto another part of the building,murdered the American manager, aretired U.S. military officer. Thecompany holds a contract forhousekeeping maintenance for all U.S. military installations in Turkey.

25-Mar-91 Ankara Turkey Hizballah Explosives1 0 TURKEY. The Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility for a bomb whichdetonated in the car of the Iraqitrade attache in Ankara. Thediplomat, who was accompanied byhis four children, was slightly injuredin the attack.

26-Mar-91 Istanbul Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationFront(TPLF)(THKP-C)

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb went off in front ofthe Istanbul office of Shell Oil. TheTurkish People's Liberation Front(THKP-C) claimed responsibility, asdid Dev Sol.

26-Mar-91 Istanbul Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationFront(TPLF)(THKP-C)

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Branches of Citibank inIstanbul and Izmir were bombed. Oneperson was injured in the Izmirattack. The Turkish People'sLiberation Front (THKP-C) claimedresponsibility, as did Dev Sol.

26-Mar-91 Izmir Turkey TurkishPeople'sLiberationFront(TPLF)(THKP-C)

Explosives1 0 TURKEY. Branches of Citibank inIstanbul and Izmir were bombed. Oneperson was injured in the Izmirattack. The Turkish People'sLiberation Front (THKP-C) claimedresponsibility, as did Dev Sol.

27-Mar-91 KualaLumpur

Malaysia Other Unknown0 4 MALAYSIA. Pakistani hijackers tookover a Singapore Airlines passengerjet en route from Kuala Lampur,Malaysia to Singapore. The hijackersdemanded the release of a numberof people held in Pakistani prisons,including the husband of formerPrime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Ninehours after the drama began, acommando unit stormed the plane,killing the four hijackers.

27-Mar-91 Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. An unknown assailanthurled a bomb at the KuwaitiEmbassy in Amman. The deviceexploded at the front door of theembassy and caused no damage.

28-Mar-91 Israel Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 ISRAEL. A Palestinian assailantstabbed a 76-year old Israeli man inthe back as he was shopping. Hesurvived the attack.

30-Mar-91 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Homemade devicesexploded at two Citibank branches inAthens suburbs.

30-Mar-91 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Homemade devicesexploded at two Citibank branches inAthens suburbs.

1-Apr-91 FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. There were unspecifiedattacks on Polish tourists. Oneinvolved twenty masked neo-Naziswho boarded a train near a Germanstation and attacked Polishpassengers.

1-Apr-91 India Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. Muslim rebels kidnapped twoSwedish engineers in Kashmir. Thevictims managed to escape fromtheir captors, the Muslim Janbaaz(Crusaders) Force on July 6.

1-Apr-91 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. An American resident ofColombia was kidnapped bymembers of FARC. He was killed twomonths later during a rescueattempt.

1-Apr-91 Dresden FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Other 0 1 GERMANY. A Mozambican immigrantwas thrown from a Dresden streetcarto his death by neo-Nazis.

2-Apr-91 San Jose CostaRica


0 0 COSTA RICA. Two petrol bombs werethrown from a vehicle at the TurkishConsulate in San Jose.

2-Apr-91 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Nine cars, including twobelonging to foreign diplomats andthree with foreign license plates,were damaged by a series ofexplosions in an Athens suburb.





3-Apr-91 CostaRica

Unknown Firearms0 0 COSTA RICA. Gunmen fired at twopolicemen guarding the TurkishConsulate.

3-Apr-91 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Revolutionary PopularStruggle (ELA) and the May 1stgroups claimed joint responsibility foran explosion which demolished twofloors of the United Nations offices inAthens.

5-Apr-91 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A 30-40 pound car bomb wentoff at the Japanese Embassy during aSendero Luminoso terrorist-plannedpower outage. The attack occurredwhile Peruvian President AlbertoFujimori was in Japan.


Explosives0 0 PERU. An explosive was launched atthe U.S. Ambassador's residence inLima during a terrorist-plannedpower outage.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Explosives were hurled from amoving car at the Canadian Embassyin Lima during a terrorist-plannedpower outage.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Explosives were hurled from amoving car at the Israeli Embassy inLima during a terrorist-plannedpower outage.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Explosives were hurled from amoving car at the ColombianEmbassy in Lima during a terrorist-planned power outage.

8-Apr-91 Mendoza ArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. The Israeli Consulate inMendoza was fired on.

8-Apr-91 La Paz Bolivia NestorPazZamoraCommission(CNPZ)

Unknown0 0 BOLIVIA. The Nestor Paz ZamoraCommission (CNPZ) attacked the U.S.Consulate in La Paz.

9-Apr-91 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Unknown7 36 TURKEY. Sabotage of a Greek touristbus in Istanbul resulted in the deathsof 36 tourists. Seven people wereinjured.

15-Apr-91 Chile UnitedPopularActionMovement

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. A Mormon temple wasseriously damaged by a Molotovcocktail. United Popular ActionMovement (MAPU) and Lautaro YouthMovement pamphlets were found atthe site.

16-Apr-91 Belfast NorthernIreland

ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy(PIRA)

Explosives0 0 NORTHERN IRELAND. The CanadianShorts aircraft factory in Belfast wasbombed by the PIRA.

17-Apr-91 Israel Other Firearms3 2 ISRAEL. Armed guerrillas infiltratedfrom Jordan and entered a kibbutz,where they shot and killed a farmer,and wounded three others. One ofthe guerrillas was killed.

18-Apr-91 Paris France Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 FRANCE. An Iranian dissident wasstabbed to death in Paris.

19-Apr-91 Greece Other Explosives0 7 GREECE. A 26-pound bomb intendedfor the British consulate explodedprematurely at a courier's officenearby, killing six Greek citizens andthe Palestinian student who wastransporting the device. Six otherPalestinians were arrested inconnection with the incident.

23-Apr-91 France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CORSICA. An incendiary deviceexploded underneath a Germantourist coach (bus) parked outside ahotel in Corsica. The FLNC wassuspected.

24-Apr-91 Sofia Bulgaria Unknown Explosives0 0 BULGARIA. A bomb went off near theresidence of the Iraqi Embassy inSofia.

24-Apr-91 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown into an asylum-seekers' hotelin Berlin.

24-Apr-91 Hude FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GERMANY. A NATO fuel pipeline atHude was attacked with incendiarydevices. A similar attack hadoccurred a few weeks earlier. Anautonomous group called the Newtsclaimed responsibility for the attackand claimed it was symbolicallyaimed against the Gulf war andmilitarism.

25-Apr-91 Seoul Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Radical studentsthrew firebombs at a U.S. militaryengineering installation in Seoul.

29-Apr-91 Panama Unknown Firearms0 0 PANAMA. A gunman opened fire on agroup of U.S. servicemen. No onewas injured in the attack.

29-Apr-91 FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Unknown0 1 GERMANY. A Soviet sentry was killednear his post in eastern Germany.

29-Apr-91 Somalia Other Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. The National LiberationFront of Somali (NLFS) hijacked aPolish cargo ship and its crew in theGulf of Aden.

30-Apr-91 BethlehemWestBank/Gaza


0 1 OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. A Frenchcitizen was stabbed to death inBethlehem by a Palestinian describedas a Muslim fanatic.

2-May-91 Navarre Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at aRenault showroom in Navarre. ETAclaimed responsibility.

3-May-91 SriLanka

Unknown Unknown3 0 SRI LANKA. Three members ofMedecins Sans Frontieres wereinjured when their clearly-markedvehicle came under attack from ahelicopter.

3-May-91 WittenbergeFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown2 0 GERMANY. Neo-Nazis attacked anAfrican immigrant housing area inWittenberge. Two Namibians werecritically wounded in the attack.

7-May-91 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The November 17Organization fired rockets at officesof Siemens in Athens.

7-May-91 Miami UnitedStates

TontonsMacoutes

Firearms0 2 UNITED STATES. Two prominentHaitian broadcasters were gunneddown on a Miami street. The Haitiancommunity believes that the TontonsMacoutes have come to Miami tostage a comeback.

7-May-91 Miami UnitedStates

TontonsMacoutes

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. An explosiondestroyed a building housing threeHaitian businesses in the Little Haitisection of Miami. The TontonsMacoutes are suspected of staging acomeback in the Miami area.

10-May-91

Lima Peru Unknown Unknown0 1 PERU. A Peruvian vice president of aU.S. firm was killed north of Lima.

13-May-91

Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ITALY. Two petrol bombs werethrown into a North Africanimmigrant's center.

17-May-91

JerusalemIsrael Other Knives& sharpobjects

4 0 ISRAEL. A Palestinian stabbed threeIsraelis on a crowded Jerusalemstreet before being captured andbeaten by bystanders.

17-May-91

Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 2 PERU. Sendero Luminoso, markingtheir 11th anniversary, murderedCanadian Evangelical aid workerNorman Tattersall and a Colombiancolleague.

19-May-91

SanSebastian

Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at aRenault showroom in San Sebastian.

21-May-91

India LiberationTigers ofTamilEelam(LTTE)

Explosives0 13 INDIA. Rajiv Gandhi wasassassinated by a suicide bomberwhile he was campaigning in thesouthern state of Tamil Nadu.Twelve other people were killed inthe explosion as well. Hisassassination came during thebloodiest election campaign in India's44-year history as an independentcountry.In a bizarre twist, the suicidebomber had hired a photographer totake pictures (unwittingly) of whatwere to be scenes of theassassination. The photographer waskilled in the blast. The picturesfound on the roll of film enabledauthorities to piece together theframework for an ambitious manhuntfor as many as a dozen Tamilextremists and sympathizersaffiliated with the Liberation Tigers ofTamil Eelam.Three months later,when their hideout was surroundedby police, the chief suspect and sixconfederates committed suicide inBangalore.

22-May-91


Explosives0 5 PERU. An Australian nun wasmurdered by members of the ShiningPath in Junin Department. About 80guerrillas arrived in three trucks andcarried the nun, as well as fourofficials of the town, to the town'smain square. After subjecting theirvictims to a people's trial, theterrorists killed them by throwingexplosives at them.

24-May-91

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the British Consulate inIstanbul.

24-May-91

Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso bombedthe U.S.-Peruvian Cultural Center inLima.

25-May-91

France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 CORSICA. The FLNC bombed theholiday home of an Italianbusinessman in Corsica.

28-May-91

Peru Unknown Firearms1 0 PERU. Gunmen injured the managerof the Canadian-owned Bata shoefactory.

28-May-91

Rome Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. An ETA bomb exploded nearthe Spanish Embassy.

28-May-91

Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. An ETA bomb exploded at aSpanish bank.

28-May-91


Explosives0 0 ITALY. An ETA bomb exploded at anIberian Airways office.

29-May-91

Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb exploded at the U.S.-Peru Binational Cultural Center inLima.

30-May-91

Karachi Pakistan Unknown Unknown1 0 PAKISTAN. A U.S. AID employee wasinjured in an attack by unidentifiedassailtants in Karachi.

31-May-91

Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Nov 17 Org mounted arocket attack against the Germanbrewery Lowenbrau in Atlanti. Theattack followed a telephone warning.On June 6, the Nov 17 Organizationsent a communique to Greek pressthreatening to attack Germanbusiness in Greece unless theGerman government were to pay$43bn reparations for World War II.

5-Jun-91 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms0 1 PERU. A Soviet national who was asupervisor in a textile factory whoseworkers have been on strike wasmachine-gunned to death bysuspected Sendero Luminosomembers as she was driving in hercar in Lima's outskirts. A sign was lefton her body which read, for killingworkers of the people.

7-Jun-91 India Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. Separatist Muslim GuerrillaFront (MGF) guerrillas kidnapped twoAmerican tourists and a Britishnational in Jammu and Kashmir. Thevictims escaped to Delhi on June 11.

9-Jun-91 Cordoba ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb went off at anIsraeli Bank branch in Cordoba.

11-Jun-91 Milan Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives4 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded at the Milanoffices of Iberian Airways, injuringfour policemen. ETA wasresponsible, along with a right-winggroup calling itself the Italian ArmedFalange (FAI).

11-Jun-91 Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb exploded outside of aSpanish college. ETA and FAI wereresponsible.

12-Jun-91 Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb wrapped as apackage was delivered to a Spanishtransport company. The bombexploded as police were transferringit to a demolitions van. The ETA andFAI claimed responsibility.

13-Jun-91 Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 LEBANON. An unknown gunmanassassinated a French national.

13-Jun-91 USSR Other Unknown0 0 USSR. A Georgian man attempted tohijack a domestic flight to either Iranor Iraq. The hijacker wasoverpowered by anti-terrorist troops.

14-Jun-91 WestBank/Gaza


2 0 WEST BANK. A Palestinian stabbedand injured Thai workers on a farm.

15-Jun-91 JerusalemIsrael Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 ISRAEL. Two Palestinian girlsstabbed and injured an Italian Jewishtourist near the Old City in Jerusalem.

17-Jun-91 Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas in the UpperHuallaga Valley raided an American-built anti-drug base with rocket-propelled grenades. Joint pilot teamsof American civilians and Peruviannational police repelled the attack.

17-Jun-91 Pakistan Unknown Explosives18 8 PAKISTAN. Eight people, mostlyAfghan refugees, were killed andanother 18 injured when a powerfulbomb went off at a restaurant inLanday Kowtal, a town borderingAfghanistan. The timed-explosionoccurred at noon when therestaurant was full of customers,mostly Afghan refugee laborers.

23-Jun-91 Honduras PatrioticMorazanistaFront(FPM)

Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. The MorazanistaPatriotic Front of National Liberation(FPM) claimed responsibility for anattack on the headquarters of the UNObserver Group in Central America.Two men riding on a motorcycle fireda rocket-propelled grenade at thebuilding.

27-Jun-91 India Other Firearms3 1 INDIA. Twelve armed guerrillasboarded a houseboat on Dal Lake inSrinagar, the summer capital ofJammu and Kashmir State and apopular resort area. The guerrillaswere members of the Guardians ofthe Islamic Revolution, a smallIranian-influenced group of Muslimfundamentalists seeking the union ofKashmir with Pakistan. The guerrillasabducted six Israeli men, one Israeliwoman and one Dutch woman fromthe houseboat. The terroristsreleased the two women but held themen for interrogation. The men wereaccused of being Israeli commandosand they were lined up to be shot.While their guards weren't payingattention, the captives freedthemselves and struggled with theircaptors. One Israeli and twoterrorists died in the resultinggunfire. One terrorist and threeIsraelis were wounded. Four of theIsraelis found refuge. The fifth hidfor hours but was discovered byangry villagers before being rescuedby members of a rival separatistgroup, the Jammu and KashmirLiberation Front. While originallysaying it would free the Israeli, theJKLF kept him instead. On July 3, thecaptive was freed and made his wayto the UN mission in Srinagar, whichhad declined to deal directly with theJKLF and thus afford it a form ofinternational recognition.

27-Jun-91 SriLanka

LiberationTigers ofTamilEelam(LTTE)

Explosives9 14 SRI LANKA. The LTTE detonated abomb under a tourist bus, thenopened fire on the passengers. 14people were killed, including aDanish tourist, and nine others wereinjured.

28-Jun-91 SanFrancisco

UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. Unsophisticatedfirebombs were thrown at the SouthKorean Consulate in San Francisco toprotest a visit to the U.S. by SouthKorean President Roh Tae Woo.Damage to the consulate wasestimated at $5,000.

28-Jun-91 Kwangju Korea,South

Other Unknown0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Protesting studentsassaulted the U.S. cultural center inKwangju with firebombs.

1-Jul-91 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 8 PERU. Sendero guerrillas ambushedtwo vehicles belonging to aCanadian-financed alpaca breedingproject in Puno. Eight people werekilled. The SL is seeking todiscourage foreign aid andinvestment to Peru's economy.

1-Jul-91 India Other Unknown0 1 INDIA. Soviet coal mining expertSergei Gritchenko was kidnapped bythe United Front for the Liberation ofAssam. He was killed whileattempting an escape on July 9.

3-Jul-91 Milan Italy Hizballah Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ITALY. The Italian translater of TheSatanic Verses was stabbed to deathin Milan.

3-Jul-91 Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. Two Japanese car dealershipswere bombed. Two people wereinjured.

3-Jul-91 Peru Unknown Explosives2 0 PERU. Two Japanese car dealershipswere bombed. Two people wereinjured.

4-Jul-91 Lima Peru Unknown Firearms0 0 PERU. Shots were fired at the U.S.Embassy in Lima.

4-Jul-91 Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A small bomb exploded in anoffice located in the building whichhouses the U.S. Embassy. The FPMRwas responsible.

5-Jul-91 Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. Terrorists threw a grenadefrom a passing car at the offices ofthe U.S. transport firm DHLWorldwide Express, and started a fireat warehouses belonging to the U.S.fruit exporter United TradingCompany. Firemen putting out theblaze the the fruit company found abanner belonging to the ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR).

5-Jul-91 Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. Terrorists threw a grenadefrom a passing car at the offices ofthe U.S. transport firm DHLWorldwide Express, and started a fireat warehouses belonging to the U.S.fruit exporter United TradingCompany. Firemen putting out theblaze the the fruit company found abanner belonging to the ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR).

6-Jul-91 Rome Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A Spanish tour bus explodedin central Rome after unidentifiedassailants threw an explosive deviceinto it. ETA believed responsible.

7-Jul-91 PanamaCity

Panama Unknown Firearms0 1 PANAMA. Four unidentified men in apassing car opened fire on a U.S.Army enlisted man near PanamaCity's international airport. Thesoldier was killed. The mayor ofPanama had proclaimed the week asa U.S.-Panama Friendship Week.


Explosives1 0 CHILE. FPMR supporters fired shotsand threw a bomb at a Mormontemple in Santiago. One person wasinjured.

8-Jul-91 Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Unidentified assailantsbombed a Mormon church inCoquimbo, 250 miles north ofSantiago.

9-Jul-91 Peru Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. Leftist guerrillas threwincendiary devices at a Japanese-owned Mitsubishi Motors showroomduring the night.

11-Jul-91 Paris France Other Unknown0 1 FRANCE. Turkish secret service weresuspected of having assassinated aleading Dev Sol member in Paris.

11-Jul-91 DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany

BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 GERMANY. A bomb exploded outsidethe Spanish Consulate in Dusseldorf.ETA claimed responsibility.

11-Jul-91 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives1 0 GERMANY. An ETA bomb explodedoutside the Spanish Consulate inMunich. A policeman was injured.

11-Jul-91 FederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 GERMANY. ETA attempted to bomb aSpanish bank.


Explosives0 3 PERU. 15 hooded members ofSendero Luminoso invaded theTechnical Center of VegetableCultivation in Huaral, 60 miles northof Lima. The guerrillas executedthree Japanese engineers anddynamited the facilities. In May1994, the 10th arrest of a member ofSendero Luminoso involved in thisincident was made. He was arrestedfor planning and overseeing themurders.

12-Jul-91 Japan Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 JAPAN. The Japanese translator ofThe Satanic Verses was stabbed todeath in a building at TsukubaUniversity, northeast of Tokyo, wherehe was a professor of Islamic studies.

13-Jul-91 Brussels Belgium Dev Sol Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. Petrol bombs were thrownat the Turkish state-owned bank inBrussels. Dev Sol claimedresponsibility.

13-Jul-91 Paris France Dev Sol Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Dev Sol attacked theTurkish Embassy in Paris.

14-Jul-91 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Dev Sol Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GERMANY. Molotov cocktails werethrown at the Turkish airlines officein Frankfurt. Dev Sol suspected.

14-Jul-91 Brussels Belgium Dev Sol Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BELGIUM. Petrol bombs were thrownat the office of the Turkish Airlines inBrussels. Dev Sol claimedresponsibility.

14-Jul-91 Salonika Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives1 0 GREECE. An office of LufthansaAirlines in Salonica was bombed,injuring an employee of a nearbyrestaurant. A group calling itselfPopular Uprising claimedresponsibility. The group may be acover name for The November 17Organization.

15-Jul-91 London UnitedKingdom

Dev Sol Unknown0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Extremistsattacked three Turkish banks inLondon. Dev Sol or Turkish Kurdishsympathisers were suspected.


Dev Sol Unknown0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Extremistsattacked three Turkish banks inLondon. Dev Sol or Turkish Kurdishsympathisers were suspected.


Dev Sol Unknown0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Extremistsattacked three Turkish banks inLondon. Dev Sol or Turkish Kurdishsympathizers were suspected.

15-Jul-91 Hanover FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A firebomb attack on aTurkish bank caused $60,000 worthof damage in Hanover.

15-Jul-91 Bremen FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A firebomb attack on aTurkish bank in Bremen causedminor damage.

16-Jul-91 AmsterdamNetherlandsDev Sol Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. A petrol bombdamaged a Turkish travel office inAmsterdam. The office was daubedwith Turkish slogans signed by theleft-wing Turkish group, Dev Sol.

16-Jul-91 AmsterdamNetherlandsDev Sol Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. A Turkish bank incentral Amsterdam was attacked bythree Turks throwing petrol bombs.A Turkish travel agency had beenattacked earlier in the day. Thethree were arrested.

16-Jul-91 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The ELA and 1 MayOrganization claimed jointresponsibility for a bomb attackagainst the U.S. American LifeInsurance Company (ALICO) inCentral Athens.

16-Jul-91 Salonika Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb was discoveredoutside the offices of a U.S. veteran'sgroup American Legion in Salonica.The bomb was safely defused. The 1May Organization and ELA claimedjoint responsibility.

16-Jul-91 Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Unknown0 1 PERU. A fruit and poultryentrepreneur of Japanese descentwas kidnapped from Huaral. MRTAinsurgents were blamed. Thevictim's body was discovered threedays later.

17-Jul-91 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown1 0 GERMANY. Neo-Nazi skinheadsattacked a Berlin center forforeigners seeking asylum. Oneperson was injured.

18-Jul-91 Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives3 0 GREECE. The November 17Revolutionary Organization placed abomb which injured two Turkishdiplomats and their driver. Theincident preceded U.S. PresidentBush's arrival in Athens by one day.

18-Jul-91 Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Bombs went off at four U.S.-related business facilities. TheRevolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA)and the May 1 leftist groups claimedresponsibility jointly. The incidentspreceded by one day U.S. PresidentBush's arrival in Athens.







20-Jul-91 Harare ZimbabweOther Explosives3 0 ZIMBABWE. A bomb explosion at aSheraton Hotel in Harare injuredthree hotel workers. A white latin-appearing male was being sought.Authorities believe that Iraq mayhave been involved in the incident.

22-Jul-91 Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Dev Sol terrorists threwpetrol bombs at the premises ofCoca-Cola in Istanbul.

24-Jul-91 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas blacked out Limaand bombed Lima's AllianceFrancaise cultural center.

24-Jul-91 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. Guerrillas bombed the TiendaHiraoka Japanese electronics store inLima.


Explosives2 1 PERU. A dynamite bomb went off ata European Community-financedLand Recovery Program office inPuno, killing one victim and injuringtwo others. The SL was suspected.

29-Jul-91 Santiago Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Lautaro Youth Movementbombed a Kentucky Fried Chickenrestaurant in the Providencia districtof the capital of Santiago.

1-Aug-91 Pakistan Unknown Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. A New Zealand UN aidworker and two Afghan colleagueswere kidnapped.On November 7, aspecial anti-terrorism courtsentenced six men to be hanged forthe abduction. Five others escapedcapture.

2-Aug-91 Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 TURKEY. The PKK kidnapped tenGerman campers near the border.Released (date?).

3-Aug-91 Milan Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives1 0 ITALY. A bomb went off at theExterior Bank of Spain in Milan. Oneperson was injured by the blast. TheArmed Falange (AF) claimedresponsibility in the name of ETA.

3-Aug-91 Milan Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb was defused outsidethe Spanish national tourist office inMilan.

7-Aug-91 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. French relief workerJerome Leyraud was kidnapped inBeirut by a group calling itself theOrganization for the Defense ofPrisoners' Rights, a radical shiitegroup. The group threatened to killthe victim if another Westernhostage were freed. They abductedLeyraud hours after Islamic Jihadreleased Briton John McCarthy. Thevictim was released 60 hours later.

7-Aug-91 Beirut Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Three bombs explodedoutside UN buildings in southernBeirut. The Organization for Defenseof Hostages and Prisoners' Rights(ODHPR) claimed responsibility. Thisgroup appears to be a splinter ofIslamic Jihad.

8-Aug-91 Paris France Hizballah Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 FRANCE. Shahpour Bakhtiar, the lateShah of Iran's exiled prime ministerand outspoken critic of the currentIranian government, was foundstabbed to death near Paris. Alsokilled was his secretary. Bakhtiarhad been ousted and sentenced todeath by the 1979 Muslim revolution.He'd escaped an assassinationattempt by Hezbollah in 1980 whichclaimed two other lives. The housein which Bahktiar was discoveredwas under tight security, and policefound no signs of forced entry orstruggle.Ali Rad Vakli, a suspect inthe assassination, was extraditedfrom Switzerland and charged withmurder on August 27.An Iranianarrested September 20 in connectionwith the killing is reportedly thenephew of Ayatollah Khomeini, andhas implicated the Iraniangovernment in the killing.OnDecember 23, 1991, Swiss policearrested Zeyal Sarhadi as anaccessory in Bakhtiar's assassination.He was arrested as he left the IranianEmbassy in Bern. In May 1992,France succeeded in having Sarhadiextradited.

9-Aug-91 Sudan EritreanLiberationFront(ELF)

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Thirteen westerners werekidnapped by Eritrean separatistsafter their chartered yacht allegedlyentered Eritrean water illegally. Thevictims included an American, sixItalians, a German and five Britons.They were released on September11.

9-Aug-91 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 6 PERU. Sendero guerrillas attackedthree towns north of Lima, killing twoPolish Franciscan priests, fourmunicipal officials, and abducting anItalian nun. She was subsequentlyreleased.

9-Aug-91 Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. Two bombs were successfullydisarmed outside of Spanish banks.


Explosives0 0 ITALY. Two bombs were successfullydisarmed outside of Spanish banks.

9-Aug-91 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. The Turkiye Bankasi wasdamaged by an incendiary attack inCologne. Kurds were suspected.

10-Aug-91

ZamboangaPhilippinesUnknown Explosives43 2 PHILIPPINES. A grenade attackagainst visiting Christianmissionaries in Zamboanga left twoyoung women (one from NewZealand and the other from Sweden)dead, and 43 persons injured, themajority of them being American.The missionary group had beensailing around the world exhibitingand selling religious literature.Authorities believe a missionary'sstatement made the previous dayduring a visit to Western MindanaoState University that ProphetMohammad is a liar triggered theattack. Minutes before the attack,someone in the crowd was heard toremark in a Muslim dialect, YouDoulos people, watch out what willhappen to you. Before the shipdeparted a few days later, guardsfound an unexploded grenadewrapped in newspaper on the wharf.The MNLF has denied involvement,and police are reportedly looking forstudents who may have volunteeredto conduct the attack.

10-Aug-91

Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. An empty Turkish tour buswas set on fire in downtown Athens.

11-Aug-91

MexicoCity

Mexico RevolutionaryWorkerClandestineUnion ofthe Peop

Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A powerful bomb went offat Citibank in the Vallejo suburb ofMexico City. A group calling itselfthe Revolutionary WorkerClandestine Union of the PeopleParty, (PROCUP) claimedresponsibility. Four nearby Mexicanbanks were injured by the blast.

11-Aug-91

MexicoCity

Mexico Unknown Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A bomb damaged a branchof the Japanese-owned SonyAutomatriz Nissan car showroom inMexico City.

13-Aug-91

Pakistan Unknown Firearms1 0 PAKISTAN. An Afghan-born U.S.national working for a U.S.organization was injured in an attackby an unidentified gunman in a car.

13-Aug-91

VenezuelaUnknown Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. Four men who mayhave been common criminalsabducted the Chilean consul inPuerto Ordaz. The kidnapping tookplace as the consul and his motherwere driving a friend home after aparty. The mother, after beingrobbed of her belongings, wasabandoned on the side of the road.

13-Aug-91

DortmundFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. An incendiary attack onTurkish Pamuk Bank in Dortmundcaused severe damage. Kurds weresuspected.

15-Aug-91

WiesbadenFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Kurds were suspected ofplanting incendiary devices in theTurkish Pamuk Bank in Darmstadtand the Turkish TOE Bank inWiesbaden. Only minor damage wassustained in both attacks.

15-Aug-91

DarmstadtFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Kurds were suspected ofplanting incendiary devices in theTurkish Pamuk Bank in Darmstadtand the Turkish TOE Bank inWiesbaden. Only minor damage wassustained in both attacks.

15-Aug-91

MexicoCity


Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Bombs went off at an IBMbuilding and at McDonalds in MexicoCity. PROCUP claimed responsibility.

15-Aug-91

MexicoCity


Explosives0 0 MEXICO. Bombs went off at an IBMbuilding and at McDonalds in MexicoCity. PROCUP claimed responsibility.

15-Aug-91

Rome Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A crude explosive went off inthe Spanish Institute of Culture inRome. Only slight material damagewas done to the building. The ArmedFalange, allied with ETA, claimedresponsibility.

19-Aug-91

Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Unknown0 1 TURKEY. A British executive with aTurkish-British insurance companywas assassinated as he was riding inthe Istanbul office elevator. Dev Soland the Turkish wing of Islamic Jihadboth claimed credit. The victim'scompany had been on the Dev Sol hitlist that was discovered in a raid on asafehouse in July.

20-Aug-91

BucharestRomania Other Firearms2 1 ROMANIA. India's ambassador toRomania was struck in the leg by abullet when four men attacked theEmbassy in Bucharest. One of theassailants was killed and anotherwounded by police, a third wasarrested and another escaped. TwoSikhs were arrested.

21-Aug-91

France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. ETA set off a bomb at aSpanish bank in southern France.

23-Aug-91


Explosives0 0 ITALY. A bomb went off at theSpanish TransAtlantic Companyoffices. ETA claimed responsibility.

23-Aug-91

Florence Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives1 0 ITALY. A bomb which explodedoutside the Spanish consular officesin Florence injured a Japanesetourist. ETA, with the assistance ofthe Italian Armed Falange, wasbelieved responsible.

26-Aug-91


Unknown0 1 PERU. Sendero guerrillas murderedan Italian Catholic priest afterordering him out of a van about twohundred miles north of Lima. Thepriest had run social programs innorthern Peru for 11 years.

26-Aug-91

SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms1 0 EL SALVADOR. A German nationalRoman Catholic Church relief workerwas shot by two unidentified gunmenoutside of his San Salvadorapartment.

29-Aug-91

Tehran Iran Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A grenade was thrown intothe garage of the Greek Embassy inTehran.

30-Aug-91

Erzurum Turkey Other Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Five tourists, includingthree Americans, one British andone Australian, were kidnapped whiletraveling by car from Erzurum toBingol. They were releasedSeptember 20.

4-Sep-91 Quito Ecuador Other Unknown0 0 ECUADOR. Eight members of AlfaroVive (AVC) invaded the BritishEmbassy in Quito to try and gain therelease of their imprisoned leader,Patrio Baquerizo. It is unclearwhether or not the guerrillas werearmed. The guerrillas left theembassy after 30 hours after beingassured the adjudication of theirimprisoned leader would beexpedited and fair.

6-Sep-91 Bayonne France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The Spanish bank BancoBilbao Vizcaya was bombed inBayonne.

6-Sep-91 India Other Unknown0 1 INDIA. The Goodwill Train betweenIndia and Pakistan was attacked bySikh extremists. A Pakistani womanwas killed in the attack.

7-Sep-91 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. RENAMO abductedPortuguese national Daniel Martinsand Mozambican Carlos Compota.

9-Sep-91 India Other Unknown3 0 INDIA. Sikh extremists attacked theGoodwill Train that shuttles betweenIndia and Pakistan. The attack wasthe second in only a few days. ThreePakistanis were injured.

11-Sep-91 Harare ZimbabweUnknown Explosives0 0 ZIMBABWE. An explosive device wassafely removed from the outside ofthe British Council office in Harare.

11-Sep-91 Ovalle Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Mormon chapels in Ovalleand the San Joaquin district ofSantiago were bombed.

11-Sep-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Mormon chapels in Ovalleand the San Joaquin district ofSantiago were bombed.

13-Sep-91 Lebanon al-Fatah Unknown0 1 LEBANON. A Swedish soldier waskilled when Fatah guerrillas aborteda dinghy raid and took several UNIFILmembers hostage.

13-Sep-91 Darwin Australia Unknown Firearms0 0 AUSTRALIA. Shots were fired at theIndonesian consulate in Darwin. TheIndonesian Ambassador to Australiawas visiting Darwin at the time of theattack.

16-Sep-91 Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. An unidentified gunmankilled a Nepalese UNIFIL soldier nearthe village of Yater.

19-Sep-91 SaarlouisFederalRepublicofGermany


19 1 GERMANY. Right-wing racist violenceled to the death of an Africanimmigrant and injuries to 19 others.The African died due to an arson firein Saarlouis in a home for asylum-seekers. Neo-Nazi skinheadsassaulted another immigrant hostelin Hoyerswerda, forcing police toevacuate the foreigners to anothertown.

20-Sep-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Three individuals entered aMormon church in the Quinta NormalDistrict of Santiago and forcedparishoners to leave. They thenthrew an explosive device thatcaused only minor damage.

21-Sep-91 SantaCruz

Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb which had beenhidden in a basket left by two youngboys was discovered at theAmerican-Bolivian bank agency inSanta Cruz.

22-Sep-91 Nicosia Cyprus Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CYPRUS. Arsonists attacked aKuwaiti Airways office in Nicosia.

22-Sep-91 Albania Unknown Unknown4 0 ALBANIA. The head of Voice ofAmerica's Albanian station, his wifeand two Albanian journalists wereinjured when their car was rammedby another vehicle. Elez Biberaj isreportedly the best known Americanin the country and was feared andhated by the former rulingcommunist party.

27-Sep-91 Israel Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ISRAEL. A 67-year old Jewish manwas stabbed to death in an act ofreprisal for the police killing of 17Arabs at the Temple Mount shrinelast year. Pictures of the shrine werefound scattered at the scene of themurder.

1-Oct-91 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN kidnapped aBritish teacher in early October.Victim released on November 17.

2-Oct-91 JerusalemIsrael Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 1 ISRAEL. Two female German touristswere attacked by a man wielding aknife at a cafe in Jerusalem's OldCity, killing one and injuring theother. Police rounded up dozens ofArab men as suspects.

5-Oct-91 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off at a Mormonchapel in Santiago.

7-Oct-91 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Firearms0 1 GREECE. A Turkish diplomat wasassassinated in a central Athenssuburb by the November 17Revolutionary Organization. Twoyoung men fired at point blank rangeat the victim as he was leaving forwork.

9-Oct-91 NewDelhi

India Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. The Romanian charged'affairs was abducted by two menwhile on his way to work in NewDelhi. Witnesses said that one of thekidnappers appeared to be a Sikh. Aday after the abduction a calleridentifying himself as thecommander-in-chief of the LiberationTigers of Khalistan (LTK) claimedresponsibility; however, authoritiesbelieve that Sikhs may have seizedhim in order to force the release oftwo Sikhs held in Bucharest for theAugust 20 attempted assassinationof India's ambassador to Romania.The diplomat was held for 48 days,then simply put on a train for Delhi.

11-Oct-91 Tel Aviv Israel Other Other 11 2 ISRAEL. A Palestinian drove a vaninto hitchhiking Israeli soldiers in TelAviv, killing two and injuring 11. Theattack was meant to avenge thekilling of Arabs at the Temple Mountthe previous year.

14-Oct-91 India Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. A French hydroelectricengineer was kidnapped by Moslemmilitants in Kashmir.

17-Oct-91 France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. The FLNC was suspected ofcarrying out a bomb attack against aPortuguese Cultural Institute inCorsica.

18-Oct-91 PamplonaSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA was suspected of havingplanted a bomb which explodedoutside the French SocieteGeneralede Bank in Pamplona.

21-Oct-91 GothenburgSweden Unknown Explosives2 0 SWEDEN. A bomb went off at arefugee center in Gothenburg,slightly injuring two of the residents.

26-Oct-91 JerusalemIsrael Kach Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. The door to the U.S. libraryin Jerusalem was set on fire. Graffitinearby stated the attack was byKach.

28-Oct-91 Ankara Turkey TurkishIslamicJihad

Explosives1 1 TURKEY. A bomb went off under thecar of a U.S. serviceman in Ankara,killing U.S. Air Force Staff SergeantVictor Marvick and injuring his wife.The Turkish Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility, saying they would notallow the imperialist powers to divideup the Middle East at the peacesummit.

28-Oct-91 Turkey TurkishIslamicJihad

Explosives1 0 TURKEY. An hour after a bomb blastkilled a U.S. Air Force sergeant, abomb went off under the car of anEgyptian diplomat as he prepared todrive his daughter to school. Thevictim was seriously injured by theblast. The Turkish Islamic Jihadclaimed responsibility, saying theywould not allow the imperialistpowers to divide up the Middle Eastat the peace summit. A Turkishnewspaper reported that the grouphad carried out the assassinationbecause the victim had decodedIslamic Jihad's communicationcomputer codes.

29-Oct-91 Beirut Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A rocket was fired intothe United States Embassycompound in East Beirut on the eveof the Arab-Israeli Peace Conferencein Madrid. No casualties resulted.The Arab Revolutionary Cells claimedresponsibility.

30-Oct-91 Valencia Spain Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Petrol bombs were thrown ata subsidiary of British NationalWestminster Bank in Valencia,causing some damage. TheLebanon-based Palestine LiberationCommandos claimed responsibility,stating that the attack was in protestof the Middle East Peace Conference.

4-Nov-91 Rome Italy Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 ITALY. The former King ofAfghanistan, Zahir Shah, waswounded in a stabbing incident at hishome in northern Rome. Theassailant had posed as a journalist.Shah had been living in exile in Romesince he was deposed by a cousin ina 1973 coup.

7-Nov-91 Oslo Norway Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NORWAY. Unidentified attackersthrew petrol bombs at the TurkishEmbassy in Oslo in the third attack ofits kind in four months.

8-Nov-91 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives8 1 LEBANON. A powerful car bombdemolished the administrationbuilding of the American Universityof Beirut, killing one person andinjuring eight others. No groupimmediately claimed responsibility.

8-Nov-91 Istanbul Turkey Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Suspected Kurdishextremists hurled petrol bombs at aJapanese-owned Toyota dealership inIstanbul.

8-Nov-91 Ankara USSR Unknown Unknown0 0 USSR. A Soviet airliner was hijackedwhile on a domestic flight, and forcedto land at Ankara's Esenboga Airport.The airliner carried 171 passengersand a crew of seven.

9-Nov-91 USSR Other Firearms0 0 SOVIET REPUBLICS. Four armedChechen-Ingushi nationalists hijackeda Minerallnye Vody (RSFSR)Ekaterinburg (formerly Sverdloosk)flight, forcing it to fly to Turkeywhere passengers and crew werereleased. The hijacking was aprotest by passengers, most of whomwere Chechen Turks, against theRussian Government's treatment ofChechen.

10-Nov-91



Explosives0 0 GERMANY. A primitive explosivedevice was discovered on a NATO oilpipeline in Hesse. The RAF wassuspected.

14-Nov-91

Leipzig FederalRepublicofGermany


0 1 GERMANY. Neo-Nazi skinheadsforced their way into the Leipzighomes of two Vietnamese immigrantfamilies, destroying property, and inone case beating and stabbing afather in front of his children. InBerlin three persons were arrestedfor the beating death of a Turkishimmigrant.

14-Nov-91

Leipzig FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Neo-Nazi skinheadsforced their way into the Leipzighomes of two Vietnamese immigrantfamilies, destroying property, and inone case beating and stabbing afather in front of his children. InBerlin three persons were arrestedfor the beating death of a Turkishimmigrant.

21-Nov-91

Paris France GracchusBabeuf

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Two bombs caused minordamage to a U.S. newspaper andpost office in Paris. Gracchus-Baboeuf claimed responsibility inreprisal for U.S. involvement in theGulf War.

28-Nov-91


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillas,using approximately 11 pounds ofdynamite, caused serious damage tothe Spanish Embassy in Lima. Theattack occurred during a guerrilla-induced blackout of the city. Spainhad recently pledged $170m in aid toPeru.

1-Dec-91 NewDelhi

India Other Explosives0 0 INDIA. Just minutes before an AirIndia 747 was scheduled to take offon a New Delhi-London-New Yorkflight, a crude bomb was discovered.A Sikh employee of a catering servicewas arrested for having planted thebomb. A Kashmiri group claimedresponsibility, but evidence allpointed to Sikh involvement.

8-Dec-91 Kuwait Unknown Unknown0 0 KUWAIT. Two American businessmenwere kidnapped near thedemilitarized zone between Kuwaitand Iraq while surveying an area fora contract bid.

8-Dec-91 Tokyo Japan Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. An arson attack targeting acar and motorcycle took place at a U.S. naval base outside of Tokyo. Aradical group was suspected.

9-Dec-91 Pakistan Unknown Firearms1 0 PAKISTAN. A British rural aid workerwas shot and wounded by gunmen.This may have been criminallymotivated.

18-Dec-91

Belfast NorthernIreland


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NORTHERN IRELAND. The PIRAfirebombed the Shorts Aircraft(Canadian) factory in Belfast.

19-Dec-91

Hungary ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Firearms0 0 HUNGARY. A gunman attacked thebullet-proof limousine carrying theTurkish Ambassador to Budapest.The ambassador was not injured inthe attack, which was claimed byASALA in Paris. The attack was thefirst attack against a Turkishdiplomat in six years by the radicalArmenian group.

19-Dec-91

ElSalvador

FarabundoMartiNationalLiberationFront(FMLN)

Firearms0 9 EL SALVADOR. The FMLN shot downa Honduran military helicopter whichhad entered Salvadoran territory dueto bad weather conditions. All ninecrew members were killed.

20-Dec-91


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso bombedthe Lima residence of the SpanishAmbassador.

20-Dec-91


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso detonateda bomb at the French Embassy inLima.

20-Dec-91

PamplonaSpain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded at thePamplona office of a French furniturefirm.

23-Dec-91

Hungary Other Remote-detonatedexplosive

6 0 HUNGARY. Six people were injuredwhen a powerful bomb exploded inthe path of a bus carrying SovietJewish emigrants to the Budapestairport for a flight to Israel. Thebomb had been hidden in a carparked by an access road to theairport and detonated by remotecontrol as the bus and escortingpolice car were passing. TheMovement for the Freedom ofJerusalem (MFJ) claimedresponsibility in Beirut.

24-Dec-91

Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Right-wing radicalsattacked shelters for foreign asylum-seekers south of Berlin.

24-Dec-91

Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Right-wing radicalsattacked shelters for foreign asylum-seekers south of Berlin.

29-Dec-91

Iraq Unknown Explosives1 0 IRAQ. A powerful car bomb wasdetonated in front of the IshtarHilton, injuring a hotel employee.

29-Dec-91

Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CUBA. Three Cuban exiles werearrested when they attempted aclandestine landing north of Havana.The men, who claim to be part of theanti-Castro group Commando L(Liberation), were armed withexplosives and admitted in court thatthey were on a mission to createpanic among the civilian populationby attacking targets such as motionpictures and restaurants.

1-Jan-92 ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. Moments after theannouncement of a governmentpeace accord, an unoccupied jeep ofa Reuter's correspondent wasdestroyed by a bomb.

4-Jan-92 Lebanon Unknown Firearms0 1 LEBANON. A French national wasfound dead in his home in Lebanonwhere he'd been shot with a gun witha silencer.

4-Jan-92 TheHague

NetherlandsActiefrontNationistischNederland

Explosives0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. A group ofright-wing activists calling itselfActiefront Nationistisch Nederland,claimed responsibility for bombing anemployment bureau for immigrantsin the Hague. The bomb caused littledamage and no injuries.

7-Jan-92 Tokyo Japan Unknown Explosives0 0 JAPAN. A homemade bomb wasdiscovered in a corridor of the eighthfloor of the compound housing the U.S. Embassy staff and their families inTokyo. The incident occurred as U.S.President George Bush visited thecountry.

7-Jan-92 JohannesburgSouthAfrica

Other Explosives0 0 SOUTH AFRICA. The BlackConsciousness Movement of Azaniaclaimed responsibility for a grenadeexplosion at the offices of theorganizer of U.S. singer Paul Simon'sconcert tour in Johannesburg.

7-Jan-92 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 PHILIPPINES. An American employeeof the Asian Development Bank wasstabbed to death in Manila by threemasked men. The motive is underinvestigation.


Explosives3 0 PERU. MRTA guerrillas in Lima threwan explosive device into theEcuadoran Embassy, injuring threepolicemen.

12-Jan-92 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms0 3 PERU. Sendero Luminoso shot downa helicopter carrying three U.S.nationals in the Upper HuallagaValley. All three were killed.

12-Jan-92 Salonika Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Bombs detonated on thepremises of the German electronicsfirms of AEG and Miele in Salonica.There were no injuries. A groupcalling itself Popular Uprising claimedresponsibility. The group is believedto be affiliated with the November-17Organization.

12-Jan-92 Salonika Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Bombs detonated on thepremises of the German electronicsfirms of AEG and Miele in Salonica.There were no injuries. A groupcalling itself Popular Uprising claimedresponsibility. The group is believedto be affiliated with the November-17Organization.

15-Jan-92 Kismayu Somalia Unknown Firearms0 1 SOMALIA. An International Red Crossworker was killed by gunfire inKismayu.

17-Jan-92 Bavaria FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives1 0 GERMANY. A bomb exploded at amedical clinic in Bavaria, injuring aCroatian doctor involved in aidprograms for secessionist Yugoslavrepublic of Croatia. Serbianextremists were suspected.

22-Jan-92 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. U.S. engineer EdwardFaugout was kidnapped by ELNguerrillas in Antioquia.

23-Jan-92 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

IslamicGoldenArmy

Firearms0 0 GERMANY. A group calling itself theIslamic Golden Army claimedresponsibility for shots fired at theAlgerian Airlines office in Frankfurt.The group pledged its support for theIslamic Holy Front in Algeria.

28-Jan-92 AmersfoortNetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. A Turkish mosque inAmersfoort near the Hague wasfirebombed.

30-Jan-92 Algiers Algeria IslamicSalvationFront(FIS)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ALGERIA. Islamic Salvation Front(FIS) terrorists threw firebombs atthe U.S. Embassy and Justice Ministryin Algiers.

1-Feb-92 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A Canadiananthropologist is believed to havebeen kidnapped by FARC in Chocodepartment.

3-Feb-92 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 GERMANY. ETA planted a bomb thatwas discovered and diffused in theparking lot of the Spanish consulatein Hamburg.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An American geologistwas kidnapped by FARC in Antioquia.He was released on March 3.

11-Feb-92 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 3 PERU. The U.S. ambassador'sresidence was attacked in Lima.Three guards were killed and 15meters of the embassy's retainingwall were destroyed by the carbomb.

12-Feb-92 GothenburgSweden Unknown Explosives0 0 SWEDEN. A Croatian immigrants'club in Gothenburg was partiallydestroyed by a bomb. No one wasinjured in the attack.

15-Feb-92 Israel Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 3 ISRAEL. Arab guerrillas infiltrated alightly guarded Israeli Army campand hacked and stabbed threesoldiers to death. A fourth soldierwas severely injured in the raid.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso guerrillason a motorcycle threw homemadebombs at the French Embassy.

21-Feb-92 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A bomb was defused atthe U.S. Chamber of Commerce inCaracas. Leftists were suspected.

26-Feb-92 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

JewishDefenseLeague(JDL)

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. The Syrian UnitedNations mission was the target of apipebomb in New York. A secondbomb which was defused in the areahad a note which protestedtreatment of Syrian Jews. Jewishextremists suspected.

28-Feb-92 London UnitedKingdom


Explosives28 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A PIRA bombwent off at London Bridge Stationearly in the morning, injuring 28commuters.

29-Feb-92 London UnitedKingdom


Explosives1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A two-poundbomb went off outside a governmentprosecutor's office in London. Onewoman was injured. The PIRA wasresponsible.

7-Mar-92 Ankara Turkey Hizballah Explosives0 1 TURKEY. The regional security officerat the Israeli Embassy in Ankara waskilled by a car bomb. The IslamicRevenge Organization (IRO) claimedresponsibility in protest againstIsrael's February 16 assassination ofHezbollah secretary-general SheikhAbbas Mousawi in south Lebanon.

11-Mar-92 Santiago Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon chapels inSantiago were bombed within anhour and a half of each other. Noone was injured. Lautaro YouthMovement was suspected.


Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon chapels inSantiago were bombed within anhour and a half of each other. Noone was injured. Lautaro YouthMovement was suspected.

13-Mar-92 London UnitedKingdom


0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Kurdishextremists threw an incendiarydevice at the Air France check-indesk at Heathrow Airport, causingminor damage. Air France serves asthe agent for Turkish Airlines.

16-Mar-92 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PERU. Suspected MRTA guerrillaslaunched an incendiary attackagainst the Peruvian-JapaneseCultural Association in Lima.

16-Mar-92 India Other Unknown0 15 INDIA. The U.S.-based India AcrylicFiber Plant was attacked byguerrillas, killing 15 engineers at thepremises.

17-Mar-92 Lusaka Zambia Unknown Unknown0 1 ZAMBIA. The Mozambicanambassador was murdered in hishome in Lusaka.

17-Mar-92 BuenosAires

ArgentinaHizballah Explosives250 28 ARGENTINA. The Israeli Embassy inBuenos Aires was leveled by a carbomb containing approximately 220pounds of explosives. 28 peoplewere killed by the blast, and over250 wounded. Iran state-sponsoredcomplicity suspected. Islamic Jihadclaimed responsibility for the attack,and stated that it was carried out asrevenge for the February 16 Israeligunship attack which killed SheikAbbas Musawi, secretarygeneral ofHezbollah, his wife, son andbodyguards. A communique fromthe group said that an Argentineconvert to Islam had actually driventhe car bomb. In May 1992 sixIranians and a man traveling on anItalian passport were arrested inEcuador after arriving on a flightfrom Frankfurt.In April 1997, in ataped interview with the brother ofMusawi, it was revealed thatHezbollah was behind the bombing inrevenge for his killing.

17-Mar-92 Tel Aviv Israel Other Knives& sharpobjects

19 3 ISRAEL. A sword-brandishingPalestinian went on a rampage inJaffa (part of Tel Aviv municipality)killing two people and wounding 19others before being shot to deathhimself.

18-Mar-92 PhilippinesOther Firearms0 0 PHILIPPINES. Suspected Moslemguerrillas kidnapped two Americanwomen and an Australian mother andher two children north of Manila. Thegroup, was touring the island withthe Australian's husband, aprotestant minister, when they werestopped by a gunman. The husbandwas forced out of the car and thegunman sped off with the womenand children. The group wasreleased safely March 25.

21-Mar-92 StockholmSweden Other Unknown0 0 SWEDEN. Kurdish separatistsattacked the Turkish Embassy inStockholm.

21-Mar-92 StockholmSweden Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SWEDEN. Kurdish separatists threwan incendiary device into a TurkishAirlines office in Stockholm.

24-Mar-92 Panama Other Unknown0 0 PANAMA. The M-20 group claimedresponsibility for the abduction of anofficial of Citizen LatinamericaCorporation, a subsidiary of theJapanese watchmaking firm.$750,000 was reportedly paid by thefirm, but the payment did not resultin his release.



0 0 GERMANY. Two Turkish Airlinesoffices in Berlin were attacked by(Kurdish?) separatists with Molotovcocktails.



0 0 GERMANY. Two Turkish Airlinesoffices in Berlin were attacked by(Kurdish?) separatists with Molotovcocktails.

26-Mar-92 BaranquillaColombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A guard discovered abomb outside the Goodyear salesoffice in Barranquilla. FARC wassuspected.

26-Mar-92 StrasbourgFrance Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. The Turkish consulate inStrasbourg was firebombed. About20 attackers tried to enter thebuilding but only succeeded incausing external damage. No onewas injured.

26-Mar-92 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb went off outsidethe Banco Anglo Colombiano (partlyowned by British Lloyd's Bank).FARC claimed responsibility.

26-Mar-92 Calama Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs planted by theLautaro Youth Movement went off atMormon churches in Calama andSantiago.


Explosives0 0 CHILE. Bombs planted by theLautaro Youth Movement went off atMormon churches in Calama andSantiago.

26-Mar-92 Tabriz Iran Shahin(Falcon)

Explosives0 0 IRAN. A group calling itself Shahin(Falcon) claimed responsibility for abomb that went off in front of theTurkish Embassy in Tabriz. Thegroup said the explosion was inprotest to the Turkish Government'streatment of Iraqi Kurds and againstthe Turkish air base which was at thedisposal of U.S. forces.

27-Mar-92 Bogota Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives3 1 COLOMBIA. A bomb explodedoutside the Diners Club of Colombiaoffices and at a Citibank branch incentral Bogota. A guard was killedand three passersby injured in theDiners Club blast. A third bomb atanother Citibank branch wasdefused. FARC claimedresponsibility.





27-Mar-92 USSR Other Firearms0 0 RUSSIA. A bus in the town ofLermontov was commandeered byhijackers armed with submachineguns and grenades to the airport atMineralnye Vody, south of Moscow,where the group demanded a flightto Iraq. The three hijackers releasedtheir hostages after winning freedomfor two imprisoned burglars and safepassage to a separatist region.

30-Mar-92 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb went off in front of aMormon church in the Rencaneighborhood of Santiago.

1-Apr-92 Ethiopia Unknown Unknown0 1 ETHIOPIA. A UN relief worker waskilled in the southeastern region.

5-Apr-92 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Iranian students set fireto the Iranian Consulate in Munich.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Foreign tourists werekidnapped in Antioquia, possibly byFARC guerrillas. The victims werekilled.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The FARC 34th Frontkidnapped a Spanish businessman inAntioquia. The man was releasedJune 19.

12-Apr-92 AddisAbaba

Ethiopia Other Explosives0 0 ETHIOPIA. Two men and a womanwith hand grenades forced their wayaboard an Ethiopian jetliner in AddisAbaba. The incident endedpeacefully in Nairobi, Kenya thesame day. The hijackers werearrested by Kenyan authorities.

13-Apr-92 Erigavo Somalia Other Explosives0 0 SOMALIA. Five Somalians armedwith a grenade hijacked a charteredCessna 402 in Erigavo and forced itto fly to Djibouti after the pilotconvinced them that the plane couldnot make it all the way to Kuwait orYemen as they requested. Theincident ended peacefully.

13-Apr-92 Derby UnitedKingdom

IrishNationalLiberationArmy(INLA)

Firearms0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A British soldierwas killed while walking to his armyrecruiting office in Derby. The victimwas shot in the head at point blankrange. The Irish National LiberationArmy (INLA) claimed responsibility.

16-Apr-92 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. The U.S. Consulate inIstanbul was damaged by a rocketattack during the night.

18-Apr-92 BordeauxFrance BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Bombs planted by ETA inthe southwestern city of Bordauxwere safely defused by Frenchpolice.

19-Apr-92 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Incendiary attacksoccurred against Turkish banks inHanover, Frankfurt and Ulm. Lettersleft at the scene claimed that theattacks were in retaliation for theApril 16 attack against Dev Solmembers in Istanbul.

19-Apr-92 Ulm FederalRepublicofGermany



19-Apr-92 Hanover FederalRepublicofGermany



22-Apr-92 AfghanistanOther Firearms0 1 AFGHANISTAN. An Icelandic malenurse with the InternationalCommittee of the Red Cross waskilled by a gunman in a village southof Kabul. The victim's medical teamhad intended to evacuate twowounded Afghans to the ICRChospital in Kabul when the incidentoccurred. The gunman, who claimedhe did not want any infidels inAfghanistan, was arrested.

29-Apr-92 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives6 0 GUATEMALA. A high-powered bombwent off in the ten-story buildinghousing the Costa Rican Embassy inGuatemala City, injuring six people.

4-May-92 Newport UnitedKingdom

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb wasdefused at a McDonald's in Newport,So. England. Animal rightsextremists were suspected.

8-May-92 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives3 0 GUATEMALA. A bomb exploded at aMcDonald's restaurant in GuatemalaCity, injuring three people, includingan American journalist.

10-May-92

Medellin Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Police blame FARCguerrillas for a bomb that went off ata Coca-Cola bottling plant inMedellin.

11-May-92

Kabul AfghanistanOther Firearms0 0 AFGHANISTAN. The Saudi InterestsSection of the French Embassy inKabul was attacked by armed menbelieved to belong to one of themujahideen factions. The buildingwas stripped of everything of value.

12-May-92

Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine detonated abomb at a bus station which resultedin casualties.

14-May-92

Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives2 0 CHILE. Lautaro Movement guerrillasdisrupted a class in a Mormon templebeing taught by an Americanmissionary. After assaulting theteacher and a young Chilean woman,the group detonated an explosivedevice in the chapel. While guerrillashave often targeted unoccupiedchurches in the past, officials fear anescalation of attacks involvingcasualties.

16-May-92


Fire orFirebomb

1 0 CHILE. Lautaro guerrillas entered aMormon temple being cleaned by apastor and his son. The guerrillaspoured gasoline on the son and whenthe father intervened on his behalfhe was shot in the leg. The guerrillasleft without setting fire to the boy.

21-May-92

Santiago Chile ChileanCommitteeofSupportfor thePeruvianRevo

Firearms0 0 CHILE. A group calling itself theChilean Committee of Support for thePeruvian Revolution claimedresponsibility for a drive-by machinegun attack on the Peruvian Embassyin Santiago. The group promised tosupport the struggle of SenderoLuminoso.

21-May-92

St.Petersburg

USSR Other Explosives9 1 RUSSIA. Suspected Palestinianterrorists bombed a Moskovskirailroad station in St. Petersburg,killing one and injuring nine others.

24-May-92

Kuwait Unknown Firearms2 0 KUWAIT. Two Italian circusperformers were shot and injured byan assailant in a waiting car. Thiswas the third attack against circusesin Kuwait recently and authoritiesspeculate the attacks may be thework of Islamic fundamentalists whoobject to the performers' revealingcostumes.

24-May-92

Tel Aviv Israel Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ISRAEL. In Tel Aviv a 19-year old girlwas stabbed to death by an Arabman from the Gaza strip. Theassailant tried to attack several othergirls before being caught.

24-May-92

Chile UnitedPopularActionMovement

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. Five members of the leftistUnited Popular Action Movement(MAPU) entered a Mormon templeduring services and forced 70 churchmembers to evacuate before soakingthe pews with gasoline and settingthem on fire.

24-May-92

IslamabadPakistan Other Unknown1 0 PAKISTAN. A high-ranking Indiandiplomat was abducted in Islamabadby people he later accused of beingPakistani intelligence operatives.After being tortured for seven hours,the victim was released.

26-May-92

Ottawa Canada Unknown Other 1 0 CANADA. A Sudanese Islamicfundamentalist leader was injuredwhen he and his advisors wereattacked by an exiled martial artsexpert at an airport in Ottawa.Christian and animist rebels hadrecently begun peace talks with theSudanese Moslem government inNigeria.

28-May-92

Lagos Nigeria Unknown Unknown0 0 NIGERIA. A British businessman waskidnapped in Lagos. The victim wasfreed by police on June 3.

30-May-92

Israel Other Firearms0 4 ISRAEL. Four heavily armed Moslemsattempted to swim to Eilat from theJordanian city of Aqaba. Twodrowned en route, but two landed ona beach where they shot and killed aguard at a Hebrew Universityresearch facility. One of the twoguerrillas was killed and the otherarrested.

30-May-92

PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 1 PHILIPPINES. A retired U.S. Air Forcetechnical sergeant was assassinatedin Mabalacat, Pampanga by NPAguerrillas.

2-Jun-92 VenezuelaUnknown Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. Colombian leftistguerrillas kidnapped a factory ownerand his wife inside Venezuela. Thevictims were rescued by Colombianpolicemen in Santander, Colombia onJune 8.

4-Jun-92 Medellin Colombia SimonBolivarGuerillaCoordinatingBoard(CGSB)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. CGSB guerrillas threw anincendiary device into the offices ofShell-Colombia in Medellin.

8-Jun-92 PanamaCity

Panama Other Explosives0 0 PANAMA. The 20 December NationalLiberation Movement (M-20) claimedresponsibility for an attack on theback gate of the U.S. Air Force'sAlbrook Air Station in Panama City.The shooting and bomb attackpreceded President Bush's June 11thvisit to Panama.

8-Jun-92 Paris France Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 1 FRANCE. Two gunmen usingsilencers assassinated senior PLOintelligence officer Atef Bseisooutside a Left Bank Paris hotel wherehe'd been staying. The PLOimmediately blamed the Mossad forthe murder. Both Abu Nidal and theradical Jewish Kach movementclaimed responsibility, but the Kachclaim has not been taken seriously.

9-Jun-92 DolgenbrodtFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Neo-nazis attacked ahotel for immigrants. On 5 February1997, a German florist (Thomas O)confessed to paying rightwingarsonists to firebomb the asylumseekers hostel in Dolgenbrodt. Thethugs were paid to keep quiet aboutwho had commissioned them todestroy the hostel.

9-Jun-92 DortmundFederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Explosives0 1 GERMANY. An explosive deviceplanted under his car killed a Turkishvictim in Dortmund.

10-Jun-92 Sarajevo YugoslaviaUnknown Firearms1 0 YUGOSLAVIA. A U.N. peacekeepingconvoy came under fire outside theoutskirts of the Bosnian capital ofSarajevo. One person was injured inthe attack.

10-Jun-92 Panama Other Firearms1 1 PANAMA. Three gunmen using AK-47assault rifles ambushed a U.S.military jeep in Chilibre, north ofPanama City. One soldier was killed,another seriously wounded. The M-20 was suspected.

10-Jun-92 BarranquillaColombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives1 0 COLOMBIA. FARC guerrillasdetonated a bomb at the SpanishConsulate in Barranquilla. Theconsul's secretary was injured.

11-Jun-92 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN attackedEcopetrol-French oil company ElfAquitaine storage facilities inCasanare.

14-Jun-92 PanamaCity

Panama Unknown Explosives0 0 PANAMA. An explosive device wasthrown from a car at a U.S. Army fuelstorage tank on the outskirts ofPanama City.

15-Jun-92 PeshawarPakistan Other Unknown0 1 PAKISTAN. A Japanese UN employeeinvolved in providing humanitarianand economic aid to Afghan refugeeswas assassinated outside of his homein Peshawar. Authorities suspectAfghan fundamentalists.

19-Jun-92 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Leftists in Hamburgattacked the Peruvian Consulate onthe anniversary of the execution of200 imprisoned SL members.

19-Jun-92 SaoPaulo

Brazil Unknown Explosives0 0 BRAZIL. A homemade bomb wasdiscovered in a bathroom of aMcDonald's restaurant in Sao Paulo.

21-Jun-92 Meta Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. A German farmerinvolved in marketing African palmwas kidnapped by gunmen in Meta.

22-Jun-92 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. 40 NPA guerrillaswearing army uniforms raided the U.S.-owned Franklin Baker company.During the attack the Filipino deputymanager was abducted. The victimwas freed June 27.

23-Jun-92 La Paz Bolivia TupacKatariGuerrillaArmy(EGTK)

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb damaged aMormon Church in La Paz. The ultra-leftist Tupak Katari Guerrilla Army(EGTK) was suspected.

25-Jun-92 London UnitedKingdom


Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A PIRA car bombexploded outside of ChaseManhattan Bank in London. Atelephone warning about the 21-pound bomb gave a false location.

26-Jun-92 Bolivia TupacKatariGuerrillaArmy(EGTK)

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. The Tupak Katari GuerrillaArmy bombed a Mormon church.

26-Jun-92 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Firearms0 0 CAMBODIA. A Russian helicopterflying a U.N. mission near the Thaiborder came under ground fire.There have been reports thatrewards of up to $3,500 have beenoffered by Khmer Rouge guerrillas forattacks on U.N. peacekeeping forces.

26-Jun-92 Rome Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives9 0 ITALY. An ETA bomb went off inRome outside the Spanish Mission tothe U.N. during a bombing spree. Inall, nine people were injured.


Explosives0 0 ITALY. An ETA bomb went off at theSpanish Military attache's office inRome. This attack was part of abombing spree that occurred thisday.


Explosives0 0 ITALY. An ETA bomb went off at aSpanish art gallery in Rome. This isanother attack that was part of thebombing spree this day.

28-Jun-92 Kuwait Unknown Unknown0 0 KUWAIT. British caterer PaulStephen Ride was reportedkidnapped.

30-Jun-92 Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 4 LEBANON. Col. Anwar Madi,commander of the PLO guerrillaforces in southern Lebanon wasassassinated along with three of hisbodyguards as he drove from Sidonto his office on the city's outskirts.Abu Nidal was suspected.

3-Jul-92 Santiago Chile Other Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb damaged a statue ofAbraham Lincoln in a park oppositethe U.S. Consulate in Santiago.Leftist guerrillas were suspected.

3-Jul-92 Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SPAIN. Police believe ETA wasresponsible for an incendiary attackagainst a French Antenne 2television channel vehicle parked inan underground garage.

6-Jul-92 Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. The Front for the Liberationof the Cabindan State-Renovada(Renewal)(FLEC-R) kidnapped threePortuguese construction companyemployees in Belize (Cabinda). Thethree were freed on July 14 in Zaire.

6-Jul-92 Iraq Unknown Explosives19 4 IRAQ. The wife of French PresidentMitterrand narrowly escaped injurywhen an explosive-laden car bearinga U.N. logo exploded near hermotorcade in the northern part of thecountry. Four people were killed,another 19 injured. Three of thefatalities were Iraqi Kurdish guerrillaswho were serving as special securityguards for Mrs. Mitterrand. A daybefore the incident occurred theofficial Iraqi news agency printed astory describing Mrs. Mitterrand'svisit to Kurdish areas as foolishbehavior and a rude violation ofIraq's dignity and sovereignty.

7-Jul-92 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA detonated a bomb at theFrench-connected Banco Nacional deParis in Bilbao.

7-Jul-92 Luanda Angola Unknown Firearms0 1 ANGOLA. Unknown gunmen killed aFrench woman in Luanda.

8-Jul-92 Tallinn Estonia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ESTONIA. A man threw a petrolbomb at the Russian Embassy.

9-Jul-92 Iraq Unknown Explosives2 0 IRAQ. A hand grenade attack on aprivate home injured two Austrian U.N. guards.

10-Jul-92 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Unknown Explosives1 0 KUWAIT. An Iranian shia prayerleader was injured when a bombexploded beneath his car in KuwaitCity.

10-Jul-92 Milan Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. ETA bombed the SpanishBank of Bilbao in Milan.

10-Jul-92 Milan Italy BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. ETA bombed the SpanishChamber of Commerce in Milan.

11-Jul-92 Izmir Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Dev Sol claimedresponsibility for a bomb attack at aU.S.-German-owned GM Opelshowroom in Izmir.

11-Jul-92 Istanbul Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Dev Sol fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S.Consulate in Istanbul.

11-Jul-92 Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Police defused a Dev Solbomb planted under the car of a U.S.education official, mistaken for a U.S.military official.

11-Jul-92 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Unknown Firearms4 0 KUWAIT. Four Indian Shia Moslemswere shot in the legs by unidentifiedgunmen in Kuwait City.

12-Jul-92 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms1 0 EL SALVADOR. Gunmen in SanSalvador fired on a vehicle driven bya Spanish U.N. observer, injuring theman's daughter.

14-Jul-92 Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Two French nationals on abusiness trip were abducted by theFLEC-FAC. One of the victims wasreleased on July 20 to relay theguerrilla's demands.

14-Jul-92 Egypt Amal Fire orFirebomb

1 0 EGYPT. Islamic fundamentaliststhrew Molotov cocktails at a buscarrying French tourists. The Frenchtour guide was injured.

16-Jul-92 Santiago Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Lautaro Youth Movementclaimed responsibility for thebombing of a Mormon chapel inPaipote, Santiago.

16-Jul-92 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Unknown0 0 TURKEY. The offices of El Al wereattacked in Istanbul.

16-Jul-92 Manila PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Firearms1 1 PHILIPPINES. A Filipino-Chinesebusinessman was killed and his wifeinjured when an NPA unit opened fireon their car in downtown Manila.

17-Jul-92 Iraq Unknown Firearms0 1 IRAQ. A Fijian U.N. guard was shotand killed in his sleep.

21-Jul-92 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives6 0 PERU. A Sendero Luminoso carbomb seriously damaged the BolivianEmbassy in Lima. Six people wereinjured.

21-Jul-92 Valdivia Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb damaged a Mormonchurch in Valdivia, Los Lagos.Lautaro Youth Movement (MJL)claimed responsibility.

23-Jul-92 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon churches werebombed in Maipu and La Cisternadistricts of Santiago

23-Jul-92 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon churches werebombed in Maipu and La Cisternadistricts of Santiago

23-Jul-92 LaAraucania

Chile LautaroYouthMovement

Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Lautaro group bombed aMormon church in La Araucania.


Explosives4 0 PERU. Sendero guerrillas bombed ahanger at Lima's International Airportwhich damaged containers of Alitaliaairlines. Four security guards wereinjured.

25-Jul-92 Oruro Bolivia TupacKatariGuerrillaArmy(EGTK)

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. Tupac Katari Guerrilla Armymembers bombed a Mormon churchin Oruro.


Explosives0 0 CHILE. The FPMR bombed a Mormonchurch in the Cerro Navia district ofSantiago.

30-Jul-92 JerusalemIsrael Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 1 ISRAEL. A Palestinian stabbed twopolicemen outside the walled city ofJerusalem, killing one and injuringthe other. The assailant was thenshot by a tour operator who waspassing by.

1-Aug-92 Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 ALGERIA. A bomb was discoveredhidden in a toilet on an Air Algerieaircraft. Islamic extremistssuspected.

1-Aug-92 Rostock FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. An apartment complex inRostock housing Vietnameserefugees was attacked for five nightsby youth gangs as hundreds ofpeople watched. The attack endedwhen it was set on fire. Scores ofpeople were injured throughout theattack.


Explosives0 0 ITALY. ETA planted a bomb outsideof an Air France office but the devicewas safely defused by police.

1-Aug-92 VenezuelaNationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 4 VENEZUELA. Four policemenreturning to their base in Apure statewere killed by a powerful ELN carbomb.

2-Aug-92 Baghdad Iraq Unknown Firearms0 0 IRAQ. A Czechoslovakian UN guardwas fired on as he stood in front of aBaghdad hotel. He was not injured.

3-Aug-92 Baghdad Iraq Unknown Firearms1 0 IRAQ. A gunman injured a memberof the French relief group, Medecinssans Frontiers outside of his hotel inBaghdad.

7-Aug-92 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 1 GERMANY. An Iranian entertainerwho was an outspoken critic of theIranian government was murderedby his housemate in Bonn. FereydunFarokhzad had been targeted byTehran.

8-Aug-92 BudapestHungary Other Unknown0 0 HUNGARY. 20 skinheads in Budapestattacked the cultural secretary of theYemeni Embassy. Once they realizedthe victim's status, the group left himalone.

10-Aug-92

CambodiaKhmerRouge

Firearms1 0 CAMBODIA. A French militaryhelicopter being used by the UNtransitional authority in Cambodiawas struck by ground fire, injuringthe pilot. The Khmer Rougereportedly has offered rewards forattacks on UN peacekeepers andhelicopters.

17-Aug-92

Italy November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 ITALY. There were reports that theGreek Revolutionary Organization 17November was involved in thebombing of a police station inSardinia.

18-Aug-92

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 1 LEBANON. A bomb attached to thebottom of her car killed a Germanjournalist in Beirut.

19-Aug-92


Explosives0 0 PERU. MRTA guerrillas overtook theoffices of UPI in Lima and forced thetransmission of a statement againstPresident Fujimori. When theterrorists left they left behind atimed-explosive device which policewere able to deactivate in time.

20-Aug-92

Landana Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. A Portuguese worker waskidnapped by the FLEC-FAC inLandana.

22-Aug-92

Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA is believed responsiblefor a bomb which went off outsidethe French state commercial officesin Bilbao.

24-Aug-92

DarmstadtFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Kurds attacked Turkishbanks in Frankfurt and Darmstadt.

24-Aug-92

FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Kurds attacked Turkishbanks in Frankfurt and Darmstadt.

25-Aug-92

MannheimFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown1 0 GERMANY. Kurds attacked a Turkishbank in Mannheim, injuring a bankemployee.

25-Aug-92

KarlsruheFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown3 0 GERMANY. Turkish consulates inKarlsruhe and Muenster werestormed by Kurds. Three peoplewere injured.

26-Aug-92

Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAQ. Two rocket-propelledgrenades were fired at a UN building,but actually did damage to theoffices of a Kurdish political partynearby.

26-Aug-92

Marseille France Union ofYoungKurdishRevolutionaries

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Members of the Union ofYoung Kurdish Revolutionaries threwpetrol bombs at the Turkishconsulate in Marseille.

26-Aug-92

Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Kurds are suspected ofsetting an arson fire at a Turkishbank in Paris.

26-Aug-92

Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives100 9 ALGERIA. Nine people were killedand over 100 injured when a bombdetonated at the Air France counterat the Houari BoumedienneInternational Airport. The peopleconvicted of this crime weresentenced to death in May 26, 1993and were executed on August 31,1993.Shortly afterward, an Air Franceoffice in Algiers was bombed.

26-Aug-92

Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 ALGERIA. Moments after a powerfulblast rocked the Air France counterat the international airport, anotherbomb exploded at an Air Franceoffice in central Algiers. The buildinghad been evacuated due to atelephoned warning.

26-Aug-92

Algiers Algeria IslamicSalvationFront(FIS)

Explosives0 0 ALGERIA. A bomb was discovered atthe Swiss national airlines office inAlgiers following a telephonedwarning. Authorities speculate thatthese attacks in Algiers may havebeen a Hezbollah operation carriedout locally by the FIS.

26-Aug-92

Bremen FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Kurds were suspected inthe firebombing of a Turkish-affiliated travel agency in Bremen.

27-Aug-92

Adana Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 TURKEY. A Turkish airliner bound forSaudi Arabia was shot at while takingoff from Adana. Despite a number ofbullet holes in the fuselage, the planecontinued on safely to its destination.

28-Aug-92

Istanbul Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb went off at theBritish Consulate in Istanbul. TheKurdish Workers Party claimedresponsibility.

28-Aug-92

MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms2 0 SOMALIA. Somali gunmen ambusheda UN jeep in Mogadishu, injuring twoUN military observers.

28-Aug-92

Liberia Unknown Unknown0 1 LIBERIA. An attack on anInternational Red Cross vehicle leftone relief worker dead.

30-Aug-92

Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A bomb was safely defusedat an unoccupied U.S. Embassybuilding in Amman.

30-Aug-92

Lubz FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Rocks and Molotovcocktails were thrown at animmigrant hostel in the eastern cityof Lubz.

1-Sep-92 DiyarbakirTurkey Dev Sol Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. Members of Dev Sol set fireto an oil storage tank near Diyarbakirwhich was owned by a subsidiary ofRoyal Dutch Shell.

1-Sep-92 Liberia NationalPatrioticFront ofLiberia(NPFL)

Unknown0 1 LIBERIA. A peacekeeper was killedduring an attack by the NationalPatriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL).

3-Sep-92 FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Attacks were madeagainst two immigrant hostels inlower Saxony.


Unknown Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Attacks were madeagainst two immigrant hostels inlower Saxony.

3-Sep-92 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A neo-Nazi threw aMolotov cocktail into an immigranthostel near Berlin, forcing theevacuation of the 44 inhabitants.

4-Sep-92 Ho ChiMinhCity

Vietnam Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 VIETNAM. A hijacker with a knifehijacked a Vietnam Airlines Airbus300 as it was about to land in Ho ChiMinh City. The hijacker forced theplane to fly low so that he coulddistribute anti-government leaflets,then he parachuted out of the plane.The hijacker, a former SouthVietnamese fighter pilot andnaturalized U.S. citizen, was laterarrested.

5-Sep-92 LaGabarra

Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An American engineerand a Venezuelan translator werekidnapped by ELN guerrillas near LaGabarra. They were releasedunharmed on June 4, 1993 to a priestin the town of Tibu. It is reportedthat no ransom was paid.

11-Sep-92 Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown1 3 TURKEY. The PKK attacked a jointUS/Turkish Shell Oil facility. Theguerrillas, dressed in militaryuniforms, forced their way into theoffices and separated managers fromthe other staff. They then openedfire on the managers. Three peoplewere killed and a Dutch managerslightly wounded.

12-Sep-92 HemsbachFederalRepublicofGermany


2 0 GERMANY. Molotov cocktails werethrown into an immigrant shelter inHemsbach, injuring two youngchildren.


Other Unknown0 4 GERMANY. Four Kurdish politicianswere assassinated in a Berlin cafe.The Mujahedin immediately blamedIran, and claimed Rafsanjani directlymonitored the operation. TwoLebanese men were arrested andcharged with having assassinatedthe Kurds on orders from Iran.ADDENDUM. On 14 March 1996, theGerman prosecutor of this caseissued an international warrant forthe arrest of the information ministerof Iran (Ali Fallahian). On 10 April1996, a Berlin court convicted anIranian and four Lebanese men in thekillings. Furthermore, in mid- April1996, the former Iranian President(Abdolhassan Bani Sadr) stoodwitness in the murder trial of the fouropposition Kurds. He stated that theorder to kill came from PresidentRafsanjani and Iran's AyatollahKhamenei. His own life was underthreat during the trial when terroristsplotted to assassinate him inrevenge.In April 1997, Iran calledhome its ambassadors from 14European nations and all 15European Union countries recalledtheir ambassadors from Tehran.

18-Sep-92 PanamaCity

Panama SovereignPanamaFront(FPS)

Explosives2 0 PANAMA. A bomb exploded at theTocumen International Airport,injuring two people. The SovereignPanama Front (FPS) claimed attack.

21-Sep-92 Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. Kurds were suspected ofinvolvement in an incendiary attackon a Turkish Airline office in Paris.

22-Sep-92 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Firearms0 1 ISRAEL. A police officer was shot andkilled by a member of Hamas inJerusalem.

22-Sep-92 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb went off at the U.S.-owned bank of Boston. Bombs weredefused at a Coca-Cola factory, andthe U.S.-Turkish Koc-Amerikan Bankin west Istanbul.



22-Sep-92 Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was defused at theJapanese-Turkish automobilecompany Toyota-S.A.

23-Sep-92 San Jose CostaRica

CinchonerosPopularLiberationMovement

Firearms0 0 COSTA RICA. A man who claimed tobe affiliated with Honduras'Cinchoneros Popular LiberationMovement took four people hostagein San Jose. The gunmen heldhostage the Mexican Ambassador toCosta Rica, the Costa Rican PublicSecurity Minister, a HonduranCatholic Bishop and a Hondurancolonel. The Mexican Ambassadorwas released fairly quickly, but theothers were flown to Honduras wherethe Bishop and colonel werereleased. Security Minister LuisFishman was held for another 12hours after negotiations led to thehostage-taker's safe passage toMexico. The suspect, OrlandoOrdonez Betancourt, had beenseeking a pardon from rape, assaultand murder charges, and accordingto authorities was a criminal, not aterrorist.

23-Sep-92 Algeria IslamicSalvationFront(FIS)

Explosives0 0 ALGERIA. An FIS bomb went offoutside the offices of Swissair and AirAlgerie.

24-Sep-92 Prague CzechoslovakiaUnknown Firearms1 0 CZECHOSLOVAKIA. The Kuwaiticommercial attache was shot andwounded while on his way to work inPrague.

24-Sep-92 Sudan SudanPeople'sLiberationArmy(SPLA)

Firearms0 2 SUDAN. A Burmese UN aid workerand a Norwegian journalist werekilled by the Sudan People'sLiberation Army (SPLA). Theguerrillas claim the victims werekilled accidentally when caught incrossfire. The UN shut down its reliefefforts and evacuated personnel.

29-Sep-92 Pau France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A Basque group callingitself Fighter's Day detonatedfirebombs outside the SpanishConsulate in Pau.

30-Sep-92 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. A bomb went off outside theperimeter of the U.S. embassycompound in Sanaa.

1-Oct-92 Krakow Poland Unknown Unknown2 1 POLAND. Three German truckdrivers were attacked by ten ultra-rightist youths near Krakow. One ofthe truck drivers was killed in theattack.

2-Oct-92 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 1 PERU. An Italian missionary aidworker was killed by Sendero.

2-Oct-92 Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms3 0 EGYPT. Moslem militants of El-Gama'a el-Islamiya attacked a cruiseship carrying 140 German touristssouth of Cairo. While none of thetourists were injured, three crewmembers were shot. The attackoccurred 48 hours after radicalMoslems warned tourists to stayaway from the city of Luxor.

4-Oct-92 Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 TURKEY. PKK guerrillas attacked aUS-operated Mobil oil facility in thesoutheastern part of the country.

7-Oct-92 Santiago Chile Unknown Unknown0 0 CHILE. Between October 7 and 13there were six attacks againstMormon churches in Santiago andTalca.Note: Range of dates.




7-Oct-92 Talca Chile Unknown Unknown0 0 CHILE. Between October 7 and 13there were six attacks againstMormon churches in Santiago andTalca.Note : range of dates

7-Oct-92 Talca Chile Unknown Unknown0 0 CHILE. Between October 7 and 13there were six attacks againstMormon churches in Santiago andTalca.Note: range of dates

7-Oct-92 VaraderoBeach

Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CUBA. A luxury hotel which ispartially Spanish-owned was fired onfrom a boat at the beach resort ofVaradero. A Florida-based anti-Castro group was blamed.

9-Oct-92 Kuwait Other Unknown0 0 KUWAIT. Chad Hall, an Americanmunitions expert, was kidnappednear the border by Iraqi agents. Hallwas taken to Baghdad and releasedwithin 24 hours following intensepressure by the U.S. government.

9-Oct-92 MirafloresPeru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb damaged theSpanish-owned Exterbandes Bank inMiraflores.

10-Oct-92 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. The MRTA fired three rocketsinto the U.S. Ambassador's residencein Lima.

11-Oct-92 Qom Iran Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Unknown0 0 IRAN. The Iraq-based oppositionmovement Mujahideen-i-Khalq (MK)destroyed six Revolutionary Guardsvehicles in Qom.

12-Oct-92 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives0 0 GERMANY. A refugee housing facilityin Munich was bombed. There wereno casualties.

12-Oct-92 Hanover FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Petrol bombs werethrown at the Turkish Consulate inHanover by suspected Kurdishprotesters.

12-Oct-92 ManaguaNicaraguaUnknown Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. An explosive devicewent off by the U.S. Embassy inManagua.

12-Oct-92 Dahuk Iraq Unknown Firearms1 0 IRAQ. A Swiss Red Cross official wasshot and injured in Dahuk.



0 0 GERMANY. Petrol bombs werethrown at a Turkish travel agency, aTurkish bank and a cultural center inHanover. Kurdish protesterssuspected.







13-Oct-92 TheHague

NetherlandsUnknown Explosives0 0 THE NETHERLANDS. Bomb-disposalexperts were called to the U.S.Embassy in the Hague after asuspicious bag was discovered in aflower bed outside the embassy.Embassy officials refused tocomment.

13-Oct-92 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An Australian wasabducted from a bus en route to theAtlantic coast.

15-Oct-92 Tehran Iran Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Explosives0 0 IRAN. The Mujahideen-i-Khalq (MK)bombed a gas station in Tehran.

15-Oct-92 Tehran Iran Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Explosives0 0 IRAN. The Iraq-based Mujahideen-i-Khalq (MK) claimed credit for a bombthat went off at the Tehran office ofthe Revolutionary Guardscommander Major General MuhsinRezai. Although the building wasdestroyed, there were no casualties.

16-Oct-92 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 ISRAEL. An orthodox Jewishseminary student in Jerusalem wasstabbed and wounded by the IslamicResistance Movement (Hamas).

17-Oct-92 FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. A Vietnamese worker'shostel was attacked by 10 neo-Naziskinheads. Several people wereinjured and female residents weresexually assaulted. Four of theyouths were arrested.

18-Oct-92 Bangkok Thailand Other Explosives0 0 THAILAND. The Myanmar Embassywas bombed in Bangkok. A Thaiarmy corporal was arrested. Heapparently had wanted to discreditThailand's new civilian government.

21-Oct-92 Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Fire orFirebomb

2 1 EGYPT. El Gama'a el-Islamiyaclaimed credit for a machinegunattack on a tour bus. One Britishfemale was killed and two meninjured in the attack.

22-Oct-92 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


2 0 GERMANY. A Molotov cocktail wasthrown into an immigrant housingfacility in Hamburg. Two Lebanesebabies were made ill by smokeinhalation.

22-Oct-92 Bergen FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Molotov cocktails werethrown into a Vietnamese housingcomplex in Bergen.

23-Oct-92 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Firearms0 1 COLOMBIA. A British businessmanemployed by a subsidiary of theAmerican banana company StandardFruit was kidnapped by FARC. Hewas killed during a shootout withpolice three days later.

23-Oct-92 JerusalemIsrael DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ISRAEL. Israeli customs warehouseswere set fire to in East Jerusalem.The Democratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine claimedresponsibility.

24-Oct-92 SierraLeone

Other Unknown0 0 SIERRA LEONE. An American workingwith the Red Cross to help refugeeswas kidnapped during a rebel attackon Koidu diamond mining center.The victim was freed by his captorson November 29.

25-Oct-92 PortSaid

Egypt Other Knives& sharpobjects

3 0 EGYPT. Three Russian tourists werestabbed by a Moslem radical in theMediterranean City of Port Said.

30-Oct-92 Tokyo Japan Unknown Explosives0 0 JAPAN. An explosive device wasthrown onto the grounds of thePeruvian Embassy in Tokyo.

30-Oct-92 Luanda Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Firearms0 0 ANGOLA. UNITA opened fire on theInternational Airport in Luanda.

31-Oct-92 Liberia NationalPatrioticFront ofLiberia(NPFL)

Unknown0 9 LIBERIA. Five U.S. nuns and fourLiberian novitiates were murdered bymembers of the National PatrioticFront of Liberia (NPFL).

1-Nov-92 Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms10 0 EGYPT. Moslem fundamentalistsopened fire on a tour bus carryingChristians in the Nile Valley. Tenpeople were injured. El Gama'a al-Islamiyya claimed responsibility.

5-Nov-92 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Firearms0 0 CAMBODIA. A helicopter of theUnited Nations Transitional Authorityin Cambodia was fired on in thenorthwestern part of the country.The helicopter, crewed by Russiansand carrying Pakistani troops and anIndian soldier, made an emergencylanding. The Khmer Rouge wassuspected.

7-Nov-92 Kuwait Other Unknown0 0 KUWAIT. Iraqi troops were thwartedin their attempt to kidnap Americancontract employee William Smithnear the border. The victim wasemployed with the same company asChad Hall, kidnapped in October.

7-Nov-92 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA firebombed a Renaultdealership in Bilbao.

7-Nov-92 Ghana Other Explosives0 0 GHANA. A group calling itselfFafighan claimed responsibility for abomb that went off in a restroom atthe Kotoka International Airport.

8-Nov-92 Iraq Unknown Explosives2 0 IRAQ. A grenade exploded near a carowned by the British relief agency,Save the Children Fund. Two Kurdishguards were wounded.

8-Nov-92 Colombia SimonBolivarGuerillaCoordinatingBoard(CGSB)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. CGSB guerrillas attackeda jointly owned Colombian-Japanesecopper mine. All equipment wasdestroyed.

12-Nov-92

Qena Egypt Other Firearms8 0 EGYPT. Islamic fundamentalistsopened fire on a convoy of touristbuses in Qena, injuring eight Germantourists.

13-Nov-92

Spain Unknown Firearms1 1 SPAIN. Four masked gunmen brokeinto the remains of a discotequewhere a group of immigrants fromthe Dominican Republic were livingand opened fire. One woman waskilled and one man seriously injuredin the attack. An indiscriminate act ofxenophobic racism is how theSpanish Secretary of State forSecurity described the attack. Aninvestigation into the attack,believed carried out by right-wingextremists, is underway.

18-Nov-92

Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 TURKEY. A Mobil Oil facility wasattacked by the Kurdish WorkersParty.

19-Nov-92

BuenosAires

ArgentinaPeople'sRevolutionaryOrganization

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded at anATM outside a Bank of Boston branchin Buenos Aires. The People'sRevolutionary Organization claimedresponsibility.

20-Nov-92

Medellin Colombia Unknown Firearms1 0 COLOMBIA. A senior executive withRenault's subsidiary in Medellin wasshot at by three gunmen on foot.The victim was shot in the arm andleg. His chauffeur was unhurt.

20-Nov-92

BuenosAires

ArgentinaPeople'sRevolutionaryOrganization

Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb exploded in aparking lot across from Lloyds Bankin Buenos Aires. No one claimedresponsibility for this attack,although other banks attacked theday before had been claimed by thePeople's Revolutionary Organization.

21-Nov-92

Linz Austria Other Unknown7 0 AUSTRIA. 50 masked attackers,believed to be Kurds, attacked theopening of a new Turkish-owned barin Linz, injuring seven people. 19people were arrested.

22-Nov-92


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 TURKEY. A firebomb planted at theRussian Consulate was disarmed.The PKK claimed responsibility forthe bomb.

23-Nov-92

Moelln FederalRepublicofGermany


0 3 GERMANY. Two houses were setablaze in Moelln, killing two Turkishwomen and a ten-year old girl. Inreporting the fires to the firedepartment, a caller cried Heil Hitler.

30-Nov-92


1 0 ISRAEL. An Arab man stabbed anIsraeli in East Jerusalem. The manclaimed his attack was in retaliationfor injuries he personally hadreceived from Israeli troops.

1-Dec-92 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Unknown0 0 CAMBODIA. Six UN observers weretaken prisoner by Khmer Rougeguerrillas in central Kompong ThomProvince. The victims were releasedthree days later.

2-Dec-92 CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 CAMBODIA. Two UN vehicles hitlandmines in separate incidents,injuring five UN civil policemen.

2-Dec-92 CambodiaUnknown Explosives5 0 CAMBODIA. Two UN vehicles hitlandmines in separate incidents,injuring five UN civil policemen.

4-Dec-92 Medellin Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 1 COLOMBIA. The ELN attackedseveral airports and detonated abomb at Medellin International whichkilled a nightwatchman.

7-Dec-92 Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAQ. Bombs were discoveredhidden in UN relief trucks headed forthe northern Kurdish region.

7-Dec-92 Italy Unknown Fire orFirebomb

1 0 ITALY. A Somali refugee was setafire as he slept in a crude shelter.The victim was not seriously injured.

7-Dec-92 Amman Jordan Other Unknown0 1 JORDAN. An Iraqi nuclear engineerwas assassinated while in Ammanwith his family. The victim had beendue back to work last week, but wastrying to flee with his family to Libya.Iraqi agents are suspected.

15-Dec-92

Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Unknown0 1 ISRAEL. An Israeli policeman wasdiscovered dead after beingkidnapped by Hamas in an attemptto free their jailed leader, SheikAhmed Yassin.

16-Dec-92

Iraq Other Explosives0 0 IRAQ. Eight U.N. aid trucks weredestroyed by bombs in the northernpart of the country. Iraqi agentswere suspected.

17-Dec-92


Explosives0 0 CHILE. The Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front set off a bomb at anunoccupied Mormon church inSantiago's Renca district.

18-Dec-92

BelmopanBelize CinchonerosPopularLiberationMovement

Unknown0 0 BELIZE. El Salvador's consul generalwas kidnapped from her Belmopanoffice by the same suspect who hadheld four officials hostage in CostaRica in September (a man whoclaimed to be affiliated withHonduras' Cinchoneros PopularLiberation Movement.) The suspectwas killed by the authorities whenthey feared for the victim's safetyduring negotiations.

23-Dec-92

Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany


2 0 GERMANY. A Turkish woman and herbrother-in-law were injured when aChristmas package that was actuallya firebomb exploded in their faces inCologne.

25-Dec-92

SegbwemaSierraLeone

RevolutionaryUnitedFront(RUF)

Unknown0 8 SIERRA LEONE. Eight people werekilled when RUF guerrillas attacked aBritish-run hospital in Segbwema.

26-Dec-92


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso detonateda car bomb in front of the CostaRican embassy in Lima.

26-Dec-92


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso detonateda car bomb in front of the Austrianembassy in Lima.

27-Dec-92

Turkey Dev Sol Explosives0 1 TURKEY. Both the Turkish Peoples'Liberation Party Front and Dev-Solclaimed responsibility for a bombthat exploded on a tourist boat. A SriLankan was killed.

28-Dec-92


Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso detonateda car bomb near the Japanese andChinese embassies in Lima.

28-Dec-92

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Iranian Abbas Golizade waskidnapped in Istanbul. The victim, anIranian opposition activist, wasreportedly a bodyguard of the formerShah.

29-Dec-92

Aden Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. Bombs exploded at twohotels in Aden where U.S. Marineswere staying prior to being shippedto Somalia. An Austrian tourist andan employee of one of the hotelswere killed. A bomb in a third hotelwas safely defused.

29-Dec-92


29-Dec-92


31-Dec-92

Butare Rwanda Unknown Explosives7 0 RWANDA. Seven people were injuredwhen a bomb exploded in abathroom of a Belgian-owned hotel inButare.

2-Jan-93 Kismayu Somalia Unknown Unknown0 1 SOMALIA. An unknown assailantmurdered a British UNICEF worker ashe was walking home from the UNcompound in Kismayu. The victim,Sean Devereux, chief of Unicef'soperations in Kismayu was the firstrelief worker killed in Somalia sincetroops arrived to protect aidshipments.

3-Jan-93 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)


0 1 ISRAEL. A Shin Bet agent wasstabbed and bludgeoned to deathwith a hammer in West Jerusalemwhile on active duty. An Arabresident of the Ayda refugee camp, aHamas contact for the agent,pleaded guilty to the murder and wassentenced to life imprisonment. Hiscousin pleaded not guilty and is stillon trial. Another suspect remains atlarge.

3-Jan-93 Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. Hamas was responsible for asmall bomb that exploded on anEgged express bus. There were noinjuries.

4-Jan-93 MogadishuSomalia Unknown Firearms0 0 SOMALIA. An unknown assailant inMogadishu escaped after attemptingto shoot a UN officer in the face. Thepistol misfired.

5-Jan-93 Egypt Unknown Firearms0 0 EGYPT. Two tourist buses, one with20 Japanese on board the other withthree Germans, going from Luxor toCairo were fired upon by unkowngunmen near Dayrut. The convoy,which included police both aheadand behind the buses, was attackedby gunmen hiding on the banks of acanal. There were no injuries.

7-Jan-93 Cairo Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Explosives0 0 EGYPT. The al-Gama'at al-Islamiyyagroup claimed responsibility forthrowing an explosive device at therear of a bus carrying Germantourists to the Pyramids near Cairo.There were no injuries.

8-Jan-93 Uganda UgandaDemocraticChristianArmy(UDCA)

Unknown0 0 UGANDA. Rebels from the UgandaDemocratic Christian Army (UDCA)abducted three people from a touristhotel in the Murchison Falls NationalPark. The victims, Jamie Dowling,British; Pumi Singh, Indian; SamWabire, Uganda, were releasedunharmed on Jan 15, 1993.

10-Jan-93 StaryHrozenkov

CzechRepublic

Other Explosives0 0 CZECH/SLOVAKIA BORDER. Acustoms shed in Stary Hrozenkov, atthe newly created border of theCzech Republic and Slovakia, was thetarget of a bomb attack. Unknownbombers scrawled Up yours, Meciar,referring to the Slovak prime ministerwho provided the impetus for thesplit up of Czechoslovakia.

11-Jan-93 La Paz Bolivia TupacKatariGuerrillaArmy(EGTK)

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. The Tupac Katari GuerillaArmy (EGTK) threw a small bombfrom a passing car at the US Agencyfor International Development motorpool building in La Paz. This was thefirst known attack by this groupagainst an official US target.

13-Jan-93 MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms1 1 SOMLALIA. An American Marinebecame the first US casualty of theUN relief effort when he was fired onby a Somali sniper in a Mogadishusuburb. Another Marine waswounded in the attack.

14-Jan-93 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Gasoline was poured intoa ventilation shaft of the USConsulate in Hamburg and set onfire, causing minor damage. No oneclaimed responsibility for the act,however, a picture of the AyatollahKhomeini was found nearby.

15-Jan-93 Tel Aviv Israel PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)


4 1 ISRAEL. Four Israelis were stabbedby a Palestinian from the Gaza Stripin an attack at Tel Aviv's central busstation. The attacker was shot andkilled by a civilian. The attack wasclaimed by the Islamic Jihad Palestine(IJP).

15-Jan-93 AngKron

CambodiaKhmerRouge

Explosives2 3 CAMBODIA. A rocket and mortarattack preceeded a ground assaulton a United Nations TransitionalAuthority (UNTAC) barracks in AngKron. Two Cambodian womenemployed by UNTAC and a sevenyear old child were killed in theattack. The ground assault by four10-man teams using AK-47 riflesresulted in two UNTAC civilianpolicemen injured - an Indian and aGhanaian. A tent used to registervoters for the scheduled springelections was deliberately fired upon.It is suspected that the Khmer Rougeis responsible.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Two missiles struck thesecond floor of the Peruvian-American Cultural Institute indowntown Lima causing somedamage. The suspected MRTAterrorists escaped on motorcycles.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. A British PetroleumCompany camp was attacked by ELNrebels who burned and destroyedexploration equipment. This attackoccurred in the Cusiana I oil field inCasanares Department.

19-Jan-93 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Unknown0 0 CAMBODIA. Khmer Rouge guerillaskidnapped four UNTACpeacekeepers, including two Britons,in the Kompong Chnnang province.They were released unharmed twodays later.

21-Jan-93 Bogota Colombia Other Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A powerful car bombexploded outside a pizzeria in Bogotanear the US Ambassador's residence.The explosion damaged cars andbuildings in the area includingCitibank. The Medellin cocaine cartelis suspected.

21-Jan-93 Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A bomb attack against aKentucky Fried Chicken restaurantcaused moderate damage and nocasualties.

21-Jan-93 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 1 ANGOLA. UNITA rebels captured atleast 17 foreigners, including threeBritons, two Indonesians, and aGerman after seizing an oil companyin Soyo. Seven other foreigners areunaccounted for. One person, aFrenchman, was killed during theattack to seize the company.


Explosives4 2 PERU. A car bomb, with 300 kg ofdynamite and ammonium nitrate fueloil, exploded near the Coca-Colabottling plant in Lima, killing a guardfrom Lima Electric Power Enterprise,and injuring four others. The guardat the Coca-Cola plant was shot todeath by the terrorists before theyleft the van containing the bomb.The plant and other nearby factoriessuffered extensive damage. TheShining Path claimed credit.


Explosives0 0 PERU. Later in the day, a second carbomb damaged a Coca-Coladistribution center in Lima. Therewere no victims. The Shining Pathclaimed credit.


Firearms0 0 PERU. An American Airlines planefrom Miami was hit in the fuselage bythree rounds of small arms fire justafter landing in Lima's Jorge ChavezInternational Airport. The shots wereprobably fired from the Villa ElSalvador shantytown bordering theairport. The Shining Path claimedcredit for the shooting.

22-Jan-93 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives11 0 COLOMBIA. A car bomb explodednear the residence of the USAmbassador to Colombia. Elevenpeople were injured and extensivedamage was caused by the blast.

22-Jan-93 Kismayu Somalia Unknown Explosives10 0 SOMALIA. Five UN Belgian soldiersand five police officers were injuredwhen a grenade exploded outsidepolice headquarters in Kismayu.

22-Jan-93 Somalia Unknown Explosives1 0 SOMALIA. A grenade thrown into aUN Children's Fund (UNICEF)compound injured a Belgian soldier.

24-Jan-93 India Other Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 INDIA. A bomb plot by Sikh militantsagainst Republic Day celebrationsattended by John Major, the BritishPrime Minister, was foiled by Delhipolice. Four Sikh militants werearrested. They had planned to bombgovernment buildings using a remotecontrol device that allows multiplesimultaneous explosions.

24-Jan-93 Kismayu Somalia Other Firearms0 2 SOMALIA. A Belgian patrol was firedon from a house in Kismayu. TheBelgian patrol then surrounded thehouse, capturing four and killing twoof the Somali gunmen.

25-Jan-93 Langley UnitedStates

Other Firearms3 2 UNITED STATES. A gunmanapproached cars at the entrance ofthe CIA Virginia headquarters shortlybefore 8AM and randomly fired intoseveral cars with an AK-47 rifle. TwoCIA employees were killed and threeothers were wounded in the attack.The gunman escaped in a nearbycar. The suspect in the shooting is28-year-old Pakistani national MirAmal Kansi of Reston, VA. Apossible connection to a 1984assassination of a Pakistani politicianin Quetta is being investigated. Thesuspect, believed to be a member ofa prominent family of the Baluchitribe in southwestern Pakistanbordering Iran, entered the USillegally in 1991 and applied forpolitical asylum.ADDENDUM. Withthe secret help of Afghan citizensand the suspect's native Pakistan,Mir Amal Kansi (referred to himselfas Kasi) was located. On 17 June1997, he confessed to the crimeduring the long flight aboard militaryaircraft from a base in Pakistan toDulles airport, USA. If convicted, hefaces the death penalty. He wasconvicted in 1997 and sentenced todeath on one count and life onanother count. He was executed onNovember 15, 2002.

26-Jan-93 Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A 24 year old Cypriot wasarrested at the Beirut airport oncharges of possession of explosives.He was about to board a Middle EastAirlines flight to Larnaca, Cyprus.The suspect had half a stick ofdynamite and 50 grams of Semtex(another reports says it's 100 gramof C-4) concealed in a belt and hisluggage contained another eightsticks of dynamite inside a cassetterecorder. No detonators were found.Three Arab students in Cyprus weredetained for questioning. It isbelieved they were to receive theseexplosives.

26-Jan-93 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. A four ounce dynamite chargeexploded in the duty-free shop at theJorge Chavex International Airport inLima. Minor damage to the shopresulted, but no injuries werereported. Leftist guerillas aresuspected.

26-Jan-93 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 1 TURKEY. A well-known leftistjournalist, Ugur Mumcu, was killedwhen a bomb exploded under his carin Istanbul. He often criticizedIslamic fundamentalism in hiscolumns for Cumhuriyet newspaper.11 people were arrested. Amongthem were 4 Iranians and a Syrian. AKurdish separatist group and threeIslamic groups all claimed credit:Islamist Great Eastern Raiders Front,Islamic Liberation Organization, andthe Kurdish Workers Party (PKK).Mumcu is the thirteen Turkishjournalists to be murdered this year.Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel hassent a note to Terhran seekingclarification of reports that Iran waslinked to a wave of political murdersin turkey. The move came days afterInterior Minister Ismet Sezgindisclosed in a news conference that19 terrorist suspects rounded upafter the assassination of Mumcu,had admitted involvement in at leastfour previous murders.The suspects,all members of the Islamic ActionGroup, told police they receivedtraining in handling explosives andweapons, and in assassinations, in amilitary camp outside Qom, 75 miilessouth of Tehran.

27-Jan-93 RioOpon

Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A pipeline belonging tothe Texas Company was bombed byrebels near Rio Opon, San Vicente deChucuri Jurisdiction. About 3000barrels of oil were spilled.

28-Jan-93 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives25 0 PERU. A 300 kg ammonium nitratefuel oil car bomb exploded in front ofthe IBM building in the La Molinadistrict of Lima. Fifteen to twenty-five people were injured.

31-Jan-93 Panama December20TorrijistPatrioticVanguard(VPT-20)

Unknown0 1 PANAMA. Three Americanmissionaries were kidnapped byColombian guerrillas in the village ofPucuro in the Darien province nearthe Colombian border. They weretaken across the border to Columbia.The missionaries were with the NewTribes Mission, based in Sanford,Florida. They are David Mankins, 43,Mark Rich, 23, and Rick Tenenoff, 36.When the guerillas took the men,they left the wives and childrenbehind. A group called December 20Torrijist Patriotic Vanguard (VPT-20)claimed credit. They say they hadthe assistance of the 34th Front ofFARC and are holding themissionaries in Colombia. Theyaccuse the missionaries of being CIAagents and have been monitoringthem since September 1992. Anunconfirmed report states that FARCis demanding $3-5 million in ransom.

1-Feb-93 AfghanistanOther Unknown0 4 AFGHANISTAN. Unidentified gunmenambushed a two vehicle UN convoyon its way from Peshawar toJalalabad. Four people died in theattack; a British worker for the UNCenter for Human Settlements, aDutch water resources expert, andtwo Afghan drivers. An official withthe UN High Commissioner forRefugees escaped by jumping outand hiding in the bushes.Mujahideen guerrillas are suspected.

2-Feb-93 AfghanistanUnknown Unknown0 6 AFGHANISTAN. A UN convoy wasattacked in eastern Afghanistan. Sixpeople were killed - four UN workersand two Afghan drivers. No oneclaimed responsibility for the attack.

3-Feb-93 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Unknown0 0 YEMEN. A Japanese member of theJapan International CooperationAgency was kidnapped 40 miles eastof Sanaa. He escaped after 3 days.

4-Feb-93 Giza Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Explosives3 0 EGYPT. A bomb was thrown at a busas South Korean tourist wereboarding outside the Europa Hotel inGiza, near the Pyramids. Threetourists were slightly injured. TheMuslim extremist group al-Jama'a al-Islamiyah claimed responsibility.Two men were arrested.

6-Feb-93 VenezuelaOther Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. A tourist plane washijacked with one Canadian and oneAmerican and the Venezuelan pilotaboard. Four hijackers forced theirway onto the plane heavily armed.They left behind five other Americanpassengers due to weightrestrictions. It is suspected that theyare narcoguerrillas.

9-Feb-93 Egypt Unknown Firearms0 0 EGYPT. A bus carrying 36 Germantourists from Cairo to Luxor was firedupon from across the Al-Ibrahimiyacanal near the town of Dayrut whileunder police escort. There were nocasualties.

16-Feb-93 Asyut Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms0 0 EGYPT. A bus carrying Germantourists was fired upon by suspectedMuslim extremists near Asyut on itsway to Cairo. There were no injuries.

18-Feb-93 Belgrade Serbia Unknown Other 0 0 SERBIA. Unidentified youths threwbricks through the windows of boththe US and German Cultural Centersin Belgrade. One of the bricks waswrapped in the message Death toAmerican S. shit. There were noinjuries.

21-Feb-93 Zurich SwitzerlandGroup oftheMartyrsMostafaSadekiand AliZadeh

Explosives0 0 SWITZERLAND. The BioengineeringAG plant in Zurich was bombed by analleged Iranian group calling itselfthe Group of the Martyrs MostafaSadeki and Ali Zadeh because theyhad provided supplies for biologicalweapons to Iran.

22-Feb-93 Somalia Unknown Firearms0 1 SOMALIA. An Irish nurse with thecharity Concern was shot and killedby gunmen near the bandit-plaguedtown of Afgoi. She was driving in athree-car convoy to Baidoa whenfired upon.

23-Feb-93 Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. A Jordanian UN observerwas kidnapped in Cabinda by theFront for the Liberation of theEnclave of Cabinda (FLEC). Thevictim was freed on March 17, 1993.

24-Feb-93 Kwangju Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Hundreds of militantstudents attacked the US CulturalCenter in Kwangju with 200 Molotovcocktails. They were protesting theTEAM SPIRIT military exercises by USand Korean troops and pressure fromthe US for Korea to open its ricemarkets.

25-Feb-93 Thailand PattaniUnitedLiberationOrganization(PULO)

Explosives0 0 THAILAND. A small bomb explodedoutside an American-run oil depot inSongkla Province, near the border ofMalaysia. There were no injuries ordamage. The device was similar tothe one that caused the explosion atHat Yai railway station in August1992 by the Muslim separatistsPattani United Liberation Front.


UnitedStates

LiberationArmyFifthBattalion

Explosives1042 6 UNITED STATES. The World TradeCenter in Manhattan suffered a bombexplosion in the parking garage thatkilled 6 and injured 1042. The noon-time blast caused serious damage aswell. Six days after the bombing,police arrested Mohammed Salamehas he was trying to get the depositback for the van he rented to use asa car bomb. He is a member of themosque in Jersey City led by SheikOmar Abdul Rahman, a radicalEgyptian cleric. Also arrested wasIbrahim Elgabrowny, a cousin of ElSayyid Nosair, Kahane's assassin;Nidal Ayyad; Mahmud Abouhalima,probably the mastermind; BilalAlkaisi; Ramzi Ahmed Yousef; andMohammed Ahmed Ajaj. A groupcalling itself the Liberation Army FifthBattalion claimed responsibility forthe bombing in a letter sent to theNew York Times. They call for an endto US relations with Israel and an endto US interfering in Middle Easternaffairs. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef,accused of being the mastermindbehind the bombing, was arrested inPakistan and brought back to the US.ADDINFO: Ramzi Ahmed Yousef wassentenced to life plus 240 years inprison on 8 January 1998. He wasalso fined $4.5 million plus more forrestitution. He stated I am a terroristand I am proud of it when thesentence was handed down in court.The sentence applied to both theWorld Trade Center and the plan tocarry out bombings on 11 or 12aircraft.Four other suspects wereconvicted on March 4, 1994 on the38 counts against them. They weresentenced to 240 years plus largefines on May 25, 1994.The sixthsuspect was convicted in Nov 1997and sentenced in April 1998 to 240years plus a fine of $10 million.

26-Feb-93 Cairo Egypt EgyptianIslamicJihad

Explosives20 4 EGYPT. A bomb exploded in a Cairocafe killing a Swede, Turk, Somaliand Egyptian. The bomb also injured20 people including two Americans, aSomali, a Canadian, two French, aTurk, and three Palestinians. It was ahomemade bomb with a timingdevice triggering two sticks ofdynamite. It was hidden in a jacketwhich was then left hanging on achair. The materials in the bomb arethe same as those used by Muslimfundamentalists attacking tourists inEgypt. Five members of the al-JihadOrganization were arrested. Alsoarrested was Khalid Harun, aSudanese national.

27-Feb-93 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A car bomb was found anddisarmed at a Nissan car dealershipin Lima.

1-Mar-93 Tel Aviv Israel Hizballah Knives& sharpobjects

7 2 ISRAEL. Islamic Jihad claimedresponsibility for the stabbing deathof two Israelis in Tel Aviv. Sevenothers were wounded. On May 13,1993 a Palestinian received two lifesentences with an additional 200years for the crime.


1 0 ISRAEL. An Israeli security guard wasstabbed by a West Bank Palestinianwoman in East Jerusalem whileguarding the seminary of the Jewishextremist Ateret Cohenimorganisation.

3-Mar-93 Belgrade Serbia Unknown Explosives0 0 SERBIA. A grenade was thrown atthe US Embassy in Belgrade late atnight. There were no injuries andonly minor damage.

3-Mar-93 Uganda Other Firearms2 0 UGANDA. An American aid workerand a companion (nationalityunstated) were shot by Ugandanrebels who are attempting tooverthrow the government. Bothsurvived.


Other Unknown0 2 UNITED KINGDOM. Two Chechnianswere assassinated in London bysuspected agents of the Russiansecurity forces. One report claimsthey were leading Chechnianpoliticians and were killed byArmenian hit-men.

7-Mar-93 Lebanon PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Unknown0 1 LEBANON. PFLP-GC kidnapped thenexecuted an Israeli soldier. This wasin retaliation for not allowingPalestinian deportees to return to theWest Bank and Gaza.

7-Mar-93 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. The Turkish Consulate inHamburg was firebombed andvandalized by a group of 15 people.

8-Mar-93 San Jose CostaRica

Other Firearms0 0 COSTA RICA. Rightists callingthemselves Yolaina Command andarmed with AK-47 rifles invaded theNicaraguan Embassy and took 25people hostage, including theNicaraguan Ambassador to CostaRica. They demanded $6 million andthat Chamorro oust Sandinistaleftists from the government. Twohostages were release on March 11.Five more hostages were released onMarch 19. The siege ended whenfive gunmen walked out of theEmbassy on March 21 at 1:00 AMafter obtaining a ransom of $250,000and releasing the remaininghostages. Three of the suspectswere flown to Nicaragua and theleaders, Contra Jose Manuel UrbinaLara, and Guillermo Oporto Reyeswere flown to the DominicanRepublic.ADDENDUM. Contra JoseManuel Urbina Lara was arrested inManagua's international airport as hearrived on a flight from Panama on31 January 1997. He will be broughtbefore a Nicaraguan court.

10-Mar-93 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. A bomb exploded near theBritish Embassy in the capital city ofSanaa at 2:00 AM. The outer fenceof the Embassy was destroyed.

11-Mar-93 Beirut Lebanon RevolutionaryOutburstMovement

Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Dynamite was thrown atthe Kuwaiti Embassy in Beirut. Noinjuries were reported. Two groupsclaimed responsibility: a previouslyunknown group calling itselfRevolutionary Outburst Movement(Harakat al-Intilaqah al-Thawriyah);and another unknown group calledthe Arab Revolutionary ResurgenceMovement (harakat al-madd al-thawri al-arabi). A handwrittenstatement said the attack was awarning to Zionist and Americanenemies along with treacherous Arabregimes and an expression of theirdetermination.

12-Mar-93 Bombay India Other Explosives1200 317 INDIA. Within three hours in the cityof Bombay, 13 bombs explodedaround the city. Targeted were theBombay Stock Exchange, theheadquarters of India's airline, andthree luxury hotels. At least 317people died and 1200 were injured.Two main suspects fled to Dubai,UAE. There is evidence thatPakistani Islamic extremists wereimplicated in the bombings. No onehas claimed credit.

13-Mar-93 KuwaitCity

Kuwait Unknown Explosives0 0 KUWAIT. Two time bombs explodednear the Holiday Inn Hotel in al-Farwaniyah Governorate of KuwaitCity. There were no casualties.

15-Mar-93 al-Sulaymaniyah

Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAQ. A time bomb of 8kgs of TNTwas found and defused in a handcartin front of the UN observers'headquarters in al-Sulaymaniyah. Itwas set to go off after 20 minutes.

15-Mar-93 Israel Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 ISRAEL. A Palestinian was stabbedwhile visiting with a Jewish American.

16-Mar-93 Cairo Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A bomb exploded in anempty tour bus parked outside theEgyptian Museum on al-Tahrir Squarein Cairo. The explosion left a craterin the street and damaged five busesbut there were no injuries. TheIslamic Group, al-Jama'a al-Islamiyawas responsible. They wereavenging the massacre of unarmedfaithful at Al-Rahman mosque inAswan the previous week.

16-Mar-93 Rome Italy Other Firearms0 1 ITALY. The director of the Romeoffice of the Iranian opposition groupcalled National Council Resistance,Mohammed Hussein Naghdi, wasshot and killed by assassins onmotorbikes. The group blames theassassination on terrorists employedby the Iranian government. Thevictim had recently received threatsreminding him of the death sentenceissued against him by the AyatollahKhomeini.

20-Mar-93 China,People'sRepublicof

Other Unknown0 1 CHINA. A senior member of thedissident National CoalitionGovernment of the Union of Burma,was assassinated in his hotel room inChina by suspected Burmese agents.

22-Mar-93 al-Sulaymaniyah

Iraq Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 1 IRAQ. A Handicap Internationalvehicle was attacked by gunfire fromanother vehicle on the road nearSulamaniya. A Belgian aid workerwas killed.

22-Mar-93 La Paz Bolivia TupacKatariGuerrillaArmy(EGTK)

Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. A bomb exploded at the ElAlto Mormon Church near La Paz.The Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army(EGTK) claimed responsibility. TheEGTK was thought to be defunct.This is the first time the EGTKattacked a US target.


6 0 ISRAEL. A Palestinian wounded sixpeople with a large kitchen knife ashe ran through the yard of John F.Kennedy Technical School slashingthose near him as he shouted God isgreat!. The attacker, NasserChkierat, 25, was recently releasefrom prison after serving 18 monthsfor firebombing cars. Rioting by 200students in the streets near theschool followed the attack. Therioters were shouting Death to theArabs!. The rioting spread intocentral Jerusalem in the evening.

25-Mar-93 Brazil Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BRAZIL. The German Consulate inBelo Horizonte was the target of aMolotov cocktail attack. Anunidentified man forced his way intothe consulate and threw the bomb ina bathroom, shouting This is aprotest!.

28-Mar-93 NewDelhi

India Other Other 0 0 INDIA. An Indian Airlines plane washijacked shortly after takeoff fromNew Delhi by a Hindu manpretending to have explosivesstrapped to his body. He ordered thepilot to fly to Pakistan where it wasdenied permission to land. The planethen flew to Amritsar and landedthere. He released all the passengersunharmed and surrendered himselfafter five hours of negotiation. Hewas protesting the Hindu-Muslimviolence in India.

28-Mar-93 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Explosives0 1 CAMBODIA. A Bangladeshi soldierwas killed in an attack with mortarshells on a peacekeeper battalion innorthwestern Cambodia. KhmerRouge guerillas are suspected.

29-Mar-93 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 2 ANGOLA. UNITA rebels reportedlykilled a Briton and a South African asthey were guarding the Soyo oilinstallation.

29-Mar-93 Tel Aviv Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Unknown0 2 ISRAEL. Members of Hamas killedtwo traffic policemen in Tel Aviv.

1-Apr-93 PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. A road constructionproject by a US company was raidedby suspected Moro Islamic LiberationFront guerrillas who destroyedequipment but caused no injuries.Local officials say the rebels wereangry that they were not consultedabout the road.

2-Apr-93 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Firearms3 3 CAMBODIA. Khmer Rouge guerrillasshot and killed three Bulgarian UNpeacekeepers in the Kompong Speuprovince. After having a mealtogether, one guerrilla left and cameback with 10 more rebels whoopened fire on the Bulgarian soldiers.Three other soldiers were seriouslyinjured. The Khmer Rouge leaderdenied responsibility for the attack.

8-Apr-93 Egypt Unknown Firearms0 0 EGYPT. A cruise boat on the Nilecarrying 41 German tourists wasfired upon near El-Qusiya south ofCairo. There were no injuries.

8-Apr-93 CambodiaUnknown Firearms0 0 CAMBODIA. A Japanese UN volunteerand his interpreter were shot dead inan attack in Kompong Thomprovince. He was a supervisor forthe UN-sponsored election.

11-Apr-93 Cairo Egypt Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 EGYPT. Five gasoline bombs werefound on a tour bus carrying 50German tourists in Cairo. They wereremoved without incident.

12-Apr-93 Lima Peru Unknown Firearms0 0 PERU. The Spanish Ambassador'sresidence was attacked by machinegun fire in Lima.

13-Apr-93 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives2 3 LEBANON. A bomb killed three Israelisoldiers and wounded two others in aroadside ambush by Iraniansupported guerrillas, Hezbollah, insouthern Lebanon.

18-Apr-93 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Firearms0 0 ANGOLA. A UN-chartered cargoplane was fired upon by rebels of theNational Union for the TotalIndependence of Angola. The attackoccurred as the plane was landing inMbanza Congo.

19-Apr-93 NewOral

CambodiaKhmerRouge

Explosives5 1 CAMBODIA. A UN armored personnelcarrier was hit by a Khmer Rougeanti-tank grenade killing a Bulgariansoldier in New Oral in the KompongSpeu province. Five others wereinjured.

23-Apr-93 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded whilebeing carried by a man near theBritish Consulate in Istanbul. Theman shouted slogans of an illegalleftist group as he was beingarrested. Police found a gun and alight-anti-tank rocket in the bag.

23-Apr-93 AfghanistanOther Unknown0 0 AFGHANISTAN. Three diplomats -from Germany, the Netherlands andGreat Britain - were kidnapped byAfghan guerrilla commander, GhulamNabu Noorizai after straying intoAfghanistan after a visit to Quetta,Baluchistan. They were released onMay 13, 1993 after Pakistani officialsrefused to trade two of Noorzai'smen, held on gun-running charges inPakistan, for them.

26-Apr-93 Yangon Burma(Myanmar)

All BurmaStudents'DemocraticFront(ABSDF)

Explosives0 0 BURMA/MYANMAR. A homemadebomb exploded in an arbor near theChinese Embassy in Yangon.Suspected insurgents with links to AllBurma Students' Democratic Front(ABSDF) and New Mon State Party(NMSP) Mon terrorist organizationswere arrested in August 93 forplanting the bomb.

26-Apr-93 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Firearms0 1 ANGOLA. UNITA rebel forces shotdown a UN plane carrying food toLuena. The Russian pilot was killedby a mine when the plane crashed.

1-May-93 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 2 PERU. A Swiss man and an Austrianwoman, both tourists, were founddead in the Andean highlands on July7, 1993. They had been missingsince May 1993. The bodies showedsigns of torture. Authorities believethat they were victims of SenderoLuminoso guerrillas who thoughtthey were spies.Note: Date isapproximate.

1-May-93 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded at theChinese Embassy in Santiago.

1-May-93 Seville Spain Unknown Unknown1 0 SPAIN. An African-American studentwas attacked by a group ofskinheads in Seville.

1-May-93 France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE/SPAIN. The Basqueseparatist group Iparretarrakbombed a natural gas pipeline thatwas under construction in thePyrenees. It caused little damage.

1-May-93 BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. Two bombs explodedoutside the French Bank in BuenosAires. Another two unexplodedbombs were found and defused atthe scene. There were no injuries.

1-May-93 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 1 LEBANON. A Hezbollah bomb on theroad near Arnoun killed one Israelisoldier when it exploded as a patrolpassed by.

3-May-93 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Explosives5 0 CAMBODIA. Five Indian UN soldierswere wounded when their convoy ofUN vehicles was attacked by KhmerRouge guerrillas with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles inKompong Cham Province.

4-May-93 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Unknown6 3 CAMBODIA. Three Japanese UNsoldiers were killed when theirconvoy was ambushed by NADK orKhmer Rouge members. AnotherJapanese soldier and five Dutchsoldiers were wounded.

5-May-93 LagoAgrio

Ecuador Unknown Firearms0 0 ECUADOR. Three Americanemployees of Willbros, USApetroleum company of Oklahomawere kidnapped by armed men nearLago Agrio, near the Colombianborder. One of them escaped soonafter being kidnapped. One wasreleased in early June 1993 and thelast one was freed on June 27, 1993.There's some speculation thatColombian guerrillas are responsible.The company has reported they hadno contact with the kidnappers anddid not pay a ransom.

13-May-93

MogadishuSomalia Unknown Unknown0 1 SOMALIA. A Moroccan UN soldierwas killed near Mogadishu in anambush.

14-May-93

Santiago Chile Unknown Firearms0 0 CHILE. Two Carabineros guardingthe entrance to the US Consulate inSantiago were fired on by unknowngunmen. The officers were notinjured.

15-May-93

Santiago Chile Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. A Mormon Church in Santiagowas burned down in an arson attackby two men and a woman of theMAPU Lautaro group.

18-May-93

Lebanon Other Unknown1 1 LEBANON. One Israeli soldier waskilled and another wounded by pro-Iranian fighters in southern Lebanon.

19-May-93


Explosives0 0 PERU. A car bomb of dynamite andammonium nitrate fuel oil explodedin front of the Chilean Embassy at0800. There was little damage andno injuries, mostly due to the failureof the ammonium nitrate to explode.This incident occurred during the lastof the three day armed strike calledby the Shining Path.

20-May-93


Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb exploded outside ofthe Chinese Embassy in Santiago.There were no injuries. The ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front claimedresponsibility for this and sevenother bombs that they plantedthroughout Santiago.

22-May-93

CambodiaOther Unknown0 2 CAMBODIA. Two Chinese soldierswith the UN forces were killed in anattack in Kompong Cham province byNADK members.

24-May-93

Canada UgandaDemocraticChristianArmy(UDCA)

Firearms0 2 UGANDA. A Canadian researcherwas shot dead along with a Ugandancolleague by suspectedfundamentalist Ugandan ChristianDemocratic Army members.

25-May-93

Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Two American employees ofa US oil company were kidnapped byHashed tribesmen to try to preventthe executions of fellow tribesmenconvicted of robbery and murder.The executions were postponed afterthe kidnapping. They were releasedon May 29, 1993 after negotiationsbetween the Yemeni governmentand Hashed tribesmen.

28-May-93


Explosives0 0 CHILE. A Mormon Church was one ofnine targets of bomb attacksthroughout Santiago. There were noinjuries. The bombings wereattributed to Manuel RodriguezPatriotic Front (FPMR) AutonomousFaction.

29-May-93

SanJacinto

Colombia PopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. The Popular LiberationArmy kidnapped and murdered aSpanish priest in San Jacinto.

31-May-93

CambodiaKhmerRouge

Unknown3 1 CAMBODIA. A Uruguayan UNpeacekeeper was killed whensuspected Khmer Rouge guerrillasattacked a UN truck and jeep. TwoUruguayans and a Pole werewounded. {He was the 60th UNTACto be killed during peacekeepingoperations.}

1-Jun-93 Serbia Unknown Explosives0 0 YUGOSLAVIA (FORMER). A grenadeexploded after being thrown into theyard of the Bulgarian Embassy.There were no injuries or damagecaused by the grenade which landedin the grass.

7-Jun-93 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Two Japanese-Peruvian ownedbusinesses in Lima were bombed byTupac Amaru RevolutionaryMovement terrorists. The attacksfollowed a visit to Japan by PresidentAlberto Fujimori.

7-Jun-93 Lima Peru TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Two Japanese-Peruvian ownedbusinesses in Lima were bombed byTupac Amaru RevolutionaryMovement terrorists. The attacksfollowed a visit to Japan by PresidentAlberto Fujimori.

7-Jun-93 Cairo Egypt Unknown Explosives14 1 EGYPT. A bomb thrown at a tour busin Cairo killed one and injured 14people, including five Britons. TheEgyptian that was killed was in thecar behind the bus.

8-Jun-93 Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)


15 1 EGYPT. A bomb, planted on a bicyclethat was left in a tunnel on the wayto the Pyramids, exploded by remotecontrol as a tourist bus entered thetunnel. Another report says that thebomb was dropped from a flyoveronto the bus. One person was killedand 15 were wounded, including sixBritish tourists. The police arrested25 Muslim militant suspects.

10-Jun-93 NewcastleUnitedKingdom


Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Three explosionsoccurred at the British ESSO oilrefinery in Newcastle.

10-Jun-93 Pursat CambodiaKhmerRouge

Unknown0 0 CAMBODIA. A British volunteer withthe Halo Trust, which conducts mine-clearing operations, was kidnappedalong with his driver and interpreterby Khmer Rouge guerrillas nearPursat. The 16 Cambodianmineclearers that accompanied themwere released.

11-Jun-93 Zenica Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Unknown0 2 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. Croat forceskilled an Iranian diplomat and hisaide near Zenica. The diplomat wasdirector of the Iranian HumanitarianCenter for Providing Aid to Bosnia.

15-Jun-93 Paris France Dev Sol Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A gun battle in a Paris barbetween rival factions of Dev Solresulted in the death of a Dev Solmember. Three Turks were arrested.

21-Jun-93 Madrid Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives3 0 SPAIN. A powerful car bombexploded near the US Embassy inMadrid. Three people were injured.ETA is suspected of planting the 90lbbomb.

21-Jun-93 Pakistan Other Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. Two Chinese hydrologistswere kidnapped by Afghani MullahAbdul Salam Rocketi in westernPakistan. Salam is demanding thereturn of three Stinger missiles thatwere seized by Pakistani authorities,6 million rupees and the release ofhis brother imprisoned in Pakistan ongun-running charges. He has takenthe captives to Afghanistan. The twoChinese hostages were releasedalong with eight Pakistanis on 22 July1994 after negotiations by Pakistaniand Saudi officials.

24-Jun-93 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany

KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives0 0 GERMANY. A group of Kurdishmilitants, some of them members ofthe PKK, took over the TurkishConsulate in Munich threatening tokill the 21 hostages and blow up thebuilding. They released the hostagesand surrendered after 14 hours ofnegotiations with no concessions.



Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Six Turkish offices inMunich were damaged in attacks byPKK members. A Turkish bank and aTurkish private airline company wereamong the victims.
















24-Jun-93 KarlsruheFederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown6 0 GERMANY. The Turkish consulate inKarlsruhe in southern Germany wasblockaded by Kurds. The Kurds werethen attacked by a group of Turks.Six people were injured in theskirmish and 100 were arrested.

24-Jun-93 MannheimFederalRepublicofGermany


Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Five or six PKK membersattacked a Turkish bank in Mannheimdestroying part of the interior.

24-Jun-93 Bern SwitzerlandOther Unknown7 1 SWITZERLAND. Kurdish militantsattacked the Turkish Embassy inBern. One Kurd was killed and sevenother people were injured in theshootout.

24-Jun-93 Zurich SwitzerlandKurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 SWITZERLAND. The TurkishConsulate in Zurich was attacked byPKK members.

24-Jun-93 Geneva SwitzerlandKurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 SWITZERLAND. The TurkishConsulate in Geneva was attacked byPKK members.

24-Jun-93 Paris France Other Unknown0 0 FRANCE. At least six differentTurkish targets in Paris have beenattacked. Kurdish separatist aresuspected.

24-Jun-93 Paris France Other Unknown0 0 FRANCE. At least six differentTurkish targets in Paris have beenattacked. Kurdish separatists aresuspected.



24-Jun-93 Paris France KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 FRANCE. At least six differentTurkish targets in Paris have beenattacked. Kurdish separatists aresuspected.


24-Jun-93 Marseille France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Five Kurdish militants tookover the Turkish Consulate inMarseilles with tear-gas grenadestaking 10 hostages. They releasedthe hostages and surrendered after 3hours of negotiation.

24-Jun-93 Lyon France Other Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Suspected Kurdishmilitants attacked the offices ofTurkish Airlines in Lyon.

24-Jun-93 Lyon France Other Unknown0 0 FRANCE. Suspected Kurdishmilitants attacked the House ofTurkey in Lyon.


Other Unknown1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Kurdish militantsattacked a Turkish bank in Londoncausing much damage. 24 Kurdswere arrested in the attack.

24-Jun-93 StockholmSweden KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 SWEDEN. Turkish airline and tourismoffices in Stockholm were attackedby PKK guerrillas.

24-Jun-93 CopenhagenDenmark KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 DENMARK. Turkish airline andtourism offices in Copenhagen wereattacked by PKK guerrillas.

27-Jun-93 MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms1 0 SOMALIA. A UN Pakistani soldier wasshot and wounded by Somali snipersin Mogadishu.

27-Jun-93 MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms2 0 SOMALIA. Two UN US soldiers werewounded in an attack by Somalisnipers in Mogadishu.

27-Jun-93 Antalya Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives26 0 TURKEY. A tourist hotel in Antalyawas the target of a bomb which wasthrown onto the grounds. 26 peoplewere injured including Germans,Swedes, and a Finn. PKK issuspected, especially because theywarned of such attacks after beingspurned by the government during aself-imposed truce.

29-Jun-93 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 0 LEBANON. Hezbollah membersexploded a bomb on the roadside asan IDF patrol passed by. There wereno injuries.

1-Jul-93 Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 TURKEY. The PKK kidnapped fourFrench tourists from their bus insoutheast Turkey. They said theywould be held until the Turkishgovernment ceased operationsagainst them.

1-Jul-93 JerusalemIsrael Other Firearms3 3 ISRAEL. Three Palestinians, fromJabalya refugee camp, startedshooting soon after boarding a bus inJerusalem in an attempt to hijack thebus. One passenger was killed andtwo were injured as was the thirdhijacker. The hijackers were thenoverpowered by the bus driver. Twohijackers escaped by kidnapping awoman, forcing her to drive themaway. The hijackers shot the womanwhen they were approaching aroadblock. Soldiers then opened fireon the car, which crashed into a treeand burned.

1-Jul-93 Yokota Japan RevolutionaryWorkers'Council(Kakurokyo)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Yokota Air Base,headquarters of the US Forces Japanand US Fifth Air Force, was the targetof a rocket attack. The missile fellshort of the Air Base, damaging anearby apartment building butcausing no injuries. The ultraleftistRevolutionary Worker's Council(Kakurokyo) claimed responsibilityfor the attack and stated that it wasthe first attack to crush the Tokyosummit.

1-Jul-93 MogadishuSomalia Other Unknown26 3 SOMALIA. Italian UN peacekeepingtroops were ambushed aftersearching a suspected weaponsstorehouse in Mogadishu by Aididsupporters. Three soldiers werekilled and 22 were injured, as well asfour Somali policemen.

2-Jul-93 Krakow Poland Other Explosives0 0 POLAND. A bomb was found in theCzech Consulate-General in Krakowafter a bomb threat was called in tothe police. The caller claimed to be amember of the National Front ofSlovakia.

3-Jul-93 Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives1 0 JORDAN. A bomb that was plantedin the car of a PLO official, woundedthe bomber when it explodedprematurely. The target was Abu-Yusfuf al-Wahidi. This occurred in al-Baq'ah Camp outside of Amman.

4-Jul-93 Maputo MozambiqueOther Unknown3 0 MOZAMBIQUE. A Mozambiquan manhijacked a commuter plane inMaputo and demanded to fly toAustralia. The plane landed inJohannesburg to refuel and two crewmembers were released. Shortlyafter the plane took off, negotiatorstalked him into allowing the plane toland. Special forces stormed theplane and seized the hijacker. Thehijacker, pilot and only passengerwere injured.


Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Two cousins, one Britishand the other Australian, werekidnapped by PKK guerrillas whilethey were touring southeasternTurkey on bicycles. They werereleased on August 10, 1993 nearGuroymak.


1 0 ISRAEL. A suspected Palestinianterrorist stabbed an Israeli woman inWest Jerusalem.

7-Jul-93 Tokyo Japan RevolutionaryWorkers'Council(Kakurokyo)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Camp Zama, a US Armyfacility near Tokyo, was the target ofseveral projectile attacks. Slightdamage occurred at the main gate tothe base but there were no injuries.It occurred hours before thebeginning of the G-7 summit. Theultraleftist Kakurokyo group issuspected of perpetrating the attack.

7-Jul-93 Osaka Japan RevolutionaryWorkers'Council(Kakurokyo)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Suspected radicals of theKakurokyo group bombed a UnitedNations Environment Program site atthe International Garden andGreenery Exposition Osaka '90 park.There was damage to the buildingbut no injuries occurred.

8-Jul-93 Lebanon PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine,Ge

Explosives3 2 LEBANON. The PFLP-GC detonated abomb under an Israeli convoy insouthern Lebanon near Jarmaq,killing two soldiers and woundingthree others.

8-Jul-93 BucaramangaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An Italian honoraryconsul was kidnapped by twosuspected ELN guerrillas inBucaramanga.

24-Jul-93 Turkey Other Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Four French tourists werekidnapped from a tour bus byKurdish rebels. They were releasedon August 9, 1993.

24-Jul-93 Nigeria Unknown Firearms2 1 NIGERIA. A Michelin Company worksite in Port Harcourt was attacked by15 armed men. One guard was killedand two others were wounded.

25-Jul-93 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives4 0 TURKEY. A small bomb hidden in atrash can near an ATM, explodednear the Haya Sophia CathedralMuseum in Istanbul. Three touristsand one local were injured. Kurdishmilitants suspected.

26-Jul-93 TalcahuanaChile Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. Unknown attackers threwMolotov cocktails in a Mormonchurch in Talcahuano.


Explosives7 1 PERU. Police shot at suspectedShining Path guerrillas as theypushed a van loaded with 330pounds of explosives outside of theUS Embassy in Lima. The explosioncaused heavy damage tosurrounding property. Five peoplewere injured in the blast and twopolicemen were injured in theshootout. One person was killed inthe crossfire.

30-Jul-93 Turkey Unknown Explosives18 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in a trashcan on a street in Kusadasi injuringeighteen people, including six foreigntourists.

30-Jul-93 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 VENEZUELA. A bomb exploded justoutside of the Colombian Embassy inCaracas. There were no injuries.

2-Aug-93 Saint-Jean-de-Luz


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A gas cannister bombexploded outside an accommodationagency in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.Iparretarrak, a Basque separatistgroup, is suspected. There were noinjuries.

2-Aug-93 Dahuk Iraq Other Explosives0 0 IRAQ. A bomb exploded near a UNpost in Dahuk. It is suspected thatthe regime's agents planted thebomb.

3-Aug-93 Pulheim FederalRepublicofGermany


3 0 GERMANY. A Turkish restaurant inPulheim was the target of an arsonattack. Three people were injured.Swastikas were spray painted at thelocation. The building was completelyburned down.

5-Aug-93 Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Unknown0 1 ISRAEL. An IDF soldier waskidnapped and murdered north ofJerusalem by Hamas members whowere driving a van with whom thesoldier had caught a ride. The bodyof the soldier was later found in theburnt out van. Hamas released aleaflet claiming responsibility anddetailing the murder.

8-Aug-93 MogadishuSomalia Other Explosives0 4 SOMALIA. Four US soldiers who arepart of the UN force in Somalia, werekilled when a bomb/land mineexploded under their vehicle whiletraveling on a busy road inMogadishu. The convoy was thenfired upon. Aidid forces aresuspected of being responsible forthe attack.

8-Aug-93 Tbilisi Georgia Unknown Firearms1 1 GEORGIA. Shots were fired at apassing car with U.S. diplomat, FredWoodruff aboard, killing him andseriously wounding the driver. Otherreports say there were no otherinjuries. The car was on theGeorgian Military Highway nearTbilisi at 2130 hours.

10-Aug-93

Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A grenade was thrown intoa tourist-filled restaurant in Istanbulby suspected Kurdish separatists.The grenade failed to explode thuscausing no injuries.

13-Aug-93

Bogota Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Four unidentifiedgunmen took the Costa RicanAmbassador to Colombia hostage foran hour outside Bogota. He wasreleased unharmed.

14-Aug-93

DushanbeTajikistan Unknown Firearms0 1 TAJIKISTAN. A guard at the AfghanConsulate in Dushanbe was shot andkilled.

15-Aug-93


Unknown0 0 TURKEY. PKK guerrillas kidnappedthree male foreign tourists - twoGermans and a New Zealander - ineastern Turkey.

16-Aug-93

Manfalut Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms0 0 EGYPT. A Nile river boat carryingBritish tourists was fired upon by agunman hiding along the banks ofthe river. The attack took place 200miles south of Cairo near Manfalut.There were no injuries. Thefundamentalist Islamic group, al-Gama'a al-Islamiya is suspected tobe responsible.

16-Aug-93

Tunis Tunisia Other Explosives0 0 TUNISIA. A KLM flight from Tunis toAmsterdam was hijacked by anEgyptian claiming to have a bomband demanding the release of OmarAbel-Rahman and to be taken to NewYork. The hijacker was seized after10.5 hours by German police at theDusseldorf airport who raided theplane and captured the hijacker. Hehad held two crewmen hostage. Noone was injured in the incident.

18-Aug-93

Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives11 0 TURKEY. An explosive was thrown ata Hungarian tour bus in the Lalelidistrict of Istanbul. Three Hungarianson the bus were injured as well aseight bystanders, including oneHungarian and one Azerbaijani. Theauthorities suspect Kurdishseparatist involvement. ( A teenageboy is suspected.)

19-Aug-93

Lebanon Hizballah Explosives4 8 LEBANON. Eight Israeli soldiers werekilled in an ambush and bomb attackby Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.Four other soldiers were injured.

21-Aug-93


Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Four foreign tourists - threeSwiss and one Italian - werekidnapped by PKK guerrillas near theIranian border.

22-Aug-93


Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Four ethnic Turks fromAfghanistan were kidnapped from abus at a PKK roadblock in Batmanprovince.

23-Aug-93

Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb was found anddefused at the Kuwaiti Airlines officesin Beirut. The homemade bombconsisted of three grenades attachedto bottles with flammable material.

25-Aug-93

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

6 0 TURKEY. A gasoline bomb (Molotovcocktail) was thrown at a group ofGerman tourists in the Topkapidistrict of Istanbul. Six women in thegroup sustained minor injuries.

26-Aug-93

Tallinn Estonia Unknown Explosives0 0 ESTONIA. A bomb hidden in a trashcan outside the building housingEstonia's national airline exploded,damaging the office as well as theadjoining American business centerwhich houses the Japanese Embassy.No responsibility has been claimed.

28-Aug-93

Ankara Turkey Unknown Firearms0 1 TURKEY. A gunman, speaking Farsi,shot to death an Iranian dissidentliving in Turkey at the victim's homein Ankara.

28-Aug-93

Golahun SierraLeone


Unknown1 2 SIERRA LEONE. Two Red Crossvehicles carrying aid was attacked bythe United Revolutionary Front (RUF)near Golahun. Two nurses werekilled (one Swiss and one SierraLeone) and a third was injured. Thetwo Gambian drivers appeared tohave been kidnapped and the truckswere burnt.

28-Aug-93

Angola Unknown Firearms0 3 ANGOLA. Three drivers were killedas unidentified gunmen ambushedUN trucks delivering food relief toCubal and Caimbambo.

29-Aug-93

MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms3 0 SOMALIA. Three American UNpeacekeepers were injured by Somaligunmen attacking the Mogadishuairport.

1-Sep-93 Sweden Other Firearms0 0 SWEDEN. A right-wing Swede shot atforeign immigrants with a lasersighted gun. He is on trial for theshootings. He is called theLaserman.

1-Sep-93 Sweden Other Unknown1 0 SWEDEN. Six Swedish racistsattacked a Somali, causingpermanent brain damage.

1-Sep-93 Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Fifty armed men attackedthe East Shabwa site of the Frenchoil firm, Total. The French firmdecided to suspend operations inYemen.


Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Seven employees of a UScompany in Batman province werekidnapped by the PKK. They wereheld for several days and thenreleased.

2-Sep-93 Bogota Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A German agronomistwas kidnapped by FARC membersfrom a ranch near Bogota. Heescaped on October 16.

3-Sep-93 Italy RedBrigades

Firearms0 0 ITALY. The Red Brigades claimedresponsibility for a shooting attackagainst the US - NATO air base inAviano. About six shots were firedfrom a passing car. There was also asmall explosion in the residentialquarters of the base. Sevensuspected members of the RedBrigades were arrested on Oct 26,1993.

4-Sep-93 Angkor CambodiaUnknown Explosives2 1 CAMBODIA. A Cameroonian memberof UNTAC was killed by a mine nearAngkor. A Chinese and an Americanpeacekeeper were injured in theexplosion.

5-Sep-93 Somalia Other Firearms0 7 SOMALIA. Seven Nigerian UNpeacekeepers were killed in a shoot-out after being ambushed bysuspected Aideed suppporters.

9-Sep-93 Santiago Chile Movementof theRevolutionaryLeft (MIR)(Chile)

Explosives3 0 CHILE. The MIR claimed thebombings at two McDonald'srestaurants in Santiago. They alsothreatened to bomb other US storesto protest US imperialism.

9-Sep-93 Santiago Chile Movementof theRevolutionaryLeft (MIR)(Chile)

Explosives1 0 CHILE. The MIR claimed thebombings at two McDonald'srestaurants in Santiago. They alsothreatened to bomb other US storesto protest US imperialism.

11-Sep-93 Santiago Chile ManuelRodriguezPatrioticFront(FPMR)

Explosives0 0 CHILE. A bomb was deactivated atthe Kentucky Fried Chicken store inSantiago. A warning was called in bysomeone identifying himself as amember of the Patriarchs of ManuelRodriguez.

11-Sep-93 LaFlorida

Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A Mormon Church in LaFlorida was bombed to mark theanniversary of the coup againstAllende in 1973.

12-Sep-93 Shihin Lebanon Other Explosives0 0 LEBANON. The al-Huqban OperationMartyrs Group of the IslamicResistance claimed the bombing ofan Israeli army patrol in Shihin tocontinue the sacred policy of jihad...The patrol members were eitherkilled or injured.


Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Six Bangladeshis and twoIranians were kidnapped by the PKKin southeast Turkey. This occurredas the PKK was releasing three otherforeign hostages.

12-Sep-93 Dublin Ireland UlsterVolunteerForce(UVF)

Explosives2 0 IRELAND. A UVF bomb placed on atrain from Belfast to Dublin partiallydetonated in Dublin. Although thedetonator exploded, it failed toexplode the bomb thus causing fewerinjuries and less damage thanintended. Two people were slightlyinjured. The UVF said it was awarning that Northern Ireland wouldnot be coerced or persuaded into aunited Ireland.

13-Sep-93 Moscow Russia Unknown Explosives2 0 RUSSIA. A bomb exploded at theUnited Arab Emirates Embassy inMoscow. The bomb was made of 0.5kg of solid high explosive. It isspeculated that the bombing was inresponse to the signing of the peaceaccord in Washington between Israeland the PLO.


Unknown Unknown0 0 GERMANY. A German transportplane was hijacked to Turkey,probably Izmir.


Unknown Unknown0 4 GERMANY. Four Iranian Kurds wereassassinated in a Berlin restaurant.

18-Sep-93 Egypt Other Firearms0 0 EGYPT. Suspected Muslimfundamentalists fired at a Nile cruiseboat with French tourists aboard.There were no injuries.

19-Sep-93 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Explosives0 0 EL SALVADOR. A bomb was thrownat the Mexican Embassy in SanSalvador by unidentified individuals.

21-Sep-93 Somalia Other Unknown7 3 SOMALIA. Rebels attacked the UNPakistani forces, killing three andwounding seven.

21-Sep-93 Tlelac Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 2 ALGERIA. Two French employees ofa French company were kidnappedfrom Tlelac and murdered. Theirbodies were found in Tenira. TheUnited Company of Jihad claimedresponsibility. The GIA also claimedresponsibility.

24-Sep-93 Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)


0 1 ISRAEL. The body of an Israeli farmworker was found in a field nearRanana, north of Tel Aviv. He hadbeen stabbed to death. A note fromHamas was found on the body. Thebody was found just before the startof Yom Kippur. He was the first Israelikilled since the signing of the peaceaccord between the PLO and Israelon Sept 13.

25-Sep-93 MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms0 3 SOMALIA. Three American soldierswith the UN forces were killed whenSomali guerrillas shot down theirhelicopter in Mogadishu.

25-Sep-93 Somalia Other Firearms0 0 SOMALIA. Somali gunmen attemptedto kidnap an Italian journalist theythought was American.

26-Sep-93 LudwigshafenFederalRepublicofGermany


3 0 GERMANY. A firebomb attack on anapartment in Ludwigshafen injuredthree Poles and three Romanians.

28-Sep-93 Cham FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Suspected neo-nazisfirebombed a hostel for asylum-seekers in Cham (Bavaria).

28-Sep-93 Tallinn Estonia Unknown Explosives0 0 ESTONIA. A 10lb bomb exploded atthe building of the US and UKEmbassies in Tallin. It destroyed theUS Embassy satellite dish. Possibly aprotest of Clinton's meeting withBaltic leaders the previous day.

28-Sep-93 Dar esSalaam

Tanzania Other Unknown0 0 TANZANIA. A group of four men,suspected to be Angolan rebels,occupied the Danish Embassy in Dares Salaam from September 28 untiltheir arrest on October 4.

2-Oct-93 London UnitedKingdom


Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Three PIRAbombs exploded in Finchley northLondon. Two of the bombs werenear a Domino's pizza place, where awarning had been called in. The thirdbomb exploded opposite a railwaystation. A fourth bomb did notexplode. Two men were convictedand sentenced to 25 years in prisonin Oct 1994 for the bombingcampaign that included many morebombings during this month.

2-Oct-93 London UnitedKingdom


Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Three PIRAbombs exploded in Finchley northLondon. Two of the bombs werenear a Domino's pizza place, where awarning had been called in. The thirdbomb exploded opposite a railwaystation. A fourth bomb did notexplode. Two men were convictedand sentenced to 25 years in prisonin Oct 1994 for the bombingcampaign that included many morebombings during this month.



0 4 GERMANY. The apartment of a SriLankan family was the target of anarson attack in Bad Wildungen. Thefamily of four died of smokeinhalation.

5-Oct-93 Tokyo Japan Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 JAPAN. The Russian Embassy inTokyo was attacked by two Japanesemen. They threw flares at thecompound. They were arrested butdid not give a reason for the attack.There were no injuries or damage.

6-Oct-93 MogadishuSomalia Other Explosives12 1 SOMALIA. The UN-held airport inMogadishu was the target of amortar attack. One US soldier waskilled and 12 others were injured inthe attack.


Unknown0 0 TURKEY. The PKK kidnapped anAmerican and a New Zealander ineastern Turkey.

11-Oct-93 Tirana Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 ALBANIA. A small bomb exploded atthe rump Yugoslav Embassy inTirana. Two other bombs were foundon the grounds.

11-Oct-93 Oslo Norway Unknown Firearms1 0 NORWAY. Suspected agents of Iran,shot and seriously wounded apublisher with a firm that translatedand published Rushdie's The SatanicVerses. The publisher was shotoutside his home in Oslo. Norwegianpolice closed the case in April 1995not able to conclusively link theassassination to Iran.

12-Oct-93 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 0 ALGERIA. Members of the ArmedIslamic Group (GIA) took over thehome of a German employee ofMercedes and held the familyhostage. They threatened to kill theemployee if the family did not leaveAlgeria. They also wanted the samefrom the other foreigners in Algeria.They were opposed to any dealingsbetween European atheists,disbelievers and Algerians.

14-Oct-93 Medellin Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A German professor,visiting his wife's family in Medellin,was kidnapped after unidentifiedmen stopped the taxi he was in.


Unknown0 0 TURKEY. The PKK kidnapped a Dutchtourist. He was released on Nov 14,1993.

16-Oct-93 Algeria UnifiedUnit ofJihad

Unknown2 2 ALGERIA. Two Russian flight trainingofficers were killed by threemembers of Unified Unit of Jihad.Two others were injured in theincident.

21-Oct-93 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives50 3 PERU. A popular tourist hotel wasthe target of a suspected SenderoLuminoso car bomb. Three peoplewere killed and 50 wounded,including foreign tourists.

24-Oct-93 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 0 ALGERIA. The Armed Islamic Group(al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyah al-Musallahah) (GIA) kidnapped threeFrench citizens, who worked at theFrench Consulate, in Algiers. Theywere released on October 30 & 31,1993. The woman was released aday after the two men. The primesuspect, an Algerian extremist, waskilled in a shootout on Dec 6, 1993.

24-Oct-93 Tel Aviv Israel KahaneChai

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. The Kahane Chai movementclaimed responsibility for anexplosion near the French Embassyin Tel Aviv to protest Arafat's visit toFrance.

26-Oct-93 Cairo Egypt Other Firearms2 4 EGYPT. A gunman fired into therestaurant of the Semiramis Hotel inCairo killing three people and injuringthree others. Two Americans andone Frenchman were killed. Amongthe wounded was an American andan Italian and a Syrian. The gunmanwas arrested. Witnesses say heshouted Allah Akbar (God is Great)and condemned alcohol. Upon arresthe denounced the killing of Moslemsin Bosnia. The Italian died of hiswounds on Nov 17.

27-Oct-93 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso wasresponsible for bombing theInterbanc branch of the USOccidental Oil Company in San Isidro.

8-Nov-93 Kabul AfghanistanOther Unknown0 0 AFGHANISTAN. A New Zealander andan American reporter werekidnapped in the Tagab Valley, nearKabul. They were released by Nov19, 1993.

9-Nov-93 Tehran Iran Unknown Unknown0 0 IRAN. The French Embassy and aFrench airline office in Tehran wasattacked to protest the visit byIranian opposition leader MaryamRajavi to France.

9-Nov-93 Tehran Iran Unknown Unknown0 0 IRAN. The French Embassy and aFrench airline office in Tehran wasattacked to protest the visit byIranian opposition leader MaryamRajavi to France.

9-Nov-93 Sidon Lebanon Unknown Unknown1 0 LEBANON. An assassination attemptwas made against former PLO Fatahofficial, Zied Wehbeh in Sidon. Hewas injured.

10-Nov-93

Moscow Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 RUSSIA. The Coca-Cola plant inMoscow was attacked by a rocketpropelled grenade.

14-Nov-93

PhilippinesAbuSayyafGroup(ASG)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. An American waskidnapped from his residence onPangutaran Island by Muslimfundamentalists, suspected to be apart of the Abu Sayyaf group who arerenegades from the Moro NationalLiberation Front. This group seeks toestablish an Iranian-style Islamicstate in the southern Philippines. Hewas released on Dec 7, 1993 to theLibyan Ambassador. He is a linguistemployed by the Summer Institute ofLinguistics in Manila to translate theBible into several dialects.

15-Nov-93

Sidon Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Unknown0 1 LEBANON. A PLO Fatah official,Shabaytah, was assassinated inSidon by suspected FatahRevolutionary Council (Abu Nidal)members.

17-Nov-93

Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Three businessmen fromDenmark were held for several hoursby Hezbollah when they separatedfrom the 40 member group of Danishbusinessmen visiting historic sites.Hezbollah claims that they did notintercept and kidnap the three men,but were only confiscating the film intheir cameras.

19-Nov-93

Marseille France Other Unknown0 0 FRANCE. A group of Kurdishdemonstrators took over andoccupied a TV station in Marseille.They demanded that they broadcastreal news about the Kurdishsituation.

19-Nov-93


Unknown0 0 PERU. The Sendero Luminosoattacked the US-Peruvian BinationalCultural Center.

25-Nov-93

Sanaa Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Yemeni Jahm tribesmen,headed by Mubarak Mashan who is aformer leader of a pro-Iraqi politicalgroup, kidnapped an Americandiplomat who heads the USInformation Service in Sanaa. Theykidnapped him to gain negotiatingleverage with the government toimprove and develop their area. Hewas released on 11/30/(93/94)(?)after the Yemeni government gave into demands including payments foroperating oil pumping stations(owned by Hunt Oil Co.) on the tribe'sland.

27-Nov-93

PuntaArenas

Chile Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. A Mormon Church in PuntaArenas was the target of an arsonattack by three youths. The buildingwas destroyed.

1-Dec-93 France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. Suspected Iparretarrakmembers bombed a post office inSaint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, near theborder with Spain.

2-Dec-93 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 1 ALGERIA. A Spanish businessmanwas killed near Algiers by Muslimextremists, Armed Islamic Group.He was the first casualty after theMuslim extremists' Nov 30 deadlinefor all foreigners to leave thecountry.

3-Dec-93 Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. A German engineer waskidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen. Hewas released on Dec 8, 1993.

4-Dec-93 Vienna Austria Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. A letter bomb was sent toCaritas President Helmut Schueller inVienna. It was defused beforeexploding. Schueller fights for therights of foreigners. It was the thirdletter bomb sent in two days. Thethree appear to be linked. They areall nitroglycerine bombs using awatch as a timer that is activatedwhen the letter is opened. Neo-naziswere arrested.

4-Dec-93 PhilippinesOther Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Muslim rebelskidnapped seven Korean engineersand a Filipino who were working onan irrigation dam project onMindanao Island. The hostages werereleased after a week.

5-Dec-93 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms1 0 ALGERIA. An Italian man was shotthree times as he was leaving hisresidence. This was after the Muslimextremists' Nov 30 deadline for allforeigners to leave the country.

5-Dec-93 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 1 ALGERIA. A Russian wife of anAlgerian was shot and killed inAlgiers by the GIA. This was after theMuslim extremists' Nov 30 deadlinefor all foreigners to leave thecountry.

5-Dec-93 Austria Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRIA. Another letter bomb wasdiscovered in Styria. It was sent tothe Slovene culture club but wasdefused before opening. It wassimilar to the other three that havebeen sent. Neo-nazis were arrested.

5-Dec-93 Israel PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Firearms1 2 ISRAEL. An Islamic Jihad Palestinianfired on a public bus killing onepassenger. One IDF reservist wasshot and the attacker was killed.

7-Dec-93 Larba Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 1 ALGERIA. A Frenchman was foundshot to death in Blida (State Deptsays Larba). GIA are suspected. Thiswas after the Muslim extremists' Nov30 deadline for all foreigners to leavethe country.

8-Dec-93 BethlehemWestBank/Gaza

PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Firearms0 1 OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. A memberof the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine (PFLP) shotand killed a Jewish settler at Rachel'sTomb, near Bethlehem.

8-Dec-93 Sanaa Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. A German employee of theUS-owned Hunt Oil Company, waskidnapped by members of the Bakiltribe near Sanaa. He was releasedafter two days. Although thedemands of the kidnappers areunknown, the tribe has beencomplaining of beingunderrepresented in thegovernment, even though they makeup the majority of the population.

10-Dec-93

Paris France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An Algerian man attemptedto hijack an Air France flight fromParis to Nice. Upon landing in Nicethe hijacker demanded that the flightcontinue on to Tripoli, Libya. Hereleased the passengers thenthreatened to blow up the plane. Hewas neutralized by police.

12-Dec-93

MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms2 0 SOMALIA. Somali gunmen fired uponUN US soldiers in Mogadishu as theywere checking on a man who waskilled in a battle between clans.

14-Dec-93

BilisQooqaani

Somalia Other Explosives0 0 SOMALIA. Recently arrived Indiansoldiers at a UN post in BilisQooqaani in southern Somalia wereattacked with antitank rockets,mortar bombs, and machine guns.

20-Dec-93

Florence Italy Other Explosives1 0 ITALY. A small bomb exploded at arailway station in Florence. ASenegalese citizen was injured. ASpaniard was arrested.

25-Dec-93

KaltenkirchenFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish store inKaltenkirchen was firebombed byunidentified assailants.

25-Dec-93

Eilat Israel al-Fatah Explosives11 0 ISRAEL. An Israeli ship, JrushShalom, was bombed while it wasdocked at the port of Eilat. ThePalestine National LiberationMovement, Fatah (the Uprising)claimed responsibility for thebombing.

27-Dec-93

Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Explosives16 0 EGYPT. A bus carrying Austriantourist was attacked with anexplosive device which was thrownat the bus. Then the attackersopened fire on pursuers. el-Gama'ael-Islamiya claimed responsibility forthe attack which injured 16 people.

29-Dec-93

Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 2 ALGERIA. A couple was murdered intheir home in Bouira, near Algiers.One was Algerian and the otherBelgium. Islamic militants aresuspected. This was after the Muslimextremists' Nov 30 deadline for allforeigners to leave the country.

29-Dec-93

Aden Yemen Unknown Explosives4 1 YEMEN. A bomb exploded at twohotels in Aden killing one person,either German or Austrian. Fourothers were injured.

29-Dec-93

Aden Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 YEMEN. A bomb exploded at twohotels in Aden killing one person,either German or Austrian. Fourothers were injured.

31-Dec-93

CambodiaKhmerRouge

Unknown11 0 CAMBODIA. Suspected Khmer Rougegunmen attacked a train withemployees of London-basedHazardous Areas Life SupportOrganization (HALO) Trust aboardwith AK-47s. Eleven Cambodianmine-clearers were injured.

2-Jan-94 Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Explosives1 0 ANGOLA. Six mortar bombs werefired at the US-owned Chevron oilproduction facility. One person wasinjured when a residence in theChevron housing complex was hit.The Front for the Liberation of theCabindan Enclave (FLEC) claimedresponsibility.

2-Jan-94 Baidoa Somalia Other Firearms1 1 SOMALIA. The World Food Programcompound in Baidoa was attacked bygunmen. One Somali employee waskilled and another injured. The UNsuspects that the attack is part of acampaign against non-Muslim aidagencies. A threat had previouslybeen made against such agenciesalleging that they promoteChristianity.

3-Jan-94 Kwalan Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. A Briton, a Canadian and sixYemenis were among eight Hunt OilCompany employees kidnapped byYemeni tribesmen in Kwalan. Thekidnappers demanded that theYemeni government release a fellowtribesman who had been arrested inexchange for the hostages. Thehostages were released after 11 days(14 Jan). It is not known whethertheir demands were met.

3-Jan-94 Belgium Unknown Firearms0 1 BELGIUM. The body of a formerBosnian general was found at amotorway rest stop. It was reportedthat it appeared as if he had beenexecuted.

4-Jan-94 Dublin Ireland UlsterVolunteerForce(UVF)

Explosives0 0 IRELAND. Two letter bombs weresent to Sinn Fein's offices in Dublinwith the intention of disrupting thepeace process. The Ulster VolunteerForce (UVF) claimed responsibility.

6-Jan-94 Croatians Other Unknown0 0 CROATIA. Croatian soldiers held fourCanadian UN peacekeepers hostagefor several hours.

9-Jan-94 Tehran Iran Unknown Firearms0 0 IRAN. Shots were fired at the BritishEmbassy in Tehran. Suspicions fellon the Mojahedin-e KhalqOrganization, but the group deniedinvolvement, claiming instead thatthe Iranian Government wasresponsible.


GuatemalaOther Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A leaflet bomb wasthrown at the Mexican Consulate inGuatemala City causing considerabledamage. The leaflet was printedwith banner headlines in support ofthe Chiapas revolt against theMexican government, bearing theletterhead of the Peasant UnityCommittee (CUP).A nearby Mexicanrestaurant was also targeted with aleaflet bomb. The two bombsexploded a few seconds apart.


GuatemalaUnknown Explosives0 0 GUATEMALA. A leaflet bomb wasthrown at the Mexican Consulate inGuatemala City causing considerabledamage. The leaflet was printedwith banner headlines in support ofthe Chiapas revolt against theMexican government, bearing theletterhead of the Peasant UnityCommittee (CUP).A nearby Mexicanrestaurant was also targeted with aleaflet bomb. The two bombsexploded a few seconds apart.

10-Jan-94 Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms0 0 LEBANON. Three gunmen attemptedto storm the Yemeni Embassy inBeirut. They were repelled bysecurity forces and one was arrested.At least two of the gunmen wereYemeni nationals.

10-Jan-94 Rome Italy NucleiCommunistCombattants

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A 3-4 kg bomb explodedoutside the NATO Defense College inRome at 1:00 AM. The NucleiCommunist Combattants claimedresponsibility, although doubts existover the validity of the claim. TheNATO summit in Brussels wasscheduled to start the next day.

10-Jan-94 MogadishuSomalia Other Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. The British finance officerfor the UN World Food Program waskidnapped in Mogadishu. He wasreleased by his Somali captors 42hours later, on January 12.

11-Jan-94 Lima Peru Other Explosives0 0 PERU. The Peruvian-JapaneseCultural Center in Lima was bombedby leftist guerrillas.

12-Jan-94 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Mexican Consulate inBilbao was the target of a bombattack, however, the 16.5 lb bombdid not explode. The group, Iraultza(Revolution, in Basque), claimedresponsibility. They had previouslythreatened the consulate, protestingthe Mexican government's actionsagainst Chiapas.

15-Jan-94 Algiers Algeria Unknown Firearms0 1 ALGERIA. A French woman,employed by the French Embassy,was shot to death near the Frenchconsulate's visa offices in Algiers.She was married to an Algerian.

16-Jan-94 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 2 COLOMBIA. Two US missionarieswere kidnapped by FARC in San Jose,near Villavicencio, to protest thepresence of US Army Engineers inColumbia. A group of 20 FARCmembers carried out the kidnapping.The missionaries were part of theNew Tribes Mission (NTM). Thecaptors also demanded a ransom.The bodies of the hostages werefound on 19 June 1995 inCundinamarca Province. They hadbeen shot.

18-Jan-94 StockholmSweden Unknown Explosives1 0 SWEDEN. An Iranian member of theDemocratic Party of Iranian Kurdistanwas injured by a letter bombaddressed to his wife in Stockholm.The victim claimed that the Iraniangovernment was behind the attack.

19-Jan-94 Istanbul Turkey GreatEasternIslamicRaidersFront(IBDA-C)

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A series of bombingsrocked Istanbul, including one at aMcDonald's resaurant. A groupcalling itself Islamic Great EastRaider Front/Islamic RetaliationDetachments (IBDA-C/IKK) claimedresponsibility.

20-Jan-94 ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms2 1 EL SALVADOR. A Panamanianmember of the InteramericanInstitute of Agricultural Science(IICA), which is part of the OAS, wasmachine-gunned as he drove with hisfamily on the Pan-American Highwaynear San Salvador. He was killed andhis wife and child seriously injured.Police are investigating whether thiswas a politically motivated attack orsimply one carried out by commoncriminals.

21-Jan-94 Knowlon Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Four Hunt Oil employeeswere kidnapped by Yemenitribesmen near Knowlon in easternYemen. They were released afternegotiations with the Yemenigovernment.

22-Jan-94 Dundalk Ireland UlsterVolunteerForce(UVF)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 IRELAND. Two stores in Dundalk(near the border) were firebombedby Protestant extremists. Thebombings were in retaliation for IRAfirebombings in Belfast earlier in themonth.

22-Jan-94 Dundalk Ireland UlsterVolunteerForce(UVF)

Explosives0 0 IRELAND. Two stores in Dundalk(near the border) were firebombedby Protestant extremists. Thebombings were in retaliation for IRAfirebombings in Belfast earlier in themonth.

23-Jan-94 Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Three French tourists werekidnapped by Yemeni Ahnumtribesmen in north Yemen's Hajjahprovince because of a dispute overwhere a road was being constructed.The hostages were released on Feb12, 1994 after Bakil tribal chiefsmediated.

23-Jan-94 Algiers Algeria Unknown Unknown0 1 ALGERIA. A Jewish Tunisian waskilled in his Algiers shop by unknownassailants.

23-Jan-94 BucaramangaColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb explodedoutside the Coca-Cola plant inBucaramanga. Leftist rebels arebelieved responsible.

23-Jan-94 Medellin Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Mormon churcheswere completely destroyed bybombs. One was in Medellin and theother in Bucaramanga.

23-Jan-94 BucaramangaColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Mormon churcheswere completely destroyed bybombs. One was in Medellin and theother in Bucaramanga.

24-Jan-94 Dublin Ireland UlsterVolunteerForce(UVF)

Explosives0 0 IRELAND. A letter bomb was sent tothe librarian at Trinity College inDublin by Protestant extremists. Thepackage was intercepted by postalworkers and defused by police. Itwas sent in retaliation for an attackon the Linenhall Library in Belfast bythe IRA.

26-Jan-94 AddisAbaba

Ethiopia Unknown Firearms0 0 ETHIOPIA. Three gunmen fired threeshots at a US diplomat as they drovealongside the American's car. TheAmerican had just left the offices ofthe US Agency for InternationalDevelopment in Addis Ababa. Thediplomat was not injured.

28-Jan-94 SanDiego

UnitedStates

SouthernCaliforniaIRA

Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Three handgrenades were found at British-owned property in San Diego.Responsibility was claimed by the'Southern California IRA'.

29-Jan-94 Beirut Lebanon Abu NidalOrganization(ANO)

Firearms0 1 LEBANON. A Jordanian diplomat waskilled by gunmen who shot himseven times as he drove from hishouse to work. The attack occurredin Syrian-controlled West Beirut. APalestinian who is believed to be amember of the Abu Nidal FatahRevolutionary Council was arrested.The ANO has denied involvement inthe assassination. Another sourcerefers to the perpetrators as apreviously unheard of Palestiniangroup called Al-Awja. This was thefirst assassination of a foreigndiplomat in Lebanon since 1990.King Husayn of Jordan said that theassassins were members of anextremist group working for an Arabcountry. Sources say that Libya isthe country the King was referring toand that Fatah-the RevolutionaryCouncil led by Abu Nidal is in fact thegroup. Several defendents tried inconnection with the assassinationwere subsequently sentenced to 10years in prison and the maindefendant, to life imprisonment.Three other Palestinian men weresentenced in absentia to lifeimprisonment.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A Swiss child (RichardStaehelin) was kidnapped by FARCmembers in Santa Maria. Authoritiesbelieve they are hiding him in themountains of Sierra Nevada de SantaMarta. The boy's father works at aBogota pharmaceutical company.

31-Jan-94 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. A fragmentation grenade wasthrown under an Americanbusinessman's car which was parkedoutside his house in Santiago. Theattackers fled on foot after throwingthe grenade. The car was damagedbut no injuries were reported.

1-Feb-94 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown1 2 ALGERIA. Two journalists, oneFrench and the other Australian,were killed by Islamic extremists inthe Casbah of Algiers, an extremistcontrolled area.

1-Feb-94 PhilippinesAlexBoncayaoBrigade(ABB)

Explosives2 0 PHILIPPINES. The offices of three oilcompanies were bombed: Petron,Shell and Caltex. Two persons wereinjured. The Alex Boncayao Brigade(ABB) claimed responsibility. Theattacks were carried out to protestincreases in oil-related costs.





2-Feb-94 Baidoa Somalia Unknown Explosives2 0 SOMALIA. A homemade bombexploded in a building occupied bytwo international relief agencies inBaidoa. A Colombian and a Somaliaid worker were injured. One of theagencies was the US-based WorldVision. The nearby UNICEF officeswere also damaged.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A wave of bombingsdamaged several US-basedbusinesses and schools. FourCitibank branches, an Englishlanguage school, a German languageschool, an American Express travelagency, and a stationery store weretargeted. The bombings werecarried out by FARC to protest thepresence of US Army Engineers inColombia.















3-Feb-94 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. The German Goethecultural institute in Athens wasbombed.

3-Feb-94 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives1 0 ITALY. The car of the SpanishEmbassy's Air Force attache wasbombed in Rome. One person wasinjured.

7-Feb-94 Cairo Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A small bomb explodedoutside the Misr-American Bank, anEgyptian- American owned bank, inCairo. al-Jama'a al-Islamiya (theIslamic Group) is suspected.

10-Feb-94 Somalia Unknown Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. Two British MPs and arelief worker with Action Aid werekidnapped near Erigavo by armedSomali gunmen. They were releasedby the next day. No demands weremade but they were possiblykidnapped because of disputesbetween rival clans or for money.Negotiations between clan eldersand the kidnappers resulted in thehostages' release.

10-Feb-94 Israel PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Unknown0 1 ISRAEL. Palestine Islamic Jihadclaimed responsibility for murderingan Israeli taxi driver in Moshav Helez.

12-Feb-94 Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Three Chinese road workerswere kidnapped by Yemenitribesmen who demanded that thedeath sentences imposed on fellowtribesmen are lifted and that thebuilding of the Jihanah-Ma'rib road isstopped. The three hostages werereleased on Feb 21, 1994.

14-Feb-94 Asyut Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms0 0 EGYPT. Suspected Islamic extremistsopened fire on a bus with Romanianengineers on their way to work. Theattack occurred in Asyut. There wereno injuries. The al-Jama'a al-Islamiyaclaimed responsibility for the attackas part of their campaign againstforeigners.On Feb 3 & 8, 1994, al-Jama'a al-Islamiya issued astatement warning all foreigners toleave the country or suffer theconsequences.

16-Feb-94 Cali Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN took credit forbombing a Mormon church in Cali.The bombing was in protest of thepresence of US Army Engineers inColombia.

16-Feb-94 Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms0 0 EGYPT. The al-Jama'a al-Islamiyafired on a cruise ship carrying foreigntourists down the Nile. They claimthat this was their seventh and finalattack to avenge the seven membersof their group who were killed byEgyptian security forces last month.

16-Feb-94 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A katyusha rocket was firedon the Galilee from Lebanon by aPalestinian group called 13 BlackSeptember.

18-Feb-94 Cali Colombia SimonBolivarGuerillaCoordinatingBoard(CGSB)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb explosiondamaged the American School inCali. The Simon Bolivar NationalGuerrilla Coordinating Board (CGSB)claimed responsibility. The bombingwas in protest of the presence of USArmy Engineers in Colombia.

19-Feb-94 Cairo Egypt IslamicParty ofEgypt

Firearms4 0 EGYPT. Members of the Islamic Partyof Egypt claimed responsibility forfiring at a passing train en route fromCairo to Luxor. Four persons wereinjured, including two foreigners (aTaiwanese and a Polish national). AnEgyptian couple was also wounded.The attackers claim the incident wasto avenge three men convicted ofassassination attempts againstEgyptian President Hosni Mubarakand sentenced to death.

20-Feb-94 Medellin Colombia Other Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. The VenezuelanConsulate in Medellin was seriouslydamaged by a bomb. The MedellinBolivarian Militia (urban guerrillagroups) claimed responsibility. Theywere protesting the negotiationsbetween the government and thePeople's Militia.

20-Feb-94 Amari Estonia Other Firearms0 0 ESTONIA. Five masked men armedwith hand guns forced their way ontoa Russian air force base in Amari.They threatened the Russian guards,demanding weapons, and then setfire to a guardhouse. It was reportedthat the men spoke Russian withEstonian accents.

21-Feb-94 Algiers Algeria Unknown Firearms0 1 ALGERIA. A French national living inAlgiers was shot to death in hisbookshop by unknown gunmen.


Explosives0 0 EGYPT. A bomb exploded at theEgyptian-American owned Misr-American Bank in Cairo. The al-Jama'a al-Islamiya (the IslamicGroup) is suspected.


Explosives11 0 EGYPT. The al-Jama'a al-Islamiyagroup claimed responsibility forbombing a train en route from Cairoto Luxor. Among the 11 peopleinjured were six foreign tourists. Thebombing was in protest of the deathsentence imposed on al-Jama'a al-Islamiya members for planning toassassinate Egyptian President HosniMubarak. Two Australians, twoGermans and two New Zealanderswere among the foreigners injured.

24-Feb-94 Medellin Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two bombs protestingthe presence of US Army Engineersin Colombia, damaged a travelagency and a private securitycompany in Medellin.

24-Feb-94 Medellin Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two bombs protestingthe presence of US Army Engineersin Colombia, damaged a travelagency and a private securitycompany in Medellin.

25-Feb-94 Hebron WestBank/Gaza

Kach Firearms250 40 WEST BANK. A Jewish West Banksettler, who retained his Americancitizenship and was a member of theextreme right-wing Kach movement,entered the Ibrahim Mosque at theCave of the Patriarchs in Hebron andopened fire on the congregants,killing 39 and injuring 250 personsbefore being killed himself. Therehave been long-standing tensionsbetween Muslims and Jews over theuse of the Cave of the Patriarchs.

25-Feb-94 WestBank/Gaza


1 0 WEST BANK. A British tourist wasattacked and stabbed by aPalestinian resident of Hebron afternews of the massacre at the Hebronmosque was announced. The victimsuffered minor injuries.

26-Feb-94 Florence Italy Other Unknown0 0 ITALY. A member of the IranianNational Resistance Council was thetarget of an assassination attempt inFlorence. Two Iranians werearrested.

27-Feb-94 Jordan Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 JORDAN. A German tourist wasstabbed in the back by a Palestinianwoman enraged by the Hebronmosque massacre. She wasrestrained by passersby until thepolice arrested her. The Germansuffered minor injuries.

1-Mar-94 Iraq Other Firearms2 0 IRAQ. Two UN guards were injuredwhen their car was fired upon inNorthern Iraq. Iraqi agents havebeen blamed.

1-Mar-94 NewYorkCity

UnitedStates

Other Firearms3 1 UNITED STATES. A Lebaneseimmigrant, Rashid Baz, opened fireon a van crossing the BrooklynBridge, wounding four HasidicLubavitch rabbinical students (one ofwhom died four days later). Theassailant was indicted for theshootings along with a Jordanianman, who owned a taxi company thatemployed him. He was convicted ofsecond-degree murder and 14 countsof attempted murder and weaponscharges and sentenced to 141 yearsin prison.

1-Mar-94 Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms1 0 EGYPT. Members of al-Jama'a al-Islamiya opened fire on the Misr-American Bank in Abu Tig in southernEgypt.

2-Mar-94 Buga Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Shots were fired into aMorman church in Buga by maskedmen armed with machine guns andwearing military-style uniforms.


Explosives0 0 EGYPT. al-Jama'a al-Islamiya (theIslamic Group) bombed the Egyptian-American Bank in Cairo to avengethe Hebron Mosque massacre.

4-Mar-94 BarranquillaColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two bombs were foundand defused in Mormon churches inBarranquilla and Manizales.Responsibility was not claimed.

4-Mar-94 ManizalesColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two bombs were foundand defused in Mormon churches inBarranquilla and Manizales.Responsibility was not claimed.


Firearms0 1 EGYPT. Members of al-Jama'a al-Islamiya (the Islamic Group) openedfire on a Nile tourist cruise ship killingone German tourist.

4-Mar-94 Iraq Unknown Firearms2 0 IRAQ. Unidentified gunmen firedupon a European Relief Organizationvehicle injuring two local guards.

6-Mar-94 Kabul AfghanistanOther Unknown0 0 AFGHANISTAN. A mob of Afghanisattacked the Pakistani Embassy inKabul. The attack was in retaliationfor the deaths of a group of Afghaniswho had hijacked a school bus inPakistan and were killed by securityforces there.

6-Mar-94 ChinchinaColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb was found anddefused in a Mormon church inChinchina.

7-Mar-94 Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. Hezbollah kidnapped twoSLA soldiers in south Lebanon. Theyalso may have been responsible forthe deaths of three SLA soldiers andthe wife of one of the soldiers.

8-Mar-94 Pereira Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A Citibank office inPereira was bombed.

9-Mar-94 Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb was found anddefused in front of the FrenchCultural Center in the Christiancommunity of Ghadir. The bomb hadbeen disguised as a gift.

10-Mar-94 Miami UnitedStates

Unknown Firearms0 1 UNITED STATES. Gunmen attackedthree prominent Haitian exiles in theLittle Haiti area of Miami. One of themen died at the scene, the othersescaped uninjured. Although thepolice and district attorney haveinsisted that the attackers' motivewas not political, the Haitiancommunity nonetheless believe thatthe Haitian military government isresponsible. They linked the attackto the murder of three Haitian exilesin Miami in 1991.

11-Mar-94 Bangkok Thailand Other Explosives0 0 THAILAND. An attempt to bomb theIsraeli Embassy in Bangkok wasfoiled when the driver of the vehiclecontaining the bomb was involved ina traffic accident. The driver fled theaccident scene leaving behind thevehicle which was found to containexplosives connected to a batteryand 100 liters of diesel fuel mixedwith fertilizer. Three Iranian menwere arrested in connection with theabortive attack, but two werereleased in August 1994 due toinsufficient evidence. The thirdIranian (Hossein Dastgiri) wascharged with the murder of a Thainational whose body was found inthe container of the explosives-ladentruck. He was convicted andsentenced to death. In 1997, anappeals court upheld the decision.

12-Mar-94 SouthAfrica

Other Firearms0 3 SOUTH AFRICA. Gunmen entered theBa'hai church in East London while aservice was being held and afterseparating the only three whitecongregants, shot and killed them.Two of the victims were described asIranians who had lived in South Africafor many years. The third victim wasa visiting American. Responsibilityfor the killings was claimed by theAzanian National Liberation Army(Azanla) and the Azanian People'sLiberation Army (APLA).


Unknown0 0 EGYPT. The Islamic Group, al-Jama'aal-Islamiya, attacked a tourist boatoff al-Badari Island. They claimed itwas in retaliation for the massacre ofBosnia's Muslims.

13-Mar-94 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A grenade was throwninto the British Embassy compoundin Beirut. There was no claim ofresponsibility.

14-Mar-94 MelbourneAustralia Other Explosives0 0 AUSTRALIA. A Greek-Australianorganization in the Thomas Townsection of Melbourne was bombed.Immigrants from the FormerYugoslav Republic of Macedonia,which is Australia's preferred way ofreferring to Skopje, are suspected.They oppose Australia's pro-Greekstance on the Skopje/Macedoniaissue.

14-Mar-94 Iraq Unknown Explosives2 0 IRAQ. Two Swedish journalists wereinjured when a bomb attached totheir car exploded in the Kurdish-controlled region of Iraq. There wasno claim of responsibility.


Unknown Unknown0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A Kurdish manwas assassinated in a Londonrestaurant.

19-Mar-94 Baku AzerbaijanUnknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

53 12 AZERBAIJAN. A large bomb explodedon a train in the Baku subwaystation. The bomb was planted undera seat in the first car and is thoughtto have been detonated by remote-control. The government hadrecently cracked down on oppositiongroups. Armenian agents are alsosuspected.


Explosives1 0 EGYPT. A bomb exploded in front ofthe Misr-American Bank in Cairo. Thedevice was reported to be primitiveand locally made. al-Jama'a al-Islamiya is suspected.

20-Mar-94 Cyprus TurkishNationalIntelligenceOrganization

Firearms0 1 CYPRUS. The chairman of the CyprusCommittee of Solidarity withKurdistan was shot in a Nicosiaparking lot by two men on amotorcycle. He was also the head ofthe Greek Cypriot Public InformationOffice's Turkish Department and haddirect links with the PKK. He hadreceived numerous death threats. Itis widely alleged that the TurkishNational Intelligence Organizationwas responsible.

21-Mar-94 Thailand PattaniUnitedLiberationOrganization(PULO)

Explosives7 0 THAILAND. A bomb exploded in themain shopping area of Hat Yaiinjuring seven people, including fourMalaysian tourists. The explosionoccurred as the area was beingcleared following the discovery of anunattended bag containingexplosives wired to a clock and filledwith nails in front of a shop. ThePattani Liberation UnitedOrganization (PULO) claimedresponsibility. The group demandedfour persons arrested on suspicion ofsetting fire to schools be releasedfrom custody. The PULO claim thefour were not responsible for thefires.

22-Mar-94 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)


0 2 ALGERIA. Two French men, abusinessman and his son, werestabbed to death in their home inAlgiers. The Algerian Armed IslamicGroup (GIA) claimed responsibility forthe assassinations and said thekillings were part of its campaign torid Algeria of Jews and Christians.Their deaths bring the total numberof foreigners killed in Algeria in thelast six months to 32


2 0 ISRAEL. Two Israeli workers fromKibbutz Nahal 'Oz were attacked andstabbed by Palestinian terrorists whoinfiltrated the kibbutz.

23-Mar-94 Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Firearms0 1 ISRAEL. An Israeli was shot andkilled by an Arab who had seized hisgun. The man was a guard at anoffice building and was on his way towork. The PFLP claimedresponsibility for the assassination.

23-Mar-94 BethlehemWestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives0 0 West Bank. A bomb was thrown atthe Israeli military government courtbuilding in Bethlehem.

23-Mar-94 Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A bomb was found anddefused at the Forte Grand Hotel(British-owned) in Amman.

24-Mar-94 Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives4 0 TURKEY. A time-bomb exploded inthe neighborhood surrounding theCovered Bazaar on Kapalicarsi'sYaglikcilar street. Among the fourpersons injured were two Romanians.The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) issuspected. They had recentlyannounced a campaign againsttourists in Turkey.

27-Mar-94 Iraq Other Firearms2 0 IRAQ. A bus carrying 50 UN guardswas machine-gunned in NorthernIraq and two Austrian soldiers werewounded. Equipment found at thescene suggests that the Iraqi militarywere responsible, and the attackoccurred as part of a wider campaignof harassment of foreigners inKurdish-controlled Northern Iraq.

28-Mar-94 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 1 ALGERIA. Islamic extremists aresuspected in the assassination of aRussian embassy employee inAlgiers. The body of the Russian wasfound inside an embassy car parkedat a bus station in Saoula nearAlgiers. He was the fourth Russian tobe slain in Algeria in the past sixmonths.

28-Mar-94 Istanbul Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives3 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded at the St.Sophia religious shrine and touristattraction in Istanbul, injuring threeEuropean tourists - from Germany,Spain and the Netherlands. TheKurdish Workers' Party claimedresponsibility for the bombing as partof its campaign to ruin Turkey'stourist industry.

28-Mar-94 Sanaa Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Three Dutch engineersworking on a water supply project inYemen were kidnapped near Sanaa.


0 1 ISRAEL. An Israeli man was killed bytwo Arab men wielding an ax inPetah Tiqva. Both attackers,residents of Khan Yunis, werearrested.

30-Mar-94 MontevideoUruguay Unknown Firearms0 0 URUGUAY. Shots were fired from apassing car at the residence of theUS Ambassador from a passing car.

30-Mar-94 Somalia Other Firearms0 2 SOMALIA. Two Indian UNpeacekeepers were shot dead bySomali gunmen while they wereescorting aid workers.

31-Mar-94 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Unknown0 0 CAMBODIA. An American worker forFood for the Hungry International(FHI), a Christian relief groupheadquartered in Geneva, waskidnapped by Khmer Rouge guerrillasalong with eight Cambodians inKampot province. The Khmer Rougedemanded that the relief group digwells in territory they control. Five ofthe Cambodian captives werereleased the next day after FHIagreed to discuss the Khmer Rougedemands. The remaining hostageswere released on 11 May 1994 afterfood and medicine were delivered tothe area.

31-Mar-94 Tel Aviv Israel DemocraticFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(


0 1 ISRAEL. An Israeli soldier wasstrangled and stabbed to death byDFLP assassins in Tel Aviv. Thegroup claimed that the assassinationwas revenge for the death of a GazaArab.

1-Apr-94 Tunis Tunisia Unknown Unknown0 1 TUNISIA. A Palestinian working in thePLO Political Department wasassassinated in the al-Manzahquarter of Tunis by unknownassailants.

2-Apr-94 Istanbul Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives12 2 TURKEY. A bomb exploded in theCovered Bazaar in Istanbul. Twopeople died, one Spanish and oneTunisian, and twelve were woundedincluding several foreigners - aTunisian, two French, and aLebanese and also Spanish andBelgian tourists. This incident is partof a PKK campaign to dissuadetourists from travelling to Turkey.

3-Apr-94 Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Two Chinese road workerswere kidnapped by Yemeni gunmen.The gunmen demanded that theJihanah-Ma'rib road project bestopped.

3-Apr-94 Iraq Other Firearms0 2 IRAQ. A German AFP correspondentand her bodyguard were shot todeath in Iraq near the Iranian borderby unidentified gunmen as theytravelled by car. Two Kurdish menarrested in connection with theincident confessed that they hadbeen ordered by Iraqi secret police tokill a foreigner in return for a cashdown payment of $1,000. An IraqiKurdish group, Patriotic Union ofKurdistan (PUK) claims that SaddamHussein had promised a reward of$10,000 to anyone killing a foreignerin Kurdistan.

4-Apr-94 Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAQ. A bomb was found anddefused under a UN car.

4-Apr-94 Iraq Unknown Firearms1 0 IRAQ. A Danish UN soldier was shotin an ambush on a road in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. He wasguarding a food shipment.

6-Apr-94 Bamako Mali Other Unknown0 0 MALI. A group of 100 studentsattacked the offices of the FrenchDevelopment Fund in the capital,Bamako. A hitherto unknown armedresistance group had recentlythreatened to attack French, US andGerman interests in Mali.

6-Apr-94 Afula Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives44 9 ISRAEL. A Hamas suicide bomberblew up a bus in Afula in NorthernIsrael. The young West Bank residentcrashed his car, carrying nailspacked around 385lbs of explosives,into the bus. Eight people werekilled including four teenage boys.Most of the injured were high schoolstudents. The bombing was inreprisal for the Hebron massacre.

7-Apr-94 Kigali Rwanda Other Unknown0 10 RWANDA. Ten Belgian UN soldierswere murdered while protecting thePrime Minister of Rwanda, AgatheUwilingiyimana, who was hiding in aUN compound in the Rwandan capitalof Kigali. A crowd of militia and armytroops attacked the Belgians. ThePrime Minister was then taken awayand executed.

7-Apr-94 Ashod Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Firearms4 1 ISRAEL. Gunmen opened fire oncommuters standing at a bus stop inAshod killing one and injuring fourothers. Both Hamas and IslamicJihad claimed responsibility.

8-Apr-94 Colombo SriLanka


Explosives0 0 SRI LANKA. A small bomb explodedin a restroom at the Marriott Hotel inColombo. There were no casualties.This incident was part of a LTTEbombing campaign to discouragetourism in Sri Lanka.

10-Apr-94 Albania Other Unknown3 2 ALBANIA. A border guard station inthe Albanian village of Peshkepia wasattacked by MAVI (Northern EpirusLiberation Front) guerrillas who hadcrossed the border from Greece.Two soldiers were killed and threeinjured. MAVI claimed responsibilityfor the attack and accused theAlbanian government of mistreatingethnic Greeks living in Albania. InJuly 1995. a Greek former armycommando and a former policeofficer were charged with murderingthe two soldiers.

11-Apr-94 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. An American insurancecompany, American Life InsuranceCompany (ALICO), in Athens was thetarget of a rocket attack. 17November claimed responsibility.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. A time bomb was placed inthe office of Dutch insurancecompany, National Nederlande, inAthens. 17 November claimedresponsibility.

11-Apr-94 Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. Rockets aimed at a Britishaircraft carrier, Arc Royal, thendocked in Piraievs near Athens, weredefused after being accidentallydiscovered. 17 NovemberOrganization had telephoned awarning of the attack. It is thoughtthat this act was carried out insolidarity with Bosnian Serbs sincethe aircraft carrier's tour of duty wasto enforce the no-fly zone overBosnia, primarily directed towardsSerb aircraft.

12-Apr-94 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Unknown0 0 BOSNIA. Ten French aid workerswere imprisoned in the Serb-heldsuburb of Sarajevo, Lukavica.

12-Apr-94 Beirut Lebanon Other Unknown0 1 LEBANON. An Iraqi opposition figurewas assassinated in his Beirut home.He was a leading member of theLondon-based, Free Iraqi Council.Two Iraqi diplomats were chargedwith the murder who confessed thatthey were acting on orders fromBagdad. Lebanon broke diplomaticties with Iraq over the incident.

12-Apr-94 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Unknown0 0 BOSNIA. A Dutch military observerdisappeared, presumed kidnapped,when he tried to cross into a Serb-held area.

13-Apr-94 Hadera Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives30 6 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on acommuter bus at the Hadera CentralBus Station killing five persons andinjuring 30 others. Hamas claimedresponsibility for the bombing toavenge the February massacre at theCave of the Patriarchs Hebronmosque. The explosive device wascarried on board the bus by a suicidebomber. An Israeli court sentenced amember of Hamas to death in Nov 94but the sentence was overturned byan IDF appeals court in June 1995.

17-Apr-94 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Bombs planted under twoFrench Embassy cars exploded inAthens. A third bomb was foundunder another car and defused.

18-Apr-94 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)


4 0 ISRAEL. A Hamas member wieldingan ax attacked passengers on aJerusalem bus. He was shot byIsraeli forces after injuring twopassengers. Two other people wereinjured in the gunfire.

19-Apr-94 Somalia Other Firearms0 0 SOMALIA. The SudaneseAmbassador to Somalia waskidnapped by Somali gunmenbelonging to the Hawadle clan. Hewas released eight days later.

20-Apr-94 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A car belonging to SwedishEmbassy in Athens was bombed.

20-Apr-94 Ankara Turkey GreatEasternIslamicRaidersFront(IBDA-C)

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. The car of the FirstSecretary to the Embassy of theFederal Republic of YugoslaviaEmbassy in Ankara was the target ofa bombing. The bombing occurredoutside his residence. A groupcalling itself the Great EasternIslamic Conquering Front (IBDA)claimed responsibility.



0 0 GREECE. A remote-control bombexploded in a van belonging to theGerman company Miele AG inAthens. The van which was parkedin the company's lot was destroyedand an adjacent building wasdamaged. Police suspect the ELAand 17 November.


Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded in theUnited Nations High Commissionoffices in Kolonaki early in themorning. The building wasextensively damaged.

25-Apr-94 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb was found anddefused at the entrance to theUnited Nations High Commissionoffices in Kolonaki. Another bombhad exploded there the previous day.

25-Apr-94 Jeddah SaudiArabia

Other Unknown0 0 SAUDI ARABIA. An Ethiopian manhijacked an Ethiopian Airlines flighten route from Jeddah to Addis Ababaand demanded that he be taken toLondon. The plane was allowed toland in Sanaa, Yemen when it ran outof fuel. After negotiations, thehijacker surrendered releasing thepassengers first and then the pilotand co-pilot.

27-Apr-94 JohannesburgSouthAfrica

Other Explosives16 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A car bombexploded at the Jan Smuts Airport inJohannesburg. Sixteen persons wereinjured including two Russiandiplomats and a Swiss pilot. Nogroup has claimed responsibility butwhite separatists are suspected.

28-Apr-94 SouthAfrica

Other Unknown1 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A black Americanjournalist covering a neo-NaziAfrikaner Resistance Movement(AWB) rally was attacked and beatenby AWB members. The attackers toldthe journalist to write to Mandela andde Klerk and explain the Afrikannerswould not be turned out of our land.

1-May-94 SierraLeone

Other Unknown0 0 SIERRA LEONE. A Russian gold minerwas kidnapped by rebels in the eastof the country. He was released inGuinea on 24 January 1996 to theInternational Committee of the RedCross.

3-May-94 Lome Togo Unknown Explosives6 0 TOGO. A grenade was thrown into aFrench-owned restaurant in Lome.Six people were injured, includingfour Frenchmen, a German and aBeninese.

7-May-94 WestBank/Gaza


1 0 WEST BANK. An American touristwas attacked by a Palestinianteenager outside the village of Husannear the Betar settlement in theWest Bank. The attacker stabbedthe tourist in the hand and then ranaway.

8-May-94 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 2 ALGERIA. Two French citizens, one apriest and the other a church worker,who jointly owned a bookstore inAlgiers were killed by gunmen intheir shop. The GIA claimedresponsibility for the killings. Thekillings occurred as 20,000 peopledemonstrated on the other side oftown in support of establishing adialogue between the Algeriangovernment and Islamic extremists.

13-May-94

BuenosAires

ArgentinaUnknown ChemicalAgent

3 0 ARGENTINA. A tear gas grenadeexploded in the Japanese Embassy inBuenos Aires, injuring three people.The attack was in protest of Japan'srefusal to grant a visa to anArgentinian soccer star. Pamphletsof the People's RevolutionaryOrganization (ORP) were foundnearby, however, they denyinvolvement.

14-May-94

Cotonou Benin,Dahomey

Unknown Explosives3 0 BENIN. A bomb exploded in a bar inCotonou, injuring a French man, aTogolese and a Beninese woman.

14-May-94

Plovdiv Bulgaria Unknown Explosives0 0 BULGARIA. A car bomb explodednear the Turkish Consulate inPlovdiv. Bulgarian security forces,however, believe that the incident isMafia related and not directed at theconsulate.

15-May-94

Mexico Other Explosives0 0 MEXICO. A section of railroad tracksin Chiapas State was destroyed by abomb. The Army arrested fourSalvadorans, seven Guatemalans andone Honduran near the site.

16-May-94

St.Petersburg

Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 RUSSIA. A bomb was found anddefused in a British-ownedLittlewoods shop in St. Petersburg.It is suspected that it was intendedfor Prince Charles who was thenvisiting the city. Although he didvisit the shop it was not at the timethat the bomb was set to go off.

17-May-94

Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The IBM offices in Athenswere attacked by terrorists who firedtwo anti-tank rockets at the building.A warning was telephoned to a radiostation a few minutes before theattack, which occurred just aftermidnight. The caller claimed to befrom November 17. The offices weredestroyed but no one was injured.

17-May-94

MogadishuSomalia Other Unknown1 5 SOMALIA. Rival Somali clan militiaskilled five Nepalese UN soldiers whowere attempting to mediate inter-clan fighting in Mogadishu. Oneother soldier was wounded.

18-May-94

PhenomPhen

CambodiaKhmerRouge

Explosives0 0 CAMBODIA. A grenade was throwninto the Malaysian Embassy inPhenom Phen. It is suspected thatthe attack was in protest of foreignmilitary aid being provided toCambodia. The Khmer Rouge issuspected.

18-May-94

Paris France RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A travel agency in Paristhat specializes in arranging tours toDenmark was bombed by a groupcalled Revolutionary Cell. The attackwas in support of Marc Rudin a left-wing extremist, imprisoned inDenmark, who was convicted forarmed robberies designed to financeradical groups. Revolutionary Cellalso threatened to attack otherDanish interests.

19-May-94

Algeria Unknown Unknown5 14 ALGERIA. A bus with 25 Russiancitizens was attacked near Ziam as ittravelled to the airport. ThreeRussians and 11 Algerian guardswere killed. Five other Russians wereinjured. The attackers were all killed.Note: Unknown number of attackers.

20-May-94


1 0 ISRAEL. A yeshiva student wasstabbed by an Arab in Jerusalem.

21-May-94

Dublin Ireland UlsterVolunteerForce(UVF)

Firearms1 1 IRELAND. Two men burst into aDublin pub during a fundraising forimprisoned IRA members and openedfire on the patrons before leaving abomb and fleeing. The 18-lb bombdid not explode. The UlsterVolunteer Force claimedresponsibility. It was the firstattempted bombing in Dublin sincethe 1970s.

23-May-94

LokichogioKenya Other Unknown0 0 KENYA. UN officials came underattack from Turkana tribesman inLokichogio close to the Sudaneseborder. It is thought they wereattacked to protest the UN's failureto employ more Turkana people.

29-May-94

GhalebiehIraq Unknown Firearms0 1 IRAQ. An Iranian dissident was shotand killed as he drove throughGhalebieh.

31-May-94

Rwanda Other Firearms0 0 RWANDA. A UN investigating teamwere fired upon while returning fromchecking reports of a tribalmassacre.

31-May-94

Kigali Rwanda Other Explosives0 1 RWANDA. A mortar round killed aSenegalese UN soldier in Kigali. TheRebel Rwanda Patriotic Front wasresponsible.

4-Jun-94 Iran Unknown Unknown0 0 IRAN. Unknown assailants kidnappeda Chinese citizen and two Iraniansworking on a uranium mining projectin Iran. The Interior Ministry inTehran believes that the three hadaccess to particularly sensitiveinformation concerning Iran's nuclearprogram.

5-Jun-94 Ecuador RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 ECUADOR. Two American oil workerswith a US company called Intairdrillwere kidnapped in Shushufindiregion, Ecuador. Possible culpritsrange from common criminals todrug traffickers to the subversivegroup, Red Sun. FARC guerillas, whomay have crossed the border fromColombia, however, are the mainsuspects.

6-Jun-94 Srinagar India Harkat ulAnsar

Unknown0 0 INDIA. Two British citizens, one ofwhom was 16 years old, werekidnapped in Srinagar by a group ofKashmiri militants called Harkat ulAnsar. The group demanded that theIndian government releaseimprisoned Kashmiri separatists. Thekidnappers also stated that theabduction was meant to draw worldattention to the human rights abusescommitted by Indian troops. Thehostages were released unharmed17 days later.

11-Jun-94 Lebanon Hizballah Unknown0 0 LEBANON. A German historiannarrowly escaped being kidnapped inthe Bekah Valley. Passersbyintervened to help her flee from twomen who had identified themselvesas Hezbollah members.



Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A clothes store inLondon's Oxford St. was firebombed.A second device was found anddefused. The IRA is suspected.



Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A bomb explodedon the Stevenage railway line northof London. The IRA claimedresponsibility.

15-Jun-94 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms1 0 ALGERIA. A Coca-Cola Companyvehicle carrying three Italianemployees was fired on in southwestAlgeria. The Algerian driver wasinjured. Islamic extremists aresuspected.

15-Jun-94 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Explosives0 0 PERU. A Mormon church in Chilcawas bombed by Sendero Luminoso.

16-Jun-94 Sydney Australia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRALIA. The Lebanese Consulatein Sydney was the target of an arsonattack. Gasoline was thrown andfires set around the consulate byunknown assailants. The incidentmay be linked to the Consulate'sprevious refusal to sign forgeddocuments for suspects in the 27February al-Zuq Church bombing.

19-Jun-94 MogadishuSomalia Unknown Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. An AP journalist waskidnapped in Mogadishu, despitehaving a police escort. She wasforced out of her car into another andtaken away. Police suspect that shewas abducted for ransom.

20-Jun-94 Meshed Iran Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Explosives70 25 IRAN. An 11lb bomb exploded at theImam Reza mausoleum in Meshed innortheastern Iran. Hundreds ofpeople had gathered tocommemorate the death of ImamHussein, the third Shite Muslim Imamand descendant of the prophetMohammad. The People'sMujahedeen, an Iraqi-basedopposition group, claimedresponsibility stating that thebombing was carried out tocommemorate the anniversary of thegroup's founding on June 20, 1981.

21-Jun-94 Fethiye Turkey KurdishPatrioticUnion

Explosives10 0 TURKEY. Two bombs exploded inFethiye, 60 miles from Marmaris,wounding 10 tourists. An Austrian,two Germans, three Britons and fourTurks were among those injured.The Kurdish Patriotic Union claimedresponsibility after another bombingthe next day.

21-Jun-94 Fethiye Turkey KurdishPatrioticUnion

Explosives0 0 TURKEY. Two bombs exploded inFethiye, 60 miles from Marmaris,wounding 10 tourists. An Austrian,two Germans, three Britons and fourTurks were among those injured.The Kurdish Patriotic Union claimedresponsibility after another bombingthe next day.

22-Jun-94 MarmarisTurkey KurdishPatrioticUnion

Explosives21 1 TURKEY. Bomb explosions inMarmaris injured 21 people, amongthem five British tourists. One of theBritish tourists died a few days later.The Kurdish Patriotic Unionannounced it was responsible for thebombings.

24-Jun-94 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded outsidethe European Community offices inAthens. No one was injured in theattack, which was claimed byRevolutionary People's Struggle(ELA).

26-Jun-94 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 2 TURKEY. A bomb planted in aMcDonald's restaurant in Istanbulwas discovered, but exploded whilebeing defused.

26-Jun-94 VladivostokRussia Unknown Firearms0 2 RUSSIA. A New Zealand consul toSingapore was killed in Vladivostokby a gun shot to the head. A womanhe was visiting was also killed.

28-Jun-94 Israel Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ISRAEL. A Jewish man was stabbedin the head and neck as he workedon his car. The suspected Arabassailant fled to the village ofDahiyat al-Barid.

30-Jun-94 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives0 2 ALGERIA. A large mob of ArmedIslamic Group (GIA) members forcedtheir way into a Coca-Cola plant inAlgiers and set bombs that ignitedgasoline poured around the facility,causing extensive damage to thebottling plant.



Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Police arrested aman with a bomb concealed in a bagat a bus stop in London. The bombconsisted of 2.5 kg of Semtex andgasoline. Police believe the man wason his way to plant the bomb inLondon's financial center and thattogether with an accomplice wasabout to implement plans on a newbombing campaign in London.Explosives for six more bombs weresubsequently discovered. Thebomber was sentenced to 25 years inprison, his accomplice received a 20year sentence.

1-Jul-94 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. An American pilotworking for the UN was kidnapped byRENAMO members, demanding theirpromised demobilization andpayment allowances, in Nampulaprovince. He was released not longafter capture.

4-Jul-94 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Firearms0 1 GREECE. A Turkish Embassyundersecretary in Athens was shotseven times while getting into his carin front of his home. He died insurgery. November 17 claimedresponsibility.

4-Jul-94 Athens Greece KurdistanNationalLiberationFront(ERNK)

Unknown0 0 GREECE. The German consulate inAthens was occupied by members ofthe Kurdistan National LiberationFront (ERNK). They were protestingthe killing of a Kurdish youth byGerman police in Hanover.

5-Jul-94 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Firearms0 1 GREECE. The Turkish Deputy Chiefof Mission in Athens was killed byNovember 17 members who droveup alongside his car and shot thediplomat as he was on his way towork.

7-Jul-94 JerusalemIsrael Other Firearms0 1 ISRAEL. An Israeli soldier waskidnapped and killed by a previouslyunknown Palestinian group callingitself, Ahmad Qasir Martyr Group.The soldier was abducted inJerusalem and then taken to thevillage of 'Aqib where he was shotand left to bleed to death.

8-Jul-94 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)


0 7 ALGERIA. Attackers forcibly boardeda cargo ship docked in Jijel and killedseven Italian sailors by slitting theirthroats. The GIA claimedresponsibility for the killings.

10-Jul-94 Athens Greece RevolutionaryPeople'sStruggle(ELA)

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded outsidethe Athens office of a Germaninsurance company, Goethe Hellas.The Greek group ELA is suspected.

11-Jul-94 Greece Unknown Explosives2 0 GREECE. A bomb planted in a trashcan exploded outside a restaurant inLindhos beach, on the island ofRodhos, injuring an Italian tourist anda Greek citizen. No warning wasgiven. Although no group claimedresponsibility it is widely assumedthat the perpetrator's intention wasto harm the Greek tourist industry.

11-Jul-94 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 5 ALGERIA. A bus was stopped bysuspected Islamic fundamentalistsdisguised as police manning acheckpoint. Five employees of theSonatech oil company were takenfrom the bus and killed. Four of thedead were Russians; the fifth wasRomanian.

11-Jul-94 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 4 ALGERIA. Islamic fundamentalistsare suspected of attacking and killingfour men in the restaurant at theAlgiers Zoological Gardens. Two ofthe men were Serbian nationals andthe other two Algerian.This incidentbrings to 51 persons the number offoreigners killed by Islamicfundamentalists in Algeria.

12-Jul-94 Rouiba Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)


0 1 ALGERIA. A Franco-Algerian womanwas abducted and later found withher throat cut in Rouiba, near Algiers.She had been missing for three daysbefore her body was discovered. APolish woman who had beenkidnapped with her was releasedunharmed. Islamic fundamentalists,who posed as policemen, aresuspected.


Firearms1 4 ALGERIA. Three Islamicfundamentalists attacked a police carat the gates of the Italian Embassy inAlgiers. Two policemen were killedand a third injured. Two of theattackers were also killed in theshootout. Although the police werenot guarding the embassy it issuspected that the attack wassomehow linked to the murder ofseven Italian seamen [7 July 1994].

12-Jul-94 Greece Unknown Explosives4 0 GREECE. Two bombs exploded onthe island of Rodhos, one in front of adiscotheque and the other in front ofthe Grand Hotel in the Mandrakisarea. Four people were injured. Thebombs exploded twenty minutesapart. Foreign perpetrators aresuspected and the bombings appearto be designed to harm Greece'stourism industry.

12-Jul-94 Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. Two bombs exploded onthe island of Rodhos, one in front of adiscotheque and the other in front ofthe Grand Hotel in the Mandrakisarea. Four people were injured. Thebombs exploded twenty minutesapart. Foreign perpetrators aresuspected and the bombings appearto be designed to harm Greece'stourism industry.

12-Jul-94 MozambiqueMozambiqueNationalResistanceMovement(MNR)

Unknown0 0 MOZAMBIQUE. A group of UNemployees were held hostage alongwith 270 other people by ex-RENAMOrebels demanding food aid from theinternational community.

14-Jul-94 Malange Angola Unknown Explosives0 0 ANGOLA. An aircraft chartered byWorld Food Program was hit by somekind of projectile fired at it whilelanding at Malange. A hole at therear of the aircraft was found. Theflight had been cleared by thegovernment of Angola and the UNITArebels.


Unknown0 0 ALGERIA. The Omani and Yemeniambassadors to Algeria were bothkidnapped near Algiers. Their burnt-out car was found in an areacontrolled by the Armed IslamicGroup (GIA). They were releasedunharmed on 22 July 1994.

15-Jul-94 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Firearms4 0 GUATEMALA. Three MexicanEmbassy employees and theirGuatemalan driver were injured in amachine gun attack on the vehicle inwhich they were riding in GuatemalaCity.

16-Jul-94 VenezuelaOther Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. The former IranianDeputy Cultural Minister, who was inthe process of fleeing Iran, was thetarget of an attempted kidnapping ashe entered Venezuela. TheVenezuelan Foreign Ministry reportedthat four officials from the IranianEmbassy, who had tried to seize thediplomat, were expelled fromVenezuela.

17-Jul-94 France Other Firearms8 1 FRANCE. Eight North African menwere injured by shotgun blasts firedfrom a passing car. The attack wasracially motivated. The police killedone attacker during the pursuit thatfollowed the incident and arrestedtwo others. They were all EuropeanFrenchmen.

18-Jul-94 Somalia Other Unknown8 2 SOMALIA. A UN convoy was attackednorth of Mogadishu by rebelsbelonging to the Habr Ghidir clan.One New Zealand and three Italianofficers were kidnapped along withseven of their Malaysian escorts.Two other Malaysian soldiers werekilled in the initial attack. Thekidnappers released their hostagesthe next day. No negotiations hadreportedly taken place.

18-Jul-94 BuenosAires

ArgentinaAnsarAllah

Explosives236 96 ARGENTINA. A building in BuenosAires, housing several Jewishcommunity organisations, wasdestroyed by a bomb. The ArgentineIsraelite Mutual Assn. and Delegationof Argentine Israelite Assn - two ofArgentina's leading Jewishorganizations, as well as Jewishhistorical archives and files on Naziswho fled to Argentina were located inthe building. The 340lb bomb wasplaced in a van parked at the frontdoor of the building. One side of thevan was reinforced with steel platesto direct the blast towards thebuilding. It was detonated by asuicide bomber. A group calling itselfAnsar Allah (Partisans/Supporters ofGod - possibly linked with Hezbollah)claimed credit. Suspicion, however,has instead focused on Lebanese-based Islamic fundamentalists withties to Tehran, or as a former Iraniandiplomat claims, employees of theIranian Embassy in Buenos Aires. AnArgentine judge issued arrestwarrants for four Iranian employeesof the Iranian Embassy on suspicionof their involvement.In August 1996three people were detained by policewith suspected links to the bombing.

19-Jul-94 India Other Firearms0 1 INDIA. An American tourist was shotdead by the leader of Al-Jihad, SherKhan, a pro-Pakistani armedunderground group. Another pro-Pakistani group, however,subsequently apprehended thegunman fearing that world opinionwould turn against the movement ifthe Pakistani groups are linked to theshooting.

19-Jul-94 Pakistan Unknown Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. Two Chinese engineersworking at the Guddu Thermal powerplant were kidnapped in Kasur. Theywere seized in the midst of intensepressure on the Afghan leader MullahRocketi by Pakistan to releasevarious hostages he has held for overone year, among them other Chineseengineers.

19-Jul-94 Colon Panama AnsarAllah

Explosives0 21 PANAMA. A bomb exploded on aPanamanian commuter airplaneshortly after taking off from Colon.All 21 people on board were killed.Among the passengers killed werethree Americans. Most of thepassengers were Jewish. A Lebanesesuicide bomber is suspected. Thesame group that claimed credit forthe previous week's suicide bombingof a Jewish community center inBuenos Aires, Ansar Allah (Warriorsof God – linked with Hezbollah), alsoclaimed responsibility for thisbombing. Iranian involvement issuspected.

21-Jul-94 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Firearms2 0 BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. Two UNplanes were fired upon as theylanded at Sarajevo airport. One wasa Ukranian aircraft in which a soldierwas injured. An American civilian UNemployee was also injured. Theattacks were attributed to Serbgunners.


1 0 ISRAEL. An American tourist wasstabbed by Palestinian men as shewalked in the Arab section ofJerusalem.

26-Jul-94 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A bomb was found aboard atrain travelling from Nahariyya to TelAviv.

26-Jul-94 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Explosives0 13 CAMBODIA. Khmer Rouge guerrillasattacked a train going from PhnomPenh to Sihanoukville. They placedland mines on the tracks to stop thetrain and then stormed it killing 13passengers and robbing thesurvivors. The guerrillas took a largenumber of people hostage but soonreleased all but three Westerners - aBriton, an Australian and aFrenchman. The kidnappersdemanded a $50,000 ransom andthreatened to kill their captives if itwas not paid. In addition toobtaining money, the Cambodiangovernment believes that the KhmerRouge are attempting to discourageforeign investment in Cambodia. Thehostages' bodies were found inshallow graves in November 1994.They had been bludgeoned to deathby the guerrillas some two monthsearlier.


Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives15 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A 30lb car bombdestroyed part of the Israeli Embassyin London. The car was parked alongthe street behind the consularsection. The explosion also damagednearby buildings includingKensington Palace. The attack wasreportedly claimed by various groupsincluding Hamas, the Movement ofthe Oppressed, and the PalestinianResistance. In January 1995, fivepeople were arrested and held underthe Prevention of Terrorism Act. Fourare Jordanians and the fifth aLebanese national. Two of theJordanians, Nadia Zekra and JawadMahmoud, were remanded incustody for the bombing and chargedwith conspiring to cause explosions.The Lebanese, a woman, SamarAlami, was also arrested in March1995 and charged with the bombing.All five were also charged with thebombing early the following morningof the Joint Israel Appeal (see below).They are linked to a radicalPalestinian terrorist group that waspreviously thought to havedisbanded. Three Palestinians werearrested in June 1995 and charged inthe bombing. Two of the Palestinianswere released in July 1995 due toinsufficient evidence. Nadia Zekrawas found not guilty in December1996.In October 1996 fourPalestinians were being tried.


Other Explosives5 0 UNITED KINGDOM. A car bombexploded outside Balfour House,headquarters of the Joint IsraelAppeal in Finchley, North London. InJanuary and March 1995 five personswere arrested and charged with boththis bombing as well as the previousday's bombing of the IsraeliEmbassy. (see 7/26/94)

29-Jul-94 Incirlik Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb planted on the fuelpipeline leading to the jointUS/Turkish air base in Incirlik wasdefused just before it was to explode.

31-Jul-94 PhilippinesAbuSayyafGroup(ASG)

Unknown1 0 PHILIPPINES. An American priest waskidnapped by members of the AbuSayyaf Group, who aims to create anIranian-style Islamic republic in thePhilippines. The priest was rescuedsoon after the abduction by membersof a rival Muslim group, the MNLF,who had set up a roadblock andopened fire on the kidnappers whenthey refused to stop. The MNLF arein the process of peace talks with thegovernment, whereas the ASG havedefiantly clung to the armed struggleand terrorist tactics.

1-Aug-94 BarcelonaSpain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A small bomb (most likelysent through the post) exploded inthe Israeli Consulate in Barcelona.

2-Aug-94 Cali Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Mormon churches inCali were bombed. The bombs eachcontained a half kilo of dynamiteplaced in a can. Two people nearone of the churches were injured.FARC claimed credit for the bombingin statements left at the sitesprotesting US intervention in Haiti.

2-Aug-94 Cali Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives2 0 COLOMBIA. Two Mormon churches inCali were bombed. The bombs eachcontained a half kilo of dynamiteplaced in a can. Two people nearone of the churches were injured.FARC claimed credit for the bombingin statements left at the sitesprotesting US intervention in Haiti.

3-Aug-94 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives1 5 ALGERIA. Islamic fundamentalistsdressed as policemen killed fiveFrench nationals (three gendarmesand two consular officials) whileattempting to crash a car bomb intoa French diplomat's residence inAlgiers. The car penetrated thecompound but the bomb wasdefused by police. The ArmedIslamic Group (GIA) claimedresponsibility.

4-Aug-94 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish cultural club inMunich was damaged in a firebombattack. There were no injuries.

8-Aug-94 Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 TURKEY. Kurdish PKK rebelskidnapped two Finnish touriststravelling in eastern Turkey. Theywere released soon afterwards.

9-Aug-94 SindelfingenFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish-owned buildinghousing a mosque and culturalcenter was destroyed in a firebombattack in Sindelfingen.

12-Aug-94

JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Firearms3 0 ISRAEL. Three policemen inJerusalem were injured in a drive-byshooting. Hamas claimedresponsibility for the attack.

12-Aug-94

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives8 1 TURKEY. One Romanian was killedand a Czech and a Swede (onesource reports a Swiss national) wereinjured, along with six Turks, whenthe International Topkapi BusTerminal in Istanbul was bombed.

13-Aug-94


Firearms3 2 ISRAEL. Hamas terrorists attackedthe home of former defense ministerAriel Sharon. Three policemen wereinjured in the shootout. Twosuspects were killed and a third wasarrested.

13-Aug-94

Burundi Unknown Unknown5 2 BURUNDI. The home of an UNHCRofficial was attacked in the town ofKirundo. Both the official and one ofthe soldiers guarding him were killed.Five other persons were wounded.

15-Aug-94

Algeria Unknown Firearms0 2 ALGERIA. Gunmen attacked andkilled two Chinese nationals workingin Algeria in El-Harrach.

15-Aug-94

Hamm FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A gasoline bomb wasthrown into a Turkish tea house inHamm. Police suspect neo-Nazis orKurdish extremists.

16-Aug-94

Caracas VenezuelaRevolutionaryBolivarianoMovement200

Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. The Mexican Embassyin Caracas was taken over by 37Venezuelans demanding land rights.They were linked to the left-wingRevolutionary Bolivariano Movement200 (MBR-200). The protesters leftthe next day without incident.

17-Aug-94

Assisi Italy Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 ITALY. Three men slashed the faceof a Norwegian Jewish woman livingin Assisi in an apparent anti-Semiticattack.

18-Aug-94


Explosives0 0 CHILE. The building in which theAmerican company Flour Daniel hasoffices was bombed. The ManuelRodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR)claimed credit in an expression ofrevolutionary solidarity with Cubaagainst the US.

22-Aug-94

MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms0 0 SOMALIA. A convoy carrying the USAmbassador was attacked by Somalimilitiamen in Mogadishu. U.S.Marines protecting the convoyreturned fire and the convoy made itsafely to the airport.

22-Aug-94

Somalia Other Unknown9 7 SOMALIA. Seven Indian UNpeacekeepers were killed and ninewounded in an ambush in Burleego,a village controlled by the Aideedmilitia not far from Mogadishu. Thepeacekeepers were guarding anarms supply convoy.

24-Aug-94

MarrakechMorocco de Fes Firearms2 2 MOROCCO. Three French Muslimgunmen opened fire in the lobby ofthe Atlas Asni Hotel in Marrakechkilling two people (both Spaniards)and injuring two others (of whom onewas also Spanish). The gunmen alsorobbed the hotel of 10,000 dirhamsand fled with a hostage who theylater released. One man, Boujedli,was arrested on 16 Oct 1994 in thenorthern part of Morocco and wasfound to be a member of a terroristgroup called de Fes. The shootingsand robbery had been ordered byIslamic extremists seeking todestabilize the Moroccan economy.In January 1997 a number ofmembers of the group who organizedthe series of attacks were givensentences of between one and eightyears imprisonment.

26-Aug-94


Firearms3 1 EGYPT. Suspected Muslim extremistsmachine gunned a tour bus carryingSpanish tourists. One young boy waskilled and three other persons wereinjured. The bus was attackeddespite an accompanying policeescort as it neared the village of NagHammadi.

26-Aug-94

Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. An American relief worker,a Portuguese priest and four Angolannuns were kidnapped with as manyas 70 other persons by UNITA rebelsnear the town of Choba. The rebelsset up an ambush along the PortoAmboim-Luanda road, seizing bothhostages and vehicles.

27-Aug-94



0 2 ISRAEL. Two Israelis were stabbed todeath in Ramle, near Tel Aviv byHamas members seeking to avengethe Hebron mosque massacre. Thekillings occurred on the six- monthanniversary of the massacre. 'Izz-al-Din al-Qassam, the armed wing ofHamas, claimed responsibility for theattack. They were the first Israeliskilled in Israel since Palestinian self-rule took effect.

27-Aug-94

Zaire(BelgianCongo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 ZAIRE. The house of foreign aidworkers for CARE on Lake Kivu wasattacked by unknown assailants.Stones were thrown and a shot wasfired at the house. Zairean troopswere alerted and the attackers fled.There were no arrests.

27-Aug-94

PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Seven South Koreanengineers and 30 Filipinos werekidnapped by the Moro IslamicLiberation Front (MILF). The MILFdemanded that the Philippinemilitary withdraw from the area ofCarmen, Cotabato, which is the siteof a dam being built by the KoreanSinsong Corporation.

31-Aug-94

Baidoa Somalia Other Unknown0 3 SOMALIA. Three Indian doctorsattached to the UN peacekeepingforce, were killed in an attack on ahospital in Baidoa. There were anunknown number of casualtiesinflicted as well.

1-Sep-94 Egypt Unknown Firearms0 5 EGYPT. Five people were killed whena police car escorting UN staff wasfired upon between Luxor & Dandara.

6-Sep-94 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Explosives0 0 BOSNIA. Bosnian Serbs, protestingPope John Paul II proposed visit toSarajevo, fired 11 mortar rounds intoa field near the intended location ofthe open-air Mass.

6-Sep-94 BarcelonaSpain Unknown Explosives0 0 SPAIN. The Greek Consulate inBarcelona received a mail bombwhich exploded after the buildinghad been evacuated following atelephone warning.

10-Sep-94 Croatians Unknown Explosives0 0 CROATIA. The hotel room where theEuropean Union administrator forMostar was staying was deliberatelyattacked with rocket-propelledgrenades. Herr Koschnick was not inhis room at the time.

11-Sep-94 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Explosives0 0 BOSNIA - HERCEGOVINA. In anincident related to the incident of9/10/94, the European Unionheadquarters was attacked withrocket-propelled grenades byCroatians angered by the removal ofa Croatian militia barricade orderedby the administrator of the city ofMostar, Herr Koschnick.

11-Sep-94 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon churches inSantiago were the targets of bombattacks.

11-Sep-94 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 CHILE. Two Mormon churches inSantiago were the targets of bombattacks.

12-Sep-94 ArgentinaUnknown Firearms0 0 ARGENTINA. A guard post at asubmarine base was fired onpresumably to protest a US Navynuclear submarine due to arrive forjoint exercises with Argentine forces.

14-Sep-94 Ankara Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb was found anddefused at a McDonald's restaurantin Ankara. No claim of responsibilitywas made.

21-Sep-94 ErbendorfFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A housing complex inErbendorf where 22 Turkish familieslive was attacked by unknownassailants with Molotov cocktailscausing only minor damage.

22-Sep-94 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Military helicopterscarrying the Colombian DefenseMinister, a US Assistant Secretary ofDefense, the US Ambassador,military commanders and journalistswere fired on by FARC guerrillaswhile touring anti-narcoticsoperations in Caqueta Department.One of the five helicopters was hitbut not downed.

22-Sep-94 Lebanon Unknown Explosives3 0 LEBANON. A roadside bombexplosion injured three Fijian UNIFILsoldiers patrolling in southernLebanon. No group claimedresponsibility.

22-Sep-94 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Explosives3 1 GUATEMALA. A bomb explosion at afast food chicken restaurant inGuatemala City, killed a young boyand injured a US Embassy employeeand his wife.

26-Sep-94 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 1 ALGERIA. A Bosnian national waskilled by suspected Muslimfundamentalists in north-east Algiers.

27-Sep-94 HurghadaEgypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms0 4 EGYPT. Islamic extremists fired on acrowded marketplace in Hurghada.Two German tourists and twoEgyptians were killed. The attackwas claimed by the Islamic Group, al-Jamma'a al-Islamiya as part of itscampaign to disrupt tourism inEgypt. Two of the assailants weresentenced to death by hanging and14 others were given prisonsentences.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An American man waskidnapped by FARC guerrillas inCauca province.

29-Sep-94 NewDelhi

India Al Hadid Unknown0 0 INDIA. A British tourist was luredfrom New Delhi to Saharanpur by aman who had befriended him. Hewas then kidnapped and heldhostage by Al Hadid, a group ofKashmiri Muslim extremists. Theydemanded the release of 10 Kashmirimilitants held in Indian prisons. Itwas not known that the tourist hadbeen abducted and was being heldcaptive until Oct 31, 1994 when thegroup sent a copy of his passport toVoice Of America along with theirdemands. He was rescued and freedin a raid by Indian police forces onNov 1, 1994 along with two otherBritish hostages.

30-Sep-94 La Paz Bolivia Unknown Explosives0 0 BOLIVIA. Dynamite was thrown intoa Mormon church in La Paz causingsome damage but no injuries.



0 1 ALGERIA. A French national living inAlgiers was kidnapped from Meftah.His body was found with his throatslit on 8 Oct 1994 in Hamadi. TheArmed Islamic Group (GIA) claimedresponsibility.



1 0 GERMANY. Four neo-Nazis attackeda Ghanian man on a train to Berlin.They stabbed him and then threwhim off the train. The four werearrested.

5-Oct-94 WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives4 0 WEST BANK. Four tourists, includingan Italian and a Spaniard, werewounded in a hand-grenade attacknear the Church of Lazarus on theoccupied West Bank. Afragmentation grenade was thrownat the tourists' bus parked near thechurch.

8-Oct-94 Algiers Algeria Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ALGERIA. The 12 year old sister-in-law of the Second Secretary to theMalian Embassy in Algiers wasstabbed to death when attackersforced their way into the diplomat'sresidence. The diplomat and his wifewere not home at the time of theattack.

8-Oct-94 Mefth Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)


0 1 ALGERIA. A French engineer wasfound with his throat slit near Mefthin southeast Algeria.

9-Oct-94 Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Firearms13 4 ISRAEL. Two people were killed, anIsraeli and a Palestinian, when twoHamas members ran down a busystreet firing AK-47 rifles and hurlinghand grenades at random. Amongthe 13 persons injured was anAmerican diplomat. The two Hamasmembers, one from the Gaza Stripand the other from Egypt, were shotto death by police and armedcivilians. Hamas claimed the attackwas in retaliation for the Oct 1990shooting of 17 Palestinians by Israeliforces at Al Aqsa mosque.


Firearms0 1 ALGERIA. A French national living inAlgiers was shot to death by Islamicfundamentalists in an Algeriansuburb. The Armed Islamic Group(GIA) claimed responsibility. He isthe 19th Frenchman killed in Algeriasince January 1992 when clashes firsterupted between Islamicfundamentalists and thegovernment.


Firearms0 2 ALGERIA. Suspected Islamicextremists shot and killed a SouthKorean businessman, employed byDaewoo, near his home in Algiers.He was involved in the project tobuild a Hilton Hotel in Algiers whichthe Islamic fundamentalists oppose.He was the 64th foreigner killed inthe 13 months since Islamicextremists launched their campaignagainst foreigners living in Algiers.

13-Oct-94 Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Unknown2 1 ISRAEL. An Israeli soldier, who alsoholds American citizenship, waskidnapped by Hamas whilehitchhiking in Israel. Hamasdemanded the release of 200 of theirmembers from prison. The soldierwas killed during a rescue attempt byIsraeli forces on 14 Oct 1994. All ofhis captors as well as two Israelisoldiers were also killed.

16-Oct-94 NewDelhi

India Al Hadid Unknown0 0 INDIA. Two more British touristswere kidnapped by the KashmiriMuslim group, Al Hadid, in anidentical manner to the Britonabducted on 29 September. Theywere befriended by a man in NewDelhi who lured them to Saharanpurwhere they were seized. The twowere not known to be captives until31 Oct when the captors sent copiesof their passports and the demandthat 10 Kashmiri militants be freedfrom Indian prisons. All the hostageswere rescued in a police raid on Nov1, 1994.

17-Oct-94 Rwanda Unknown Unknown0 1 RWANDA. A Canadian priestemployed by the UN was killed in thesouth-west of the country.

18-Oct-94 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 2 ALGERIA. Two European employeesof Schlumberger working at anAlgerian oil site were killed by about30 GIA gunmen who forced their wayinto the camp. The two Europeans, aFrenchman and an Italian, were theonly persons singled out to be killed.

18-Oct-94 Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Unknown0 1 CUBA. Seven Cuban exiles werearrested by Cuban authorities afterthey landed from a motorboat andhad killed a fisherman. The exilesare believed to belong to a Florida-based paramilitary group.

19-Oct-94 Tel Aviv Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives45 23 ISRAEL. A bus on Dizengoff Street inTel Aviv was destroyed by a suicidebomber, killing 23 people andinjuring 45 others. A Dutch nationalwas among the victims. The bus wasfilled with commuters at 9AM whenthe explosion occurred. Hamasclaimed responsibility. The attackoccurred two days after Israel andJordan agreed on a peace treaty.

20-Oct-94 NewDelhi

India Al Hadid Unknown0 0 INDIA. An American tourist waskidnapped by the Al Hadid groupusing the same tactics it hademployed to lure three Britons ontwo previous occasions. A man againbefriended the latest victim, enticinghim to travel from New Delhi toGhaziabad, where he was forciblydetained. The group againdemanded the release of 10 Kashmirimilitants held in Indian prisons. Itwas not known that the Americanwas a captive until Oct 31, 1994when a copy of his passport, alongwith three others, was delivered toVOA in Delhi along with the demand.He was rescued by police in a raid ofthe hide-out where he was beingheld on Nov 1, 1994. His rescue ledto the rescue of three British touristswho were being held in a differentlocation.

21-Oct-94 TheHague

NetherlandsUnknown Explosives7 0 NETHERLANDS. A bomb exploded inthe center of The Hague. Sevenpeople were injured. The explosionoccurred 300 meters from the IsraeliEmbassy.

22-Oct-94 Neiva Colombia SimonBolivarGuerillaCoordinatingBoard(CGSB)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Mormon churcheswere bombed in Neiva by suspectedCGSB (Simon Bolivar GuerrillaCoordinating Board) members.

22-Oct-94 Neiva Colombia SimonBolivarGuerillaCoordinatingBoard(CGSB)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Mormon churcheswere bombed in Neiva by suspectedCGSB (Simon Bolivar GuerrillaCoordinating Board) members.


Firearms0 2 ALGERIA. Suspected Armed IslamicGroup (GIA) gunmen shot twoSpanish nuns as they were leaving achapel in Algiers. They had bothlived in Algiers for many years andhad recently received threats fromGIA for treating injured policemen inthe hospital where they worked.

23-Oct-94 Naqada Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms4 1 EGYPT. A British tourist was killed ina machine gun attack on a tour busby suspected Islamic extremists.Three other British tourists wereinjured as well as the Egyptiandriver. The attack occurred inNaqada, near Luxor, 300 miles southof Cairo. The al'Jama'a al-Islamiya issuspected.

25-Oct-94 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Unknown0 0 BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. BosnianSerbs kidnapped four British UNsoldiers whom they suspected ofspying and their translator. BosnianSerbs claim that the men weremembers of the British specialforces, which was denied by the UN.They were released on Oct 31, 1994.

1-Nov-94 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Unknown0 0 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. 55 CanadianUN peacekeepers were takenhostage by Bosnia Serbs. They wereheld for three weeks in the Ilijassuburb of Sarajevo.

2-Nov-94 ManaguaNicaraguaUnknown Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. A grenade was thrownat a wall of the Cuban Embassy inManagua. The explosion causedminor damage.

3-Nov-94 Norway Other Unknown0 0 NORWAY. A SAS flight was hijackedover northern Norway by a Bosnianrefugee to draw attention to thesituation in his country and convincethe international community toprovide aid. The plane landed atOslo's Gardermoen Airport, wherethe hijacker surrendered afternegotiations.

5-Nov-94 Bouira Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)


0 1 ALGERIA. A French man was killed inBouira, near Algiers, while on his wayto Batna. His throat was slit. Muslimextremists are suspected.

5-Nov-94 Denmark Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Unknown0 0 DENMARK. An Iranian diplomat wasthe target of an assassinationattempt. Members of theMojahedeen Khalq Organization(MKO) attacked the diplomat while inhis car. Although the car wasseverely damaged, the diplomatescaped unharmed.

7-Nov-94 Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms0 0 EGYPT. A tourist cruise boat on theNile was fired upon by suspectedMuslim extremists. There were noinjuries.

7-Nov-94 SierraLeone

Unknown Unknown0 0 SIERRA LEONE. Rebels kidnappedtwo British men who worked withVoluntary Service Overseas on roadprojects in Kabala. In January 1995,the rebels holding the two menthreatened to execute them if adeath sentence imposed on an armyofficer charged with aiding the rebelswas carried out. The two Britonswere released on 21 April 1995.

13-Nov-94

Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb exploded in thegarbage bin of a Wendy's restaurantin Manila. The Wendy's was alongthe route used by President Clintonduring his recent visit to thePhilippines.

14-Nov-94

Algiers Algeria Union ofPeacefulCitizensof Algeria

Unknown0 0 ALGERIA. Three Algerian menhijacked an Algerian flight en routefrom Algiers to Ouargla and divertedit to Majorca, Spain. They demandedthe release of political prisoners heldin Algeria, the upholding of the 1991elections there and fuel to travelonward to Marseille. Their demandswere denied and the hijackerseventually surrendered, requestingpolitical asylum in Spain. Theyclaimed to be members of the Unionof Peaceful Citizens of Algeria.

14-Nov-94

Romania Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ROMANIA. An Iranian dissident wasstabbed to death in his home. TheIranian Embassy claimed he was acriminal of the Iranian people.Iranian involvement is suspected.

14-Nov-94

JerusalemIsrael Unknown Fire orFirebomb

2 0 ISRAEL. A firebomb was thrown at anIsraeli car near the neighborhood ofal-Ayzariyah in East Jerusalem,injuring two people.

15-Nov-94

Belgrade YugoslaviaUnknown Explosives1 0 SERBIA. A kasikara car bombexploded near the Turkish Embassyin Belgrade. The car had Swissregistration plates.

20-Nov-94

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Other 3 0 BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. British UNpeacekeepers were clubbed andbeaten by Bosnian Serbs. Twowomen soldiers in particular wereroughly treated.

24-Nov-94

Bremen FederalRepublicofGermany


3 0 GERMANY. The Turkish CulturalCenter and sports club in Bremenwas fire-bombed. The attacksoccurred as Kurds demonstratedagainst the ban placed on the PKK byBonn one year ago. Four Kurds weredetained by police as suspects in theattack.

27-Nov-94

Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Three Polish men workingfor an Italian company in Angolawere kidnapped by FLEC (Front forthe Liberation of the CabindaEnclave). They were released on 29Dec 1994.

27-Nov-94

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Unknown0 0 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. SeveralDutch and British UN militaryconvoys were stopped and thesoldiers kidnapped by Serbs. A totalof 63 British and 102 Dutch soldierswere taken. They are being held as adeterrent to continued NATOairstrikes. The last of the soldierswere released on 4 Dec 1994.

30-Nov-94



0 1 ISRAEL. A Hamas terrorist wieldingan ax killed a female Israeli soldier inAfoula in northern Israel. Theattacker lives in the West Bank andstated he went to Afula specifically tokill an Israeli soldier. The soldier wasrushed to the hospital with the axstill embedded in her head.

1-Dec-94 Bihac Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Unknown0 0 BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. NineUkrainian UN peacekeepers wereabducted by Croatian Serbs nearBihac.

1-Dec-94 SierraLeone

Other Unknown0 0 SIERRA LEONE. A Russian waskidnapped by rebels.

2-Dec-94 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 1 ALGERIA. A French retired professorof Mathematics was killed in hishome near Oran. The GIA claimedresponsibility for this assassination ina statement they sent to a LondonArab daily on 21 Jan 1995.

6-Dec-94 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Unknown0 0 BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. BosnianSerbs seized two UN officers, oneSpanish, the other Czech, who wereattempting to secure the release of aseriously ill Jordanian peacekeeperby offering one of themselves as ahostage in the Jordanian's place. TheBosnian Serbs had been holdingthree peacekeepers for severalweeks. They then reneged on anagreement to accept anotherpeacekeeper and release the onewho was ill when they took the twovolunteer replacements hostage. Allfive hostages are being used ahuman shields at an airfield in BanjaLuka.

10-Dec-94

ManaguaNicaraguaUnknown Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. A homemade bombwas thrown at the Cuban Embassy inManagua. The bomb did not explodenor were the assailants identified.

11-Dec-94

Manila PhilippinesAbuSayyafGroup(ASG)

Explosives10 1 PHILIPPINES. A bomb exploded on aPhilippines Airlines flight en routefrom Manila to Tokyo with 292people on board. One passenger waskilled an 10 others injured. Thevictims were all Japanese. The planelanded in Okinawa with a huge holein the floor. The Abu Sayyaf group,an Islamic fundamentalistorganization, claimed credit for thebombing. Police doubt, however,that the claim is true. On 31 March1995, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, (thealleged mastermind of the February1993 World Trade Center bombing inNew York City) who had a flat inManila where bomb-making materialswere found as well as a computerdisk detailing the plans for thebombing, was charged with murder,attempted murder, and acts inimicalto civil aviation in connection withthis bombing.

12-Dec-94

Istanbul Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives8 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded inIstanbul injuring eight persons, fourof whom were Romanian tourists.The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) issuspected.

14-Dec-94

Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Swedish engineersand three Colombians employed bythe Swedish Skanska Company werekidnapped by FARC. The Swedishfirm is building the Urra Dam. FARCabducted the engineers afterreleasing 300 Colombians working onthe dam project that they hadkidnapped 20 hours earlier.

15-Dec-94


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A Canadian engineerworking on the hydroelectric plant atBajo Anchcaya and his Colombianwife were kidnapped from aroadblock as they were returning toCali. Their truck was found in Dagua.Authorities suspect FARC guerrillas.The couple were released in Oct1995. They said they were held by alarge group of teenagers whoclaimed to be right-wingparamilitaries.

16-Dec-94

Marseille France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A small bomb explodedoutside of the Italian consulate inMarseille. A group opposed to ItalianPrime Minister Silvio Berlusconi andhis forthcoming visit to France,claimed responsibility.

17-Dec-94

MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms0 0 SOMALIA. A French worker for theFrench International Action AgainstFamine was kidnapped by Somaligunmen in Mogadishu. He wasreleased 37 days later, unharmed.No ransom was paid.

21-Dec-94

Beirut Lebanon Other Explosives16 3 LEBANON. A car bomb with 100lbs ofTNT exploded in a Shiite Muslimsuburb of Beirut killing three peopleand injuring 16 others. Among thedead was an Egyptian national andthe brother of the allegedmastermind behind the kidnapping ofwestern hostages during the 1980's,Imad Mugniyah, who is a seniorHezbollah security official. An Arabworking for the Mossad who hadarrived from Israel the previous dayis suspected of having carried outthe bombing.

24-Dec-94


Explosives20 3 ALGERIA. Four men, dressed in AirAlgerie uniforms, hijacked an AirFrance flight scheduled to departfrom Algiers for Paris with 283 peopleon board. They seized the plane atAlgiers Airport before take-off anddemanded to be allowed to fly toFrance. They also demanded therelease of two leaders of the IslamicSalvation Front currently being heldunder house arrest. French andAlgerian authorities allowed theplane to fly to Marseilles where thehijackers demanded more fuel tocontinue to Paris. Three passengerswere killed, two right after theaircraft was siezed and the third inMarseilles - a Vietnamese diplomat atthe Vietnamese Embassy in Algiers,an Algerian policeman, and a Frenchemployee of the French Embassy.Many passengers, mostly women andchildren, had been released inAlgiers. The hijackers were membersof the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), anextremist Algerian Muslim group.Their plan was to blow up the planeover Paris and crash it into thecrowded city below. The French anti-terrorist unit, GIGN, stormed theparked aircraft, killing all fourhijackers and freeing the remaining170 people on board unharmed. Theplane was found to have had 20sticks of dynamite on board underthe seats.

25-Dec-94

Izmir Turkey Unknown Explosives2 0 TURKEY. A car bomb exploded infront of the Hilton Hotel in Izmir. Asecond bomb found in the car wasdefused. No one has claimedresponsibility.

25-Dec-94


Explosives13 12 ISRAEL. A Hamas suicide bomberexploded a bomb at a Jerusalem busstop crowded with Israeli soldiersreturning to their bases. Twelvepersons, including one American,were killed and thirteen injured. Thebomber was protesting the killing ofHamas members and was himself amember of the Palestinian nationalpolice force. He had probablyintended to carry the bomb on to abus filled with Israeli soldiers.

28-Dec-94

Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 4 ALGERIA. Four Catholic priests of theOrder of White Fathers, were killed ina machine gun attack at theirmission in Tizi-Ouzou. Three of thepriests were French nationals and thefourth Belgian. The attack occurredthe day after four Algerian GIAmembers who had hijacked an AirFrance Airbus were killed by Frenchsecurity forces at the Marseilleairport. The suspected GIA gunmen,who had disguised themselves aspolicemen, escaped after the attack.The Armed Islamic Group (GIA)claimed the killings in a fax to newsorganizations. They said it was partof their campaign of annihilation andphysical liquidation of Christiancrusaders. In June 1995, Algeriansecurity forces killed five men whowere believed to be the attackers.

4-Jan-95 SierraLeone


Unknown0 9 SIERRA LEONE. A Swiss employee ofa French lumber company waskidnapped by rebels who ambusheda convoy travelling between Kenemaand Lago. Nine people were killedand mutilated. The RevolutionaryUnited Front (RUF) are suspected butin negotiating the release of 16 otherforeign hostages in March 1995, theRUF claimed not to know of thiscaptive.

12-Jan-95 al-Ashiyah


Firearms6 0 EGYPT. Two Argentinians and fourEgyptians were injured whensuspected al-Gama'a al-Islamiyagunmen opened-fire on the traintravelling from Luxor to Cairo. Theattack occurred at al-Ashiyah,Markaz Qus, Qena Governorate.

13-Jan-95 Beit El Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Firearms0 1 ISRAEL. An Israeli student was killedin a drive-by shooting near Beit El.PFLP claimed responsibility for thekilling and said it was in revenge forthe deaths of four members by theIDF.

15-Jan-95 Angkor CambodiaKhmerRouge

Firearms1 2 CAMBODIA. An American womanwas killed in an ambush on a convoyof tourists near Angkor. ACambodian guide was also killed.The woman's husband was seriouslyinjured. Khmer Rouge claimedresponsibility as the governmentinsisted that the killers were bandits.On Aug 8, 1995 four Khmer Rougeguerillas were convicted of themurder, Two of them escaped andwere convicted in absentia while theother two were given 20 years inprison. In October 1996 the twoprisoners were given a pardon byCambodia's King at the request ofthe woman's husband.ADDENDUM.In January 1997, a Cambodian courtreduced the sentences of the twomen to five years each following thehusband's plea for clemency onhumanitarian grounds.

15-Jan-95 Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 2 TURKEY. Two Iranian men werekidnapped from their house inAtakoy, Istanbul. Their torturedbodies were found two weeks later inSilivri, Istanbul. The PKK claimed thekidnapping and killings. The PKKclaim that the men had provided toTurkish authorities a list of TurkishKurds who supported the PKK.

18-Jan-95 Colombia PopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An American engineerwith Correjon Coal Mine in La Guajirawas kidnapped by a large group ofarmed men who stopped his car on aroad in Hatonuevo. It is suspectedthat a splinter group of the nowdefunct EPL (Popular LiberationArmy) is responsible. He wasreleased in April 1995.

18-Jan-95 Mokanji SierraLeone


Unknown0 0 SIERRA LEONE. Two British, aGerman, an Austrian and two Swissworkers of a Swiss-owned miningcompany, Sierra Leone Ore andMetal Company (Sieromco) werekidnapped by Revolutionary UnitedFront rebels in Mokanji. The rebelshave targeted Europeans and miningworkers to hasten their demand thatall foreign troops and advisors leavethe country. Another sourcereported that eight employees werekidnapped; two Swiss, two British,one German and three Sierra Leonenationals. The hostages were amongthe 10 Europeans and 6 Sierra Leonenationals that were freed on 21 Apr95 to the International Committee ofthe Red Cross (ICRC).

20-Jan-95 GbangbatokSierraLeone


Unknown0 0 SIERRA LEONE. Two British and oneSierra Leonean employees of SierraRutile Ltd, an American-Australianmining company, were kidnappedfrom a mine site in Gbangbatok bysuspected Revolutionary United Frontrebels. They were released on 21April 1995 with the assistance of theInternational Committee of the RedCross.

22-Jan-95 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms1 1 ALGERIA. A Frenchman, who hadreceived death threats, was shotdead in his car by suspected GIAmembers in Port Said Square inAlgiers. One person was seriouslyinjured in the attack where thegunmen had opened fire on theirtarget in the crowded square. Astatement by the GIA was issued theprevious day to Al-Hayat Arab dailyin London warning French citizens toleave and or stay out of Algeria.

22-Jan-95 Netanya Israel PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Explosives62 22 ISRAEL. A crowded bus stop at BeitLid, near Netanya, frequented bysoldiers was the target of two suicidebombers. The bombs explodedwithin a few minutes of each other,causing further injuries as peoplerushed in to help the injured from thefirst explosion. The Islamic JihadMovement in Palestine claims thattwo of its members from Gaza werethe suicide bombers. The bombersdisguised themselves in Israelisoldier uniforms. In August 2005,Sami Al-Arian and three otherindividuals were put on trial andaccused of raising money andsupporting the Palestinian IslamicJihad in this attack. All fourdefendants deny any involvement.

23-Jan-95 Iraq Unknown Unknown4 1 IRAQ. An Iraqi employee of anAustralian humanitarian organizationwas killed in an attack by unknownassailants. They were attacked on aroad in the Sulaymaniyah region.Several Kurdish colleagues wereinjured.

24-Jan-95 London UnitedKingdom

Unknown Firearms0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. The Sikh editor ofDes Pardes, a Sikh newspaper inLondon, was shot and killed outsidethe paper's offices. He was a vocaladvocate for the creation of a Sikhstate. Police were investigating thepossibility of assassins from Indiacarrying out the killing. No oneclaimed responsibility. Five menwere arrested in late March 1995.

25-Jan-95 Moscow Russia Unknown Firearms1 1 RUSSIA. Two Georgian generalswere attacked in Moscow as theywere leaving a military residence.Gunmen opened fire on them killingthe former deputy defense ministerand seriously wounding a formerdefense minister.

25-Jan-95 Kambia SierraLeone

Unknown Unknown0 0 SIERRA LEONE. The British-basedcharity organization, Actionaid wasattacked by rebels in Kambia. Six oftheir staff were kidnapped butreleased soon after. Actionaidsuspended operations in Sierra Leoneafter this attack.

25-Jan-95 Kambia SierraLeone


Unknown0 0 SIERRA LEONE. Seven nuns, sixItalian and one Brazilian, werekidnapped in an attack on Kambia bythe Revolutionary United Front, arebel group. Their leader, FodaySankoh, demanded medicines, agenerator and a mobile phone. Hehad made the same demandspreviously as a precondition tobeginning peace talks with thegovernment. The nuns werereleased on 21 March 1995.

26-Jan-95 VenezuelaNationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA/VENEZUELA. ThreeVenezuelan oil engineers withCorpoven were kidnapped bysuspected ELN guerrillas. A fourthVenezuelan was killed. Reports differon where the kidnapping took place.One reports says that they weretaken from Venezuela into Colombia.

26-Jan-95 Tbilisi Georgia Unknown Explosives0 0 GEORGIA. A bomb exploded at theRussian Group of Forces in theTranscaucasus headquarters in Tbilisicausing damage but no injuries. It isbelieved that those responsible forthe attack on the Georgian generalsin Moscow the previous day are alsoresponsible for the bombing.

31-Jan-95 Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Brazilian engineersworking for Swiss-owned ASEA werekidnapped.

31-Jan-95 SanSalvador

ElSalvador

Unknown Firearms0 0 EL SALVADOR. A French Jewishbusinessman was kidnapped in SanSalvador by six armed men. He wasa leader of the local Jewishcommunity.

31-Jan-95 SanCarlos

Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. A Brazilian engineer waskidnapped from the compound of theCentral Hidroelectrica Calderas nearSan Carlos by Colombian gunmen.

4-Feb-95 MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms0 0 SOMALIA. Fourteen UN aid workersof the World Food Program were heldby gunmen in their Mogadishucompound for three days, preventingthem from joining UN troops andcivilians at the fortified port andairport awaiting departure fromSomalia. The gunmen demandedmoney that they claimed was owedto them by WFP. The release of thehostages was negotiated by Aidid'sSomali National Alliance.

8-Feb-95 Sudan Other Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Unidentified Sudanesegunmen kidnapped eleven aidworkers in the Upper Nile Province,releasing all but five foreigners. Ofthe foreign hostages, three were withthe UN Operation Lifeline Sudan andone each with Swiss Disaster Reliefand Medecins de Monde. They arebeing held by a rebel commandernamed Gordon Koang Banypint.

11-Feb-95 Tunisia ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 6 TUNISIA. Algerian Islamic militantsattacked a border post at Tamerza,killing six Tunisian border guards.The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) andthe Tunisian Islamic Front (FIT)claimed responsibility. There aresuspected links between the twogroups. The attack could be seen asa warning to Tunisia againstcooperating with the Algeriangovernment.

14-Feb-95 Pakistan Unknown Unknown0 1 PAKISTAN. A senior Afghani armyofficer was assassinated at his homein Pakistan. No one claimedresponsibility.

20-Feb-95 RotterdamNetherlandsUnknown Explosives0 1 NETHERLANDS. A car bombexploded in Rotterdam killing theTurkish owner of the car who was inthe car when it exploded. No oneclaimed responsibility.

23-Feb-95 Tajikistan Other Explosives6 1 TAJIKISTAN. An anti-tank grenadewas launched against a Russianborder guard bus transportingRussian hospital workers. Theattack, which occurred three daysbefore the general election, left oneperson dead and six others injured.No one claimed responsibility.Islamic Tajik rebels are suspected.Two Tajiks were arrested inKazakhstan in May 1995 for theattack.

24-Feb-95 Amman Jordan IslamicRenewalMovement

Firearms1 0 JORDAN. A French diplomat, secondsecretary of the French Embassy,was shot in the chest in an attack ata tourist site south of Amman. Hewas not killed. The attackersbelieved him to be Israeli and gotinto a fight with him which resultedin the shooting. The attackers arebelieved to be members of theIslamic Renewal Movement, afundamentalist group which seeks toundermine Jordan's tourism industrywhich has been attracting Israelitourists since the peace agreementbetween Jordan and Israel lastOctober.

25-Feb-95 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Two Turkish travelagencies in Cologne were attackedwith firebombs. A note referring tothe Kurdish struggle forindependence was found. Men wereseen running away from the attacks.Continued through the 26th.

25-Feb-95 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Two Turkish travelagencies in Cologne were attackedwith firebombs. A note referring tothe Kurdish struggle forindependence was found. Men wereseen running away from the attacks.Continued through the 26th.



0 0 GERMANY. Two Turkish travelagencies in Berlin were attacked withfirebombs. A note was foundreferring to the Kurdish struggle forindependence. Damage to the twoagencies was minimal as onefirebomb failed to ignite and theother spread only to a limited area.Continued through the 26th.



0 0 GERMANY. Two Turkish travelagencies in Berlin were attacked withfirebombs. A note was foundreferring to the Kurdish struggle forindependence. Damage to the twoagencies was minimal as onefirebomb failed to ignite and theother spread only to a limited area.Continued through the 26th.

25-Feb-95 Bremen FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Two Turkish travelagencies in Bremen were attackedwith firebombs. Men were seenrunning away from the attacks.These were part of a string of attacksagainst Turkish travel agencies thatoccurred over late Saturday night-early Sunday in three cities acrossGermany by suspected Kurdishmilitants. Continued through the26th.

25-Feb-95 Bremen FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Two Turkish travelagencies in Bremen were attackedwith firebombs. Men were seenrunning away from the attacks.These were part of a string of attacksagainst Turkish travel agencies thatoccurred over late Saturday night-early Sunday in three cities acrossGermany by suspected Kurdishmilitants. Continued through the26th.

26-Feb-95 Bilbao Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded outside abranch of the French bank CreditLyonnais in Bilbao. An anonymouscaller informed the local trafficservice about the bomb after it hadalready exploded. There were nocasualties but damage was caused tothe bank, an adjacent bingo hall andeight parked cars. No claim ofresponsibility was made, but ETA,who have attacked French targets inthe region in the past, are suspected.

27-Feb-95 Athens Greece Other Unknown0 0 GREECE. An exiled Iraqi nuclearscientist (Khidir Abd-al-Abbas Hamza)was kidnapped in a suburb of Athenssoon after revealing informationabout Iraq's nuclear bomb program.The Iraqi intelligence service,Mukhabarat, is suspected. Iraqiofficials have denied the kidnappingand claim not to have known of thescientist.

28-Feb-95 Rabat Morocco Other Explosives0 1 MOROCCO. A suicide bomberattacked the Russian Consulate inRabat, Morocco. He was wearing asign that had Chechnya written inArabic on it. The attacker died.There were no other injuries. TheRussian Defense Minister made astatement warning about terrorismresulting from the Chechnya conflict.

28-Feb-95 Lima Peru Unknown Explosives0 0 PERU. A small dynamite bomb wasthrown from a car at the US Embassyin Lima causing some damage but noinjuries. Sendero Luminoso issuspected.

1-Mar-95 AddisAbaba

Ethiopia Unknown Explosives0 0 ETHIOPIA. Two grenades werethrown at the USAID offices in AddisAbaba. There were no injuries.

4-Mar-95 Algeria Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 ALGERIA. An Algerian-Palestinianman was abducted from his parents'home in Borj el Bahri, east of Algiers,in the early hours of the morning. Hewas later found several kilometersaway with his throat slit.

7-Mar-95 Algiers Algeria Unknown Firearms0 1 ALGERIA. An Algerian who worked atthe United Nations information officein Algiers was shot and killed. TheUN believes the killing to bepolitically motivated.

8-Mar-95 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms1 2 PAKISTAN. Two American employeesof the American consulate in Karachiwere killed as they commuted towork. Another American was injured.Gunmen opened fire with AK-47s ontheir van from both sides as theystopped at a traffic light. No groupclaimed responsibility.

8-Mar-95 CopenhagenDenmark Unknown Firearms0 0 DENMARK. A group of diversemerging from the sea allegedlyopened fire on a Danish policemannear Copenhagen airport. Theincident occurred close to the site ofthe United Nations Summit for SocialDevelopment, which was attended byHillary Clinton.



0 0 GERMANY. A firebomb was throwninto a Turkish travel agency in Berlinby suspected Kurdish extremists.There were no injuries.

14-Mar-95 Duisburg FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A firebomb was throwninto a Turkish social club in Duisburgby suspected Kurdish extremists.There were no injuries.

14-Mar-95 Buende FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish mosque wasfirebombed in Buende, near Herfordby suspected Kurdish extremists.There were no injuries.

14-Mar-95 Buende FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish home wasfirebombed in Buende by suspectedKurdish extremists. There were noinjuries.



0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish mosque inHamburg was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.



0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish social club inHamburg was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

15-Mar-95 LudwigshafenFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish travel agencyin Ludwigshafen was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

15-Mar-95 FrankfurtFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish travel agencyin Frankfurt was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

15-Mar-95 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish travel agencyin Cologne was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

15-Mar-95 FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Attacks against Turkishtargets in three other German citiescaused property damage but noinjuries. Kurdish extremists aresuspected.





16-Mar-95 Kassel FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish travel agencyin Kassel was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

16-Mar-95 Kassel FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish shop in Kassel(next to the above mentioned travelagency) was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

16-Mar-95 DortmundFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish travel agencyin Dortmund was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

16-Mar-95 Dueren FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish social club inDueren was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

16-Mar-95 Zurich SwitzerlandOther Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SWITZERLAND. Three Turkish travelagencies were firebombed in Zurichby suspected Kurdish extremists.There were no injuries.





17-Mar-95 GengenbachFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish social club inGengenbach was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

17-Mar-95 Lahr FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish mosque in Lahrwas firebombed by suspectedKurdish extremists. There were noinjuries.

17-Mar-95 Ulm FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish travel agencyin Ulm was firebombed by suspectedKurdish extremists. There were noinjuries.

17-Mar-95 GueterslohFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish-Germancultural club was firebombed inGuetersloh in North Rhine-Westphaliaby suspected Kurdish extremists.There were no injuries.

18-Mar-95 Mao Chad MovementforDemocracyandDevelopment(MDD)

Unknown0 0 CHAD. An American employee of theUN Development Program along witha Malian, and two Chadian guardswere kidnapped by the Chadianopposition group, Movement forDemocracy and Development (MDD),in Mao. The rebels claimed they hadcarried out the kidnappings to provethat the security situation in Chadhad not improved. The Americanwas released on 27 March 1995because of the threat of death due tohis diabetic condition. The otherhostages were freed on 28 March1995.

18-Mar-95 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish mosque inMunich was firebombed by suspectedKurdish extremists. There were noinjuries.

18-Mar-95 Duisburg FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish sports club inDuisberg was firebombed bysuspected Kurdish extremists. Therewere no injuries.

18-Mar-95 Ahlen FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish social club inAhlen was firebombed by suspectedKurdish extremists. There were noinjuries.

19-Mar-95 BujumburaBurundi Other Firearms0 5 BURUNDI. Five people, includingthree Belgians, were killed in anambush by Burundi Hutus nearBujumbura. The Hutu gunmentargeted and killed the Belgians withshots to the head of the adults andchest of the four-year-old girl.

20-Mar-95 Tokyo Japan AumShinriKyo

ChemicalAgent

5000 12 JAPAN. The Tokyo subway systemwas the target of an attack withnerve gas. The deadly gas, Sarin,was released from packages broughton to five different railway carriages.Twelve people were killed and over5000 injured including severalforeigners. Fifteen subway stationswere affected by the gas. AJapanese extreme Buddhist sectcalled Aum Shinri Kyo(Sublime/Supreme Truth), issuspected of releasing the gas. On 7June 1995, the leader of Aum ShinriKyo, Shoko Asahara, was indicted forthe murder of the people who died inthe subway gas attack. Six followerswere also indicted on murdercharges and nine others on lessercharges. Asahara's trial started inlate October 1995.

20-Mar-95 Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A truck loaded with 400pounds of explosives was found insouthern Israel. It is thought that thetruck was driven north from Gazawith the intent of blowing it up inBeersheba. Six Hamas activists werearrrested a few days later inconnection with the attempt.

26-Mar-95 Manila PhilippinesAlexBoncayaoBrigade(ABB)

Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A grenade was thrownat the Singapore Airlines office inManila to protest the hanging of aFilipina maid in Singapore. The AlexBoncayao Brigade (ABB) claimedresponsibility. There were noinjuries.

27-Mar-95 Bahrain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 1 BAHRAIN. A Pakistani man died in afire at a video shop in Budaiya.Government officials insisted that thefire had been started by foreignforces in an attempt to underminepublic security.

31-Mar-95 Israel Hizballah Explosives7 1 ISRAEL. One Israeli civilian was killedand seven injured when between 4and 10 Katyusha rockets were firedinto northern Israel from southernLebanon. The involvement ofHezbollah was not confirmed butIsraeli security sources stated thatthe attack was probably in revengefor the killing of Hezbollah leader AliSaleh (code-named Abu-Ali Atsheeti)in an Israeli helicopter attack onHezbollah positions.


Other Unknown0 0 BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. A Germanaid worker, who made a wrong turn,was kidnapped by Bosnian Serbs at acheckpoint outside Sarajevo.


Other Unknown0 0 BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. Two Swissjournalists were kidnapped byBosnian Serbs from a UN vehicle at acheckpoint outside Sarajevo.


GuatemalaUnknown Explosives1 1 GUATEMALA. A bomb prematurelyexploded killing the person carryingthe bomb near the PresidentialPalace while UN Secretary GeneralBoutros-Ghali was having dinner. Apasser-by was injured.

5-Apr-95 Honduras PatrioticMorazanistaFront(FPM)

Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A bomb containingleaflets for the Morazanist PatrioticFront (FPM) exploded outside of theoffices of several foreign pressagencies causing minor damage.There were no injuries.

6-Apr-95 Senegal Other Unknown0 0 SENEGAL. Four French touristsdisappeared in southern Senegal.Rebel separatists of the Casamanceregion are suspected. They havedenied any involvement. Claims thatthe four were dead and buried nearwhere their car was found proved tobe incorrect. The bodies of otherpeople were found there. There werealso claims that they were taken toGuinea Bissau by a group ofSenegalese.

9-Apr-95 WestBank/Gaza


Explosives40 9 GAZA STRIP. A suicide car bomber inGaza killed seven Israeli soldiers andan American tourist. Forty otherswere injured including threeAmericans. The bomb, concealed in ablue van, exploded as it passed a buscarrying settlers and soldiers. Theattack was claimed by Hamas andPalestine Islamic Holy War (Jihad) -Shaqaqi Faction.

9-Apr-95 Tbilisi Georgia Other Explosives0 0 GEORGIA. A group called AlgetskiyeVolki (Algeti Wolves) claimedresponsibility for attacks on theRussian Embassy/Ambassador'sresidence and a Russian militarybuilding in Tbilisi. Armed men forcedsecurity guards out of their booth atthe Ambassador's residence beforeblowing it up. Gunmen also openedfire on the headquarters of theRussian Group of Forces for theTranscaucasus (also was bombed 26Jan 1995). The note left behind said,For April 9, for Chechnya, for thebases and was signed Algeti Wolves.The note referred to an agreementthat allows Russian bases in Georgiaand a demonstration on April 9, 1989in Tbilisi where Soviet troops killedmany Georgians.

9-Apr-95 Tbilisi Georgia Other Firearms0 0 GEORGIA. A group called AlgetskiyeVolki (Algeti Wolves) claimedresponsibility for attacks on theRussian Embassy/Ambassador'sresidence and a Russian militarybuilding in Tbilisi. Armed men forcedsecurity guards out of their booth atthe Ambassador's residence beforeblowing it up. Gunmen also openedfire on the headquarters of theRussian Group of Forces for theTranscaucasus (also was bombed 26Jan 1995). The note left behind said,For April 9, for Chechnya, for thebases and was signed Algeti Wolves.The note referred to an agreementthat allows Russian bases in Georgiaand a demonstration on April 9, 1989in Tbilisi where Soviet troops killedmany Georgians.

9-Apr-95 Russia Unknown Unknown0 0 RUSSIA. Chechnya. An Americanworking for the relief agency, SorosFoundation, disappeared. He wassetting up a hospital near Chechnyaand delivering supplies to homelessChechens. There are suspicions thathe is being held by Chechens andsome that the Russians have him.

10-Apr-95 NetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. A Turkish mosque inHengelo, near the German border,was firebombed. There were noinjuries although three peoplenarrowly escaped death.

10-Apr-95 SierraLeone


Firearms0 1 SIERRA LEONE. A convoy of carsbelonging to the Irish ChristianBrother order was ambushed byrebel gunmen on the road from Bo toFreetown. One of the priests waskilled. The Revolutionary UnitedFront is suspected.

14-Apr-95 Vienna Austria DevrimiciHalkKurtulusCephesi(DHKP/C)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRIA. A Turkish Airlines office inVienna was firebombed by DHKC(Devrimici Halk Kurtulus Cephesi) -Revolutionary People's LiberationFront. The attackers left a red flagwith a yellow star and the inscriptionDHKC at the scene.

14-Apr-95 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Five Turkish banks inCologne suffered arson attacks.Police arrested nine Turkish suspectsbelieved to have connections withDev Sol.













15-Apr-95 Utrecht NetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. A Turkish mosque inUtrecht was firebombed, scorchingan exterior wall. There were noinjuries. No group claimedresponsibility.

17-Apr-95 BacknangFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish sports club inthe town of Backnang in southernGermany was firebombed. Turkishextremists are suspected.

17-Apr-95 DitzingenFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish sports club inthe town of Ditzingen in southernGermany was firebombed. Turkishextremists are suspected.

17-Apr-95 AmsterdamNetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. A Turkish bank,United Garanti Bank, in Amsterdamwas firebombed causing minordamage. There were no injuries. Noone claimed responsibility.

17-Apr-95 Malmo Sweden Unknown Other 0 0 SWEDEN. The Turkish consulate inMalmoe was attacked with paintbombs thrown into a broken window.There were no injuries or clues as tothe perpetrators.

19-Apr-95 Colombia Unknown Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. Two Italian employees ofan oil company were kidnapped innorthern Colombia nearBarrabcabermeja by suspected ELN(National Liberation Army) gunmenwho intercepted their car. TheirColombian driver was killed. Thehostages were released in Nov 1995.

19-Apr-95 OklahomaCity

UnitedStates

Other Explosives500 168 UNITED STATES. A massive roadsidetruck bomb detonated at the MurrahFederal Building in Oklahoma City,killing 168 people and injuring over500 others. The attack took placeshortly after parents had droppedtheir kids off at a daycare centerlocated in the building, and a largenumber of the victims were children.Half of the nine-story building wasblown away. Ninety minutes afterthe attack, police pulled overTimothy McVeigh, for driving withouta license. In late April, as he wasabout to be released for his drivinginfraction, he was recognized as abombing suspect and kept indetention. When police released thename of a second suspect, TerryNichols, an Army friend of McVeigh,Nichols turned himself in. In Augustof 1995, both men were indicted oneleven counts each, includingconspiring to use weapons of massdestruction, and for killing federallaw enforcement agents. Both menpleaded not-guilty to the charges. InFebruary 1996, the trial of McVeighand Nichols was moved to Denver,CO because of too much pretrialpublicity in Oklahoma City.McVeigh's trial began in late April1997 and jurors found him guilty lessthan three months later on 2 June. InAugust of 1997, McVeigh wasformally sentenced to death for hisrole in the bombing. Nichols wascharged with conspiracy andmanslaughter in late December1997. In early January 1998, jurorsdeadlock over whether or not Nicholsdeserves the death penalty. Nicholswas later sentenced to life in prison.In July 1999, McVeigh wastransferred to Terre Haute, Indiana,where he would remain on death rowuntil his execution. In March 2000,McVeigh tells a reporter that he wasdisillusioned with the US governmentafter serving in the Persian Gulf War.He did not express any remorse forcarrying out the bombing or killing somany people. McVeigh wasexecuted on 11 June 2001, in front ofover 300 witnesses. He did not issuea verbal statement before his deathand he continued to refuse toapologize for the crime. Until 11September 2001, this was the largestact of terrorism in the United Stateshistory.

19-Apr-95 OklahomaCity

UnitedStates

Other Explosives500 168 UNITED STATES. A massive roadsidetruck bomb detonated at the MurrahFederal Building in Oklahoma City,killing 168 people and injuring over500 others. The attack took placeshortly after parents had droppedtheir kids off at a daycare centerlocated in the building, and a largenumber of the victims were children.Half of the nine-story building wasblown away. Ninety minutes afterthe attack, police pulled overTimothy McVeigh, for driving withouta license. In late April, as he wasabout to be released for his drivinginfraction, he was recognized as abombing suspect and kept indetention. When police released thename of a second suspect, TerryNichols, an Army friend of McVeigh,Nichols turned himself in. In Augustof 1995, both men were indicted oneleven counts each, includingconspiring to use weapons of massdestruction, and for killing federallaw enforcement agents. Both menpleaded not-guilty to the charges. InFebruary 1996, the trial of McVeighand Nichols was moved to Denver,CO because of too much pretrialpublicity in Oklahoma City.McVeigh's trial began in late April1997 and jurors found him guilty lessthan three months later on 2 June. InAugust of 1997, McVeigh wasformally sentenced to death for hisrole in the bombing. Nichols wascharged with conspiracy andmanslaughter in late December1997. In early January 1998, jurorsdeadlock over whether or not Nicholsdeserves the death penalty. Nicholswas later sentenced to life in prison.In July 1999, McVeigh wastransferred to Terre Haute, Indiana,where he would remain on death rowuntil his execution. In March 2000,McVeigh tells a reporter that he wasdisillusioned with the US governmentafter serving in the Persian Gulf War.He did not express any remorse forcarrying out the bombing or killing somany people. McVeigh wasexecuted on 11 June 2001, in front ofover 300 witnesses. He did not issuea verbal statement before his deathand he continued to refuse toapologize for the crime. Until 11September 2001, this was the largestact of terrorism in the United Stateshistory.

21-Apr-95 Israel Other Unknown1 0 ISRAEL. A Palestinian from Jordancrossed the border into Israel andattempted to kidnap a worker atDead Sea Works. The Palestinianwas wounded in a gun battle withsecurity guards and was arrested.

21-Apr-95 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 1 TURKEY. A tow truck driver waskilled when a bomb exploded inside acar he was removing from anIstanbul car park, in the district ofSarayburnu. No claim was made andthe intended target was not clear butthe location is a tourist area, and isalso the home of a left-wingnewspaper and the Iranian ConsulateGeneral.

22-Apr-95 TheHague

NetherlandsOther Firearms2 0 NETHERLANDS. Two Turkish menwere shot and wounded in a Turkishcoffee house in The Hague byKurdish extremists. The gunmenwarned against attending ademonstration the next day that wasprobably against the establishmentof a Kurdish parliament in exile in theNetherlands.

25-Apr-95 Kismayu Somalia Other Firearms0 1 SOMALIA. A New Zealandbusinessman was kidnapped inKismayu. It was reported that about100 gunmen, possibly joined by theman's own local staff, kidnapped himusing jeeps mounted with guns. Theman was killed the following day.Islamic fundamentalists wishing torid Somalia of foreigners aresuspected.

5-May-95 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms4 8 ALGERIA. Gunmen attacked thebarracks of a factory owned byAnabib killing eight persons includingone Briton, one Canadian, oneTunisian, and two Frenchmen as theyslept. Three Algerian guards werealso killed in the attack and four werewounded. The factory is locatednear Ghardaia, south of Algiers. TheGIA (Armed Islamic Group) claimedresponsibility for the killings.

5-May-95 QiryatShemona

Israel Hizballah Explosives3 0 ISRAEL. Five Katyusha rockets werefired into northern Israel fromsouthern Lebanon by Hezbollah'smilitary wing, the Islamic Resistance.It was reported that three peoplewere slightly wounded in the attack,which was to avenge Israeli shellingin southern Lebanon that killed twocivilians. The Israeli military refusedto give details of the exact locationbut Hezbollah sources said that therockets landed at Qiriyat Shemona.

7-May-95 Algeria Unknown Firearms3 3 ALGERIA. A group of foreignersbeing escorted to their residencesfrom work were attacked by armedgunmen. Several of the securityescorts were killed and wounded.None of the foreign workers wereinjured.

17-May-95

Iraq Other Firearms0 2 IRAQ. Unidentified gunmen in a caropened fire on a car carrying threefemale officials with the People'sMujahedin, Mujahedin-e Khalq, anIranian opposition group. Two of thewomen were killed and onewounded. They blame Iranian agentsfor the assassination.

18-May-95

TombuduTown

SierraLeone


Unknown0 0 SIERRA LEONE. Three Lebanesebusinessmen were kidnapped duringan attack on Tumbudu Town in thediamond district of Kono. TheRevolutionary United Front (RUF) issuspected.

22-May-95

Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A 2 lb. dynamite bombexploded at a Dunkin Donut store inBogota. There were no injuries andno claims of responsibility.

23-May-95

London UnitedKingdom


1 0 UNITED KINGDOM. An Iraqi citizenliving in London who used to beSaddam Hussein's double was thetarget of an attack in which a manattempting to protect the intendedvictim was stabbed. He suspectsIraqi agents. No group claimedresponsibility.

24-May-95

Odessa Ukraine Unknown Explosives0 0 UKRAINE. A bomb exploded at theAustrian Airlines office at OdessaAirport. There were no injuries andno claims of responsibility. Thebomb was constructed with sixpounds of plastic explosives.


Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. Guerrillas of theColombian National Liberation Army(ELN) kidnapped four engineers,including one American, from ElLimon gold mine in the Zaragozamunicipality of the AntioquiaDepartment. The mine is owned bythe Canadian company Oro Norte.The Colombian army launched arescue mission soon afterwards andsucceeded in recovering three of themen. One of the Colombianhostages was killed during therescue attempt.

5-Jun-95 ManaguaNicaraguaRecontra380

Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. Three armed andhooded persons belonging to theRecontra 380 group forced their wayinto the Chilean Embassy inNicaragua. They left a parcel thatthey claimed was a bomb andkidnapped the Ambassador'shusband. They issued no demandsnor made any statement explainingthe attack. The hostage wasreleased soon after.

5-Jun-95 Colombo SriLanka


Explosives0 0 SRI LANKA. A car bomb detonatedbut failed to explode nearKatunayake Airport in Colombo. Thebomb was claimed by Ellalan Forcewho threatens to kill tourists andforeign investors unless the militarystopped killing Tamils in theoffensive in Jaffna peninsula.

6-Jun-95 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 1 LEBANON. A bomb exploded at thehome of a Lebanese-Americanbusinessman who was killed in theblast. Hezbollah claimedresponsibility accusing the victim ofbeing an Israeli agent.

7-Jun-95 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 2 ALGERIA. A French couple living inAlgiers were shot and killed bysuspected Islamic extremists as theyarrived at the offices of theirimport/export company in theneighborhood of El Biar.


Other Explosives1 0 GERMANY. A letter bomb mailedfrom Austria was sent to a Germantelevision journalist of mixed race inMunich. She is the only non-whitetelevision journalist in Germany. Theexplosion injured an assistant. Thename of the sender on the letterbomb was Count Ruediger vonStarhemberg. The Austrian InteriorMinister subsequently received acommunication from BajuwarischeBefreiungsarmee (Liberation Army ofthe Ancient Bavarians) claimingresponsibility for a rash of letterbombs that included this one.

11-Jun-95 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms0 1 PERU. A Peruvian geologist workingfor the American company CrownResources Corp. in Huamachuco wasshot and killed by Sendero Luminosorebels who were actually seeking anAmerican geologist as it's target.


Unknown0 1 ALGERIA. A Vietnamese lecturer atTiaret University in Algeria was killedby suspected Islamic extremists.

13-Jun-95 Luebeck FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Explosives1 0 GERMANY. A letter bomb was sentfrom Austria to the Deputy Mayor ofLuebeck in Germany. He was injuredin the explosion. The Deputy Mayorhad criticized the light sentencesimposed on four neo-Nazis forfirebombing a synagogue in the townin 1994. The Bavarian LiberationArmy (or Front) (BBA) claimedresponsibility.

14-Jun-95 Burundi Unknown Unknown8 2 BURUNDI. A convoy carrying the USAmbassador to Burundi and theBurundi foreign minister wasattacked near the Zairean border. ABurundian Army officer and a militaryobserver from the Organization ofAfrican Unity were killed in the attackand 8 others were wounded.

21-Jun-95 BujumburaBurundi Unknown Unknown4 1 BURUNDI. An International ActionAgainst Hunger (ACIF) convoy of fourcars and two lorries was attacked asit left Bujumbura. One person waskilled and four others injured.

23-Jun-95 Nahariya Israel Hizballah Explosives8 1 ISRAEL. A Club Med holiday resort inNahariya in northern Israel was firedon with Katyusha rockets byHezbollah guerrillas based inLebanon. A French man was killedand eight people were injured. Theattack was in retaliation of the killingof a young Lebanese teenager bySLA mortar rounds that were firedinto Shaqra.

25-Jun-95 PeshawarPakistan Other Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. Three German engineersworking on an AEG/Siemens powerstation project in Pakistan and aPakistani driver were kidnapped inPeshawar as they were returninghome from work. Officials in thearea identified the kidnappers to beof the Stoorikhel clan, a smallPushtun tribe in the Orakzai region.

26-Jun-95 AddisAbaba

Ethiopia al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms0 4 ETHIOPIA. An assassination attemptwas made against Egyptian PresidentHosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa. In awell-planned attack, the motorcadewas blocked and halted by theattackers who then opened-fire onMubarak's armored limousine. Two(another report says 5) of thegunmen (all Egyptians) and twosecurity guards were killed. ThreeEgyptians were arrested and chargedin the attack. It is believed that theywere part of a nine-member squadsent by al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, theIslamic Group, who has claimedresponsibility for the attack. IslamicJihad also claimed credit. TheEgyptian government accuses Sudanof being involved in the attack aswell. Sudan denies any involvement.In April 1996 a report from theClinton administration offered directevidence of Sudanese involvement inthe attempt. In September 1996 anEgyptian court sentenced threeterrorists to death for theirinvolvement in the assassination aswell as the killing of two policemen,the wounding of three others,entering the country with illegalweapons and endangering thecountry's security. The three wereEgyptians and members of theJama'ah al-Islamiyah.

3-Jul-95 Kassel FederalRepublicofGermany

Unknown Unknown0 0 GERMANY. A Chrysler car dealershipin Kassel was attacked in protest ofthe scheduled execution of MumiaAbu Jamal, former Black Pantherleader, in the US. Jamal wassentenced to death for murder.

4-Jul-95 Srinagar Kashmir Al Faran Unknown0 0 INDIA. KASHMIR. Three Americansand four British tourists werekidnapped near Srinagar by Kashmiriseparatists calling themselves Al-Faran. It is suspected that thispreviously unheard of group isactually a cover name for Harakat-ul-Ansar, the largest Kashmiri separatistgroup or possibly a splinter group.The female captives were soonreleased leaving two Americans andtwo Britons hostage. The kidnappersdemanded the release of 21 fellowrebels from prisons in India. One ofthe American captives escaped fourdays later. In February 1996 thegroup claimed that the Indian armynow had the hostages after a clashon December 4. Although the Indianarmy acknowledge the clash theyclaim the hostages were not presentat the time. Indian troops arrested aman in July 1996 who claimed thatthe tourists were alive. In November1996 US officials offered a $2 millionUS dollar reward and Indiaannounced a $28,500 US dollarreward for information leading to therelease of the captives.

8-Jul-95 India Al Faran Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 INDIA. Kashmir. A German and aNorwegian tourist were kidnapped bythe Kashmiri separatist group, Al-Faran, from the same area as theAmerican and British tourists earlierin the week. Al-Faran issued adeadline of July 15 for the Indiangovernment to meet their demand torelease their leaders imprisoned inIndia. The decapitated body of theNorwegian hostage was found on 13August 1995 along with a writtenthreat to kill the remaining hostages.

10-Jul-95 Baghdad Iraq Other Firearms0 3 IRAQ. Three Iranian dissidents andleaders of Mujahedin-e Khalq weregunned down in Baghdad. Their carwas sprayed with machine gun firekilling all three. One of the gunmen,an Iranian, was arrested after a carchase by a second Mujahedin vehiclemaking it more likely that Iranianagents are responsible.

11-Jul-95 Paris France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 2 FRANCE. A co-founder of the IslamicSalvation Front, Abdelbaki Sahraoui,was shot to death in a Paris mosqueby machine gun-wielding suspectedAlgerian Islamic extremists. Oneother person was killed trying toprotect Sahraoui. The French policepreviously had found a hit list in araid on a GIA cell in Paris withSahraoui's name on it. FISspokesmen claim that the Algeriangovernment is responsible for theassassination.


Unknown0 0 TURKEY. A Japanese tourist waskidnapped by Kurdish separatistsfrom a bus near Siirt. They stoppedthe bus, robbed the passengers andthen took the Japanese man withthem. He was released on 17 July1995. The PKK is suspected.

14-Jul-95 Istanbul Turkey DevrimiciHalkKurtulusCephesi(DHKP/C)

Unknown0 0 TURKEY. The Galata Tower, anhistoric tourist site in Istanbul wasseized by Devrimici Halk KurtulusCephesi (Revolutionary People'sLiberation Front) (DHKP/C) terroristswho held 30 people hostageincluding 16 foreign tourists. Theyhung banners from the top floorrestaurant protesting the detentionof those who occupied the NewDemocracy Movement offices theprevious day.


Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Attacks on Turkishtargets throughout Germany bysuspected Kurdish separatistscontinue through the week.

24-Jul-95 Tel Aviv Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives30 6 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on acommuter bus at 8:45 AM in Tel Aviv.A suicide bomber detonated a 2 kgbomb as he stood in the middle ofthe bus. Six people were killed andthirty injured. Hamas claimedresponsibility for the bombing and ananonymous caller specifically namedYehiya Ayyash, The Engineer.Ayyash, a Palestinian on Israel's mostwanted list, was the mastermindbehind the attack. The Party of God -Palestine claimed the bombing aswell, going so far as to name thesuicide bomber. This was the firstbombing inside Israel since January.

25-Jul-95 Paris France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives91 7 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at 5:30PM on the Paris Metro at the St.Michel station near Notre DameCathedral. Seven people were killedand 91 injured. The bomb had beenplaced under a seat on the train. Itwas a crude bomb triggered by atimer. The Algerian Armed IslamicGroup (GIA) claimed responsibility.The Algerian Islamic Jihad alsoclaimed responsibility. On 21 August1995, an Algerian, AbdeldrimDeneche, was arrested and held inSweden under an anti-terrorism lawas a suspect in this bombing. In Oct1995 Sweden decided not toextradite him to France, but diddecide to deport him.



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0 0 GERMANY. Seven Turkish targetsfirebombed in Germany. There wereno injuries. The PKK is suspected.



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0 0 GERMANY. Three Turkish targetswere firebombed in south-westernGermany. There were no injuries.The PKK is suspected.



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0 0 GERMANY. Turkish targets attackedin Germany. The PKK is suspected.

28-Jul-95 StrasbourgFrance Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. The Turkish Consulate inStrasbourg was the target of afirebomb. The Molotav cocktail waslit at the entrance to the consulatecausing only slight damage and noinjuries. Kurdish separatists aresuspected.



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0 0 GERMANY. Turkish targets attackedin Germany. There were no injuries.The PKK is suspected.



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0 0 GERMANY. In the sixth consecutivenight of attacks across Germany, thePKK are suspected to havefirebombed a travel agency, acultural club, a gift shop, and a cafe.There were no injuries.



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2-Aug-95 Paris France KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

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11 0 FRANCE. The Kurdish Workers' Party(PKK) is suspected of the firebombattack against a Turkish sports andcultural center in Paris. Elevenpersons were injured in the attack.

3-Aug-95 AfghanistanTaliban Unknown0 0 AFGHANISTAN. Seven Russian aircrew of a cargo plane were heldhostage after being forced to land byTaliban rebels. They were takenhostage after the contents of theircargo were revealed to beKalashnikov rifles and 3.4 millionrounds of ammunition. The Talibanrebels believed that the cargo provedRussia's support for the Afghanregime. They are demanding a list of60,000 Afghans who they believewere taken to Russia and held theresince the occupation. The victimsescaped in August 1996 in goodhealth.

5-Aug-95 Athens Greece Anti-EstablishmentNucleus

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Citibank office inAthens suffered minor damage froma homemade time bomb. A groupcalled Anti-Establishment Nucleusclaimed that the bombing was inprotest of the detention andscheduled execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Pantherleader, in the US.

9-Aug-95 Athens Greece Anti-EstablishmentNucleus

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A homemade time bombexploded at the entrance of anAmerican Express bank in a suburbof Athens. The explosion occurred inthe middle of the night, thus causingno injuries. A group called Anti-Establishment Nucleus claimed creditand stated that the bombing was inprotest of the scheduled execution ofMumia Abu-Jamal, the former BlackPanther leader, in the US.

10-Aug-95


Anti-ImperialistGroupLibertyforMumiaAbu Jamal

Explosives0 0 GERMANY. A Chrysler dealership wasfirebombed by the Anti-ImperialistGroup Liberty for Mumia Abu Jamal.

12-Aug-95

Israel Unknown Unknown0 0 ISRAEL. A heavily armed infiltratorwas apprehended as he attempted tocross into Israel from Jordan.

16-Aug-95

MannheimFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A shelter in Mannheim,housing mostly Bosnian refugees,was firebombed by unknownattackers. There were no injuries.

17-Aug-95

Paris France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives17 0 FRANCE. A gas cannister bomb filledwith nails and planted in a trash binnear the Arc de Triomphe, explodedat 5:00PM, injuring 17 persons,including 11 foreigners. {one Briton,4 Hungarians, 4 Italians, one Germanand one Portugese) Four of theinjured were children. The AlgerianArmed Islamic Group (GIA) claimedresponsibility for the bombing. Theclaim was made in a call to theFrench radio station RTL.

18-Aug-95

Rogun Tajikistan Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 3 TAJIKISTAN. The decapitated bodiesof three Russian civilians, includingtwo local power station employees,were found in Rogun near Dushanbe.Their hands had been bound. Nogroup claimed responsibility but Tajikauthorities are following leads on arebel group, under the leadership ofSabzali, concerning possible linkswith the killings.

20-Aug-95

Paris France KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

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6 0 FRANCE. A Turkish sports andcultural center in Paris wasfirebombed. Six people were injured.The PKK is suspected.

21-Aug-95


Explosives100 6 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded on a busin Ramot Eshkol, a suburb inJerusalem, killing six persons andinjuring more than 100. A callerclaimed the bombing was carried outby persons trained by Yahya Ayyash,The Engineer, a wanted Hamas Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades member andbomb maker. Police suspect afemale suicide bomber. One of thedead was an American woman.

24-Aug-95

IslamabadPakistan Other Fire orFirebomb

2 0 PAKISTAN. A mob attacked theoffices of the BBC in Islamabad. Twojournalists, a Canadian and aPakistani, were beaten in the attack.A firebomb was thrown inside theoffice, setting carpets and householditems ablaze. The Canadian's wifeand two children, who were at theoffice which is also their home,escaped injury. The attackers werereported to be chanting sloganssupporting Maulana Azam Tariq ofthe Sunni Muslim Sipah-i-ShabaPakistan (SSP) organization. Tariqhad been arrested two monthsearlier for inciting violence againstShi'ite Muslims. An SSP leader whohad criticized a BBC report on theSSP 10 days before the attack wasarrested for inciting the violence.

26-Aug-95

France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. An unexploded bomb withfaulty mechanisms was found on therailway line north of Lyon. It wasmade from a 25kg gas cannisterpacked with explosives. It is part ofa bombing campaign by Algerian GIAMuslim extremists. The fingerprintsof an Algerian-born suspect, KhaledKelkal, were found on the bomb. Thesuspect was shot and killed by policeon 29 Sept 1995. Authorities believethat he was under orders from theArmed Islamic Group (GIA) of Algeriaand was thus involved in the Julyassassination in Paris of Sahraoui,founder of Islamic Salvation Front inAlgeria. They also believe that hewas involved in the Paris Metrostation bombing of a train in July.

27-Aug-95

Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. Kurdish separatists aresuspected in the firebombing attacksagainst three Turkish-ownedbusinesses in Bonn. A travel agency,restaurant and tea shop wereattacked.

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Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives8 0 TURKEY. A bombing at a restaurantin the Aksaray district of Istanbulinjured eight peole, including sixUkrainians.

27-Aug-95

Istanbul Turkey KurdishIslamicUnityParty

Explosives30 2 TURKEY. Two bombs planted in trashcans exploded in central Istanbulkilling two people, including aJordanian woman, and injuring 30others, including an American, anAustrian, an Italian, and a Jordanian.The Kurdistan Islamic Unity Partyclaimed responsibility.

28-Aug-95

Ulm FederalRepublicofGermany


4 2 GERMANY. Kurdish separatists aresuspected of the arson attack of aTurkish shop in Ulm. Two Turkishrefugees were killed in the fire andfour people were injured.

31-Aug-95

Haiti Unknown Firearms1 0 HAITI. A French UN peacekeeper wasshot in his residence in the town ofPetit Goave. He was critically injuredby a shot to the head. Notes wereleft behind saying that payments toHaiti's demobilized soldiers promisedby President Aristide had not beenmade.

31-Aug-95

Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms3 1 LEBANON. A leader of the al-AhbashSunni Moslem sect, Sheikh Nizar al-Halabi, was gunned down withmachine gun fire in front of his homein Beirut by three men in a whiteMercedes. The leader of anextremist Palestinian group {AhmedAbdel Karim Saadi aka Abu Mohjen}was tried in absentia for this killing inJune 1996. He is believe to be hidingin Ain el-Hilweh, Lebanon's largestPalestinian refugee camp.

31-Aug-95

Beirut Lebanon Asbat al-Ansar

Unknown0 1 Sheikh Nizar al-Halaby, head of theIslamic Charitable Association (theorganization which funds the SunniMuslim Habashi group), wasassasinated outside of his home. Notlong before the attack, grafitiappeared in Beirut in which theHabashis and the Partisans' Leagueaccused each other of betrayingIslam. Suspects arrested in the caseclaimed that they carried out theattack on the orders of Ahmed AbdulKarim al-Saadi, the head of Asbat al-Ansar. On 3 January 1996 theLebanese government issued awarrant for al-Saadi's arrest and hewas later sentenced to death inabsentia by a Beirut military court forhis participation in al-Halaby'smurder.NOTE: The type of weaponused in the attack was not reported.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Containers of Dole (UScompany) bananas in Santa Mariawere destroyed by FARC.

2-Sep-95 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 1 ALGERIA. An Italian was shot andkilled in Canastel near Oran bysuspected GIA gunmen. He workedat a private Algerian company.

3-Sep-95 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown0 2 ALGERIA. Two nuns, one French andone Maltese, were killed in Algiers,most probably by GIA Islamicextremist.

3-Sep-95 Paris France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives4 0 FRANCE. A bomb in an open airmarket in Paris near Place de Bastillefailed to explode after the detonatormis-fired. The small explosioncaused by the faulty detonator,however, injured four persons. Thebomb consisted of explosives packedinto a pressure cooker. The GIAeventually claimed credit for this andthe other bombings in theircampaign in France.

4-Sep-95 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 25 ANGOLA. Suspected UNITA rebelsambushed a bus and killed 25passengers including three Britonsand five Filipinos near Lucapa inLunda Norte province. A UNITArepresentative denied responsibilityfor the attack.

4-Sep-95 BucaramangaColombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A Coca-Cola bottlingplant in Bucaramanga was bombedby FARC. Two of three bombsexploded at 3AM causing minordamage but no injuries. The sameplant had been previously bombed inJanuary 1994.

4-Sep-95 Paris France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb was found anddefused in a public lavatory near aprimary school in Paris. It is believedto be the fifth in a series of bombingsby Algerian Muslim extremists. Thebomb was made from a 25kg gascylinder packed with 55 lbs. ofexplosives which was transported ina supermarket trolley and placed inthe public lavatory. The GIAeventually claimed credit for thisbombing along with the otherbombings in their campaign inFrance.

5-Sep-95 Ethiopia Unknown Firearms0 2 ETHIOPIA. Two Sudanese were shotdead by unknown gunmen. One wasthe head of the International IslamicRelief Agency ,Abdella El-Ghalli, andthe other with the World IslamicLeague, Alfatih Yusif.

5-Sep-95 Luebeck FederalRepublicofGermany


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20 2 GERMANY. An arson attack bysuspected PKK separatists in Luebeckresulted in the death of one Turk andone German. Twenty persons wereinjured, including 15 Turks.

5-Sep-95 Frietal FederalRepublicofGermany


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0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish-ownednightclub in Frietal was firebombed.The PKK is suspected. There were noinjuries.

5-Sep-95 WestBank/Gaza

PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL


1 1 WEST BANK. A Jewish couple in theWest Bank settlement of MaalehMikhmash were targets of a knifeattack in their home. The man, whohad recently immigrated fromEngland, was stabbed to death. Hispregnant American wife wasseriously injured. PFLP claimedresponsibility for the attack statingthat it was in retaliation for the arrestof three PFLP members and the longdetention of another. One personwas arrested.

6-Sep-95 Irbil Iraq KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives0 1 IRAQ. A car bomb with 15 kg of TNTexploded outside the offices of thePatriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) inIrbil. One person was killed andseveral injured in the bombing. ThePKK are suspected.

7-Sep-95 Lyon France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives14 0 FRANCE. A car bomb, the first inFrance since 1982, exploded outsideof the Jewish School of Lyons in theVilleurbanne suburb of Lyons. Thebomb went off just minutes beforeschool was to let out for the daywhen 700 students would have beenleaving. The Algerian GIA eventuallyclaimed responsibility for thebombing.

7-Sep-95 India Dukhta-ran-e-Millat

Explosives1 1 INDIA. Kashmir. A package bombdelivered by a woman wearing aburqa, the veiled gown of devoutMuslim women, exploded in theBBC/Reuters offices in Kashmir. Thepackage was addressed to a reporterin the office. Two photographerswere injured in the explosion.Kashmiri Islamic extremists of theDukhta-ran-e-Millat group aresuspected but have deniedresponsibility. One of the injuredphotographers (with Agence FrancePresse) later died of his wounds.

7-Sep-95 Iraq KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives9 5 IRAQ. A bomb (50-100 kg) explodedin an empty shop as a convoy of carspassed carrying the former leader ofthe Kurds' self-declaredadministration in northern Iraq. Hesurvived the bombing but fourbodyguards and a child were killed;nine were injured. The PKK issuspected.

8-Sep-95 Halhoul WestBank/Gaza

Ey Al(FightingJewishOrganization)

Unknown0 1 West Bank. A Palestinian man in thetown of Halhoul in the West Bankwas killed by a rightwing Jewishgroup called Ey Al.

11-Sep-95 Madras India LiberationTigers ofTamilEelam(LTTE)

Explosives0 0 INDIA. Two bombs exploded at theSri Lankan diplomatic mission inMadras. There was only minordamage and no injuries. A note atthe scene claimed the bombing bythe Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (anIndian Tamil group) and demandedthat Sri Lanka stop all militaryoperations against the LTTE. Theyalso called for the establishment of aTamil state in Sri Lanka, known asEelam.

12-Sep-95 Lebanon Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 LEBANON. A PLO Fatah officer,Maarouf Abu Hamadeh, was foundstabbed to death at the Rashidiyyehrefugee camp near Tyre. No groupclaimed responsibility.

13-Sep-95 Moscow Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 RUSSIA. The US Embassy in Moscowwas attacked by a rocket-propelledgrenade. It is believed that it was inprotest of NATO's continued bombingof Bosnian Serbs. The outside of thebuilding was damaged along withminor damage to the interior offices.There were no injuries. A portablegrenade launcher was found acrossthe large avenue directly in front ofthe Embassy. The US DeputySecretary of State, Strobe Talbott,was due to arrive in Moscow the nextday.

16-Sep-95 Panthou Sudan SouthernSudanIndependenceMovement(SSIM)

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Twelve aid workers forMedecins Sans Frontieres Belgiumwere kidnapped in Panthou by rebelsof the Southern Sudan IndependenceMovement (SSIM). Eleven of thecaptives escaped but one Kenyanworker was unable to escape. Hewas held until Oct 23, 1995 when hewas released unharmed from Gogriel.

17-Sep-95 Paris France Other Firearms0 1 FRANCE. The son of a key witnessfor the prosecution in ShapourBakhtiar's murder was shot to deathat his father's residence in Paris. Thefather was a member of the NationalResistance Movement (in Iran) andgave key testimony of Iran beingbehind the murder of Bakhtiar.

17-Sep-95 Baidoa Somalia Other Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. Twenty-one foreign aidworkers were taken hostage whenAidid forces captured the city ofBaidoa. Seven of the hostages werereleased on 21 Sept 1995 and flownto Nairobi. The remaining 14 werereleased on 23 September 1995.Among those held hostage wereAmericans and Australians.

20-Sep-95 Vienna Austria Cell forInternationalism

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRIA. The American InternationalSchool in Vienna was firebombed bya group called the Cell forInternationalism. There were noinjuries. The group claimed theattack in a letter to the Austria PressAgency stating that they attackedthe school because it bred the NATOand UN elite, who will be responsiblein the future for the murderous warpolicy of the USA. The police had notheard of the group before thisincident.

20-Sep-95 Austria RedDaughtersof Rage

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRIA. A firebomb, that failed toignite, was thrown at a Germanpharmaceutical firm hostingAmerican visitors and flying theAmerican flag. Possibly connected tothe bombing of the AmericanInternational School but a groupcalled the Red Daughters of Rageclaimed that the company wasinvolved with an American companythat participated in forcedsterilization in third world countries.

6-Oct-95 Paris France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives12 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded outsidethe Maison Blanche Metro stationinjuring twelve people. The bombconsisted of a gas canister packedwith nails and bolts that had beenplaced in a trash bin. The explosionoccurred soon after the burial ofKhaled Kelkal. The GIA (ArmedIslamic Group) of Algeria claimedresponsibility for this bombing aswell as the other bombings in Francethis summer.

6-Oct-95 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

Dev Sol Firearms0 0 GERMANY. The Turkish consulate inHamburg was attacked by armedmen. The attackers briefly occupiedthe consulate and left after paintingDev Sol slogans on the walls.

9-Oct-95 Baghdad Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAQ. A bomb exploded at theentrance to the Russian Embassy inBaghdad. The bomb was planted in aRussian diplomat's car parked at theEmbassy. There were no injuries. Nogroup claimed responsibility.

10-Oct-95 Tajikistan Other Firearms4 6 TAJIKISTAN. Tajik opposition gunmenfrom Afghanistan's Badakhshanprovince crossed the border andattacked a truck carrying RussianFrontier Guard soldiers. Six soldierswere killed and four others wereinjured.

14-Oct-95 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives1 0 COLOMBIA. A letter bomb explodedat the Italian Embassy in Bogota. AnItalian official was injured. TheEmbassy suspects they wereattacked due to their cooperation inanti-drug efforts. No one claimedresponsibility.

15-Oct-95 ArgentinaUnknown Explosives0 0 ARGENTINA. A bomb was found anddefused just before a motorcade offoreign dignitaries passed by on aroad leading to the airport at SanCarlos de Bariloche. They wereattending the 5th Ibero-AmericanSummit for heads of state from LatinAmerica, Spain and Portugal. UNSecretary General Boutros-Ghali wasalso attending. The incident was notclaimed.

16-Oct-95 AmsterdamNetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 NETHERLANDS. An apartmentbuilding in Amsterdam wasfirebombed. Anti-Turkish and anti-Moroccan graffiti was found on thewalls.

17-Oct-95 Paris France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives29 0 FRANCE. Another bomb exploded onthe Paris Metro during morning rushhour as the train neared Quaid'Orsay. Twenty-nine people wereinjured. It was the eighth bombingby Algerian extremists in Francesince July. The GIA claimedresponsibility for the bombings inFrance.

18-Oct-95 Munich FederalRepublicofGermany


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GERMANY. A firebomb exploded in aTurkish-owned bakery in Munich.Police suspect the PKK.

19-Oct-95 Serbia Unknown Explosives0 0 SERBIA. The Hungarian Cultural Clubin Subotica was bombed. Thebombing occurred the day before theHungarian Prime minister Gyula Hornwas to visit Belgrade.

20-Oct-95 Rijeka Croatians al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Explosives29 1 CROATIA. A car bomb explodedoutside the police HQ in Rijeka on thecoast of Croatia. The Egyptian groupal-Gama'a al-Islamiya claimed thebombing was in protest of thedetention of one of their leaders,Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim, since Sept 1995by Croatian authorities. They warnedthat they would continue to attackCroatian targets until Qasim wasreleased. Croatia claims that he isnot being held in the country. Oneperson was killed and 29 injured.

20-Oct-95 SaudiArabia

Other Explosives100 8 SAUDI ARABIA. A bomb exploded ata mosque in al-Qawba in AsirProvince. Eight people were killed,including one Egyptian and oneIndian, and 100 injured.

20-Oct-95 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded at aCoca-Cola warehouse in Istanbul. Nogroup claimed responsibility.

20-Oct-95 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives1 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded in thewaiting room of the Telegraph Officein Peshawar. It is suspected that anAfghani refugee was planting thebomb when it exploded prematurelyseverely wounding him.

21-Oct-95 BuenosAires

ArgentinaKahaneChai

Firearms1 0 ARGENTINA. The Iranian charged'affaires at the Iranian Embassy inBuenos Aires was the target of anassassination attempt. He was thehighest ranking Iranian diplomat inArgentina. The attache and hisfamily were in their car when a manon a motorcycle shot at them,wounding the attache in the chest.The extreme right-wing Jewish groupKahane Chai claimed responsibility.

24-Oct-95 Angola NationalUnion forthe TotalIndependenceof Angol

Unknown0 2 ANGOLA. UNITA rebels attacked thevillage of Mutchokwe in Lunde Norte,a diamond mining region, killing twopeople and kidnapping 36 others,including four South Africans. UNITAclaims that the South Africans aremercenaries; authorities state theyare miners.

24-Oct-95 Liberia Other Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 LIBERIA. A Liberian UN driver wasforced out of his UN marked vehicleand stabbed but not killed. Hisattackers were protesting what theyclaimed was the insufficient helpprovided by the UN and wanted theUN to do more for Liberia.

24-Oct-95 Brussels Belgium ArmenianResistanceGroup

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb was found anddefused at the Ziraat Turkish bankbranch in Brussels. The ArmenianResistance Group claimedresponsibility.

24-Oct-95 AmsterdamNetherlandsArmenianResistanceGroup

Explosives0 0 NETHERLANDS. A Semtex bombwrapped in a white plastic bag wasfound and defused at a Turkish bankin Amsterdam. A group calledArmenian Resistance Group claimedresponsibility for the attemptedbombing.

25-Oct-95 Kabul AfghanistanTaliban Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. Rockets were firedonto the runway of Kabul'sInternational Airport just as anInternational Committee of the RedCross (ICRC) chartered flight wasabout to take off. Three morerockets landed on the runway afterthe flight took off safely. The attackis suspected to have been carried outby the Taliban Islamic militia.

26-Oct-95 Malta Other Firearms0 1 MALTA. The leader of Islamic JihadMovement in Palestine, Dr. Fathi al-Shaqaqi, was assassinated by twogunmen on motorbikes outside hishotel in Sliema in Malta. He was shotin the head five times. He wascarrying a Lebanese passport underthe name of Ibrahim al-Shawish.Israeli agents are suspected.

27-Oct-95 Vanimo Papua-NewGuinea

FreePapuaMovement(OPM-OrganisasiPapuaMerdeka)

Firearms0 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA. The IndonesianConsulate in Vanimo was attacked byOrganisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM -Free Papua Movement). An armedgroup broke through the doors of theconsulate and caused some damage.No one was injured. The Consul wasnot on the premises at the time ofattack.

28-Oct-95 SaudiArabia

Other Firearms0 0 SAUDI ARABIA. A Saudi national firedat a US army captain in Tabuk. Theofficer, who was not injured, laterfound seven cartridge cases from theweapon used to fire at him.

29-Oct-95 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb exploded on arailway track near Peshawar. It issuspected that it was timed to hit anAwam Express train to Karachi, whichwas 30 minutes late. The explosionoccurred near an army depot and apublic bus stop. The police link thisbombing to three other bombingsthat occurred over the next few daysby suspected Afghani refugees.

30-Oct-95 HeilbronnFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish advice centerwas firebombed in Heilbronn. Therewere no injuries. Police suspect theincident to have been carried out byKurdish militants.

30-Oct-95 PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. A bomb planted at atraffic light near the security forceheadquarters in Peshawar explodedbut caused no injuries. Pakistanipolice suspect Afghani involvement.It was the fourth such bombing inPeshawar in the past week.

2-Nov-95 WestBank/Gaza


Explosives11 1 Gaza Strip. A suicide car bomberexploded a bomb near a bus in theGaza Strip at the Kissufim crossing.An army jeep escort noticed asuspicious car and forced it to theside of the road before it explodedthus preventing more serious injuriesto the bus passengers. Threesoldiers and eight bus passengerswere injured.Another suicide carbomb exploded nearby minutes later.

2-Nov-95 WestBank/Gaza


Explosives0 1 Gaza Strip. A suicide car bomberexploded a bomb near a bus justoutside of the Qatif settlement inGaza. There were no injuries due tothe army escort ordering the bus toback up after hearing the explosionof the first car bomb which occurredonly minutes before (see above).Aman suspected of buying the twocars used in the above bombings wasarrested on November 4th.

3-Nov-95 Duisburg FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A firebomb was thrown ata Turkish cultural club in Duisburg.There were no injuries.

4-Nov-95 Harare ZimbabweOther Unknown0 0 ZIMBABWE. An Eritrean manattempted to assassinate formerEthiopian dictator Mengistu inHarare, where Mengistu has been inexile. The suspect was shot andwounded by police as he was hidingin bushes near Mengistu. Thesuspect had various weapons. Asecond suspect was arrested thenext day.

6-Nov-95 FederalRepublicofGermany


2 1 GERMANY. An arson attack on aTurkish home in Bayreuth resulted inthe death of one person and injuriesto two others. No group claimedresponsibility.

7-Nov-95 Luxor Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms10 0 EGYPT. A tourist train from Luxor toCairo was shot at injuring 10passengers. al-Gama'a al-Islamiyaclaimed responsibility for the attackin a statement that again warnedforeigners to leave the country.

9-Nov-95 Algiers Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 ALGERIA. The warehouse of the USEmbassy in Algiers was set on fire byIslamic extremists. The GIA issuspected of responsibility for theattack.

9-Nov-95 Aswan Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms3 0 EGYPT. Islamic extremists openedfire on a train en route from Aswan toCairo in the south of Egypt nearFarshut village about 600km fromCairo injuring two foreign tourists -one French and one Dutch as well asan Egyptian. The next day the Tal'atYasin group of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyaissued a statement claimingresponsibility and warning all touriststo leave Egypt.

10-Nov-95


Firearms1 1 ALGERIA. Two French nuns, of theLittle Sisters Sacred Heart, were thetargets of gunmen in the Koubadistrict of Algiers where Islamicextremists are active. They wereshot as they were leaving their homeat 8:50AM. One nun was killed andthe other seriously injured. The GIAis suspected.

10-Nov-95

Lage FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A house in Lage wasfirebombed by unknown attackers.The six Turkish and two Portugeseresidents were unharmed. Theexplosion blasted a large hole in theoutside wall. No group claimedresponsibility.

10-Nov-95

Basel SwitzerlandUnknown Fire orFirebomb

3 0 SWITZERLAND. A Turkish shop inBasel was the target of an arsonattack. The building where 19 peoplelived was destroyed. Three peoplewere injured. No group claimedresponsibility.

13-Nov-95

Riyadh SaudiArabia

Al Qaeda Explosives60 7 SAUDI ARABIA. A Chevrolet vanpacked with 100 lbs of Semtexexploded outside the Office of theProgram Manager/Saudi ArabianNational Guard (OPM/SANG) inRiyadh run by the US military. Thehuge explosion killed seven people,including five Americans and aFilipino. (State Dept says 5Americans and 2 Indian Governmentemployees.) 60 people were injured,including 37 Americans. Thebombing occurred at midday whenmost Saudis were at midday prayersand many Americans were in thesnack bar. The car bomb was parkedon the street just outside the snackbar. A previously unknown groupcalled the Tigers of the Gulf claimedresponsibility as did the previouslyunheard of International JusticeGroup, the Combatant Partisans ofGod (probably the same as Warriorsof God), and Islamic Jihad. Alsoclaimed by Islamic Movement forChange. Another group called theMovement for the Liberation andHoly War in the Arabian Peninsuladistributed leaflets in May andSeptember making threats if foreignforces did not withdraw from SaudiArabia. The leaflets indicated thatthe group is part of the mainstreamSunni sect in Saudi Arabia.Four Saudimen were arrested in April 1996 forinvolvement in the bombing.Following their confessions they weresentenced to death and beheaded inMay 1996.

13-Nov-95

Geneva SwitzerlandInternationalJusticeGroup(Gama'aal-Adelaal-Al

Firearms0 1 SWITZERLAND. An Egyptiandiplomat was assassinated inGeneva. He was part of the Egyptiandelegation to the World TradeOrganization. He was shot six timesin the underground garage of hisapartment building. Theassassination was claimed by thepreviously unheard of InternationalJustice Group (Gama'a al-Adela al-Alamiya) who said he was murderedbecause of his involvement intracking down Muslim activists onbelhalf of the Egyptian government.

15-Nov-95

Tokyo Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Explosives0 0 JAPAN. Small explosives were foundon the power lines of the US base atSagamihara near Tokyo. One of thedevices exploded but caused onlyminor damage. US President Clintonwas scheduled to be in Tokyo thefollowing week. There were noclaims of responsibility but somesuspicion fell on the groups Chukaku-Ha and Kakurokyo-Ha who had boththreatened to disrupt the APEC(Asian Pacific Economic Council)meeting held 13-19 November inOsaka.

18-Nov-95

Aswan Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms5 1 EGYPT. Suspected al-Gama'a al-Islamiya members opened fire on atourist train about 250 mi south ofCairo. The train was en route fromAswan to Cairo. One Egyptian trainworker was killed and anotherinjured. Several other passengerswere injured and taken to thehospital.Note: number of injuries isapproximate.

19-Nov-95

IslamabadPakistan al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Explosives60 17 PAKISTAN. A suicide truck bombingin Islamabad heavily damaged theEgyptian Embassy there, killing 17persons and injuring 60. The vehicle,containing a 250kg bomb completelydestroyed the compound anddamaged many other buildings in ahalf-mile radius, including the Swissand Indonesian embassies. Threedifferent groups claimed thebombing: including al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, Al-Jihad (the group thatassassinated former EgyptianPresident Anwar Sadat), andInternational Justice Group (Gama'aal-Adela al-Alamiya). The bombingoccurred on the 18th anniversary ofSadat's historic 1977 visit toJerusalem. An Egyptian-Canadiannational was arrested on suspicion ofinvolvement in financing thebombing in December 1995. In Feb1996, the Pakistani governmentannounced the arrest of threeSudanese in connection with thebombing. Also in February, Egyptianpolice stormed the hideout ofMoslem militants. Two were killed inthe incident and they were laterlinked to this bombing.ADDENDUM.In August 1996, Egypt's securityservices announced that it wasconvinced that Jihad was responsiblefor the bombing. Forty-one membershave been arrested and offered fullconfessions. Jihad leaders in Europeplanned and financed the attack.

20-Nov-95

Sofia Bulgaria Unknown Firearms0 0 BULGARIA. The EgyptianAmbassador's residence in Sofia wasattacked by gunmen. Security at theresidence had been increased earlierafter an unidentified man told one ofthe guards that he would be dead bythe end of the day. Bulgarianauthorities suspects the incident wasa show of solidarity by local Muslimsfor the attack on the EgyptianEmbassy in Pakistan.

22-Nov-95

NewDelhi

India JammuandKashmirIslamicFront

Explosives30 0 INDIA. A bomb exploded outside of arestaurant in Connaught Place, NewDelhi injuring 30 people includingDutch, Norwegian and South Africantourists. The bomb was 3.3 lbs ofPETN, a plastic explosive, and had asophisticated timing device attachedto it. The bombing was claimed bythe recently founded Jammu KashmirIslamic Front. The group'sspokesman said the attack was toprotest atrocities by Indian troops inKashmir. It was also claimed by theKhalistan Liberation Tiger Force.

26-Nov-95

Baghdad Iraq Other Explosives0 0 IRAQ. A car bomb exploded at theoffices of the Iranian oppositionMujahedin-e Khalq (People'sMujahedin of Iran) in Baghdad. Theyblame agents in the Iranian Embassyfor the bombing. There were noinjuries.

26-Nov-95

London UnitedKingdom


0 1 UNITED KINGDOM. A Libyanopposition leader, a founder ofNational Front for the Salvation ofLibya, was found stabbed to death inhis London shop. British-basedLibyan groups believe that he wasassassinated by Libyan agents. Thecase is being handled by ScotlandYard's anti-terrorism squad.

27-Nov-95

GuatemalaUnknown Other 0 1 GUATEMALA. A Mexican UN workerwith the International LaborOrganization in Guatemala waskidnapped, beaten and left to die.Her body was found on a roadside 70miles from Guatemala City five daysafter her abduction. The MexicanEmbassy said she had receiveddeath threats because of herinvolvement with a company thatmarketed indigenous crafts.

27-Nov-95

QiryatShemona

Israel Hizballah Explosives7 0 ISRAEL. Guerrillas, presumed to befrom Hezbollah, fired several volleysof Katyusha rockets into the KiyatShmona and Ezba Hagalil region ofnorthern Israel injuring at least sevenpeople. The rockets were fired fromthe Lebanese Wadi Sluki region, aHezbollah stronghold. The attackwas presumed to be in retaliation forthe death of three Hezbollahmembers in an Israeli action theprevious day.

28-Nov-95

Turkey Hizballah Firearms0 1 TURKEY. A Turkish Jewishbusinessman was shot to death inBursa. A caller claimed that themurder was in retaliation for thekilling of Islamic Jihad Movement inPalestine leader, Fathi al-Shaqaqi inMalta in October. Hezbollah claimedresponsibility. Police suspect acontract killing related to businessdealings.

29-Nov-95

Belfast UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Northern Ireland.Two bombs were found and defusedin Belfast a day before US PresidentClinton was to arrive in Belfast. Onebomb, described as 'amuteurish' wasfound near the Europa Hotel andsafely detonated. The other bombwas found on Lisburn Road about amile from the first.

29-Nov-95

Belfast UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. Northern Ireland.Two bombs were found and defusedin Belfast a day before US PresidentClinton was to arrive in Belfast. Onebomb, described as 'amuteurish' wasfound near the Europa Hotel andsafely detonated. The other bombwas found on Lisburn Road about amile from the first.

30-Nov-95


Firearms1 2 ALGERIA. Unknown gunmen openedfire on Lithuanian (also reported asLatvian) sailors in the Casbah inAlgiers. Two of the sailors werekilled and one injured. Moslemextremists of the GIA are suspected.

30-Nov-95

Cairo Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms0 0 EGYPT. Suspected al-Gama'a al-Islamiya (Islamic Group) membersopened-fire on a tourist train about160 mi south of Cairo. The train wasen route to southern Egypt. Elevenrounds were fired causing minordamage to the train. There were noinjuries.

3-Dec-95 GuatemalaUnknown Unknown1 0 GUATEMALA. An American workingfor the UN mission in Guatemalaassigned to monitor human rightsviolations was the target of anattempted kidnapping. She escapedfrom her abductors by jumping out ofthe car. This attempt came two daysafter the bodies of two foreignwomen abductees were found.

6-Dec-95 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 2 COLOMBIA. Two OccidentalPetroleum employees were killed bythe National Liberation Army (ELN).The incident took place in theSamore region, 185 miles northeastof Bogota, near the Venezuelanborder.

9-Dec-95 Bayonne France BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. A bank in Bayonne wasfirebombed in protest of the Frenchgovernment's deportation of amember of ETA. ETA is suspected.

11-Dec-95

Graz Austria Other Explosives1 0 AUSTRIA. Two letter bombs,including one addressed to the UNHigh Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR), exploded and a further twowere defused in a postbox in Graz.One woman was injured in theexplosion and a post office buildingwas damaged. Police suspect thatneo-Nazi's are responsible.

12-Dec-95

Tajikistan Other Firearms0 1 TAJIKISTAN. A local reporter workingfor the BBC was shot and killed. Hisbody was left the next day inDushanbe near the University ofTajikistan. The reporter was head ofthe Persian language service inTajikistan. Tajik officials suspectopponents of the current regime whoseek to disrupt inter-Tajik talks beingheld in Ashgabat.

13-Dec-95

Burundi Unknown Explosives0 0 BURUNDI. The offices of Oxfam werethe target of grenade attacks inGitega. There were no injuries.

13-Dec-95

Burundi Unknown Explosives2 0 BURUNDI. The offices andresidences of staff belonging to theFrench-based International Actionagainst Hunger (AICF) in Gitega weretargets of grenade attacks. Twoforeign aid workers were injured.The foreign staff were leaving thearea while the local staff continuedto provide aid.

13-Dec-95


Unknown Explosives2 0 GERMANY. A bomb wired to theignition of a businessman's carexploded in Aichach, northwest ofMunich. Two people were injured,including the owner of the car, who isDutch. The men worked forEurocontroll Breitsameter, a meatinspection company that iscontracted to the European Union toinspect locally produced meat.Police did not state whether theattack was aimed at thebusinessman personally or thecompany that employed him.

13-Dec-95

Burundi Unknown Explosives0 0 BURUNDI. The residences andoffices of workers for theInternational Committee of the RedCross (ICRC) in Gitega were thetarget of grenade attacks after theBurundi government accused theICRC of supporting the Hutu rebels.There were no injuries but activitiesby ICRC were suspended in the areaafter the attack.

16-Dec-95

Valencia Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives8 1 SPAIN. Several bombs explodedwithin an hour at a department storein Valencia. One woman was killedand eight people were injured,including one American. A warninghad been called in to a radio stationin Vitoria by ETA.

18-Dec-95

MogadishuSomalia Other Firearms1 0 SOMALIA. A group of around 20armed men kidnapped an Italian aidworker from Mogadishu. The man,who worked for the Italian agencyCEFA, was seized after an exchangeof fire between the kidnappers andhis bodyguards, during which one ofthe bodyguards was seriouslyinjured. It was suggested that whilethe kidnap took place in northernMogadishu, an area controlled bywarlord Ali Mahdid Mohamed, it wasthe work of the clan led by rivalwarlord Mohamed Farah Aidid whichwas in control of the southern part ofthe city. A decision by CEFA toabandon its operation in southernMogadishu was cited as the motive.The man was released unharmedseveral days later. No ransom wasdemanded, and an Aididrepresentative claimed that the manhad been deported for enteringSomalia without a proper visa.

19-Dec-95

Burundi Unknown Explosives2 0 BURUNDI. The residence of Frenchaid workers in Gitega was the targetof a grenade attack which injuredtwo people. The aid agency thenmoved it's operations to Kenya.

20-Dec-95

Salzburg Austria Cell forInternationalism

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 AUSTRIA. The Cell forInternationalism firebombed theAmerican Express office in Salzburg.

21-Dec-95

PeshawarPakistan Other Explosives100 45 PAKISTAN. A car-bomb exploded in amarket in Peshawar killing 45 peopleand injuring 100. The police statedtheir prime suspect was an Afghaninational and implied Afghanigovernment involvement. No groupclaimed responsibility.

23-Dec-95

DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany

Anti-ImperialistCell (AIZ)

Explosives0 0 GERMANY. A bomb exploded at thePeruvian Consulate in Dusseldorf.There were no injuries but thebuilding housing the consulate wasdamaged. The attack was claimedby the Anti-Imperialist Cell (AIZ). Acommunique sent to a news agencyclaimed that the attack was inresponse to human rights abuses inPeru.

28-Dec-95


Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. Abu Sayyaf memberskidnapped 16 people, six of themAmericans, from a resort near LakeSebu in South Cotabato. Four of thehostages were released to deliver aransom demand for $58,000 (1million pesos). The hostages werereleased on 31 Dec 1995 in LakeSebu. The ransom was never paidbut the mayor of General Santos, anearby town, promised new homesfor Muslims and a Muslim school andcemetery.

30-Dec-95

Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A small bomb explodednear the Champs-Elysees in Parisdamaging the Citibank office. Thestreet was to be closed to traffic thenext day. It is not clear whether theattack was aimed at the bank, orwhether it was part of an attemptedrobbery.

1-Jan-96 Jenna Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. An American employee ofJenna-Hunt of Hunt EnergyCorporation and three others werekidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen nearJenna. The kidnappers demandedthat the government pay for usingthe land that was being developed bythe corporation and to provide jobs.The four hostages were released fourdays later after intense negotiations.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. An oil pipeline, jointlyowned by Occidental Petroleum (anAmerican company) and theColombian state oil monopoly, wasbombed in several places by the ELNand FARC.

1-Jan-96 Irbil Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 IRAQ. A vehicle containingexplosives was abandoned near theUN office in Irbil after security guardstold the driver to move the vehicle.



0 0 UNITED KINGDOM. In the early hoursof the morning petrol was pouredover the front of the Turkish NationalAirline office in London, causingsome damage but no casualties. Itwas suspected that supporters ofKurdish separatism were responsiblein the light of protests by Kurdsthroughout Europe over the death ofthree Kurds during rioting at anIstanbul prison the previous day.

7-Jan-96 Zurich SwitzerlandOther Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SWITZERLAND. The Turkish NationalAirlines office in Zurich was thetarget of an arson attack causing20,000 Swiss Francs of damage, butno casualties. A Turkish man(probably Kurdish) was subsequentlyarrested. The attack followed otherson targets with Turkish links inGermany, Greece and the UnitedKingdom after the death of threeKurds during prison riots in Istanbul.

7-Jan-96 JayawijayaIndonesiaFreePapuaMovement(OPM-OrganisasiPapuaMerdeka)

Unknown0 2 INDONESIA. Fourteen peopleworking on a scientific expeditionorganized by the World Wide Fundfor Nature were kidnapped by FreePapua Movement (OPM) members inJayawijaya in Irian Jaya, theIndonesian half of New Guinea.Amongst those kidnapped were fourBritish, two Dutch, one German, andseven Indonesians. The InternationalCommittee of the Red Cross used anumber of representatives tonegotiate the release of the hostagesand visited many of the villages thatthe rebels belonged to. The Germanhostage was released on 15 Januaryon the condition that he would act asa negotiator between thegovernment and the kidnappers. InMay 1996 Indonesian special forcesmounted a rescue operation in whichthe foreign hostages and threeIndonesians were freed. Two of theIndonesian hostages were killed inthe operation, as were six OPMguerrillas.

7-Jan-96 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 8 PAKISTAN. A massive bombexplosion on a bus in Karachi killedeight people.

10-Jan-96 Tel Aviv Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives13 0 ISRAEL. A small makeshift bombassembled from lemon, nitric acid,and acetone, packed with nails andplaced in a garbage can near the oldcentral bus station in Tel Aviv,exploded. Thirteen people werewounded. A second bomb went off10 minutes later. The incident wasnot claimed but police believe it tobe terrorist (possibly Hamas) relatedsince similiar explosive materialshave previously been found inPalestinian refugee camps in Askar.

12-Jan-96 SpilembergoItaly TerritorialAnti-ImperialistNucleus

Explosives0 0 ITALY. A car belonging to a U.S.serviceman in Spilembergo wasdestroyed by a bomb in the earlyhours of the morning. The followingday a claim was made to anewspaper that the attack was bythe Territorial Anti-ImperialistNucleus.

16-Jan-96 Trabzon Turkey Other Explosives1 0 TURKEY. A ferry sailing under thePanamanian flag, the Avrasya, washijacked in Trabzon by Turkish-Abkhazian supporters of Chechenseparatism, who threatened to blowup the vessel unless Russian forcesallowed Chechen gunmen freepassage from a siege in theDagestani village of Pervomaiskaya.Of the 160 passengers on board, 114were Russian. A security guard wasinjured during the initial assault onthe vessel. After being refused entryto Istanbul because of the suspectedquantities of explosives on boardTurkish authorities, in associationwith the Chechen foreign minister,negotiated an end to the hijack. Ninemen were arrested at the port ofEregli and the ship then continued itsjourney. It arrived in Sochi, Russia,on 23 January 1996.

17-Jan-96 Manama Bahrain Other Explosives0 0 BAHRAIN. A bomb exploded in theMeridien Hotel in Manama, the site ofthe Middle East Petroleum and GasConference. A home-made timebomb was placed in a basementbathroom. All the delegates to theconference and hotel guests wereevacuated. There were no deaths orinjuries. The Islamic Front for theLiberation of Bahrain claimedresponsibility.

18-Jan-96 AddisAbaba

Ethiopia al-Ittihaadal-Islami

Explosives20 4 ETHIOPIA. A bomb exploded at ahotel in Addis Ababa. Four peoplewere killed and 20 injured. Manyforeigners were among the injured,including British, Malian, French andIndian nationals. An ethnic Somaliangroup called al-Ittihaad al-Islamiclaimed responsibility.

18-Jan-96 Luebeck FederalRepublicofGermany


38 10 GERMANY. A Luebeck refugeeshostel was attacked with fire, killing10 people and injuring 38 others. ALebanese man (Safwan Eid) ischarged and undergoing trial. Hismotive appears to be revengefollowing an argument. Others saythat it was the work of a neo-Naziattack and that the accused was infact a victim.


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An American citizenresiding in Colombia was kidnappedby the Revolutionary Armed Forcesof Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. Hewas released 4 months later.

23-Jan-96 Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. Cabinda. Three miningworkers, two from South Africa andone from Sao Tome, were brieflykidnapped by the Cabinda EnclaveLiberation Front- Armed CabindanForces who are fighting forindependence from Angola. Theyclaimed that the workers weremining gold in an area controlled byFLEC. It apppears that workers weretaken hostage for food, but whenthey could not aid the guerrillas theywere released.

24-Jan-96 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives7 3 BOSNIA. The Zetra Olympic stadiumin Sarajevo was the site of anexplosion. The NATO-ledImplementation Force reported onePortuguese and six Italian soldierswere injured and three others werekilled, one Italian and twoPortuguese.

26-Jan-96 Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Members of the al-Domantribe kidnapped 18 French touristsfrom Marib governorate and tookthem to the Shabwa region. Theirintention was to force authorities torelease one of the tribe's imprisonedmembers. The hostages werereleased unharmed five days laterand were given gifts by their captors.The government had refused to meetthe kidnappers' demands andpressured them into releasing thehostages. In February, securityforces tracked down the menresponsible for the kidnapping.Fourteen were arrested, while onemember of the Yemeni securityforces was killed and another fourinjured.

29-Jan-96 Cali Colombia Unknown Firearms1 0 COLOMBIA. Two men approached aguard outside the U.S. GovernmentBinational Center in Cali. Afterquestioning him about Englishlessons they disarmed him and shothim once in the leg, then fled thescene.

30-Jan-96 Dhaka BangladeshUnknown Firearms0 0 BANGLADESH. Gunmen opened fireon the home of the British DeputyHigh Commissioner in Dhaka.

31-Jan-96 Colombo SriLanka


Explosives1400 96 SRI LANKA. A massive truck bombwas driven into the Central Bankbuilding in Colombo. The vehicleexploded, killing 96 people andinjuring over 1,400, amongst whomwere 32 foreigners, including two UScitizens, six Japanese and one Dutchnational. Widespread damage wascaused to Colombo's commercialdistrict, including an AmericanExpress office and theIntercontinental Hotel. The truck wasdriven by members of the LiberationTigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) whowere apprehended by privatecitizens who had witnessed thebombing.

2-Feb-96 Dhaka BangladeshUnknown Firearms0 0 BANGLADESH. A Malaysian HighCommission car was attacked byunidentified gunmen in Dhaka.

2-Feb-96 Bonn FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. An Iranian student, whowas also a defector from the Iranianintelligence service, was kidnappedfrom his house in Bonn. He was heldand tortured for two days beforeescaping. He claims that he waskidnapped by four Farsi speakingmen. Iranian government agents aresuspected.

3-Feb-96 BangaloreIndia Other Unknown0 0 INDIA. A Firebrand activist inBangalore was arrested for wreckingthe country's first outlet of US foodchain Kentucky Fried Chicken. Theaccused was protesting what he callsthe economic ruin of the Indianfarmer.

6-Feb-96 NicaraguaUnknown Explosives0 0 NICARAGUA. A church in the town ofMasaya, near Managua was bombedon the eve of a visit by the Pope.There were no injuries.

8-Feb-96 CararaboVenezuelaUnknown Firearms0 0 VENEZUELA. The Venezuelan navalpost of Cararabo in Apure State wasattacked by Colombian rebels. Therebels apparently used light weaponsbut were repelled by the army troopsguarding the unit. No casualtieswere reported.

10-Feb-96 Zwedru Liberia LiberiaPeaceCouncil

Unknown0 0 LIBERIA. Members of the LiberiaPeace Council in Zwedru kidnappedeight aid workers employed byOxfam and Medecins SansFrontieres. They were releasedunharmed three days later. Themotive for the kidnapping wasunclear, but presumably the incidentwas aimed at the Liberiangovernment rather than the relieforganizations themselves.

10-Feb-96 Limassol Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 CYPRUS. A bomb exploded outside aKurdish cultural center in Limassol. Aman of apparently Arab origin, calleda local radio station shortly beforethe explosion to say that a devicehad been planted. There were nocasualties but nearby houses weredamaged. A warning of a secondbomb proved to be false.

11-Feb-96 Manama Bahrain Other Explosives3 0 BAHRAIN. A bomb exploded at theluxury Diplomat Hotel in Manama.Three employees were wounded.The Islamic Front for the Liberation ofBahrain claimed credit in a phonecall to the Associated Press inManama. Police arrested foursuspects in this bombing as well theJanuary bombing of the MeridienHotel.

12-Feb-96 Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Firearms0 0 BOSNIA. Bosnian Croats attemptedan assassination on the EUadministrator in Mostar. Eleven ortwelve shots were fired at theadministrators armoured car inprotest to the conditions in Mostar.Croation protesters are advocating aclear ethnic demarcation betweenMostar and the Muslim-Croatfederation.

14-Feb-96 Manila PhilippinesAbuSayyafGroup(ASG)

Firearms4 0 PHILIPPINES. The Citibankheadquarters in Manila (which alsohouses the headquarters of the ShellOil Company) was fired on withautomatic weapons and thenattacked with hand grenades by atleast four people travelling in one ormore vehicles. Authorities found abag containing a grenade launcher,grenades, an assault rifle and priest'scassocks. Police suspect the AbuSayyaf Group.

14-Feb-96 Greece November25AnarchistGroup

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. Commandos of theNovember 95 Anarchist Groupclaimed responsibility for an attackon a Wendy's fast food restaurant.An improvised incendiary deviceexploded inside a trash can, butcaused neither damage nor injury.

15-Feb-96 Athens Greece RevolutionaryStruggle

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A rocket-propelled grenadewas fired from a distance of 100yards at the U.S. Embassy in Athens.Three official vehicles were damagedbut no one was injured.Responsibility has been claimed byseveral groups, including theRevolutionary Struggle.

20-Feb-96 Istanbul Turkey Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Unknown0 2 TURKEY. Two Iranian dissidentmembers of Mujahedin-e Khalq werekilled in Istanbul. A number ofIranians and Turks were arrested inApril 1996 in connection with thekilling. Islamic militants among thegroup claimed that Iranian diplomatshad ordered the assassinations.

25-Feb-96 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives50 23 ISRAEL. A suicide bomber explodeda bomb on the No.18 Egged bus inJerusalem. The 22lb (10kg) bombkilled 23 people and injured 50others. The Ezzedin al-Qassam, thearmed wing of Hamas, claimedresponsibility in retaliation for thekilling of Yehiya Ayyash (presumablyby Israeli agents) and also to markthe second anniversary of theHebron massacre attack by a Jewishsettler. Three Americans died.

25-Feb-96 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives25 3 ISRAEL. Another suicide bomberexploded a bomb, 30 minutes afterthe Jerusalem bus bombing, inAshqelon. The bomber was wearingan Israeli army uniform andapproached a group of Israeli soldierswhen he detonated the bomb. Thisone was also claimed by Ezzedin al-Qassam in retaliation for the killing ofAyyash and to mark the secondanniversary of the Hebron massacreas well. Three people were killed, 25injured.

25-Feb-96 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms2 1 PAKISTAN. A barricade situationarose between a Sindh police mobileunit assigned to an American Schoolin Karachi and an unidentifiedassailant. Small arms fire wasexchanged resulting in the death ofthe perpetrator and injuries to two ofthe police officers.

27-Feb-96 AshqelonIsrael Other Explosives34 2 ISRAEL. A suicide bomber detonatedapproximately 5 kilograms ofexplosives including nails and metalballs at an Ashkelon roadside fromwhere soldiers usually hitch-hike. Asoldier and the bomber were killedand 34 others were injured, manyseriously.

3-Mar-96 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives7 19 ISRAEL. A suicide bomber explodeda bomb at 6:27AM on another No.18Egged bus in Jerusalem. The bus wason its way to the Central bus station.Nineteen people were killed andseven injured. Hamas claimedresponsibility.


Explosives163 15 ISRAEL. A suicide bomber explodedhis bomb in the streets of central TelAviv on King George and Dizengoffstreets near the entrance of theDizengoff Shopping Center. Fourteenpeople were killed and 163 injured.The bombing occurred just beforethe start of the Jewish festival ofPurim. The bomber intended toexplode the bomb inside theshopping center but hesitatedbecause of heavy security. Hamasclaimed responsibility for thebombing.

4-Mar-96 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms1 2 PAKISTAN. Two Sunni MoslemIranian cleric dissidents wereassassinated in Karachi. Unidentifiedgunmen opened fire on the twoclerics as they drove past. Apasserby was wounded.

5-Mar-96 Baghdad Iraq Other Firearms0 1 IRAQ. A member of the People'sMujahedin, an armed Iranianopposition group, was shot to deathin Baghdad while sitting in his car.The Iranian opposition group accusedthe Iranian secret service of theassassination.



0 0 GERMANY. Turkey's consulate inHamburg was firebombed andsmeared with paint by a group ofabout 15 people.

8-Mar-96 Ercan Cyprus Other Unknown0 0 CYPRUS. A North Cyprus TurkishAirlines Boeing 727 was hijackedwhile travelling from Ercan inNorthern Cyprus to Istanbul. Theaircraft, with 101 passengers onboard, was redirected to Sofia,Bulgaria, and then onto Munich aftera brief stay. Initially it was believedthat there were four hijackersinvolved, but when the incident wasresolved 11 hours later it emergedthat there was in fact only onehijacker, a 20 year old Turkish waiterwith Chechen sympathies. Policereported that he had a replicahandgun and had informed theauthorities that he had explosives.The man had demanded to make astatement on the Chechen situationand to see a human rights lawyer.After speaking with a Munichjournalist he released thepassengers.ADDENDUM: Thehijacker pleaded guilty at his trial inLandshut, Germany, and wassentenced to six years and tenmonths in prison.

14-Mar-96 Manama Bahrain Other Fire orFirebomb

0 7 BAHRAIN. A Bangladeshi restaurantin Sitra in Manama was firebombed.Three Shiite Muslims were sentencedto death in July 1996 for the attackwhich killed seven Bangladeshis.Four others were sentenced to lifeimprisonment. This attack follows asimilar incident on 13 March, inwhich nobody was killed, at arestaurant frequented by Westernersnear the capital.

14-Mar-96 Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An Italian engineerworking for a Milan basedconstruction group was kidnapped byguerrillas in Colombia. He was freedunharmed in July 1996.

17-Mar-96 Irbil Iraq Unknown Unknown0 4 IRAQ. Four members of a Kurdishopposition group were killed in avillage near the Kurdish-held city ofIrbil. Kurds blame Iranian agents.

19-Mar-96 Manama Bahrain Other Explosives2 0 BAHRAIN. A bomb was thrown intothe Baisan Hotel in Manama. TwoIndians were injured.

21-Mar-96 Somalia Other Firearms1 0 SOMALIA. Four U.N. staff and arepresentative for the World HealthOrganization were kidnapped at theBaledogle Airfield while in theirUNICEF vehicle. The tarmac wasunguarded and it was there thatabout 10 gunmen surrounded themand ordered them out of theirvehicle. At a small village later in theday, local inhabitants attempted tostop the vehicle from passing whichresulted in a gunbattle that injured aten year old boy. The vehiclecontinued but reached a dead endand had to return. Local militiamenhad gathered by then andoutnumbered the kidnappers whosurrendered. The villagers robbedthe kidnap victims of their personalbelongings and held the kidnappersin custody.

21-Mar-96 Bogota Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A bomb was found andsafely detonated at the VenezuelanConsulate in Bogota. The homemadebomb contained 2-4 lbs of dynamiteand shrapnel.

21-Mar-96 Delhi India JammuandKashmirIslamicFront

Explosives50 25 INDIA. A car bomb was detonated ina crowded Delhi marketplace killingat least twenty five people andinjuring more than 50. The Jammuand Kashmir Islamic Front claimedresponsibility in protest forforthcoming polls and previous IndianArmy killings.

22-Mar-96 Chengdu China,People'sRepublicof


0 0 CHINA. A molotov cocktail wasthrown at the American ConsulateGeneral in Chengdu by a youngChinese man. The man claimed tohave been protesting the U.S.Government's involvement in theTaiwan Straits dispute.

23-Mar-96 Somalia Other Firearms0 1 SOMALIA. Armed men stopped thecar of an employee of the U.S.branch of Action International ContreLa Faim (AICF). The security guardwas killed and the employee and herdriver were kidnapped by the menwho were members of the AliSuleiyman subclan of the Majertain.The local Somali SalvationDemocratic Front (SSDF) militia werecontacted who pursued thekidnappers and caught up with themthe next afternoon. Gunfire ensuedbut the aid worker was rescuedunharmed. The kidnapping wasapparently carried out to press theAICF's demands for a greater shareof the power in the New Bariadministration (local government).

23-Mar-96 LaVictoria

VenezuelaNationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown2 1 VENEZUELA. ELN killed a policemanand injured two people in La Victoria.

26-Mar-96 SiemReap

CambodiaKhmerRouge

Unknown0 1 CAMBODIA. A British mine clearingexpert and 31 other Cambodian mineclearers were kidnapped at SiemReap by the Khmer Rouge. A reportin August claimed that a Thainewspaper reported that the Britonhad been executed by his captors.October brought a further report thathe was alive but being forced tomake homemade bombs for theKhmer Rouge. In Nov 1996, it wasreported that the man was turnedover to Cambodian authorities 'weak,thin and unable to walk' but alive.Another report quoted that theKhmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphanfinally responded to letters andclaimed that the National Army ofDemocratic Kampuchea was notinvolved in the case. The BritishForeign Office claimed the reportswere premature.ADDENDUM. It wasreported on 20 January 1998 by theBritish Foreign Office, that he is'probably dead'.

27-Mar-96 Medea Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)


0 7 ALGERIA. Seven French Trappistmonks were kidnapped from amonastery in Medea. Their severedheads were found on May 30, 1996.The GIA claimed responsibility.

27-Mar-96 Luxor Egypt Bani HilalTribe

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 EGYPT. An EgyptAir Airbus A320 washijacked after leaving Luxor en routefor Cairo on the second leg of a flightfrom Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to theEgyptian capital. A man entered thecockpit of the aircraft five minutesfrom Cairo holding a Molotov cocktailand gunpowder and demanded to betaken to Libya where he wanted toconvey a divine message to ColonelQadhafi. He also called for the liftingof the siege of the Palestinians. Whenthe pilot said that there was notenough fuel to fly to Libya the mantried to ignite the home made bomb.The pilot then agreed to enter Libyanairspace, and landed the aircraft atMartubah airport, 90km from Tobruk.The Libyan news agency claimedthat the hijacking was in protest ofthe Sharm el-Sheikh anti-terrorismconference, and a show of supportfor Qadhafi's rejection of theconference. The man was reportedto be a restaurant owner fromsouthern Egypt, whose two sonswere also involved in the hijacking.The older man was reported to havetaken a large quantity of sedatives,and was also reported to have beentrying to get publicity for their tribe,the Bani Hilal. Upon arrival in Libyathe passengers were released,whereupon they returned to Egypt.Two security officials at Luxor airportwere arrested on suspicion of helpingthe men, but were subsequentlyreleased and not charged. It wasreported that the men smuggled theexplosives onto the plane in floursacks, and strapped to their waists.The hijackers were sentenced inNovember 1996: the restaurantowner was sentenced to life withhard labor; his son, 17, wassentenced to 10 years; his nephew,16, was sentenced to 3 years; and anaccomplice was sentenced to sevenyears with hard labor.

30-Mar-96 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 2 LEBANON. Hezbollah fired a numberof rockets into northern Israel killingtwo Israeli civilians.

30-Mar-96 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An Italian engineer wasabducted from a construction site inthe Bolivar region of NorthernColombia. FARC were suspected. Hewas released on 7 July 1996.

31-Mar-96 La Barra VenezuelaPopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Firearms0 4 VENEZUELA. A rancher from LaBarra was kidnapped by Colombianguerrillas belonging to the People'sLiberation Army (EPL). The fourkidnappers were killed in a shootoutwith security forces, allowing thehostage to escape unharmed.

2-Apr-96 Colombia M-19(Movementof April19)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The Organisation ofAmerican States' Secretary General(Cesar Gaviria) was kidnapped byJEGA, an offshoot of the now-demobilised M-19 guerrilla group.On 12 June, he was released inPereira after two months of captivityin a small underground pit.

7-Apr-96 Manama Bahrain Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 BAHRAIN. Three shops in a shoppingmall were the targets of arsonattacks. The mall is in a diplomaticarea of Manama.

9-Apr-96 Israel Hizballah Explosives30 0 ISRAEL. Hezbollah guerrillas firedKatyusha rockets into northern Israelfrom their positions in Lebanoninjuring 30 Israeli civilians.

11-Apr-96 MontereyMexico Unknown Firearms0 0 MEXICO. No injuries were reportedafter unknown assailants fired four9mm bullets at the U.S. Consulate inMonterey. The glass front door andlobby, the facade and fence of theconsulate were all that wasdamaged.

18-Apr-96 Cairo Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms15 18 EGYPT. Gunmen opened fire on agroup of Greek tourists outside theEuropa Hotel in Cairo killing 18people and injuring 15 others. Theattack was claimed by al-Gama'a al-Islamiya. The attackers had believedtheir victims to be Israelis.Addendum: A gun battle was foughtbetween the Egyptian police andsome of the Islamic militants thoughtresponsible for the above incident onApril 23. Two of the perpetratorswere killed as well as four policeofficers and 14 others werewounded. The leader of the group,Abdallah Ismail, and three otherswere killed in a shoot-out withsecurity forces on 16 October 1996.He was directly linked to the attackon the Europa Hotel.

21-Apr-96 NewDelhi

India Other Explosives37 12 INDIA. A bomb exploded at aguesthouse popular with foreignbackpackers in New Delhi. The bombwas made of 20 to 30kg ofexplosives. Three Nigerians, oneDutch and two Britons were amongtwelve persons killed. Many otherswere injured including a number offoreigners. Two separatist groupsclaimed responsibility for thebombing. They are the Jammu andKashmir Islami Harkatul-Momineenand the Khalistan Liberation Force.

22-Apr-96 Lahore Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 PAKISTAN. Two explosive deviceswere thrown over the wall of the USInformation Service center in Lahoreby unknown attackers. There wereno injuries.

24-Apr-96 Warsaw Poland Other Explosives0 1 POLAND. A bomb exploded at a Shellgas station in Warsaw. A policebomb disposal officer who was tryingto defuse the device was killed. Theattack was claimed by a group calledGN 95, who demanded a payment of$2 million from Royal Dutch Shell butalso claimed their actions were inprotest of foreign investment inPoland.

28-Apr-96 Istanbul Turkey Other Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A bomb exploded near theAeroflot-Russian International Airlinesoffice in the Beyoglu district ofIstanbul. There were no casualtiesbut the doors and windows of theoffice were destroyed. Responsibilitywas claimed by a previouslyunknown group calling themselvesthe Organization for Solidarity withthe Chechen Resistance Fighters.

5-May-96 Kabul AfghanistanTaliban Explosives2 0 AFGHANISTAN. Taliban Islamicextremists fired rockets onto theIranian Embassy in Kabul. Twopeople were injured.

