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The extensive overseas Sikh network was responsible for several spectacular terrorist attacks or plots in 1985—the downing of an Air India airliner off the Irish coast, the bomb explosion at Narita airport, and the arrest of American Sikhs for conspiring to kill Rajiv Gandhi. During 1986 there were no significant terrorist attacks inside India by Sikh expatriates. We believe Sikh militants will continue to rely on violence, and may turn to increasingly spectacular acts such as mass killings of Hindus, assassinations of senior Indian officials, and attacks on Indian civil aviation. (b)(3)


In Australia a rare terrorist incident occurred in

December. A car bomb exploded under the Turkish

Consulate building in Melbourne, killing one person

and injuring another. The entire floor housing the

Consulate was completely destroyed. A previously 

unknown group, the "Greek-Bulgarian-Armenian

Front," claimed responsibility for the attack. The

suspects may be connected with a rightwing


Armenian terrorist group. This group assassinated the


Turkish ConsUL General in Sydney in 1980, but has


been inactive since 1985.

(b)(3) Terrorism Elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific Isolated acts of international terrorism worthy of mention occurred in other areas of Asia and the Pacific last year. Two terrorist attacks occurred in Thailand in April, an attack at South Korea's Kimpo" Airport left five persons dead last September, and a car bomb exploded at the Turkish Consulate in (b)(3) Melbourne, Australia, in December.

In Thailand, a time bomb filled with nails exploded near the entrance of the Erawan Hotel in Bangkok shortly before Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was to attend a banquet. One Thai was killed and two others wounded. There was no claim of responsibility. A few weeks later a bomb exploded inside the compound of the US Consulate in Songkhla. The bomb was thrown from a passing car and caused minor property damage and no casualties. Thai authorities believe the attack was carried out by members of the Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO), a group long-funded by Libya,

but only sporadically (b)(3)in the last 10 years.

In Korea, on the eve of the Asian Games, a bomb exploded in a trash can near a crowded arrival terminal at Kimpo Airport, killing five persons and injuring 29. An anomyous caller told police that radical South Korean students were responsible for the incident. SeoUL has claimed the explosion was a North Korean-engineered attempt to disrupt the Asian Games, but South Korean investigators have been unable to turn up evidence that North Korea was behind the bombing

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