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Selected Chronology of 1985 High-Casualty Incidents

2 February

6 November

A popular bar in the Athens suburb of Glyfada was bombed by unknown terrorists, injuring 78 persons, including 57 US servicemen and their dependents.

The seizure of Colombia's Ministry of Justice by guerrillas belonging to the 19th of April Movement resulted in more than 100 deaths when government troops stormed the building.

12 April

23 November

A restaurant outside Madrid was bombed, probably by radical Palestinians, killing 18 Spaniards and wounding another 82 persons, including 15 Americans.

19 June

An armed attack on a cafe in San Salvador in June by terrorists tied to the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front killed 13 persons, including six Americans.

An Egyptian jetliner was hijacked from Athens to Malta by Abu Nidal terrorists, possibly with the cooperation of Egyptian dissidents. Before Egyptian commandos stormed the plane-killing some 60 persons who remained aboard—the terrorists executed five persons, including an American woman, and wounded the other Americans aboard.

23 June

7 December

A Shannon-bound Air India flight from Toronto was bombed over the North Atlantic, probably by Sikh extremists; 329 passengers and crewmembers were killed.

The bombing of two department stores in Paris by a hitherto unknown Middle Eastern group left about 35 holiday shoppers wounded.

8 August

27 December

A car bombing at Rhein-Main Airbase claimed by the West German Red Army Faction and French Action Directe-killed two Americans and wounded 17 other

Near-simultaneous attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports carried out by the Abu Nidal Group left more than 20 persons, including five Americans, dead and some 120 wounded, including 20 Americans.

persons.

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agitation and propaganda activity among Muslim populations in countries as distant as Nig'(b)(3). Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.[

Iraqi dissidents, who last year staged two attacks in Iraqi President Saddam Husayn's hometown.

Iran trains and finances numerous dissident and terrorist groups, such as:

• Shia dissidents from Kuwait and Bahrain. ProIranian dissidents attempted to assassinate the Amir of Kuwait last May, and Shia terrorist cells were uncovered in Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates during 1985.[(b)(3)

• Radical Shia elements in Lebanon, including

Hizballah, the group responsible for the bulk of anti-US attacks in Lebanon.

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