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 Key Dates and Events The Terrorism Diary for March and April 1999
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 The Terrorism Diary for March and April 1999
Below is a compendium of March and April dates of known or conceivable signifi-
cance to terrorists around the world. Inclusion of a date or event does not suggest
. that we anticipate a commemorative terrorist event.
2 March 1956 Morocco. Independence Day (termination of Treaty of Fez).
2 March 1977 Libya. Establishment of Jamahiriyah (Masses' State).
3 March 1878 Bulgaria. Independence Day.
3 March 1961 Morocco. Accession of King Hassan to throne.
4 March 1982 Colombia, United States. Effective date of extradition treaty aimed at narcotics
traffickers.
6 March 1957 Ghana. Independence Day.
6 March 1975 Kurdish region. Algerian accord between Iran and Iraq abandoning support for
the Kurds.
10 March 1979 Kurdish region. Death of Kurdish leader Mulla Mustafa Barzani.
12 March 1880 Turkey. Birth of Ataturk.
12 March 1991 Greece. Assassination in Athens of US Air Force Sgt. Ronald Stewart by
17 November.
13 March 1979 Grenada. Coup d'etat by Maurice Bishop (National Day).
16 March 1921 Armenians. Signing of Soviet-Turkish border treaty that ended Armenian hopes of
establishing an independent state.
17 March 1992 Argentina, Israel. Hizballah's terrorist wing, Islamic Jihad, bombed Israeli
Embassy in Buenos Aires.
17 March Ireland. St. Patrick's Day (National Day).
20 March 1956 Tunisia. Independence Day.
20 March 1995 Japan. Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways.
21 March Iran. Iranian New Year.
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 22 March 1945
22 March 1991
23 March 1956
25 March 1975
26 March 1970
26 March 1971
26 March 1978
28 March
29 March 1992
30 March 1976
April
I April 1979
4 April 1947
4 April 1979
4 April 1986
5-20 April 1988
7 April 1916
8 April 1947
Turkey. Kurdish New Year (Nevroz).
Arab World. Founding of Arab League (original members: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan,
Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria).
Turkey. Assassination of US Defense Department contract employee John Hilton
Gandy in Istanbul by Dev Sol.
Pakistan. Pakistan Day (founding of Islamic republic).
Greece. Greek Revolution Memorial Day (celebrating beginning of independence
from Turkey).
Saudi Arabia. Assassination of King Faisal and accession of King Khalid.
Libya. UK Evacuation Day (day British forces turned over bases and departed).
Bangladesh. Independence Day.
Egypt, Israel. Peace agreement ratified.
Palestinians. National Day.
Basque region. Leadership of Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) apprehended
in Bidart, France.
Turkey. Death of terrorist Mahir Cayan, member of Turkish People's Liberation
Party.
Palestinians. Day of the Homeland.
Armenians. April is dedicated by Armenian groups to the memory of the massacre
of Armenians by Turks during World War I.
Iran. Islamic Republic Day.
Syria. Founding of Ba'th Party.
Pakistan. Ex-President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto executed; the terrorist group
Al-Zulfikar, founded by his two sons, is named after him.
Libya. Libyan agents bombed La Belle discotheque in Berlin.
Lebanon. Hizballah hijacks Kuwait Airways Flight 422.
Ireland. Beginning of insurrection that led to, independence.
Iraq. Founding of ruling Ba'th Party.
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13 April 1999
14-15 April 1986
18 April 1983
19April X980
21 April 1999
22 April 1997
24 April 1915
28 April 1937
29 April 1986
Palestinians. Founding of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-
General Command (PFLP-GC).
Lebanon. Phalange militiamen attack bus, triggering Lebanese civil war.
Jewish World. Commemoration of the Holocaust.
Libya. US aircraft bomb Tripoli and Banghazi in retaliation for Libyan
involvement in anti-US terrorism.
Lebanon. Hizballah's terrorist wing, Islamic Jihad, car-bombed the
US Embassy in Beirut.
