List of terrorist incidents, 1988
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1988.
April 12: Japanese Red Army terrorist Yu Kikumura was arrested at a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike in possession of pipe bombs on his way to New York.[1]
March 6:An attempted attack on an army band by the Provisional IRA is foiled by the SAS.
March 16: Michael Stone kills three mourners in a gun and grenade attack on an IRA funeral in Belfast.[2]- March 19: During the funeral of IRA member Kevin Brady, killed in the cemetery attack by Michael Stone, a car approached the funeral procession at high speed. The car was surrounded by mourners, and two men later identified as corporals in the British Army were overpowered, dragged from the car, taken to waste ground and shot dead by the IRA
- June: The IRA shoots down a British army helicopter in Northern Ireland[3]
- June 15: Six British soldiers are killed by an IRA booby trap bomb attached to their vehicle in Market Square, Lisburn.
June 28: American diplomat, and defense naval attache Captain William Nordeen was assassinated by Marxist terrorist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November by a remote controlled car bomb in Athens.
August 25: Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town South Africa bombed killing 1 and injuring 26.[4]- and United States December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. At the time, it was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and involved the greatest number of peacetime fatalities (270) in the United Kingdom. Just over 12 years after the event, at the conclusion of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, a Libyan agent, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, was convicted on 270 counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Libya subsequently agreed to pay relatives of the Lockerbie bombing victims $2.7 billion ($10 million each) in compensation. 169 American passengers--including 41 American students--and 11 American crew members perished in the attack.
- Month Unk.: Jordanian terrorist detonates bomb on railroad tracks ahead of US Duty Train enroute from West Germany to West Berlin while traversing East Germany. No significant injuries.
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- ^ National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism: Terrorism Incidents & Significant Dates, April 12, 1988
- ^ CNN: Michael Stone: Loyalist icon, November 24, 2006
- ^ BBC News: The IRA's store of weaponry, August 14, 2001
- ^ "U.S. based Planet Hollywood bomb in South Africa has no link to Moroccon", ArabicNews.com, 1998-08-31. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
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