TERRORISM REVIEW

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This review is published monthly by the DCI Counterterrorist
Center. Comments and queries are welcome and may be directed to
Information available as o 17 Jul 1997 was used. in this report.
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 The Terrorism Diary for August and Sei~tembet~
Below is a compendium of August and September dates of known or conceivable
significance to terrorists around the world. Our i~aclusion of a date or event should
not by itself be construed to suggest that we expect or anticipate a commemorative
2 August 1990
6 August 1825
6 August 1966
II August 1952
12 August X689
13 August 1984
14 August 1947
IS August 1947
IS August 1964
15 August 1971
20 August 1953
31 August 1978
1 September X939
1 September 19G9
September X970
3 September 1971
3 September 1982
Iraq/Kuwait. Iraq invades Kuwait.
Bolivia. Independence Day.
United Arab Emirates. Accession Day of Shaykl~ Zayed bin Sultan a1-Nayhan,
Emir of Abu Dhabi.
Jordan. Accession Day for King Hussein.
Northern Ireland. Protestant commemorative m:arches mark day apprentice boys
locked gates of Derry against James II's forces.
Morocco/Libya. Union established.
Pakistan. Independence Day.
India. Independence Day.
Colombia. Pro-Castro guerrilla movement the N~itional Liberation Army (ELN)
begins armed struggle.
Bahrain. Independence Day.
Morocco. King's and People's Revolution.
Libya/Shia World. Lebanese Shia cleric Imam Musa Sadr disappears in Libya.
West Germany, Europe. Antiwar Day (anniversa.ry of Nazi invasion of Poland).
Libya. Coup overthrows monarchy.
Palestiniaus. During this month, the Jordanian Army drove the Palestinian
guerrillas out of the country because they would not stop attacking Israel from
Jordanian soil; in response, the largest group, Fatah, established the Black
September Organization, best known for its attack on Israeli athletes at the
1972 Olympics.
Qatar. Independence Day.
Peru. Death of Sendero Luminoso (SL) leader Edith Lagos.
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8 September 1982
10 September 1922
i4 September 1982
IS September 1982
17 September 1978
17 September 1982
21 September 1989
23 September X932
23 September 1964
25 September 1984
27 September
28 September 1970
Iran, Iraq. Date Iraq charges Iran started war.
India. Death of Shaykh Mohammad Abdullah, "the Lian of Kashmir."
Turkey. Founding of Turkish Communist Party.
Lebanon. Assassination of Phalangist leader and Lebanese President-elect Bashir
Gemayel.
Lebanon. Israeli invasion of Muslim West Beirut.
United States, Israel Egypt. Signing of Camp David accords.
Lebanon. Massacre in Shatiia and Sabra refugee camps (t7 September
Organization takes its name from this event).
Saudi Arabia. Execution of 16 Kuwaiti shias for hajj bombings that sparked
anti-Saudi retaliatory attacks.
Sandi Arabia. Unification of the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia. National Day.
Egypt, Jordan. Resumption of diplomatic relations.
Spain. Basque National Party Day.
Egypt. Death of Jamal `Abd al-Nasir.
 Chronology of International Terroris~
The following incidents were considered by the Intelligence Community's Incident
Review Panel since publication of the previous i,csue of the Terrorism Review and
were determined by the Panel to constitute international terrorism. Such incidents
provide the basis for the State Department's Patterns of Global Terrorism, which is
ublished annually as the US Government s official record of international terrorism.
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8 May
I9 May
Europe
25 May
l6 May
No one claimed responsibility.
Albania: An explosive device detonated outside a perimeter wall of the Tirana
o,~ice of the US-based Soros Foundation, causing minor damage but no injuries.
center in Lvov, causing minar damage. Ukrainian nationalists are suspected
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Ireland: Police defused an explosive device that was found in a street in
Dundalk. The Loyalist Volunteer Force claimed responsibility for warning calls to
local media outlets.)
Iparretarrak claimed responsibility.
France: A bomb detonated outside a McDonald's restaurant in Saint-Jean-de-
Luz, causing mc{jor damage but no injuries. The Basque separatist group
Venezuela: Four armed men kidnapped a Venezuelan politician in Urena
municipality. The victim was forced into a vehicle and taken to Colombian terri-
tory where he attempted to escape but was shot and killed by his captors. National
Liberation Army (ELN) and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC)
guerrillas both operate in the area where the politician was abducted.