Peru. The Sendero Luminoso Declaration of War.
Israel. Independence Day.
Peru. Death of MRTA Leader Nestor Cerpa Cartolini during the hostage rescue
mission at the Japanese Ambassador's Residence.
Armenians. National Day of Sorrow. Commemorates Turkish massacre.
Iraq. Birthday of Saddam Husayn.
India. Sikh militants declare independent republic of Khalistan at Golden Temple
in Amritsar; militants expelled from temple next day.
 Chronology of International Terrorism January 1999
The following incidents have met the criteria for the Intelligence Community's
Incident Review Panel since publication of the previous issue of the Terrorism
Review. These incidents are the basis for the State Department's Patterns of
Global Terrorism, published annually as the US Government's official record of
 6 January
Sierra Leone: The Italian Embassy reported two Italian missionaries were kid-
napped by Armed Forces Revolutionary Council rebels.
the rebels deceived the missionaries, telling them they could
were rescued on 13 January by government sponsored forces
meet with their colleague who was kidnapped in November. The two missionaries
Angola: A business partner in the Australian-owned Cuango mine reported 30
armed National Union for the Total Independence of Angola rebels ambushed a
vehicle, killing one British national, one Brazilian, and two Angolan security
guards the rebels disabled the vehicle using
gunfire and executed the passengers.
(KFC) restaurant, causing major damage but no injuries
South Africa: Five unidentified youths firebombed a Kentucky Fried Chicken
Eyewitnesses stated that the youths chased away several bystanders
10 January South Africa two unidentified assailants threw bricks and Molo-
tov cocktails through the window of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, caus-
ing several thousand dollars' worth of damage but no injuries. No one claimed
responsibility for the attack.
12 January Sierra Leone: Revolutiona United Front RUF rebels kidnapped a Spanish
missionaryn 22 Janu-
ary church officials reported soldiers from the Economic Community of Wes
can States Cease-Fire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) rescued the missionary
25 January Sierra Leone. OF rebels robbed and kidnapped a
Japanese businessman. The attackers stole money from the businessman's office
before burning the building. On 29 January the rebels released the hostage.
Asia
18 January Bangladesh: Two assailants attempted to assassinate celebrated Bangladeshi
poet Samsur Rahman, Rahman, who has been outspo-
ken against Islamic extremism, escaped unharmed, but his wife suffered knife
wounds. Police arrested one Pakistani and one South African, who told investiga-
tors that they received financial support from Usama Bin Ladin for training and
recruiting mujahidin in Bangladesh. Police suspect the Harakat ul-Jihad Islami
(HUJI) is responsible and have arrested at least 47 members of the HUJI and
Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM).
4 January India: Unidentified Muslim militants fired four rockets at a police complex in
Pattan, Kashmir, killing one officer, his wi a and seriously injuring theirfive-
year-old child
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before attacking the restaurant. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
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7 January
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Colombia: Unidentified assailants kidnapped two Italian citizens and one
Colombian at a roadblock. According to media reports authorities suspect either
the National Liberation Army or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to be
Israel: Hizballah claimed it fired several mortars into an orchard but caused no
injury or damage. According to press reports, the shelling was in retaliation for the
demolition of house in~he vi}l age of Arnun and the banishment of a family from
the village of Sh'ba.
9 January Yemen: Armed assailants abducted a British oil worker from a US-operated oil
field. On 13 January the kidnappers released the hostage unharmed.
17 January Yemen: Armed tribesmen kidnapped two Dutch aid workers, their two sons, and
two British aid workers. The kidnappers demanded the release of a tribe member
who is in prison, according to news sources. On 2 February, tribesmen released the
six hostages unharmed.
27 January Yemen: Tribesmen kidnapped three German nationals and five Yemenis, accord-
ing to press reports. Kidnapped were a German midwife, her Yemeni husband and
three children, her visiting mother and brother, and their driver. On 28 January, the
kidnappers released the five Yemeni citizens. No demands were made for the
release of the German hostages. The German foreign ministry urged Yemeni offi-
cials to avoid any rescue attempts that would endanger the hostages.
