List of terrorist attacks in 1979

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The list of terrorist attacks in 1979 contains an incomplete selection of terrorist attacks that occurred in 1979. Assassinations are dealt with separately in the list of known assassinations . The list of explosives attacks also includes non-terrorist attacks. The list of aircraft hijackings contains a list mostly with a terrorist background. Further terrorist attacks are listed in the article right- wing terrorism.

Explanation

The political or ideological classification of the perpetrators is given in the Political Orientation column : Fascist , racist , nationalist , National Socialist , socialist , communist , anti-imperialist , Islamist ( Shiite , Sunni , Deobandic , Salafist , Wahhabi ), Hindu . If the focus is primarily on state independence or autonomy , the prefix is autonomous , followed by the region or ethnic group and, if applicable, further characteristics of the perpetrators: Armenian , Irish ( Catholic ), Kurdish , Tyrolean , Chechen , Dagestan , Punjab ( Sikhist ), Palestinian .

The number of victims of the attacks are shown in color:

  • unknown number of dead or injured
  • 0 dead or injured
  • 1–19 dead or injured
  • 20–49 dead or injured
  • 50–99 dead or injured
  • 100 and more dead or injured

    • January

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    January 18, 1979 Israel Attack in Jerusalem Palestinian extremists explosive market 0 21st Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    January 28, 1979 Israel Attack in Moya Palestinian extremists explosive market 5 55 Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    February

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    01st February 1979 Pakistan Attack near Peshawar explosive Village 6th 40
    February 12, 1979 Rhodesia Air Rhodesia Flight 827 ZAPU socialist, left-nationalist rocket plane 59 0 Rhodesia War

    March

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    0March 9, 1979 Myanmar Stop in Thaton KNU autonomist Grenades Furniture store 5 60 Armed conflict in Myanmar
    March 20, 1979 Myanmar Attack in Shan SSA-N autonomist, shan nationalist Automatic firearms Military base 22nd 6th Armed conflict in Myanmar
    March 21, 1979 Nicaragua Attack in Nueva Segovia FSLN nationalist, democratic-socialist, Christian-left, left-wing populist Military patrol 22nd 0 Nicaraguan Revolution
    March 27, 1979 France Attack in Paris Autonomous Intervention Collective Against the Zionist Presence in France racist explosive Jewish student canteen 0 26th

    April

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    April 1979 Australia Stop in Perth explosive Department store 0 9
    April 10, 1979 Israel Attack in Tel Aviv-Jaffa Palestinian extremists explosive market 1 33 Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    April 17th 1979 United Kingdom Attack in Bessbrook IRA autonomist, Irish Republican, Catholic explosive vehicle 4th 13 Northern Ireland Conflict
    April 22, 1979 Israel Attack in Nahariya PLF autonomist-Palestinian Israeli civilians 4 (+2) Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    May

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    0May 2nd 1979 Ethiopia Attack in Amhara TPLF Marxist-Leninist Village 100 Ethiopian Civil War
    May 14, 1979 Israel Attack in Tiberias PLO autonomist, Palestinian nationalist explosive City center 2 28 Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    May 26, 1979 Spain Attack in Madrid GRAPO Marxist-Leninist, anti-revisionist, republican, anti-imperialist explosive Coffee shop 8th 39
    May 30, 1979 Thailand Attack in Udon Thani Communists Communist Explosives, automatic firearms, bazookas Military patrol 27 3

    June

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    June 16, 1979 Italy Attack in Milan Armed Revolutionary Nuclei right-wing extremist, neo-fascist explosive Party office 0 23
    June 16, 1979 Italy Attack in Rome Armed Revolutionary Nuclei right-wing extremist, neo-fascist Explosives, arson, gun Party office 0 23
    June 16, 1979 Syria Attack in Aleppo presumably Muslim Brotherhood Sunni-Islamist, conservative, anti-communist Automatic firearms, grenades Military building 54
    June 23, 1979 Turkey Attack in Istanbul explosive Coffeehouse 1 38

    July

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    July 12, 1979 Iran Attack in Tehran Firearms train 9 60
    July 15, 1979 Iran Attack in Khorramshahr autonomist explosive mosque 7th 60
    July 28, 1979 Spain Attack in Madrid ETA autonomist, Basque nationalist 3 explosives Madrid-Barajas Airport , Madrid Atocha station , Madrid Chamartin Station 6th 109 Civil War in the Basque Country

    August

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    August 27, 1979 United Kingdom Warrenpoint attack PIRA autonomist, Irish Catholic 2 explosives, firearms British Army convoy 19th 7th Northern Ireland Conflict
    August 27, 1979 Afghanistan Attack in Ghazni Muslim guerrillas explosive bus 50 0

    September

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    18th September 1979 Austria Attack in Völkermarkt explosive museum 0 3
    19th September 1979 Israel Attack in Jerusalem Arab Liberation Front autonomist, Palestinian nationalist, neo-Catholic explosive market 1 42 Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    September 25, 1979 El Salvador Attack in San Salvador FPL Communist, Marxist-Leninist explosive National Palace 7th 30th Salvadoran Civil War
    September 25, 1979 United Kingdom Stop in Lisburn IRA autonomist, Irish Republican, Catholic explosive shopping mall 0 12 Northern Ireland Conflict
    September 26, 1979 Iran Stop in Mahabad probably Kurdish rebels Grenades 1 20th

    October

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    05th October 1979 Iran Attack in Khorramshahr Separatists autonomist explosive bazaar 1 35

    November

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    03rd November 1979 United States Greensboro Massacre American Nazi Party , Ku Klux Klan racist, national socialist Firearms Demonstration of mostly Afro-American industrial workers 5 6th
    November 15, 1979 United States American Airlines Flight 444 Theodore Kaczynski anarchist Explosive device plane 0 12
    November 20, 1979 Saudi Arabia Occupation of the Great Mosque Ichwān Islamist, Wahhabi hostage taking al-Haram mosque , pilgrims 127 (+117) 450+
    November 26, 1979 United Kingdom Attack in Lurgan IRA autonomist, Irish Republican, Catholic explosive chancellery 0 23 Northern Ireland Conflict

    December

    Date / start Affected country attack Perpetrator Political orientation medium target dead Injured background
    December 24, 1979 Philippines Attack in Zamboanga City MNLF autonomist, federalist Grenades cathedral 6th 28 Moro conflict

    See also

    Web links

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197901180001 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    2. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197901280002 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    3. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197902010007 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    4. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197902120002 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    5. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197903090004 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    6. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197903200003 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    7. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197903210002 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    8. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197903270001 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    9. ^ Autonomous Intervention Collective Against the Zionist Presence in France in Tracking Terrorism. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
    10. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197904000001 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on June 22, 2018 .
    11. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197904100001 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    12. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197904170008 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on November 26, 2018 .
    13. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197905020020 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    14. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197905140001 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    15. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197905260002 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    16. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197905300003 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    17. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197906160004 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    18. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197906160006 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    19. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197906160007 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    20. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197906230001 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    21. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197907120011 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    22. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197907150001 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    23. ^ Entry in the Global Terrorism Database. University of Maryland. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
    24. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197908270003 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on November 26, 2018 .
    25. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197908270005 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
    26. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197909180001 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on June 22, 2018 .
    27. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197909190003 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 15, 2018 .
    28. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197909250007 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 15, 2018 .
    29. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197909250004 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on November 26, 2018 .
    30. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197909260008 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 15, 2018 .
    31. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197910050004 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 15, 2018 .
    32. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197911260009 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 15, 2018 .
    33. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 197912240002 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on October 15, 2018 .