TERRORISM REVIEW
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Terrorism Review
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The Terrorism Diary for December and January
Chronology of International Terrorism
This review is published monthly by the 1?CI Counterterrorist
Center. Comments and queries are welcome and may be directed to
Information available as of 21 November 1996 tivas used in this
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National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas released US citizen Mark Bossard into
the care of the International Red Cross on 15 November,
Bossard, a contractor employed by a US mining company, was
kidnapped from his office in northeastern Colombia on l6 February. His employer
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paid a $2 million ransom for his release
Colombia's largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC), still holds three US missionaries kidnapped in Panama on 31 January
1993. Although it has been two years since the kidna ers rovided an news on the
missionaries' status or whereabouts, information
indicates that, as of February t 996, all three were a eve an m capt~v~t
3 December 1934
10 December 1966
13 December 1981
I4 December 1983
21 December 1948
21 December 1967
23 December 1933
24 December 1951
26 December
28 December
I January 1956
I January 1965
S January 1928
6 January 1963
IS January 1918
IS January 1922
16 January 1979
16 January 1991
17 January 1974
The terrorism Diary for December and January
Below is a compendium of December and January dates of known or conceivable
signifrcance 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
Peru. Birthday of Sendero Luminoso leader Abimael Guzman.
Palestinians. Founding of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PEEP).
Poland. Imposition of martial law.
Chile. Founding of Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR).
Ireland. Proclamation of republic.
Palestinians. Founding of Palestine Liberation Organization {PLO).
Japan. Birthday of Emperor Akihito.
Libya. Independence Day.
Peru. Birthday of Mao Zedong, usually sparks Sendero Luminoso attacks.
Latin America. Equivalent of US April Fools' Day-traditionally sees many
hoaxes and bomb threats.
Sudan. Independence Day; proclamation of the republic.
Palestinians. Palestinian revolution; founding of Fatah.
Pakistan. Birthday of executed former President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Colombia. Founding of National Liberation Army (ELN).
Egypt. Birthday of Jamal `Abd al-Nasir.
Ireland. Founding of Irish Free State.
Iran. Departure of Shah from Iran.
Iraq, Kuwait. Operation Desert Storm begins.
Colombia. Nineteenth of April Movement (M-l9) steals sword of Simon Bolivar
from Bogota museum. Founding dates from this act.
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18 January 1974 Egypt, Israel Disengagement agreement signed.
25 January 1993 United States. Mir Aima] Kansi shoots and kills Dr. Lansing Bennett and Frank
Darling and wounds three others in front of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
26 January 1950 India. Republic Day (national day).
30 January 1933 Germany. Accession to power by Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) Party.
30 January 1972 Northern Ireland. Bloody Monday; 13 killed, 16 wounded during demonstration
in Derry.
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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7 September Colombia: Suspected Colombian guerrillas i-: Narino Department bombed a sec-
tion o the Trans-Andean oil pipeline that runs between Colombia and Ecuador.
12 September
14 September
18 September
21 September
Colombia: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas bur
three containers of bananas at a Dole plantation in Magdalena Department.
Colombia: FARC members torched three Dole banana plantations in separate
incidents in Magdalena Department.)
Venezuela: National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas opened fire on a military
post in Los Bancos, killing one soldier and wounding two civillans.n
Mexico: Six suspected Revolutionary People's Army members brandishing rifles
assaulted and robbed five British tourists in Chiapas State n
Colombia: Suspected Colombian guerrillas bombed a Mormon church that was
about to be inaugurated, destroying it. Guerrilla groups including the FARC, ELN,
and People's Liberation Army had demanded an exorbitant tax from the Mormon
missionaries for permission to build the chapel. The guerrillas then demanded that
the missionaries hire only local workers at an inflated salary; the missionaries com-
plied. After the steeple construction began, the guerrillas contended that it was a
CIA communications tower. The dispute was unresolved when the guerrillas
bombed the chapel.)
22 September Colombia: In separate incidents,. ELN guerrillas blew up sections of the Cano
Limon-Covenas oil pipeline in Oru and in Convention, causing large oil spills
and suspending pumping. operations.~~
24 September
Colombia: ELN guerrillas bombed the Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline in
northern Colombia, shutting it down after it had reopened following a weekend
II September Iraq: Kurdish refugees seized nine United Nations employees near Sairanbar. A
World Food Program official, a UNICEF official, and a UNHCR employee were
among those taken. A crowd of refugees demonstrating near the UN offices seized
the workers as thousands chanted anti-US slogans and threw rocks at UN employ-
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ees. The refugees Eater released all the hostages
13 September Iraq: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan militants kidnapped four French aid workers
from Pharmaciens Sans Frontiers (Pharmacists Without Borders), a Canadian
UNHCR o,~`icial, and two Iragis.~~
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Summary of Indigenous Terrorism-~-October 1996
This description of incidents and situations is not mean[ to be a detailed
accounti~ag of all domestic terror dents, but rather to provide an overview of
indigenous terrorism worldwide.
Bangladesh Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a parliamentary candidate on 10 October in
Dhaka. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.n
Spain
On 5 October unidentified gunmen shot and killed seven national conference party
supporters and wounded five others in Baramula, northern Kashmir. No one
claimed responsibility for the attack.~~
Three unidentified gunmen on a motorbike shot and wounded a senior Pakistani
official and his driver and kilted his guard on 22 October in Khanewal.~~
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members ambushed a police patrol on
22 October in Palliyagodella, killing 16 officers and wounding six others.
bomb disposal experts when he discovered a protruding wire.
Suspected Basque Fatherlarul and Liberty (ETA) members sent a letter bomb to an
Elizondo police officer on 12 October. The policeman turned the~age over to
The F.TA claimed responsibility for detonating two bombs outside courthouse
buildings in Vitoria and San Sebastian on ]9 October. The explosions caused minor
material damage but no injuries.~~
On 1 October in Hakkari suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants
stopped a minibus and abducted four village guards and four others after setting up
a roadblock on the Hakkari-Cukurca roadway
On 2 October twelve more militants set up another roadblock near Gumushane's
Siran district and stopped several vehicles, robbing the passengers. The assailants
set fire to one of the vehicles and fled with four hostages. The hostages were
released on 3 October. The PKK or the Turkish Workers Peasants Liberation Arrny/
TIKKO are suspected.~~
Guerrillas raided a Turkish Electric Commission construction site near the village
of Sezekyan on 3 October and abducted 1 S workers. Ten hostages were released on
14 October. The PKK is suspected~~
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Algeria
Gunmen abducted a man fr his Igdir home on 9 October and shot him to death.
The PKK is suspected.
the child to death. Four militants reportedly were killed in the clash and three
On 14 October seven militants clashed with village guards at the chief guard's res-
idence, where the militants (mistakenly) went to seek food. Trying to escape, one
of the militants shielded himself with a child; during the ensuing clash he stabbed
escaped. A guard and a villager were wounded. The PKK is suspected.
Unidentified assailants blew up an electrical pylon in Concepcion on 7 October,
leaving a section of the city without electricity. No one claimed responsibility for
the attack
On.21 October a bomb exploded outside police headquarters in Monteria injuring
10 persons.Osuspect the Revolutiona Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC) or the National Liberation Army (ELN)~
A bomb exploded inside a market in Kolea on 11 October, killing three persons and
injuring 70 others. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. The Armed Islamic
Group (G!A) is suspected.)
Unidentified assailants shot and wounded a police officer and two civilians on
5 October in the village of Hawr, in Markaz Mallawi, Al Minya. Al-Gama'at
al-Islamiyya (IC) is suspected.)