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Summary of Indigenous Terrorism December 1998-January 1999
The incidents listed below provide an overview of indigenous terrorism
On 19 January in Benguela, eyewitnesses reported that National Union for the
Total Independence ofAngola (UNITA) militants ambushed a convoy of 10 civilian
vehicles, killin 13 persons and injuring 12 others. Several persons also were
abducted.
On 25 January in Lwena, eyewitnesses stated that UNITA rebels attacked two vehi-
cles, killing 30 persons our of the 30 fatalities
were police officers.
South Africa On 1 January 1999 in Cape Town, a car bomb exploded outside a waterfront busi-
ness district, injuring three persons. Although a Cape Town man publicly claimed
responsibility for the attac spect Muslims Against Global Oppression
militants planted the bomb
On 11 January in Pietersburg~ the Deputy Director of
Legal Services for the provinces transport department was assassinated. Witnesses
stated that two gunmen approached the victim's car as he sat at a stoplight and fired
10 rounds into the driver's side door before fleeing the scene in a waiting vehicle.
Police have no suspects.__
On 13 January in Johannesburg, a bomb exploded at a railway interchange, causing
minor damage. No one was injured, and railway operations were not affected.
Authorities found a second bomb shortly after the first ex losion and defused it
without further incident. No one claimed responsibility.
militant Muslim group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs.
On 28 January in Cape Town a bomb exploded out-
side a police station, injuring 11 civilians. The device was concealed in a plastic
garbage bin adjacent to the station. The station is near the site where police killed a
Muslim rioter three weeks earlier. Authorities have attributed similar attacks to the
Uganda
On 1 January in Bungatira, Lord's Resistance Army militants interrupted a New
Year's party. Eyewitnesses stated that the militants abducted 10 persons.
to several shops.
On 10 January in Kabarole, eyewitnesses stated that 30 Allied Democratic Forces
rebels raided a village, killing five persons, injuring two, and abducting six others.
the attackers looted the village, causing major damage
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Party activists
On 11 January in Andhra Pradesh, 50 unidentified assailants threw bombs at Con-
gress Party members as they left the local courthouse, killing two persons and
injuring six others. Published reports blame the attack on ruling Telugu Desam
On 26 January armed militants from the United Liberation Front of Assam
(ULFA) attacked a police patrol in Sibsagar District, Assam, killing two officers
and injuring eight others
Assam, on 26 January.
Police reported that ULFA rebels blew up a pipeline in Dibrugarh District,
E-Jangvi, a violent Sunni group.
In Lahore on 3 January, a powerful bomb detonated on a road, killing three per-
sons, injuring several others, and causing significant damage to the highway bridge
and buildings in the area rime Minister Nawaz
Sharif was the target, as the blast occurred when Sharif normally travels on the
road. Two of the injured were police officers posted to provide roadside security
for the Prime Minister's motorcade. Police arrested two members of Lashkar-
On 4 January in Jolo, unidentified assailants threw several grenades into an area
where firefighters and soldiers were extinguishing a fire and preventing looting.
The blast killed nine persons and injured 50 others, including bystanders who had
gathered at the scene. Local press speculated that the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is
responsible.F-
On 5 January in Basilan, unidentified militants threw a grenade into a restaurant,
injuring two civilians and one soldier uspect the
Jon 5 January Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels
The victims were affiliated with the Cotabato Timber Logging Company
attacked a logging truck in Cotabato with rifle-fired grenades, killing four persons.
IASG militants detonated two homemade bombs on
two passenger buses in Bukidnon on 8 January, killing two persons and injuring
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persons and i ring several others
On 8 January Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militants fired rocket-
propelled grenades at civilians working in their fields in Vavuniya, killing three
On 18 January two bombs exploded within minutes of each other, destroying two
electrical transformers and damaging vehicles and shops in the vicinity
ocal news reported that major areas of Colom o were
without power for several hours. Police believe the LTTE militants are responsible.
