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Giovanni Senzani—for crimes committed earlier in Armenian Terrorism in 1986

the decade. There are now fewer professional

terrorists on the outside, and jailed leaders are no There were few Armenian terrorist attacks last year. longer able to order attacks from prison, leaving the Most Armenian violence during 1986, moreover, was Red Brigades in a weakened position but still capable internecine and probably stemmed from the

of launching sporadic attacks.

(b)(3) longstanding rivalry between the conservative Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnag Party) The Benelux Nations and the leftwing terrorist Armenian Secret Army for Terrorist activity in Belgium dropped off in 1986. the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA). Several

Arrests of virtually the entire infrastructure of the Dashnag members were killed or kidnaped in Beirut Communist Combatant Cells (CCC) in December in 1986 by a group calling itself the “Armenian 1985, followed by raids on safehouses the next month, Revolutionary Federation-Revolutionary

set the tone for 1986 and halted the CCC's 15-month Movement," probably a covername for ASALA. reign of terror. There have been no further attacks by (b)(3)

the group, and the upcoming trials of the CCC

members probably will serve to keep a lid on terrorism Armenians were active elsewhere. ASALA may have in Belgium for the rest of this year. (b)(3) cooperated with the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction in two major bombing campaigns in Paris. There is no cohesive leftwing terrorist movement in Farther afield, a car bomb that exploded at the the Netherlands, but there were seven international Turkish Consulate in Melbourne, Australia, in

terrorist attacks there last year. Most of these were December seriously damaged the building. The committed by Middle Eastern groups or new groups suicide bomber and an accomplice arrested later had opposed to business ties to South Africa. (b)(3) ties to the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG), a rightwing terrorist group linked Scandinavia to the Dashnag Party. The Melbourne car bombing There has been no indigenous terrorism in may indicate that Armenian terrorists will renew Scandinavia, but Olaf Palme's murder heightened the their terrorist comnaign to gain an Armenian

sense of vulnerability in the region to such attacks. homeland. [(b)(3)

The assassination in February 1986 of the Swedish

Prime Minister has not been linked firmly to a Several trials of Armenian terrorists for attacks terrorist group, but Stockholm police have earlier in the decade concluded in 1986. US courts in aggressively pursued the possible involvement of the Philadelphia and Los Angeles sentenced six JCAG Kurdish Workers' Party. Otherwise, the region members for anti-Turkish bombings and one murder. experienced only a few instances of Middle In November, Monte Melkonian, the leader of the Eastern-sponsored terrorism.

(b)(3) ASALA-Revolutionary Movement (ASALA-RM). received a six-year sentence in Paris after being

(b)(3) convicted of forgery and possession of weapons and

explosives. __(b)(3)

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