WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06626226
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• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2020
• Case Number: F-2016-02132
• Publication Date: October 25, 1978

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Guatemalan Guerrillas Reaffirm Targeting of U.S. Embassy
The continuing Guatemalan Guerrilla Army of the Poor
(EGP) threat against the U.S. Embassy and its personnel took
on a new twist recently. Now, the EGP claims that it is going to kidnap the U.S.
Ambassador to avenge the 20 October killing of the President
of the University Student Association at San Carlos Universi-
ty. The EGP, has an almost blind
hatred of the U.S., and it intends to strike at those whom
it belies to be manipulators of the Guatemalan Government,
which the EGP believes used police agents to kill the student
president.
American Injured by Moslem Bomb in Thailand
On 19 October, a time bomb exploded in the terminal
building of the railway station at Hat Yai in southern
Thailand injuring ten people, including one American, and
causing substantial physical damage to the station booking
office. Leaflets found in the station indicated that the
bombing was the work of the Sabi Lillah Moslem separatist
group. Eight Thai Moslems and a man who claimed to be a
Saudi Arabian were arrested on suspicion of having been
involved in the bombing.
The Sabi Lillah (an Arabic term for those who fight in
religious wars) is one of a number of small Moslem separatist
groups loosely united under the Pattani United Liberation
Organization (PULO), which seeks autonomy for the five
southernmost Malay-speaking provinces of Thailand (Satu,
Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat). The Sabi Lillah
group was responsible for a previous bombing at the Hat Yai
railway station on 29 June 1977 and for the bombing of the
departure lounge of Bangkok's Don Muang Airport on 24 June
1977 in which four people were injured, one seriously.
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