5-May-96 AthwajanIndia Other Firearms2 8 INDIA. Ten Nepali workers werekidnapped from Athwajan nearSrinagar by Kashmiri rebels. Eightwere killed and two escaped with gunshot wounds.

8-May-96 PhnomCheal

CambodiaKhmerRouge

Explosives0 0 CAMBODIA. The American companyFischbach International wasreconstructing a road in Cambodiawhen seven Thai nationals workingfor them were kidnapped, apparentlyby the Khmer Rouge. Ten guerrillasarmed with AK-47's and B-40 rocketlaunchers attacked the employees ata quarry in Phnom Cheal. A further20 armed men ambushed thoseworkers trying to escape near thebase of the quarry. All hostageswere released the following day.

11-May-96

Taegu Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Seven fire bombswere thrown at the American CulturalCenter in Taegu with four landing onthe front steps. There were noinjuries and the fifteen or soperpetrators, assumed to bestudents, escaped.

13-May-96

Israel Unknown Firearms3 1 ISRAEL. An American was killed andat least three other people injuredwhen two gunmen opened fire near abus stop at the Israeli complex of BetEl in Ramahhal. No group claimedresponsibility.

16-May-96


Explosives10 0 PERU. A 20 kilogram dynamite bombwas detonated in a stolen car by theSendero Luminoso in the La Victoriadistrict of Lima. The bomb went offat 10.35pm at the Royal Dutch ShellPetroleum products warehouse andten people were injured (oneseriously). There was considerablematerial damage caused to thewarehouse and nearby buildings andcars. The attack was likely meant toderail the proposed signing of acontract between Shell, Mobil andthe Government of Peru to beginexploration of the Camisea gas fieldsin the Peruvian jungle.

20-May-96

Seoul Korea,South


0 0 SOUTH KOREA. Twenty molotovcocktails were thrown at HannamVillage in Seoul, a U.S. militaryhousing compound. Minor firedamage was caused to the roof of acraft center and library.

28-May-96

Paris France Unknown Firearms0 1 FRANCE. A former Iranian cabinetminister under the Shah was shotdead at his Paris home. Iran deniedany involvement. An Iranian manwas arrested in connection with themurder and his trial began inOctober.

28-May-96

Athens Greece NihilistsFaction

Explosives0 0 GREECE. A bomb exploded at theoffices of IBM in Athens causingextensive damage but no injuries. Aman wearing a motorcycle helmetwas seen placing a package at therear of the building. Responsibilitywas claimed by the Nihilists Faction.

30-May-96

Beirut Lebanon Other Firearms1 0 LEBANON. An Iranian dissident livingin exile in Beirut was the target of anassassination attempt. Men in carsopened fire on the victim, seriouslywounding him. He was taken to theAmerican Hospital where Iraniandiplomats arrived and attempted tohave the victim turned over to them.

30-May-96

Lebanon Hizballah Explosives7 4 LEBANON. Hezbollah detonatedseveral bombs as Israeli patrolspassed. Four soldiers were killed andseven wounded.

30-May-96

NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. An American electoralobserver with USAID was kidnappedby former Contras. She was releasedafter 24 hours following negotiations.

4-Jun-96 Burundi Other Firearms0 3 BURUNDI. Three Red Cross workers,two Swiss and an Italian, weregunned down in the province ofChibitoke, as they returned fromtransporting medical supplies andwater to the north of the region. Twodeath threats were subsequentlyreceived. The attack resulted in theRed Cross pulling out of the region.

4-Jun-96 DushanbeTajikistan Other Unknown0 2 TAJIKISTAN. Two Russianservicemen's wives were killed in acemetery in Dushanbe. The policesuspected an Islamic extremist groupknown as Muzlokandov's Gang.

4-Jun-96 PhilippinesNewPeople'sArmy(NPA)

Firearms0 1 PHILIPPINES. A Canadian geologistwas killed when guerrillas suspectedof belonging to the New People'sArmy (NPA) fired on a helicopterowned by the Arimco MiningCorporation. The helicopter was hitthree times by rifle fire near the townof Didipio in Nueva Viscaya province.

7-Jun-96 BujumburaBurundi Unknown Firearms0 2 BURUNDI. Two doctors, one fromNigeria and one from Togo, werekilled by gunmen near Bujumbura(Iviri) while on an aid mission.

8-Jun-96 VenezuelaNationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 1 VENEZUELA. The Colombian ELNkilled a Venezuelan man in Apurestate. They apparently believed himto be a government informant.

9-Jun-96 Israel PopularFront fortheLiberationofPalestine(PFL

Firearms0 2 ISRAEL. Two Israeli settlers werekilled by the PFLP on the Israeli sideof the border with the West Bank atBet Shemesh. The couple and theirbaby were travelling in a car whenthe attackers passed them andopened fire with automatic weapons.The couple were killed but their babywas uninjured.

10-Jun-96 Lebanon Hizballah Firearms0 5 LEBANON. Five Israeli soldiers werekilled in an ambush at 5:30am inoccupied southern Lebanon by theIranian-backed Hezbollah.

17-Jun-96 Manama Bahrain Other Explosives0 0 BAHRAIN. A bomb exploded in a carowned by a Saudi national inManama. Shi'ite oppositionists weresuspected. No injuries.

19-Jun-96 BujumburaBurundi Unknown Unknown0 2 BURUNDI. Two Algerian doctors werekilled and another doctor kidnappedin the region of Bujumbura(Iviri, 50miles NW of the city Bujumbura)while on an aid mission.

19-Jun-96 NicaraguaOther Unknown0 0 NICARAGUA. Thirty-three electionworkers in Somotines near the townof Wiwili were kidnapped by Contrarebels and taken into Honduras.Twenty eight of the hostages weremembers of Nicaragua's SupremeElectoral Council, three were officialsin the Ministry of Agriculture and twowere boatmen. The hostages werereleased two days later.Negotiations were undertaken byOAS and the Catholic Church's bishopof Esteli. Army troops werewithdrawn from the area.

23-Jun-96 Manama Bahrain Other Explosives0 0 BAHRAIN. A bomb exploded near theLe Vendome Intercontinental Hotel inManama. There were no injuries.There were no claims ofresponsibility. Bahraini authoritiessuspect that extremists from anindigenous Shiite Muslim communitymay be responsible. Bahrain alsoaccused Iran of plotting to destabilisethe government in order to put anIslamic regime in power. Damagewas done to the LeVendome Hotelowned by Inter-Continental.

24-Jun-96 Uganda West NileBankFront(WNBF)

Unknown0 0 UGANDA. A German aid worker withGerman Volunteer Service (DED) waskidnapped by the West Nile BankFront (WNBF). The Front raided theDED camp in northwest Uganda andstole a car, ordering the victim todrive them to eastern Zaire. She wasreleased unharmed the followingmorning. The WNBF have operatedagainst the Ugandan governmentsince 1993 from Zaire and Sudan.They are led by a former associate ofIdi Amin.

24-Jun-96 Uganda West NileBankFront(WNBF)

Unknown23 10 UGANDA. WNBF rebels attacked therefugee camps in Koboko in northernUganda where International RedCross and other relief agencies wereassisting Sudanese refugees. Tenpeople were killed including one RedCross worker. Twenty-three peoplewere injured.

25-Jun-96 Dhahran SaudiArabia

Hizballah Explosives502 19 SAUDI ARABIA. A fuel truck bombexploded outside the housingcomplex for USAF personnel inDhahran on the King Abdul Aziz AirBase. Nineteen American airmenwere killed by the blast, whichdevastated the Khobar towerscomplex. Over 500 people wereinjured in the attack. A guard hadbeen seen turning the truck away,which was then parked next to theperimeter fence whilst the occupantsescaped in a waiting car.Responsibility has been claimed byHizballah Gulf, the Legion of theMartyr Abdullah al-Huzaifi and theIslamic Movement for Change.ADDINFO: In June 1997, a Saudisuspect was deported to the US byCanada. The suspect is a member ofthe Iranian Revolutionary Guards andthe Saudi Hezbollah which is backedby Iran. The suspect is offeringinformation on the bombing inexchange for reduced sentencing onother charges against him.

26-Jun-96 Sudan SudanPeople'sLiberationArmy(SPLA)

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. The Sudan People'sLiberation Army (SPLA) kidnapped sixCatholic missionaries, including threeAustralian nuns. It charged themwith spying and also with spreadingChristianity.

26-Jun-96 Pakistan Other Firearms0 0 PAKISTAN. Three Germans and theirPakistani driver were kidnapped in aremote area of Pakistan. The driverand one of the Germans werereleased on July 3rd and the othertwo Germans July 13th. All wereunharmed. No demands were made.

27-Jun-96 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA. A bombexploded in a building that housed,among other institutions, the OSCE,International Police Task Force andthe European Community MonitoringMission. There was severe damageto the building but no casualties.

28-Jun-96 OsnabrueckFederalRepublicofGermany


Explosives0 0 GERMANY. The British military'sQuebec Barracks near Osnabruckwas the target of a mortar attack bythe IRA. There were no injuries. Theattack occurred at 6:50PM. Threemortars were launched from atruck/van with British plates parkedoutside the base and aimed at apetrol station inside. The IRAclaimed responsibility in a statementto RTE on 30 June 1996. Thedaughter of nationalist civil rightsactivist Benadette Devlin McAliskeywas arrested in Northern Ireland andextradited to Germany in connectionwith German police investigationsinto the attack.

12-Jul-96 Vienna Austria KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Unknown0 0 AUSTRIA. A group of Kurds withsuspected PKK connections occupiedthe Reuters news agency office inVienna for several hours. The wereno casualties.

15-Jul-96 Amalfi Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An Italian engineerworking in Amalfi, in the northwest ofthe country, was abducted bysuspected leftist guerrillas. Hemanaged to escape his captors thefollowing day.

15-Jul-96 Cairo Egypt Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 EGYPT. A woman US DefenseIntelligence Agency employee wasstabbed by a young man with ahistory of mental illness. The attacktook place in the Semiramis Hotel inCairo. It was widely reported that itwas a random, non-political attack bya deranged man. Some Egyptianpress reports stated, however, thatshe was targeted because of herwork and that the targeting of thisparticular victim was too precise tobe random.



0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish prayer centerin Frankfurt was firebombed. A sheetwith TKP/ML (Turkish CommunistParty/Marxist Leninist) and thehunger strike lives written on it wasfound at the scene.

20-Jul-96 BarcelonaSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives53 0 SPAIN. A bomb exploded in theinternational passenger area at Reusairport, near Barcelona, injuring 53people and causing heavy damage.Many of the victims were Britishtourists flying to Manchester andBirmingham. Eight of the injuredwere Spaniards. A warning had beenreceived by two daily newpapers butthe bomb exploded before the airportcould be cleared. It was latersuggested that the bomb, which wasconcealed in a rubbish bin outside arestaurant, had somehow beeninterfered with by a cleaner, causingthe premature detonation of thedevice. The bombing was claimed byETA, and was accompanied by similarattacks on other parts of the Spanishtourist industry.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb was found in alavatory of the Princess Hotel inCambrils. It was safely detonatedafter the hotel's evacuation. Thehotel was filled with British tourists.A warning was received from ETA.

20-Jul-96 Salou Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. A bomb was found outsidethe Olimpus in Salou and was safelydetonated after the hotel wasevacuated. ETA called in a warning.

21-Jul-96 Moscow Russia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 RUSSIA. A vehicle belonging to theU.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment, parked outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, wasdestroyed by fire. Two tires and arag soaked with diesel fuel had beenplaced underneath the car. Therewere no injuries.

21-Jul-96 Salou Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 SPAIN. An ETA bomb was found anddefused at the Delfin Park Hotel inSalou. All guests were safelyevacuated.

22-Jul-96 Kiel FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish travel agencyin Kiel was firebombed.

22-Jul-96 Lahore Pakistan Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

68 9 PAKISTAN. A bomb inside a briefcaseexploded at a foodstall outside adomestic departure lounge at Lahoreairport. Nine people were killed andaround 68 injured. Damage toairport buildings was heavy. Theairport was closed by investigatorscausing flight delays andcancellations. The bomb exploded asPakistan International Airlines Flight315 was leaving for Karachi, andpolice suggested that it might havebeen intended for that aircraft.However the police also stated thatthey believed that bomb could havebeen remotely controlled. ThePunjabi Provincial Chief Ministerclaimed that 'external elements'were responsible, but there were noclaims made. Pakistanigovernmental representativesmeanwhile suggested that India wasbehind the bombing. Indianauthorities denied the charge.

23-Jul-96 Cologne FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A cafe in Cologne wasattacked. Molotov cocktails werethrown through the windows, causingconsiderable damage. Five Turkishcitizens were detained by police.

23-Jul-96 Bremen FederalRepublicofGermany


1 0 GERMANY. A Turkish social club inBremen was firebombed. Oneperson was seriously injured. Theattacks are perpetrated by suspectedTurkish radical leftists in support ofthe hunger-strikers in Turkishprisons.

23-Jul-96 Berlin FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish publishinghouse in Kreuzberg, Berlin, wasfirebombed. Turkish radicals weresuspected of responsibility.

23-Jul-96 DortmundFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A mosque in Dortmundwas firebombed by suspectedTurkish radical leftists in support ofthe hunger-strikers in Turkishprisons.

23-Jul-96 OberhausenFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish cultural centerin Oberhausen was firebombed.Turkish radicals were suspected ofresponsibility.

23-Jul-96 SanSebastian


Explosives1 0 SPAIN. A bomb planted on the car ofa Portuguese hospital worker,exploded in San Sebastian, injuringthe driver. His name had been on anETA hit list which was confiscated bypolice in March.

24-Jul-96 Zurich SwitzerlandUnknown Explosives2 0 SWITZERLAND. A letter bombexploded at the home of a Sri Lankancouple in Rapperswill near Zurich.The couple were slightly injured bythe explosion.

24-Jul-96 Basel SwitzerlandUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 SWITZERLAND. A Turkish traveloffice in Basel was attacked with twofirebombs. The building wasdamaged but no one was injured.

24-Jul-96 Paris France Unknown Other 0 0 FRANCE. The Turkish Embassy inParis was attacked by a group ofabout 30 people using stones, sticksand paint, causing minor damage.

24-Jul-96 Stuttgart FederalRepublicofGermany


Unknown0 0 GERMANY. The Turkish Airlines officeat Stuttgart airport was occupied byKurdish militants, reported to belinked to the PKK. They demandedthat all flights to Turkey be stopped.Around 400 police officers weredispatched to end the occupation.


Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. Turkish supporters of theleft-wing prisoners on hunger strikesin Turkey took over the Frankfurtoffices of Germany's oppositionSocial Democrats (SPD) and held fourSPD officials hostage. Theydemanded that the SPD sendrepresentatives to Turkey toinvestigate prison conditions there.A police commando team infiltratedthe building and arrested the 30Turkish occupiers.

25-Jul-96 Paris France Unknown Explosives62 4 FRANCE. A bomb went off in acrowded commuter train in theevening rush hour of Paris, killingfour and injuring 62 people. Theexplosion occurred at 5.30pm whenthe train was standing at St. Michel-Notre-Dame station. No groupclaimed responsibility but terrorismis suspected.

25-Jul-96 Miami UnitedStates


0 0 UNITED STATES. The headquartersof the Nicaraguan SandinistaLiberation Front in Miami was set onfire. The new offices were about toopen but were still unoccupied.There were no casualties but thedamage was fairly serious. TheSandinistas blamed supporters ofright wing presidential candidateArnoldo Aleman.

25-Jul-96 OffenbachTurkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish-owned store inOffenbach was firebombed. Therewas minor damage. Police suspectthe attackers to be supporters of theimprisoned hunger strikers in Turkeywho are protesting conditions inTurkish prisons.

26-Jul-96 Berlin Turkey Unknown Unknown0 0 GERMANY. The Turkish consulate inBerlin was briefly seized by fourpersons who then left the premises.No details were released by police.

26-Jul-96 HamburgFederalRepublicofGermany

TurkishCommunistParty/Marxist(TKP-ML)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish social club inHamburg was firebombed. Bannerswith TKP/ML (Turkish CommunistParty/Marxist Leninist) were foundnear the club. It is suspected thatthe attacks were perpetrated bysupporters of the imprisoned hungerstrikers in Turkish prisons, some ofwhom are members of TKP/ML.

26-Jul-96 Duisburg FederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A Turkish grocery store inDuisburg was firebombed. Itsuffered minor damage.

27-Jul-96 Atlanta UnitedStates

Other Explosives111 1 One woman was killed and 111others injured when a knapsack,filled with three pipe bombssurrounded by nails, detonated atOlympic Park in Atlanta, during the1996 Summer Olympic games. Asecurity guard discovered the bombprior to its detonation and authoritiesattempted to clear people from thearea. The perpetrator, Eric RobertRudolph, placed a warning call toauthorities about an hour before itexploded. Rudolph, a right-wingextremist, was also responsible forthree other bombings in theAmerican south between 1996 and1998. He was captured after fiveyears of evasion, and charged withlife in prison for his attacks inBirmingham, Alabama and Atlanta.In April 2005, Rudolph made thefollowing statement, In the summerof 1996, the world converged uponAtlanta for the Olympic Games.Under the protection and auspices ofthe regime in Washington millions ofpeople came to celebrate the idealsof global socialism. Multinationalcorporations spent billions of dollars,and Washington organized an armyof security to protect these best of allgames. Even though the conceptionand purpose of the so-called Olympicmovement is to promote the valuesof global socialism, as perfectlyexpressed in the song Imagine byJohn Lennon, which was the theme ofthe 1996 Games even though thepurpose of the Olympics is topromote these despicable ideals, thepurpose of the attack on July 27 wasto confound, anger and embarrassthe Washington government in theeyes of the world for its abominablesanctioning of abortion on demand.The plan was to force thecancellation of the Games, or at leastcreate a state of insecurity to emptythe streets around the venues andthereby eat into the vast amounts ofmoney invested.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. ETA are suspected of havingplanted a small bomb that went offat 4.15am in a small coastal resortapartment complex in northeasternSpain. There were no injuries.

28-Jul-96 NuremburgFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A firebomb attacktargeted a Turkish-owned business inNuremburg. There were no injuries.

28-Jul-96 DusseldorfFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A firebomb attacktargeted a Turkish-owned business inDusseldorf. There were no injuries.

29-Jul-96 Jakarta IndonesiaUnknown Explosives0 0 INDONESIA. A car bomb wasreportedly defused near the ChasePlaza building in Jakarta. The officeblock contains the Jakarta branch ofChase Manhattan bank, and theoffices of Singapore Airlines. It is notclear who was responsible, althoughthe report coincided with politicalunrest in the Indonesian capital.

30-Jul-96 Kabul AfghanistanTaliban Explosives0 0 AFGHANISTAN. A rocket exploded onthe UNICEF offices in Kabul. No onewas injured. The Afghan governmentaccused the Taliban of the rocketattack even though they had agreedto a five-day ceasefire in order forUNICEF to carry out a vaccinationcampaign.

30-Jul-96 LeverkusenFederalRepublicofGermany


0 0 GERMANY. A mosque in Leverkusenwas attacked by arsonists using afirebomb. Recent attacks on Turkishcommunities have been attributed toleft-wing activists supporting ahunger strike for Turkish prisonersand this attack has been associatedwith Dev Sol.

31-Jul-96 Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 ALGERIA. It was reported in theLondon-based Arabic newspaper 'Al-Hayat' that two bombs werediscovered and defused at Algiersairport shortly before the FrenchForeign Minister was due to arrive.The Algerian government, however,denied the reports, claiming theywere pure fantasy.

1-Aug-96 Oran Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives0 2 ALGERIA. A bomb exploded at thehome of a French bishop in Oranwhen he returned from a ceremonyhonoring French monks killed earlierin the year. The bishop and hischauffeur were killed in theexplosion. The suspects, allmembers of the GIA, were killed bysecurity forces on August 11.

2-Aug-96 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A package bomb explodedin the postal office in Paris. No onewas injured and no group claimedresponsibility.

4-Aug-96 Samana Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An Italian businessman(Danilo Conta) was abducted from afarm he owns in Samana, about 100miles NW of Bogota. On 17 February1997, he was released unharmedand in good health.

5-Aug-96 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 BOSNIA/HERCEGOVINA. A bomb wasdiscovered at the OSCE offices inSarajevo following a telephonedwarning. The device was located andsafely defused. No group claimedresponsibility.

5-Aug-96 AddisAbaba

Ethiopia Unknown Explosives17 1 ETHIOPIA. A bomb exploded at ahotel in Addis Ababa injuring 17people and killing one man, who wasa Belgian citizen. The was no claimof responsibility,

5-Aug-96 Paris France Unknown Unknown0 1 FRANCE. The local representative ofthe Kurdish Democratic Party waskilled in Paris. No group claimedresponsibility but the attack waswidely suspected to be politicallymotivated.

7-Aug-96 Grozny Russia Other Unknown0 0 RUSSIA. Chechenya. A group of 59Ukrainian construction workers werekidnapped in Grozny after they wereunable to leave due to heavyfighting. On 8 October 34 of the menwere released following negotiationsbetween the mayor of Odessa andChechen representatives. It isunclear what became of theremaining captives.

8-Aug-96 NouadhibouMauritaniaOther Firearms0 0 MAURITANIA. A man who tried tohijack an Air Mauritania flight wasdisarmed after he held a gun to thepilot's head. The incident took placein Nouadhibou, the country's secondcity, where the man boarded theflight for the capital Nouakchott,which originated in Las Palmas. Thehijacker, a policeman from thenorthern town of Zouerate, enteredthe cockpit, pointed the gun at thepilot and demanded to be flown toMorocco. The pilot struggled withthe man, and the gun discharged, abullet lodging in the ceiling. Theman was overpowered and the pilotflew on to Nouakchott, where thehijacker was arrested.

9-Aug-96 Cairo Egypt Unknown Firearms0 0 EGYPT. It was reported that shotswere fired at the Israeli ambassadorto Egypt's car in Cairo. A securitysource denied that the attack hadtaken place.

9-Aug-96 TrincomaleeSriLanka


Explosives9 0 SRI LANKA. A Philippine registeredcargo ship was loading sand from aport north of Trincomalee when itwas bombed with an underwaterdevice by the LTTE. The Filipino crewof 22 were ordered to leave the shipbeforehand but nine Sri Lankancivilians were wounded as a result ofthe blast.

9-Aug-96 France Unknown Explosives0 0 CORSICA. Moroccan nationals werethe target of bombings in twoincidents in Corsica. Property hasbeen damaged but there were nocasualties in the blasts.

9-Aug-96 France Unknown Explosives0 0 CORSICA. Moroccan nationals werethe target of bombings in twoincidents in Corsica. Property hasbeen damaged but there were nocasualties in the blasts.

10-Aug-96

Lebanon Hizballah Explosives3 3 LEBANON. Hezbollah guerrillasdetonated a bomb as an Israeli patrolpassed. Several people were injuredand killed.Note: Fatalities and injuriesare approximate.

10-Aug-96

Panama RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 PANAMA. Suspected FARC guerrillaskidnapped a former representative ofthe Democratic Revolutionary Partyin Boca.

11-Aug-96

BeledweyeneSomalia al-Ittihaadal-Islami

Firearms0 2 SOMALIA. Suspected Al-Ittihaad al-Islami gunmen killed two Ethiopianbusinessmen in Beledweyenepresumably in revenge for recentEthiopian incursions into Somalia.

14-Aug-96


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. An Italian restaurantowner was abducted by FARC. It isnot known if he was released.

14-Aug-96


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two Brazilian engineerswere kidnapped in the MetaDepartment. The ELN is suspected.They were released March 11th1997.

14-Aug-96

SriLanka


Explosives0 0 SRI LANKA. The LTTE bombed theoffices of Samsung Electronics, aSouth Korean company. There wereno casualties but the premises wereseverely damaged.

15-Aug-96

Sudan SudanPeople'sLiberationArmy(SPLA)

Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Six Catholic priests andnuns were kidnapped by the SPLA -who are fighting the Muslimdominated North for autonomy in theChristian south. Americans,Australians and Italians are amongthose held.

15-Aug-96

TrincomaleeSriLanka


Explosives0 0 SRI LANKA. Two grenades werethrown into a KoreanTelecommunications InternationalOffice in Trincomalee in the east ofthe country. There were no injuries.The attack occurred as PresidentKumaratunga was returning from astate visit to South Korea. The LTTEdeny responsibility.

15-Aug-96

TrincomaleeSriLanka


Explosives0 0 SRI LANKA. A grenade was thrown atthe house of a Korean in Tricomalee.There were no injuries.

17-Aug-96

Saint-Jean-de-Luz


Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A McDonald's restaurantthat was under construction in Saint-Jean-De-Luz was destroyed by abomb. No injuries were caused andresponsibility was claimed by theFrench Basque group Iparretarrak.

17-Aug-96

Tajikistan Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 3 TAJIKSTAN. The bodies of threeRussian civilians were found boundand decapitated at the town ofRogun. They included a 55 year oldman who was the manager of theRogun hydroelectric power station,his daughter and a male welder fromthe power station.

17-Aug-96


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. FARC guerrillas burnedthree buses transporting workers fora Colombian affiliate of the Exxon Oilcompany.

17-Aug-96


Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Five Roman Catholicmissionaries (including one Americanpriest) were taken hostage and heldfor nearly two weeks at their missionin Akot. The kidnappers, from theSudan People's Liberation Army(SPLA) accused the missionaries ofbeing spies for the National IslamicFront-backed government. All fivewere in good health when they werereleased.

19-Aug-96

Greece Unknown Other 2 0 GREECE. Two Turkish citizens werebeaten and their coffee house andcars stoned by unidentifiedassailants.

19-Aug-96

Greece Unknown Other 1 0 GREECE. A Turkish cleaner workingin the Komotini provincial centre wasbeaten in what is feared to berenewed attacks against Turks.

22-Aug-96


Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. Suspected leftistguerrillas kidnapped an Italian oilpipeline engineer. Eyewitnessesclaim three men on horseback armedwith submachine guns and pistols,seized the engineer and took off.The ELN is suspected.

25-Aug-96

Port-au-Prince

Haiti Unknown Explosives2 0 HAITI. Two hand grenades werethrown from a car into an ESSOpetrol station in Port-au-Prince. Thegrenades landed 30 feet from thepumps where one exploded injuringtwo people and damaging thebuilding.

25-Aug-96

Haiti Unknown Firearms0 0 HAITI. A house occupied by sixTogolese members of the UN SupportMission in Haiti was fired upon byunknown assailants.

26-Aug-96

Manama Bahrain Unknown Firearms1 0 BAHRAIN. The Russian embassy inthe capital came under attack fromtwo gunmen. A guard was wounded.The gunmen escaped in a waitingcar. Iranian Shiite Moslems aresuspected. Three men of unknownnationality were arrested inSeptember.

27-Aug-96



0 0 GERMANY. A meeting to furtherfriendship between Turkey andGermany was interrupted when twomasked men threw a firebomb intothe restaurant and then the entranceof the Hurturk Association. Therewas some damage but no injuries.

27-Aug-96


Other Firearms1 1 GERMANY. A vehicle carrying twomembers of a Turkish leftistorganization was fired upon byTurkish militants. One person waskilled and the other injured.

27-Aug-96


Unknown0 0 SUDAN. An American missionary waskidnapped by the SPLA.

27-Aug-96


Explosives0 0 CORSICA. A bomb exploded outsidethe Avis and Euro car hire offices atFigari airport. No one was injured inthe incident, which occurred late atnight.

28-Aug-96

SurabayaIndonesiaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 INDONESIA. A molotov cocktail wasthrown at the US consulate inSurabaya causing slight damage to aguard house. There were no injuries.Perpetrators were shouting I reallyhate the United States!.

28-Aug-96


Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Rebels from the SPLA areholding three Australian Catholicnuns and three other missionarieswhom they accuse of spying andbeing agents of Islam.

28-Aug-96

BethlehemWestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms2 0 WEST BANK. Shots were fired at apassenger bus in Bethlehem in theWest Bank. Two Israeli women wereinjured.

31-Aug-96

WestBank/Gaza

Other Firearms2 0 WEST BANK. Palestinian gunmenshot and wounded two Romanianworkers who crossed from Israel tothe West Bank to shop. Securitysources say the two may have beenmistaken for Israelis.

3-Sep-96 France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb was found anddefused in a church at Saint Laurentsur Sevre which the Pope wasscheduled to visit.

4-Sep-96 Lahore Pakistan Other Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. A group of studentsbelonging to the Jamaat-e-Islami, aPakistani Islamic fundamentalistparty, attacked the US consulate inLahore. There were no injuries.They were protesting Americanpolicy towards Iraq.

4-Sep-96 MogadishuSomalia Other Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. A UN aid worker waskidnapped from southern Mogadishu.He was released two days later.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. FARC guerrillas set fireto three crates of Dole bananas inMagdalena Department.


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. Three separate Dolebanana plantations were set afire inMagdalena Department.

13-Sep-96 Iraq Unknown Unknown0 0 IRAQ. Kurdistan. Four aid workers(one French, one Canadian, and twoIraqis) representing Pharmacienssans Frontiers (PSF) and the UNHCRwere kidnapped from a Kurdishrefugee camp near the Iranianborder. They were taken to Iran.

14-Sep-96 VenezuelaNationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown2 1 VENEZUELA. Guerrillas believed tobe from the ELN kidnapped aVenezuelan rancher near theColombian border. The man wasfound dead in Liberatador severalhours later.

14-Sep-96 LosBancos


Firearms2 1 VENEZUELA. Guerrillas from the ELNopened fire on military post in LosBancos. One soldier was killed andtwo civilians wounded.

19-Sep-96 MogadishuSomalia Other Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. An aid worker for theSwedish Life and Peace Institute waskidnapped in Mogadishu.

20-Sep-96 BarrancabermejaColombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Two bombs exploded atthe Mormon Church underconstruction at Barrancabermejacausing substantial damage.Construction workers had beenthreatened by FARC, ELN, ELP, andthe Jaime Bateman Front. Theseleftist groups are suspected ofcarrying out the bombing.

24-Sep-96 Herat AfghanistanOther Unknown0 0 AFGHANISTAN. An airplane carryingmembers of the Taliban militia fromHerat to Kandahar (destination alsoreported as Peshawar) was hijackedto Bagram air base in Afghanistan.One report denied that any Pakistaninationals were on the plane, whileanother claimed that five Pakistanimilitary officers were aboard. It wasnot clear who was responsible for thehijacking, although it may have beencommitted by pro-government forceshoping to expose Pakistani supportfor the Taliban. One report says thehijacker wanted to hand over theplane, along with the Pakistani andTaliban fighters on board, to myIslamic State.

25-Sep-96 Mallawi Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms0 0 EGYPT. Suspected Al-Gama'a al-Islamiya gunmen opened fire on aconvoy of tourist boats at Mallawisouth of Cairo. There were notourists on board at the time only 15crew members. There were noinjuries. [...first of its type in nearlytwo years..]

26-Sep-96 Russia Other Unknown0 0 CHECHNYA. Three Italians workingfor the Intersos humanitarianorganization were kidnapped fromChechnya. They were released tothe Italian embassy in MoscowNovember 29.

1-Oct-96 VladivostokRussia Other Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 RUSSIA. A South Korean diplomatwas found beaten and stabbed todeath outside his residence inVladivostok. North Korean agentswere suspected.

1-Oct-96 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Firearms1 0 CAMBODIA. A South Koreanbusinessman was shot and criticallywounded as he drove through PhnomPenh.

14-Oct-96 Pakelle Uganda Lord'sResistanceArmy(LRA)

Firearms0 2 UGANDA. Ugandan rebels thought tobelong to the Lord's Resistance Army(LRA) attacked government armybarracks and looted UN compoundsin Pakelle. The rebels opened fire onthe compound. There were noreported casualties except for anunconfirmed report of two deadUgandan soldiers. UN staff wereevacuated from the compoundswhich deal with Rwandan refugees.

15-Oct-96 Kampala Uganda Lord'sResistanceArmy(LRA)

Unknown0 4 UGANDA. A United Nationscompound at Kampala was over runby rebels of the Lord's ResistanceArmy. A Ugandan army captain andthree others including two civilianswere killed in the attack and anumber of vehicles were burnt.

17-Oct-96 France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives29 0 FRANCE. An underground commutertrain was bombed in the earlymorning, wounding 29 people. Noone claimed responsibility but it isassumed it was part of a continuingterrorist campaign by Algerianmilitants.

17-Oct-96 Bo Liberia Other Firearms0 0 LIBERIA. Seventeen UN workerswere returning from Bo where theyhad been attending to displacedrefugees when rebel gunmenkidnapped them. Twenty five armedfighters seized the workers andconfiscated valuables from them.They were released unharmed thefollowing day after an apology andthe return of most of their valuables.

19-Oct-96 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives2 1 CAMBODIA. A grenade exploded at aJesuit Service Cambodia technicalschool near Phnom Penh for peopledisabled by mines and polio. Atrainee priest from the Philippines(Richard Micheal Fernando) waskilled when he attempted to disarmthe disabled student carrying thegrenade. The student is beingcharged with murder.

20-Oct-96 CambodiaKhmerRouge

Unknown0 0 CAMBODIA. Three Frenchmotorcyclists were kidnapped byKhmer Rouge defectors and thenreleased the next day unharmed.The three had been locallyemployed.

25-Oct-96 Jordan Other Explosives0 0 JORDAN. A taxi transporting 11 anti-tank and 14 anti-personnel mineswas intercepted en route to Israel.Three Jordanians had collectedweapons from a nearby minefieldand stockpiled them with intent tomurder tourists in Israel. They werenot part of any known group butwere profoundly disturbed by thebroadening political and economicdevelopments between Israel andJordan.

26-Oct-96 Bogota Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A French engineer (AlainFablet) was kidnapped while workingon a highway east of Bogota.ADDENDUM. On 2 February 1997, aColombian army unit rescued theFrench engineer.

26-Oct-96 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. An explosion near theChinese consulate in Istanbul causedno damage.

26-Oct-96 Paris France Unknown Firearms0 2 FRANCE. Assassins fled the sceneafter shooting two members of theLTTE on a busy Paris street. TheLTTE have linked the deaths to aninternational conspiracy by the SriLankan government to wipe outTamil separatists overseas.

27-Oct-96 Israel Other Explosives0 0 ISRAEL. A Palestinian man wasarrested trying to enter Israel fromthe Gaza Strip, carrying an explosive-packed mobile telephone.Authorities suggested that it mayhave been planned for use againstIsraeli or Palestinian officials. TheHAMAS bomb-maker Yehiya Ayashhad been killed earlier by a similiardevice.

28-Oct-96 Somalia Other Firearms1 0 SOMALIA. A U.N. aid worker forUNICEF was kidnapped by gunmen inSomalia. When he refused to followthe kidnappers instructions he wasshot in the stomach.

29-Oct-96 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A French geologist andhis Colombian colleague werekidnapped while travelling. Theattack has been attributed to theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) by the police but nogroup has claimed responsibility.

31-Oct-96 Zaire(BelgianCongo)


0 4 ZAIRE. Four Spanish Maristmissionaries were hacked to deathby Hutu militias. Their bodies werefound in a well at their mission.

1-Nov-96 Sudan Other Unknown0 0 SUDAN. Forces loyal to Kerubino Bolcaptured an aircraft belonging to theInternational Committee of the RedCross (ICRC). The plane alsocontained five injured soldiers beingreturned to southern Sudan followingmedical treatment and it's Americanpilot. Three ICRC workers were takenhostage when the plane landed atWunrok, and the ICRC was accusedof smuggling arms to the SudanPeople's Liberation Army (SPLA). Thegroup demanded a ransom of 50million dollars, first aid kits andambulances and communicationequipment. The ICRC suspended itsactivities in the area until the planewas returned. U.S. Congressman BillRichardson negotiated the release ofall the hostages on behalf of thepilot's family. The hostages werereleased unharmed on December8th.

2-Nov-96 Kinshasa Zaire(BelgianCongo)


0 0 ZAIRE. A group of studentsprotesting ongoing tensions betweenBurundi, Rwanda and Zaire lootedand burned furniture at the home ofthe Burundian ambassador.

3-Nov-96 Manila PhilippinesUnknown Firearms0 0 PHILIPPINES. An unidentifiedgunman on a motorcycle firedseveral shots at the Russian Aeroflotoffice in Manila. Nobody was hurt inthe incident.

7-Nov-96 Tulua Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 COLOMBIA. A Mormon Temple inTulua was firebombed. There wereno casualties but the building wasdamaged. Anti-US propagandabelonging to the ELN was left behind.

8-Nov-96 Santiago Chile Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 CHILE. A Mormon Temple inSantiago was firebombed by sixhooded people. A hoax bomb wasalso found outside the temple.

13-Nov-96

Manama Bahrain Other Explosives1 0 BAHRAIN. A bomb exploded at aHyundai showroom in Sitra six milessouth east of Manama. A securityguard was slightly wounded in theexplosion which was reported tohave been caused by a butane gascylinder attached to a firing device.The roof of the showroom collapsedand car windows were broken. AShiite Muslim opposition group wassuspected.

15-Nov-96

Algeria Unknown Unknown0 1 ALGERIA. A Bulgarian national wasassassinated in Hammamet.Apparently he had previously workedin the Bulgarian Embassy in Algiersas the military attache but hispresent employment was not known.The GIA are among thoseorganizations suspected in thekilling.

15-Nov-96

Athens Greece RevolutionaryFront

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 GREECE. A firebomb destroyed a carbelonging to the Netherlands'embassy in Athens while parkedoutside the building. No one wasinjured. A previously unknown groupThe Revolutionary Front claimedresponsibility for the incident, linkingit to the commemoration of theNovember 1973 student uprising.

17-Nov-96

Istanbul Turkey TurkishIslamicJihad

Fire orFirebomb

40 17 TURKEY. A fire at a hotel in Istanbulkilled 17 Ukraianians and injured 40other people. An electrical fire wasinitially blamed but Turkish IslamicJihad later claimed responsibility forthe incident.

20-Nov-96

Manila PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A bomb was found inan unaccompanied bag in thearrivals terminal at Manila's NinoyAquino International Airport. It wassafely detonated. Security had beenheightened due to the APEC meetingof 18 leaders of Pacific Rim countries.NOTE: The Philippine authoritiesreported that the discovery (and thelater one at Subic Bay tourist centre)had been part of a security exercise.However the Washington Post statedthat an intelligence report claimedthat that both incidents weregenuine.

20-Nov-96

PhilippinesUnknown Explosives0 0 PHILIPPINES. A pipe bomb was foundand defused near the main entranceto the Subic Bay Freeport touristcenter. There were some reportsthat the bomb was placed there aspart of a security exercise for theforthcoming APEC meeting. Part ofthe meetings are to be held at SubicBay but not in the area that thebomb was found. However, otherreports are that it was a genuineincident.

20-Nov-96

Paris France ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A street post wasdestroyed by a bomb in theDepartment Essonne near Paris.Police believe that because the bombwas similar to that used in theDecember 3 Paris undergroundbombing that this was a test by theterrorists of a prototype device. Noone claimed responsibility but theAlgerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA)were responsible.

23-Nov-96

AddisAbaba

Ethiopia Other Explosives48 127 ETHIOPIA. An Ethiopian AirlinesBoeing 767 (flight 961) crashed intothe ocean close to the ComorosIslands after it ran out of fuelfollowing a hijacking. Some 127 ofthe 175 people on board the flightwere killed when the aircraft crashedclose to the coast as the pilotattempted to make a landing at theislands' capital, Moroni. The airplaneskipped in the water, breaking inpieces before landing on underwaterreef, which split the fuselage. Thepilot apparently took last minuteaction to avoid crashing into a beachhotel on the shore. Three men wereinvolved in hijacking the flight fromAddis Ababa to Abidjan on the IvoryCoast, via Nairobi, Brazzaville andLagos. About 20 minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa two Ethiopianmen started to make a commotion,and a third appeared to bebrandishing a bomb. The mendemanded to be taken to Australia.The pilot pointed out that there wasonly enough a fuel for a limitedperiod, but the men insisted that theflight continue. The co-pilot wasremoved from the cockpit, and it wasreported that at one point one of thehijackers took control of the plane,which lurched violently. Thehijacker's motives were not clear,although it was reported that theyhad escaped from prison and werepossibly anti-government rebels.They apparently had announced topassengers that they were prisonescapees. Two of the survivors werearrested under suspicion of being thehijackers, but were later releasedafter passengers and crew failed toidentify them as the menresponsible. It is assumed that allthe culprits died in the crash.

24-Nov-96

Bremen GermanDemocraticRepublic

Unknown Explosives10 0 GERMANY. An explosion destroyed aTurkish supermarket in Bremeninjuring at least 10 people.

26-Nov-96

Grozny Russia Other Unknown0 0 RUSSIA. Chechnya. Two members ofthe Organisation for Security andCooperation in Europe (OSCE)mission in Chechnya were kidnappedin Grozny. They were forced fromtheir car, which carried OSCEmarkings, and transferred to anunmarked vehicle. Their car wasalso stolen. Chechen separatistswere assumed to be responsible.

28-Nov-96

Bursa Turkey Other Firearms0 1 TURKEY. A Jewish businessman waskilled by gunmen opening fire on hiscar while he traveled in Bursa. Theattack was claimed in retaliation forthe assassination in Malta reportedlyby Israeli agents of the leader of amilitant Islamic group.

30-Nov-96

Mexico Unknown Firearms0 0 MEXICO. A bus carrying volunteerpeace workers from America andMexico was fired at by a gunman asit passed through Agua Fria inChiapas. Although a bullet didpenetrate the glass no one wasinjured. There is no known motive,although it is possible that theassailant was a Zapatista. He wasreported to be dressed in olive greenclothing.

3-Dec-96 Lahore Pakistan Unknown Explosives3 0 PAKISTAN. A car bomb explodedoutside the Panorama shoppingcomplex in Lahore during a visit tothe city by the Chinese President.Three Pakistanis were injured andseveral cars badly damaged. It is notknown if the attack was connected tothe presidential visit.

3-Dec-96 Paris France Unknown Explosives90 4 FRANCE. There was an explosion inthe carriage of a train at Port RoyalStation in Paris in the RegionalExpress Underground Railway.Approximately 90 people wereinjured and four killed in the blast(two Moroccan men, a Canadianwoman and a French man). No oneclaimed responsibility but theAlgerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA)were responsible for a similar nearbybombing in July 1995.

3-Dec-96 France Other Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A letter bomb was sent tothe editorial offices of the FrenchJewish weekly Tribune Juive. Thebomb was sent in a video cassetteconcealed in an envelope, and wasnot detonated. A group ofPalestinian sympathizers claimingallegiance to no specific group latersent an anonymous letter to thepaper claiming responsibility for theattack.

4-Dec-96 Malaga Spain Unknown Firearms0 0 SPAIN. Three armed men stormedthe Italian consulate in Malagacarrying pistols, they tied up threeemployees and forced them to read astatement claiming the action wasthat of a revolutionary group inprotest against Italian justice and infavor of prisoners. Embassy staffspeculated that the statement mayrefer to recent incidents alongSpain's Costa del Sol. The walls ofthe consulate office were spraypainted, passports, stamps andmoney were stolen. The attackershave not been identified.

8-Dec-96 Darvaz Tajikistan Other Unknown0 0 TAJIKISTAN. Guerrillas attacked aTajik-British gold mine in Darvaz.Four employees, one South African,one British and two Tajik, werekidnapped. The mine was occupiedfor five days. The hostages wereeventually released on 28 December1996.

11-Dec-96

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Unknown0 1 COLOMBIA. An American geologist{Frank Pescatore} was kidnapped inHato Nuevo, La Guajira Dept., from agas exploration site. AnotherAmerican escaped capture.Colombian workers at the plant wereunharmed. The body of thekidnapped geologist was recoveredin February 1997. The 59th Brigadeof the FARC are suspected.

12-Dec-96

Honduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. A grenade explodedoutside the house of a US citizenemployed by a Honduran subsidiaryof an American company. Therewere no casualties and no claim ofresponsibility was made.

15-Dec-96

Russia Other Unknown0 0 RUSSIA. Chechnya. A Russian newsagency reported that four aidworkers were kidnapped in Chechnyaby forces controlled by separatistsSalman Raduyev. Two of the victimswere workers for the UN HighCommission for Refugees and two forMedecins sans Frontiers. MSF deniedthat any of its workers had beenseized.

17-Dec-96


Explosives0 17 PERU. A group of Tupac Amarumembers entered the JapaneseAmbassador's residence in theJapanese Embassy compounddressed as waiters during acelebration of the JapaneseEmperor's birthday. They then setoff explosions and took theestimated 600 guests hostage.About 200 hostages were releasedsoon after the take-over. TupacAmaru threatened to kill thehostages if their 400 or soimprisoned comrades were not freedfrom Peruvian jails. The demandswere refused. Groups of hostageswere released throughout Dec 1996.Preliminary talks between TupacAmaru and government mediatorsstarted in Feb 1997, but these brokedown in March 1997. On 22 April1997, Peruvian soldiers stormed theAmbassador's residence and rescuedthe remaining 72 hostages. OneJapanese hostage and two soldierswere killed. All fourteen of the TupacAmaru hostage-takers were killed.

18-Dec-96

NovyeAtagi

Russia Other Firearms1 6 RUSSIA. Masked gunmen smashedthe doors of a Red Cross hospital inNovye Atagi, and, using silencers,shot dead five nurses as they slept.One of the nurses was Spanish, oneCanadian, one New Zealander andtwo Norwegian. A Dutch constructiontechnician was also murdered, and aseventh victim, a Swissadministrator, survived gunshotwounds. No one claimedresponsibility for the attack, but it isbelieved the assailants were eitherChechen separatists attempting towreck the recently established peacein the region, or members of theRussian security forces hoping todiscredit the separatists. The attackis the worst in the ICRC's 133-yearhistory. As a result, the Red Crosssuspended work in the area.

19-Dec-96

Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 GREECE. A large explosion causedextensive damage to the branchoffice of Citibank, parked cars andadjoining buildings, in Athens. Therewere no injuries and no group hasclaimed responsibility.

20-Dec-96

Tajikistan Other Unknown0 0 TAJIKISTAN. A convoy of UN militaryobservers and Tajik officials wasstopped by Tajik rebels betweenFayzabad and Gharm. Twenty threehostages were seized, including 8 UNpersonnel. The rebels demanded therelease of several of their comrades.The hostages were subsequentlyreleased.

24-Dec-96


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A 70 year old Italianbusinessman (Ezio Limiti) waskidnapped by FARC. On 21 February1997, he was released in goodhealth.

26-Dec-96

Athens Greece RevolutionaryNuclei

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Revolutionary NucleiGroup claimed responsibility for asmall explosion at a branch office ofCitibank in Athens. There were noinjuries.

27-Dec-96

Eritrea Unknown Unknown0 6 ERITREA. Five Belgian tourists andtheir Eritrean driver were ambushedon their return from Asmara. All sixwere killed.

28-Dec-96


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The National LiberationArmy (ELN) are suspected ofkidnapping a German teacher whowas traveling in Northern Colombia.

31-Dec-96

Bahrain Other Fire orFirebomb

2 1 BAHRAIN. Eight people threwMolotov cocktails at a building in theShiite village of Tubli, and set tyreson fire. One Asian man died and twoother people were injured. Suchracist attacks have reportedlyincreased due to the rise in cheapAsian laborers in the country takingjobs away.

31-Dec-96

Syria IslamicMovementforChange

Explosives42 11 SYRIA. A bus travelling fromDamascus to Aleppo was bombedkilling 11 people and wounding 42 ofit's passengers. Although it was acivilian vehicle many of those onboard were soldiers on leave. Theattack was claimed by the Saudigroup Islamic Movement for Change.The group stated the attack was inretaliation for the execution by Syriaof one of its members who took partin the June 25 attack on theAmerican military base in Dhahran.ADDENDUM. A Jordanian citizen wasapprehended by Lebanese securityauthorities on 3 January 1997 oncharges of involvement in theexplosion.

31-Dec-96

Uganda West NileBankFront(WNBF)

Unknown0 0 UGANDA. Fifty West Nile Bank Front(WNBF) rebels attacked and lootedproperty from a project aided byWorld Vision at 8pm. It was locatedat Madi Okollo in the NW district ofArua, 600 km from the capital.

1-Jan-97 Padua Italy TupacAmaruRevolutionaryMovement(MRTA)

Unknown0 0 ITALY. The Tupac Amaru Commandstormed the office of the PeruvianConsul in Padua. The group wrotegraffiti calling for the release ofpolitical prisoners on behalf of MRTA.They also phoned an Italian newsagency to claim responsibility.

1-Jan-97 Hebron WestBank/Gaza

Other Firearms6 0 WEST BANK. An Israeli soldieropened fire at a produce market inHebron. Six Palestinians wereinjured.

2-Jan-97 Washington,D.C.

UnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Four letter bombswere found at the Washington, DCoffices of Al-Hayat, a London-basedSaudi Arabian newspaper. Theplastic explosive bombs were sentinside musical Christmas cards andwere postmarked from Egypt. Twoarrived in the morning mail and thentwo more arrived in the afternoonmail. The National Press Building,which houses the Al-Hayat offices,was evacuated and searched.


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Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A letter bomb, thefifth, addressed to Al-Hayat inWashington, was intercepted at theWashington central mail distributionpoint. It was similar to the other fourthat were found at the Al-Hayatoffices.

2-Jan-97 LeavenworthUnitedStates

Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two letter bombs,also sent inside musical Christmascards, were sent to the FederalPrison at Leavenworth. Kansas.They were addressed to ParoleOfficer and postmarked from Egypt.One of the World Trade Center(1993) bombers is an inmate atLeavenworth.


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Two letter bombs,also sent inside musical Christmascards, were sent to the FederalPrison at Leavenworth, Kansas.They were addressed to ParoleOfficer and postmarked from Egypt.One of the World Trade Center(1993) bombers is an inmate atLeavenworth.


Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A third letter bombaddressed to Leavenworth Prisonwas found at the post office. Twoothers had previously been deliveredto the prison. It was similar to theothers as well as to the five sent tothe Al-Hayat newspaper's office inWashington, DC.

4-Jan-97 Riyadh SaudiArabia

Unknown Explosives0 0 SAUDI ARABIA. A letter bomb wasdiscovered at the Riyadh offices ofAl-Hayat. This bomb was anotherbelieved to be connected to theother letter bombs sent to the USand UK.

5-Jan-97 SouthAfrica

BoereAanvalsTroepe(BAT)

Explosives2 0 SOUTH AFRICA. A bomb exploded ata mosque just after midnight inZiniaville, near Rustenburg, injuringtwo security guards. The pipe bombwas packed with commercialexplosives. A caller representing theBoere Aanvals Troepe (BoerStormtroopers or BAT), an extremeright wing group, claimedresponsibility for this bombing aswell as the three others thatoccurred the same night. A Sudanesecitizen was injured.

6-Jan-97 Paris France Other Unknown0 0 FRANCE. A group of Central AfricanRepublic nationals took over andoccupied the Central AfricanRepublic's Embassy in Paris. Theyoccupied the Embassy for four hoursin protest against French militaryintervention in Bangui. They wereejected by French police on ordersfrom the Ambassador. The groupcalled themselves the ActionCommittee for Peace in CentralAfrica. The spokesman of the group,Henri Grothe, demanded that Frenchtroops be withdrawn from Bangui.

7-Jan-97 Baghdad Iraq Other Explosives0 1 IRAQ. A bomb exploded in Baghdadseveral hundred yards from theoffices of the Mujahedeen Khalqwhich is opposed to the Shiite Muslimgovernment of Iran. The explosionleft a three metre deep hole in thestreet and shattered windows ofseveral nearby buildings. Dozens ofcivilians were injured and one mandied of a heart attack as a result.The bomb was apparently three320mm mortars placed on a truckfull of bricks with a timing device.The Iraqi government suspect thatIran is responsible.

8-Jan-97 India Unknown Explosives0 0 INDIA. Kashmir. The home ofPakistan Television (PTV)correspondent, Ghulan Nabi Khayal,in Srinagar was the site of a timebomb. No one was hurt but half thehouse was destroyed.

9-Jan-97 Tel Aviv Israel Other Explosives13 0 ISRAEL. There were two explosionsin a run down area of Tel Aviv thatwounded 13 people including twopolicemen. Pipe bombs had beenplaced in trash bins about 50 yardsapart exploding 10 minutes apart.No one has claimed responsibility butPalestinian terrorists are suspected.There's still a possibility of criminalmotivation rather than terrorist.

11-Jan-97 Riyadh SaudiArabia

Unknown Explosives0 0 SAUDI ARABIA. Another letter bombarrived at the Riyadh offices of Al-Hayat.

13-Jan-97 NewYorkCity

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Unknown Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. Four letter bombs,addressed to the Saudi Arabiannewspaper Al Hayat, were discoveredand safely defused at the UN wherethe paper has offices. They weresimilar to all the others that havebeen sent to Al-Hayat's offices inWashington and London.


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Unknown Explosives2 0 UNITED KINGDOM. The London officeof the Al-Hayat arabic languagenewspaper received four letterbombs. One bomb explodedwounding two security guards.Eighteen letter bombs postmarkedfrom Alexandria, Egypt on 21December 1996 were sent in musicalChristmas cards. One bombexploded, the others were dicoveredand safely defused or detonated.The US State Department announceda $2 million reward available forinformation leading to thoseresponsible for the letter bombs.







16-Jan-97 SandySprings

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Other Explosives6 0 An explosive device detonated at anoffice building that also houses anabortion clinic in Sandy Springs,Georgia. Six people were injured inthe blast, which was perpetrated byEric Robert Rudolph, a right-wingextremist with ties to the ChristianIdentity white supremacistmovement. Rudolph was sentencedto four consecutive life sentences forhis 1998 attack against aBirmingham abortion clinic and his1996 attack at the Atlanta SummerOlympics.

18-Jan-97 Lahore Pakistan Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 PAKISTAN. The Iranian CulturalCenter in Lahore was the target of anarson attack by a large group ofSunni mourners [Guardians of theFriends of the Prophet] [Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)]. They wereretaliating against the bombing thatkilled their leader only days before.They blame Iran for inciting theminority Shiite Muslims to violence.About 12,000 books were burnt,including several Korans.

29-Jan-97 Lebanon Hizballah Explosives1 3 LEBANON. South Lebanon. ThreeIsraeli soldiers were killed by a bombplanted in a road in Israeli-occupiedsouth Lebanon. One other soldierwas injured. Hezbollah claimedresponsibility stating that the attackwas to mark the month of Ramadan.

29-Jan-97 DushanbeTajikistan Other Firearms1 1 TAJIKISTAN. Two Russian soldiers onpeacekeeping duty were shot in thehead by unknown gunmen inDushanbe. One of the soldiers died.Islamic extremists are suspected.

3-Feb-97 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded at 4:25AM at the Cite Universitaire's hallof residence that houses theAmerican students. There were noinjuries. The explosion causeddamage to the entrance of thebuilding and nearby cars. The bombwas packed into a small gas canister(like a fire extinguisher).

4-Feb-97 Tajikistan Other Unknown0 0 TAJIKISTAN. Four UN militaryobservers (two Swiss, one Austrian,one Ukrainian) and a Tajik weretaken hostage by a group led byBakhram Sadirov, a Tajik rebelwarlord and brother of RizvonSadirov. Sadirov demanded safereturn of his brother and men fromAfghanistan. They are being blockedby Afghani commander Masood. TheAustrian was released on 11February due to ill health. One of theSwiss observers and the Tajikhostage was released on 16February. The rest of the hostageswere released on 17 February.

5-Feb-97 DushanbeTajikistan Other Unknown0 0 TAJIKISTAN. Two Red Cross workers(a Briton and a Tajik) and a Tajik andfour Russian journalists werekidnapped near Dushanbe bySadirov, the same Tajik rebel warlordwho kidnapped the UN observers theprevious day. The journalists werecovering the previous day'skidnapping. They are still demandingthat their men in Afghanistan beallowed safe passage to Tajikistan.The Red Cross suspended their aidoperations in the area. Two of theRussian journalists and the Tajik RedCross worker were released inexchange for seven rebel supporterson 14 February. The two remainingRussian journalists were released on16 February. The other hostageswere released on 17 February.

6-Feb-97 DushanbeTajikistan Other Unknown0 0 TAJIKISTAN. Four UNHCR aid workers(a Nigerian and three Tajiks) werekidnapped in Dushanbe by Sadirov.The demands were the same. Thehostages were held in Kalainav, 52miles east of Dushanbe. One of theTajik hostages was released on 16Feb along with four others. Theremaining hostages were released on17 February.


Unknown0 6 COLOMBIA. Four German andAustrian tourists were kidnapped byFARC. One German and one Austrianwas killed during a raid by armytroops to rescue them. The othertwo hostages were freed. Four FARCcaptors were also killed.

8-Feb-97 Angola Front fortheLiberationof theEnclaveofCabinda

Unknown0 0 ANGOLA. FLEC-FAC kidnapped aMalaysian and a Filipino engineer inCabinda who were working for aMalaysian company, Iniwangsa SdnBhd. They accused the two of spyingand threatened them with expulsionor death. They also warned that allforeign companies must leaveCabinda as they will focus attacks onforeign companies who they say areencouraging the Angolangovernment's policy of genocide.

10-Feb-97 Harer Ethiopia Unknown Explosives7 2 ETHIOPIA. Grenades were tossedinto the Belaneh Hotel in Harer killingtwo Ethiopians and wounding sevenothers. Among the injured wereBritish, German, Dutch and Frenchcitizens. No one claimedresponsibility.

11-Feb-97 SanPedroSula

Honduras Unknown Explosives0 0 HONDURAS. Bombs explodedoutside five American fast foodoutlets in San Pedro Sula during thenight. A Burger King, Friday's,McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and Wendy'swere damaged by the bombs. Therewere no casualties. The bombingsoccurred at a time of crisis overgovernment pay.









12-Feb-97 LaVictoria


Unknown0 0 VENEZUELA. The ELN (Colombian)kidnapped two employees ofCorporven (Venezuelan PetroleumCorporation) in La Victoria, PaezMunicipality, Apure State. One of thehostages was freed on 1 April 1997in Arauquita, Colombia, just over theborder from La Victoria. The state ofthe other hostage is not known.

13-Feb-97 JacksonvilleUnitedStates

Other Explosives0 0 UNITED STATES. A Jewish man(Harry Shapiro) of Jacksonville,Florida placed a pipe bomb at asynagogue to disrupt the speech offormer Israeli PM (Peres). The bombdid not explode; instead, it was foundby 3 children and passed over to thepolice on 22 February. The chargedman affiliated himself with theAmerican fringe of Islamic Jihad.

15-Feb-97 Ecuador Other Unknown0 0 ECUADOR. An American geologist, aBritish technician and twoEcuadorian scientists working for anArgentinian oil company werekidnapped by Achuar Indians inShimi. The Ecuadorians werereleased the next day. In exchangefor the foreigners, the Indiansdemanded $2 million. Following apact in which the company agreed tohalt oil activities, ask forauthorization to enter the territory,and pay 5 mn sucres, the foreignerswere released on 21 February.

15-Feb-97 Seoul Korea,South

Unknown Firearms1 0 SOUTH KOREA. A defector fromNorth Korea was shot by two men athis home in Seoul leaving him incritical condition. He is the nephewof Kim Il Sung's first wife and haddefected in 1982.

18-Feb-97 Port-au-Prince

Haiti Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 1 HAITI. A Chilean diplomat was founddead in his burning car in Port-au-Prince. Authorities are investigatingthe incident as an assassination.

18-Feb-97 DushanbeTajikistan Other Firearms0 5 TAJIKISTAN. Two uniformed guardsfrom the U.S. Embassy were shotand killed in Dushanbe. They wereboth ethnic Russians and citizens ofTajikistan. They were among at leastfive people killed Tuesday night in aseries of attacks that authoritiesblame on criminal gangs.

20-Feb-97 Colombia Other Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A Norwegian employeeof Shanska is missing, fearedkidnapped. The Swedish engineeringand construction company has hademployees kidnapped previouslyunder claims that the projectthreatened the environment.

20-Feb-97 Urra Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A Norwegian employeeof a Swedish-owned company waskidnapped by the ELN in Urra.

20-Feb-97 Multan Pakistan Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

Firearms0 7 PAKISTAN. Two members of themilitant Moslem group Lashkar-i-Jhangvi have murdered an Iraniandiplomat and six others in the IranianCultural Centre in Multan. The twogunmen (Iftikhar Ahmed Khara andHannah Ahmed) wanted revengeagainst Iran who they blame for abomb blast on 18 January 1997 inLahore.

21-Feb-97 Atlanta UnitedStates

Other Explosives5 0 An explosive device detonated in alesbian nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia,injuring five people. The attack wasperpetrated by Eric Robert Rudolph,who was also responsible for threeother blasts in the American southbetween 1996 and 1998. Rudolph isa member of the white supremacistChristian Identity movement andclaims that he perpetrated theattacks as part of a guerillacampaign against abortion, thehomosexual agenda and the U.S.government. He was sentenced tofour consecutive life sentences forhis connection to the 1996 OlympicPark bombing in Atlanta.

22-Feb-97 Gali Georgia Other Explosives1 3 GEORGIA. A landmine killed threeRussian peacekeepers in Gali,Abkhazia and one was injured. AGeorgian partisan group called theWhite Legion are suspected. Asecond landmine exploded as anambulance responding to the firstlandmine blast ran over it. ThreeRussian medics were killed. TheWhite Legion deny any involvement.

22-Feb-97 Gali Georgia Other Explosives0 3 GEORGIA. A landmine killed threeRussian peacekeepers in Gali,Abkhazia and one was injured. AGeorgian partisan group called theWhite Legion are suspected. Asecond landmine exploded as anambulance responding to the firstlandmine blast ran over it. ThreeRussian medics were killed. TheWhite Legion deny any involvement.


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Other Firearms4 2 UNITED STATES. A Palestinianopened fire on the observation deckof the Empire State Building in NYC.He killed a Danish tourist andwounded an American, Argentinian, aSwiss and French tourist. He thenshot himself. He claimed that theattack was to punish enemies ofPalestine.

25-Feb-97 Urumqi China,People'sRepublicof

Other Explosives74 9 CHINA. Three bombs exploded onbuses in Urumqi, provincial capital ofXinjiang. Nine people were killed and74 injured. Uyghur (Chinese Muslimseparatists) exiles (in Turkey,according to the State Dept.) claimedresponsibility. The bombingsoccurred on the day of the memorialceremony for Deng Xiaoping. Eightpeople were convicted and executedfor being found to be part of the 12-member group that bombed thebuses.

27-Feb-97 Niger Other Unknown0 0 NIGER. A Canadian aid worker withthe Canadian Centre for InternationalStudies and Co-operation and threeNiger colleagues were kidnapped byToubou rebels of the RevolutionaryDemocratic Front (also reported asthe Revolutionary Armed Forces ofthe Sahara). Two of the Nigercaptives were released in March1997. The Canadian, Serge L'Archer,was released after 12 weeks on 26May 1997.

28-Feb-97 Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 FRANCE. A bomb exploded outsidethe American dormitory of the CiteUniversitaire de Paris. No one wasinjured. No one claimedresponsibility.

7-Mar-97 Beijing China,People'sRepublicof

Other Explosives8 3 CHINA. A home-made bombexploded on a bus in Beijing's Xidanshopping area killing three peopleand injuring eight others. Uyghur(Chinese Muslim separatists) exiles(in Turkey, according to the StateDept.) claimed responsibility andpledged to carry out more bombingsuntil they gained freedom forXinjiang province. The ChineseNational People's Congress weremeeting on this day.

13-Mar-97 Russia Unknown Unknown0 0 RUSSIA. Two Turkish citizenskidnapped on 13 March werereleased on 15 March 1997.Chechen law-enforcement bodiescaptured one of the kidnappers.

13-Mar-97 Jordan Other Firearms6 7 JORDAN. A 26 year old Jordaniansoldier (Ahmed Dagamseh) killedseven Israeli children at a park. Thegunman was sentenced to life inprison in July.

14-Mar-97 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Firearms0 0 BOSNIA. Unknown persons in anunmarked red Alfa Romeo openedfire with automatic weapons on aVolkswagon van belonging to theIranian embassy on the roadbetween Bihac and BosanskiPetrovac on the night of 14 March.Iranian radio/TV reporters and aBosnian driver were in the van. ZahidAbdijanovic and Hasib Prosic werearrested on suspicion.


Explosives48 3 ISRAEL. A bomb exploded at a TelAviv cafe killing three people,including an infant and injuring 48others. Hamas was responsible.



Explosives1 0 GERMANY. A homemade bombexploded outside of a Turkish ownedrestaurant in Bad Vilbel. One personwas injured. PKK are suspected.

22-Mar-97 Nigeria Other Unknown9 0 NIGERIA. Oil giant Shell reported 126Nigerian staff held at six oilinstallations overrun by local Ijawvillagers who were protesting therelocation of the newly created Warrisouthwest local governmentheadquarters in the Delta area.Eighteen hostages were released on24 March, 12 on 25 March, 31 on 26March, and the final 50 on 27 March1997. Nine hostages managed toescape throughout the week.

25-Mar-97 Vlora Albania Other Firearms0 0 ALBANIA. Four Italian Red Crossdoctors were kidnapped by armedrebels in Vlora, Albania. The rebelsare demanding overseas treatmentin Italy for an injured member of theirgroup who on 24 March shot andkilled three Albanian police officers.

25-Mar-97 TheHague

NetherlandsUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 6 NETHERLANDS. Three attacks onTurkish targets occurred within anhour of each other and all in theSchildersbuurt neighborhood of TheHague. An arson fire killed a Turkishwoman and five of her children. Afirebomb was thrown at theAzerbaijani-Turkish Center. Anotherfirebomb was thrown at the TurkishIslamic Association building. Thereare reports that these attacks wereracially motivated, however, the USState Dept. reports that PKK or theTurkish Grey Wolves are suspected.

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28-Mar-97 Ethiopia Unknown Firearms0 1 ETHIOPIA. A Danish nurse waskidnapped by armed men whostopped her car as she returned toher home in Dello Menna. Her bodywas found in a wooded area inOromiya several miles from whereshe was taken. She was with theDansk Ethioper (Danish Ethiopian)Mission. Her body was found on 3April 1997.

29-Mar-97 Colombia SimonBolivarGuerillaCoordinatingBoard(CGSB)

Firearms0 0 COLOMBIA. The Venezuelangodparent of the president of Zuliamunicipality in Venezuela waskidnapped by five armed ColombianSimon Bolivar Guerrilla CoordinatingBoard (CGSB) members.

29-Mar-97 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 RUSSIA. A live grenade wasdiscovered during a routineinspection of a charter aircraft byborder guards in the city ofMakhachkala. The flight was boundfor the United Arab Emirates. It wasnot clear whether the flightproceeded to its destination.

30-Mar-97 PhenomPhen

CambodiaUnknown Explosives100 19 CAMBODIA. Four grenades werethrown into the middle of ademonstration led by Sam Rainsy ofthe Khmer National Party against thegoverning Cambodian People's Partyin Phnom Penh. Nineteen peoplewere killed, 100 injured. Among theinjured were an American and aChinese journalist.

1-Apr-97 Burma(Myanmar)

Other Explosives0 1 BURMA/MYANMAR. A package bombexploded at the home of Lt-GeneralTin Oo, killing his daughter.Antigovernment expatriates in Japanare suspected.

1-Apr-97 El Ripial VenezuelaNationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Firearms0 2 VENEZUELA. Two Venezuelan navyofficers were shot and killed as theypatrolled the river along theVenezuelan shore in El Ripial, Apurestate. ELN (Colombian) aresuspected.

2-Apr-97 Russia Other Unknown0 0 RUSSIA. Chechnya. An Austrianbusinessman was kidnapped inIngushetia. He was released on 2June 1997 along with five Chechenhostages. The releases came at atime of increased efforts by police inOperation Shield of Law and Order.

3-Apr-97 Tirana Albania Unknown Firearms0 0 ALBANIA. Gunmen fired at the U.S.ambassador's (Marisa Lino) residencein Tirana, hitting three cars, butinjuring no one.

4-Apr-97 Athens Greece Other Explosives0 0 GREECE. Police in Athens defused abomb placed outside the Alitaliaoffice in Athens. A warning had beenreceived from the Fighting GuerrillaFormation claiming that the bombwas in the support of the sufferingAlbanian people. The office wasclosed at the time. See 20 October.

4-Apr-97 MontevideoUruguay Unknown Explosives1 0 URUGUAY. Two masked menentered the Iranian Embassy inMontevideo, Uruguay claiming tohave explosives. They attacked anofficial (BBCSWB says theAmbassador was beaten) of theembassy and then escaped.


Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. Intercor, a subsidiary ofExxon Corp. suffered extensivedamage when a bomb exploded on arail line at the El Cerrejon miningcomplex. FARC was responsible forthe bomb which derailed railcars,losing tons of coal and thousands ofgallons of fuel.

11-Apr-97 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. Policedefused 23 landmines planted alongthe route that the Pope John Paul IIwould travel on his visit to Sarajevojust hours before the motorcadepassed through. No one claimedresponsibility.

12-Apr-97 Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CUBA. A bomb exploded at the MeliaCohiba Hotel in Havana. Aninvestigation found that a Salvadorancriminal ring was directed andfinanced by Cuban exiles in ElSalvador and Miami to carry out the11 bombings. A key player in thebombing campaign was Luis PasadaCarriles, a long-time anti-CastroCuban. Cuban police arrested aSalvadoran and charged him in six ofthe eleven bombings.

12-Apr-97 Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CUBA. A bomb was found on one ofthe upper floors and deactivated atthe Melia Cohiba Hotel in Havana.

17-Apr-97 Malmo Sweden Unknown Other 0 0 SWEDEN. The Turkish consulate inMalmoe was the target of a paintbomb attack. The paint bomb wasthrown through a broken window. Nomessages were left.

18-Apr-97 Paris France Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 FRANCE. The Paris consulate of theIslamic Republic of Iran was attackedby an assailant throwing a Molotovcocktail. No casualties or damagewas reported. The assailant wasarrested and is suspected an Iraniannational.


Unknown6 3 CAMBODIA. Three Vietnamesecitizens were killed when KhmerRouge guerrillas attacked two trucksin Ratanakkiri Province. Six peoplewere wounded.


GuatemalaOther Unknown0 0 GUATEMALA. Extremists, possibleuniversity students, attacked thePeruvian embassy in retaliation forthe successful operation in Lima,Peru taken to release the hostagesheld by MRTA.

26-Apr-97 Lima Peru Unknown Unknown0 0 PERU. Unidentified people attackedan office of the InternationalCommittee of the Red Cross in Lima.The office had been the site offrustrated negotiations between thegovernment and the MRTA rebels.


Unknown10 9 CAMBODIA. Vietnamese workerswere attacked by Khmer Rouge inBarkeo district of Ratanakkiri. Ninepeople were killed and ten wounded.

30-Apr-97 Sofia Bulgaria Unknown Explosives0 0 BULGARIA. A bomb was discoveredat a disused electrical shed near theairport in Sofia. It was safely defusedby a police bomb squad. The deviceconsisted of 700 grams of explosivesand an army hand grenade. It wasdiscovered one hour before thearrival of the Romanian president,whose limousine was due to travelthe route by which the bomb wasdiscovered. Security sourcessuggested that the device may havebeen planted by the Kurdish PKK inprotest of Bulgaria's crackdown onthe group. It was also speculatedthat Bulgarian organized criminalscould be responsible. The BulgarianInterior Minister denied that theRomanian president was the target.

5-May-97 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. A Brazilian constructionworker was kidnapped by the ELN.He was released in Santa Marta on15 October, 1997 with the help ofRed Cross negotiators.

20-May-97

Lvov Ukraine Other Fire orFirebomb

0 0 UKRAINE. The Russian culturalcenter in Lvov was firebombed afterthe first May Day and Victory Daycelebrations since Ukraine'sindependence. Right-wing extremistsare suspected.

25-May-97

Kidal Mali Other Unknown0 0 MALI. The head of the U.N.Commission for Refugees office(Martin Bucumi) in Kidal waskidnapped from his home and thenabandoned in a remote desert threedays on 28 May. His car and cashwere taken. This was the secondtime in six months he has beenkidnapped.

25-May-97

Dundalk Ireland UlsterVolunteerForce(UVF)

Explosives0 0 IRELAND. A bomb exploded inDundalk. The UVF claimedresponsibility.

1-Jun-97 PhilippinesAbuSayyafGroup(ASG)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. The Abu Sayyaf Groupkidnapped a Japanese businessmanand three Filipino boys. TheJapanese hostage was rescued.

4-Jun-97 Medellin Colombia Unknown Explosives2 0 COLOMBIA. A small bomb explodedoutside Red Cross offices in thenorthwest city of Medellin. Twopassers-by were injured and damagewas caused. No group has claimedresponsibility.

6-Jun-97 FederalRepublicofGermany

Other Unknown0 0 GERMANY. A gang of right-wingextremists attacked four Turkish menat a motorway service station in theeastern state of Thuringia at night.The men were detained by police.

9-Jun-97 Warsaw Poland Unknown Unknown0 0 POLAND. Unidentified personsassaulted (Halina Vashchanka) thewife of the leader of the BelarusianPeople's Front (BPF) in the center ofWarsaw. Suspicions point to theLukashenka special services due tothe victim's work on human rightsviolations in Belarus.

9-Jun-97 Valletta Malta Other Other 0 0 MALTA. An Air Malta Boeing 737 enroute from Valletta to Istanbul washijacked by two Turkish mendemanding the release of a prisoner(Mehmet Ali Agca) serving a lifesentence for trying to kill the Pope in1981. One of the men had fakeexplosives strapped to his chest. Theflight was diverted to Cologne wherethe hijackers gave themselves andtheir weapons up after negotiations.

11-Jun-97 Pakistan Unknown Unknown0 0 PAKISTAN. A former governor ofKandahar Province in Afghanistan(gol Agha) has been kidnapped byarmed men in Quetta, Pakistan. Thevictim's family believes the Talebanare responsible.

13-Jun-97 Manama Bahrain Other Fire orFirebomb

0 4 BAHRAIN. Four Indian nationalswere killed in an arson attack on anupholstery store in Manama. Theylived above the store. Shiaextremists are suspected

15-Jun-97 PhilippinesUnknown Unknown0 3 PHILIPPINES. A Japanese man(Kenichi Takayama) and threeFilipinos were kidnapped in theSouthern Philippines by six armedkidnappers on a motorboat in theSarangani town of Glan. One manand two kidnappers were shot todeath when 300 policemen rescuedhostages on 16 June.

17-Jun-97 BundibudgyoUganda Other Unknown0 0 UGANDA. Ugandan rebels mixedwith Rwandan guerrillas and soldiersof the defeated Zairean armycrossed the border from theDemocratic Republic of Congo andoccupied the western Ugandan townof Bundibudgyo. Invaders kidnappeda number of foreign tourists.

20-Jun-97 Brussels Belgium ArmenianSecretArmy fortheLiberationofArmenia

Explosives0 0 BELGIUM. A bomb exploded at theTurkish Embassy in Brussels. A callerclaimed responsibility in the name ofGourken Yanikian Military Units, acovername formally used by ASALA.The perpetrator could possibly be alone Armenian or the PKK using thecover name. PKK deny responsibility.


Unknown0 1 ALGERIA. A French woman was killedin Bouzeguene. The GIA issuspected.

23-Jun-97 Bangui CentralAfricanRepublic

Other Explosives7 0 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. SevenFrench nationals working at theFrench embassy in Bangui werewounded by a mortar shell at 12 30local time. Eyewitnesses say the shellcame from Kasai Camp where someformer mutineers of the CentralAfrican army are stationed.

27-Jun-97 SantaMarta


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Three Brazilianemployees of the Brazilian company,Odebrecht were kidnapped by theELN in Santa Marta. The company isresponsible for railway repairs in thearea. Two of the Brazilians werereleased on 4 July 1997. No detailswere released about the thirdhostage.

1-Jul-97 Croatians Unknown Unknown1 0 CROATIA. The ambassador of theIslamic Republic of Iran to Zagreb(Mohammad Javad Asayesh) wasattacked by unknown men on theroad to Tuzla, in Orasje, 20 km formthe Croatian border.

1-Jul-97 SriLanka


Unknown0 0 SRI LANKA. The LTTE abducted theIndonesian crew of a ferry and thendestroyed the ship. They werereleased three days later.

2-Jul-97 Grozny Russia Other Unknown0 0 RUSSIA. Two British aid workers(John James and Camille Carr) whoworked for the little known Center forPeacekeeping and Development inChechnya have been kidnapped inGrozny. They had not registeredwith British, Russian, or localauthorities despite instructions to doso. Two bodyguards who worked forthe charity and a local aid workerhave been arrested.

7-Jul-97 SriLanka


Unknown0 1 SRI LANKA. Tamil Tigers hijackedand abducted 37 North Koreanseaman on the MV Morang Bongtowards Point Pedro as it carriedessential food items to the North.One crew member was killed byterrorists while the others were freedon 12 July in the Wanni region.

9-Jul-97 Russia Unknown Unknown0 0 RUSSIA. Two unidentified maskedmen broke into a textile factory andkidnapped (Dusan Kolac) a Slovakcitizen who was working as a driverfor one of the construction firms inNazran, Ingushetia. He was releasedon 26 Dec 1997 reportedly for anunnamed influential Chechen man.


Explosives0 0 SPAIN. Three small bombs explodedat a beach near Lloret del Mar, atourist resort. There was no damageand no injuries. The bombings areseen as the start to ETA's summercampaign against tourism. Awarning was phoned in to a localnewspaper.

12-Jul-97 Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CUBA. Bombs exploded in the CapriHotel and the Nacional Hotel inHavana. Three people were injured inthe bombings. (See 4 Septemberincident.) The Military LiberationUnion claimed responsibility for therecent bombings in Havana.Aninvestigation found that a Salvadorancriminal ring was directed andfinanced by Cuban exiles in ElSalvador and Miami to carry out thebombings. A key player in thebombing campaign was Luis PasadaCarriles, a long-time anti-CastroCuban. Cuban police arrested aSalvadoran and charged him in six ofthe eleven bombings and linked himto the Cuban American NationalFoundation (CANF).

12-Jul-97 Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives3 0 CUBA. Bombs exploded in the CapriHotel and the Nacional Hotel inHavana. Three people were injured inthe bombings. (See 4 Septemberincident.) The Military LiberationUnion claimed responsibility for therecent bombings in Havana.Aninvestigation found that a Salvadorancriminal ring was directed andfinanced by Cuban exiles in ElSalvador and Miami to carry out thebombings. A key player in thebombing campaign was Luis PasadaCarriles, a long-time anti-CastroCuban. Cuban police arrested aSalvadoran and charged him in six ofthe eleven bombings and linked himto the Cuban American NationalFoundation (CANF).

17-Jul-97 BanjaLuka

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Other Explosives0 0 BOSNIA. Three explosions went offat the Sfor base in the Banja Lukasuburb of Malta at 2240, but nodamage was caused. Four civilianscaught on the base were arrested.Also, a leaflet was found in BanjaLuka itself stating that the BlackHand (Serb) was founded to carry outrevenge against Sfor members whoare seen as occupiers of the SerbState.

19-Jul-97 El Bagre Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. Two people working fora US mining company in El Bagrewere kidnapped by the ELN. Onewas Canadian. He is assumed tohave been working on the release ofthe US employee being held byFARC.

20-Jul-97 Vilnius Lithuania Unknown Other 1 0 LITHUANIA. Three young menassaulted, battered, and robbed theFrench embassy's cultural affairscounselor in Vilnius. The 44 year oldremains in critical condition.

22-Jul-97 Israel Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Other 12 1 ISRAEL. A 30 year old man fromNazareth rammed his car into agroup of about 30 British teenagersthen plunged at them waving aSamurai sword before being arrestedby an off-duty police officer. TenBritons and two Canadians wereinjured. Hamas may have beenbehind the attack.

26-Jul-97 Kohlan Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Two Italian tourists and aYemeni driver were kidnapped nearKohlan. They were released the nextday.

30-Jul-97 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 COLOMBIA. A Cano Limon-Covenasoil pipeline (American?) in NorteSantander was bombed by ELN whichcaused a major oil spill. Severalmillion dollars were lost.

30-Jul-97 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives168 15 ISRAEL. Two bombs exploded in theYehuda market in Jerusalem. Fifteenpeople were killed, including anAmerican citizen. 168 people wereinjured. The Izz-el-Din al-QassamBrigades claimed responsibility.They are the militant wing of HAMAS.

1-Aug-97 Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Unknown0 0 PERU. Sendero Luminoso kidnapped30 employees of a French oilcompany. They demanded food andclothing in exchange for thehostages who they released two dayslater.

1-Aug-97 SriLanka

InternetBlackTigers(Tamils)

Other 0 0 SRI LANKA. A group calling itself theInternet Black Tigers launched emailattacks against several Sri Lankanmissions around the world. Theyclaim to specialize in suicide e-mailbombings in order to countergovernment propaganda that iselectronically distributed.

1-Aug-97 Oran Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives0 1 ALGERIA. A French Roman Catholicbishop (Pierre Claverie) wasassassinated by a bomb blast at hisresidence in the Western Algeriancity of Oran hours after he met withthe visiting French Foreign Minister inAlgiers. On 22 August 1997, Algeriansecurity services shot dead threeMoslem guerrillas suspected of killinghim, and they also arrested fourother men who confessedinvolvement.

4-Aug-97 Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CUBA. A bomb exploded in the lobbyof the Melia Cohiba Hotel in Havanaat 7:30AM. There were no injuries.(See 4 September incident.)Aninvestigation found that a Salvadorancriminal ring was directed andfinanced by Cuban exiles in ElSalvador and Miami to carry out thebombings. A key player in thebombing campaign was Luis PasadaCarriles, a long-time anti-CastroCuban. Cuban police arrested aSalvadoran and charged him in six ofthe eleven bombings and linked himto the Cuban American NationalFoundation (CANF).

6-Aug-97 Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. An Italian tourist waskidnapped between Rada and Amanby tribesmen. They were trying toretrieve a confiscated car from thegovernment. The hostage wasreleased on 10 August.

13-Aug-97

Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Six Italian tourists werekidnapped by tribesmen betweenAden and Mukallah. They werereleased on 15 August.

14-Aug-97

Khamir Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Four Italian tourists werekidnapped in Khamir. They werereleased the next day.

15-Aug-97


Unknown0 0 PERU. Thirty workers at a French oilcompany in Junin Department werekidnapped by Sendero Luminoso.They were released two days later inexchange for food, medicine,clothing and batteries.

15-Aug-97

ChorrosqueroVenezuelaUnknown Unknown0 0 VENEZUELAN. A Venezuelan armyofficer and another person werekidnapped in Chorrosquero byColombian attackers. They weretaken to Colombia.

22-Aug-97

VaraderoBeach


Explosives0 0 CUBA. A bomb exploded at 3:00AMat the Sol Palmero Hotel in VaraderoBeach. A report refers to anotherbombing at the same beach but didnot identify the hotel.Aninvestigation found that a Salvadorancriminal ring was directed andfinanced by Cuban exiles in ElSalvador and Miami to carry out thebombings. A key player in thebombing campaign was Luis PasadaCarriles, a long-time anti-CastroCuban. Cuban police arrested aSalvadoran and charged him in six ofthe eleven bombings and linked himto the Cuban American NationalFoundation (CANF).

22-Aug-97

VaraderoBeach


Explosives0 0 CUBA. A bomb exploded at 3:00AMat the Sol Palmero Hotel in VaraderoBeach. A report refers to anotherbombing at the same beach but didnot identify the hotel.Aninvestigation found that a Salvadorancriminal ring was directed andfinanced by Cuban exiles in ElSalvador and Miami to carry out thebombings. A key player in thebombing campaign was Luis PasadaCarriles, a long-time anti-CastroCuban. Cuban police arrested aSalvadoran and charged him in six ofthe eleven bombings and linked himto the Cuban American NationalFoundation (CANF).

1-Sep-97 SriLanka


Unknown0 0 SRI LANKA. A Chinese-owned shipwas attacked by LTTE. Chinese crewmembers were either killed,wounded or missing.

4-Sep-97 Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 1 CUBA. Four bombs exploded aroundthe city of Havana. The bomb at theCopacabana Hotel exploded at 11:30AM and killed one person (Italian-Canadian). The other bombs were atthe Triton Hotel, the ChateauMiramar and the Bodeguita del Mediorestaurant.An investigation foundthat a Salvadoran criminal ring wasdirected and financed by Cubanexiles in El Salvador and Miami tocarry out the bombings. A key playerin the bombing campaign was LuisPasada Carriles, a long-time anti-Castro Cuban. Cuban police arresteda Salvadoran and charged him in sixof the eleven bombings and linkedhim to the Cuban American NationalFoundation (CANF).



4-Sep-97 JerusalemIsrael Hamas(IslamicResistanceMovement)

Explosives200 7 ISRAEL. Three suicide bombersattacked the Yehuda shopping mallin Jerusalem. Seven people werekilled including one Americanteenager. 200 people were injured.Izz-el-Din al-Qassam Brigades(HAMAS) claimed responsibility.





9-Sep-97 ZamboangaCity


Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. A German businessmanwas kidnapped in Zamboanga City byAbu Sayyaf Group. They releasedhim on 26 December.

9-Sep-97 SriLanka


Explosives0 0 SRI LANKA. The LTTE attacked aChinese ship with rocket-propelledgrenades. At least twenty peoplewere killed or injured, including fiveChinese. There was also majordamage to the ship. LTTE claimedresponsibility.

