Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

xxxii • CHRONOLOGY1968 22 July: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)be gins hijacking campaign against Western airliners with hijackingof El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Tel Aviv, diverting it to Algeria.28 August: Guatemalan Rebel Armed Forces gunmen assassinate U.S.ambassador John Gordon Mein in Guatemala City, the first killing of aU.S. ambassador in the line of duty.1969 4 November: Carlos Marighella, terrorist and author of Manualof the Urban Guerrilla, written in June 1969, is killed by Brazilianpolice in a gunfight in São Paulo. 12 December: The AvanguardiaNazionale, an Italian neo-Fascist group, bombs Agricultural Bank ofMilan, killing 16 and injuring 90 others.1970 31 July: Uruguayan Tupamaros kidnap and murder Daniel A.Mitrione, a U.S. Agency for International Development public safetyadviser. 6–9 September: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestineterrorists hijack four commercial airliners to Dawson’s Field, outsideAmman, Jordan; they destroy them after releasing most of the 310 hostagepassengers and crews. Three-week crisis provokes Jordanian governmentto expel Palestinian guerrilla groups in an armed confrontation,an event recalled by Palestinians as “Black September.” 5 October:Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) terrorists kidnap James Cross, Britishtrade commissioner to Quebec. 10 October: FLQ members kidnap andmurder Pierre LaPorte, Quebec Minister of Labor. Canadian governmentinvokes War Measures Act, suspending civil liberties, in order tocrack down on the FLQ.1971 1 March: U.S. Senate Office Building is bombed by theWeather Underground. 28 November: Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfial Tall is assassi nated by Black September agents in Cairo.1972 30 January: British troops open fire on Catholic civil rightsdem onstrators in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, killing 13. The incident,known as Bloody Sunday, marks upsurge of Irish RepublicanArmy and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. 30 May: ThreeJapanese Red Army members, acting on behalf of the Popular Frontfor the Liberation of Palestine, open fire on travelers at Israel’s Lodairport, killing 25 and injuring 76. 21 July: Provisional Irish RepublicanArmy (PIRA) conducts more than 20 bombings in Belfast, killing11 and injuring more than 100, on “Bloody Friday.” 5–6 September: