Terrorist Incidents since 1970

Terrorist Incidents since 1970

1970

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  February 21: A bomb explodes in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, Switzerland, killing 38 passengers and all nine crew members. The attack was carried out by Palestinian terrorist group PFLP
  
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  , , March 31: Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by nine members of the Japanese Red Army group. 23 passengers were freed at Fukuoka Airport, mainly children or old aged. 108 passengers and all crew members with Red Army group left Fukuoka, bound for Gimpo Airport, near Seoul, South Korea. Three days after, Red Army group ask to be flown to North Korean capital Pyongyang, before leaving from Seoul, 103 passenger and crew hostages are freed, and nine Red Army group members surrendered to North Korean authorities.
  
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  May 8: Avivim school bus attacks by Palestinian PLO members, killing nine children and three adults and crippling 19 children.
  

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  August 24: the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was blown up resulting in one death
  
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  September 6: Coordinated hijacking of four airliners. One hijacking is foiled in midair and two planes are diverted to Jordan’s Dawson Field. Nicaraguan hijacker Sandinista Patrick Arguello was killed and all passengers were freed after negotiated release of captured hijacker Leila Khaled and three PFLP prisoners. The following day a fifth aircraft was also hijacked. See Dawson's Field hijackings, Black September in Jordan.
  
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  October 5 – 17: October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross.
  
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  October 22: An antipersonnel time bomb explodes outside a San Francisco church, showering steel shrapnel on mourners of a patrolman slain in a bank holdup; no one is injured. The Black Liberation Army is suspected.^[6]
  
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  1970-1972: The Jewish Defense League was linked with a bomb explosion outside of Aeroflot's New York City office, and a detonation outside of Soviet cultural offices in Washington. Also a JDL member allegedly fired a rifle into the Soviet Union's mission office at the United Nations. Two JDL members were convicted of bomb possession and burglary in a conspiracy to blow up the Long Island residence of the Soviet Mission to the UN.
  

1971

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  During this year, The Black Liberation Army is suspected of killing three policemen (one at his desk), shooting four others, opening fire on three patrol cars and rolling a grenade which heavily damaged a police car and injured two officers. An attempt is made to bomb a police station. These incidents happen in various cities around the country. In August the group runs a one month long guerrilla warfare school in Fayetteville, Georgia. Seven arrested in January 2007 in relation to the shooting of the policeman at his desk.^[6][7]
  
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  October 31: A bomb explodes in the Post Office Tower in London causing extensive damage but no injuries. The "Kilburn Battalion" of the IRA claimed responsibility for the explosion.^[8]
  
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  December 4: In the McGurk's Bar bombing, an Ulster Volunteer Force bomb in Belfast's North Queen Street kills 15 people.
  

1972

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  January 26: Yugoslavian Airlines Flight 364 is brought down by an explosion. Officially a bomb was placed on the plane by Ustasa agents, but it's speculated that the plane was downed by two Czechoslovak SA-12 surface-to-air missiles because it has entered a restricted military area without permission. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane is destroyed and 27 of 28 passengers die. One stewardess survives a 10,160 meter (33,330 ft) drop.
  
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  January 27: Two policemen, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are shot in the back by at least three persons; four suspects in the case are members of the Black Liberation Army; one suspect is later killed in a street battle with St. Louis police; the recovered pistol matches Laurie's.^[6]
  
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  February 19: A stand off between five Japanese United Red Army members and many Japanese police, riot controller begin taking the 31 years-old wife as hostage lodge house at Karuizawa, Japan, where continue to ten days.
  
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  February 22: The Official Irish Republican Army kills seven civilians in Aldershot after it bombs a British military barracks.
  
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  February 28: In Karuizawa, Japan, Japanese authority move to rescue hostages, 640 minutes ago, 31 years-old wife has freed by rescue authority, however, occurred between satndoff five Japanese United Red Army and authority, where two policemen killed, 12 injured.
  
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  April 4: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.
  
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  May 30: Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 78.
  
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  July 21: Bloody Friday nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs.
  
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  Four PLO terrorists hijacked a Sabena airliner carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members on route from Brussels to Tel Aviv. In a mission titled "Operation Isotope", 16 members of Sayeret Matkal posed as refueling and technical personnel and stormed the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.
  
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  July 31: Claudy bombings; three car bombs are detonated in Claudy killing nine people. No group has claimed responsibility.
  
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  September 5: Black September kidnaps and kills eleven Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.
  
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  September 19: The group Black September post a letter bomb to the Israeli embassy in London killing an Israeli diplomat.^[9]
  
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  October 27: Police car bombing in Los Angeles claimed by Afro American Liberation Army.^[6]
  
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  1972 December: A travel agency in Queens, New York is bombed; the incident is attributed to FIN, a Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro.^{[citation needed]}
  
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  1972 December 11: New York City. The VA-Cuba Forwarding Company is bombed. Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro suspected.^{[citation needed]}
  
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  December 28: A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000 ransom by the Black Liberation Army.^[6]