Incident Date:
July 06, 1984
Incident Successful: No
Location: Vienna Austria
Perpetrators: Ali Bhutto movement
Event Type: Hostage Taking (Kidnapping)
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Automatic Weapon (incl. semiauto))
Organization Type: Leftist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Multinational Corporations)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 9 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "07/06/1984: Authorities arrested nine Pakistanis who were planning to take 40 members of Ford Canada hostage during a convention at the Imperial Hotel in Vienna. The nine, whose ages ranged from 21 to 38, were arrested in three groups of three at small hotels in Vienna's 7th and 15th Districts. Police confiscated five hand grenades, six FN pistols (nine mm caliber), three Beretta submachine guns, ammunition, and one kilogram of Nitropenta, a very powerful explosive. From interrogations authorities learned that the nine included three students and six peasants, five of whom were illiterate. The action was allegedly planned by a high-ranking politician of the Ali Bhutto movement living in exile in Damascus. The hostages were to have been taken in order to demand the liberation of over 100 political supporters of Ali Bhutto who have been jailed following the 1977 coup. The plan called for some of the attack squad to secure 40 hostages, while the others covered. Once the hostages were secured the five illiterate terrorists were instructed to open fire on others in the hotel lobby."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F., Todd Sandler and Jean M. Murdock. (1989) International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume II 1984-1987. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 76-77."
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