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 of 19 June 1997 was used in this report
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 The Terrorism Diary for July and August
Below is a compendium of July and August dates of known or conceivable signifi-
cance to terrorists around the world. Our inclusion of a date or etient should not by
itself be construed to suggest that we expect or anticipate a commemorative terror-
ist event.
1 July 1867 Canada. Dominion Day.
3 July 1988 Iran. USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 in Persian Gulf.
4 July 1776 i`Inited States. Independence Day.
4 July 1946 Philippines. Republic Day (date on which the Philippines became: an independent
republic).
5 July 1962 Algeria. Independence Day.
9 July 1929 Morocco. Birthday of King Hassan II.
10 July 1978 Mauritania. Armed Forces Day (commemorates military coup).
12 July 1690 Northern Ireland. Orangemen's Day (Protestants march to commemorate victory
in Battle of the Boyne),
14 July 1789 France. Bastille Day.
14 July 1958 Iraq. Republic Day (Army coup d'etat that overthrew monarchy and established
republic).
IS July 1946 Brunei. Sultan's birthday.
17 July 1968 Iraq. Revolution Day (Ba'th Party coup).
20 July 1974 Cyprus. Turkish Cypriot Peace and Freedom Day (commemorates intervention by
Turkish forces).
23 July 1952 Egypt. National Day (commemorates military coup ousting King Farouk).
23 July 1970 Oman. Accession Day of Sultan Qaboos.
25 July 1957 Tunisia. Proclamation of republic.
26 July 1956 Egypt. Nationalization of Suez Canal.
28 July 1821 Peru. Independence Day.
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31 July
31 July 1969
2 August 1990
6 August 1825
6 August 1966
11 August 1952
12 August 1689
13 August 1984
14 August 1947
15 August 1947
15 August 1964
IS August 1971
20 August 1953
31 August 1978
Lebanon. Abduction by Israel of Hizballah cleric Shaykh Ubayd.
Spain, France. St. Ignatius' Day (patron saint of Basques).
Spain, France. Founding of Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA).
Iraq/Kuwait. Iraq invades Kuwait.
Bolivia. Independence Day.
United Arab Emirates. Accession Day of Shaykh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nayhan,
Emir of Abu Dhabi.
Jordan. Accession Day for King Hussein.
Northern Ireland. Protestant commemorative marches 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 National 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.
 Chronology of International Terrorism
The following incidents were considered by the Intelligence Community's Incident
Review Panel since publication of the previous Issue 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
published annually as the US Government's official record of international terrorism.
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Nigeria; Armed members of the Ijaw community, protesting the redrax~ing of
regional government boundaries, occupied Shell Oil buildings in the Niger Delta
and held hostage 127 Nigerian employees of the Angla-Dutch-owned Shell Oil
Company. The protesters released 18 hostages on 25 March and the remaining 109
Cambodia: Unknown assailants threw four grenades into a political demonstra-
tion in Phnom Penh, killing I6 persons and wounding over I00 others. Among
the injured were a US citizen from the International Republican Institute, a Chinese
journalist from the Xinhua News Agency, and opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who.
led some 200 supporters of his Khmer National Party in the demonstration against
the governing Cambodian People's Party~~
one claimed responsibility
Bosnia and Herzegovina: A handgrenade detonated outside an International
Police Task Force member's home in Banjo Luka, causing minor damage. No
11-12 April Bosnia and Herzegovina: An assailant planted approximately 23 landmines
underneath a bridge that was part of Pope John Paul II's motorcade route in
Sarajevo. Police discovered and defused the landmines a few hours before the
Pope's arrival. No one claimed responsibility, but authorities sus ect Muslim
extremists, local bombmakers, or two Bosnian extremist groups
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in Lima on 22 April
Czech Republic: An explosion on a window parapet at the Peruvian Embassy in
Prague caused minor damage. A few days later the embassy received a letter
signed by the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)-Europe Section
claiming responsibility and calling for Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's
death. The group justified its attack by stating it was in reaction to the Peruvian
Government's killing of MRTA members at the Japanese Ambassador's residence
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12 April
17 April
the abductors' vehicle. No group claimed responsibility.
Russia: In Grozny, Chechnya, assailants kidnapped the son of late Georgian
President Zviad Gamsakhurdia. He was freed the same, day when police pursued
Netherlands: Unknown assailants set fire to a home in a Turkish neighborhood
in The Hague, killing a mother and her, five children and causing; extensive dam-
age. No one claimed responsibility, but members or sympathizers of the Turkish
Grey Wolves or the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are suspected.)