16-Sep-97 Colombia Unknown Firearms1 0 COLOMBIA. Two small aircraftcarrying a number of seniorColombian police officers and adelegation from the British Embassywas fired upon by guerrillas in thePega Larga Municipality, HuilaDepartment. Only one of the aircraftwas hit, and one officer waswounded. There were no othercasualties.

18-Sep-97 Cairo Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Fire orFirebomb

8 10 EGYPT. A tour bus with 33 touristson board was attacked with petrolbombs in central Cairo. Fiveassailants dressed as businessmenmanaged to penetrate the heavysecurity cordon around the EgyptianMuseum before the attack. Theyboarded the bus and threw the petrolbombs inside. Ten bodies wererecovered, 9 were German touristsand one was that of the Egyptian busdriver. Eight people were injured.After the attack there was a gunfightwith police during which three menwere arrested, but two escaped. Twoof the arrested men were brothers,one of who had taken part in anattack on a hotel in 1993. Egyptianauthorities claimed that the menwere psychologically disturbed, butthe attack was assumed to be thework of Gama'a al-Islamiya.

22-Sep-97 Amman Jordan JordanianIslamicResistance

Firearms0 2 JORDAN. Two Israeli Embassysecurity guards were killed in a drive-by shooting in Amman. TheJordanian Islamic Resistance claimedresponsibility. They demanded therelease of the Jordanian soldier whois serving a life sentence for killingseven Israeli children. They alsodemanded that Israeli diplomatsleave Jordan within a month.

1-Oct-97 India Unknown Explosives38 2 INDIA. A Japanese and fourAustralian passengers were killedwhen three bombs exploded on atrain in Uttar Pradesh.

1-Oct-97 Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CUBA. A bomb was discovered in asmall shoulder bag at Havana's JoseMarti International Airport. Thedevice, containing a simpleelectronic timer and C-4 explosive,was wrongly wired and failed toexploded. The discovery came amonth after a Salvadoran man wasarrested in connection with a seriesof minor bombings against touristtargets in Havana. (See Sept 4incident)

1-Oct-97 Havana Cuba Anti-CastroCubans

Explosives0 0 CUBA. Several days after thediscovery of a bomb at Havana's JoseMarti International Airport a similardevice was discovered on a shuttlebus used to ferry tourists betweenthe airport and local hotels. It waswrongly wired and failed to explode.A Salvadoran Man was arrested on 4Sept (one month prior to thediscovery of this bomb) and chargedwith planting six other bombstargeting Cuban tourist sites. It wasreported that he was contracted byCuban exile groups in Miami to carryout the bombing campaign.

1-Oct-97 PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. An Irish priest waskidnapped by former MNLF members.He was released after thegovernment promised to speed updispersal of funds owed to them.


Unknown0 1 TURKEY. Two Bulgarian and oneTurkish engineers were kidnapped bythe PKK. The Turkish engineer waskilled. The Bulgarian hostages werereleased 16 October.

15-Oct-97 Colombo SriLanka


Explosives100 13 SRI LANKA. A truck bomb explodedat the Colombo World Trade Centerkilling 13 people and injuring 100.Many foreigners were injured.

15-Oct-97 Saada Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Four French tourists inSaada were kidnapped by tribesmenwho were demanding that a car thatwas confiscated from them by thegovernment be returned. Thehostages were freed the next day.

15-Oct-97 Sumayr Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. A British businessman andtwo Yemenis were kidnapped nearSumayr by tribesmen. They weredemanding aid for the completion ofelectricity and water projects. Theyreleased the hostages on 30 Oct.

20-Oct-97 Athens Greece InternationalRevolutionaryStruggle

Explosives0 0 GREECE. The Athens office of Alitaliaairlines were damaged by a bombclaimed by the InternationalRevolutionary Struggle protestingagainst Italy's repression ofprisoners. The device washomemade and placed outside thebuilding. This office was alsotargeted by an unknown group inApril this year. See 4 April.

22-Oct-97 Zamar Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. Two Russian doctors andtheir wives were kidnapped in Zamarby tribesmen. They were trying tobring pressure onto the governmentto sentence to death four men whohad raped a boy in their tribe. Theyreleased the hostages on 10November.

23-Oct-97 SanCarlos


Unknown0 0 COLOMBIA. The ELN kidnapped twoOAS (Organization of AmericanStates) election monitors from SanCarlos. They were released on 1November 1997 along with aColombian hostage.

27-Oct-97 Beirut Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 LEBANON. A bomb exploded at theAmerican University in Beirut.

27-Oct-97 PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. An Irish priest waskidnapped in Marawi by suspectedMoro Islamic Front members. Theydemanded $192,000 in ransom andrelease of promised funds under theamnesty program. The priest wasreleased on 4 November.

29-Oct-97 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Firearms0 0 YEMEN. Shots were fired at theQatari Ambassador in Sanaa. Hewas not injured.

30-Oct-97 Sanaa Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. An American businessmanwas kidnapped near Sanaa by Bakiltribesmen who were trying to gainthe release of imprisoned friends.They also demanded that projectsthat the government promised thembe realized. They released thehostage on 27 Nov.

31-Oct-97 Kampala Uganda Unknown Explosives3 0 UGANDA. A hand grenade attackagainst a tourist hostel in Kampalainjured a South African, a Briton, andone other tourist.

1-Nov-97 PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. A Belgian priest waskidnapped by former MNLF members.He was released after thegovernment agreed to speed updispersal of funds owed to them.

12-Nov-97

Karachi Pakistan Other Firearms0 5 PAKISTAN. Four Americans,employees of Union TexasPetroleum, and their Pakistani driverwere shot and killed when travellingin Karachi. Two groups claimedresponsibility for the attack - theAimal Khufia Action Committee(previously unheard of) and theIslami Inqilabi Mahaz, a Lahore-basedgroup of Afghan veterans. They bothclaimed the attack was in retaliationfor the conviction and deathsentence of Mir Aimal Kansi whokilled two CIA employees as theywere entering the headquarters inLangley in 1993.

17-Nov-97

Luxor Egypt al-Gama'atal-Islamiyya(IG)

Firearms24 74 EGYPT. At least six gunmen dressedas security personnel opened fire ona group of tourists at the Temple ofHatshepsut in Luxor. 68 people werekilled and 24 wounded, eightcritically. According to eyewitnessreports the gunmen started shootingat 8.45am as tourists weredisembarking from buses. Theshooting continued for 45 minutes,with the attackers drawing knives tokill people after most had been shotand injured, or shooting the woundedin the head. When security forcesarrived, the gunmen commandeereda bus and fled into the desert. Oneassailant was killed at the scene andanother five were either killed by thesecurity forces or killed themselvesafter the bus was forced to stop at apolice roadblock. Amongst the deadwere 58 tourists, including 6 Britons,14 Japanese, 35 Swiss, 4 Germans,one French, one Colombian and oneBulgarian. Four Egyptians were alsokilled. The attack was initiallyclaimed by the Vanguards ofConquest, a previously unheard ofIslamic group. However the attackwas later claimed by al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, who stated that theirintention had been to take a group ofhostages in an attempt to force therelease of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahmanfrom prison in the US.

17-Nov-97

Dundalk Ireland UlsterVolunteerForce(UVF)

Explosives0 0 IRELAND. The LVF (LoyalistVolunteer Force) planted a smallbomb in a shopping center inDundalk. The police found anddefused the bomb. The LVF alsoplanted three fake bombs in thearea.The LVF is an offshoot of theUVF, which is under a cease-fire.

18-Nov-97

PhilippinesMoroNationalLiberationFront(MNLF)

Unknown0 0 PHILIPPINES. A Belgian priest waskidnapped by MNLF members inOzamis. He was released on 19November.

18-Nov-97

Tajikistan Other Unknown0 1 TAJIKISTAN. A French couple werekidnapped by the brother of BahromSadirov. The husband was releasedon 29 Nov, but the wife was shot andkilled when the building was stormedby authorities.

20-Nov-97

JerusalemIsrael Unknown Firearms1 1 ISRAEL. Two yeshiva students, oneHungarian were shot by unknownassailants. The Hungarian studentwas killed, the Israeli student injuredin the attack in Jerusalem's Old City.

21-Nov-97

Elayo Somalia Other Unknown0 0 SOMALIA. Five aid workers werekidnapped in Elayo by a large groupof gunmen. They were one Briton,one Canadian, two Kenyans, and oneIndian working with the UN and otherEuropean aid agencies. They werereleased unharmed on 24 November.

25-Nov-97

Aden Yemen Other Unknown0 0 YEMEN. An American, two Italians,and two other westerners werekidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen nearAden. They were upset about afellow member being evicted fromhis home. The hostages werereleased on 27 November.

10-Dec-97

Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 TURKEY. A time bomb inside a gascylinder was defused near an ATASoil refinery in Mersin. The refinerywas an international joint ventureinvolving Shell Oil, Mobil Oil , BritishPetroleum, and Marmara Petrol.

13-Dec-97

Nigeria Other Unknown0 0 NIGERIA. Employees of WesternGeophysical, an American owned oilcompany, were kidnapped by locals.The American, Australian, twoBritons, and nine Nigerians were heldhostage on a barge off the Nigeriancoast. They were all released on 18December.

17-Dec-97

Russia Other Firearms0 6 RUSSIA. Six foreign workers from theInternational Committee of the RedCross were shot dead at a hospital byChechen gunmen. Some believe thegunmen were hired by Russians.

17-Dec-97

Russia Unknown Unknown0 0 RUSSIA. Chechnya. Five Polishworkers with Caritas, Poland (aCatholic charity) were kidnapped.

23-Dec-97

Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms1 0 PAKISTAN. A residential complex ofthe Karachi American School wasthe target of unknown assailants whoshot and wounded a guard.American and Canadian teachers livein the complex.

26-Dec-97

NewtonbutterNorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms0 0 Shots were fired at a Protestantfamily's home. No one was injured.The attack seems to be connectedwith Loyalist Volunteer Forces (LVF)violence in the wake of the death ofLVF leader Billy Wright.

27-Dec-97



Firearms0 1 The Irish National Liberation Army(INLA) claimed responsibility forshooting and killing LoyalistVolunteer Forces (LVF) leader BillyWright at the top-security MazePrison.

27-Dec-97

DungannonNorthernIreland

LoyalistVolunteerForces(LVF)

Firearms3 1 The Loyalist Volunteer Forces (LVF)opened fire on the Glengannon Hotelin Dungannon specifically to killdoorman Seamus Dillon, a formerIrish Republican Army (IRA) assassinwho had spent more than 10 years inprison. The act was in response tothe recent killing of LVF leader BillyWright by the Irish NationalLiberation Army (INLA). Three otherpeople including a 14-year-old boywere injured.

28-Dec-97

Rijeka Croatia Unknown Explosives0 0 Police deactivated a bomb at theRijeka Mc Donald's.

29-Dec-97

Delhi India Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

30 4 A bomb blast went off on a bus inwest Delhi. The explosives had beensmuggled into India from eitherPakistan or Bangladesh. Four werekilled and thirty injured.

29-Dec-97

Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive damaged four cars inCroat-controlled western Mostar.The bomb was planted in a newly-opened business and shoppingcenter. A fire began causingextensive damage. The police willnot disclose details of the explosion.

29-Dec-97

Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb thrown into the DistrictCenter II did not cause any damage.

29-Dec-97

Betong Thailand PattaniUnitedLiberationOrganization(PULO)

Explosives12 3 Three teenagers were killed andtwelve wounded after a bombexploded at a school fair in theBetong district of the Yala Province.Police suspected that the Muslimseparatist group, Patani UnitedLiberation Organization, wereresponsible for the attack. Inresponse to recent increases inviolence, including this attack, thegovernment has placed the army incharge of security in the southernprovinces.

30-Dec-97

Betong Thailand PattaniUnitedLiberationOrganization(PULO)

Explosives12 3 Three teenagers were killed andtwelve wounded after a bombexploded at a school fair in theBetong district of the Yala Province.The referenced article puts two dateson the event -- 29th and 30th ofDecember 1997. The governmentattributes the act to the PattaniUnited Liberation Organization(PULO).

31-Dec-97



Firearms5 1 In Catholic North Belfast, two maskedmen -- one with an Uzi machine gunand the other with a pistol -- openedthe door of the Clinton Tavern andsprayed the interior with bullets.Eddier Trainor, a 31-year-oldCatholic, was killed. The killings werein retaliation for the murder of BilllyWright, the Loyalist Volunteer Force(LVF) leader. The Ulster DefenseAssociation (UDA) may have alsobeen involved.Note: The LoyalistVolunteer Force (LVF) later claimedresponsibility for the attack, saying itwas in retaliation for the murder ofBilly Wright in Maze Prison theprevious Saturday.

31-Dec-97

Than To Thailand PattaniUnitedLiberationOrganization(PULO)

Explosives0 0 Bomb experts defused an explosivedevice on a bridge on the outskirts ofThan To in Yala Province. Theincident is linked with other incidentsperpetrated by the Pattani UnitedLiberation Organization (PULO) andgovernment authorities believe theacts were committed by the PULO.

1-Jan-98 RamallahWestBank/Gaza


0 0 Three Molotov cocktails were thrownat Israeli vehicles in northernJerusalem: two in Ramallah and oneat the Rama junction. The samepeople are suspected in theseattacks.

1-Jan-98 Nablus WestBank/Gaza


0 0 Two Molotov cocktails were thrown inthe Nablus area. Two Palestinianssuspected of the attack were takeninto custody.

1-Jan-98 BinyaminWestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms0 0 Shots were fired at an Israeli vehicleat the intersection connecting eastand west Binyamin. No casualtieswere reported.

1-Jan-98 Moscow Russia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

3 0 A small bomb hidden in a purse wasleft in the Tretyakouskaya metrostation in Moscow near the TretyokouGallery. It detonated shortly afterbeing moved into the employeelounge. Police gave no indicationwho might be suspected. However,Chechen rebels performed a similaract two years earlier.

1-Jan-98 AleiZahav

WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms0 1 Attackers opened fire on Yael Bivarand Yoram Doktari, two Jewishsettlers, when they pulled their carover to another car parked on theside of the road. Yael Bivar wascritically wounded and died laterfrom this attack which occurred onthe road between Ariel and AleiZahav. The attackers are believedto have been commemorating theformation of the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine (PFLP) or theal-Fatah organization.

1-Jan-98 Takbai Thailand PattaniUnitedLiberationOrganization(PULO)

Explosives1 1 Two men on a motorcycle threw ahand grenade at a police checkpointin Thailand's southern-most province,Narathiwat, Takbai district, at around9:00 p.m., slightly injuring oneofficer. The police killed one of thetwo terrorists. The other escaped.The grenade attack occurred the dayafter police foiled the attemptedbombing of a bridge in southernThailand and two days after asuspected Moslem separatist bombat a school killed three teenagers.Terrorists are suspected to bemembers of the Pattani UnitedLiberation Organization (PULO).

1-Jan-98 Vitoria Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Pro-Basque Fatherland and Freedom(ETA) youths started a fire at theIberdrola transformer station inVitoria.Fifteen-hundred people wereout of power in Arana, Santa Luciaand San Cristobal.

2-Jan-98 Hebron WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives0 0 Two explosive charges were thrownand exploded at a kindergartenplayground in the Avraham Avinuneighborhood of Hebron. Jewishsettlers reacted by climbing up onthe roof of the casbah.

2-Jan-98 Baghdad Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 The entrance to Baghdad's al-QanahHotel, where the UN SpecialCommission (UNSCOM) isheadquartered, was bombed with anRP6-7 missile. Iraq condemned theattack, claiming that the attack wasperformed to undermine relationsbetween Iraq and UNSCOM.

2-Jan-98 TambonRatabanyo

Thailand Unknown Firearms0 3 Suspected Pattani United LiberationOrganization (PULO) membersopened fire on a police car with AK-47 assault rifles and an M-79grenade launcher. A 14-year-old girland two police men were killed. Theattacks coincide with ASEAN plansfor close economic ties betweenMalaysia and Thailand. There mayhave been a motive to disrupt a bidto attract foreign financial support.

2-Jan-98 Zadar Croatia Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was planted under an OpelKadett owned by a man identifiedonly as S.M. The blast damaged twocars, five apartments, and shatteredwindows on a nearby shop.

3-Jan-98 Amman Jordan Unknown Firearms0 0 Unknown attackers fired upon the carof Rahim Tahir, a top Iraqi Embassyofficial, as he was departing from hishome. The car was damaged butTahir was unharmed.

3-Jan-98 Lima Peru Unknown Firearms0 3 Three gunmen opened fire on a cartransporting the family members ofMario Paredes Cueva, a late rulingparty Congressman who died ofcancer last July. Norma ParedesRuiz, her 10-year-old daughterMelissa, and their bodyguard werekilled. Authorities attribute theattack to the Shining Path (SL).

3-Jan-98 Tlapa Mexico JusticeArmy ofDefenselessPeople(EJPI)

Firearms3 0 Fifteen individuals with automaticrifles attacked the police station inTlapa, wounding three policemen.The attack was justified as aresponse to the massacre of 45Indians in Chiapas. The Justice Armyof Defenseless People (EJPI) claimedresponsibility for the attack.

3-Jan-98 MirafloresColombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown2 0 Two passengers in a DC-3 plane wereinjured when Revolutionary ArmedForces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillasattacked the plane. The plane hadtaken off from Miraflores.

3-Jan-98 ChkalouskTajikistan Unknown Firearms0 1 Tolib Boboyev, former deputyprosecutor of the Leninabad Region,was killed on Saturday evening witha submachine gun. No one hasclaimed responsibility.

3-Jan-98 Tirana Albania Unknown Unknown0 0 Unidentified individuals destroyedthe antennas and broadcastingequipment of Television Shijak,preventing the Sali Berisha's rallyfrom being broadcasted. The attackis thought to be politically motivated.


Explosives0 0 The army blames the NationalLiberation Army (ELN) for anexplosion on the Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline that caused7,000 barrels of crude oil to spill.

4-Jan-98 Graz Austria Unknown Explosives0 0 A letter bomb addressed to theStyrian Land Police command wasintercepted and deactivated in Graz.The sender CH.W., Marktgraben 1,Innsbruck is fake. No furtherinformation is available.

4-Jan-98 Bilbao Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Unknown individuals threw Molotovcocktails at the Mapfre InsuranceOffice, Seguros Bilbao InsuranceOffice, Banco de Santander, BBKbank, and Argentina Bank.

4-Jan-98 KumanovoMacedoniaKosovoLiberationArmy(KLA)

Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in a privatelyowned garage in the vicinity of theInternal Affairs Administration,damaging windows and surroundingbuildings. The bombing may bepolitically motivated and connectedto a second bombing in Prilep. Thewindows of four apartments and tenwindows of the Internal AffairsAdministration building were broken,and a garage was damaged. TheKosovo Liberation Army (KLA)claimed responsibility for the attack.KLA is stationed in Pristina, FRY.

4-Jan-98 Prilep MacedoniaKosovoLiberationArmy(KLA)

Explosives0 0 The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)claimed responsibility for a bombexplosion on an official vehicle of theInternal Affairs Ministry. Theexplosion damaged five vehicles.

4-Jan-98 SimferopolUkraine Unknown Explosives0 0 A home-made explosive device wasrendered harmless in Simferopol.The bomb was placed on a windowsillof the Gelena shop.

4-Jan-98 KumanovoMacedoniaUnknown Explosives0 0 The police station in Kumanovo wasbombed, causing serious damage.

4-Jan-98 Prilep MacedoniaUnknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device went off at thepolice station in Prilep. The attack isunclaimed. The police station wasdamaged extensively.

5-Jan-98 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Firearms0 0 In a kidnapping incident, the wife of adiplomat, their child, and a second-hand car salesman were heldhostage by armed men from the Al-Haddaa tribe until 9 January 1998.The kidnapped, identified as YooSang-Ok, wife of First Secretary HuhJin, and their daughter Huh Kyu-Won,and second-hand car dealer KohYong Jun, were taken from a mainroad in Sanaa and led to Al-Ahmas,100 miles from Sanaa.


Explosives0 0 Two rockets were fired by theShining Path (SL) guerrillas at theNational Police NoncommissionedOfficers College. Four similar rocketsand a steel mortar were alsodefused. Shining Path droppedleaflets as they fled.

5-Jan-98 GeorgetownGuyana People'sNationalCongress(PNC)

Explosives1 0 A security guard was critically injuredby a bomb blast at the NationalTelevision Network (NTN) station inGeorgetown. The People's NationalCongress (PNC) are heavilysuspected of perpetrating theviolence.

5-Jan-98 Basauri Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A group of hooded individuals threwseveral Molotov cocktails at theErtzaintza (autonomous Basquepolice force) station. Some fell insidea police enclosure and causeddamage to two private vehiclesowned by policemen.

6-Jan-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 Two unidentified persons threw ahand made fragmentation time bombat the lottery office in Istanbul'sSehremini quarter. The explosioncaused extensive property damage.

6-Jan-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 On the same day that afragmentation time bomb wasthrown at a lottery office in Istanbul,another fragmentation time bombwas found in the luggage storagesection of a bus section. Authoritieslater defused the bomb.

6-Jan-98 GeorgetownGuyana People'sNationalCongress(PNC)

Explosives0 0 A bomb went off at the Le MeridienPegasus Hotel, breaking 14 glassdoors and windows, but no one washurt. The People's National Congress(PNC) has been blamed for theattack.

6-Jan-98 BainbridgeNorthernIreland


Explosives0 0 A 500-lb bomb was defused in thecommercial district of Bainbridge.Informed sources blame the attackon Republicans and believe it was anattempt to derail the peace process.An individual called a radio stationand read a statement claiming torepresent the Irish Republican Army(IRA).

6-Jan-98 ValleduparColombia Unknown Firearms0 0 Lucas Gnecco, the governor of CesarDepartment, escaped unharmedwhen a group of rebels opened fireon his armored vehicle.

7-Jan-98 Santurce Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 Fire bombs were thrown into afurniture shop owned by VictarioFernandez Aguado, a conservativeCity Councillor and member ofSpain's ruling People's Party. TheBasque Fatherland and Freedom(ETA) are heavily suspected ofcarrying out this attack.



0 0 The army blames the NationalLiberation Army (ELN) for dynamitingthe Cano Limon-Covenas Pipeline.This is the second attack on thepipeline this year.

7-Jan-98 QuetzaltenangoGuatemalaUnknown Firearms1 1 Danita Gonzalez de Orellana waskidnapped on 7 January 1998.Danita, a U.S. citizen, is the daughterof Daniel Gonzalez, a candidate forthe Vice President of the ProgressiveLiberator Party. Danita was killedand her daughter, an infant, wasfound in critical condition. Thekidnappers demanded a ransom ofabout US $400,000 from RicardoOrellana, Danita's husband.

7-Jan-98 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 Unidentified protestors intending todisrupt the occasion placed a livehand grenade in front of the EthnicVietnamese Association of PhnomPenh but it was discovered anddetonated by explosives expertswithout incident, police said.Thebomb was designed to marLiberation Day celebrationscommemorating the overthrow of theKhmer Rouge by the vietnamesewhose army invaded and toppled theregime on January 7, 1979.

7-Jan-98 AbkhaziaGeorgia Unknown Firearms0 0 A group of gunmen kidnapped about40 local residents of Georgia'sbreakaway region of Abkhazia.Sources say that the residents wereseized while riding in public buses inTagiloni and Dikhazurga villages (Galidistrict). All women were released.The motives and demands areunknown.

7-Jan-98 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 A grenade, which did not go offbecause it was damaged, was placednear a Vietnam Association Officeand the residence of Hanoi's militaryattaché. The placement of theexplosive was also near the Germanembassy and was placed on anational holiday commemorating theoverthrow of the Khmer Rougeregime. The Khmer Rougeorganization had recently threatenedto plant explosives in crowded areas,near embassies, and diplomat'shouses.

8-Jan-98 Jezzin Lebanon Hizballah Explosives0 2 Hezbollah is suspected of havingplaced several roadside bombs alongthe Roum-Jezzine road. Onespecifically targeted Emile Nazr, anofficial of the South Lebanon Army.His niece and nephew were killed in aroadside bomb the same day.

8-Jan-98 JerusalemWestBank/Gaza

Kach Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 Forty-three cars belonging to Arabshad their tires slashed by Kakhmembers. Kakh claimedresponsibility for the attack made inresponse to the terrorist attack inwhich Ya'el Mevar was killed.

8-Jan-98 Donetsk Ukraine Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion destroyed the offices ofthe Donetsk-based VerchernyaHorlyvka newspaper. The paper'smost recent publication was aboutthe activities of the city's criminalgroups.

8-Jan-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Firearms0 0 Two Swedish missionaries, a husbandand wife, were kidnapped inMakhachkala by Chechen rebels.The couple were members of aninternational charity mission in thearea and came to Russia inDecember of 1997. After a week incaptivity in Russia, the rebels movedthe victims to Chechnya where theyheld them for five months.Authorities managed to free thecouple on 24 June 1998 during apolice operation. No ransom wasever demanded for the return of themissionaries.

9-Jan-98 Vitoria Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)


0 1 Jose Ignacio Iruretagoyena, PopularParty Councillor in Zarauz, was killedby a car bomb attributed to theBasque Fatherland and Freedom(ETA). He lost both his legs in theblast and later died of heart failure.

9-Jan-98 Glasgow NorthernIreland


0 0 Burning matter was pushed into anempty bar lounge that had beenbombed by Protestant terroriststwenty years ago. Officials believethe attack was to commemorate andmark the anniversary of WilliamCampbell's death.

9-Jan-98 NewDelhi

India Unknown Explosives50 0 Around 50 people were injured whena bomb exploded under a hand cartnear the Income tax office in NewDelhi.

9-Jan-98 Mayskiy Russia Unknown Firearms0 0 Two inhabitants of North Ossetrawere kidnapped in the settlement ofMayskiy. The event was meant todestabilize the situation in the zoneof the Ossentian-Ingush conflict.

10-Jan-98 StepeniceFRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 1 Djorde Belic, a Serb, was shot andkilled by unknown assailants using amachine gun. Kosovo Serbs suspectthe Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) -- agroup of ethnic Albanians -- to beresponsible for the murder. TheBelic's are one of two Serbianfamilies that live in Stepenice.

10-Jan-98 DushanbeTajikistan Unknown Unknown0 0 An opposition group led by TahmanSanginov set up an unauthorizedcheck point and took ten peoplehostage including BobodzhonMurodov, a deputy cityadministrator, and several of the cityadministration and police force. Theattack was intended to put pressureon officials to release threesupporters of the group that havebeen arrested.

10-Jan-98 Chennai India IslamicDefenseForce

Explosives4 0 The Islamic Defense Force claimedresponsibility for a bomb thatexploded on the Anna Salai Roda.The bomb injured four people.

10-Jan-98 Vitoria Spain Unknown Explosives1 0 A letter bomb was placed in themailbox of the home of an ArmyCorporal who was at one time thebodyguard of Army General JaimeGarcia, a Military Governor of AlavaProvince. The explosion slightlyinjured a woman, Ana BelenHernandez Herrero.

10-Jan-98 SanSebastian

Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The car of a Basque Nationalist PartyCouncillor in Andoain was set on fireand burned out. Two neighboringcars were damaged.

11-Jan-98 Belfast NorthernIreland


Firearms0 1 Terry Enwright, a close relative ofSinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, wasshot in the chest and killed outside anight club where he worked as adoorman. The attack was meant toderail the peace process.Note: TheLoyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) laterclaimed responsibility for the attack,saying it was in direct response tothe murder of Billy Wright in MazePrison at the end of December.

11-Jan-98 Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Firearms0 400 A group of 100 armed men openedfire on civilians in the cinema at SidiAhmen and exploded a bomb in amosque in nearby Haouche Sahraoui.Reports differ, but between 120 andmore than 400 civilians wereslaughtered. The Armed IslamicGroup (GIA) is suspected ofcommitting the attack whichoccurred on the sixth anniversary ofthe army coup that cancellednational elections apparently won bythe Islamic Salvation Front.Note: Theevents are sequential and areconsidered the same incident.

11-Jan-98 Lahore Pakistan Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

Firearms25 23 Three gunmen arrived at theMominpura graveyard in a Jeep andsprayed a Shiite congregation withbullets. Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan(SSP) had been accused of theincident. The attack come aroundthe time of the anniversary of thedeath of the SSP chief Zia Farooqi ina bomb attack on 18 January 1997.Lashkar-e-Jhangri, a breakawayfaction from SSP, later claimed theattack.

11-Jan-98 FestivalCity

Guyana Unknown Explosives0 0 A car bomb exploded in front of theresidence of a well known member ofthe previous ruling party of Guyana,the People's National Congress(PNC). The car was parked in front ofMaurice Glasgow's home. No injurieswere reported.

11-Jan-98 SidiHamed

Algeria Unknown Explosives70 103 Militants set off an explosive deviceinside a theater in Sidi Hamed, avillage near Meftah, where peoplewere watching a film, in order todrive people out of the theater. Asfamilies fled the theater following theexplosion, the militants massacreddozens of civilians, using guns,knives, and other weapons. At least103 were killed and seventywounded, although some sourcesplaced the death toll as high as 400.The attack comes amid a rash ofmassacres and other violence inAlgeria. Sources report that therewere approximately 60-100 militants.The attack occurs in the midst of theMuslim holy period, Ramadan.

12-Jan-98 Gradica FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Unknown0 1 Three masked men, probablymembers of the terrorist organizationKosovo Liberation Army (KLA) killedForest Commission employee SejdiMuja.

12-Jan-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 Daghestani police defused a carbomb parked near a localadministration building in the capital,Makhachkala.

12-Jan-98 GjirokasterAlbania Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at the SocialistParty headquarters which is locatedin the same building as the town hall.A bar and many other offices in thebuilding were completely destroyed.

12-Jan-98 Lazarat Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 Socialist Party member BujarDerzho's garage was bombed. Thegarage was destroyed along with hiscar. This explosion is connected totwo other attacks on Socialist Partytargets occurring the same evening.

12-Jan-98 GjirokasterAlbania Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at the building ofthe farmer investigation office, some100 meters from the Socialist Partyheadquarters. The explosioncoincides with another at a SocialistParty building.

12-Jan-98 Jajce Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 An unidentified person fired agrenade into a policeman's home.The bomb caused material damagebut no casualties.

13-Jan-98 Jammu Kashmir Unknown Explosives9 0 Nine people were injured in a bombblast in a stranded passenger bus inthe Jammu general bus stand.

13-Jan-98 Tokyo Japan Unknown Unknown0 0 Tetsuo Itagaki, a former member of arightist group, took a FinanceMinistry official hostage anddemanded to meet with FinanceMinister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka. Itagakihad recently criticized thegovernment's economic policy sayingthat Japan would be overtaken by theUnited States as a result of thecoming financial deregulation.

13-Jan-98 KhekraguriIndia Unknown Firearms0 16 Suspected Bodo militants massacredat least sixteen people. A group often suspected militants opened fireon three families killing elevenpersons. The attackers fled killingfive more individuals in their retreat.

13-Jan-98 Seville Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

2 0 A butane gas cylinder carried by abus passenger exploded on an urbantransportation bus in Seville. Theexplosion and fire that followedinjured two people.

14-Jan-98 Metulla Lebanon Amal Explosives5 1 A booby-trapped video cassetteexploded at the Fatima bordercrossing near Metulla, killing oneLebanese citizen and injuring fivecivilians -- two Lebanese and threeIsraelis. The pro-Syrian Amalmovement claimed responsibility.

14-Jan-98 Baraki Algeria Unknown Explosives10 1 A bomb attack on a mosque killedone person and injured 10 others.

14-Jan-98 Guwahiti India UnitedLiberationFront ofAssam(ULFA)

Firearms0 1 Suspected United Liberation Front ofAssam (ULFA) militants shot andkilled a senior Army officer,Lieutenant Colonel Anil Trikhaya, ashe drove to the military base with hisfamily.

14-Jan-98 YekaterinburgRussia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 An explosive device went off on theside of a road as the car carryingSverdlovsk's governor, EduardRossel, passed by. It is believed thatthe plotters were aiming at arranginga car crash. There were nocasualties.

14-Jan-98 Mokvi Georgia Unknown Unknown0 0 Georgian guerillas carried out anattack on the water supply facility inMokvi village. Twelve villages werecut off from their water supply.

15-Jan-98 OcamciraGeorgia Unknown Explosives0 1 A Georgian guerilla group blew up awater tower that provides water forthe Abkhazian city of Ocamcira. Oneterrorist was killed in the explosion.Two other explosives, one set undera bridge and the other at a powerstation, were detected and renderedharmless. TASS reported that theattack appears to be an attempt bythe white legion to appear morepowerful.

15-Jan-98 Goerlitz Germany Unknown Explosives0 0 A parcel bomb was found in the townhall of Goerlitz. The bomb did notdetonate. The Goerlitz received abomb threat last year.

15-Jan-98 Antwerp Belgium Unknown Explosives5 0 An explosion in the Antwerp CenturyCenter shopping arcade shatteredthe windows of two cafes, injured fivepeople, and left a hole in the floor.Although the cause is unclear, theevent took place near the Jewishcommunity which has been targetedin the past.

15-Jan-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A bomb went off in the backyard ofthe town hall in Makhachkala. Thesite was also targeted on 13 January1998.

15-Jan-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Firearms2 0 Ruslan Getinov, Chief of theDagestani Internior Ministry'sdepartment for organized crimecombat, was attacked when his carcame under machine-gun fire.Getinov was wounded in theshoulder. His driver was alsowounded.

16-Jan-98 GeorgetownGuyana Unknown Explosives0 0 A man on foot and one on amotorcycle got away as a bombwrecked a car. This is the fourthbombing since the 15 December1997 elections that the People'sNational Congress (PNC) call rigged.

16-Jan-98 Bojaba Colombia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 The state-owned ColombianPetroleum Enterprise reported thatthe Cano Limon pipeline wasdynamited. The blast contaminatedthe La Gritane stream that suppliesdrinking water to more than 200families in the region.

16-Jan-98 KrasnoznamenskRussia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A car belonging to aKrasnoznamensk Interior officer wasblown up.

16-Jan-98 TamilNadu

India JihadCommittee

Explosives0 0 A powerful RDX pipe bomb wasdetected on the rail track nearMadurai. Handbills signed by theTamil Nadu-based Jihad Committeewere recovered from the site.

16-Jan-98 St.Petersburg

Russia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 An explosive device rocked aMcDonalds in St. Petersburg. Aservice man suspects that opponentsof the expansion of the McDonaldsgroup of restaurants could haveorganized the blast. Windows at therestaurant and apartments in thevicinity were broken.

16-Jan-98 ChuburkhinjiGeorgia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

6 2 Abkhazia's central customs officewas bombed, killing two and injuringsix others. The Abkhazias believethat Georgian guerillas wereresponsible for the explosion. This isone of many recent explosive attacksaround the region.

17-Jan-98 Athens Greece 15-May Fire orFirebomb

0 0 On May 15, an urban terrorist groupclaimed responsibility for an arsonattack on the central Athens branchof the National Bank of Greece. Thefire caused property damage to thebank. A caller to Skai radio said thatthe attack was to show solidaritywith newly-arrested terrorist NikosMaziotis.

17-Jan-98 Sophia Bulgaria Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A bomb exploded in front of theoffices of one of Bulgaria's mostwidely circulated dailies -- Trud' DailyNewspaper. The explosion smashedthe windows of the media buildingand also damaged the shops acrossthe street.

18-Jan-98 Avan Armenia Unknown Firearms0 0 Shots were fired at the car of RomikKazaryan, head of the PresidentialSecurity Staff. The event could berelated to differences over Nagorno-Karabakh in the Armenianleadership.

18-Jan-98 Kaunas Lithuania Unknown Explosives0 0 An Iki grocery store was bombed inKaunas. The store was owned byGeorge and Oliver Ortiz. Iki grocerystores are the first Western stylegrocery stores in Lithuania. Theattack caused $2500 of damage tothe store and $50,000 damage to themunicipal electric network. This is aninternational incident because thestore is the first western style storein the area.

18-Jan-98 Biramit Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 Two roadside bombs placed near theBiramit crossing point whereLebanese civilians go into Israel towork were defused. Muslimguerrillas are believed to have beenbehind the attempted attack.

18-Jan-98 HondarribiaSpain Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device planted at thedoor of the post office in Handaaribiawas deactivated. The device wasdisguised in a gray paper shoppingbag.

18-Jan-98 PortugaleteSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Molotov cocktails were thrown at thehome of a Basque police forcemember. A fire that started by oneof the devices was small and easilyput out.


UlsterDefenceAssociation(UDA)

Firearms0 1 The Ulster Defense Association (UDA)claimed responsibility for shootingand killing Larry Brennan, a Catholictaxi driver. Brennan was shot fourtimes while sitting in his car outsidea taxi depot in Belfast.



Firearms0 1 The Irish National Liberation Army(INLA) claimed responsibility forkilling Jim Guiney, who was a friendof David Adams -- a senior memberof the Ulster Democratic Party (UDP)and a negotiator at the NorthernIreland peace talks. Mr. Guuiney wasshot by two gunmen at his carpetshop in the outskirts of Belfast.

19-Jan-98 Avan Armenia Unknown Firearms0 0 Shots were fired at Robik AyraPetyan, a local leader in Yerevan.The event may be connected todifferences over Nagorno-Karabakhin the Armenian leadership.

19-Jan-98 Makati PhilippinesAlexBoncayaoBrigade(ABB)

Firearms0 0 Three men fired 32 shells at theoffice of the Energy RegulatoryBoard. A man called the radio andannounced a bomb would explodeshortly after the event. The AlexBoncayo Brigade (ABB) claimedresponsibility for the attack.

19-Jan-98 Makati PhilippinesAlexBoncayaoBrigade(ABB)

Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at the office ofPetron Oil Corporation, three daysafter the implementation of oil priceincreases. The Alex Boncayo Brigade(ABB) claimed responsibility for theattack.

19-Jan-98 KombinatAlbania Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 An explosive device was planted inthe cross-way of a Kavaje street thatleads to a glassworks factory. A barwas damaged and the windows of abuilding were broken.

19-Jan-98 AndrijevicaFRY(Montenegro)

Unknown Explosives0 0 A powerful explosion damaged anopel belonging to Milan Radojevic.The identity of the attackers isunknown.

19-Jan-98 Pasig PhilippinesAlexBoncayaoBrigade(ABB)

Firearms0 0 The Energy Regulatory Board officein Pasig was sprayed with bulletsthree days after an increase in oilprices. The Alex Boncayao Brigade(ABB) claimed responsibility for theattack and stated that the attack,and the simultaneous bombing of thePetron Building, was intended as astatement against the recentincrease in oil prices.

20-Jan-98 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 An explosive device was detonatedat noon in the Yemeni capital ofSanaa. The bomb was in a carbelonging to the al-Rawayshan Tradeand Contractors company. Theexplosion caused only slight damageto the car targeted.

20-Jan-98 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Firearms0 0 In a kidnapping incident, armedtribesmen from the Bani Dhabiantribe held a German engineer for theYemeni Health Ministry hostage fortwo days in the region of Khawlan.The Bani Dhabian tribe seized him incentral Sanaa and demanded thatthe government carry outdevelopment projects for theirregion.

20-Jan-98 Moscow Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb attached to the bottom of aMercedes car owned by an ArmenianEmbassy employee was defused.

21-Jan-98 FortWilliams

NorthernIreland


Firearms1 0 The Ulster Defense Association (UDA)claimed responsibility for shootingand injuring John McFarland, aCatholic taxi driver, as he picked upa fare at Fort Williams. The attackcame as the Irish Republican Army(IRA) rejected the joint governmentblueprint for peace.



Firearms0 1 Ben Hughes, a 55-year-old Catholicwho was sitting in his car afterleaving work in a Loyalist area incentral Belfast, was shot at least fourtimes by a lone gunmen believed tobe a member of the Ulster DefenseAssociation (UDA). Attacks havecome as the Irish Republican Army(IRA) rejected the joint governmentalblueprint for peace.


Unknown Firearms1 0 Chris McMahon, a Catholic manidentified as bakery worker, wasshot and wounded in Newtownabbey.Authorities are blaming loyalists forattempting to derail the peaceprocess.

21-Jan-98 Algeria Unknown Explosives30 6 Four bomb attempts seem to berelated by their threats to the EUconference: A 200-kg device plantedin a main highway was defused; anhour before the EU news conferenceended, a bomb went off in a bus andkilled three people; a bomb went offin a market in Zeralda, killing 3 andwounding 30; and, lastly, a bombwas defused at an Algiers mosque.The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) isheld responsible for the bombingattempts.

21-Jan-98 Avan Armenia Unknown Firearms1 0 Artsrun Makaryan, Deputy Minister ofInternal Affairs and National Security,was wounded in both legs by gunfire.The event is the third in a string ofincidents that may be connected todifferences over Nagorno-Karabakhin the Armenian leadership.

21-Jan-98 Rangae Thailand Unknown Firearms0 1 A police officer in NarathiwatProvince was gunned down by twomen on a motorcycle. The eventcoincides with the extradition ofthree Muslim terrorist leaders caughtin Malaysia.

21-Jan-98 Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives0 2 A large bomb went off in the centerof Algiers, killing two and injuring alarge number of people. Theexplosion occurred near the mainfaculty building of Algiers University.

21-Jan-98 Casboh Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in a busy street.No injuries or casualties werereported.

22-Jan-98 PhassouriCyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded outside the BritishBases' Police Station at Phassouri inthe Akrotiri-Episkopi sovereign basearea, causing damages but nocasualties. The station is threekilometers from the main Britishairfield. The attack might be linkedto a recent clampdown by BritishBases' Police on criminal activity inthe base area.



Firearms0 1 John McColgan, a Catholic taxi driver,was shot and killed by a LoyalistVolunteer Forces (LVF) gunman. Theact is part of a wave of violenceassociated with the peace process.


Unknown Firearms0 1 Loyalist terrorists are believed tohave been responsible for the deathof Liam Conway, a Catholic man, whowas driving a mechanical digger atthe time he was shot. The attack isconnected to the peace process.

23-Jan-98 Srbica FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 1 A Serb politician was killed when hiscar was shot up with bullets. Xinhuareports the incident is thought tohave been in response to the deathof an Albanian man on Thursday.

23-Jan-98 Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives0 2 A bomb blast killed two individualsbelieved to have been moving thebomb a few hundred meters awayfrom the public school.

23-Jan-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

1 0 A bomb planted on a scooterexploded in the Sadder area ofKarachi near Jehangir Park, injuringone person.

23-Jan-98 SriLanka


Unknown0 13 Days prior to local elections to beheld in Jaffna- the first to be heldsince the government recaptured theregion from rebel control- theLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) attacked an Eelam People'sDemocratic Party (EPDP) office inPungudutivu, an island in Jaffna.Eight members of EPDP were killed,and five LTTE cadres were killedwhen the EPDP retaliated. The EPDPis one of five Tamil parties takingpart in the local elections.

24-Jan-98 EnniskillenNorthernIreland

ContinuityIrishRepublicanArmy(CIRA)

Explosives0 0 A car bomb exploded as the Armyattempted to defuse it outside theRiver Club Disco. This is believed tobe the work of the Continuity IrishRepublican Army (CIRA).

24-Jan-98 Cali Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)


0 0 The offices of Jose Renan Trujillo, aLiberal Party Congressionalcandidate, was bombed. Acommuniqué was found from theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) on the scene. Theevent is connected to two otherbombings which occurred on thesame day and were all claimed bythe FARC. The attack is related tothe Liberal Party's nationalconvention to be held 25 January1998.



0 0 The Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) claimedresponsibility for an explosive devicethat detonated at a bank. The eventcoincides with two other attacksoccurring on the eve of the LiberalParty's National Convention.

24-Jan-98 PodgoricaFRY(Montenegro)

Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 An explosive device planted on anofficial vehicle of the MontenegrinMinistry of Internal Affairs explodedand completely destroyed thevehicle. The car was being used byVeselin Veljovic.



0 0 An explosive device planted under apersonal vehicle owned by SmiljanaDjurisic, a catering worker employedat a business club, exploded, causingconsiderable damage to the car andminor damage to the façade of anearby building.


Explosives1 0 The Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) claimedresponsibility for detonating anexplosive device at a Cali policestation on the eve of the LiberalParty's National Convention. Awatchman was injured in theexplosion.Note: This attack is relatedto two other bombings on the sameday, all of which have been claimedby FARC.

25-Jan-98 GujranwalaPakistan Unknown Explosives15 0 A bomb blast injured fifteen peopleon a bus near the town ofGujranwala. The police blameterrorists attempting to disrupt theMuslim festival of Eid ul Fitr.

25-Jan-98 CarrickfergusNorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 A pipe bomb was thrown at the homeof a Catholic family. The bomb didnot explode, and a second bomb wasdefused off Matilda St. Both arebelieved to have been attempts toderail the peace process.

25-Jan-98 WandhamaKashmir Unknown Unknown0 22 Twenty-two members of the KashmiriPandit (Hindu) Community wereattacked by unidentified individuals.No group has claimed responsibility.

25-Jan-98 Kandy SriLanka


Explosives25 11 Ten days before foreign dignitarieswere scheduled to gather at the SriDalada Maligawa -- or Temple of theTooth, Sri Lanka's Buddhist shrine --for the 50th anniversary of SriLankan independence (and daysbefore local government electionswere to be held in Jaffna), threeLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) members staged a suicidetruck bombing, killing eleven(including themselves) and injuringat least twenty-five others. Thesuicide bombers had driven theirtruck through a security checkpointafter firing on and injuring guardsnear the temple. Then, they crashedtheir truck through the temple's gatewhere it exploded at 6:10 a.m.Note: The Hindu reports (27 January)that authorities acknowledge thatfour, not three, suicide bombers haddied.

25-Jan-98 Multan Pakistan Unknown Explosives6 0 A bomb blast at Multan railwaystation injured six. Police believe thebomb was intended to disrupt thepeace ahead of the Muslim festival ofEid ul Fitr.

25-Jan-98 Azpeitia Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 A homemade explosive deviceexploded at the home of a Basquepolice force member, destroying thedoor and blackening the landing ofthe building.

25-Jan-98 Pristina FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Explosives0 0 An unexplained explosion took placein front of the home of an Albanian,Bilall Qerimi. The blast caused minormaterial damage but no injuries.

25-Jan-98 Lurgan NorthernIreland


Firearms1 0 A Catholic man was shot and injuredas he sat in the cab of his truck in aCatholic area of Armagh. TheLoyalist Volunteer Forces (LVF) laterclaimed responsibility but did notprovide a motive for the attemptedassassination.

26-Jan-98 GandarbalKashmir Unknown Firearms0 23 Unidentified gunmen, believed to beforeign mercenaries killed twenty-three persons. They dragged fivewomen and two chidren out of theirhomes, killed them and burned theirhouses. Authorities believe theincident is related to recent electionsor Republic Day.

26-Jan-98 Salonika Greece RevolutionarySubversiveFaction-CommandoUnibombe

Explosives0 0 The Hewlett-Packard company officesin Salonika were bombed by theRevolutionary Subversive Faction-Commando Unibomber, a new Greekterrorist group in a show of supportfor the Unabomber suspect TheodoreKaczynski. The group stated, ...theattack on the state will not end.State terrorism will not succeed.Thisis one of the five bombs attacks inAthens and the northern Greek cityof Salonica within a span of fivehours. Despite increased secuitymeasures, Greek extremists kept uptheir campaign of bomb attacks,destroying state and private cars butcausing no injuries. The most violentwas a blast on the outskirts of athenswhere the terrorists had plantedexplosives under two state cars. Ananonymous caller telephoned a localradio station and claimedresponsibility for the attack on behalfof Revolutionary War, a nascentextremist group. Three other carswere set ablaze in various parts ofathens, while two private, luxuryvehicles were targeted outside the U.S. electronics company HewlettPackard in Salonica, NorthernGreece. More than 50 vehicles havebeen blasted since the violencebegan once month ago, when policearrested a suspected terroristallegedly involved in the bombing ofa senior government minister's officelate last year.

26-Jan-98 Pakistan Unknown Unknown24 1 One child was killed and twenty-fourother people injured in three attacksin widely separated cities in thePunjab region. Buses and railwaystations were targeted. The attackscome during the period when travelis on the rise because of theapproach of the long Muslimholidays. The attacks may be inresponse to Sunni attacks on Shiitesin Lahore.



Firearms0 0 The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)claimed responsibility for attemptingto shoot a Catholic taxi driver. Thegunman's weapon was jammed,preventing him from carryingthrough on his intent to kill the man.

27-Jan-98 Roum Lebanon Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 1 A roadside bomb exploded as a truckdrove by on a road inside Israel'ssecurity zone, killing the driver.Muslim guerrillas are blamed forplanting the explosive device.

27-Jan-98 al-Muharraq

Bahrain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Workers at two commercial shopsfound incendiary devices which werelater defused. Meanwhile, incendiarydevices went off in three othercommercial shops, causing propertydamage.

27-Jan-98 Vitoria Spain Unknown Explosives1 0 A woman was treated for cuts afteran explosive device exploded in aMercedes van belonging to a firmowned by Fernando Visa, a PopularParty Councilor. Authorities havedetermined that this bombresembles others planted by theBasque Fatherland and Freedom(ETA) in the area.

27-Jan-98 TkuarchalGeorgia Unknown Explosives0 0 Three explosions rocked the town ofTkuarchal. The bombs were allrelated and occurred at theadministration building, theconscription office and the housingdepartment. There were nocasualties, but glass was broken.The bombs are related to Georgia'sindependence-seeking region ofAbkhazia.

28-Jan-98 Lahore Pakistan Unknown Explosives15 0 A bomb exploded inside a shrinenear Lahore, injuring fifteen people.This incident could be connected tothe end of Ramadan.Note: On 11January, a similar attack took place inLahore. In this particular incident,twenty three Shiite Muslims werekilled.

28-Jan-98 TangerangIndonesiaUnknown Firearms2 0 Two incoming passengers who hadjust alighted from an aircraft wereshot at Sukarno-Hatta airport. Oneof the gunshot victims was Konishi,age 47, a Japanese national. Theother is Isren Saat, age 52.

28-Jan-98 SanSebastian


Explosives0 0 A bomb was discovered near a bankin San Sebastian. The BasqueFatherland and Freedom (ETA) hadsent a warning to the Road RescueService that the bomb had beenplanted. It is unknown if the bombexploded due to deactivation effortsor on its own. There were no injuries.


Unknown Explosives0 0 A blast ripped apart a car belongingto one of the top officials of theMontenegrin state security service.The attack may be related to theinauguration of political reformistMilo Djukanovic.

28-Jan-98 Petrinja Croatia Unknown Explosives4 1 An explosive device planted in a tincan went off in the Petrinja woodindustry Finel, killing one and injuringfour. Investigators are unsure if thebomb was left behind followingCroatian Army Operation Storm orplanted by a terrorist.



0 0 An explosive device destroyed anInterior Ministry vehicle. The officialvehicle belonged to Ministryemployee Darko Raspopovic.

28-Jan-98 Sibovac FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Explosives0 0 Unknown attackers fired a grenadefrom a rocket launcher at the homeof Dragan Spasic, a Serb. RadioPristina blames the attack on theKosovo Liberation Army (LKA).

28-Jan-98 Tirana Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 A grenade was found in a trash binnear the Macedonian Embassy inTirana, Albania. The grenade wasdeactivated.

29-Jan-98 BirminghamUnitedStates

Other Remote-detonatedexplosive

1 1 Eric Robert Rudolph, a right-wingextremist, detonated an explosivedevice with a remote control outsidethe New Woman, All Woman abortionclinic in Birmingham, Alabama. Theblast killed one security guard andseriously injured a nurse. Rudolph,who was sentenced to life in prisonfor this attack and a bombing at the1996 Atlanta Olympics, says that heperpetrated the attacks as part of aguerilla campaign against abortion,the homosexual agenda and the U.S.government.

29-Jan-98 Florida Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) guerrillas held theFlorida mayor Abel Mieves Velasquezand 14 Councillors hostage. TwelveCouncillors were later released. JairoRojas Bonilla and Jose GerardoBastidas are still being held hostage.

29-Jan-98 BirminghamUnitedStates

Army ofGod

Explosives1 1 Off-duty police officer RobertSanderson was killed and clinicworker Emily Lyons was injured in abombing of The New Woman AllWomen Health Care Center(Birmingham, Alabama). The Armyof God claimed responsibility for theattack.

29-Jan-98 Madrid Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 A home made device exploded atPeople, a temporary employmentagency in Madrid. Property damagewas reported.

29-Jan-98 VladikavkazRussia Unknown Firearms0 0 Vincent Cochetel, the head of theUnited Nations High Commissionerfor Refugees (UNHCR) mission toNorth Ossetia, was kidnapped bythree armed criminals. Cochetel, aFrench citizen was released inDecember 1998 after ten months incaptivity. During the operation tofree the hostage, two law-enforcement officers were injured.Cochetel was freed withoutpreconditions or ransom being paid.

29-Jan-98 Akrotiri Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 A home-made bomb was discoveredat Akrotirir in the British SovereignBase Area. The bomb wasdeactivated.

30-Jan-98 Seville Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Firearms0 2 The Basque Fatherland and Freedom(ETA) is blamed for shooting andkilling Alberto Jimenez Becerril andhis wife Ascencion. Alberto JimenezBecerril was one of Seville's foremostlocal politicians.

30-Jan-98 PortugaleteSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Three Molotov cocktails were throwninto a bus in Portugalete. Theensuing fire was put out with anextinguisher, preventing majordamage.

30-Jan-98 MurmanskRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion occurred as a bulldozercleared away snow. The shock waveblew out the windows of nearbyapartment blocks. Investigatorshave not ruled out the possibility thatit was a terrorist attack.

30-Jan-98 Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives1 0 An explosive device went off in eastMostar, a Bosniac-held area. Thedevice was thrown in theneighborhood of Donja Mahala at themoment when a SFOR (a NATOstabilization force) vehicle was onpatrol in the area. Kelly Moore, awaitress in a nearby restaurant waswounded by a piece of glass.

31-Jan-98 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 A Yeshiva student was stabbed by ayoung Palestinian woman inJerusalem's old city. This may beassociated with US Secretary of StateMadeline Albright's visit to the area.

31-Jan-98 NicaraguaUnknown Other 0 0 A Nicaraguan airplane with nineteenpeople on board was hijacked. Theplane was headed towards Bluefieldsbut was rerouted to La BambaAirport in Limon, Costa Rica. Thehijackers asked for political asylum.

31-Jan-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives1 0 A fragmentation bomb placed in asoft-drink box in a garbage canexploded, injuring a Romanian citizenwho was hauling the trash. Thegarbage can was located in an IETTbus station in Istanbul's Eminonuquarters.

31-Jan-98 Bilbao Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A Molotov cocktail thrown at a BBKsavings bank branch caused propertydamage to the building. Theresulting fire caused damage tosome of the bank's computers andfurniture.

1-Feb-98 BijeloPolje

FRY(Montenegro)

Unknown Explosives0 0 The house of Kjoko Kilkavoc, aDemocratic Party of Socialists official,was partially destroyed by a bombblast. Klikovac is one of the raresupporters of Milo Djukanovic in thearea, a stronghold of his rival, formerpresident Momir Butatovic.

1-Feb-98 Mungia Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A group of hooded individualsattempted to set fire to the branchesof the BBK (a savings bank), theBanco de Santander, and the BancoGuipuzcoano. Ertzaintza quicklyintervened and prevented theindividuals from firebombing thebuildings. The only damage wasbroken glass.

2-Feb-98 Siauliai Lithuania Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 An explosion went off at the LukOilfilling station on the Riga-Kaliningradroad in Siauliai. The blast hurt noone and caused insignificant damageto the petrol station. Police say thebomb had been planted in a trash binat the toilet.

2-Feb-98 Narita Japan RevolutionaryWorkers'Council(Kakurokyo)

Explosives1 0 Three trench mortars were fired atNarita Airport. Katsuji Fukushima, acargo handler, suffered minor cuts tohis forehead from the explosion ofthe mortars. The airport brieflyclosed a runway after the explosion.The attack may be related to theNagano Winter Olympic Games whichbegin in a week. Karurokyo, a leftistgroup, claimed responsibility for theattack.

2-Feb-98 ShirvanovkaAzerbaijanUnknown Explosives0 0 Unknown persons caused anexplosion at the Shirvanovkapressure control point on the Baku-Nororossiysk oil pipeline, 1.5 km fromthe Azerbaijan-Russian border. Theexplosion caused no serious damageor injuries.

3-Feb-98 Baku AzerbaijanUnknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device was found in aBaku sports complex shortly beforethe planned arrival of PresidentHeydar Aliyev. The bomb wasdefused.


Unknown Explosives1 1 One person was killed and oneinjured in a strong car explosion inMostar. The explosion was in theeastern part of the city whereMuslims live. It is not known if theexplosive was a bomb or a grenade.

3-Feb-98 Jablanica Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives1 0 A bomb planted near the entrance toa family house owned by the SerbVaso Manigoda exploded, injuringone person. Jablanica is apredominately Bosniak municipality.The attack could have come becauseof the proclamation that Jablanicawould be an open city for the returnof refugees.

3-Feb-98 Athens Greece 17November(17N)

Explosives0 0 Two explosions shattered twoMcDonalds fast food restaurants inAthens residential suburbs, causingdamage but no casualties. Theblasts occurred 11 minutes apart inthe suburbs of Halandri and Vrilissia.The timed explosives appear to bethe work of 17 November (17N).

4-Feb-98 Moscow Russia Unknown Explosives2 0 Two people were injured in anexplosion in an Oka car. Thepassenger lost both legs in the blast.The driver was slightly injured. Thedriver picked up the passenger at abus station in order to earn a bit ofmoney. An explosive devicedetonated in the passenger's lap.

4-Feb-98 Lurgan NorthernIreland


Firearms0 0 The Loyalist Volunteer Forces (LVF)claimed responsibility for firing shotsat a man in a passing car in Lurgan.It is understood that the man hadbeen threatened by the LVF in thepast, including a warning the daybefore to leave the area within 24hours. The man escaped unhurt.

4-Feb-98 BatticaloaSriLanka


Explosives8 0 The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) fired three mortars at anindependence day celebration inBatticaloa, injuring eight people. Theattack forced officials to abandon aflag-hoisting ceremony to mark 50years of independence from Britishrule.

4-Feb-98 BatticaloaSriLanka


Explosives0 0 The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) fired mortars on the armybrigade headquarters in Batticaloa,coinciding with a visit by PrinceCharles to celebrate Sri LankanIndependence.

4-Feb-98 Algiers Algeria Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

4 0 A home-made bomb hidden in a bagexploded at Patrice Lamumba Streetin central Algiers, injuring fourpeople.

5-Feb-98 Yalta Ukraine Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

2 0 A remote-controlled bombing devicewent off in a garbage can, injuringCrimean First Deputy Prime MinisterAnatoliy Safontsev and his guardRoman Garkusha. The bomb waspolitically motivated, aiming todestabilize the situation in Yalta.

5-Feb-98 Pireaus Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A petrol bomb exploded at thePireaus headquarters of GoldenDawn, an ultra-right-wingorganization. The resulting fire wasextinguished.

6-Feb-98 DonjaMahala

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 In response to the visit of DeputyHigh Representative HannsSchumacher, terrorists planted anexplosive on the new city highway inDonja Mahala. There were noinjuries and no material damage.Authorities believe that a secondexplosion near an old health carecenter in Mostar is also connected toSchumacher's visit.

6-Feb-98 GjirokasterAlbania Unknown Explosives1 0 An explosive device destroyed thehouse of Myrte Mezi, a member ofthe Socialist Party. His wife wasinjured in the blast. The blast ispolitically motivated.

6-Feb-98 Ajaccio France Unknown Firearms0 1 Claude Erignac, the Prefect ofCorsica -- the highest representativeof the French state on the island --was shot and killed by two or threemen.Note: On 7 February 2003, twomen of French origin were arrested inVenezuela and are believed to beconnected to this incident. On 4 July2003, Yvan Colonna, who issuspected of being the triggerman inthis assassination, was arrested andbrought before a judge of libertiesand detention. His arrest sparkedincreased separatist violence all overthe island of Corsica and led to a novote in a Coriscan referendum whichaimed to grant the island limitedautonomy on 6 July.

6-Feb-98 Colombo SriLanka


Explosives7 9 Less than six hours after PrinceCharles left the capital -- following afour-day visit for the celebration ofSri Lanka's 50th Anniversary ofIndependence -- the Liberation Tigersof Tamil Eelam (LTTE) staged asuicide bomb explosion that killednine and wounded at least sevenothers. The explosion was triggeredwhen the female suicide bomber andher two passengers, reportedlytraveling in a white Toyota Hiacevan, were stopped at a militarycheckpoint. Upon inspection, thefemale suicide bomber stepped outof the vehicle and detonated herexplosives-packed jacket, killing twowomen soldiers from the Army andfive Air Force personnel as well asherself, the two passengers, and thecar driver. Five civilians and two AirForce personnel were wounded.

7-Feb-98 Cali Colombia Unknown Explosives1 0 A bomb concealed as trash explodedoutside the political headquarters ofthe ruling Liberal Party. A policemanon duty guarding the building wasinjured.

7-Feb-98 Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 Shots were fired at a helicoptercarrying the Defense MinisterGilberto Echeveri and a US StateDepartment senior official RandyBeers. No injuries were reported.

7-Feb-98 MotiEden

WestBank/Gaza

PalestineIslamicJihad (PIJ)

Explosives0 0 Hezbollah fired mortars atsettlements along the borderbetween Israel and Lebanon. Therewere no casualties or damagereported.

7-Feb-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 Unidentified persons hurled a handgrenade and then fired shots at ahouse on Nuri Pamir Street inIstanbul's Besiktas neighborhood.There were no casualties.

7-Feb-98 Blida Algeria Unknown Explosives4 2 A homemade bomb placed at theentrance of a building in Blidaexploded, killing two and injuringfour people.

8-Feb-98 Fier Albania Unknown Explosives1 0 Bujar and Gani Tauzi placed anexplosive device between apartmentbuildings at a Fieri quarter. The blastinjured a ten-year-old boy. Motivesare unclear.

8-Feb-98 DonjaMahala

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion shattered the windowsof a house belonging to SenadKahva. The explosion caused noinjuries.

8-Feb-98 Araya Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Flammable liquid was sprinkled onthe poles of a small telephoneinstallation. The resulting fire left700 residents of Alava Provincewithout telephone service.

8-Feb-98 SalemangalamIndia Unknown Explosives4 3 Four bombs went off in quicksuccession at a private rice mill,killing three persons and inuring fourothers. Tamil Nadu Chief Magistrate,Mr. Karunanidhi was camping in thenearby town of Tanjavur.

8-Feb-98 OuledAllel

Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was defused in Ouled Allel.

8-Feb-98 TiberkanineAlgeria Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was defused in Tiberkanine.8-Feb-98 Bab el

OuedAlgeria Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was defused near a

secondary school in Bab El-Oued.8-Feb-98 Setif Algeria Unknown Explosives2 0 Two people were injured in a bomb

explosion at a café.9-Feb-98 Caracas VenezuelaUnited

RevolutionaryFront

Explosives0 0 Bomb experts defused a bomb thathad been placed at the doors ofCongress. A note criticizing theVenezuelan government was foundsigned by the United RevolutionaryFront.

9-Feb-98 AguachicaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 The National Liberation Army (ELN)bombed the pipeline that carriescrude oil from Cano Limon toCovenas Port. Approximately 15,000barrels of hydrocarbons were spilled.

9-Feb-98 Cali Colombia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A car bomb exploded in a tunnel thatconnects Cali with Buenaventura.The road is used by 70% ofColombia's freight. No furtherinformation is provided.

9-Feb-98 Medan IndonesiaUnknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was found at PoloniaInternational Airport but was unableto explode because it lacked adetonator. The bomb was defused.No one claimed responsibility.

9-Feb-98 Tbilisi Georgia Unknown Explosives2 2 Two Georgian state security officerswere wounded and one died in anassassination attempt on PresidentEduard Shevardnadze. In the courseof bitter exchange between twentyattackers, one assailant was killed. ADagestan resident, the ChechenVisamudin Dzhangaliyev, died in theattack.

9-Feb-98 GabcikovoSlovakia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 The Slovak police arrested two youngmen from Dunaszerdahely who werecarrying a large amount of TNT andweapons near the Gabcikovo dam.The explosives were equipped with aremote control.

10-Feb-98 LosPalos

EastTimor

Unknown Unknown0 3 Eight unidentified men attacked abus and killed three Timoresepassengers. The attackers were onmopeds and forced the bus to stop.Timorese resistance sources claimthat a group called the Ninjas, whichis made up of Timorese working forIndonesia, terrorizes the population;the residents then blame the attackson the resistance.

10-Feb-98 Zilgi Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 Seven gunmen fired at two houses inthe village of Zilgi from a grenadelauncher and a machine gun. Theattack caused only minor damage.

10-Feb-98 DunmurryNorthernIreland


Firearms0 1 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) isbelieved to have been responsible forshooting and killing Robert Dougan, apredominant loyalist and closeassociate to leading loyalist JimGuiney. He was shot at close rangeby a lone gunman.Note: Sinn Feinwas later suspended from theongoing peace talks because of thismurder.

10-Feb-98 DunmurryNorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms0 1 A man believed to have been aProtestant, was shot and killed on theoutskirts of Belfast. He wasambushed by a gunman wearing abaseball cap. The killer ran off onfoot.

10-Feb-98 PortadownNorthernIreland

UlsterVolunteerForce(UVF)

Firearms0 0 The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) issuspected of firing shots at MarkFulton, who has a connection to BillyWright. Fulton was arriving at arelative's flat and was saved only bya bullet-proof door.


Honduras NightAvengers

Firearms0 1 The Avengers death squad allegedlyshot and killed Ernesto SandovalBustillo, a human rights leader in thearea. He was shot seven times bythree men. Back in December 1998,Channel 34 had received a letterpromising attacks on human rightsadvocates.

11-Feb-98 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 A 30-yr-old man was stabbed todeath as he was walking to thesynagogue for morning prayers inthe Ramat Shlomo neighborhood ofnorthern Jerusalem. The motivationbehind the attack appears to bepolitical.


0 0 A public security officer arrested ayouth who attempted to throw aMolotov cocktail at the wall of theBritish Embassy in Amman.

11-Feb-98 ShakhtarskUkraine Unknown Firearms0 1 The mayor of Shakhtarsk, ViktorSheludko, was mortally wounded inthe entrance of his block ofapartments by an unidentifiedgunman and died in the hospital.Viktor Sheludko was a member of theCommunist Party. The attack maybe politically motivated.

11-Feb-98 Odessa Ukraine Unknown Firearms1 0 Anatoliy Bezsmertnyy, Chief of theOdessa Customs post, was shot andwounded at the entrance to hisapartment. The assailant is thoughtto have concealed his weapon in aplastic bag.

11-Feb-98 India Unknown Firearms0 0 A Bharatiya Janata Party Assemblycandidate, Mr. Dabala Debrana,escaped when militants fired at hisvehicle in Assam.

11-Feb-98 Koai India Unknown Firearms12 0 Twelve non-tribals were injured afterbeing gunned down. Several houseswere also set on fire.

11-Feb-98 Silpaguri India Unknown Unknown2 5 Five security officers were killed andtwo Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)members were injured whenmilitants attacked the AGP partyoffice. The attackers fled.



0 0 Authorities suspect that the ShiningPath (SL) is responsible for placing abomb at the Llama Gas distributionplant. Damage to a wall andwindows of several houses werereported.

12-Feb-98 GlogovacFRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 1 Mustafa Kurti, an employee of theSerbian Post service (PTT) inGlogovac, was killed by one orseveral people using an automaticrifle. Kurti was most likely killed byone of the ethnic Albanian terroristgroups.

12-Feb-98 ForestHill

UnitedKingdom


1 0 Police believe the Mardi Gras bomberis responsible for an explosion thatoccurred in a man's car after hepicked it up near a Sainsbury store.The explosive device was reportedlyhidden in a plastic bag. The manwas slightly injured.

12-Feb-98 BirkhademAlgeria Unknown Explosives4 1 A homemade bomb went off near atechnical college in Birkhadem. Oneperson died and four others wereinjured.

12-Feb-98 Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives17 1 A bomb explosion killed one personand injured 17 at a café in the Placedes Martyrs.

13-Feb-98 Legazpia Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Several individuals threw flammableliquid into the entrance of the BBV,Banco Bilbao Vizcaya, setting fire tothe building.

13-Feb-98 Tafalla Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was planted near a businessowned by Tafalla mayor Luis Valero,a member of the Union of theNavarrese People. The bomb did notexplode.

13-Feb-98 Ankara Turkey Unknown Firearms1 0 Four armed assailants fired shots atthe former Ankara Deputy Mayor,Vedat Aydin, at his office onMesrutiyet Blvd in Ankara, causinginjuries to his leg. Note: Aydinclaims that his house and car havepreviously been attacked.

13-Feb-98 MondragonSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Several hooded individuals smashedthe glass of the Caja Laboral savingsbank and threw several fire bombsinto the building.

14-Feb-98 Getxo Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A homemade device exploded at thedoor of a Social Security office inGetxo without causing majordamage. The bomb was made of twocanisters of butane camping gas, aglass bottle containing inflammableliquid and a flare.

14-Feb-98 Saratov Russia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

3 0 Three people were injured when anexplosion ripped through a section ofan apartment house. Two elderlywomen and a man were injured. Thebomb was a remote-controlleddevice.

14-Feb-98 CoimbatoreIndia Unknown Explosives180 40 A series of bomb blasts rocked thecity of Coimbatore. The bombscoincide with an election rally atwhich Bharatiya Janata PartyPresident, Lal Krishan Advani, spoke.

14-Feb-98 Wuhan China,People'sRepublicof

Unknown Explosives0 50 Xinjiang separatists are suspected tohave placed a bomb on the ChangJiang Bridge that killed at least 50people, some riding a bus.

15-Feb-98 Bayonne Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Unidentified persons smashed thewindows of the Banque Courtois andhurled Molotov cocktails into theoffices of the establishment.

15-Feb-98 Saint-Jean-de-Luz


0 0 Several Molotov cocktails werethrown at the branch of CreditLyonnais at Saint-Jean-de-Luz,damaging the windows and thebuilding.

15-Feb-98 QiryatShemona

Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 Several mortar shells fell in thenorthernmost part of Galilee. Therewere no reported injuries, but therewas some damage caused in QiryatShemona. The shells were fired fromSouth Lebanon.

15-Feb-98 Odessa Ukraine Unknown Firearms1 0 Leonid Kapelyushnyy, the head ofthe regional bureau of the Moscownewspaper, Izvestiya, was shot,receiving two bullet wounds. It islikely that the attack comes as aresult of his recent appointment aschairman of Odessa's town ElectoralCommission.

15-Feb-98 CoimbatoreIndia Unknown Explosives0 0 Police defused a car bomb inCoimbatore. No one has claimedresponsibility for the attack.

16-Feb-98 Ansoain Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A Molotov cocktail was thrown at thevehicle owned by Antonio Gila, theSocialist Deputy mayor of Ansoain.No one was injured.

16-Feb-98 GjirokasterAlbania Unknown Explosives0 0 Two explosives were detonated atthe Gjirokaster town hall buildingwhere local governor's offices andthe Socialist Party headquarters arelocated. The building was damaged,and the windows in the adjacentAajupi Hotel were broken.

17-Feb-98 Al-Tawahi

Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device exploded in frontof the Al-Tawahi City Police Station inAden, causing minor damage to thebuilding and breaking windows nearthe explosion.

17-Feb-98 Shkoder Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 A TNT explosion rocked the SocialistParty offices in the city of Shkoder,causing damages. No injuries werereported. This is the second attackin recent history.

17-Feb-98 CoimbatoreIndia Unknown Explosives3 4 A bomb exploded at a playground inCoimbatore city, killing four boys andinjuring three other children.

18-Feb-98 Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 A Syrian citizen, Ahmad Jalal, hurleda bomb at Jordanian security men inJabal al-Akhdar in the capital Amman.The explosion resulted in materialdamage to the road outside a privateschool and to two civilian vehicles.Note: The Jordanian Interior Ministryannounced that an armed groupinfiltrated Jordan to launch attacks onUS and Israeli targets there.

18-Feb-98 Gostivar MacedoniaUnknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 An explosion in the center of Gostivarcaused only material damage. Thebomb was set up in the privatebutcher shop USA Kompani. No onehas claimed responsibility.

18-Feb-98 Russia Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 0 A terrorist armed with a knifeattempted to hijack a plane,demanding that the plane leaveRussia. Police officials hampered theattempt.

19-Feb-98 Athens Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 17 November (17N) is suspected ofbeing involved in the bombing of theGeneral Motors dealership inNorthern Athens. No one wasinjured, but the dealership waswrecked. Authorities believe thebomb was in protest to the USbombing of Iraq.

19-Feb-98 Zugdidi Georgia Unknown Firearms0 0 Three UN observers and theirGeorgian drivers were kidnapped bytwenty unidentified gunmen whodemanded that the hostages beexchanged for the release ofsuspects in the assassinationattempt of President Shevardnadze.The hostages are citizens fromUruguay, the Czech Republic andSweden. The gunmen weresupporters of the late Georgianpresident Zviad Gamsakhurdia. On22 February, one Uruguayan militaryobserver was released, theremaining hostages were held until25 February after PresidentShevardnadze met with theGamsakhurdia opposition.Note:Eight of the kidnappers were latercaptured, and the leader was trackeddown and killed in a shootout on 31March 1998.

20-Feb-98 Marseille France FrancsTireurs(Mavericks)

Explosives0 0 A bomb damaged the National Frontpremises in Marseille. A movementcalled the Francs Tireurs (Mavericks)claimed responsibility for the attackthat was to commemorate the deathof Ibrahim Ali.

20-Feb-98 SidiKhaled

Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb rocked the Sidi Khaled watertower overlooking Tiaret. The attackis associated with similar incidents inHassi R'mel, Ouled Tolba, and Arzew.

20-Feb-98 Caracas VenezuelaUnitedRevolutionaryFront


1 0 The United Revolutionary Frontclaimed responsibility for detonatingan explosive device at the MunicipalPalace. The explosion causeddamage to the building which housesthe Libertado mayor's office and theMunicipal Council function. Oneperson was injured in the attack.

20-Feb-98 Lausa FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 1 Muraj Djakaj was killed in a terroristattack on persons in a freight vehiclewith Kosovska Mitrovica plates.


Unknown Unknown1 1 A group of armed Albanians attackedMilorad Ristic and his co-driver asthey drove in a truck belonging tothe Orvin Company of Orahovac.Ristic was killed, and his partner wasinjured.


Unknown Firearms0 1 An ethnic Albanian was killed in anarmed attack on a vehicle near thevillage of Lausa. The event may beassociated with the death of a Serbpoliceman.

20-Feb-98 BirkhademAlgeria Unknown Explosives32 2 A homemade bomb went off near aweekly market in the Birkhademsuburb of Algiers, killing two peopleand injuring 32 others.

20-Feb-98 Ziama Algeria Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 Terrorists detonated a bomb by theroadside between Ziama andBettacha. They then opened fire onthe surviving motorists. It isunknown how many were killed orinjured. The Armed Islamic Group(GIA) is suspected of beingresponsible for the attack.

21-Feb-98 Moira NorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives7 0 A car bomb exploded at the UlsterPolice Station just hours after thetemporary expulsion of Sinn Feinfrom the multi-party peace talks.Seven were injured, three of thempolice officers.

21-Feb-98 SantanderSpain Unknown Explosives0 0 Civil guard explosives experts carriedout a controlled explosion of asuspicious package containing 3kg ofexplosives connected to a timer thatwas found on the premises of thenational ruling Popular Party'sregional headquarters. Theexplosion damaged 30 cars.

21-Feb-98 Belfast NorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 Sinn Fein has accused loyalists ofplanting a bomb under a taxi ownedby a former Republican prisoner.The car bomb was defused.

21-Feb-98 Iurreta Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A Molotov cocktail partially damageda Ford Fiesta, the private vehicle of aBasque police force member.

21-Feb-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 2 Two Iranian engineers were shot andkilled by two unidentified gunmenriding in an open car. The twoIranians were identified as HabibZadeh and Abid Zadeh; they wereworking for an Iranian constructioncompany building a bridge. Thebridge is a World Bank constructionproject.


Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion occurred at the junctionof Kralj Tomislav Street and KraljPetar Kresimir IV Street. There wereno injuries.

21-Feb-98 Kukes Albania Unknown ChemicalAgent

0 0 Five kilograms of tritol were throwninto the main waterline, causing thepipe to split and cutting off the watersupply to Kukes and 15 othervillages. The attack is expected toraise popular discontent.

21-Feb-98 Irun Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives0 0 No one was hurt when a high-powered bomb exploded as a TGV(French high speed train) waspassing through the Irun area. Theengine and one of the carriagessuffered minor body damages. TheBasque Fatherland and Freedom(ETA) later claimed responsibility.ETA carried out the attack as awarning to French authorities whohave been collaborating with theSpanish government to end terrorismin the Basque country.

21-Feb-98 OuedTolba

Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 Two bombs placed under the gaspipeline linking Hassi R'mel to theArzew oil fields exploded, damagingthe gas pipeline.

22-Feb-98 Korangi Pakistan MohajirQamiMovement

Firearms10 8 Eight people, including three activistsof the Muttahidda Qami Movement(MQM), were killed, and ten otherswere injured as unidentifiedassailants opened fire on peoplecoming out of the Taj-ul-Masajid afteroffering the Isha'a prayers. TheMohajir Qami Movement was blamedfor the attack.

22-Feb-98 Toining India ZoniRevolutionaryArmy(ZRA)

Firearms0 7 Zoni Revolutionary Army (ZRA)extremists killed seven Kukitribesmen including two women.Thirty houses were also set on fire.

22-Feb-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 8 Eight people were killed whiletheyweresitting in analley in Karachiwhen terrorists opened fire withautomatic weapons.

22-Feb-98 Kolesjan Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 A powerful explosion occurred nearthe central water supply line at theKolesjan village, 18km from theKukes town. Thirty-five thousandinhabitants of the Kukes town andsurrounding villages are withoutwater. This is the second attack inthree days.

22-Feb-98 Srbica FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms1 1 Masked gunmen attacked a lorry inthe Serbian province of Kosovo,killing one Serb and injuring another.Albanian terrorists are blamed for theattack.

22-Feb-98 Shkoder Albania Unknown Firearms0 0 Fifteen masked men, some fromMontenegro, shot at a police stationin Northern Albania, attempting todestabilize Shkoder. The terroristsreleased their friends and set fire tothe building.

23-Feb-98 TepetixtlaMexico PopularRevolutionaryArmy

Firearms0 4 Authorities suspect that gunmenfrom the Popular Revolutionary Armyshot and killed four people, includingtwo ruling Institutional RevolutionaryParty politicians, Felipe Avila Flovesand Felipe Lopez Rueda, during awedding in Guerrero state. The othertwo were workers at the wedding.

23-Feb-98 SanVicentedeCaguan


Explosives8 3 An explosive device blew up at aplace called Truckers' Depot. Thebomb exploded and killed threecivilians and injured eight others,including five soldiers. Authoritiesattribute the attack to theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC).


Unknown Explosives2 0 An explosive device was thrown onthe road and seven vehicles werestoned, injuring two drivers inMostar. Mostar mayor SafetOrucevic requested the StabilizationForce for Bosnia-Herzegovina (SFOR)to monitor the streets more closelyafter the incident.

23-Feb-98 PortadownNorthernIreland


Explosives0 0 The Continuity Irish Republican Army(CIRA) is suspected of being involvedin a car bomb blast in Portadown thatcaused extensive damage to shopsand businesses in the mostlyProtestant area of the town.

23-Feb-98 Boufarik Algeria Unknown Explosives25 18 A homemade bomb exploded on apassenger train on its way fromAlgiers to Afroun near Boufarik. Theexplosion killed 18 and injured 25others.

24-Feb-98 Bihar India Unknown Firearms0 5 Samajwadi Party candidateDevendranath Dubey was shot andkilled along with four other partymembers while traveling in a Jeep. ABihar minister is suspected ofinvolvement in the attack.

24-Feb-98 Cucuta Colombia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

2 0 Two bombs exploded at the politicalheadquarters of Albino GarciaFernandez and Donamaris RamirezLobo, candidates to the Chamber ofRepresentatives. A homeless manand watchman were injured.

24-Feb-98 Cucuta Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was deactivated in thepolitical headquarters of Statecandidate Alberto Villamizar.

24-Feb-98 Ireland Unknown Explosives0 0 Irish police uncovered and defusedan unexpected bomb placed near theborder with Northern Ireland. Thebomb appears to be linked to theContinuity Irish Republic Army (CIRA)who may have been planning tobring the 250-lb bomb across theborder.

25-Feb-98 IslamabadPakistan Unknown Unknown0 1 An Iranian national, Yarahmedi, waskilled in Pakistan. The IranianForeign Ministry refused to comment.

25-Feb-98 Tokyo Japan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A fire broke out at a home being builtfor a former top Transport Ministryofficial, Hisao Takahashi. The fireappears to be an arson attack byradicals opposed to expansion of theNarita Airport.

25-Feb-98 YekaterinburgRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 Two bombs were planted on the sitewhere Russia's last Tsar, Nicolas IIand his family were executed in1918, damaging a memorial crossand a chapel.

25-Feb-98 Vitoria Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 Ertzaintza members deactivated anexplosive device that had beenplanted inside a knapsack near theVitoria University. No one wasinjured in the controlled explosion.


Unknown Explosives4 0 An explosion on an upper floor of aBelfast post office injured fourpeople. The blast was caused by aletter bomb and was the third suchdevice found in Northern Ireland inthe past week.

25-Feb-98 Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives13 0 A bomb damaged a bus in centralAlgiers. The bomb was thrownaboard a bus at the capital's Martyrs'Square. Thirteen were injured in theattack.

26-Feb-98 FaisalabadPakistan Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

19 4 An explosive was placed in aneconomy class compartment of theKarachi-bound Super Express train,killing four and injuring nineteen.

26-Feb-98 Babaloc FRY(Kosovo)

KosovoLiberationArmy(KLA)

Explosives0 0 Ethnic Albanians launched a handgrenade and, with automaticweapons, fired at the settlement ofBabaloc. Babaloc is populated withSerbs and Montenegrins who fledAlbania. The Kosovo Liberation Army(KLA) has been blamed for theattack.

26-Feb-98 Argelia Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Firearms0 0 Jose Luis Granada, the mayor ofArgelia, was kidnapped by NationalLiberation Army (ELN) rebels forpolitical reasons and to make knowna tentative proposal toward a peaceagreement. He was released on 26March 1998.

27-Feb-98 Moscow Russia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

2 0 An unidentified explosive devicewent off in a Volga car parked onVernadsky Avenue. Two men sittingin the car were injured andhospitalized.

27-Feb-98 GujranwalaPakistan Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

17 5 Five people were killed andseventeen injured in a bomb blast ina bus on Tasrur Road in Gujranwala.The bomb had been placed at therear of the bus.

27-Feb-98 Virar India Unknown Explosives0 1 A person attempting to plant a bombin the town of Virar was killed. Theattack comes on the eve of thesecond phase of polling.

27-Feb-98 Kantivali India Unknown Explosives10 1 A bomb was hurled at a crowdedplatform in Kantivali Railway Station,killing one and injuring more than tenpeople. The bombing coincides withtwo other incidents and comes onthe eve of the second phase ofpolling.

27-Feb-98 Medellin Colombia Unknown Firearms0 1 Jesus Maria Valle Jaramillo, theformer president of AntioquiaDepartment's Human RightsCommittee, was killed by two menwhose weapons had silencers. Onvarious occassions, Jaramillo hadexposed the links that state agentshad with paramilitary organizations.

27-Feb-98 Renteria Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The private car of the SecretaryGeneral of the Basque CountrySocialist Party, Juan Carlos Merino,was set on fire and completelydestroyed by two unidentifiedindividuals.

27-Feb-98 SantaCruz

India Unknown Explosives5 2 A briefcase bomb exploded at a chal(a large apartment building withtenant families), killing two andinjuring five others. The blast comeson the eve of the second phase ofpolling. This is part of a series ofthree bombings.

27-Feb-98 Mumbai India Unknown Explosives3 2 Two people were killed and threeinjured in Niram Nagar. This was oneof four attacks that together killedfour people and injured sixteen. Allof these blasts took place in suburbsof Mumbai on this day.

28-Feb-98 Cali Colombia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A powerful bomb exploded in theBartolome de las Casasneighborhood of Cali, damaging fourhouses. The damage is estimated at200 million pesos. No one was hurt.



Explosives4 0 The Irish National Liberation Army(INLA) claimed responsibility for abomb that exploded on the groundsof a Belfast integrated school. Fourpeople -- two police officers and twocivilians -- were treated for shock.

28-Feb-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives10 6 Two bombs exploded in two shops atthe Al-Asif Square, killing six andinjuring ten.

28-Feb-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 8 Two successive blasts in Al-AsifSquare killed eight people andshocked the Administration. Thebombs exploded in a residential andcommercial complex which isdominated by Pashto-speakingpeople. The blast occurred at ZeroPoint -- the main entry and exit point.

28-Feb-98 Decani FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 A Montenegrin house in Decani wasattacked by a group of terrorists ofthe Kosovo separatist movement.Terrorists fired a hollow-chargerocket and several barrages fromautomatic weapons at the houseowned by the Culafics.

