Incident Date:
October 10, 2001
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Fahaheel Kuwait
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Armed Assault
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Unknown Gun Type)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Private Citizens & Property(Laborers (General)/Specific Jobs)
Canadian Target:
Canadian Victim: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 1 fatalities, 1 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "10/10/2001: A Canadian man who worked as a DynCorp F-18 maintenance technician at al-Jaber base and his wife were shot during the night while walking home from an Internet cafe near the National Bank of Kuwait and Burger King. The shooter got out of his car, shouted, ""Allahu Akbar"" and opened fire. The man was killed by four shots. His Filipino wife started screaming and was hit by three shots, possibly causing paralysis. The gunman got away. She believed the man could have been Pakistani."
References: 1) GTD 1970-2012 data file
2) "Mickolus, Edward F. and Susan L. Simmons. (2002). Terrorism, 1996-2001: A Chronology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 408-409."
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