Incident Date:
May 30, 1986
Incident Successful: No
Location: New York United States
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Aircraft (not at an airport))
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: Yes
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 5 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "05/30/1986: Five Montreal-area Sikhs were arrested and accused of conspiring to place a bomb aboard an Air India jet leaving New York's John F. Kennedy airport on 05/31. Santokh Singh Khela and Kashmir Singh Dhillon, two members of the Sikh separatist organization Babbar Khalsa in Montreal, Quebec, were convicted and were sentenced to life imprisonment."
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 441."
2) RCMP Chronology. p. 14.
3) RAND
4) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 179; 181"
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