28-Feb-98 Aden Yemen Unknown Explosives3 2 Two people were killed, and threewere seriously injured in an explosionnear the al-Rahman Mosque in Aden.One of the victims was a bodyguardfor Shaykh Muqbil Bin-Hadi al-Wadi'I,one of the most senior leaders of theSalafi movement in Yemen, who waspreaching in the al-Rahman Mosqueduring the incident.

1-Mar-98 Riga Latvia Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb explosion damaged the Rigasynagogue, breaking the stain glasspanels. No one was hurt. The PMstated that the ...explosion is aimedat upsetting the stability of Latvia.

1-Mar-98 Bibinje Croatia Unknown Explosives0 0 An unknown perpetrator fired amissile from a rocket launcher at ahouse in Bibinje. The projectileexploded in an unoccupied room,causing only material damage.

1-Mar-98 Ma'rib Yemen Unknown Firearms4 0 A bus carrying about thirty tourists tothe town of Ma'rib, 170 km northeastof Sanaa, was fired on by a gang ofarmed tribesmen. A German touristand three security guards wereinjured in a shootout that took placeas the gunmen failed in theirattempts to abduct the tourists.Note:Abductions of foreigners are frequentin Yemen, as they are used asbargaining chips to force concessionsout of the government.

1-Mar-98 Neiva Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 Jorge Lorenzo Escandon, the mayorof Neiva, was kidnapped. No furtherinformation is provided.

2-Mar-98 Tehran Iran Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 A number of armed men attackedthe house of Lebanese Ambassadorto Tehran, Shaykh Munir Talhuq. Ahouse guard was stabbed, then shotby the attackers and later died of hisinjuries. The attack may have beenconnected with the visit of WalidJunblatt, the Lebanese minister fordisplaced persons affairs, to Tehran.

2-Mar-98 ElDoncello


Explosives0 0 Santiago Lozano Mendez and ManuelGabriel Ahumada, two members ofthe Bolivarian Militias and theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC), were captured asthey attempted to blow up a 25-kgpentolite canister in El Doncello.

2-Mar-98 Ocana Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 Subversives looted and blew up theGuarapales hill relay station, leavingthe following towns withoutcommunication services: Ocana,Teorama, El Tarra, San Calixto,Bellavista, Cartagenita, La Libertad,La Trinidad, Guamal, La Vega,Balcones and Piedecuesta.

3-Mar-98 NorthernIreland


Explosives0 0 A car bomb was deactivated by theIrish Army. Police link the car to theContinuity Irish Republican Army(CIRA).

3-Mar-98 Iberdrola Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 Ertzaintza explosives expertsdeactivated four rocket grenadeswith a timing device attached whichhad been planted at the base of apower pylon in Iberdrola.

3-Mar-98 ToombridgeNorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms0 0 A Catholic man survived a murderbid in Toombridge when theattacker's gun jammed. Loyalistterrorists are suspected to be behindthe attack.

3-Mar-98 PoyntzpassNorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms2 2 Two friends -- one a Protestant andthe other a Catholic -- were shot andkilled at the Railway Bar inPoyntzpass by two masked gunmen.Two other men were injured. The baris owned by Dessie Canavan, brotherof Social Democrat and Labour Partycouncillor Tom Caravan.

3-Mar-98 GuatapuriColombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Firearms0 0 The 59th Front of the RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colombia (FARC)kidnapped Esther Cristina Canales, aformer deputy; the campaignmanager for Horacio Serpa'spresidential campaign (El CesarDepartment); and four otherindividuals were campaigning inGuatapuri.

4-Mar-98 OuedKoureich

Algeria Unknown Explosives15 2 A homemade bomb, hidden in a bag,exploded near AbderrahmaneKhaouadji School in Oued Koureich,leaving two dead and fifteen injured.

4-Mar-98 MoudjebeurAlgeria Unknown Explosives2 2 Two bombs exploded next to a mainroad in the Medea region, killing twopeople and injuring two others. Thebombs exploded next to the nationalroute 1.

4-Mar-98 Medea Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was defused in the town ofMedea. No further information isprovided.

4-Mar-98 Jasic FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Unknown0 1 Albanian terrorists killed foresterKadri Jasiqi in the Jasic village. Jasiqiwas killed because he was loyal tothe Serbian state and because hewas a state employee.

4-Mar-98 Antrim NorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms2 0 A woman was hit on the leg and achild grazed when shots were firedinto a house in Antrim. The motivefor the attack is unclear, but it maybe connected to the peace process.

5-Mar-98 WatPhnum

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 Three B-40 rockets and a pack of TNTexplosives with a detonator and a 12-volt battery were found hidden in asugar cane pushcart in front of thePhnom Penh Bank. Two boys, SokSoriya and Heng Chan Pheak'dei,claimed that they were hired by anunknown man to push the cart to thebank, where they were to meet theman and be paid. The boysdiscovered the bombs and ran awayscreaming. The bombs weredeactivated.

5-Mar-98 SchottenfeldgasseAustria Unknown Explosives17 0 An explosion took place in a pizzeriain Schottenfeldgasse, injuringseventeen people. The owner of thepizzeria received a warning beforethe blast that a bomb had beenplanted on the premises.

5-Mar-98 MaradanaSriLanka


Explosives252 32 Thirty-two people were killed andanother 252 wounded when apowerful bomb exploded in a privatebus near the Maradana Junctionaround 12:40 p.m. The explosives-laden bus (carrying two bombs madeout of RDX and C-4 explosives) wasoccupied only by its driver whoignored calls by police officials tostop the vehicle. The bus had beencaught in traffic when it exploded,damaging around twenty vehicles.The AFP (10 March) reports that thegovernment believes the intendedtarget may have been an officialmotorcade and that the driverdetonated the explosives when ...hewas about to be booked for a trafficoffence. The Liberation Tigers ofTamil Eelam (LTTE) are blamed forthis attack.

5-Mar-98 San Luis Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Firearms0 0 Gomez Urrea, the mayor of San Luis,was kidnapped by National LiberationArmy (ELN) rebels for politicalreasons and to make known atentative proposal toward a peaceagreement. Urrea was released on26 March 1998.


Explosives0 0 Jairo Alberto and Jose Ramon Rioswere arrested as they attempted totransport a powerful arsenal ofexplosives to Bogota to interfere withthe elections. One hundered andtwenty rifle and mortar grenadeswere found at the place where theywere detained.

5-Mar-98 WatPhnum

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 Three B-40 rockets, a pack of TNTexplosive with a detonator, and a 12-volt battery were found hidden in asugar cane pushcart in front of thePhnom Penh Bank. Two boys claimedto have been hired by a man to pushthe cart to the bank where they wereto be paid. The bombs weredeactivated before they caused anydamage.

6-Mar-98 BouskeneAlgeria Unknown Explosives1 1 A homemade bomb, which had beenplanted in an abandoned school inBouskene, exploded at 10:00am,killing one person and injuring oneperson.

7-Mar-98 Tirana Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded outside the VEVEbusiness center, damaging propertybut not hurting anyone.Investigators suspect that the bombwas intended for a Croatianbusinessman of Albanian origin,Vehbi Velia.

7-Mar-98 Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives12 0 A homemade bomb exploded near abus station in Hocine Aselah Street.The terrorist originally attempted tothrow the bomb inside a bus that wasabout to depart. Twelve people wereinjured.

7-Mar-98 SanFransisco


Firearms0 0 Martinez Ciro, the mayor of SanFransisco, was kidnapped by theNational Liberation Army (ELN) forpolitical reasons. He was released26 March 1998.

7-Mar-98 Corcona Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Firearms0 0 Rebels from the Carlos Alirio BuitragoFront of the National Liberation Armyabducted the secretary general ofgovernment from Corcona and SanFransisco Councilmen Orland Giraldo,Alfonos Garcia, Francisco Castano,Francisco Duque and Marco TulioPosada. They were abducted for''political reasons and to ...makeknown a tentative proposal toward apeace agreement.

8-Mar-98 Huanuco Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms4 3 Shining Path (SL) terrorists shot andkilled Juan Lopez Espinoza in front ofhis family. German Mariano Berriosand another man were also killed inthe attack. Macedonio SantiagoMariano, Casiano Espiritu Barreto,Marvin Tucto Soto and an 18-year-oldman were injured in the attack.

9-Mar-98 BudapestHungary Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 An explosive device was thrown infront of the house of Akos Kecskes,parliamentary candidate of Allianceof Free Democrats in CsongradCounty.

9-Mar-98 Sukkur Pakistan Unknown Explosives13 0 A bomb blast occurred in thecompound of the session court inSukkur, injuring thirteen people.

9-Mar-98 ChhangaManga

Pakistan Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

35 5 Five persons were killed and thirty-five injured due to a powerfulexplosion on the 22 Dow ChiltanExpress Train at the Chhanga Mangarailway station.

10-Mar-98 Motrico Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 The Ertzaintza deactivated ahomemade device planted outsidethe branch of the Kutxa savings bankin the town of Motrico. Themunicipal police received ananonymous call warning of thisdevice planted outside the Kutxaoffice.

10-Mar-98 Eravur SriLanka


30 5 Five people were killed and thirtywere injured by a bomb blast nearthe Eravur clock tower. The timebomb was hidden in a tractor loadedwith bags of rice and parked near theclock tower.

10-Mar-98 Lahore Pakistan Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

26 9 A powerful explosive ripped througha packed commuter train nearLahore, killing nine passengers andinjuring twenty-six others. The bombwas concealed in a box plantedunder a seat. The attack is anattempt to destabilize thegovernment machinery.

11-Mar-98 Novo-Kuli

Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion went off at a powerstation in Novo-Kuli, Dagestan.Authorities believe that the explosionwas part of a well planned terroristattack aimed at destabilizing thesituation in Dagestan.

11-Mar-98 AnbelokipiGreece Unknown Explosives0 0 The Chrysler and Jeep dealership inAnbelokipi was bombed. The bombhad reportedly been placed under aJeep parked in front of the showroomand created a 30-cm crater. Theblast shattered the glass storefrontand caused millions of drachmas indamage to cars. It is believed thatthe blast was in retaliation to USthreats of military action in Iraq. 17November (17N) is suspected tohave been involved in the attack.

11-Mar-98 GhisonacciaFrance Unknown Unknown1 0 An attack caused damage to abakery in Ghisonaccia, Corsica. Agendarme who was patrolling thearea was slightly hurt. This is thesecond attack carried out againstthis establishment in the last fourmonths.

11-Mar-98 Bilbao Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Two Molotov cocktails were thrown atthe office of the Military Governor ofVizcaya. No damage was caused bythe attack. The attack may beassociated with the arrest of 14militants in Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa.

11-Mar-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Firearms2 0 Two policemen were injured whenunidentified attackers opened fire ona patrol vehicle in Istanbul's Gaziquarter. Muhittin Yildirim, chiefsuperintendent of theGaziosmanpasa District SecurityDirectorate, received head woundsfrom this attack.

11-Mar-98 He'rat AfghanistanUnknown Firearms1 0 Qari Mohammad Mosa, an IranianSunni cleric, was shot and seriouslywounded in Her'at. Mosa had leftIran many years earlier as a refugeeand believes that the state of Iranhad a hand in the attack. Thegunmen was able to escape.

12-Mar-98 CharavaliRussia Sword ofIslam

Explosives0 0 A liberation movement calling itselfThe Sword of Islam claimedresponsibility for bombing an electricsubstation in Charavali. The groupdistributed leaflets, urging the Lakpeople, a tiny Degestani tribe, toleave the Chechen lands in line withShar'ia Law.

12-Mar-98 NovoSelo

FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Jusuf Cana's home was sprayed withautomatic-weapons fire. Althoughthere was severe material damage,no one was hurt.

12-Mar-98 BudapestHungary Unknown Explosives0 0 Police bomb-disposal expertsdefused a powerful bomb in front ofthe Independent Smallholders' Partyheadquarters. The explosive wasintended to intimidate the party.

12-Mar-98 Holargos Greece November17RevolutionaryOrganization(N17RO)

Explosives0 0 An explosion occurred at the BestCars Opel dealership, a subsidiary ofUS carmaker GM. The explosioncoincides with another blast at aChrysler dealership in Ambelokipi.17 November (17N) is suspected ofbeing involved in the attack. Theattack may also be associated withthe US threats against Iraq.

12-Mar-98 Belfast NorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) isbeing blamed for planting a bombwhich destroyed the Derby Housebar and restaurant. The explosioncreated a fireball that destroyed thetwo-story building. The attack hasmajor implications for Sinn Fein'sreturn to the peace talks.

12-Mar-98 Antalya Turkey Unknown Firearms0 2 Yahya Hasan Can and an unidentifiedwoman were killed when their carcaught fire after coming under firefrom unidentified persons.

13-Mar-98 AlcobendasSpain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GRA

Explosives0 0 Experts carried out a controlleddetonation of an explosive devicefound in the tax office of Alcobendas.It was the third device planted in oneday. The First of October AntifascistResistance Group (GRAPO) claimedresponsibility for the attack.Note:There were two other attacks againsttax offices in Madrid on this day. Allwere claimed by GRAPO.

13-Mar-98 Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GRA

Explosives0 0 The First of October AntifascistResistance Group (GRAPO) claimedresponsibility for an explosion at aMadrid tax office. This is the secondattack on Madrid tax offices claimedby GRAPO on this day.Note: Therewere two other attacks against taxoffices in Madrid on this day. Allwere claimed by GRAPO.

13-Mar-98 Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GRA

Explosives0 0 The First of October AntifascistResistance Group (GRAPO) claimedresponsibility for bombing a Madridtax office. Note: There were twoother attacks against tax offices inMadrid on this day. All were claimedby GRAPO.

13-Mar-98 JerusalemWestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives4 0 Four people were injured in amysterious explosion that took placeon Nablus Street in Jerusalem.

14-Mar-98 BirkhademAlgeria Unknown Explosives5 0 A makeshift device exploded near aschool in Birkhadem, injuring fivepeople. The explosion caused panicamong pupils about to go to theirclasses.

14-Mar-98 Bilbao Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A number of unidentified individualscarried out a petrol-bomb attack onBilbao Bizkaia Kutxa bank in Bilbao,causing damage to the cashdispenser.

14-Mar-98 CarrickfergusNorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device damaged ahouse in Carrickfergus owned byMartin McAuley and his wifeChristine. The attack appears to bethe work of loyalists. There were noinjuries.

14-Mar-98 Madrid Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A Molotov cocktail was thrown at thereinforced door of the SpanishCommunist Party headquarters inMadrid. Communist Party sourcessuspect that the attack wasperpetrated by extreme rightactivists.

14-Mar-98 Afula Israel Unknown Explosives1 0 A parcel bomb exploded at the busstation in Afula, seriously injuring oneman. The device, hidden in a box,exploded when this man picked it upfrom a park bench next to the busstation. Several Arabs were detainedby the police in connection with theblast.

16-Mar-98 Moscow Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 An unidentified homemade explosivedevice went off on the eighth floor ofa block of flats in central Moscow,damaging the doors of two flats onthe eighth floor and breaking windowglass on the 7th and 8th floors.

16-Mar-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at the entrance tothe Istanbul State Security Courtbuilding in the Besiktas district,causing minor damage. Witnessesreport that the bomb had beenwrapped in a red and yellow coloredcloth. No further information isprovided.

17-Mar-98 Kaunas Lithuania Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device blasted theoffices of the Kaunas district taxinspectorate. The attack causeddamage to the front door of the taxoffice, damaged a car and smashedwindows in adjoining housesincluding the Kaunas districtprosecutor's offices.

17-Mar-98 Larne NorthernIreland


Explosives0 0 The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)claimed responsibility for a St.Patrick's Day attack on a crowdedclub in Larne. Army bomb expertsblew up the device, and no one wasinjured.

17-Mar-98 Lucknow India Unknown Explosives1 0 A Railway Mail Service employee wasseriously injured when a parcel bombexploded at the Charbagh railwaystation in Lucknow.

18-Mar-98 Pec FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Explosives0 0 A grenade was thrown at the AbaziTours company, owned by ZaneljAbazi, in Pec. The incident isattributed to ethnic Albanianterrorists.

18-Mar-98 Saida Algeria Unknown Explosives11 0 A homemade bomb placed at theentrance of a block of flats in Saidaexploded, injuring eleven people andcausing damage to the block of flats.

18-Mar-98 Renteria Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A Molotov cocktail was thrown at theBasque Railway electricitysubstation, starting a fire that causeddamage but did not interrupt theBasque Railway.

18-Mar-98 CartagenaColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 Two Guevarista Army of NationalLiberation guerrillas were capturedwhile attempting to plant two bombsat the Inter-American DevelopmentBank annual assembly.

19-Mar-98 Elbasan Albania Unknown Explosives3 0 Three people were injured, includinga child, when a grenade explodednear the town hall of Elbasan. Thegrenade was thrown by anunidentified man.

20-Mar-98 Nicosia Cyprus Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was planted at the EgyptianAirlines office in a building that alsohouses the European Union officesand the O Agon newspaper.

20-Mar-98 Abung-AbungVillage


Firearms8 0 Eight people were injured and twowere taken hostage in an attack bythe Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) onAbung-Abung Village. ASG hasthreatened to kill the two hostages --identified as the Canas PlantationSupervisor Ricardo Caso and hisbodyguard Danny Santos -- if300,000 pesos is not paid forransom.

20-Mar-98 LondonderryNorthernIreland


Explosives0 0 The Continuity Irish Republican Army(CIRA) claimed responsibility forthrowing a bomb into a crowdedbank in the center of Londonderry.The bomb was disposed of by thepolice in a controlled detonation.Two masked men entered theNorthern Bank and hurled the bombinto the customer area beforerunning off.

21-Mar-98 Lima Peru ShiningPath (SL)

Firearms0 2 Union leader, Jorge Munanto, wasshot and killed by four Shining Path(SL) terrorists who afterward blew uphis body in the at-Vitarte district ofLima. His remains were strewnabout the area where the guerillasabandoned him and his 39-year-olddaughter whom they also shot in thehead.

22-Mar-98 YevpatoriyaUkraine Unknown Explosives3 0 Three people were injured in anexplosion at the local office of theCommunist Party and the RussianSociety of Crimea in Yevpatoriya.The three hurt are Yuriy Kornilov, themanager of the Yevpatoriya's cinemanetwork, Anatoliy Makhnokov, themanager of the Yevpatoriaya'scinema network, and Yuriy Kornilov'sdriver.

22-Mar-98 Thenia Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives0 0 Two homemade bombs were defusedat a school in Thenia. The deviceswere set to go off when the childrenwere about to join their classmates.The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) maybe responsible.

22-Mar-98 Biarritz France Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb with a timing device wasfound underneath a car belonging toa retired policeman. His wife foundtwo 1-kg canisters attached to afiring mechanism. No one hasclaimed responsibility for the attack.The bomb was disposed of withoutinjuring anyone.

22-Mar-98 BaniMazarVillage


Firearms13 4 In the first major attack since amassacre of tourists at the Luxorresort in November 1997, suspectedal-Gama'at al-Islamiyya (IG) militantsdriving a stolen vehicle opened fireon a police patrol in Bani Mazarvillage, killing police lieutenant AlaaKandil and conscripts Yehia ShehataAli, Hamman Ramadan Eid andAbdallah Mahfuz. As the gunmenfled, they shot and wounded thirteenpeople. An authority believes thatthis attack was in revenge for recentpolice raids on terrorist hideouts inthe Mallawi and Abu Qurqass in thesouthern region of Minya province.

23-Mar-98 Dundalk Ireland IrishRepublicanArmy(IRA)

Explosives0 0 A bomb, believed to be made by theIrish Republican Army (IRA) in NorthLouth or South Armagh, was found inthe border town of Dundalk. Irishpolice dismantled the bomb and tooktwo men and a woman into custodyto be questioned.

23-Mar-98 SantaFe deBogota


Firearms0 0 Ten Colombians, four US citizens, anItalian, and a Mexican werekidnapped by the RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colombia (FARC) atan illegal roadblock set up betweenSanta Fe de Bogota and Villavicencio.The ten Colombians were released.The US citizens have been identifiedas Louise Augustine, Todd Marks,Peter Shen, and Thomas Fiore; theItalian identified as Vito Candela; andthe Mexican has yet to be identified.

23-Mar-98 VillavicencioColombia Unknown Firearms0 0 The acting President of the NationalElectoral Council Rodrigo NogueraCalderon and his wife werekidnapped by unknown guerillas on aroad between Billavicencio andBogota.

24-Mar-98 DjakovicaFRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Explosives0 0 Two Albanian terrorists threw a bombinto the house of the Obradovicfamily in the center of Djakovica. Noone was hurt.

24-Mar-98 NeftyanikTajikistan Unknown Firearms6 6 Six policemen were killed and sixseriously wounded when anunidentified group of gunmenattacked the police station near thevillage of Neftyanik.

25-Mar-98 ChuburkhinjiGeorgia Unknown Explosives5 0 Five border guards were injured in anexplosion in the village ofChuburkhinji. The border guardswere traveling in a car on amotorway when the explosionoccurred. Some believe that Georgiaguerrillas planted the bomb.

25-Mar-98 Oran Algeria Unknown Explosives8 0 An explosion at the main silo in Oranleft eight people wounded.

25-Mar-98 CupiaguaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives3 0 Three English engineers for BritishPetroleum were severely woundedwhen a charge of dynamite explodedin an oil well located in Cupiagua.The British workers were in theprocess of inspecting well #19. Thethree wounded engineers are GaryMcLubond, Tom Ray and MartinBouls. Authorities attribute theattack to the National LiberationArmy (ELN).

26-Mar-98 Odessa Ukraine Unknown Explosives0 0 Explosive devices were planted inthe Odessa Station RegionAdministration building. The buildingwas evacuated.

26-Mar-98 Stolac Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 Unknown perpetrators plantedexplosive devices which demolishedthree Bosniak and two Croat houses.The Bosniak houses were owned byHasan Obradovic, Meho Obradovicand Halil Obradovic. The Croathouses belonged to the Coko family.

26-Mar-98 Athens Greece ArsonistsofConscience

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The Arsonists of Conscience groupclaimed responsibility for burning theLibyan Embassy's bus. This attackcame a few days before the samegroup set fire to a car belonging tothe Turkish Embassy.

27-Mar-98 Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives2 0 Two employees of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton police were slightlyinjured when an attacker broke intotheir office and set off two handgrenades. The attacker, Nino Pehar,was caught and detained. The attackcaused considerable damage to thepolice building.

27-Mar-98 Vaganje Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 Unidentified perpetrators plantedand detonated an explosive device inthe village of Vaganje. The explosioncaused further significant damage tothe already damaged house of MesudVarupa.

27-Mar-98 Chisinau Moldova Unknown Explosives2 0 Several people were injured as abomb went off in a resident buildingin Chisinau. The bomb explodedbetween the third and fourth floor.Residents from nine apartments wereevacuated. At least two people wereadmitted to the Central EmergencyHospital, several others wereadmitted to Hospital 3.

27-Mar-98 Oiartzun Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Several Molotov cocktails werethrown inside the Magistrate's Courtin Oiartzun, starting a fire whichcaused damage to the building.

27-Mar-98 Mumbai India Unknown Explosives0 0 Three explosives rocked Mumbai onthe eve of elections. Authoritiesblame the Inter Service Intelligence(ISI) for having played a role in theseattacks.

28-Mar-98 Kniss Algeria Unknown Explosives3 5 Five people were killed and severalwere wounded by a bomb that wasplanted near the town hall in Kniss.

28-Mar-98 PalaioFaliro

Greece ArsonistsofConscience

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The anarchic group, Arsonists ofConscience, claimed responsibilityfor setting a Turkish Embassy car onfire. The damage is estimated atabout 1 million drachmas.

28-Mar-98 Amman Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 A crude bomb, cited by schoolofficials as a gas-cylinder device andby investigators as a gunpowderbomb, exploded at the kindergartenof the Modern American School,located in the affluent suburb of JebelAmman. The explosion damaged thewindows and front door of thekindergarten. Note: The ModernAmerican School was founded by aJordanian family in 1986. The schoolteaches the local curricula in additionto English-language texts. Despiteits name, there are no Americans orother foreigners among the 850students. According to AP (28 March1998), US diplomats send theirchildren to another school in Amman,the American School, which is fundedby the US government.

29-Mar-98 KhmelnitskyUkraine Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A Molotov cocktail, thrown into thewindow of the candidate to the citycouncil of Kamenets-Podolsky,caused a fire which was immediatelyextinguished.

29-Mar-98 France Unknown Explosives0 0 A suspicious package wasintercepted in the Eurotunnel.Passengers were evacuated from thetrain while bomb disposal expertsintervened, disposing of the devicebefore there was an explosion.

29-Mar-98 Athens Greece ArsonistsofConscience

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The Arsonists of Conscience claimedresponsibility for a fire bomb placedin the car of the Turkish MilitaryAttaché, Col. Ahmet HalukArabacibasi. The bomb caused a firethat destroyed the vehicle but didnot injure anyone. This attackfollows an attack on a TurkishEmbassy car on 28 March 1998.

29-Mar-98 RamallahWestBank/Gaza


Explosives1 1 One Palestinian man was killed and asecond injured in a car explosion inRamallah. The individuals were lateridentified as members of Hamas. Itis unclear whether the explosionoccurred as they were transporting abomb in the car or were preparing acar bomb. It is believed that the twoPalestinians were carrying explosivesto attack Israelis.

29-Mar-98 Belfast NorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 The home of a Catholic family innorth Belfast was badly damaged bya petrol bomb attack that is beingblamed on loyalists. Note:Information accessed at http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/eh98.htmon 9 October 2002.

30-Mar-98 ZamboangaCity


Firearms0 1 Radio dxLL broadcaster ReyBangcayrin was shot in the head witha .45 caliber pistol inside the stationbooth in Zamboanga City. AbuSayyaf Group (ASG) spokesmanAsmad Alahuddin claimedresponsibility for this assassination,claiming that Bangcayrin was killedbecause of his strong criticisms ofASG.

30-Mar-98 ZamboangaPhilippinesAbuSayyafGroup(ASG)

Firearms0 1 An Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)spokesman Asmad Alahuddinclaimed responsibility for theassassination of Rey Bangcayrin (twoyears after the fact), a newsman atthe dxLL radio station. He noted thatthe assassination had been carriedout because of Bangcayrin's criticismof ASG and warned other newsmenagainst following the same path.

31-Mar-98 Panipat India Unknown Explosives8 1 One person was killed and eightothers seriously injured in a bombblast on a KVN passenger train whichwas coming to Delhi from Krukshetra.The blast occurred at the Panipatrailway station.

31-Mar-98 HasbayyaLebanon Hizballah Remote-detonatedexplosive

1 5 A bomb exploded at a road near thevillage of Kaoukbaba, killing fivecivilians who were in a van andwounding one. Subsequentinvestigations reveal that theexplosion had occurredsimultaneously with the explosion ofmortar rounds near a UN post staffedby Norwegian troops. Hezbollah hasclaimed responsibility for thisroadside bomb.

31-Mar-98 Tripura India Unknown Firearms0 2 Suspected extremists shot and killedBimal Sinha, health minister of thestate and his younger brother YidyutSinha. This is the third majorincident since the assumption ofoffice by the new Left Frontgovernment in Tripura.

31-Mar-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives23 2 Two bomb blasts damaged six shopsand affected the power supply inKarachi. The government termsthese attacks as ...a fresh conspiracyof a foreign hand which is aimed atpreventing foreign investments inKarachi and creating hurdles in thedemocratic system.

31-Mar-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Explosives0 1 A mine was found on MagomedGadzhiyev Street. Although theRussian Defense Ministry arrived todefuse the bomb, the explosivedevice went off, killing CaptainAleksey Zhuravlyov. The mine wasplaced near a store.

1-Apr-98 SanSebastian

Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 A grenade hit the rear of SanSebastian national policecommissariat, causing no casualtiesand little damage.


Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion was heard outside thePanaflorida Educational Institute,causing window panes to shatter onthree floors. The attack coincideswith an attack on the National PoliceCommissariat in San Sebastian.

1-Apr-98 Athens Greece November'sChildren

Explosives0 0 A gas-canister bomb damaged thepolitical offices of LabourUndersecretary Christos Protopapasand the former Office of the LabourMinister Miltiades Papaioannou. Asecond bomb exploded on the thirdfloor. The attack was claimed byNovember's Children.

1-Apr-98 PacificBeach

UnitedStates


0 0 An unidentified assailant threw aMolotov cocktail at the building at1600 Thomas Avenue in PacificBeach. The fire was quicklyextinguished, causing only minordamage. The attack was specificallyaimed at the office of PlannedParenthood.

1-Apr-98 ShupiyanKashmir Unknown Explosives6 0 In Jammu and Kashmir, six personswere injured when a bomb explodedin a crowded bus at Shupiyan insouth Kashmir about 52 km fromSringar. According to the police, thedevice was planted under a bus.


Explosives0 0 17 November (17N) claimedresponsibility for a rocket attack onan American Citibank branch inAthens. We have decided to strikeAmerican imperialism-nationalismwhich is threatening our country'ssovereign rights, the group said in aneight-page letter. The attack causedextensive damage but no injuries.

2-Apr-98 DunLaoghaire

NorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 A car bomb intended for the Britishmainland was found in a BMW carstopped at the port of Dun Laoghaire.There was speculation that the bombwas meant to throw the peaceprocess into further turmoil.

2-Apr-98 Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GRA

Explosives0 0 A bomb placed in the PreviasaInsurance Company explodedwithout injuring anyone. The attackwas claimed by the First of OctoberAntifascist Resistance Group(GRAPO).

2-Apr-98 Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GRA

Explosives0 0 The First of October AntifascistResistance Group (GRAPO) placed asecond bomb at the Previasainsurance office after the first bombhad exploded. The second bombwas deactivated.

2-Apr-98 Algeria Unknown Explosives2 2 Two people were killed and twoothers injured near Tigzirt when avehicle was blown up by a bomb thathad been placed on the road linkingthis coastal town to Tizi Ouzou, amain town in the region.

2-Apr-98 Arzew Algeria Unknown Explosives7 0 Seven people were injured when abomb exploded in Arzew's weeklymarket.

2-Apr-98 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 At least four explosive devices wentoff simultaneously in San'aa, causingmaterial damage but no casualties.Although there are conflictingreports, sources have said that fiveexplosions occurred -- one on thesouthern beltway near the SaudiEmbassy and the Foreign Ministry'sConsular Department and another inal-Zubayri Street near the CentralBank; a third in the diplomaticdistrict near the tobacco company, ata number of Arab Embassies and alsoin al-Hashbah near the InteriorMinistry and the Oil ExplorationAuthority.

2-Apr-98 Riga Latvia RussianNationalBolshevistParty

Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded outside the Jewishsynagogue in Riga. The policebelieve that a member of EduardLimonov's Russian NationalBolshevist Party is responsible for theattack.

3-Apr-98 SanPablo


Unknown0 0 National Liberation Army (ELN) rebelsabducted journalists traveling fromPuerto Wilches. The abductedjournalists were identified as RocioChica and Fernando Mogollon of theSeven O'Clock Newscast; JavierSontollo, Marcos Quintero, and EdgarOsmand from the Evening Newscast;and Mercedes Ariza, GonzaloCepeda, and Saul Garcia from theCMI Newscast.

3-Apr-98 Minsk Belarus Unknown Explosives0 0 A security guard caught TyhorBenchuk attempting to detonate ahomemade explosive device near theentrance of the presidentialresidence in Minsk.

3-Apr-98 Pristina FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms1 0 Zejnullah Rrahmani, an educationadvisor to Kosovo Albanian leaderIbrahim Rugova, was abducted andtaken to a forest. He was beaten upand threatened that he would bekilled because he had betrayedKosovo.

3-Apr-98 BjelojeviciBosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 Two houses were mined inBjelojevici. Both Croats and Bosniaksplaced blame upon each other for theattacks.

4-Apr-98 NeaSmirini

Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 An unidentified man set the first andsixth floors of the New SmiriniMunicipality building on fire,destroying the mayor's office and theMunicipality's archive.

4-Apr-98 Kampala Uganda Unknown Explosives2 0 Two Burundians were wounded whena bomb exploded at an open-airItalian-style Fenice on the terrace ofthe Speke Hotel, opposite theSheraton Hotel in which US PresidentBill Clinton stayed when he visitedUganda in March 1998.

4-Apr-98 Kampala Uganda Unknown Explosives5 2 A parcel bomb exploded at the NileGrill located in the Sheraton Hotelwhere US President Bill Clintonstayed during his visit to Uganda inMarch 1998. A Dutch woman wasinjured in the attack.

4-Apr-98 Algeria Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

3 1 One person was killed and threeinjured when a bomb went off nearMascara. A farmer was driving backto his farm, accompanied bymembers of his family, when thebomb exploded. The bomb, hiddenunder a dirt track leading to thefarm, killed him instantly and injuredthree others, including his son, wholost a leg.

4-Apr-98 Pocilice Bosnia-Herzegovina


0 0 A chapel was set on fire at ZvzdaCatholic cemetery in Pocilice.

5-Apr-98 Tajikistan Unknown Firearms1 1 The car of Qalandar Haidarov,Chairman of the Tajik ShakhrinavskyDistrict, came under fire. The driverwas killed instantly, and Haidarovwas severely injured. According towitnesses, Abdullo Mirzoyev, Chief ofthe Interior Department ofShakhrinaf District, fired at the car.

5-Apr-98 WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device with a signbearing anti-Jewish slogans, wasfound and defused near the fenceseparating Qatif Bloc and KhanYunus.

5-Apr-98 Ibshadat Egypt Unknown Firearms0 2 Two civilians were killed in MarkazMallawi when unidentified gunmenopened fire on Musa Shihatah at hisfarm in the village Ibshadat. FadlZaki was killed when he attempted tointercept the culprits.

5-Apr-98 Zugdidi Georgia Unknown Firearms6 5 Five people were killed and sixwounded when an unidentified manopened fire with a submachine gunat a funeral procession in Zugdidi. Itwas the funeral of Gocha Esebua, theleader of the terrorist group thatkidnapped officers of the UN missionin Zugdidi District in February. ZurabShonia, Gela Kvaratskhelia, Avtandil,Guran Darchia and one other personwere killed. Zviad Kakacha, ElgujaGogua, Beso Gunava, PapunaChurghulia and Badri Matsakariawere wounded.

5-Apr-98 Riga Latvia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 There was an explosion outside theRussian Embassy building in Riga.The explosive device was planted ina rubbish bin in the park across theroad. There were no casualties. Theexplosion shattered concrete fromthe rubbish bin, damaging diplomaticcars.

6-Apr-98 Basauri Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 The Ertzaintza (an autonomousBasque police force) disposed of asuspicious package that had beenplanted at the door of the Telefonicacompany in Basauri.

6-Apr-98 Gdyel Algeria Unknown Explosives3 2 Two people were killed and severalinjured when a bomb exploded inGdyel. The attack may be related tothe celebration of 'Id al-Adha (inhonor of Abraham's sacrifice.)


Unknown0 0 Sixteen government officials of theadministration of the municipality ofSolita, including Mayor NorbertoValencia, were taken hostage by theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC). They laterreleased the hostages with amessage to the Colombiangovernment to withdraw from fivemunicipalities to begin the peaceprocess.

6-Apr-98 Fargo UnitedStates


1 0 Someone broke a window and threwa bottle of flammable liquid into theFargo Women Health Organizationabortion clinic. Police recoveredblood and skin at the sceneindicating that the attacker wasinjured.

6-Apr-98 Carevac FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 6 The bodies of six Albanians, SaljiBerisa, Bajramu Abdjuljaj, IbrahimZogaj, Ramadan Zogaj, Failju Zogajand Salij Zogaj were found sprayedwith automatic rifle bullets in theCarevac locality. The state-run newsservice Tanjug reported that themurdered Albanians were successfulbusinessmen and loyal to theRepublic of Serbia. It is believed thatAlbanian terrorists kidnapped themand killed them.

7-Apr-98 El Ater Algeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Explosives0 0 The Algerian-Italian natural gaspipeline was bombed in El Ater. TheArmed Islamic Group (GIA) isbelieved to have been responsible forthe blast.

7-Apr-98 Sakrand Pakistan Unknown Explosives28 5 Five people were killed, and twenty-eight were injured when a bombexploded in a passenger bus nearSakrand. The bus was at a gasolinestation when the explosion occurred.

7-Apr-98 Khairpur Pakistan Unknown Explosives11 1 One person was killed and eleveninjured in a bomb explosion inKhairpur. No further information isprovided.

7-Apr-98 DasinovacFRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 An armed band of Albanian terroristsambushed and opened fire onSlobodan Radosevic and MomciloStijovic in the village of Dasinovac.The two men saved themselves onlythrough great presence of mind andvirulent resistance to the terrorists.

8-Apr-98 WatersideNorthernIreland


Firearms0 1 The Irish National Liberation Army(INLA) claimed responsibility forkilling Trevor Deeney, a leadingmember of the Loyalist VolunteerForce (LVF). Deeney was shot andkilled in front of his wife outside theirhome in Waterside.

8-Apr-98 Hernani Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Four Molotov cocktails were thrownat the Lagun Aro insurance office.Only one of the four had explodedand caused slight damage.

8-Apr-98 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 A pipe bomb was discovered in thewestern window of the Parliament'snorthern façade. The bombdetonated as members of theExplosives Division were attemptingto remove the bomb to defuse it in asecluded area. The bomb destroyedwindowpanes, but no one was hurt.

8-Apr-98 DushanbeTajikistan Unknown Unknown0 0 Two trainee servicemen of thespecial rapid-reaction battalion of theTajikistan Ministry of Internal Affairswere kidnapped in Dushanbe. Theattack may be an attempt todestabilize the situation in thecapital.

8-Apr-98 Banska Slovakia Unknown Explosives0 0 A hand grenade exploded under aSkoda Favorit car in Banska. The carbelongs to a 44-year-old policeman.The blast destroyed the car anddamaged ten others.

9-Apr-98 Atxondo Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A private car (Volkswagon Passat)belonging to an Ertzaintza officer wasset on fire and completely destroyed.It appears that the car had beensprinkled with petrol before the firewas set.

9-Apr-98 GuatemalaUnknown Firearms2 0 US tourist Michael John Bolar waskidnapped by unidentified individualson a road that leads to Guatemala'sAtlantic region. Bolar wasaccompanied by two Hondurantourists, Ana Maria Melgar and RosaJulia Caballeros, who were freed buthad to be hospitalized due to injuriesinflicted by the kidnappers.

9-Apr-98 Dulje FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms1 0 Adem Gugna. head of the MunicipalCommittee of the Socialist Party ofSerbia, was wounded when threemasked men fired automaticweapons at the car carrying Ibro Vati,head of the Prizren Social Party ofSerbia Municipal Committee andDeputy in the Republican Assembly.The care was hit by four bullets.

10-Apr-98 Beleek NorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms0 0 Gunmen fired ninety shots andabandoned a mortar bomb outside aborder police station just hoursbefore an expected agreement on aNorthern Ireland peace settlement.Republicans have been blamed forthe attack.

10-Apr-98 Tadmait Algeria Unknown Firearms0 1 Rabah Ouramdane, a worker of theSocialist Forces Front, was shot at anillegal roadblock on the road thatlinks Tadmait town to Ait Ouarzedinevillage.

10-Apr-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives9 0 Two soldiers and seven tourists werewounded in an explosion behind theUnderground Palace in Istanbul'sSultanahmet neighborhood.

10-Apr-98 Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives9 0 Nine people, including one NewZealander, two Indians, two Turkishsoldiers and four Turkish civilians,were injured when an explosivedevice detonated near the BlueMosque, one of Istanbul's mostpopular tourist sites. The blastcaused a crater one meter aroundand 30 cm deep. On 14 April,Turkish authorities arrested ninemembers of the Kurdistan Workers'Party (PKK) and charged them withperpetrating this attack. The PKKhad threatened in recent weeks totarget tourist sites if the Turkishmilitary continued its actions againstthe group.

12-Apr-98 ChaparralColombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 4 Four individuals belonging to theIndependent RevolutionaryMovement (MRI) were dragged fromtheir homes and executed in front ofthe local residents by rebelsbelonging to the 21st Front of theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC). Two of theindividuals killed were brothers Alainand Alexander Lozano Mendez. Theother two were not identified.

12-Apr-98 Glodjane FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Dr. Mirko Pesic and Ljubo Zecevicwere kidnapped by Albanianterrorists in the village of Glodjane.The two were supposed to open avaccination point against infantileparalysis but instead were draggedout of their vehicles by maskedterrorists. They were taken to ahouse and interrogated and thenlater released without injury.

13-Apr-98 KemerovoRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 The Mercedes-420 belonging to theDirector of the Roskom Firm wasblown up outside his house inKemerovo. There were no casualties.

13-Apr-98 Chisinau Moldova Unknown Explosives2 1 A 35-year-old man was blown topieces when a bomb exploded in hishands. A woman and her three-year-old daughter received grave burnsfrom the blast. The explosion tookplace in the area where the citycircus is located. The block is mainlypopulated by foreign diplomats.

13-Apr-98 ShelkovskayaRussia Unknown Firearms2 2 Six gunmen attempted to kidnap theson of a chairman of a RegionalAssociation of Consumers. When the15-year-old boy was confronted withthe attack, he seized a pistol fromthe terrorists and killed one man andinjured two others. As he wasattempting to flee the scene, he toowas murdered.

14-Apr-98 al-Rayhan

Lebanon Unknown Explosives1 0 A Lebanese girl was slightly injuredby mortar fire directed by terroristsat village al-Rayhan. The village liesnear a South Lebanese Armyposition.

14-Apr-98 Israel Unknown Unknown0 0 Eleven Negev communities were leftwithout water after the desert area'smain water line was sabotaged.Mekorot water authorities believe thedamage to be the work of terrorists.

14-Apr-98 Graznyy Russia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A remote-controlled explosive devicewas used in an assassination attempton Chechnya's Vice-President, VakhaArsanov. The explosive wastriggered as Arsanov's Jeep washeading along Griboyedov Street.The blast shattered windows innearby houses but injured no one.

15-Apr-98 MogadishuSomalia Unknown Unknown0 0 Ten staff members of theInternational Committee of the RedCross were kidnapped in Mogadishu.Among those kidnapped are citizensof Belgium, Germany, Kenya,Norway, the United States, France,Switzerland and South Africa.Mohamed al-Mohamad, a well knownIslamic leader and his group claimedresponsibility for the attack.

15-Apr-98 SaravenaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 The Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipelinewas bombed, causing 5,000 gallonsof crude oil to spill. Authoritiesattribute the attack to the NationalLiberation Army (ELN).

15-Apr-98 Siauliai Lithuania Unknown Explosives5 0 Five women were injured by anexplosion at the Siauliai TaxInspectorate. The explosion broketwenty windows and several wallpartitions. The explosives wereplaced in a trash can in a corridor ofthe building.

15-Apr-98 Riga Latvia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A explosive device detonated nearthe Heat and Power Plant No. 1 inRiga. The blast shattered windowpanes near the scene of the incident.There were no casualties.

16-Apr-98 CarrickfergusNorthernIreland


0 0 Bomb experts recovered anincendiary device from a shop inCarrickfergus. The device was takenaway for forensic examination.There was no warning and no claimof responsibility.

16-Apr-98 Asuncion Paraguay Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in the rear sectionof the Justice Palace (this buildinghouses the Supreme Court) inAsuncion. The bomb shatteredwindows and damaged the roof andpart of the floor of the courthouse.

16-Apr-98 Lebanon Unknown Unknown0 1 A soldier of the South Lebanese Armywas killed while traveling in hisprivate car along the Azur-Jazzin roadin Lebanon.

16-Apr-98 Garevo FRY(Serbia)

Unknown Firearms1 0 The state-run Radio Beogradreported that Ramadam Balaj, anemployee of Srbijasume PublicEnterprise, was attacked by 20armed Albanians who opened fire onhis home. Balaj responded by firinga hunting rifle.

17-Apr-98 Santiago Chile Unknown Explosives0 0 Unidentified persons threw a bombwhich did not explode, fired bulletsinto the air, and burned a US flag inSantiago while the chiefs of state andgovernment of thirty-four countrieswere preparing for the SecondSummit of the Americas. Theaggressors escaped.

17-Apr-98 Barankot Kashmir Unknown Firearms0 26 Twenty-six people, including womenand children, were shot and killed bymilitants in Barankot village nearMahor in Udhampur District, showingthat militancy is spreading faster inthe Jammu Division of Jammu andKashmir.

17-Apr-98 GushQatif

WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives0 0 A makeshift bomb exploded alongthe patrol fence of the Jewishsettlement Gush Qatif. The bombcaused no injuries or damage.

17-Apr-98 StravropolRussia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A powerful blast rocked a newly builtPizza Hut in the heart of Stravropol.The building's construction was closeto completion, and there wereneither workers or any otherpersonnel inside the building at thetime of the blast. The explosive hadbeen planted in the back wall of thebuilding.

18-Apr-98 Athens Greece AutonomousRevolutionaryActivity

Explosives0 0 A makeshift explosive device madeup of seven gas canisters exploded inan entrance to the Ionian Bank. TheAutonomous Revolutionary Activityclaimed that the attack was inprotest to the mistreatment offoreigners and a call for the releaseof Nikos Miziotis.

18-Apr-98 Colombia Unknown Unknown0 1 Jurist and human rights activistEduardo Umana Mendoza wasmurdered on 18 April 1998. TheUnited Self Defense Forces ofColombia (AUC) denied responsibilityfor the incident.

18-Apr-98 MagdalenaColombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 A dynamite attack onBarrancabermeja Palace of Justiceleft losses that surpass 1 billionpesos. The attack is believed tohave been the work of theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC). The terroristsimmobilized the two guards andplaced 30 kg of dynamite on the firstfloor of the building.

18-Apr-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 A fragmentation bomb was thrown ata business premises in Istanbul'sFatih neighborhood. Nobody waswounded or killed in the explosion.Three assailants were captured whiletrying to escape in a car.

18-Apr-98 Jammu Kashmir Unknown Firearms0 13 Militants gunned down thirteenpersons, including two women andthree children, in a remote village inUdhampur District of Jammu region.According to police militants enteredtwo houses and began to fireindiscriminantly.

19-Apr-98 Cali Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at the Coca-Colabottling plant in Cali, causingextensive damage to the plant, threevehicles and several buildings withina six-block radius. No one wasinjured in the attack.

19-Apr-98 Hebron WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms2 1 Approximately ten Palestinianshepherds entered the Ma'on farmand began throwing rocks at thefarmer. Another Israeli, armed with ahandgun rushed to his colleague'said, but the Palestinian snatched thegun and used it to shoot both theIsraelis. A third farmer who rushedto the scene was pelted with stonesand injured. One Israeli was killedand two others injured.

19-Apr-98 UdhampurKashmir Unknown Firearms0 0 Twenty-one people were shot byforeign mercenaries reportedlybelonging to the Harkat-ul-Ansar atPrankote in Udhampur district. Nofurther information is available.

20-Apr-98 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 A homemade explosive device wasfound and defused inside a branch ofthe Banco de Roma. The bomb wascontained in a bag and made ofplastic material and hunting pellets.

20-Apr-98 NovomikheltaRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 A gas distribution substation was putout of operation by an explosion onthe outskirts of Novomikhelta village.The damage inflicted by theexplosion is estimated at 200,000new rubles.

21-Apr-98 PortadownNorthernIreland


Firearms0 1 A council worker, Adrian Lamph, wascritically injured in a gun attack inPortadown. A lone gunman on a bikefired a single shot at the victim wholater died at the Craigavon Hospital.The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) isbelieved to have been responsible forthe attack.

21-Apr-98 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 The Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipelinewas destroyed by alleged NationalLiberation Army (ELN) guerillas.

21-Apr-98 Kisarazu Japan Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in the garage ofTadanori Yamaguchi, the Chibaprefecture government official incharge of land procurement for theexpansion of the Narita Airport. TheYamaguchi family escaped withoutinjury.

21-Apr-98 PljesivicaBosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 Five houses owned by Bosniaks wereblown up in the village of Pljesivica.The houses were completelydestroyed.

22-Apr-98 Cardo France Unknown Explosives0 0 A powerful charge, used in tandemwith a gas canister, was placed in thechimney of a house at a villa inCardo. No one was hurt in theattack, but extensive damage wascaused to the property.

22-Apr-98 SidiMansour

Morocco Unknown Unknown0 0 An armed group wrecked the villageof Sidi Mansour, located near thecoastal town of Saidia. It issuspected that Algerian terroristsmay be responsible for the attack.

22-Apr-98 SantaFe deBogota

Colombia Unknown Firearms0 1 US missionary William Hood waskilled by two unidentified assailantson a motorcycle near Santa Fe deBogota. Hood had been serving theBaptist community in Colombia since1989 and was getting ready to beginmissionary work in the area.

22-Apr-98 Russia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A remote-controlled explosive deviceexploded under the porch at theentrance of Boris Reva's home. Revais one of the three leadingcontenders for the post of Governorof Smolensk. He was able to get intoa car that was waiting for him andwas not hurt.

22-Apr-98 DasinovacFRY(Serbia)

Unknown Firearms0 2 Armed Albanian terrorists took MiloRadunovic, Slobodan Radosevic,Milovan Vlahovic and Milka Vlahovichostage in Dasinovac. Radunovicand Radosevic were killed, whileMilovan and Milka Vlahovic werespared. All of the victims are elderlyand refused to leave their homeswhen their families fled earlier.

22-Apr-98 Russia Unknown Firearms0 0 During an inspection trip by theRussian Federation acting InternalAffairs Minister, Sergey Stepashin,one of the helicopters in the groupwas fired upon. The helicopter,carrying Stepashin's chief guard, hadits fuel tanks shot through. Nopassengers were injured.

24-Apr-98 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

27 6 A powerful explosion occurred at al-Khayr Mosque in San'aa, killing atleast six people and injuring twenty-seven others. Among the woundedwere two Yemenis carrying UScitizenship, a Yemeni carryingCanadian citizenship, a number ofSomalis and a Libyan citizen.

25-Apr-98 Armagh NorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion took place at the rear ofa Catholic-owned restaurant inArmagh. There were no injuries inthe explosion.

25-Apr-98 Amurrio Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 A homemade device exploded at theNational Network of Spanish Railwaysstation at Amurrio. Although theattack caused extensive damage,there were no casualties. The policeestablished that an explosion of twogas cylinders and a number ofMolotov cocktails caused thedamage.

25-Apr-98 MehelmaAlgeria Unknown Explosives9 0 Nine people were injured by ahomemade bomb that explodedoutside a classroom in Ben BadisHigh School.

25-Apr-98 Klina FRY(Serbia)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Risard Bilski, a journalist of theWarsaw newspaper, Rzeczpospolitaand Ljupco Meckov of the BulgarianNational Television came underattack near Klina. The shots fired atthe journalists came from automaticweapons used by a sniper on theminaret of a nearby mosque.

25-Apr-98 Crumlin NorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms0 1 A 22-year-old Catholic student,Ciaran Heffron, was shot and killedas he walked home from a pub in theearly morning hours. The killing waslabeled sectarian and blamed on pro-British Protestants opposed to thepeace accord for Northern Ireland.Protestants are concerned that thisaccord would lead to the demise ofNorthern Ireland as a Protestant-majority state.


Colombia Unknown Explosives0 1 The Sixth Street South office of theLiberal Party Presidential candidateHoracio Serpa Uribe was bombed,killing one person. The attack is anattempt to intimidate his followersand tarnish the electoral process. Itcoincides with an attack on his officeat Caracas and 37th Street.


Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 The Caracas and 37th Street office ofthe Liberal Party Presidentialcandidate Horacio Serpa Uribe wasbombed. The attack is an attempt tointimidate his followers and tarnishthe electoral process. It alsocoincides with an attack on his officeat Sixth Street South.


Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 The political offices of Harold Bedoyawere bombed. It is suspected thatguerillas are using destitute peopleto place the bombs. The bombattack coincides with two otherattacks on the political offices ofLiberal Party Presidential candidateHoracio Serpa Uribe.


GuatemalaUnknown Other 0 1 Bishop Juan Gerardi, coordinator ofthe Archbishopric's Human RightsOffice, was beaten to death two daysafter presenting a report on humanrights violations and crimescommitted during the 36-yeardomestic conflict that concluded in1996.

27-Apr-98 BandalaMohra

Kashmir Unknown Unknown3 21 At least twenty-one people belongingto two families were brutallymurdered by unknown assailants inindiscriminate firing in the bordervillage of Bandala Mohra. The killedincluded nine women and children.Several others were seriously injured.

27-Apr-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

1 0 A car bomb went off in downtownMakhachkala. The blast smashedwindows in a cinema next to wherethe car was parked. The attack maybe related to the election of the headof Dagestan, scheduled for July. Ayoung girl was injured.

27-Apr-98 Ostrava CzechRepublic

Unknown Explosives4 0 A time bomb exploded in a rubbishbin at a tram stop near the center ofOstrava, injuring four men.

27-Apr-98 St.Petersburg

Russia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 1 A powerful explosion went off onOrdinarnaya Street in thePetrogradski area of St. Petersburg,killing one person.

28-Apr-98 Villarreal Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 An explosive device caused slightdamage to a post office located inthe village of Villarreal. The devicewas composed of inflammable liquid.



0 0 An organized group of hooded youthsset fire to a bus in the Boulevard inSan Sebastian. The group laterthrew Molotov cocktails at theErtzaintza (autonomous Basquepolice).

28-Apr-98 Medea Algeria Unknown Explosives6 0 Six people were injured when theirvehicle drove over a bomb on theroad from Ouamri near Medea.

28-Apr-98 Kalutara SriLanka


Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded, devastating amajor Sri Lankan telephoneexchange, Sri Lanka Telecom. TheLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) are presumed responsible forthe attack. Seven thousand peoplewere unable to make telephone callsfollowing the incident.

28-Apr-98 Jordan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The car of former JordanianIntelligence Chief Mohammed Kilaniwas set on fire outside his home.Note: A car belonging to AbdelRahim al-Kilani, one of Mohammed'ssons was set on fire last year, a fewdays after the former intelligencechief was appointed by King Husseinto investigate the Israeli schoolgirlkillings.

28-Apr-98 Soweilah Jordan Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion occurred in a trafficpolice station in Soweilah just outsideof Amman. The reason behind theattack is unknown. The attackcaused material damage but nocasualties.

28-Apr-98 Mziuri Georgia Unknown Firearms0 2 Two employees of the securityservice of Abkhazia, Kesou Jinjoliaand Vladimir Bondoryan, were killedby shots from automatic weapons inthe village of Mziuri.

29-Apr-98 Sialkot Pakistan ResearchandAnalysisWing(RAW)

Explosives0 0 A 5-kg bomb was defused before itcould explode in a Sialkot busstation. The attack is blamed uponthe Indian agency, Research andAnalysis Wing (RAW).

29-Apr-98 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

1 0 An Arab man was stabbed andslightly wounded in Jerusalem's Me'aShe'arim neighborhood by anunidentified attacker. This is thefourth stabbing incident of an Arabman in Me'a She'arim in the last twomonths.

29-Apr-98 Moscow Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 A mine was placed under the right-hand wheel of the headquarters busin the Interior Department's parkingarea. The blast broke window panesof the Interior Department, and somevehicles in the parking area weredamaged.

29-Apr-98 Plock Poland Unknown Unknown2 1 Five Belarussian citizens wereattacked on a road not far fromPlock. One of them was killed andtwo injured. It was reported that theminibus was stopped by a four-manpatrol. The men who stopped theminibus were wearing policeuniforms.

29-Apr-98 VukosavljeBosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion damaged the stairways,roof, entrance, conference hall andmain hallway of the VukosavljeMunicipal Assembly Building. Anunidentified person planted and setoff the bomb near the side entranceof the building.

30-Apr-98 Renteria Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A group of hooded individuals set fireto the tax office in Renteria. Thegroup burst into the office, forcedcustomers and employees to leave,sprinkled gasoline over the furnitureand floor and set fire to the building,causing extensive damage.

30-Apr-98 Lisburn NorthernIreland

IrishRepublicanArmy(IRA)

Explosives0 0 The army defused a large car bombat the center of Lisburn after a seriesof telephone warnings were made.The Irish Republican Army (IRA) isbeing blamed for the incident.

30-Apr-98 Tipaza Algeria Unknown Explosives1 1 An explosion at the Homeur El AinMartyrs Cemetery in Tipaza killedHdaj Ali Abdelkader, a well knownunionist and the chairman of thelocal football team, and left anotherperson wounded.

1-May-98 AsinovskayaRussia Unknown Unknown0 0 President Boris Yeltsin's envoy inChechnya, Valentin Vlasov, wasabducted on the Rostov-Bakuhighway in the area of Asinovskaya.

2-May-98 DashanbeTajikistan Unknown Explosives0 0 Three mortar shells exploded nearthe building of the Khovar newsagency in Dushanbe. One of theshells hit a tree. The other two fellon the road and on the ground. Noone was injured in the attack.

3-May-98 AmbelokipiGreece ArsonistsofConscience

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The Arsonists of Conscience groupclaimed responsibility for setting fireto a car owned by the YugoslavEmbassy in Athens. An unidentifiedperson called the private radiostation Flash to claim responsibilityfor the attack. No injuries werereported.

3-May-98 Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The car of the Hungarian Consul inAthens was set on fire.Note: Attacksagainst public and diplomaticbuildings and cars have becomefrequent in Athens.

3-May-98 Bispuri India Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

4 13 Thirteen people were killed, includingfive women, and four were injuredwhen suspected Bodo militantsambushed a bus at Bispuri. Thevictims were hacked to death withsharp weapons.

3-May-98 Babaloc FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Explosives0 0 A Serbian news source reports thatAlbanian terrorists fired severalgrenades from grenade launchers atthe Babaloc refugee settlement nearDecani. No one was injured in theattack.

4-May-98 Yondo Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 Six Yondo councilmen were takenhostage by Revolutionary ArmedForces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas.The councilmen were released aweek later with a message in whichthe FARC warned that they will notallow the presidential elections totake place in Yondo.

4-May-98 GlogovacFRY(Serbia)

Unknown Firearms0 1 Nenad Jaredic, a postman from thevillage of Josanica, was abducted andkilled in Glogovac. His body wasfound by the police in the village ofOrlate.

4-May-98 CraigavonNorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was thrown at the home ofBrendan Curran, a local Sinn Feincouncilor, causing slight damage tothe home but no casualties. Theattack comes only a few weeksbefore a referendum is to take placeon the Northern Ireland peaceaccord.

5-May-98 Athens Greece ArsonistsofConscience

Explosives0 0 The Arsonists of Conscience groupclaimed responsibility for an attackon the offices of the Press and MassMedia Minister Dhimitrios Reppas inAthens. The explosive device causeddamage to the office. No injurieswere reported.

5-May-98 Algeria Unknown Explosives1 0 A member of the Legitimate DefenseForce in Charaitiya was injured by ahomemade bomb explosion. Thebomb had been planted near hishome.

5-May-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at a guest housesection of the Naval ForcesCommand in Istanbul. The devicecaused property damage but nocasualties.

5-May-98 Trstenik FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 A group of journalists came undergunfire on the Glogovac-Srbica roadas they were heading to the villageof Trstenik, where the body of amurdered man was discovered. Noone was injured in the attack.

5-May-98 Bobovac FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 1 Nazif Basota was killed in the villageof Bobovac when a group of armedAlbanians fired upon his house withautomatic weapons. Basota wasknown as a loyal citizen of Serbia.

6-May-98 PamplonaSpain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Firearms0 1 Tomas Caballero, councillor for theUnion of the Navarrese People, wasmurdered in Pamplona. Authoritiesbelieve that he was murdered bygunman Francisco Javier GarciaGaztelu, a salaried gunman for theBasque Fatherland and Freedom(ETA) Donosti Commando.

6-May-98 Hadjout Algeria Unknown Explosives20 0 About twenty people were injuredwhen a bomb went off in Hadjout.

6-May-98 Doda Kashmir Unknown Unknown0 5 Five members of a funeral processionwere killed near Doda. Militantsambushed the procession that wascarrying the dead bodies of membersof a village defense committee whohad been murdered in an encounterwith militants on 4 May 1998.

6-May-98 Surankot Kashmir Unknown Unknown0 4 Four people were killed in Surankot.No further information is provided.

6-May-98 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 A Jewish youth on his way to pray atthe Western Wall was stabbed todeath in Jerusalem's Old City.

6-May-98 Eli WestBank/Gaza


1 1 A Jewish man was wounded afterbeing attacked by a Palestinian witha knife in the settlement of Eli. Thesettler shot and killed theperpetrator.

6-May-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 Unidentified assailants staged abomb attack on the provincial centerof the Motherland Party building inIstanbul. The are no reportedcasualties.

6-May-98 Zerifin Israel Unknown Explosives0 1 A senior Prison Services Officer, Dr.Ya'aqov Zigelboim, was killed in a carbomb explosion near Zerifin.Officials blame supporters of thejailed Yemenite Jewish activist, UziMeshulam, for setting the bomb.Zigelboim had received death threatsin the past from Meshulam'sfollowers.

6-May-98 KhasavyurtRussia Unknown Firearms0 0 A fifteen-year-old son of a judge waskidnapped by unidentified peopleand taken to an unknowndestination. It is thought that thekidnappers may be attempting topressure the judge in his professionalactivities.

6-May-98 Sukhumi Georgia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A remote-detonated device was setoff near the building of the ArtsResearch Institute of the AbkhazianAcademy of Sciences, the formerresidence of President VladislavArdzinba.

6-May-98 Mej FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Terrorists fired at the house ofreporter Dragutin Prentic. The blasthit the roof of the house and part of awall above the bedroom window.Only two Serb families live in Mej.

7-May-98 Peru Unknown Unknown0 0 Peru's Vice President Cesar ParedesCanto was attacked by unidentifiedindividuals in his Cajamarca Provinceoffice. A projectile went through hisoffice in the direction of his desk.The Vice President was unharmed.

7-May-98 Vienna Austria Mojahedin-eKhalqOrganization(MKO)

Unknown0 0 Terrorists assaulted both Gholam AliKhosrowi (Iranian Deputy ForeignMinister in Education and ResearchAffairs) and other participants in asymposium on religion and politics inIran. The symposium was jointly setup by the Austrian Institute ofOriental Studies and the DiplomaticAcademy of Austria in cooperationwith the Iranian Embassy. The policeforce arrived after the assailants hadfled the area. Authorities believethat the attackers were affiliated withthe Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization(MKO).

7-May-98 BoubarrakAlgeria Unknown Explosives7 2 Two people were killed and sevenothers injured in the explosion of twobombs in Boubarrak.

7-May-98 Sanaa Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 A powerful explosion inside theIndustrial, Agricultural and HousingBank's compound (a governmentbuilding) in San'aa did not cause anyinjuries, only slight material damage.

7-May-98 VisokiDecani

FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms4 1 Vehbii Mustafa, an employee of theKosovo Electricity Production andSupply Company was killed and hiscolleagues, Bosko Vlahovic, EsadMuminovic and Miso Mijovic as wellas an employee of the forestrycompany, Dragan Djurisic, werewounded when a group of Albaniansopened fire at their van near VisokiDecani Monastery. The group was ontheir way to the Koznjer hydroelectricpower plant. The power plant waslater closed.

8-May-98 Vitoria Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Firearms0 1 Authorities believe that the BasqueFatherland and Freedom (ETA) isresponsible for the shooting murderof Alfonso Parada Ulloa, a Civil Guardnoncommissioned officer, at a busstop in Vitoria.

8-May-98 SanSebastian

Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 The Ertzaintza defused an explosivedevice that was found under aparked car owned by the Telefonicacompany. The device was made upof a camping gas cylinder, fireworksmaterial and a primer.

8-May-98 Athens Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 A homemade bomb exploded outsidethe offices of Transport andCommunications Minister AnastasiosMandelis. The blast caused a fire,which the Fire Service contained.

8-May-98 Marseille France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 The Corsican National LiberationFront-Historic Wing (FLNC-CanalHistorique) claimed responsibility foran explosive device that went offoutside the building of the RegionalCouncil of Provence Alpes-Coted'Azur (PACA) in Marseilles. No onewas injured in the attack.

8-May-98 KuliyapitiyaSriLanka

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion ripped through the SriLanka Telecom exchange in the townof Kuliyapitiya. The explosiondamaged the radio relay tower,leaving several mobile phones out ofservice but not affecting land lines.Ten days earlier the Liberation Tigersof Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had attackedphone lines in Kalutara.

8-May-98 KafrHunah

Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 1 A South Lebanese Army officer waskilled when a bomb exploded in hishouse in Kafr Hunah. The house wasdestroyed in the blast.

8-May-98 Kievsky Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device was found in oneof the commuter electric trains whicharrived at Kievsky railway station.The device was disposed of by thepolice.

8-May-98 Pec FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Explosives0 0 A grenade was thrown in the front ofa house belonging to the Zajmifamily and the casualty department.Two private cars and an ambulancevehicle were damaged in the blast.Windows in nearby buildings wereshattered.

9-May-98 Cali Colombia Unknown Explosives3 0 Two minors and a policeman werewounded in a bomb attack aimed atCali mayor, Ricardo Cobos Lloreda,who escaped unscathed. Lloredawas attending a meeting when thebomb went off.

9-May-98 SanPedro


Firearms0 0 Ten councilmen from San Pedro werekidnapped by the 24th Front of theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC).

9-May-98 Vitoria Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 An unidentified man attempted to setfire to the Herri Batasuna Partyoffices in Vitoria. The fire wasextinguished quickly, preventing anyharm from being done.

9-May-98 Belleek NorthernIreland

Real IrishRepublicanArmy(RIRA)

Explosives0 0 The Real Irish Republican Army(RIRA) claimed responsibility forthrowing two mortar bombs at theBelleek Royal Ulster Constabularystation. Authorities believe that theattack was to wreck Sinn Fein's ballotbox strategy.

9-May-98 Bab elOued

Algeria Unknown Explosives15 0 A homemade bomb went off atAuceur Brothers Street near amarket. The explosion injured fifteenpeople.

9-May-98 Semdinli Turkey Unknown Firearms0 1 One person died when rebelsattempted to attack the policecheckpoint at the entrance toSemdinli town. When security forcesnoticed their attempt, the terroristsstarted to open fire and launchrockets in panic toward housesnearby.

9-May-98 Lozica FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 1 Kosovo Albanians abducted AhmetTaci from his home in the village ofLozica and then shot him by theroadside of the main Pec-Pristinaroad.

9-May-98 BorskyMikulas

Slovakia Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in Borsky Mikulas,destroying a private bakery. Theblast coincides with another blastthat occurred in Bratislava.

9-May-98 BratislavaSlovakia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

1 1 Eduard D. was killed and a young girlwas injured in a remote-controlledexplosion at the entrance to theZlate Piesky Recreation Resort inBratislava. The police found two fullScorpion machine-gun magazines inthe victim's car and a bullet-proofvest in the next car.

10-May-98

Hernani Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

1 0 Unknown individuals set fire to aCitroen car dealership's showroom.Although only one car was damagedby the fire, the repair shop was badlydamaged and the owner had toreceive medical attention for slightrespiratory problems.

10-May-98

Boufarik Algeria Unknown Explosives20 3 A homemade bomb exploded when atrain passed through Haouch Nahasin Boufarik Municipality, Blidaprovince. The explosion killed threepeople and wounded twenty. Thebomb was reportedly put inside atrain linking Algiers and El Affroun.

10-May-98

Mziuri Georgia BagramyanBattalion

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Members of the so-called BagramyanBattalion, made up chiefly of peopleof Armenian nationality, set fire tothe administrative building of thevillage power grid. No one wasinjured in the attack.

11-May-98

Paris France Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was discovered at thepremises of France Telecom. Thebomb, a gas cylinder filled with nutsand bolts is of the same type asthose used by Islamists for bombattacks in 1995. The attack comesone month prior to the World Cup.

11-May-98

Israel Unknown Explosives0 0 Mortar shells and katyusha rocketswere fired by terrorists fromLebanese Territory at the GalileePanhandle. The shells fell in theNaftali mountains.

12-May-98

SantaFe deBogota

Colombia Unknown Firearms0 1 The retired General FernandoLandazabal Reyes (also the formerdefense minister) was shot and killedby two assassins driving a red Spirit.The police attribute the attack toeither the National Liberation Army(ELN) or the Revolutionary ArmedForces of Colombia (FARC).

12-May-98

SanSebastian

Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 The Ertzaintza deactivated anexplosive device that was sent to thepublic prosecutor's office in SanSebastian.

12-May-98

SanSebastian

Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 The Ertzaintza defused a letter bombthat was sent to the home of alecturer at the University of BasqueCountry -- San Sebastian Campus.The letter bomb resembles a devicesent to the public prosecutor's officeon 12 May 1998.

12-May-98

Ankara Turkey Unknown Firearms1 0 Akin Birdal, the Chairman of theHuman Rights Association, was shotand seriously wounded by twoassailants, identified as Bahri Ekenand Kerim Deretarla and the otherplotters, Hasan Jasanoglu, erkal Ulas,Ahmet Fulin and Cengiz Ersever,were apprehended in a series ofpolice raids in Ankara and Istanbul.

12-May-98

GavrineKuce

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 The house of Mijo Vukadinovic, aCroat refugee, was blown up in thevillage of Gavrine Kuce. Vukadinovichad been repairing his war-damagedhouse for several months. The housewas near completion when it wasblown up. The attack sends amessage from the Bosniak side thatCroat refugees are not welcome toreturn.

13-May-98

SantaFe deBogota

Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 Guerillas raided a human rights NGOin Bogota, causing unknown amountsof damage.

13-May-98

Caracas VenezuelaRevolutionaryUnitedFront(RUF)

Explosives0 0 The Revolutionary United Front (FUR)is blamed for exploding four pipebombs at the CongressAdministration Building. The FUR hasadvocated the dissolution ofCongress. Fliers were found with theexplosives, protesting reformationsof suffrage laws.

13-May-98

Blida Algeria Unknown Explosives6 0 Six people were wounded when aparcel bomb exploded inside acinema hall in Blida.

13-May-98

JerusalemIsrael Unknown Knives& sharpobjects

0 1 Khayri 'Alquam was stabbed andkilled by an Israeli extremist near theNewe Shemu'el neighborhood inJerusalem.

13-May-98

JerusalemIsrael Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Israeli extremists burned down theBab al-Ghawanimah, one of the al-Aqsa Mosque's main gates.

13-May-98

Groznyy Russia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 4 Four people died in a powerfulremote-controlled explosion indowntown Groznyy opposite theBogatyr Store on Lenin Street. LeninStreet leads to the ProsecutorGeneral's Office. The attack was anattempt to kill Deputy ProsecutorGeneral, Magomed Magomadov.

13-May-98

Moscow Russia RussianNationalUnity

Explosives3 0 Three people were injured by thedetonation of an explosive deviceplanted near the Jewish Synagogueat 24 Novosushchevskaya Street. Atthe time of the explosion, dozens ofpeople were celebrating a Jewishreligious holiday inside thesynagogue. The damage to thesynagogue was not heavy -- one wallwas partly broken. The RussianNational Unity group claimedresponsibility for the attack.

14-May-98

ValleDelCauca

Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 Luis Carlos Tenorio, the Cali HumanRights delegate to the UnitedNations, was attacked in Valle DelCauca. This is the second attack onhuman rights affiliates this week.

14-May-98

SriLanka


Explosives0 4 A Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) suicide bomber killedBrigadier Larry Wijeratne, Sri Lanka'stop military commander for theregion of Point Pedro (Jaffnapeninsula). Wijeratne and his twoguards were traveling towards hiscamp in Point Pedro when the suicidebomber, believed to belong to theelite suicide squad Black Tigers,threw herself in front of his militaryvehicle, killing him and his twoguards. AFP reports that Defensesources believe that Wijeratne'sdeath is a serious blow to themilitary's hearts-and-mindscampaign to woo the local residentsfrom the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.Note:Wijerane was the head of the militaryin Vadamarachchi, the birthplace ofthe top LTTE guerrilla leader,Velupillai Prabhakaran.

14-May-98

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 Two bombs were planted in a vacantlot near the Kustepe police station inIstanbul. One of the two bombsexploded, causing damage but noinjuries.

15-May-98

MonterricoPeru Unknown Unknown0 1 Mining entrepreneur Luis HochshildPlaud was killed and his son, EduardoHochshild, a director-manager ofArcata Mining Company, waskidnapped in an attack. Perpetratorsare unknown.

15-May-98

ElCarmendeBolivar

Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 The helicopter of Presidentialcandidate Horacio Serpa Uribe wasthe target of heavy shooting as itlanded in El Carmen de Bolivar. Noone was injured in the attack.

15-May-98

Aix-en-Provence


Explosives0 0 The Corsican National LiberationFront-Canal Historique (FLNC- CanalHistorique) claimed responsibility foran attack against the police station inAix-en-Provence. A bomb went offoutside the police station, damagingthe building and seven vehiclesparked nearby.

15-May-98

SehitKamil

Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Unidentified attackers threw afirebomb on the archives of the SehitKamil Municipality. The deviceexploded, breaking windows of thebuilding and causing fire to thearchives room.

15-May-98

MjokovacFRY(Montenegro)

Unknown Firearms0 0 A group of militants opened fire onactivists of the Directorate of theYugoslav Left (JUL) who were hangingposters for the upcoming elections.The Tanjug reports that the attackerswere hired to ...cause panic amongcitizens of Montenegro... and to ...prevent the promotion of a programbased on Yugoslavdom, peace,freedom, the elimination of crimeand the development of a dignifiedsociety based on social justice.

16-May-98

Armagh NorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 A 500-lb car bomb was defused nearthe Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)station in the center of Armagh. Thecar used in the attack has beenstolen in Dublin and outfitted withNorthern Ireland license plates. Theattack is attributed to fringerepublicans attempting to derail thepeace process.

16-May-98

Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives7 2 Two people were killed and sevenothers injured in two blasts whichoccurred in two hotels in theGulshan-e Iqbal area of Karachi.

16-May-98

Ma'an Jordan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A pickup truck and a tank truck,belonging to the Ma'an AgricultureMinistry Directorate, were set on firewhile parked within the Directorate'scompound.

16-May-98

KhalandhriGreece ArsonistsofConscience

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A car used by AnastasiaKonstantinidhi, a Greek employee ofthe Turkish Consulate, was burned byarsonists. An unidentified personwho called Sky Radio station claimedresponsibility for the attack on behalfof the Arsonists of Conscience group.

16-May-98

Athens Greece ArsonistsofConscience

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The Arsonists of Conscience groupclaimed responsibility for an arsonattack against a car belonging to theEuropean Union office in Athens. Thegroup protests the Greekgovernment's stringent economicpolicy and the detention of anarchistNikos Maziotis.

16-May-98

AgiaParaskevi

Greece Unknown Explosives0 0 A car belonging to the counsel of theLibyan Embassy was destroyed by amakeshift explosive device in AgiaParaskevi, an Athens suburb. Threeother cars belonging to Greekofficials were also targeted on thisnight.

16-May-98

NeoPsychico

Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Two cars that belonged to the stateAnti-Seismic Planning and ProtectionOrganization were damaged in afirebomb attack in Neo Psychico. Nofurther information is provided.

16-May-98

Athens Greece Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The Jeep of Costas Kakaris, a retiredGreek judge, was attacked with amakeshift incendiary device in theKolonaki neighborhood of Athens.This is one of many attacks that tookplace on this evening.

17-May-98

Athens Greece May-98 Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A new group, May 98 claimedresponsibility for an attack onOlympic Airways offices in Athens.The explosive device was placed infront of the building on the groundfloor of the ticketing office. Theattack coincides with an attack onthe Ionian Bank.Note: The offices ofseveral government ministers havebeen the target of recent arsonattacks. Olympic Airways and IonianBank are at the center of thegovernment's cost-cutting plans torestructure state-run utilities andservices.

17-May-98

Athens Greece FightingGuerillasof May

Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded near the IonianBank in Athens. The attack wasclaimed by the new group, FightingGuerrillas of May. The attack causedconsiderable damage but no injuries.Note: The offices of severalgovernment ministers have been thetarget of recent arson attacks.Olympic Airways and Ionian Bank areat the center of the government'scost-cutting plans to restructurestate-run utilities and services.

17-May-98

Saida Algeria Unknown Explosives3 2 Two people were killed and threeinjured by an Islamist group. Thegroup planted a bomb in the roadwhich exploded as the vehiclepassed. The attackers then machine-gunned those inside the car.

18-May-98

Bilbao Spain Unknown Explosives1 0 Authorities believe that the BasqueFatherland and Freedom (ETA) maybe linked to a bomb explosion thatseriously injured a young man (lateridentified as Urko Labeaga Garcia).No further information is provided.

18-May-98

Citak FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 A large group of ethnic Albaniansopened fire on a bus on Pec-Kosovska Mitrovica Road. Althoughmaterial damage was caused to thebus, no one was hurt. This is thethird attack on the Pec-KosovskaMitrovica Road in three days.

18-May-98

Smigici FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Ethnic Albanians kidnapped DostanaSmigic in Smigici.

18-May-98

Gimry Russia Unknown Explosives1 0 A sergeant-border guard wasseriously wounded when a grenadewas fired at a four-truck convoy nearthe village of Gimry. The trucks wereon their way to the district center ofKhunzakh.

18-May-98

Tetovo MacedoniaUnknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in the parking lotof the Interior Ministry, damagingfour vehicles and causing othermaterial damage. No one wasinjured in the blast.

19-May-98

Hatay Turkey Unknown Explosives10 0 Ten soldiers were injured when avehicle carrying soldiers to theceremonies marking the 19 MayAtaturk Commemoration Youth andSports Day in Hatay, hit a landminelaid by members of a separatistorganization.

19-May-98

NajafabadIran Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Members of Mehdi Hashemi's Gangbroke the windows of Baghiatalah-eAzam Institute in Najafabad and set itablaze.

19-May-98

Smadj FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 1 Nadzad Klushi was killed in thevillage of Smadj whose residents aremainly Kosovo Albanian Catholics.Klushi was killed when a group ofarmed Albanians, dressed inuniforms of the so-called KosovoLiberation Army (KLA), entered thelocal shop and opened fire. No oneelse was injured in the incident.

19-May-98

MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device was found onMagomed Gadzhiyev Street inMakhachkala. The bomb wasdisposed of by the police.

20-May-98

ElHarrach

Algeria Unknown Explosives2 0 Two passengers were wounded whenan explosive device went off at arailway station in El Harrach.

20-May-98

UmraniyeTurkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Three Molotov cocktails were thrownat the National Action Party districtrepresentation in Umraniye. Therewere no casualties, but the explosioncaused some damage to the building.

20-May-98

Dulje FRY(Kosovo)


0 1 Huhamed Sopeu, a member of thePrizren Boxing Club Presidency, waskidnapped by ethnic Albanians. Hewas found dead in Dulje with histhroat slit and his hands tied. Sopeuwas killed by Albanians because hewas loyal to Serbia.

20-May-98

VelikoKrusevo

FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Unknown2 1 Ethnic Albanians killed a fifteen-year-old boy, Dalibor Lazarevic, in thevillage of Veliko Drusevo. Anothertwo people, Dragomir Miljanovic andSlavisa Miljanovic, were seriouslyinjured in the attack .

21-May-98

La Vega VenezuelaMovementof theFifthRepublic(MVR)

Explosives1 0 Five explosives were placed inside avehicle owned by a Movement of theFifth Republic (MVR) leader ArmandoGuerrero. Two of the explosiveswent off, one causing burns to 40%of Guerrero's body.

21-May-98

BarrancabermejaColombia Unknown Explosives1 0 A bomb exploded in front of retiredGeneral, Herald Bedoya's politicaloffice in Barrancabermeja causingextensive damage and injuring JesusBarajas, a security guard. Bedoya isrunning for President in upcomingelections. Authorities attribute theattack to the Revolutionary ArmedForces of Colombia (FARC) or theNational Liberation Army (ELN). Bothhad threatened to sabotage thenational elections.

21-May-98

Kifissia Greece AutonomousCells ofRebelAction

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The Autonomous Cells of RebelAction took responsibility fordetonating an explosive device at theBarclays Bank ATM. The explosivedevice, a makeshift incendiarymechanism, was composed of smallgas tanks and a gasoline tank. Theblast caused a fire which was laterextinguished by firefighters.Firefighters estimate the damage atabout 2 million drachmas.

21-May-98

MandalayBurma(Myanmar)

Unknown Explosives14 1 An explosion rocked the Myomyacinema hall in Mandalay, killing onewoman and wounding fourteen otherpatrons. The dead woman was notidentified. The wounded includedeight men and six women.

21-May-98

MakhachkalaRussia Other Firearms0 0 Aout 2,000 armed supporters ofNadir Khachilayev, chairman of theUnion of Muslims of Russia andDeputy to the Russian FederationState Duma, and his brother[Magomed], leader of the Laknational movement and chairman ofthe Coordinating Council of NationalMovements of Dagestan, seized aDagestani government building anddemanded the resignation of keyRepublican leaders, including PrimeMinister, Defense Minister, and theHead of State Council.

21-May-98

Votkinsk Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 A mine was found at a school in thetown of Votinsk. Police disposed ofthe explosive device. Motives areunknown.

22-May-98

ElHarrach

Algeria Unknown Explosives30 17 Seventeen people were killed andthirty were wounded when a bombhidden in a vegetable crate explodedin the heart of El Harrach market.

22-May-98

Prizren FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Thirty shots were fired at a boardingschool in Prizren. Ethnic Albaniansare blamed for attacking the schoolwhich houses around 150 studentsand as many Serb refugees fromCroatia. There were no casualties.

23-May-98

DosQuebradas

Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 A homemade bomb went off at thepolitical offices of Presidentialcandidate Andres Pastrana.Although it caused property damage,there were no victims.

23-May-98

Pereira Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was defused at the Pereiraoffice of Liberal candidate, HoracioSerpa.

23-May-98


Unknown Explosives0 0 Authorities performed a controlledexplosion on a bomb placed on arailway bridge at Finaghy RailwayHalt. The bomb was found after theresults of the referendum on thepeace deal for the province wasannounced.

24-May-98

Pakistan Unknown Unknown2 0 A hijacker and one army officer wereinjured when three men hijackedPakistan International Airlines Fokkerflight PK554 (coming from Turbat inBaluchistan province) with 38passengers and crew. The plane wasforced to land at Hyderabad Airportby a Pakistan Air Force plane; allpassengers were rescued inHyderabad, and the hijackers werearrested. The hijackers attempted todivert the plane toward theRajasthan Province in India.

25-May-98

PurificacionColombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 Rebels from the 25th Front of theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC), threw grenades atantennas, transmitters and carriersof Perico Hill. Purificacion, Saldana,Prado, Delores and Alpujarra werewithout telephone ortelecommunications services.

25-May-98

Ilaje Nigeria Unknown Firearms0 0 Nigerian villagers in the Ilaje regionabducted two hundred engineeringpersonnel (employed mainly byMcDermott, a subcontractor for theUS oil giant Chevron) who wereworking for the oil industry. Thehostages were held on a barge offOndo State coast in the AtlanticOcean and released after four days.The Nigerian villagers took thehostages to protest the company'sfailure to share the wealth obtainedfrom oil revenues with the villagers.

25-May-98

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

1 0 One person was injured when abomb exploded in front of the CaglarTravel Agency's office in the IstanbulBus Station. It was reported that anunidentified person left the bomb inthe flowerpot in the front of theoffice.

25-May-98

Israel Hizballah Explosives0 0 A mortar shell fired from Lebanon fellin the western Galilee. No one wasinjured in the attack. The attack islikely the work of Hezbollah.

25-May-98

DushanbeTajikistan Unknown Firearms0 1 Two unidentified youths shot andkilled Major Anatoliy Bushinkin,senior aide of the Chief of MissileTroops and Artillery of the 201stRussian Motorized Division (apeacekeeping force).

25-May-98

Gali Georgia Unknown Firearms0 0 Twenty ethnic Georgians were takenhostage by an Abkahaz armed group.The Georgians lived in the Galiregion.

25-May-98

Streoce FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms3 0 A group of armed Albanians arebeing blamed for injuring threepeople when they opened fire ontheir car. The injured includeSlobodan Vukovic, Momcilo Antic andDimitrije Radovic.

25-May-98

Moscow Russia Unknown Explosives1 0 A young man, Sergey Goryachev,exploded a homemade device in arestaurant near the All-RussiaExhibition Center in Moscow.Goryachev was injured in theexplosion.

25-May-98

Poonch Kashmir Unknown Firearms4 4 Four persons were killed and fourinjured when foreign mercenariesattacked the house of a retired forestofficial at Surankote Poonch. Nofurther information is available.

26-May-98

Colombia Unknown Firearms0 1 The President of the DepartmentAssembly of Arauca, Edgar Gonzalaz,was shot and killed by assassins.

26-May-98

KhemisMiliana

Algeria Unknown Explosives10 7 Seven were killed and ten injuredwhen a bomb exploded at a marketin Khemis Miliana.

26-May-98

Smigici FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Ethnic Albanians kidnapped RadomirSmigic from the hamlet of Smigici.

26-May-98

Lausa FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Unidentified individuals opened fireon the car of Mother Anastasia whowas accompanied by another nun.The car was hit by one bullet, but noone was hurt in the attack.

26-May-98

Vinkovci Croatia Unknown Explosives2 0 One person was seriously injured inan explosion at a restaurant inVinkovci town center. The explosiontook place when the streets of thetown were teeming with people.Another passerby was also slightlywounded.

