Incident Date:
January 21, 1982
Incident Successful:
Location: Unknown, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Event Type: Unknown
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Unknown
Canadian Target:
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 4 involved, 0 fatalities
Description: "01/21/1982: United States police arrested two individuals tied to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who were trying to enter the United States illegally from Canada. British M.P. Owen Carron, who succeeded Bobby Sands, the IRA terrorist who died of a prison hunger strike, was stopped at the Whirlpool Bridge at Niagara Falls and charged with conspiracy to smuggle (himself) and giving false information to immigration officers. Elsewhere, Danny Morrison, IRA director of public relations, was arrested 20 miles away at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, New York. Two Canadians were charged with aiding the duo. Carron claimed he had landed immigrant status in Canada, while Morrison presented immigration officers with a Canadian citizenship certificate that did not belong to him. The duo was trying to get to a New York City IRA fund-raising dinner. The U.S. Consulate in Belfast had denied the duo visas. "
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. 249."
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