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4 May
massacre of Armenians on 24 April 1915
Israel: Unidentified assailants threw a Molotov cocktail into the yard of the
Turkish Consulate in Jerusalem, damaging the consul's automobile but causing
no injuries. No one claimed responsibility for thc; attack suspect
Armenians enraged by recent Turkish statements disclaiming responsibility for the
 Summary of Indigenous Terrorism-Juctie 1997
This description of incidents and situations is not meant to be a detailed
accounting of all domestic terrorist incidents, but rather to provide an overview of
ducted similar attacks in the region
On 8 June in Guwahati, Assam, aremote-controlled device exploded seconds after
the Chief Minister of Assam's motorcade passed by. No one claimed responsibility,
but the United Liberation Front of Assam and the: Bodo Security Force have con-
Suspected Kashmiri militants bombed a freight train on 10 June in Jammu, injuring
two persons, destroying one freight car and derailing nine others and damaging
i2 feet of track. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing.
,Sri Lanka On 16 June in Vavuniya, a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded in a crowded mar-
ket place, killing at Least two persons and injurin?; some 25 others. No one claimed
responsibility. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ee,',am (LTTE) is suspected
Japan The Chukaku-Ha claimed responsibility for two explosions at the home of a
transport ministr official in Kawasaki on 17 June, which caused damage but no
injuries
Europe
Spain
Turkey
responsibility for the attac
An unknown assailant threw a hand grenade. at Albanian President Sali Berisha
during his speech at a campaign rally on 4 June i n the village of Shkallnuer. The
device failed to detonate and bodyguards subdued the attacker. No group claimed
Three gunmen shot and wounded an insurance company worker on 10 June in
Bilbao. The attackers fled the scene and blew up their getaway vehicle on a busy
street, causing damage but no injuries. The Basq~;~e Fatherland and Liberty (ETA}
organization claimed responsibility for the attack. addin that the victim was not
the intended target and had been shot by mistake
Authorities disarmed an explosive device found next to six Molotov cocktails left
on the ground floor of a Durango office building on 14 June. The ETA claimed
responsibility.
On 3 June militants opened fire on villagers cleaning out a water pipe in the village
of Dikbogaz in Siirt, killing four of them and a village guard and wounding three
others. The Kurdistan Workers' Parry (PKK) is suspected.~~
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 A train traveling from Elazig to Tatuan ran over a mine near the Palug district on
15 June. The train derailed and militants opened fire on it, killing two security
force members and injuring six others. No one claimed responsibility for the
attack.)
United Kingdom .Irish Republican Army (IRA) gunmen shot and killed two policemen in Lurgan,
Northern Ireland, on 16 June.
refusing to cooperate during a search of their cells.
On 18 June suspected Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) militants set fire to a prison
guard's home in Belfast, injuring four persons and causing extensive damage. A
short time later assailants attacked another prison worker's home in Clonduff;
injuring the worker and his wife and causing major damage. The previous day
prison authorities had canceled visitation rights of some UVF prisoners for
two policemen by IRA gunmen are suspected.
On 21 June in Belfast, an explosive device detonated underneath a car driven by
an Irish Republican Socialist party member, injuring him, a passenger, and a
pedestrian. Loyalist extremists seeking revenge for the previous week's killing of
will consider anyone who acts against their views as legitimate military targets.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas kidnapped the mayor
of Buritica, an alderman, and another citizen at a roadblock in Caicedo municipal-
ity on 2 June. The guerrillas released the alderman and the citizen on 4 June and the
mayor on 6 June, with the message that they will prevent the coming elections and
that read: "We get here too, Fifth Front of the FARC."
On 12 June in Bello, FARC guerrillas killed a man who had recently arrived from
the violence-torn area of Uraba. The rebels left ahand-nainted sign on their victim
ranch on 14 June. As of mid-July, the rebels were still holding the mayor.
National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas kidnapped the mayor of Yali at his
On 22 June in Vegachi municipality, ELN guerrillas kidnapped three government
officials and two mayoral candidates. The guerrillas have announced they will
stage an armed opposition to the municipal elections scheduled for 26 October,
and they warned that they will not allow politicians to enter zones under their
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 Algeria A bomb exploded in a crowded Algiers market place on 2 June, killin 10 ersons
and injuring 40 others. The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) is suspected.
On 18 June an armed group in the Mitidja area slit the throats of 24 members of a
family and set their homes on fire. The GIA is suspected.
A bomb exploded in an Algiers movie theater on 19 June, killing two persons and
injuring 20 oth No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but the GIA may
be responsible
~vo bombs exploded on a train in the Algiers suburb of El Harrach on 251une
injuring 40 passengers. No one claimed responsibility for the attack