26-May-98

UssuriyskRussia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

4 0 Four people were injured in the townof Ussuriysk when a remote-controlled device exploded in thehallway of a residential building. Itwent off when the director of theBarier Security Agency and two of hisstaff members, as well as a twelve-year-old boy, were in the entrance.They all received injuries. The menwere guarding an entrepreneur,Adrigov, who lives in the building.

27-May-98

Catia VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 A pipe bomb exploded at theMovement of the Fifth Republic(MVR) headquarters in Catia. No onewas hurt in the incident thatdamaged a wall and destroyed abillboard.

27-May-98

ArauquitaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 The National Liberation Army (ELN)blew up a stretch of the Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline. The explosioncaused a fire and an oil spill overstreams flowing from the AraucaRiver.

27-May-98

Van Turkey People'sLiberationArmy ofKurdistan(ARGK)

Unknown0 20 The People's Liberation Army ofKurdistan (ARGK) carried out anattack against a police station in Van,killing twenty soldiers and destroyingall the military positions around thepolice station. The attackers alsoseized a great number of weaponsand destroyed a war tank.

27-May-98

Grozny Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 A grenade blew up at the house ofMagomed Khachilayev. It wasthrown from a VAZ-2109 motorvehicle that was in no hurry to leavethe scene of the crime.

27-May-98

St.Petersburg

Russia Unknown Explosives0 0 An unidentified explosive device wasthrown into the courtyard of aguarded building, shattering windowpanes in several apartments. No onewas injured in the blast.

28-May-98

Cali Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 Two bombs were set off at the officesof the Cali Municipal Enterprises,damaging the warehouse wheremachinery and other materials usedfor government projects are stored,including electoral material forSunday's Presidential Elections. Boththe Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) and the NationalLiberation Army (ELN) havethreatened to disrupt the elections.

28-May-98

LaCarolina


Unknown0 0 The Basque Fatherland and Freedom(ETA) is believed to have beenbehind the kidnapping of BartolomeRubia Munoz, a Popular PartyCouncillor from La Carolina.

28-May-98

AuderghemBelgium Unknown Explosives0 0 The gendarme, after being alerted byan anonymous caller, found asubstantial amount of explosives atthe end of the Hermann-Debrouxviaduct in Auderghem. The viaductwas closed to all traffic for severalhours until the explosives had beenremoved.

29-May-98

Tibu Colombia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A group of rebels slashed and burnedelection materials and burned alanding strip near Tibu. The attack isintended to disrupt the upcomingelections. Both the RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colombia (FARC)and the National Liberation Army(ELN) have threatened to disruptelections.

29-May-98

Larissa Greece ArsonistsofConscience

Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at the politicaloffices of Nikos Famakis, a PASOKMember of Parliament. The deviceconsisted of propane gas canisterssoaked in gasoline. The policesuspect that the Arsonists ofConscience may be responsible forthe attack.

29-May-98

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Firearms1 1 Cumali Akkurt, a police officerstationed at the Democratic LeftParty building in Sisli, was attackedand killed by four armed assailants.One attacker was injured in theattack.

29-May-98

DushanbeTajikistan Unknown Firearms1 0 Ismail Davlatov, Tajikistan's DeputyEducation Minister, was attacked inhis house in Dushanbe. He sufferedgunshot wounds but was not killed.

29-May-98

Russia Unknown Firearms0 0 Nikolay Brichko, a high-rankingofficial from the Ukrainian Ministryfor Emergency Situations, wasabducted in Chechnya. Brichkocame to Chechnya in order toconclude agreements on therestoration of some facilities in theNorth Caucasus Republic.

30-May-98

Simiti Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 0 Four election officers were kidnappedby the Caribbean Front of theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC). The guerillas alsostole election ballots and the tallysheet forms. Eight other Simitivoting officers were threatened withdeath if they showed up to carry outtheir duties.

30-May-98

SardinataColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 The National Liberation Army (ELN)kidnapped seven voting officers andstole election documents inSardinata.

30-May-98

Bastia France Unknown Explosives0 0 A high-powered plastic chargeexploded in a pancake house in thetown center of Bastia. No one wasinjured, and no one claimedresponsibility for the attack.

31-May-98

BarrancabermejaColombia Unknown Explosives0 3 Three civilians were killed when abomb exploded in Barrancabermeja.The bomb was intended to disruptelections. Both the NationalLiberation Army (ELN) and theRevolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) have threatened todisrupt election proceedings.

31-May-98

SidiKhalifah

Libya Harakatal-Shuhada'al-Islamiyah

Firearms1 4 Abdallah Ahmad, spokesman for theHarakat al-Shuhada' al-Islamiyah(Islamic Martyrs Movement) claimedresponsibility for an assassinationattempt that injured Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi and killed four of hisguards. The group had opened fireon Qadhdhafi's motorcade usingmachine guns. The attack took placewhile crossing into Egypt.

31-May-98

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 Unknown people left two bombs inthe garden of the private televisionchannel, HBB. One bomb exploded,causing minor damage to the wall ofthe garden. The second bomb wasdefused by bomb experts.

31-May-98

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at the packageroom of the post office in theBakirkoy neighborhood of Istanbul.Although the attack damaged thepost office, nobody was injured.

31-May-98

MecidiyekoyTurkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A bookstore that sells religious bookswas attacked by unknown peoplewith firebombs. Police found a totalof three firebombs in the basementof the building. Two of theexplosives never detonated.

31-May-98

VladikavkazRussia Unknown Firearms0 2 Unknown assailants in camouflageand masks opened fire on the car ofSouth Ossetia Deputy Premier ValeriyKhubulov, killing him. The terroriststhen blew up the car to cover theirtracks. A businessman, SergeyZleko, was also killed in the attack.

31-May-98

GanakhlebaGeorgia Unknown Unknown0 0 Four Georgians were taken hostageby an Abkhaz armed group inGanakhleba.

31-May-98

Zugdidi Georgia Unknown Unknown0 0 Russian peace-maker MikhailAplyasov was taken hostage byunknown persons in Zugdidi. Thekidnappers demanded that theAbkhazian authorities return thedead bodies of all the relatives killedin the recent combat operations.

1-Jun-98 Madrid Spain First ofOctoberAntifascistResistanceGroup(GRA

Explosives2 0 The First of October AntifascistResistance Group (GRAPO) claimedresponsibility for an explosive attackon a temporary employment agencythat slightly injured two policemen.

1-Jun-98 al-Ghadir

WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms0 0 Gunshots were fired at two Israelicars without causing any casualties.Police believe that the shots werefired by a squad of Palestinians thatrecently attempted to stage attacksnear Har Homa and on the tunnel'saxis.

1-Jun-98 Matsudo Japan Chukakuha(MiddleCoreFaction)

Unknown0 0 A radical Japanese leftist group,Chukakuha, claimed responsibility foran early morning attack in Matsudoon three buses used on Narita airportroutes. The group opposesexpansion of the Narita airport.

2-Jun-98 KokrajharIndia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 Bodo militants exploded bombs at avital rail bridge in Kokrajhar. Theattack coincides with other attacks inBongaigaon and Nalbari.

2-Jun-98 BongaigaonIndia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 Bodo militants planted explosives onvital roads and rail bridges inBongaigaon causing extensivedamage. The attack coincides withtwo other attacks in Kokrjhar andNalbari.

2-Jun-98 Nalbari India Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 Bodo militants planted bombs onseveral vital road and rail bridges inNalbari district, causing extensivedamage. The attack coincides withother attacks at Kokrajhar andBongaigaon.

2-Jun-98 Tehran Iran Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Explosives2 2 Two people were killed and twoinjured in an explosion at the IslamicRevolution Court in Tehran. TheMujahideen-I-Khalq (MKO) claimedresponsibility for the attack, statingthat the attack was carried out inretaliation for the slaying of eightmembers of the group in a clash withIranian security forces lastNovember.


Explosives0 0 The People's Mujahideen-I-KhalqOrganization (MKO) launched amortar attack at the clerical regime'sDefense Industries Organization thatproduces ammunition used by thegovernment to suppress terrorism.The MKO claimed responsibility forthe attack. The explosion ignitedother explosive material, causingexplosion after explosion for severalhours. Casualties were not reported.

2-Jun-98 Ja'ar Yemen WorldIslamicJihadGroup

Explosives0 0 The World Islamic Jihad Groupclaimed responsibility for fiveexplosive devices that exploded nearthe communications building in Ja'ar.The group pledged to step up itsoperations against the enemy (theUnited States).

2-Jun-98 BorojeviciBosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 A house belonging to Osman Djurinawas blown up by an explosive device.The house had recently been rebuiltas part of the program for the returnof the Bosniaks.

3-Jun-98 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 A pipe bomb left on a Metro train atthe Agua Salud station in Caracaswas defused by the Directorate ofIntelligence and Prevention Services.

3-Jun-98 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 Authorities defused a pipe bombfound on a train at the Gato Negrostation. No further information isprovided.

3-Jun-98 SamkayaTurkey Unknown Firearms1 0 On a road near Samkaya, separatistswaylaid a minibus and kidnapped twopassengers -- a German tourist andthe driver, Egin Atan. One persontried to escape and was seriouslyinjured when the terrorists openedfire on him. The German tourist,Harlt Martin Becker, was laterreleased 100km from the scene.


Explosives0 0 The Mujahideen-I-Khalq (MKO)claimed responsibility for a hugeexplosion that destroyed theheadquarters of the RevolutionaryProsecutor's Office in Tehran. Theoffice had been used to torture andinterrogate criminals. Scores oftorturers and interrogators werekilled or wounded when the buildingwas demolished.

3-Jun-98 Sagman Turkey Unknown Firearms2 9 Unidentified militants stopped avillage minibus near Sagman villageand shot its passengers, killing ninepeople and wounding two others.The minibus was driven by MuammerOzdogan.

3-Jun-98 Istanbul Turkey KurdishWorkersParty(PKK)

Explosives14 1 One person was killed and fourteeninjured when a bomb exploded onthe Sirkeci-Halkali train in Istanbul.Passenger Hasan Sezer was killedinstantly. The Kurdistan WorkersParty (PKK) militant who placed theexplosive was captured.

3-Jun-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives6 0 A hand grenade, thrown by anunknown assailant, exploded in anIstanbul café, injuring six people. Asecond bomb left nearby exploded ashort time after the first.

4-Jun-98 BarrancabermejaColombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Firearms0 0 The National Liberation Army (ELN)took three officials of theOmbudsman's office hostage, laterreleasing them with a message forthe government.

4-Jun-98 Issers Algeria Unknown Explosives2 3 Three bomb disposal experts werekilled while attempting to defuse abomb not far from a post of theNational Gendarmerie in Issers. Twoother people were injured in theexplosion.

4-Jun-98 Mouzaia Algeria Unknown Explosives10 0 Ten people were injured in a bombexplosion on ground used for aweekly market at Mouzaia.

4-Jun-98 Yakkala SriLanka

Unknown Explosives0 0 Unidentified persons exploded abomb at the Werellawatte Primarysubstation in Yakkala, cutting offpower to several thousand houses inthe area.

4-Jun-98 PaleoFaliro

Greece RevolutionaryCells

Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The Revolutionary Cells groupclaimed responsibility for setting acar on fire in Paleo Faliro, a suburb ofAthens. Their claim was received on6 June by Sky Radio.

5-Jun-98 Athens Greece LeftistNucleus

Explosives0 0 The Leftist Nucleus group claimedresponsibility for an explosive attackon the eighth floor of the NewsChannel TV station. Minor damagewas reported.

5-Jun-98 Bilbao Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A Bilbao bus was completely burnedout after three hooded individualsthrew Molotov cocktails at it. Asecond bus was also hit severaltimes, although only the windowswere damaged. The attacks followan anti-Basque Fatherland andFreedom (ETA) operation by theErtzaintza.

5-Jun-98 Madrid Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 A small explosive device blew up inthe window of an office belonging toa temporary employment agency inMadrid.Note: The First of OctoberAntifascist Resistance Group(GRAPO) claimed responsibility for abomb attack on a temporaryemployment agency in Madrid on 1June 1998.

5-Jun-98 Lahore Pakistan Unknown Explosives1 3 Three people were killed and oneseriously injured by a bomb blast at alocal cinema hall in Lahore. Thebomb was placed under the seat of agallery of the cinema. It explodedjust at the start of the matinee show.

5-Jun-98 Tunceli Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A group of unidentified individualsraided a construction site on themain Tunceli-Pulumur highway andset three business vehicles on fire.The group abducted ten workerswhen they fled but later releasedthem.

5-Jun-98 Assam India Other Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 Suspected Bodo militants blew up abridge on national highway #31 atMaotari near Chapar police station ofDhubri district. The suspects used aremote-detonated explosive to carryout the blast. This is the fourthbridge on a national highway to beblown up in the past four days.Authorities claim they have arrestedover thirty people in connection withthe incidents.

6-Jun-98 Zarautz Spain Unknown Other 0 0 The home of Basque Nationalist Partyparliamentarian, Joseba Arregi, inZarautz was attacked. The attackersthrew rocks, breaking the panes of awindow.

6-Jun-98 Ordizia Spain Unknown Explosives0 0 A homemade bomb went off at thehome of Juan Vicente Erauskin,mayor of Ordizia. The bomb starteda fire which only affected the door.

6-Jun-98 LlobregatSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Unknown individuals threw anincendiary device at the offices ofthe weekly publication, El Far delLlobregat. The device exploded atthe iron door, causing minor damage.No one was hurt in the attack.

6-Jun-98 MechraaEsfa

Algeria Unknown Explosives1 2 Two peasant farmers were killed andanother injured when two bombswent off as they were working intheir fields at Mechraa.

6-Jun-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 Two persons threw a bomb and aMolotov cocktail through the door ofthe Democratic Turkey Party officebuilding. The explosion causedminor damage on the floor but nocasualties.

6-Jun-98 Nazran Russia Unknown Explosives1 0 One border guard was slightly injuredby a homemade explosive devicethat went off in front of the checkpoint on the Nazran border.

6-Jun-98 ChuburkhinjiGeorgia Unknown Firearms3 2 Two people were killed and threeinjured when Abkhaz militantsopened fire with automatic weaponson the inhabitants of Chuburkhinji.

7-Jun-98 Renteria Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A van and a four-wheel-drive vehiclebelonging to the Telefonicatelephone company were badlydamaged after being set on fire in acommunal garage.


0 0 Several Molotov cocktails werethrown at a parked Diario Vascodelivery van in Urbia Square. Thevan was damaged, but no one wasinjured in the incident.

7-Jun-98 Cornella Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 An office of the Caixa del Penedessavings bank was damaged by anexplosive device. The explosionbroke the office's windows andstarted a fire which wrecked theautomatic teller machine.

7-Jun-98 Lizarza Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A number of unknown persons setfire to the telephone exchange inLizarza, the birthplace of the allegedBasque Fatherland and Freedom(ETA) activist, Ignacia Zeberio, whodied on June 5th. The ETA isexpected to have perpetrated theact.

7-Jun-98 Pakistan Unknown Explosives36 23 Twenty-three people were killed andthirty-six were injured as a result of abomb blast in Khyber Mail. Theexplosive device went off in aPeshawar-bound train betweenTando Masti Khan and Khaipurrailway stations. Official sourcesblame the Indian IntelligenceResearch and Analysis Wing (RAW)for the attack.

7-Jun-98 KalmykiaRussia Unknown Unknown0 1 Larisa Yudina, the Editor-in-Chief ofthe Sovetskaya Kalmykia newspaper,was abducted the evening of 7 Juneand later killed. It is believed thatYudina's murder is related to hernewspaper's opposition to KalmykPresident, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

7-Jun-98 Zilgi Russia Unknown Unknown0 0 Seven North Ossetians wereabducted by unidentified individualsin the village of Zilgi.

8-Jun-98 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives0 0 The transportation of coal by therailroad between La Jagua de Ibiricoand the port of the Drummondmultinational corporation in Cienegawas interrupted after a dynamiteattack that destroyed a section of thetracks. Police suspect the 19th Frontof the Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) to have beenresponsible.


Explosives0 0 Authorities blame the NationalLiberation Army (ELN) for blowing upa stretch of the Cano Limon oilpipeline near Toledo. A considerableamount of oil had been spilled,causing an ecological emergency.Note: The oil pipeline has been blowup thirty times this year.

8-Jun-98 El Ghour Algeria Unknown Explosives1 1 One person was killed and anotherinjured in a bomb explosion at ElGhour.

8-Jun-98 Tlemcen Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb was defused at a school inTlemcen.

8-Jun-98 Zilga Russia Unknown Firearms0 0 A group of armed individualshijacked two buses with passengersin the area of Zilga village. An hourlater one of the buses together withthe passengers was set free. Thepassengers of the other bus wereproclaimed hostages.

8-Jun-98 ChermenRussia Unknown Unknown0 0 An Ingush resident of Chermen,Timerlan Gazdiyev, was takenhostage by an unidentified group ofbandits driving a blue Jeep.

9-Jun-98 MaracaiboVenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 A pipe bomb exploded in thepredawn hours in the Rector's Officeof the University of Zulia, causingserious damage to the top of thebuilding and knocking down part ofthe Public Relations Office. Theattack is part of the violence that hastaken place since the election of anew board of directors for theFederation of University Centers.

9-Jun-98 WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms0 0 Shots were fired at an Israeli vehicleon the Trans-Judaea Highway bypass.No one was injured, but settlers saidtwo bullets penetrated the vehicle.

9-Jun-98 Angarsk Russia Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The country home of Oleg Gurenko,the deputy mayor of Angarsk, wasdoused with gasoline and set ablaze.Oleg and his wife were able toescape unharmed. This attack islinked to Gurenko's tough attitudetoward local corrupt officials andcriminals.

9-Jun-98 SanJuan

PuertoRico

LosMacheteros

Explosives0 0 The guerrilla group, Los Macheteros,claimed responsibility for placing twoexplosive devices at branches of theBanco Popular in San Juan. Theattack took place after Banco Popularjoined together with UScommunications giant, GTECorporation in a consortium topurchase Puerto Rico TelephoneCompany. Los Macheteros are bestknown for their wave of bombings inthe 1970's and 1980's that targetedUS government installations on theisland.

10-Jun-98 BarrancabermejaColombia Unknown Explosives2 0 A bomb exploded in the MunicipalPalace, injuring workers ElizabethCorredor and Ernesto Bernal.

10-Jun-98 Vitoria Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 An incendiary device exploded at acash dispenser at a bank in Vitoria.The explosion damaged the door ofthe bank.

10-Jun-98 Morag WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives0 1 A Palestinian man was shot and killedin an attempt to place an explosivecharge on a fence surrounding Moragsettlement. A second Palestinianwas involved in the attack butescaped unharmed.

11-Jun-98 Belfast NorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms0 0 Four shots were fired at PaddyMcAvoy, a Sinn Fein election workerin Belfast. Rival republicans havebeen blamed for the attack.

11-Jun-98 Tenteria Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A number of Molotov cocktails werethrown at the carriage of the EuskoTren (Basque Train). Authoritiesquickly intervened and put out theresulting fire.

11-Jun-98 AinTourki

Algeria Unknown Explosives21 12 Twelve people were killed andtwenty-one wounded by ahomemade-bomb blast under apassing passenger train at AinTourki.

11-Jun-98 Tarne Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Explosives4 0 Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) are presumedresponsible for a bomb explosion atan agriculture development bankthat injured four persons.

12-Jun-98 GuatemalaCity

GuatemalaUnknown Firearms0 0 A group of unidentified militants firedtwo shots at the home of prosecutorLuis Arturo Archila Albarez. Severalother shots were fired at a vehicleparked outside. The attack againstArchila comes on the heels of theresignation of three new prosecutorswith the Attorney General's Office.

12-Jun-98 Lejanias Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Firearms0 0 Guerrillas abducted one Councilmanand two officials from the mayor'soffice and seven businessmen inLejanias. The attack is an attempt todisrupt upcoming elections. Flierswere distributed discouraging peoplefrom voting. The RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colombia (FARC)later claimed responsibility for theattack and released the hostages.

12-Jun-98 Lovrici Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives1 1 A Bosnian-Croat police officer waskilled and his Muslim colleaguewounded in a car bomb explosion inthe village of Lovrici. Both men weremembers of the joint canton policeand were not on duty at the time ofthe attack.

13-Jun-98 Usansolo Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A group of unidentified individualsthrew a total of nine Molotovcocktails at the Eusko Tren (BasqueTrain) station in Usansolo. Thedamage was minimal.Note: A similarincident took place two days earlier(11 June 1998) in the Tenteria area.

13-Jun-98 Lahij Yemen Unknown Explosives8 5 Five people were killed and eightwounded by an explosion at al-Hawtamarketplace in Lahij.

13-Jun-98 HanimgedigiTurkey Unknown Firearms5 1 One village guard was killed and fiveother people injured, including fourguards and a civil servant, whenunidentified individuals opened fireon the Radiolink Station inHanimgedigi.

14-Jun-98 Masdak Algeria Unknown Unknown2 1 The car that the Secretary General ofMasdak and the Municipality'sPresident were traveling in wasattacked on the road linking Masdakand Tadjna. The Secretary Generalwas killed, while the Municipality'sPresident and driver were injured.

14-Jun-98 LondonderryNorthernIreland


0 0 The home of a Protestant family onthe outskirts of Derry suffered apetrol bomb attack. It is reportedlythe third time the family wastargeted. Nationalists living in thearea are being blamed for the attack.Note: Information accessed at http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch98.htm on 9 October 2002.


0 0 Five hooded individuals set fire to theEusko Tren (Basque Train) station inRenteria. The individuals spreadinflammable liquid and threw aMolotov cocktail at the train. Thestation manager's office was burned,and the waiting room was blackenedby smoke.Note: Two other incidentshave occurred on the Euska Tren.One occurred on 11 June 1998 inTenteria and the other on 13 June1998 in Usansolo.

15-Jun-98 VeselovskiyRussia Unknown Explosives0 2 A resident of Chechnya took twoOssetians from the hamlet ofVeselovskiy hostage. One hostagemanaged to escape and sought helpat the police outpost. When theassailant was put under policepressure, he blew up the secondhostage and was killed himself.

15-Jun-98 VladikavkazRussia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

0 0 A remote-controlled explosive devicewas detonated outside theheadquarters of the North OssetianTax Police. The explosion causeddamage to the building but nocasualties. The bomb was detonatedas Ruslan Kabeloev, Chief of the TaxPolice, entered the office.

16-Jun-98 Istanbul Turkey GreatEasternIslamicRaidersFront(IBDA-C)

Explosives12 0 Twelve people were injured when apowerful bomb went off in a brothelin downtown Istanbul. The IslamicFront of the Grand Orient Raidersclaimed responsibility for the attack.

16-Jun-98 Siroko FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Ethnic Albanians opened fire on HotelBos, owned by the Nisavic family.Considerable damage was causedbut no reported casualties.

16-Jun-98 Kukes Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 A powerful TNT explosion completelywrecked the apartment of the familyof Hitixhe Gojani, a notary and two ofhis neighbors. No casualties werereported.

16-Jun-98 DonjaDubica

FRY(Kosovo)


0 0 The barn and outbuildings of theDjordje Maljevic family were set onfire by ethnic Albanians. This is thesecond attack on the family.

16-Jun-98 Osh KyrgyzstanUnknown Explosives8 2 Two people died and eight wereinjured when a bomb exploded in aminibus in Osh. The device was filledwith metal fragments and nails inorder to increase the killing power. Itis speculated that the purpose of theattack is to aggravate the situation inOsh.

16-Jun-98 Osh KyrgyzstanUnknown Explosives0 0 A homemade explosive device, filledwith metal fragments and nails,exploded in a house in Osh. Thisexplosion may be linked to anotherexplosion in a minibus in Osh only afew hours later. No further detailswere given.

16-Jun-98 Malir Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 2 Two bodies were found in a house inMalir City near Oxford School. Policesay they belonged to Gujranwala.Both were tortured and shot dead.

17-Jun-98 Medellin Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 Police defused a bomb containing 4kg of dynamite placed inside abriefcase that was left next to theheadquarters of El Tiempo, anewspaper in Medellin. Note: Backin December 1996, El Tiempoheadquarters was severely damagedby a bomb attack.

17-Jun-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

1 0 An unidentified individual planted abomb in a car in the eastern districtof Karachi, damaging the car. Thecar was a red Toyota Corolla Z-8770.It was blown up near the NationalStadium, injuring one bystander.

17-Jun-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 A car was damaged by a bomb blastin the eastern district of Karachi. Thecar was parked near the Haviv BankKarsaz branch. This incident is partof a series of four attacks in Karachion this day.

17-Jun-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A school bus was torched by anunidentified person near Rafi View inKarachi. This incident is part of aseries of four attacks in Karachi inone day.

17-Jun-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms1 0 Four armed persons riding in a whiteSuzuki car appeared in Block N NorthNazimabad, District Center andgunned down Shamim Hussain, aDSP of District Central. This incidentis part of a series of four attacks inKarachi in one day.

17-Jun-98 Karbala Iraq Unknown Unknown0 1 Ayatollah Agha Mirza Al Gharavi, anIranian religious figure residing inNajaf, was killed on his way fromKarbala to Najaf. The identity of themurderer is unknown.

17-Jun-98 GrabovacFRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Two employees of the Serbian PowerGenerating and Distributing Industry(EPS), Miodrag Ilic and Preblag Milic,were taken hostage by three armedethnic Albanians. The hostages werelater released.

18-Jun-98 Colombia Unknown Firearms0 0 Two Registrar officers, Maria Ortegaand Carmen Oliva Cabrera, wereabducted in an attempt to prevent astart of the electoral process.

18-Jun-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives8 0 Up to eight people were injured in abomb blast at the gate of the KarachiStock Exchange.

18-Jun-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives8 0 Up to eight persons were injuredwhen a bomb explodednear theoffice of a local daily newspaper inKarachi.

18-Jun-98 Bir Ali Yemen Unknown Firearms0 0 Nine Italian tourists were kidnappednear the resort town of Bir Ali. Fiveof those taken were men, and fourwere women. It is believed that thehostages are being held to winconcessions from Sanaa authorities.The tourists were later released.

18-Jun-98 Zagreb Croatia Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in front of theeditorial office of Imperial Weekly inZagreb, damaging a door andshattering glass in the office andneighboring buildings. No one wasinjured in the blast.

19-Jun-98 Hmaidia Algeria Unknown Explosives3 6 Six women were killed and severalothers were wounded in a number ofexplosions at Hmaidia Cemetery.The victims were paying theirrespects to the graves of thirteenpeople close to them who weremurdered two days earlier.

19-Jun-98 Khemis Algeria Unknown Explosives13 3 Three people were killed and thirteeninjured when a homemade bombexploded in Khemis Municipality.

19-Jun-98 ChakmariKashmir Unknown Firearms7 25 Twenty-five people were killed andseven injured by militants whosurrounded a marriage party atChakmari and opened fire. Theyspared three women, including thebride and two children.

19-Jun-98 Najaf Iran Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Unknown0 4 Ayatollah Gharavi-Tabrizi was killedalong with a number of hiscompanions in the city of Najaf on hisway to Karbala. The attackers in thesouthern town of Najaf sprayed theayatollah's car with gunfire, alsokilling the driver and two otherpeople. The Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MKO) are suspected to havecommitted this attack.

19-Jun-98 al-Dawrah

Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 2 Tony Musa Abu Nakhlah and GeorgeFu'ad Dib were killed when anexplosion tore apart a Renault 19near al-Dawrah's Mar Marun Church.The explosion was caused by a 3kgbomb that had been planted at thebottom of the reportedly rented car.

20-Jun-98 ThessalonikiGreece Unknown Explosives0 0 A homemade bomb exploded outsidethe offices of the extreme right-wingnewspaper, Stochos, in downtownThessaloniki, causing damage but noinjuries. The bomb was placed at theentrance of the newspaper's fifth-floor office.

20-Jun-98 EspeletteFrance Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The car of a policeman of theDICCILEC (former air and borderpolice) was burned by a fire bomb.The car was parked outside thepoliceman's home in Espelette.

20-Jun-98 Taricha Algeria Unknown Explosives1 1 A farmer was killed and hiscompanion was seriously injuredwhen a homemade bomb explodedon his farm near the village ofTaricha.

20-Jun-98 Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 A huge explosion destroyed much ofthe Hassi R'mel-Algiers gas pipeline.The explosion took place near SidiAmenur.

20-Jun-98 Awkar Lebanon Unknown Explosives0 0 Three hand grenades were fired atthe U.S. Embassy near Beirut. Thegrenades landed around 500 metersfrom the building, causing nocasualties.

21-Jun-98 Orito Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 The Trans-Andean pipeline wasblown up in Orito Municipality. Theattack coincides with other efforts todisrupt the election process.

21-Jun-98 Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Firearms0 0 The Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) abducted electionofficials in three small municipalitiesa few hours before the Presidentialrunoff election. FARC stated that theindividuals would be released afterthe elections were completed.

21-Jun-98 Athens Greece May-98 Explosives0 0 May 98 claimed responsibility for apowerful bomb placed outside theAthens branch of private Alpha CreditBank. The bomb ripped a hole in aside wall and shattered windows atthe bank. There were no injuries.The attack may be in protest to theprivatization of the state Ionian Bank.

21-Jun-98 Kizlyar Russia Unknown Explosives0 1 One man was killed as a riot policecar hit a mine in Kizlyar. The car wasloaded with police officers fromLipetsk who had been dispatched toDagestan to help local policemaintain order at the Chechnyaborder.

21-Jun-98 Groznyy ChechnyaUnknown Unknown0 2 Lecha Khultygov, Director of theNational Security Service ofChechnya, and Vakha Dzhafarov,Chief of Staff of the General DudayevArmy, were killed by men who hadcaptured them on the premises ofthe Groznyy television office which issituated in the mayor's office.

21-Jun-98 UnitedStates

Unknown Other 0 0 Gallons of diesel fuel and unleadedgas placed in buckets were used toset a fire at an administrative officeof the United States Department ofAgriculture's Wildlife Services nearthe Evergreen State College, in thestate of Washington. The divisionwas recently known as the AnimalDamage Control, which was involvedin getting rid of unwanted wildlife-Canadian geese in the Seattle area,birds that are a hazard around Sea-Tac Airport, and predators onranches and farms like coyotes. Boththe Animal Liberation Front (ALF) andthe Earth Liberation Front (ELF) haveclaimed responsibility for the attack.

22-Jun-98 GrabovacFRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Unknown0 0 Six ethnic Albanians kidnappedDragan Vukmirovic, Zoran Andjancicand Filip Gojkovic, three Serb minersfrom Belacevac coal mine. Thekidnappers stopped the car carryingthe miners to work, checked Ids andallowed only ethnic Albanianpassengers to go to work; the restwere taken hostage.

22-Jun-98 MedicPolje

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 2 Two people were killed when anexplosive device detonated in agarden in the village of Medic Polje.One of the victims was a BosnianCroat, and the other victim's identityis unknown.

23-Jun-98 Valencia Spain Unknown Unknown0 0 One Sevillian, Javier Gomez, hijackeda Boeing 727 plane owned by theSpanish airline, Iberia, which had leftSeville en route for Barcelona. Theplane stopped to refuel in Valencia.The hijacker requested that the planebe taken to Tel Aviv. It is believedthat the mayoress of Seville, SoledadBecerril, was on the flight. The crisisended when Mr Gomez waspersuaded to take a mobiletelephone call from his psychiatrist.After talking to him for four minutes,he softened and the situation wasresolved, Dr Ildefonso Mateo latertold Spanish television.

23-Jun-98 Armagh NorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded on the road inSouth Armagh, leaving a huge hole.Nobody was hurt in the attack. It isbelieved that Republicans opposed tothe peace strategy of Gerry Adamsand Martin McGuinness may havebeen involved.

23-Jun-98 BaripramanaKashmir Unknown Explosives35 0 At least thirty-five people wereinjured when a powerful bombexplosion near Baripramana derailedthe Delhi-bound Shalimar Express.

23-Jun-98 Kafrok Turkey People'sLiberationArmy ofKurdistan(ARGK)

Unknown0 0 People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan(ARGK) guerrillas hit and destroyed atanker transporting diesel oil. Thetanker caught fire and was totallydestroyed.

23-Jun-98 Kizlyar Russia Unknown Firearms0 0 Five men armed with machine gunsand a grenade launcher attempted tokidnap local legislator Asker Abrekovand Khazbi Burayev, ChiefAccountant of a transport company.However, Kizlyar residents and localpolice sealed off the road and freedAbrekov and Burayev, also capturingthe kidnappers.

24-Jun-98 NewtownhamiltonNorthernIreland


Explosives1 0 One person was injured in a carbomb explosion in Newtownhamilton.The Irish National Liberation Army(INLA) called prior to the explosion ofthe car bomb, warning the police ofthe intended attack. The INLA isopposed to Sinn Fein's peacestrategy.

24-Jun-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

1 0 One person was injured when aradio-controlled device exploded inthe car of National Assembly DeputyMagomedrasul Omarov who is also amanager at Dagestanskiye Ogniglassworks.

24-Jun-98 Zepce Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives1 0 An explosive device destroyed theMercedes car of Mustafa Beco,Deputy Chairman of the ZepceIslamic Community. His son Arminsuffered serious injuries in theattack.

24-Jun-98 SantaIsabel

PuertoRico

Unknown Explosives1 0 An explosive device, concealed in aflashlight, detonated in the hands ofa police officer at a bank in the townof Santa Isabel. The device had beenplanted at a branch of the BancoPopular, which is part of aconsortium that is in the process ofbuying the Puerto Rico TelephoneCompany. The Puerto Ricangovernment signed a deal where thephone company, commonly calledTelefonica, was sold to a consortiumled by U.S. communications giant,GTE Corp. This attack comes amidrising tensions all over Puerto Rico inresponse to this phone companysale. The blast tore a finger off theofficer's right hand and also injuredhis left hand and leg. Though nogroup claimed responsibility for thisattack, the explosive device wassimilar in makeup to those used bythe guerilla group, Los Macheteros inbank bombings early in the month.

25-Jun-98 TibarkoukinAlgeria ArmedIslamicGroup(GIA)

Unknown1 1 The Armed Islamic Group (GIA)claimed responsibility for killing theanti-Islamic singer, Matoub Lounes,at a false checkpoint in Tibarkoukin.His wife was wounded in the attack.

25-Jun-98 Rakos FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 2 Unidentified persons opened fire ontwo Serbs, Slavoljub Grozdanovic andSlavko Skrtic, near the village ofRakos. Both men were killed, andtheir bodies were found in a carsprayed with bullets.

25-Jun-98 Sunzha Russia Unknown Firearms0 2 Unknown attackers shot MikhailAlborov and Aleksey Bibiyev whowere gathering hay outside thevillage of Sunzha. The attackersescaped in the direction ofIngushetia's village of Galashki.

25-Jun-98 Renteria Spain BasqueFatherlandandFreedom(ETA)

Explosives1 1 Manuel Zamarreno, a Popular Partycouncilor, was killed by a bomb blaston the streets of Renteria. Hisbodyguard was also injured in theattack. Zamarreno was areplacement for another politician,Jose Luis Caso from the PopularParty, who was killed six monthsearlier. Note: The Basque Fatherlandand Freedom (ETA) claimed thisattack on 18 September 1998.

26-Jun-98 VillabonaSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A dozen hooded individuals threwMolotov cocktails at three banks inVillabona, causing considerabledamage. The radicals also causeddamage to a National Organizationfor the Blind kiosk.

26-Jun-98 Kalaski Pakistan Unknown Explosives8 2 Two people were killed and eightinjured when a bomb exploded in amoving bus at Kalaski.

26-Jun-98 Istanbul Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 Unidentified persons fired seven oreight shots from a car into the ATVtelevision station building in Istanbul.Four of the bullets hit the window ofthe building.

26-Jun-98 NefteyuganskRussia Unknown Firearms0 1 Vladimir Petukhov, mayor ofNefteyugansk, was assassinated ashe left his home to go to work. Theassailant was lying in wait for himand shot him in the temple and againin the chest. Petukhov died threehours later.

27-Jun-98 DonjeGodance

FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms0 0 Three ethnic Albanians, VaseljiAhmeti, an employee in themunicipality of Stimlje, Sucri Zumeri,a farmer and Agim Ademi, werekidnapped by Albanian separatists.

28-Jun-98 Ajaccio France Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device was thrown atthe gendarmerie barracks at Ajaccio.The damage was slight. This is oneof two explosive attacks ongendarmerie barracks in Corsica onthe same night.

28-Jun-98 Burgo France Unknown Explosives1 0 An explosive device was thrown atthe gendarmerie barracks at Burgo.The blast damaged the doors andwindows of the building. Onegendarme suffering from severeshock was admitted to the hospital.This is one of two explosive attackson gendarmerie barracks in Corsicaon the same night.

28-Jun-98 Jammu Kashmir Unknown Explosives15 0 At least fifteen people were injuredwhen a powerful explosive devicewent off at a famous picnic spot atAchaval Garden. The device washidden by suspected militants in alunch box.

28-Jun-98 BaliklicayTurkey Unknown Unknown0 2 Unidentified individuals set up a roadblock near Baliklicay village on theBingol-Sancak highway and stoppeda village minibus. The assailantsforced two passengers out andmurdered them. The victims wereidentified as Bulent Firat, a TurkishElectricity Distribution Corporationemployee, and Ahmet Bayer, asoldier who was going home onleave.

29-Jun-98 CrnoljevoFRY(Kosovo)


Firearms0 0 Armed ethnic Albanians, identifyingthemselves as members of theKosovo Liberation Army (KLA),hijacked a bus and abducted fourSerbian passengers. All ethnicAlbanian passengers were allowed toleave.

30-Jun-98 Athens Greece RevolutionaryCells

Explosives1 0 A policeman was injured by anexplosive device planted in thebuilding which houses the SupremeCouncil of Personnel Selection. Theattack was claimed by theRevolutionary Cells and may berelated to the way teachers are hiredor possibly to the Ionian Bankprivatization.

30-Jun-98 Marseille France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives2 0 The Corsican National LiberationFront-Historic Wing (FLNC-CanalHistorique) claimed responsibility foran explosive attack on a post officein downtown Marseille. Two peoplewere slightly injured in the blast.Note: FLNC accuses the governmentof seeking to establish a colonial-style fascist order in Corsica. Theyalso attacked the judicial system.

1-Jul-98 Geneva SwitzerlandUnknown Firearms1 0 A member of the Kosovo EthnicAlbanian Office in Geneva was shotand wounded when he tried toprevent two masked men fromentering the center. The head of thecenter had been the target of agrenade attack at his Geneva homein 1989.

1-Jul-98 BabEzzaouar

Algeria Unknown Explosives3 1 A parcel bomb exploded at the ElDjorf market in Bab Ezzouar, killingone person and wounding threeothers.

1-Jul-98 Brcko Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device was thrown atthe house of Enes Dzonlic, a refugeereturning to the Brcko area underAnnexe 7 of the Dayton Accord.Dzonlic has all necessary documentsfrom international institutions toreturn to the village. No one washurt in the blast, but there wasconsiderable material damagecaused.

2-Jul-98 Caracas VenezuelaUnknown Explosives0 0 Authorities defused a homemadebomb hidden in the east-downtownmetro station in Caracas.

2-Jul-98 KhartoumSudan Unknown Explosives0 0 Two individuals with explosives wereprevented from blowing up theKharoun airport.

2-Jul-98 Soba Sudan Unknown Explosives0 0 Several explosions at an electricalpower plant cut power to severalparts of Khartoum.

2-Jul-98 LiaquatabadPakistan Unknown Firearms2 2 Unidentified terrorists ambushed aparamilitary rangers patrol killingone police office, Dildar and injuringthe head constable, Mumtaz. Duringthe same incident Imran Ali, a privatecitizen was kidnapped and shot todeath. Shahid Khan, a privatecitizen, was also injured.

2-Jul-98 MoinabadPakistan Unknown Firearms0 2 Rana Gulam Hussain, an AssistantSub-Inspector and Sabir Ali, a HeadConstable of Saudqabad Police, weregunned down in Moinabad. A callerinformed the police of the location ofthe bodies.

2-Jul-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms1 1 An unidentified person was killed andMohammad Asif, a worker, wasinjured when three armed personsopened fire in Karachi's Park Colony.Asif was working at a lathe machineshop.

2-Jul-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 1 Jamal, a former councilor belongingto the Motahidda Qaumi Movement(MQM), was shot and killed by twoindividuals while sitting in NSPCantoment Branch in the Cantomentbuilding.Another source said thisformer counciilor belonged to theopposition Pakistan People's Party(PPP). The body was found in thecentral Liquatabad area.

2-Jul-98 LondonderryNorthernIreland


2 0 Two petrol bombs were thrown at thewindow of the home of an elderlyCatholic couple in Londonderry. Theblast set fire to the living room andboth residents were treated forshock.



0 0 Two petrol bombs were thrown at aCatholic family's home inLondonderry. The devices explodedagainst the side wall of the houseand caused some scorch damage.

3-Jul-98 Getxo Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Unidentified arsonists set fire to a barowned by the Popular Party CouncilorSabino Fernandez in the VizcayaProvince of Getxo. There were noinjuries.

3-Jul-98 Jabalal-'Arshi

Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device went off in thesouthern suburb of Jabul al-'Arshinear the highway leading to Aden.

3-Jul-98 Pristina FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at the crossroadsof the neighborhood of Dardania inPristina, damaging at least three carsand the Vocar drugstore which isunder Serb management. No onehas claimed responsibility for theattack.

3-Jul-98 Kralijevo FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in front of thebuilding housing the office of theKablar constructing company fromKralijevo. No one was injured in theblast, but the damage was extensive.Several cars were destroyed, andwindow panes on shops and nearbyhouses were shattered.

3-Jul-98 Newry NorthernIreland


0 0 Arsonists attacked an Orange Orderhall near Newry in County Downduring the night. The extent of thedamage was not reported. Policesuspect the attack was in retaliationfor the attack on ten Catholicchurches the previous night.

4-Jul-98 Porto-Vecchio


Explosives0 0 The Corsican National LiberationFront-Historic Wing claimedresponsibility for an attemptedattack against the gendarmerie inPorto-Vecchio. An explosive charge,whose detonating device had notworked, was discovered outside thewall of the station.

4-Jul-98 Pasajes Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Unknown individuals set fire to aBanco Central Hispano cashdispenser in the town of Pasajes,completely burning it out.

4-Jul-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 1 Zuhair Akram Nadeem, formermember of the National Assembly,was shot and killed by unidentifiedgunmen while he was inspecting ahouse under construction in Karachi.

4-Jul-98 UmraniyeTurkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Unidentified persons threw a Molotovcocktail at a vehicle belonging to theRetirement Fund, causing materialdamage in Umraniye in IstanbulProvince.

4-Jul-98 Qarnah Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device went off at thetelevision transmitter station in thevillage of Qarnah. Shots werereportedly fired after the explosion.No casualties were reported.

4-Jul-98 PiasecznoPoland Unknown Explosives1 0 A Renault Espace car driving in thedirection of central Warsaw explodedand severely injured a resident ofWarsaw, Thomasz J. A bomb hadbeen placed under the Renault.

5-Jul-98 Hebron WestBank/Gaza

Committeefor theSecurityof theHighways

Unknown0 0 A Jewish settlement group, TheCommittee for Security on the Roads,claimed responsibility for an attackagainst vehicles of the Palestinianpolice in Hebron.

6-Jul-98 Konur Turkey Unknown Explosives0 6 Six people died attempting toremove mines placed on the road inSemdinli county by separatist rebels.

6-Jul-98 Tokat Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 1 Eight unidentified persons blockedthe road from Ordu's Akkus toTokat's Niksar Districts. Theystopped a bus, checked theidentifications of the passengers andset fire to the bus. Later, theterrorists stopped Mustafa Eryilmaz,the Deputy Director of the UnyeMaximum Security Prison, and killedhim.

7-Jul-98 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 An unidentified individual threwthree hand grenades at theresidence of Hun Sen, Cambodia'sSecond Prime Minister. Hun Sen wasin Siem Reap at the time of theattack. This is the third attackinvolving explosives in Phnom Penhsince National Assembly electionswere held on 26 July. The two majoropposition parties have been holdingdemonstrations since, claiming fraudand demanding Hun Sen'sresignation.

8-Jul-98 KurukopruTurkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A group of unidentified individualsburned the telephone exchangestation belonging to the DirectorateGeneral of Post, Telegraph andTelephone in Kurukopru village,leaving ten villages withoutcommunications. The individualstook ten people hostage.

8-Jul-98 Erzincan Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 A group of armed persons attacked atrain on its way from Erzincan to Ilicwith rifles. Various shots were firedat the train, but no one was killed orinjured. After the train had passed, ahighly explosive bomb went off,damaging the track.

8-Jul-98 Cakirsu Turkey Unknown Firearms2 1 A group of unidentified individuals,disguised as soldiers, murderedCafer Avci, the village Mukhtar, byfiring upon his house with automaticweapons. His wife, Elmas Avci, andEcevit Koksal, a guest in the house,were wounded.

9-Jul-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Explosives2 0 A powerful bomb blast near ShaheenComplex in Karachi injured twopeople and caused three vehicles tocatch on fire.

9-Jul-98 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 Two grenades were thrown at thehouse of Cambodia's Justice Minister,Chem Snguon, but failed to explode.One grenade landed in the garage,and the other was found by policeoutside the house.

9-Jul-98 Agri Turkey Unknown Explosives0 1 Two hand grenades were hurled byan unidentified person or persons atthe Ahmedi Hani quarter of Agri. Aseven-year-old child, Redvan Alkan,was killed in one of the explosions.The second explosion shattered thewindows of various houses.

9-Jul-98 Hebron WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms0 0 Several shots were fired at a carcarrying Jewish settlers in Hebron.No one was hurt in the attack,although bullets penetrated the sideof the vehicle.

9-Jul-98 Bijeljina Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 2 Two people were killed as theyattempted to plant an explosivedevice under Ljubisa Savic-Mauzer'scar. Savic-Mauzer is the head of theBosnian police force. The bomb --set to go off as the car door wasopened or the engine started -- wentoff, killing the two would-beassassins.

9-Jul-98 PhnomPenh

CambodiaUnknown Explosives0 0 Two grenades were thrown at thehome of Cambodia's Justice Minister,Chem Snuguon, but failed toexplode. One grenade landed thegarage while the other was foundinside the house. The bombs did notexplode. Investigators believe thatthe attack may have been politicallymotivated.

9-Jul-98 GuaynaboPuertoRico

Unknown Explosives0 0 Five people were arrested as theyattempted to plant homemadeexplosive devices at the Puerto RicoTelephone Company headquarters inGuaynabo. The suspects possessedfour bombs that were made of acid,metal, keys and shards of glass. Thisincident comes about a month afterthe Puerto Rican government signeda deal where the Puerto RicoTelephone Company was sold to aconsortium led by USCommunications company, GTECorporation.


Unknown Explosives0 0 Police arrested three men carryingexplosive devices, intending to usethem within minutes. The menwere posing as students. A motiveand target is unknown.

10-Jul-98 Krajina Croatia Unknown Explosives2 0 Two people were injured when theirvehicle set off two mines placedoutside a house under renovation.One of the wounded was a CroatSerb and one was a Croat. This isthe latest incident in the context ofprevious threats against the return offormer Croatian-Serb inhabitants tothe area.

11-Jul-98 BallymoneyNorthernIreland


0 3 Three young brothers. Richard,March and Jason Quin, died aftertheir home was firebombed in asectarian attack in Ballymoney.Authorities say that the home wasattacked because the boys' mother isa Catholic. The Loyalist communityis being blamed for the murders.

11-Jul-98 Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives42 17 A bomb exploded at an Algiers fleamarket, killing seventeen people andinjuring forty-two others.

12-Jul-98 NorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 Northern Ireland security forcesdefused a large quantity ofexplosives planted on a roadsidebetween Moy and Armagh.

12-Jul-98 Kampala Uganda Unknown Explosives3 1 One person died and several otherswho were watching a World Cupsoccer final were injured in twosequential bomb blasts in Kampala.Bull Sesimba died at Isabella Pub andGodfrey Lubwama had his left legblown off at Slow Boat Pub.

13-Jul-98 Newry UnitedKingdom

Unknown Explosives0 0 A Nissan car containing a 500-lbhomemade explosive device wasdefused by the Army in Newry. Thecar was parked outside the NewryCourt House.

13-Jul-98 Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device was found anddeactivated on board a tanker thatwas traveling to the country's maingas and oil installations.

13-Jul-98 JerusalemWestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives1 0 An Arab resident of Jerusalem wasinjured when an explosive chargewent off near Orient House.

13-Jul-98 Sivas'Divrigi

Turkey Unknown Unknown0 4 A group of separatists dragged ZekiBoztep, Recep Turkman, SinanTurkman and Feriha Turkman to thevillage center and after delivering aspeech on the separatistorganization, massacred the fourindividuals. After burning a house,the separatists escaped.

14-Jul-98 Tokca Turkey Unknown Unknown1 5 A group of separatists attacked theTokca village, killing five people,including Hanifi Polat, the Headmanof Tokca, and injuring one otherperson.

15-Jul-98 Oslo Norway Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device was discoveredunder a Norwegian Defense Ministryofficial's car in Oslo. The bomb wassafely defused.

15-Jul-98 VavuniyaSriLanka


Explosives4 5 Five people were killed when theDolphin van they were driving in wasblown up by a suspected LiberationTiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) mine inVavuniya. The victims wereSaravanabhavanandanShanmuganathan, a member ofparliament, his son Wathsalan,another relative, Stanislaus Cassiusand two of their police security. Theexplosion occurred only a half a mileaway from the MP's house.

15-Jul-98 BethlehemWestBank/Gaza

Committeefor theSecurityof theHighways

Unknown0 0 A Jewish settlement organization, theCommittee for the Security of theRoads, claimed responsibility for anattack against vehicles of thePalestinian police in Bethlehem.

15-Jul-98 Sida Georgia Unknown Explosives0 6 A cart carrying six inhabitants of Sidawas blown up on an anti-tank mine,killing all six instantly. Governmentofficials blame the Georgiansubversive groups for the attack.

15-Jul-98 Warsaw Poland Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb placed on the Nissan Terranobelonging to a well-known Warsawbusinessman exploded. No one waskilled in the blast.

15-Jul-98 BallycastleNorthernIreland


0 0 An Orange Order Hall was damagedwhen it was firebombed inBallycastle. No further information isavailable.

16-Jul-98 Assam India Unknown Firearms3 6 Six people were killed and threeinjured seriously when Bodo militantsopened fire on a group of people whohad gone to Tipkai reserve forest tocollect firewood. All victims belongto the minority community.

16-Jul-98 Kukes Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in a pharmacylocated on the first floor of anapartment building in Kukes. TheTNT explosion caused materialdamage to the apartment buildingand shattered windows of nearbybuildings.

17-Jul-98 Hispania Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Explosives0 0 The Che Guevara Front of theNational Liberation Army (ELN)claimed responsibility for anexplosive blast on the house ofLiberal Senator Mario Urbe. Theblast caused no casualties.

17-Jul-98 Lasarte Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Unknown individuals threw a numberof incendiary devices at a transmitterstation owned by Airtel mobile phonecompany in Lasarte.

17-Jul-98 Limerick Ireland Unknown Explosives2 0 Two police officers were slightlyinjured when an explosive devicesent to a business address atLimerick exploded while it was beingdealt with by Irish Army experts.

17-Jul-98 Tipaza Algeria Unknown Explosives2 0 A homemade explosive device lefttwo people wounded in Tipaza.

17-Jul-98 RaisHamidou

Algeria Unknown Explosives3 0 Three people were seriouslywounded by a homemade bomb thatexploded at Franco Beach.

17-Jul-98 Metohija FRY(Kosovo)

Unknown Firearms1 0 Unidentified ethnic Albanians beat upSergey Mitin, a journalist for theRussian newspaper, Izvestiya. Theassailants used firearms to get Mitinto pull his car over on the road wherethey began beating him with the gun.

18-Jul-98 AmorebietaSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Between fifteen and twenty hoodedindividuals attacked the Ertzaintzastation in Amorebieta with Molotovcocktails which burned out twoErtzaintza vehicles. No one wasinjured in the attack.

18-Jul-98 Kampala Uganda Unknown Explosives0 0 An American-made grenade droppedby unidentified individuals atNakivubo Place Road in centralKampala was deactivated. Witnessesclaimed that cars bearing Kenyanregistration numbers were sighted inthe area.

19-Jul-98 SanSebastian


0 0 A number of unidentified individualsthrew two Molotov cocktails at theinstallations of the COPE RadioNetwork in San Sebastian. Thedevices did not cause major damage.

19-Jul-98 Belfast NorthernIreland

Unknown Firearms0 1 Andy Kearny, a Catholic man, wasdragged from his home, shot and leftto bleed to death by a gang after aviolent confrontation with a seniorIrish Republican Army (IRA) official.

19-Jul-98 Echarri-Aranaz


0 0 Unknown persons intercepted thevan distributing the Pamplona dailyDiario de Navarra newspaper andburned the copies of the paper.

19-Jul-98 Ajaccio France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 An explosive device damaged theoffices of the General Police FriendlySociety in Ajaccio. The attack causedno casualties and was claimed by theCorsican National Liberation Front-Historic Wing (FLNC-CanalHistorique).

19-Jul-98 JerusalemWestBank/Gaza

Unknown Explosives1 0 An explosion in West Jerusaleminjured citizen Jalal Sarhan from al-Am'ari Refugee Camp. Thecircumstances surrounding theexplosion are unknown.

19-Jul-98 BeydegirmeniTurkey Unknown Unknown0 2 A group of separatists blocked theroad near Beydegirmeni village,stopping an International HighwayTransport truck, another truck and aminibus. The terrorists forced thepassengers to leave their vehiclesand killed two of them.

20-Jul-98 CasabiandaFrance CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 An explosive device went off near abuilding used as a canteen by prisonofficers, causing serious damage. Nocasualties were reported. TheCorsican National Liberation Front-Historic Wing (FLNC-CanalHistorique) claimed responsibility forthe attack.

20-Jul-98 Garm Tajikistan Unknown Unknown0 4 Four members of the United Nationsobserver mission in Tajikistan --citizens of Poland, Tajikistan,Uruguay and Japan -- were killed nearthe settlement of Garm.

21-Jul-98 La Pava Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 At least 3,000 barrels of oil werespilled due to a new attack on theCano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline.Unidentified individuals ignitedexplosives near La Pava hamlet.

21-Jul-98 Skopje MacedoniaUnknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in central Skopjenear the Prosvetno Delo publishinghouse. The attack was preceded bytwo bombs, the first planted on arailroad and the second near amilitary barracks.

21-Jul-98 KumanovoMacedoniaUnknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded near the railroadstation when the international trainfrom Bucharest to Athens was inmotion. The bomb coincides withtwo other attacks, one on a militarybarracks in Kumanovo and one on apublishing company in Skopje.

21-Jul-98 Aspretto France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Firearms0 0 There was a machine gun attack on abuilding belonging to CRS riot policein Aspretto. Details of the attackwere unavailable. Police laterarrested ten men believed to be partof the Corsican National LiberationFront (FLNC)-Historic Wing.

22-Jul-98 Miomo France Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device destroyed thecar of a policeman in Miomo butinjured no one. The car was parkedoutside the home of the Bastia policeofficer.

22-Jul-98 Rome Italy Mujahideen-I-Khalq(MK)

Unknown0 0 Five members of the Mujahideen-I-Khalq Organization (MKO) attackedthe visiting Iranian Industries MinisterGholam Reza Shafe'I and hisaccompanying delegation as theyentered the ministry compound. Noinjuries were reported.

22-Jul-98 Mudiyah Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion took place near theoffice of the District General, causingdamage to the building in Mudiyah.

22-Jul-98 Mudiyah Yemen Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion took place near thePolitical Security Department inMudiyah, causing no materialdamage and no human losses.

22-Jul-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 Two unidentified people approachedthe City Hall in Makhachkala, tookgrenade launchers out of their bagsand started firing on the mayor'soffice on the fifth floor. Theexplosions broke windows anddamaged the outside of the buildingbut did no other harm.

22-Jul-98 Kapiysk Russia Unknown Firearms0 1 Said Fatakhov, a Deputy at thePeople's Assembly of the Republic ofDagestan, was shot to death as hewas coming out of the entrance ofhis home in Kapiysk.

23-Jul-98 Leioa Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Two hooded individuals threw anumber of Molotov cocktails at theBasque Socialist Party headquartersin Leioa. The attack caused littledamage.

23-Jul-98 Sanaa Yemen EgyptianIslamicJihad

Unknown0 1 A Syrian citizen assassinatedEgyptian propagandist ShaykhMuhammad Salah, imam andpreacher of the al-Husayni mosque inSan'aa. Salah is also believed to bea member of the Egyptian IslamicJihad (EIJ). The police arrested theSyrian man and Shaykh'Abd-al-Muttalib, an Egyptian, in connectionwith the murder. It is believed thatthe EIJ is attempting to purge thegroup of members who havecooperated with the Egyptiangovernment.

23-Jul-98 Grozny Russia Unknown Firearms3 2 Two of the Chechen President'sbodyguards was killed and threeothers wounded in an assassinationattempt on the life of President AslanMaskhadov while he was travellingthrough the streets of Grozny.Maskhadov escaped with bruises, buttwo of his bodyguards were killed.

24-Jul-98 BariBrahmna

Kashmir Unknown Explosives2 1 One soldier was killed and two othersinjured in an explosion near therailway track in Bari Brahmna justafter the Shalimar Express (train)went past.

24-Jul-98 Itamar WestBank/Gaza

Unknown Firearms0 0 Shots were fired at Israeli settlersnear the settlement of Itamar. Policefound bullet cartridges at the scene.There were no casualties reported.

24-Jul-98 Baghdad Iraq Unknown Explosives0 0 A booby-trapped car blew up in theal-Rashid Hotel parking lot, causingno injuries. Cars surrounding theblast were damaged.

25-Jul-98 HuayapanMexico Unknown Unknown2 0 A commando of suspected membersof the Revolutionary People's Armyattacked a police checkpoint,wounding two servicemen, AlbertoCruz and Aurelio Valdiviano.

25-Jul-98 RawalpindiPakistan Unknown Explosives0 0 An Indian-made bomb weighing 12lbs was found planted on the railwaytrack in Rawalpindi, passing overUpper Chenab Canal nearGovernment Islamia CollegeSambrial. The bomb was detectedby a railway chokidar and wasdefused.

25-Jul-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Explosives0 1 An explosive device went off at aprivately owned supermarket inMakhachkala, killing one woman. Nofurther information is provided.

25-Jul-98 KumanovoMacedoniaKosovoLiberationArmy(KLA)

Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in the city center ofKumanovo causing no injuriesdespite the fact that a large group ofyoung people were gathered nearthe site of the blast. The attack maybe connected to the KosovoLiberation Army (KLA).Note: This isthe third bombing in Kumanovo inone week, the other two being at arailway and at a military barracks (21July).

25-Jul-98 WakayamaJapan Unknown ChemicalAgent

60 4 Four people died and some sixtypeople were taken to the hospital formass food poisoning (possiblyinvolving cyanide contamination) at asummer festival in Wakayama. Thefour that died are TakatoshiTaninaka, Takaaki Tanaka, MiyukiTorii, and Hirotaka Hayashi.

26-Jul-98 Renteria Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

5 0 Fifty militants threw Molotovcocktails at a railway halt inGalzaraborda, causing damage to therailway and injuring five people.

26-Jul-98 Delhi India Unknown Explosives5 2 Two people were killed and at leastfive were injured in an explosion in aHarayan Roadways bus at theInterstate Bus Terminal in Delhi. Theblast ripped apart the rear of the busand shattered the windowpanes ofseveral other buses.

27-Jul-98 BucaramangaColombia PopularLiberationArmy(EPL)

Unknown0 0 Gerardo Tamayo Tamayo, a memberof the Chamber of Representativesfor Santander Department, waskidnapped by Popular LiberationArmy (EPL) guerrillas at a roadblockthey set up outside of Bucaramanga.

27-Jul-98 SantaCatarina

Brazil Unknown Unknown0 0 Two Embratel (BrazilianTelecommunications Company)retransmission towers weredamaged, affecting services insouthern Brazil.

27-Jul-98 KadawataSriLanka


Explosives0 0 Two Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) terrorists, having two lethalexplosive devices in their possession,were apprehended near the MobitelTelecom Tower in Kadawata.Note:On 8 May 1998, the same tower wasdamaged by explosive devices of asimilar type.

27-Jul-98 Jhana Kashmir Unknown Firearms0 8 Eight people were killed by militantsin Jhana. The militants entered thetown and began to fireindiscriminately.

27-Jul-98 Sarwarn Kashmir Unknown Firearms3 5 At least five people were killed andthree wounded in Sarwarn asunidentified militants opened fire onthe village.

27-Jul-98 Gagiloni Russia Unknown Explosives3 2 Two servicemen were killed andthree injured when an armoredvehicle of the joint CIS peacekeepingforces was blown up when it hit ananti-tank mine. The attack is beingblamed on Georgian rebels.

27-Jul-98 Rostov-na-Donu

Russia Unknown Explosives1 1 An explosive device went off in acoach of a train at a city station inRotov-na-Donu. One person waskilled and one injured in the blast.The train had just returned fromhaving repairs done at the shopwhen two depot employees noticed asuspicious object in the coach. Thedevice detonated upon contact.


Unknown Firearms2 0 Two Catholic brothers were shot andinjured in a loyalist area ofLondonderry. Police are calling theattack sectarian.

28-Jul-98 Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 Rebel commandos blew up the Cano-Limon oil pipeline. The attackoccurred near Miramar.

28-Jul-98 PortadownNorthernIreland

Unknown Explosives0 0 The army defused an explosivedevice hidden among clothing in aNext store at a shopping center inthe town of Portadown. Three morefires broke out at stores in theshopping center. Police believeincendiary devices were the cause ofthese fires.

28-Jul-98 Kakanj Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in the parishchurch of St. Peter and St. Paul inKakanj. The bomb caused seriousdamage to the church, breaking allthe glass, but caused no injuries.

28-Jul-98 PjesevacKula

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 Five homes, belonging to Bosniakswere blown up in the village ofPjesevac Kula in protest of the returnof the Bosniaks to the area.

29-Jul-98 Nigeria Unknown Firearms0 0 Communities in Nigeria's oil-producing Delta region have takenhostage nine workers (includingseven expatriates) from the US oilgiant Texaco in a row over thehandling of a recent spill.

29-Jul-98 Nalbari India Unknown Explosives29 11 Eleven people were killed andtwenty-nine wounded in a bombexplosion at the Damdama bazaar inNalbari. The bomb exploded in thecrowded weekly market at around11:15 in the morning.

29-Jul-98 YokohamaJapan Unknown Fire orFirebomb

1 0 A fire triggered by a time bombburned the front door and outer wallof a house belonging to a formerairport-talks negotiator in a quietresidential area in Yokohama.Makoto Harunari, currently MaritimeIndustry Division Chief of theTransport Ministry's MaritimeTransport Bureau, suffered minorburns to his left leg.


Unknown Explosives0 0 An unidentified person threw anexplosive device in front of a trolleybus in central Sarajevo. No one wasinjured in the blast.


Unknown Explosives0 0 A hand grenade was activated infront of the independent newspaper,Dani Weekly. The bomb caused nocasualties but damaged five parkedcars and a number of window panes.The target of the attack is still beinginvestigated.

30-Jul-98 Bogota Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Firearms0 0 Seven councilmen from a remotevillage in northern Colombia weretaken captive by the RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colombia (FARC)and forced to participate in thetakeover of the US Embassy publicarea. The hostages were laterreleased through the intervention ofthe International Committee of theRed Cross, Amnesty Internationaland Colombia's humanitarianorganizations.

30-Jul-98 Brussels Belgium Unknown Firearms0 0 Unidentified persons opened fire onthe Yugoslav Embassy building inBrussels. No one was hurt in theattack.

30-Jul-98 Baraki Algeria Unknown Explosives13 1 One person was killed, and thirteenothers were injured when a parcelbomb exploded on a taxi-bus inBaraki near Algiers.

30-Jul-98 Algeria Unknown Explosives14 4 A homemade bomb went off near afarm called Haoch Ouled Bey nearMedea, killing four people andinjuring fourteen others.

30-Jul-98 Kakanj Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device was set off atthe Catholic Church in Kakanj,causing material damage but nocasualties. Government officialsclaim that the attack is aimed atdestruction of coexistence in Bosnia.


Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in the Dardanianeighborhood of Pristina in betweentwo blocks of flats in front of awarehouse of household appliancesowned by Albanian, Ismajli.


Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded in Pristina near twoSerb cafes which police officers areknown to frequent. The attackcaused no casualties, and itcoincides with another in aresidential area.

30-Jul-98 Greece RevolutionaryCells

Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded at a ASEP (CivilService Employment Agency) office.The Revolutionary Cells groupclaimed responsibility and statedthat the attack was against thecoming of the modern terrorist state,which recently put on a show of forceoutside the premises of theexamination center.

31-Jul-98 Algiers Algeria Unknown Explosives18 2 Two people were killed and eighteenpeople injured when a parcel bombwent off at a market in Algiers. Thebomb went off at the Jolie-Vuehousing estate. It had been plantedunder the stall of a vegetable sellernear a power pylon which wasdamaged in the blast.

31-Jul-98 SidiLarbi

Algeria Unknown Explosives0 3 Three people were killed in anexplosion at the entrance to the SidiM'Barek Cemetery. The explosivedevice went off after a group ofunidentified individuals abducted achild and lured those searching forthe child into the cemetery.

31-Jul-98 JerusalemIsrael Unknown Fire orFirebomb

1 0 A firebomb was thrown at a trucknear the al-Ram junction of NorthJerusalem. The driver was slightlywounded.

31-Jul-98 Travnik Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives1 1 A police officer was killed and a childwounded when an explosive device,placed in a garbage container infront of a Muslim-Croatian policestation, went off. The police officerwas identified as Anto Valjan.

1-Aug-98 Avignon France CorsicanNationalLiberationFront(FLNC)

Explosives0 0 The Corsican National LiberationFront-Historic Wing (FLNC-CanalHistorique) claimed responsibility foran explosive attack on the Vauclusegendarmerie headquarters inAvignon. No casualties werereported.

1-Aug-98 BainbridgeNorthernIreland


Explosives35 0 The Real Irish Republican Army(RIRA) claimed responsibility for a carbomb attack in Bainbridge that left35 people injured and caused millionof pounds worth of damage. Theattack targeted local businesses.

1-Aug-98 Jajce Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives4 0 An explosive device went off in aLivnobus (transport company)traveling between Jajce and Splitnear the Turist Hotel. Fourpassengers were injured in the blast.

2-Aug-98 Colombia NationalLiberationArmy ofColombia(ELN)

Unknown0 0 National Liberation Army (ELN)guerillas in police uniforms set upfalse roadblocks on the road linkingthe towns of Riohacha andValledepar and abducted SenatorCarlos Espinosa Facio-Lince. Twoother people were kidnapped andlater released.Note: ELN releasedSenator Espinosa on 20 September1998.

2-Aug-98 Belfast NorthernIreland


Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Two shops and a pub in Belfast citycenter were hit by incendiary bombs.The Real Irish Republican Army(RIRA) claimed the attack in thesame statement in which theyclaimed the Bainbridge attack whichtook place on 1 August 1998.

2-Aug-98 Amarpur India NationalLiberationFront ofTripura(NLFT)

Unknown0 3 The National Liberation Front ofTripura (NLFT) killed three peopleand abducted one other fromAmarpur.

3-Aug-98 Cordoba Colombia RevolutionaryArmedForces ofColombia(FARC)

Unknown0 3 Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) guerrillas attackedthe town of Cordoba, damaging themayor's office, a bank branch and atelephone office. In addition to thedamage, two policemen and onecivilian were killed.

3-Aug-98 Turin Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 A letter bomb was sent to ANSAjournalist, Daniele Genco. The reportdoes not reveal if the journalist wasinjured.Note: Authorities believe thatthis bomb could be connected withothers found in the following days,including one sent to Vallette Prison(23 August 1998), one sent togovernment official PasqualeCavaliere (4 August 1998) andanother found in a Rome post office(5 August 1998).

3-Aug-98 Turin Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 A letter bomb was sent to the TurinMagistrate, Maurizio Laudi. It wasnot reported if Laudi was injured inthe attack.Note: Authorities believethat this bomb could be connectedwith others found in the followingdays, including one sent to VallettePrison (23 August 1998), one sent togovernment official PasqualeCavaliere (4 August 1998) andanother found in a Rome post office(5 August 1998).

3-Aug-98 Karachi Pakistan Unknown Firearms0 10 Three prominent Sunni and Shiiteulema and seven other people werekilled by unidentified armedattackers in the port city of Karachi.

3-Aug-98 HimachalPradesh

Kashmir Unknown Firearms6 35 Thirty-five laborers were killed andsix others wounded when a group ofunidentified individuals opened fireindiscriminately on the village ofHimachal Pradesh as the residentswere sleeping.

3-Aug-98 Jakarta IndonesiaUnknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Two petrol bombs were thrown at thehome of Jakarta's Governor, Sutiyoso.One bomb exploded but only set thefloor of the guard post on fire. Theother failed to explode at all. Noinjuries were reported.

3-Aug-98 Jakarta IndonesiaUnknown Explosives0 0 Two petrol bombs were thrown at thehome of Jakarta's governor, Sutiyoso.One of the bombs failed to explode,while the other exploded, but setonly the guard post on fire.

4-Aug-98 SanCarlos


Unknown0 0 Four government officials werekidnapped by National LiberationArmy (ELN) rebels. The governmentofficials were identified as HectorOsorio Arango, Concepcion's mayor;Hector Emilio Piedrahita, Anori'smayor; Nair de Jesus Atheortua,Angostura's mayor; and, CarlosGuillermo Osorio, a councilman.Police resisting the armed groupseventually ran out of ammunitionand were also abducted.Note: RCNreports (20 September 1998) thatELN rebels released the followingmayors on 19 September 1998:Hector Emilio Piedrahita, GustavoLujan, and Nair Atheortua, CarlosZuluaga, Margarita Martinez, HectorOsorio, and Jorge Arias. The mayorshad been accused of ...favoring theactivities of rightwing paramilitarygroups... in the towns they govern.

4-Aug-98 LaPesquera


Explosives0 0 The Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) blew up the Cano-Limon oil pipeline in La Pesquera.

4-Aug-98 QuebradaCanoNegro


Explosives0 0 The Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) blew up a portion ofthe Cano-Limon oil pipeline inQuebrada Cano Negro.

4-Aug-98 Turin Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 A letter bomb was sent to a regionalgovernment official, PasqualeCavaliere of the Green Party. It isunknown if Cavaliere was injured inthe attack.

4-Aug-98 Saint-Palais

France Iparretarrak(IK)

Explosives0 0 An explosive device severelydamaged a branch of the BanquePopulaire in Saint-Palais. Althoughno one has claimed responsibility forthe attack, police believe theIparretarrak group is responsible forthe blast.Iparretarrak.Iparretarrak(the Northerners in Basque) is anillegal armed Basque nationalistorganization operating in the FrenchBasque Country. It has targetedtouristic developments.It has had anuneasy relation with ETA, a morepowerful organization based in theSpanish Basque Country. In spite ofthe similarity of ideology, ETA usedthe French Basque Country as asanctuary and did not want toprovoke the French Government.

4-Aug-98 Algeria Unknown Explosives3 2 Two people were killed and threeothers seriously injured when a bombthat was placed on the road near thevillage of Ouled Ali exploded

4-Aug-98 Punch Kashmir Unknown Firearms0 19 Nineteen people were shot and killedby unidentified gunmen in Punch.The victims belonged to threefamilies said to be those ofsurrendered militants and their closerelatives.

4-Aug-98 HaramoshPakistan Unknown Firearms1 1 A US national, Edward French, wasshot to death and his wife, SuzanPetterson was injured by unidentifiedgunmen in Haramosh. The couplewere tourists. The assailants left thecouple's luggage intact.

4-Aug-98 Yitzhar WestBank/Gaza


Firearms0 2 Two Israeli students, Shlomo Limanand Har'el Bin-Nun, were murderedin an ambush terrorist attack outsidethe community of Yitzhar. The twostudents were shot at close range.The track of the attackers led to oneof the neighboring Arab villages.Hamas claimed responsibility for theattack.

4-Aug-98 NoviGrad

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 Police have arrested HarisHadzibecirovic for throwing agrenade in Novi Grad municipality.The explosion damaged several cars,but no injuries were reported.

5-Aug-98 Rome Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 A letter bomb was found in the Romepost office. The bomb wasaddressed to the head of the Houseof Justice Commission, GiulianoPisapia, a deputy for the CommunistRefoundation. Casualties were notreported.

6-Aug-98 SantaFe deBogota

Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device placed on thestreet near El Dorado InternationalAirport runway 1 exploded andcaused material damage to thehomes under construction in thearea.

6-Aug-98 Narli Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 Bahcesaray mayor, Naci Orhan, amember of the Motherland Party,was kidnapped by separatists outsidethe village of Narli. The mayor waslater released on 11 August. Themayor was abducted at a fakeroadblock along with three otherpeople, including Sadullah Erhan, M.Sait Aykut and an unidentified 14-year-old boy.

6-Aug-98 KagizmanTurkey Unknown Firearms0 0 A group of separatists abducted twoshepherds and eight hundredanimals at Kagizman. Theseparatists set the shepherds freeand opened fire on the animals.

7-Aug-98 SantaFe deBogota

Colombia Unknown Explosives0 0 Colombian police defused a car bombthat was placed in a residential areain northeast Santa Fe de Bogota.The bomb was defused just hoursbefore the start of conservativeAndres Pastrana's Presidentialinauguration ceremony.

7-Aug-98 Milan Italy Unknown Explosives0 0 A letter bomb was sent to Milanaddressed to Umberto Gay, caucusleader for Communist Refoundationin the city government. Gay is activein promoting dialogue betweeninstitutions and Italy's most famoussocial center, the Leoncavallo Centerin Milan. The bomb was defused.Note: Authorities believe that thisbomb could be connected with othersfound in the following days, includingone sent to Vallette Prison (23August 1998), one sent togovernment official, PasqualeCavaliere (4 August 1998) andanother found in a Rome post office(5 August 1998).

7-Aug-98 Nairobi Kenya Al Qaeda Explosives5000 213 A suicide car bomb exploded outsidethe US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya,killing at least 213 people, including12 US nationals, and injuring morethan 5,000 people. It is unclear howmany Americans were injured in theattack. The blast occurred almost atthe same time that another suicidecar bomb detonated outside the USEmbassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.At least ten people were killed in thatattack, none of them Americans. Theattack has been claimed by Al-Qaeda.In October 2001, Mohamedal-'Owhali, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed,Mohamed Odeh and Wadih el Hagewere sentenced in a New York courtto life in prison for their roles in thetwo attacks. This was the first USprosecution involving members of AlQaeda.

7-Aug-98 Dar esSalaam

Tanzania Al Qaeda Explosives77 11 A suicide car bomb exploded outsidethe U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam.The attack coincides with anothersuicide attack on the US Embassy inKenya. The blast killed at leasteleven individuals and injuredseventy-seven others. No Americanswere killed in the attack, and it isunclear how many were injured.Osama Bin Laden's group Al-Qaedahas claimed responsibility for theblast.In October 2001, Mohamedal-'Owhali, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed,Mohamed Odeh and Wadih el Hagewere sentenced in a New York courtto life in prison for their roles in thetwo attacks. This was the first USprosecution involving members of AlQaeda.

8-Aug-98 Saposoa Peru Unknown Unknown0 3 A column of at least 30 militantsattacked Sapasoa's main squarewhere the neighborhood alliance washolding a political rally. Three peoplewere killed including Celso RodriguezVargas, mayor of Saposoa.

8-Aug-98 Hatton SriLanka

Unknown Explosives0 0 A bomb exploded on the rail trackbetween Hatton and Razella. Noinjuries were reported.

8-Aug-98 MakhachkalaRussia Unknown Remote-detonatedexplosive

2 0 A bomb, planted in a UAZ police van,was detonated by remote control,causing extensive damage to thevan. The van was parked just a fewmeters from a commercial storeoutside the central market inMakhachkala. A police officer andone passerby are reported to havebeen injured from the blast.

9-Aug-98 Irun Spain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 A group of hooded individuals stageda Molotov cocktail attack on the firstcarriage of a Eusko Tren (BasqueRailway) in Irun. No one was hurt inthe attack.

9-Aug-98 Trabzon Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 1 A group of four unidentifiedindividuals arrived at the AkyuzHotel, asked the guests to leave thehotel and then set fire to the buildingwith Molotov cocktails, killing thehotel owner Mustafa Akyuz.

9-Aug-98 DomodedovoRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 An unidentified man seized a TU-154airplane with 97 passengers aboard.The plane left from Ust-Ilimsk,Siberia, and arrived at Moscow'sDomodedovo Airport. The mandemanded 621,000 rubles($100,000) and that the plane befilled with fuel to be flown to a thirdcountry. He threatened to explodethe plane if his demands were notmet. All passengers were released,and police are investigating theincident.

9-Aug-98 PuertoNuevo


Unknown0 0 While visiting Puerto Nuevo, JoseMaria Cuellar, the mayor ofCantagallo (Bolivar Department), waskidnapped by rebels from the EdgarAmilkar Grimaldo Baron Front of theNational Liberation Army (ELN). Nofurther information is provided.

10-Aug-98


Unknown0 0 Nestor Gallego, Vegachi's mayor,was kidnapped by rebels from theMaria Cano Front of the NationalLiberation Army (ELN). No furtherinformation is provided.

11-Aug-98

ValleduparColombia Unknown Unknown0 1 Amparo Jimenez, a journalist, wasmurdered as she prepared for PeaceWeek.

12-Aug-98

BarrancabermejaColombia Unknown Explosives2 0 Two bomb explosions injured twopeople and damaged an oil pipeline,banks and stores. No furtherinformation is provided.

12-Aug-98

HammamRigha

Algeria Unknown Explosives11 7 A bomb targeting the Algiers-OranTrain went off, killing sevenpassengers and wounding elevenothers.

12-Aug-98

CapeTown

SouthAfrica

Unknown Explosives0 0 The bomb disposal unit carried out acontrolled explosion of a suspiciouspackage at the gates of PresidentNelson Mandela's Cape Town office.The device was planted ahead ofPalestinian President Yasir Arafat'sarrival at the Parliament.

13-Aug-98

SidiFredj

Algeria Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device planted in thesand at a seaside resort exploded.No one was hurt in the attack.

13-Aug-98

Kumcati Turkey Unknown Unknown0 0 Separatists abducted two shepherds,Ibrahim Ozer and Seref Kirac, on 13August near Kumcati. The shepherdswere released early the next week.

13-Aug-98

Bayburt Turkey Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Twelve individuals blocked the mainroad of the Erzurum-Trabzonhighway, stopped fifteen vehicles,subjected the passengers toorganizational propaganda, robbedthem and burned their cars. Theterrorists ran away shouting, Bayburtand Trabzon never paid taxes to us.This is a warning. Pay your taxes ontime. If you do not do this, the endawaits you. We will, from now on,also threaten your life.

13-Aug-98

Mijici Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosion occurred in Mijici whichwas followed by three bursts ofautomatic fire that could be heardfive minutes later. The attack ispossibly related to those who areunhappy with the return of Bosniaksto the Jablanica area. No furtherinformation is provided.

14-Aug-98

SriLanka


Unknown0 0 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) rebels hijacked a Dubai-ownedcargo ship off Sri Lanka'snortheastern coast. On board weretwenty-one crew members, includingsixteen Indian nationals. The crewwas released later in the day.

14-Aug-98

Istanbul Turkey RevolutionaryPeoples'LiberationParty-Front(DHK

Explosives4 0 A bomb exploded in front of theIstanbul University LiteratureDepartment. The blast injured four,including one police officer. TheRevolutionary People's LiberationParty - Front (DKHP-C) claimedresponsibility for the attack.

14-Aug-98

SaravenaColombia Unknown Explosives0 0 Rebels dynamited a section of theCano Limon-Covenas oil pipelinebetween the municipalities ofSaravena and Samore.

14-Aug-98

Kabul AfghanistanUnknown Firearms1 1 UN officials with the United NationsSpecial Mission in Afghanistan(UNSMA) were attacked in Kabul.One man, an Italian Colonel, CarmineCalo, was killed in the incident. Theattack was made in broad daylight ona UN vehicle taking the officer and aFrench colleague to the UN offices.The attack comes on the heels of U.S. strikes in Afghanistan to try toeliminate terrorist cells, after the UNembassy explosions in Kenya andTanzania.

15-Aug-98

Omagh NorthernIreland


Explosives24 29 Twenty-nine people were killed anddozens wounded when a car bombexploded in Omagh. The attack wasclaimed by the Real Irish RepublicanArmy (RIRA). The bomb shattered atleast three buildings, leaving manypeople trapped inside. Those killedincluded two Spaniards, Rocio AbadRamos and Fernando Blasco Bacelga.In their claim of responsibility, theRIRA states, it was a commercialtarget, part of an ongoing waragainst the Brits.

15-Aug-98

Aksaray Turkey Unknown Explosives0 0 A time bomb placed on the Aksaray-Yenibosna train was defused by thepolice.

15-Aug-98

Mazer-eSharif

AfghanistanTaliban Firearms0 10 Ten Iranian diplomats and ajournalist were kidnapped and killedby Taliban militia. The diplomatswere abducted from the Iranianconsulate in Mazar-e Shrif. Therewere eleven victims in all, but oneman managed to survive the attack.

16-Aug-98

PramodnagarIndia Unknown Firearms0 2 Two top Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders, Prem SinghOrao and Rathiyo Orao, were shotand killed by militants inPramodnagar.

16-Aug-98

AndhraPradesh

India People'sWarGroup(PWG)

Unknown0 1 A Telugu Desam Party activist waskilled in Andhra Pradesh by People'sWar Group (PWG) militants.

16-Aug-98

Gumuslu Turkey Unknown Explosives2 1 A village guard died when hestepped on a land mine planted byseparatist terrorists outside thevillage of Gumuslu. Two otherindividuals were injured in the blast.

16-Aug-98

al-Sulaymaniyah

Iraq KurdishDemocraticParty

Explosives2 0 The Mesopotamian Cultural Center inal-Sulaymaniyah was bombed. Twoemployees were seriously injured inthe explosion. The attack isattributed to the Kurdish DemocraticParty.

16-Aug-98

Colombia Unknown Unknown0 0 Tulia Marganta Martinez, the mayorof San Francisco (AntioquiaDepartment) was kidnapped. Nofurther information is provided.Note:Incident date is approximate.

17-Aug-98

BatticaloaSriLanka

Unknown Explosives15 0 Fifteen people, including elevencivilians were wounded when amotorcycle bomb exploded near abank in the town of Batticaloa. TheLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) have been blamed for theattack. Four of the injured werepolice officers.

17-Aug-98

Malisevo FRY(Kosovo)


Firearms0 0 Members of the Kosovo LiberationArmy (KLA) abducted Imer and EmirMorina, the Chairman and DeputyChairman of the branch of theDemocratic League of Kosovo. Thetwo had intended to hold a meetingof the DSK branch to discuss thesituation after the expulsion of theKosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fromMalisevo.

17-Aug-98

Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina

Unknown Explosives0 2 A bomb explosion in a bicycle repairshop in Sarajevo killed the owner ofthe shop, Slavko Erceg, and anemployee.

18-Aug-98

StavropolRussia Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device went off at oneof the gas stations in the city ofStavropol. No injuries were reported.

19-Aug-98

AmorebietaSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 Several Molotov cocktails werethrown at the Batzoki-PNV (BasqueNationalist Party) social center in thetown of Amorebieta. The attackdamaged the exterior of the buildingand some furniture but did not causeany casualties.

19-Aug-98

BirmandreisAlgeria Unknown Explosives2 0 A bomb went off in a covered fruitand vegetable market inBirmandreis, injuring two people.

19-Aug-98

Gdansk Poland Unknown Explosives0 0 Three cars were badly damaged andeight others bear signs of anexplosion that ensued at a secureparking lot in Gdansk. No one wasinjured in the blast. Among the carsthat were destroyed was a taxibelonging to the Port Taxi Company.An anonymous caller informed thecompany's central telephoneexchange that there would be furtherattacks on their company.

19-Aug-98

Shkoder Albania Unknown Explosives0 0 An explosive device detonated andcaused considerable damage to aChristian Orthodox Church inShkoder. Police are investigating thisattack.

20-Aug-98

PamplonaSpain Unknown Fire orFirebomb

0 0 The home of Asun Apesteguia, theSocialist member of the regionalparliament, was hit by a Molotovcocktail thrown by unknownindividuals. The attack caused somedamage to the rear wall of theresidential block.

20-Aug-98

El-Khemis

Algeria Unknown Explosives39 13 Thirteen people were killed andthirty-nine injured when a bombexploded in a square in El-Khemis.

20-Aug-98

Istanbul Turkey Unknown Firearms0 0 Unidentified gunmen attacked theATV 2000 building in Istanbul. Ninebullets hit the windows of thebuilding.

20-Aug-98

Hebron WestBank/Gaza


1 1 Rabbi Shlomo Ra'anan was stabbedto death in Hebron. A Palestinianterrorist entered his mobile home,stabbed him with a knife, set thehouse on fire and fled. Haya, RabbiRa'anan's wife, suffered smokeinhalation.

Documents

A Collection of Terrorist Attacks, Nov-1990 to Aug-1998 by CPACT