Significant Incidents of Political Violence Against Americans 1988

denial, there is strong evidence to indicate that the
JRA (which also operates under the name Anti-
Imperialist International Brigade [AIIB]) carried
out the attack under this new name.
On April 12, 1988, suspected JRA member Yu
Kikumura was arrested in New Jersey for
suspicious behavior at a rest stop along the New
Jersey Turnpike. Inside Kikumura's car, police
found three'homemade antipersonnel bombs, and
other bomb paraphernalia that were likely intended
for a terrorist operation in the United States
coinciding with the second anniversary of the U.S.
retaliatory airstrike on Tripoli. Kikumura had
previously been arrested in May 1986 at Schipal
Airport in the Netherlands for possessing dynamite
in his luggage, although he was eventually released
because of legal technicalities. On February 8,
1989, in Newark, New Jersey, Kikumura was
convicted in a nonjury trial and sentenced to 30
years' imprisonment for bomb possession with the
intent to kill.
CAR BOMB A'I-rACK AGAINST USO CLUB
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Naples, Italy.
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