Sayeret
11-18-2004, 07:05 PM
JAPAN. The Tokyo subway system was the target of an attack with nerve gas. The deadly gas, Sarin, was released from packages brought on to five different railway carriages. Twelve people were killed and over 5000 injured including several foreigners. Fifteen subway stations were affected by the gas. A Japanese extreme Buddhist sect called Aum Shinri Kyo (Sublime/Supreme Truth), is suspected of releasing the gas. On 7 June 1995, the leader of Aum Shinri Kyo, Shoko Asahara, was indicted for the murder of the people who died in the subway gas attack. Six followers were also indicted on murder charges and nine others on lesser charges. Asahara's trial started in late October 1995.
Two policemen were injured when attackers threw acid bombs at a patrol car. The officers had driven into Portugalete where they were surrounded by youths who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at them. Authorities suspect the Basque Fatherland and Freedom (ETA) are responsible for the attack.
An Islamic militant group warned that Muslim women who did not wear a veil would face "serious consequences." Soon afterwards, five women were attacked with acid by Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LeJ) activists in Sringar. One man was also injured. Other attacks have been carried out with paint, but Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LeJ) has since threatened to shoot women who do not abide by the dress code. The group has also demanded that Hindu women wear Bindi on their forehead and Sikh women cover their heads with a saffron cloth.
SRI LANKA. In early January the British and U.S.Embassies in Colombo received letters warning that tea destined for export had been poisoned. Similar letters were received by Australian and Canadian missions. Originating with the Tamil Eelam Army, a small guerrilla group, the letters asserted that Sri Lankan tea shipments had been contaminated with potassium cyanide. While the threats were officially discounted, the Sri Lankan Government initiated "precautionary measures" and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it was testing all black tea imported from Sri Lanka for possible cyanide contamination
UNITED KINGDOM. An Iraqi businessman living in exile in London, was given the poison thallium, a heavy-metal element similar to arsenic and known to be used by Iraqi intelligence operators and Arab terrorist groups. The victim died 15 days later.
SWEDEN. Secret police are investigating the mysterious death of Zaire's ambassador, Mobutu Dongo Yema, brother of Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko. The ambassador, 43, died after he was rushed to the hospital suffering from what doctors said may have been poisoning. Hours earlier, Mobutu had asked Swedish authorities for more protection. He mentioned threats to his life from "oppositional elements from my homeland."
AUSTRALIA. Several delegates to an international Assyrian Congress meeting in Sydney were made ill from food poisoned with mustine hydrochloride. Delegates from Iraq allegedly provided the food. Two delegates who received contaminated food had previously criticized the Iraqi Government's use of violence.
DENMARK. The South African Consulate in Copenhagen was the target of an attack by a group of about 40 anti-apartheid militants. The group poured acid on the floors and burned official papers before littering the street around the consulate with steel blades to prevent pursuit by authorities.
ITALY. The Organization of Metropolitan Proletariat and Oppressed Peoples, a group claiming support for the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, notified authorities that it had injected poison into grapefruits imported from Israel. Contaminated grapefruits were discovered in Naples and Rome and the government took all grapefruits off the market. The "poison" turned out to be a substance which causes color tainting but is not harmful.
BELGIUM. A Palestinian group called the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed it injected exported Israel oranges with mercury to sow panic and wreck the country's economy. Five Dutch children fell ill and European officials checked thousands of oranges. Two oranges were found in Holland and West Germany spiked with mercury. A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility, saying, "We do not intend to kill people in nations that import the oranges but to sabotage the Israel economy." Authorities felt the oranges must have been spiked in Rotterdam where they were shipped for repackaging and shipment to Europe. A lemon injected with mercury was found in Heverlee, Belgium, near the university town of Louvain. And a London woman found an Israeli orange spiked with mercury in a bag of fruit she bought in a London department store on February 7, making England the fifth country where poisoned fruit was discovered in one week. (Amos - Arab Revolutionary Army)
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. A Palestinian group called the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed it injected exported Israel oranges with mercury to sow panic and wreck the country's economy. Five Dutch children fell ill and European officials checked thousands of oranges. Two oranges were found in Holland and West Germany spiked with mercury. A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility, saying, "We do not intend to kill people in nations that import the oranges but to sabotage the Israel economy." Authorities felt the oranges must have been spiked in Rotterdam where they were shipped for repackaging and shipment to Europe. A lemon injected with mercury was found in Heverlee, Belgium, near the university town of Louvain. And a London woman found an Israeli orange spiked with mercury in a bag of fruit she bought in a London department store on February 7, making England the fifth country where poisoned fruit was discovered in one week.
