TERRORISM REVIEW

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 Terrorism ~teview
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Chronology of International Terroris~
Summary of Indieenous Terrorism-July 1996
This review Ys published monthly by the DCI Counterterrorist
Center. Comments and queries are welcome and may be directed to
Information available as of 16 August 1996 was used in this Review.
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 Sendero Luminoso's Paltry Independence Day Campaign'
Sendero Luminoso (SL) carried out four terrorist attacks in late July, marking a
return to its former practice of mounting an annual campaign of violence to
coincide with Peru's Independence Day on 28 July. Two Peruvians, were killed and
14 injured:
? On 26 July, a car bomb made of 20 kg of ammonium nitrate fuel oil exploded on
the street outside a police station in downtown Lima, killing one person and
injuring 11 others.
? On 29 July, a ] 0-kg bomb made of ammonium nitrate and dynamite exploded
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7397109-96 under an army general's car, parked outside his home in amiddle-class district of
Lima, injuring five.
? On 30 July, a former community leader was assassinated outside his home in the
Lima shantytown of San Martin de Porres.
? Also on 30 July, a band of 30 Sendero guerrillas ransacked a highway construc-
tion site in the countryside, causing extensive property damage but no casualties.
The attacks-SL's first Independence Day campaign in three years-were much
less ambitious than previous campaigns and suggest that SL is facing a shortage of
bombmaking materials. The car bombs used in the early 1990s routinely consisted
of more than 200 kg of ammonium nitrate:
? In its campaign of July 1992, SL carried out a series of spectacular bombings and
assassinations in Lima that left scores injured and dead. Car bombings in Lima's
affluent Miraflores district resulted in rare public protests against the group.
? Despite the arrest of its leader and founder, Abimael Guzman, in late 1992, SL
mounted a campaign the following July thas lethal but still struck at key
political targets, including the US Embassy
This year's more limited campaign was directed at specific Sendero opponents and
unaccompanied by any calls for an "armed strike"-a series of violent attacks
intended to frighten the populace into staying home. The recent attacks apparently
were not intended to create widespread panic through indiscriminate bombings, but
to demonstrate a revitalized Sendero threat and to embarrass the government,
which claims to have broken SL. The latter goal is stated clearly in the text of
Sendero leaflets left at the site of the bombing on 29 July, ridiculing government
forces with a reference to "the armed forces and national police, experts in defeat."
Indeed, the latest attacks seem to have had some impact: on 31 July, the head of
Peru's National Counterterrorism Directorate resigned amid criticism that the
government's counterterrorist policies had been careless and inconsistent
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1 September 1939
I September 1969
September 1970
3 September 1971
3 September 1982
4 September 1980
8 September 1982
10 September 1922
14 September 1982
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17 September 1978
l7 September 1982
21 September 1989
23 September 1932
23 September 1964
23 September 1996
25 September 1984
terrorist event
Below is a compendium of September and October dates of known or conceivable
signi, ficance to terrorists around the world. Our inclusion of a date or event should
not by itself be construed to suggest that we expect or anticipate a commemorative
Germany, Europe. Antiwar Day (anniversary of Nazi invasion of Poland).
Libya. Coup overthrows monarchy.
Palestinians. During this month, the Jordanian Army drove 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 Organiza-
tion, best known for its attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics.
Qatar. Independence Day.
Peru. Death of 5endero Luminoso leader Edith Lagos.
Iran, Iraq. Date Iraq charges Iran started war.
India. Death of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, "the Lion 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 Shatila and Sabra refugee camps (17 September
Organization takes its name from this event).
Saudi Arabia. Execution of 16 Kuwaiti shias for hajj bombings (sparked
anti-Saudi retaliatory attacks).
Saudi Arabia. Unification of the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia. National Day.
Israel, Jewish World. Day of Atonement. Anniversary of 1973 Arab-Israeli war,
according to the Hebrew calendar.
Egypt, Jordan. Resumption of diplomatic relations.
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28 September 1970
1 October 1985
6 October 1973
8 October 1967
10 October 1980
12 October 1965
14 October 1985
23 October 1983
28 October
29 October 1923
29 October 1973
31 October 1984
Spain. Basque National Party Day.
Egypt. Death of Jamal `Abd al-Nasir.
Tunisia, Israel, Palestinians. Israeli bombing of PLO headquarters in Tunis.
Israel, Arab World. Arab-Israeli war begins.
Egypt. Armed Forces Day (commemorates the war with Israel).
Cuba. Heroic Guerrilla Day (death of Che Guevara in Bolivia).
El Salvador. Founding of Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).
Chile. Movement of Revolutionary Left (MIR) founded.
Germany. Revolutionary Cells bomb economic targets to commemorate the
suicides in 1977 of Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin.
Japan. Beginning of construction of Narita airport (usually marked by 10 days of
demonstrations).
