Incident Date:
June1980
Incident Successful:
Location: Unknown Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Assassination
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Diplomatic(Diplomats/Families/Individuals (outside of embassy))
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims:
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities
Description: "06/00/1980: Canadian authorities deported Lebanese Bassam al-Fark to Lebanon. Al-Fark bragged to friends that he had killed U.S. Ambassador Francis E. Meloy, Jr., on June 16, 1976 in Beirut. Al-Fark appeared before a Lebanese military judge on June 27. "
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F., Todd Sandler, and Jean M. Murdock. (1989) International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume I 1980-1983. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 51."
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