THE NETHERLANDS. A Palestinian group called the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed it injected exported Israel oranges with mercury to sow panic and wreck the country's economy. Five Dutch children fell ill and European officials checked thousands of oranges. Two oranges were found in Holland and West Germany spiked with mercury. A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility, saying, "We do not intend to kill people in nations that import the oranges but to sabotage the Israel economy." Authorities felt the oranges must have been spiked in Rotterdam where they were shipped for repackaging and shipment to Europe. A lemon injected with mercury was found in Heverlee, Belgium, near the university town of Louvain. And a London woman found an Israeli orange spiked with mercury in a bag of fruit she bought in a London department store on February 7, making England the fifth country where poisoned fruit was discovered in one week.
UNITED KINGDOM. A Palestinian group called the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed it injected exported Israel oranges with mercury to sow panic and wreck the country's economy. Five Dutch children fell ill and European officials checked thousands of oranges. Two oranges were found in Holland and West Germany spiked with mercury. A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility, saying, "We do not intend to kill people in nations that import the oranges but to sabotage the Israel economy." Authorities felt the oranges must have been spiked in Rotterdam where they were shipped for repackaging and shipment to Europe. A lemon injected with mercury was found in Heverlee, Belgium, near the university town of Louvain. And a London woman found an Israeli orange spiked with mercury in a bag of fruit she bought in a London department store on February 7, making England the fifth country where poisoned fruit was discovered in one week. (Amos - Arab Revolutionary Army)
UNITED KINGDOM. Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian defector, died in a London hospital several days after being stabbed in the leg with an umbrella by a strange man. Markov claimed he had been poisoned by the umbrella tip. Markov worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation's East European service and reportedly had intimate knowledge of Bulgarian leadership. An autopsy revealed a tiny metal bead with holes drilled in it; it was so small, the toxin would have had to be extremely powerful to have had the effect that it did--kill a person. No traces of poison were found but studies are continuing to discover the "pinhead poison" that caused Markov's death. On December 19, 1979, a French court sentenced a Bulgarian-born spy to three years in prison in connection with the unsolved poison attacks on Bulgarian dissident refugees in London and Paris. The defendant, Dino Dinev, a naturalized Frenchman, was convicted of working for the Bulgarian secret service and tracing refugees through contacts in French counterintelligence.
GUATEMALA. The 33-year old physician daughter of Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova, was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas as she was leaving the hospital in Guatemala City where she worked. The kidnappers demanded the publication of a political manifesto in Mexican and Central American newspapers. Dr. Xiomara Suazo Estrada was a Guatemalan citizen and has lived in that country for 20 years. The kidnappers warned that her life would be "in danger" unless the Guatemalan government published the manifesto by 8:30pm on December 17. The guerrillas did not identify them selves "for tactical reasons". Armed military patrols searched buildings and vehicles in the capital's streets but security officials said they found no clues to the whereabouts of the kidnapped doctor. The Guatemalan government stood by its policy of not negotiating with terrorists, and the deadline for the publication of the group's manifesto passed. In a final communique from the kidnappers the deadline was extended. Finally, on December 22, fourteen Guatemalan, Mexican and Central American newspapers printed the guerrilla manifesto. The message from the kidnappers identified them as members of the Pedro Dias Command of the Ixim (Mayan word for food) People's Revolutionary Movement. They included the I.D. card of Dr. Suazo. On December 23, at sundown, after their only demand had been granted, the guerrillas released the woman, unharmed. The published communique condemned U.S. "imperialism" in Central America. Dr. Suazo told reporters that she had been treated well and kept alone in a small room. She had been injected with a drug when she was first seized. Her captors remained masked throughout the nine-day ordeal and provided her with Communist literature to read.
UNITED KINGDOM. A former Nigerian Cabinet minister who is a leading opponent of his country's six-month-old military government was kidnapped in London. The official, Umaru Dikko, was later found drugged but alive in a crate labeled "diplomatic baggage" in an airport cargo terminal. Two other men, one of them dead, were found in similar crates at Stansted Airport. Dikko was freed at the airport by the British antiterrorist police minutes before the Nigerian Airways plane was about to leave for Lagos. Dikko was considered "a most wanted man" in Nigeria and apparently was being sent back to stand trial. Seventeen people, including a Nigerian diplomat, have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping.
UNITED KINGDOM. A Libyan airline worker left a package of poisoned peanuts at the home of a Libyan expatriate he was trying to kill. The peanuts had reportedly been eaten by the children as well as by the family dog, killing the animal and making the children seriously ill.
UNITED STATES. Arab terrorists were blamed in a newspaper account for mailing a vial of nerve gas to the United States. U.S. Army experts disarmed the device.
