Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

CHRONOLOGY • xliAlgeria in reprisal for the killings of its own members by the Frenchrescue team.1995 20 March: Members of Aum Shinrikyo sect release sarin nervegas on five trains of the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 people andinjuring 5,500 others. 19 April: Truck bomb demolishes north sectionof Murrah Fed eral Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 and injuringhundreds more. This is the single deadliest terrorist attack everperpetrated in the United States until the 11 September 2001 WorldTrade Center and Pentagon attacks. 26 June: Islamic Group gunmenattempt assassination of Egyptian Presi dent Hosni Mubarak duringhis visit to Ethiopia. 4 November: Jewish religious extremist assassinatesIsraeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during peace rally in TelAviv. 13 November: In Riyadh, car bomb explodes at the Office ofthe Program Manager/Saudi Arabian National Guard, killing four U.S.civil servants, one member of the U.S. Armed Forces, and two Indiangovernment employees, while injuring 42 others.1996 31 January: Truck bombing of Central Bank building in Colombo,Sri Lanka, by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam kills 90 peopleand injures more than 1,400 others. 9 February: Irish RepublicanArmy breaks 17-month cease-fire with bombing in Docklands areaof London, killing two and injuring more than 100 others. 24 February–24March: Hamas carries out three suicide bomb ings, detonatingdevices on two buses in Jerusalem on 24 February and 3 March andanother outside the Dizengoff shop ping mall in Tel Aviv, in total killing65 people and injuring 161 others. 25 June: Truck bomb explodes oppositeU.S. military housing in Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia,killing 19 U.S. citizens and wounding some 500 people. 27 July:Pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the AtlantaOlympic Games, killing two people and injuring 111 others. 17 December:Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement terrorists seize Japaneseambassador’s residence in Lima, Peru, during a diplomatic reception,taking 500 hostages. By New Year’s Day only 81 hostages re main, theothers having been released. Peruvian police storm compound on 22April 1997, freeing hostages and killing all 14 terrorists.1997 17 November: Outside Luxor, Egypt, members of IslamicGroup shoot and knife to death 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptiansat Hatshepsut Temple.