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<text>
<title>
Chronology of Terrorist Events
</title>
<article>
<hdr>
Patterns Of Global Terrorism: 1991
Chronology of Significant Terrorist Events: 1991
</hdr>
<body>
<table>
2 January El Salvador
Two U.S. crewmen, Lt. Col. David Pickett and
crew chief PFC Earnest Dawson, were executed
after their helicopter was downed by Farabundo
Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)
militants in San Miguel department. A third
American, Chief Warrant Officer Daniel Scott,
died of injuries he received when the
helicopter was shot down.
12 January Afghanistan
Hezb-I-Islami (Hekmatyar) kidnapped four Swiss
Red Cross workers outside Qandahar.
18 January Indonesia
A bomb was discovered outside the US
Ambassador's residence in Jakarta. The device
was probably placed by Iraqi agents.
19 January Philippines
A bomb carried by two Iraqi agents detonated
prematurely near the USIS library in Manila.
One was killed; the second was seriously
injured.
31 January Yemen
Gunmen threw dynamite at the residences of the
Turkish and Japanese Ambassadors and attacked
the US Embassy.
Peru
MRTA terrorists fired shots and an antitank
weapon at the US Embassy.
3 February Saudi Arabia
Unknown assailants fired upon a bus
transporting US Air Force personnel, wounding
two US airmen and a Saudi guard.
7 February United Kingdom
Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA)
conducted an improvised mortar attack against
the residence of Prime Minister John Major in
London. Three mortar rounds were fired from a
parked van nearby. There were no deaths or
serious injuries.
Turkey
Dev Sol shot and killed a US civilian
contractor as he was getting into his car to
travel to work at Incirlik Air Base in Adana.
13 February Germany
The Red Army Faction (RAF) claimed
responsibility for firing approximately 250
rounds of small-arms fire at the US Embassy in
Bonn. This was the first RAF attack against a
US target since 1985.
16 February Chile
Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front dissidents
(FPMR/D) claimed responsibility for an antitank
rocket attack on a US Marine security guard van
in Santiago, injuring one marine.
20 February Iran
Concussion grenades were thrown at the British,
Italian, and Turkish Embassies in Tehran. A
claim of responsibility was issued by Islamic
Jihad.
23 February Japan
Chukaku-ha attacked a US Navy housing compound
in Yokohama with projectiles, causing minor
damage.
28 February Turkey
Two Dev Sol gunmen shot and wounded a US Air
Force officer as he entered his residence in
Izmir.
2 March Sri Lanka
State Minister for Defense Wijeratne was killed
in a car bombing in Colombo along with 50 other
victims. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
probably was responsible.
12 March Greece
US Air Force Sergeant Ronald Odell Stewart was
killed by a remote control bomb detonated at the
entrance of his apartment building in Athens. The
Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17
November) claimed the attack was in response to
"the genocide of 13,000 Iraqis."
22 March Turkey
Three members of Dev Sol assassinated John
Gandy, a US civilian contractor, in his
Istanbul office.
26 March Singapore
Four Pakistanis claiming to be members of the
Pakistani People's Party hijacked a Singapore
Airlines flight en route from Kuala Lumpur to
Singapore and demanded the release of several
people reportedly imprisoned in Pakistan.
Singapore counterterrorism units stormed the
plane and killed the hijackers.
28 March Saudi Arabia
Three US Marines were shot at and injured by an
Arab while driving near camp Three, Jubial.
31 March India
A Kashmiri separatist group, the Muslim Janbaz
Force (MJF), kidnapped two Swedish engineers.
They escaped on 5 July.
1 April Germany
RAF killed Detlev Rohwedder, a leading German
businessman, in a sniper attack on his
Duesseldorf home.
19 April Greece
Seven people, including six Greeks, were killed
in Patras when explosives carried by a
Palestinian student detonated prematurely.
France
An Iranian dissident leader was stabbed and
killed in the lobby of his apartment building in
Paris.
17 May Peru
Sendero Luminoso (SL) killed the Canadian
director of the humanitarian organization World
Mission and seriously injured his Colombian
assistant in a Lima suburb.
21 May India
Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was
assassinated by a suspected LTTE suicide bomber
while campaigning in southern India. Seventeen
others also died in the bombing.
22 May Peru
An Australian nun and four Peruvian officials
were executed by SL after a "people's trial" in
a rural village.
29 May Spain
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) claimed
responsibility for a car bombing that destroyed
a Civil Guard barracks near Barcelona, killing
nine and injuring over 50.
5 June Peru
A Soviet textile technician was ambushed and
killed by four SL members in Lima.
23 June Honduras
The Morazanist Patriotic Front (FPM) launched
an RPG-7 rocket at the UN Observer Group
headquarters in Tegucigalpa, causing some
damage.
26 June India
A Kashmiri separatist group kidnapped one Dutch
and seven Israeli tourists in Srinagar. One
Israeli was killed in an escape attempt.
1 July India
A Soviet engineer was killed trying to escape
after being kidnapped (along with 14 Indians) by
United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants
in Assam.
3, 12 July Italy-Japan
The Italian translator of Salman Rushdie's book
The Satanic Verses was stabbed and beaten by a
man believed to be Iranian on 3 July in Milan.
The Japanese translator of the book was stabbed
to death in Tokyo on 12 July.
7 July Afghanistan
Two private agricultural consultants were
kidnapped by Afghan militants in Joghere. One man
was released in mid-October, the other in
December.
11 July France
A founder and former director of Dev Sol was
assassinated in Paris by probable Dev Sol
members.
12 July