Greece: Bomb disposal experts defused an explosive device left outside the Alita-
lia Airlines o,~`ice near Athens International Airport. The Fighting Guerrilla
Formation claimed responsibility~~
United Kingdom: Arsonists set, fire to a Mormon Church in Lisburn, Northern
causing minor damage but no injuries. No one claimed responsibility.
military intervention in neighboring Albania
Greece: Authorities defused an explosive device found at the entrance to a
Lancia car dealership in Athens. The Fighting Guerrilla Formation claimed
responsibility for the attempted bombing, statine that they were protesting Italian
arrested him in the name of their organization, and fled with him tc~ Colombia
Venezuela: Five members of the Simon Bolivar Guerrilla Coordinating Board
kidnapped a Venezuelan cattle rancher, in Zulia. As the rancher, who is the god-
parent of Venezuela's president, entered his house the guerrillas cut the electricity,
31 March Colombia: Guerrillas (probably ELN) dynamited the Cano Limon-Covenas oil
pipeline causing an oil spill in Arauca Department.
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located along the Venezuelan shore when the guerrillas opened fire on them
Venezuela: Some 30 ELN guerrillas killed two Venezuelan naval o,,~cers in EI
Ripial, Apure State. The officers were part of a patrol group sailing on a river
Colombia: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrillas bombed a rail
line at a mining complex in Cerrejon. The explosion derailed 27 rail cars, spilling
2,700 tons of coal and 3,700 gallons of diesel fuel, and damaged 550 yards of rail
line. The mi ated under concession by Intercor, a subsidiary of Exxon
Corporation
26 April Peru: Unidentified assailants attacked an International Committee of the Red
Cross Committee o,,~`ice in Lima, causing an undetermined amount of damage.
1 May Colombia: ELN guerrillas dynamited a section of the Cano Limon-Covenas
pipeline in Carmen, causing all pumping operations to cease.)
.Yemen: Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped four German tourists returning tc- Sanaa
from Ma'rib. A letter reportedly was sent to the German Embassy threatening to
.kill the hostages if the Yemeni Government did not pay a ransom of five million
German marks. On 6 April the tribesmen released the hostages. No ransom was
paid.~~
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of indigenous terrorism worldwide
This description of incidents and situations is not meant to be a detailed
accounting of all domestic terrorist incidents, but rather to pravicle an overview
ing another.
People's War Group guerrillas detonated a landmine on 17 May in the
Behbubnagar Dot of Andhra Pradesh State, killing five policemen and wound-
Sri Lanka On 11 May in Morawewa, in eastern Trincomalee District, 400 Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE) guerrillas attacked a police post, killing 14 policemen and
seven civilians, and wounding l4 other policemen and five civilians. The LTTE
used firearms, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades and burned station-owned
motorcycles and jeeps.~~
Tajikistan
Europe
An assailant threw a handgrenade at Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov and his
entourage on 30 April while they were headed to a theater in Khujand (Khodzent)
to honor a local university. The blast killed a student and a teacher and injured the
president, and some 58 others including government officials. Authorities arrested
the assailant at the scene.
Spain Assailants shot and killed an off-duty policeman at a Zierbana restaurant on 3 May.
The Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) organization is probably responsible.
Turkey In Istanbul, two gunmen shot and wounded the mayor of Kucukcekmece on 8 May.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack
Militants fired rockets at several government buildings in Derik and Mardin
Province on ] 9 Ma causing minor damage. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
is suspected.
On 20 May two gunmen opened fire on a bus traveling between Hani and
Diyarbakir, killing two passengers and wounding seven others. No one claimed
responsibility for the attack, but the PKK is suspected~~
United Kingdom Authorities defused a bomb in a Catholic neighborhood in Belfast, Northern
Ireland, on 7 May. No one claimed responsibility, but police suspect a loyalist para-
military group planted the device
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 On 9 May, Irish National Liberation Arm (INCA) gunmen shot and killed an
off-duty policeman in a pub in Belfast.
Militants abducted and killed a Catholic man on 13 May in Bellaghy, Northern
Ireland. Police believe [he pe etrators acted in revenge for the killing of an
off-duty policeman on 9 May
Colombia On 3 May in Tolima, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas
shot and killed eight peasants
Algeria
In Santa Lucia on 5 May, Sendem Luminoso (SL) guerrillas shot and killed the
sister of a oliceman who works in the counterterrorist department, and injured her
child
the police station, adjoining offices, a market,. and a hospital.
On 15 May SL guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of a police station in Lima,
wounding 25 people including eight police officers, and cousins major damage to
explode
The SL is suspected in a gasoline bomb explosion in a movie theater in Lima on 20
May, causing minor damage but no injuries. Two other incendiary devices failed to
On 16 May four armed men kidnapped and killed a politician in Ut?ena municipal-
ity (near San Cristobal .National Liberation Army (ELN) and the F,9RC both oper-
ate in that area
On 2 May two car bombs exploded within 10 minutes of each other near two hotels
and a cafe in Bouttanifia {near Mascara), killing 15 persons and injuring 23 others.
The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) may be responsible.~~
suspected.
Militants armed with knives and hatchets massacred 30 villagers in Chebli, near
Blida, on 14 May. The attackers destroyed homes as they left the scene. The GIA is
the attack, but the GIA may be responsible
A bomb explosion under a car parked outside a secondary school in Algiers on 16
May, killed five persons and injured 32 others. No one claimed responsibility for
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