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recovered from its disastrous July 1984 attempt to Chukaku-ha demonstrated its ability to conduct seize foreign hostages in Vienna, and it suffered large-scale guerrilla-type operations. For example, the another severe ti 1985 when one of its coleaders group was able to paralyze rail traffic in November. died in France.

Although it has a limited capability to disrupt the

coming economic summit in May, as long as it seeks Shahnawaz Bhutto, younger brother of Al-Zulfikar to avoid casualties and has no access to military founder Murtaza Bhutto and son of executed former weapons or high explosives, it poses more of a Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for whom the

nuis(b)(3)ian a threat to Japanese national security. group was named, was found dead in his Cannes apartment on 18 July. French police initially suspected a drug overdose as the cause of death, but The best known terrorist group in Asia, the Japanese later arrested Shahnawaz's wife on charges of having Red Army, remained inactive in the Bekaa Valley in poisoned him. The combination of his death,

Lebanon. Its last terrorist operation was in 1977 and disorganization following the Vienna attempt,

its current strength is probably less than 20 members. Pakistani security forces' successes, and the late 1985 The group's only public “appearance" in 1985 was to lifting of martial law made it difficult for Al-Zulfikar receive its released member Kozo Okamoto, who had to recruit and operate at home, and it still lacks the been held by the Israelis since the Lod Airport sophistication to operate successfully abroad. All massacre in 1972. By all accounts, Okamoto's release these factors, plus the presence in New Delhi of a new does not portend any increase in the group's capability Indian government less inclined to support antiregime or reflect any intention to become more active. The activities in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, make it unlikely JRA probably retains some limited capability to that the groinvoll return to its high level of activity conduct terrorist attacks if permitted to do so by its

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longtime patron, the Popular Front for the Liberation

of Palestine, but is unlikely to act without PFLP Japan

approval and support. The JRA is the only known Terrorism in Japan, as in other countries in Asia, did grunthat might target Japanese interests a broad. not match anticipated levels in 1985, and

(b)(3) international terrorism there actually declined. The most dangerous group, Chukaku-ha (Nucleus

The Philippines Faction), started 1985 with a rocket attack on the US The two major insurgent groups continued their Consulate General in Kobe at 0600 hours on 1

attacks against the government infrastructure and the January, when the building was unoccupied, but did civilian population last year, but, once again, acts of not attack any foreign targets for the rest of the year. international terrorism were rare in the Philippines. While that attack did no damage and caused no Hotel fires in Manila and Baguio in late 1984 and casualties, at lcast one of the three homemade rockets early 1985 left several American citizens dead and contained antipersonnel shrapnel. That fact, plus a injured, but those fires that could be proved to be rocket “factory" discovered later in January and arson seemed to be labor related, rather than threatening literature published by the group in politically motivated. A grenade attack against a February, raised concerns early in the year that

Peace Corps vehicle was later determined to have Chukaku-ha was moving toward a revised targeting been directed at the Filining driver by an angry strategy that would include more attacks on US business associate

(b)(3) interests and that would produce casualties. Neither concern turned out to be justified, however. Although Even when the Communist New People's Army Chuka ku-ha did mount more domestic attacks within (NPA) killed an American citizen, that murder did Japan in 1985 than in most previous years, almost all not mark the abandonment of the group's policy of of them were low-level attacks against property, primarily against the longtime favorite target, Narita

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poses to the economic summit, see the Focus article at the Airport, in the first half of the year, and then against

beginning of this issue. other transportation facilities on behalf of rail workers

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