On 23 January suspected LTTE guerrillas bombed three Dower transformers simul-
taneously. There were no reports of injury or damag
According to press reports, on 29 December in Argun, Chechnya, local police
discovered and defused a bomb attached to a container holding unspecified radio-
active material. No one claimed responsibility
According to press reports, a bomb injured two persons and destroyed a govern-
ment building in Ghisconaccia on 5 January. No one claimed responsibili but the
attack bears the hallmark of National Front for the Liberation of Corsica
On 11 January in Athens, a firebomb exploded outside the office of Greece's
Deputy Foreign Minister, causing minor damage. The Children o November
claimed responsibility in a telephone call to a local newspaper
finance a new terror campaign
Five heavily armed men robbed a van carrying more than $1.7 million on 4 January
in Dublin. The group was forced to abandon most of the loot when its getaway car
broke down the Continuity Irish Republican Army
(CIRA) is responsible. Accordin to press reports, the CIRA is seeking cash to
Unidentified hooded individuals set fire to a courthouse in Bilbao on 1 January,
causing major damage. Basque Fatherland and Lib? erty (ETA) members or sympa-
thizers have conducted similar attacks in the past.
On 2 January, according to local television reports, hooded assailants set fire to an
automated teller machine in Pamplona, causing major damage. The attack bears the
 Six hooded arsonists set fire to a post office in Renteria on 16 January, causing
major damage, according to the local press. The attack bears the ETA'-s
Turkey A bomb exploded outside a bank on 7 January in Istanbul, causing minor damage.
two assailants were killed during the attack. The Kurdistan Workers' Party may be
responsible.F-~
Batman, killing one person and wounding three others
On 15 January assailants fired rockets at a Raman-3 oil production station in
According to press reports, unidentified gunmen shot and killed a local Imam on
19 January in Batman. No group claimed responsibility.F-7
United Kingdom On 6 January, a boobytrapped bomb exploded at a Catholic sports club in Magh-
erafelt, Northern Ireland, injuring one person and causing minor damage
behalf of the renegade loyalist group Orange Volunteers.
the club had received a telephone warning the previous day, but no
bomb was discovered. A telephone caller to the media claimed responsibility on
Volunteers, who claimed responsibility the following day.
A bomb exploded at a house in Loughinisland, County Down, on 19 January, injur-
ing one person. The Royal Ulster Constabulary blamed the attack on the Orange
persons, according to local press
On January 5 in Santander Department, Army of National Liberation (ELN) rebels
set up a false checkpoint on the Pan American Highway, and kidnapped eight
According to local press reports, on 6 January in Cesar Department five police
officers were killed and five others wounded in an attack by Revolutionary Armed
Forces of ColombiaF-7
medicine, money and clothing
On 8 January in Jamundi, ELN rebels detonated explosive devices destroying the
town's mall but causing no injuries. Local press reports indicate the rebels stole
causing major damage but no injuries.
In southern Cali on 12 January, according to radio reports, ELN rebels detonated
explosives outside a commercial establishment and an automatic teller machine,
no arrests have been made.
On 12 January in Port-au-Prince, two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle opened
fire on a car carrying Haitian President Rene Preval's executive secretary, injuring
her and killing her driver, according to press reports. The motive is unknown and
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officers and one man in custody and destroying the police precinct
On 2 January in Montevideo, a homemade bomb exploded, injuring two police
An anonymous caller contacted the National Firemen's Diree tnr-
ate to claim responsibility, and authorities are investigating the incident.
Algeria On 2 January in El Bayadh, according to news reports, armed militants killed a
seven persons at a roadblock.
On 9 January in Medea, according to news reports, armed militants killed
On 11 Janu in Bouira, according to press reports, armed militants killed five
villagers.
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
In Tiaret on 15 January, a homemade parcel bomb exploded in the street, killing
two persons and injuring 18 others. The attack bears the characteristics of the
On 22 January in Sidi El Kebir~
murdered five fivevillaeers and wounded one other person. The attack bears the GIA's