Gas cylinder bombs were launched against the administration building and mayor's office in Miranda (Cauca Department) by suspected Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. Four were injured in the attack
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is alleged to have poisoned the water supply of Pitalito. A subsequent report (El Tiempo 28 February 2002) indicates the water is contaminated by heavy metals.
Two policemen were injured when attackers threw acid bombs at a patrol car. The officers had driven into Portugalete where they were surrounded by youths who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at them. Authorities suspect the Basque Fatherland and Freedom (ETA) are responsible for the attack.
An Islamic militant group warned that Muslim women who did not wear a veil would face "serious consequences." Soon afterwards, five women were attacked with acid by Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LeJ) activists in Sringar. One man was also injured. Other attacks have been carried out with paint, but Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LeJ) has since threatened to shoot women who do not abide by the dress code. The group has also demanded that Hindu women wear Bindi on their forehead and Sikh women cover their heads with a saffron cloth.
SRI LANKA. In early January the British and U.S.Embassies in Colombo received letters warning that tea destined for export had been poisoned. Similar letters were received by Australian and Canadian missions. Originating with the Tamil Eelam Army, a small guerrilla group, the letters asserted that Sri Lankan tea shipments had been contaminated with potassium cyanide. While the threats were officially discounted, the Sri Lankan Government initiated "precautionary measures" and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it was testing all black tea imported from Sri Lanka for possible cyanide contamination
UNITED KINGDOM. An Iraqi businessman living in exile in London, was given the poison thallium, a heavy-metal element similar to arsenic and known to be used by Iraqi intelligence operators and Arab terrorist groups. The victim died 15 days later.
SWEDEN. Secret police are investigating the mysterious death of Zaire's ambassador, Mobutu Dongo Yema, brother of Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko. The ambassador, 43, died after he was rushed to the hospital suffering from what doctors said may have been poisoning. Hours earlier, Mobutu had asked Swedish authorities for more protection. He mentioned threats to his life from "oppositional elements from my homeland."
AUSTRALIA. Several delegates to an international Assyrian Congress meeting in Sydney were made ill from food poisoned with mustine hydrochloride. Delegates from Iraq allegedly provided the food. Two delegates who received contaminated food had previously criticized the Iraqi Government's use of violence.
DENMARK. The South African Consulate in Copenhagen was the target of an attack by a group of about 40 anti-apartheid militants. The group poured acid on the floors and burned official papers before littering the street around the consulate with steel blades to prevent pursuit by authorities.
ITALY. The Organization of Metropolitan Proletariat and Oppressed Peoples, a group claiming support for the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, notified authorities that it had injected poison into grapefruits imported from Israel. Contaminated grapefruits were discovered in Naples and Rome and the government took all grapefruits off the market. The "poison" turned out to be a substance which causes color tainting but is not harmful.
BELGIUM. A Palestinian group called the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed it injected exported Israel oranges with mercury to sow panic and wreck the country's economy. Five Dutch children fell ill and European officials checked thousands of oranges. Two oranges were found in Holland and West Germany spiked with mercury. A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility, saying, "We do not intend to kill people in nations that import the oranges but to sabotage the Israel economy." Authorities felt the oranges must have been spiked in Rotterdam where they were shipped for repackaging and shipment to Europe. A lemon injected with mercury was found in Heverlee, Belgium, near the university town of Louvain. And a London woman found an Israeli orange spiked with mercury in a bag of fruit she bought in a London department store on February 7, making England the fifth country where poisoned fruit was discovered in one week. (Amos - Arab Revolutionary Army)
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. A Palestinian group called the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed it injected exported Israel oranges with mercury to sow panic and wreck the country's economy. Five Dutch children fell ill and European officials checked thousands of oranges. Two oranges were found in Holland and West Germany spiked with mercury. A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility, saying, "We do not intend to kill people in nations that import the oranges but to sabotage the Israel economy." Authorities felt the oranges must have been spiked in Rotterdam where they were shipped for repackaging and shipment to Europe. A lemon injected with mercury was found in Heverlee, Belgium, near the university town of Louvain. And a London woman found an Israeli orange spiked with mercury in a bag of fruit she bought in a London department store on February 7, making England the fifth country where poisoned fruit was discovered in one week.