Lebanon. Bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut.
G'yprus. Greek National Day (observed by Greek Cypriot community).
Turkey. Independence Day (proclamation of republic).
Cyprus. Turkish Republic Day (observed by Turkish Cypriot community).
India. Assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards,
triggering anti-Sikh riots throughout northern India,
 Chronology of International Terrorisrr~
T'he folloK~ing incidents were considered by the Intelligence Community's /ncident
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 mtnually as the US Government's official record of international
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group that espouses an extreme form of Islam
Tajikistan: Gunmen shot and killed two Russian servicemen's wives while the
victirrrs were visiting a cemetery in Dushanbe. The Tajikistan Internal Affairs
Ministry believes the gunmen were members of Muzlokandov's Gang, a militant
United Kingdom: A truck bomb exploded at a Manchester shopping center,
wounding 20b persons and causing extensive property damage. Two German
tourists were among thne~red. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA)
claimed responsibility
Party (PKK} is suspected
Germany: Unknown assailants hurled incendirary devices at three Turkish travel
agencies in Berlin, causing relatively minor frre damage. The Kurdistan Workers'
Germauy: PKK sympathizers hurled two Molotov cocktails at a Turkish soccer
club building in Hamburg, causing minor damage to the facade but no injuries.
Venezuela: Ten Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) gunmen killed a
Venezuelan man in Apure state, just over the Colombian border. They believed
he was an informant for Venezuela's National Guard.~~
25 June Colombia: ELN rebels blew u Ca o Liman-Covenas pipeline, causing an
oil spill in northern Colomb'
4 July
reported
Colombia: Revolutionary Armed Farces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas opened
fire on a police helicopter carrying a Swiss prosecutor and a group of local coun-
ternarcotics police o,~cers. The officers were showing the prosecutor the coca leaf
plantations destro ed recently in the southern part of the country. No injuries were
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Israel: Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a car near Zekharya, killing a dual
US/Israeli citizen and an Israeli. The Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine is suspected.~~
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Summary of Indigenous Terrorism-July 1996
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
indigenous terrorism worldwide
On 15 July unidentified gunmen kidnapped 12 Fndian tourists from a floating hotel
on a lake in Shikara. The assailants shot and killed six of the hostages and released
the others. No one claimed responsibility for the attack
A bomb exploded at the Lahore Airport on 22 July, killing six ersons and wound-
ing 32 others. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
On 4 July suspected Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) militants fired three
rocket-propelled grenades at a Spanish civil guard barracks building in Olite. The
explosion slightly damaged a protective wall but caused no injuries.)
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The ETA claimed responsibility for detonating an improvised explosive device
(IED) in front of a historic ~ aen on 11 July. The explosion damaged win-
dows but caused no injuries
On 26 July unidentified gunmen shot and killed a leading Spanish businessman-
who was an outspoken critic of ETA--on a road near his hometown of Ordizia.
Authorities suspect the ETA~~
(UHKP/C) is suspected
Four militants opened fire on a police station in Istanbul on 15 July, wounding two
police officers. The assailants fled to a nearby residence where all four were killed
in a shootout with police. The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front
On 20 July assailants in Umraniye threw three Molotov cocktails at a Welfare Party
office. No one claimed responsibility for the attack~~
23 July, causing major damage. No one claimed responsibility
Four assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at an empty municipal bus in Istanbul on
a police commissioner and wounding a second officer
Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle on 25 Julv in Istanbul, killing
On 7 July five gunmen attacked a senator's house in Buenos Aires and escaped
after killing one policeman guarding the residence and injuring another. The sena-
tor is the brother of Argentine President Carlos Menem. The People's Revolution-
ary Organization claimed responsibility for the attack)
Colombia National Liberation Army guerrillas ambushed and killed the municipal secretary
and two other officials of Cesar Department on 4 July~~
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas attacked the town of
Quetame on 10 July, killing two policemen and wounding five others. The rebels
destro ed the police headquarters, municipal building, and a rural bank during the
attack.
A car bomb exploded outside an army general's Lima apartment building on 29
July, injurin five persons. Sendero Luminoso (SL) claimed responsibility for the
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 Algeria
A bomb exploded at a cafe in Blida on 20 July, killing seven persons and wounding
38 others. No one claimed res onsibility for the attack, but authorities suspect the
On 21 July a bomb exploded in Bouira on a bus carrying employees of a govern-
ment truck production factory, killing 12 persons. Authorities believe the GIA may
be responsible.)
The next day, unidentified gunmen in military uniforms faked a police checkpoint
to stop and attack passengers on a bus in Algiers, killing ] 2 persons. The GIA is
suspected.~~
suspected.
On 26 July unidentified assailants opened fire on a parked car near Bet Shemesh,
killing three Israelis. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is