Incident Date:
December 12, 1985
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Unknown Egypt
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Unknown
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Aircraft (not at an airport))
2- Diplomatic(United Nations Related (Peacekeepers/Aid Agencies/Compounds))
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 258 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "12/12/1985: In an anonymous call to a Beirut news agency, a self-proclaimed spokesman took credit on behalf of the Islamic Jihad for the Newfoundland air crash of a DC-8 airliner carrying 258 U.S. servicemen home after serving on a multinational peacekeeping force in the Sinai Desert. An investigation ruled out a bomb or sabotage."
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. 317."
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