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involvement. Iranians previously had been involved in antigovernment and anti-US terrorist attacks in Pakistan. In the summer of 1985, Iranian officials were believed to have been responsible for an attack on the American Center in Lahore, the placement of a bomb outside the Pan Am office in Karachi, and antigovernment Shia demonstrations in Quetta, Baluchistan, that left 60 persons dead.

sidewalks, and a building near the Canadian Embassy. Even though there were no casualties or damage, the incident was embarrassing to the Nakasone government, which had laid on unprecedented security for the conference. We believe Chukaku-ha realized that the attack would be unsuccessfUL but went ahead to embarrass the Nakasone government. The worldwide attention.

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The Pakistani terrorist group Al-Zulfikar, which In addition to attempts to disrupt the summit, radical raised concerns in 1983 and 1984 because it targeted leftist groups continued their campaign against Americans and other Westerners, was inactive for a Narita airport, the railway system, and Japanese second year. It apparently never recovered from its Government buildings throughout the year. Attacks attempt in July 1984 to seize foreign hostages in

minor damage, and few injuries. Vienna-during which nine operatives were taken into Austrian custody—and the death a year later of one of its top leaders in France. Islamabad is still Resurgence of the JRA? concerned about the ability of Al-Zulfikar to threaten An incident in Jakarta after the Tokyo Economic the lives of Pakistani political leaders, but apparently Summit led to speculation that the Japanese Red does not currently regard it as a serious tl(b)(3) Army (JRA) might be active again. Two homemade

projectiles were fired at the US and Japanese Domestic Terrorism in Japan

Embassies in Jakarta but both failed to explode. An Radical leftist groups in Japan, particularly the hour later, a car bomb exploded in the parking lot of Chukaku-ha, caused most of the terrorism that

the Canadian Embassy and destroyed at least six cars. occurred in 1986. They mounted several operations in the previously unknown “Anti-Imperialist opposition to the Tokyo Economic Summit, held last International Brigade" claimed responsiblity for the May—three in March before the summit and one attacks in retaliation for the antiterrorism declaration during the May summit. All of the attacks were of the Tokyo Economic Summit. (b)(1) designed to obtain maximum publicity and embarrass

(b)(3) the government. On 25 March, Senki Ara-ha (Battle Flag ARA Faction) fired homemade incendiary rockets from a parked car onto the grounds of the US Embassy in Tokyo and the Japanese Imperial Palace. The JRA made no claim concerning the incident, Three days later the Chukaku-ha (Nucleus Faction) although it had previously claimed credit for the fired three incendiary rockets from a van at an Osaka attacks it carried out in the 1970s. Japanese police headquarters. On 31 March the radical

authorities believe that Shirosaki may have acted Hazama-ha faction launched three rockets from a independently, or that he may be part of a faction that parked truck onto the grounds of the State Guest broke away from the JRA in February. If the JRA House, where summit meetings were to be held. was involved in this incident, it would be the group's

first act of terrorism since September 1977, when the As with most such attacks, there were no casualties group hijacked a Japan Airlines jetliner in Bombay and little damage in any of these incidents. The only and landed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In that incident the attack that took place during the Tokyo summit hijackers demanded the release of six persons occurred on 4 May when Chukaku-ha fired five homemade rockets at the State Guest House where heads of foreign governments were arriving. All of the rockets missed their target and struck the street,

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