List of terrorist incidents, 1985
This is a timeline of incidents in 1985 that have been labeled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
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February 23: Paris Marks & Spencer shop, one bomb, one dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah. [1]
March 8: Car bomb explodes in Beirut, killing 80, injuring 175; allegedly planned and executed by "rogue elements" of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.[2]
- March 9: Paris, Cinema Rivoli, Jewish film festival, 18 injured, pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah[3]
April 9: A suicide car bomber drove an explosive-laden vehicle into an Israeli army patrol, killing 2 soldiers. This was the world's first female suicide bomber, at just 17 years old.[4][5]
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June 14: TWA Flight 847 hijacking, Hezbollah, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. Terrorists take passengers of an Athens-Rome flight hostage, murdering US Navy Seaman, Robert Stethem.[6]
July 22: Two near-simultaneous bombs in Copenhagen, at the Jewish synagogue and at the offices of Northwest Orient, explode, killing one and injuring 32. The bombers are interrupted while placing a third, more powerful, bomb, which they later dispose of in the city's harbour. The bombs are later linked to Islamic Jihad.[7]
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United States October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro hijacking cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old wheelchair-using Jewish American citizen, is shot dead and thrown overboard.[8]
See also
- List of terrorist incidents
References
- ↑ 1 Killed in Third Mystery Bombing at Marks & Spencer Store in Paris
- ↑ “Some American press reports said the CIA was behind the attack, which was meant to kill Sheikh Fadlallah.” “Operatives allegedly trained by the CIA set off a car bomb in an attempt to kill Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... President Reagan and the CIA call off covert operations.”
- ↑ Thousands of Parisians Are Outraged by Bombing of a Cinema Where a Jewish Film Festival Was Taking Place
- ↑ FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS
- ↑ The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
- ↑ Smith, William E. June 24, 2001. Terror Aboard Flight 847. TIME Magazine. Retrieved: 24 November 2012.
- ↑ 27 Injured in 3 Terrorist Explosions in Copenhagen
- ↑ Bohn, Michael K. (2004). The Achille Lauro Hijacking: Lessons in the Politics And Prejudice of Terrorism. Potomac Books, Inc. pp. 6–7. ISBN 978-1-574-88779-2.
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