THE NETHERLANDS. A Palestinian group called the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed it injected exported Israel oranges with mercury to sow panic and wreck the country's economy. Five Dutch children fell ill and European officials checked thousands of oranges. Two oranges were found in Holland and West Germany spiked with mercury. A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility, saying, "We do not intend to kill people in nations that import the oranges but to sabotage the Israel economy." Authorities felt the oranges must have been spiked in Rotterdam where they were shipped for repackaging and shipment to Europe. A lemon injected with mercury was found in Heverlee, Belgium, near the university town of Louvain. And a London woman found an Israeli orange spiked with mercury in a bag of fruit she bought in a London department store on February 7, making England the fifth country where poisoned fruit was discovered in one week.
UNITED KINGDOM. A Palestinian group called the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed it injected exported Israel oranges with mercury to sow panic and wreck the country's economy. Five Dutch children fell ill and European officials checked thousands of oranges. Two oranges were found in Holland and West Germany spiked with mercury. A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility, saying, "We do not intend to kill people in nations that import the oranges but to sabotage the Israel economy." Authorities felt the oranges must have been spiked in Rotterdam where they were shipped for repackaging and shipment to Europe. A lemon injected with mercury was found in Heverlee, Belgium, near the university town of Louvain. And a London woman found an Israeli orange spiked with mercury in a bag of fruit she bought in a London department store on February 7, making England the fifth country where poisoned fruit was discovered in one week. (Amos - Arab Revolutionary Army)
UNITED KINGDOM. Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian defector, died in a London hospital several days after being stabbed in the leg with an umbrella by a strange man. Markov claimed he had been poisoned by the umbrella tip. Markov worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation's East European service and reportedly had intimate knowledge of Bulgarian leadership. An autopsy revealed a tiny metal bead with holes drilled in it; it was so small, the toxin would have had to be extremely powerful to have had the effect that it did--kill a person. No traces of poison were found but studies are continuing to discover the "pinhead poison" that caused Markov's death. On December 19, 1979, a French court sentenced a Bulgarian-born spy to three years in prison in connection with the unsolved poison attacks on Bulgarian dissident refugees in London and Paris. The defendant, Dino Dinev, a naturalized Frenchman, was convicted of working for the Bulgarian secret service and tracing refugees through contacts in French counterintelligence.
GUATEMALA. The 33-year old physician daughter of Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova, was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas as she was leaving the hospital in Guatemala City where she worked. The kidnappers demanded the publication of a political manifesto in Mexican and Central American newspapers. Dr. Xiomara Suazo Estrada was a Guatemalan citizen and has lived in that country for 20 years. The kidnappers warned that her life would be "in danger" unless the Guatemalan government published the manifesto by 8:30pm on December 17. The guerrillas did not identify them selves "for tactical reasons". Armed military patrols searched buildings and vehicles in the capital's streets but security officials said they found no clues to the whereabouts of the kidnapped doctor. The Guatemalan government stood by its policy of not negotiating with terrorists, and the deadline for the publication of the group's manifesto passed. In a final communique from the kidnappers the deadline was extended. Finally, on December 22, fourteen Guatemalan, Mexican and Central American newspapers printed the guerrilla manifesto. The message from the kidnappers identified them as members of the Pedro Dias Command of the Ixim (Mayan word for food) People's Revolutionary Movement. They included the I.D. card of Dr. Suazo. On December 23, at sundown, after their only demand had been granted, the guerrillas released the woman, unharmed. The published communique condemned U.S. "imperialism" in Central America. Dr. Suazo told reporters that she had been treated well and kept alone in a small room. She had been injected with a drug when she was first seized. Her captors remained masked throughout the nine-day ordeal and provided her with Communist literature to read.
UNITED KINGDOM. A former Nigerian Cabinet minister who is a leading opponent of his country's six-month-old military government was kidnapped in London. The official, Umaru Dikko, was later found drugged but alive in a crate labeled "diplomatic baggage" in an airport cargo terminal. Two other men, one of them dead, were found in similar crates at Stansted Airport. Dikko was freed at the airport by the British antiterrorist police minutes before the Nigerian Airways plane was about to leave for Lagos. Dikko was considered "a most wanted man" in Nigeria and apparently was being sent back to stand trial. Seventeen people, including a Nigerian diplomat, have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping.
UNITED KINGDOM. A Libyan airline worker left a package of poisoned peanuts at the home of a Libyan expatriate he was trying to kill. The peanuts had reportedly been eaten by the children as well as by the family dog, killing the animal and making the children seriously ill.
UNITED STATES. Arab terrorists were blamed in a newspaper account for mailing a vial of nerve gas to the United States. U.S. Army experts disarmed the device.
Gas cylinder bombs were launched against the administration building and mayor's office in Miranda (Cauca Department) by suspected Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. Four were injured in the attack
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is alleged to have poisoned the water supply of Pitalito. A subsequent report (El Tiempo 28 February 2002) indicates the water is contaminated by heavy metals.