1985 Frankfurt Airport bombing

Frankfurt airport bombing
Frankfurt airport bombing
Location	Frankfurt, West Germany
Date	19 June 1985
Attack type	Bombing
Deaths	3
Injured	74
Perpetrators	Abu Nidal Organization

On 19 June 1985, a bombing at the Frankfurt Airport, West Germany, killed three and wounded 74 people.^[1] A second bomb was found and defused not far from the first explosion.^[2] Two of those killed were Australian children, 2-year-old and 5-year-old siblings, and the third a Portuguese man.^[3]

About 30 groups claimed responsibility, among them an unprecedented group calling itself Arab Revolutionary Organisation, having done so because of West German intelligence recruiting Arabs to assassinate members of Arab revolutionary movements in Lebanon.^[4] In July 1988, West German investigators concluded that the Palestinian Abu Nidal Organization, which itself had also claimed responsibility, had perpetrated the attack, and that the Libyan embassy in Bonn had pre-knowledge of the attack. The investigators also claimed that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi may have played a role in the attack.^[1]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Palestinian group blamed for airport bombing". United Press International. 28 July 1988.
^ "Frankfurt Airport Ripped by Bomb; 3 Killed, 32 Hurt : Explosive Put in Trash Can by Ticket Counters". Los Angeles Times. 19 June 1985.
^ "Arab Group Asserts it Planted Bomb in Frankfurt". The New York Times. 22 June 1985.
^ "Arab Group Asserts it Planted Bomb in Frankfurt". The New York Times. 22 June 1985.
^ "Newspaper Says Airport Bombing Blamed on Abu Nidal Terrorists". Associated Press News. 28 July 1988.

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View of the destroyed hall B after a bomb exploded at the airport in Frankfurt (Germany) on 19 June 1985

[upi88-1] "Palestinian group blamed for airport bombing". United Press International. 28 July 1988.

[2] "Frankfurt Airport Ripped by Bomb; 3 Killed, 32 Hurt : Explosive Put in Trash Can by Ticket Counters". Los Angeles Times. 19 June 1985.

[3] "Arab Group Asserts it Planted Bomb in Frankfurt". The New York Times. 22 June 1985.

[4] "Arab Group Asserts it Planted Bomb in Frankfurt". The New York Times. 22 June 1985.

[5] "Newspaper Says Airport Bombing Blamed on Abu Nidal Terrorists". Associated Press News. 28 July 1988.

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v t e Prominent Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1980s
Within Israel	Misgav Am hostage crisis¹ (April 7, 1980) Murder of Danny Katz (December 8, 1983) Egged bus 300 hostage crisis² (April 12, 1984) Night of the Gliders¹ (November 25, 1987) Mothers' Bus attack³ (March 7, 1988) Kidnapping and murder of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon² (February 16, 1989) Death of Binyamin Meisner² (February 24, 1989) Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack² (July 6, 1989)
Worldwide	Antwerp summer camp attack (July 28, 1980) Paris synagogue bombing (October 3, 1980) Norfolk Hotel bombing (December 31, 1980) Vienna synagogue attack (August 29, 1981) Antwerp synagogue bombing (October 20, 1981) Berlin restaurant bombing (January 15, 1982) Assassination attempt of the Israeli ambassador in London (June 3, 1982) Goldenberg restaurant attack (August 9, 1982) Pan Am Flight 830 (August 11, 1982) Great Synagogue of Rome attack (October 19, 1982) Frankfurt airport bombing (June 19, 1985) Madrid airline office attacks (July 1, 1985) Kuwait City bombings (July 11, 1985) Copenhagen bombings (July 22, 1985) Rome Café de Paris attack (September 16, 1985) Achille Lauro hijacking (October 7, 1985) Rome and Vienna airport attacks (December 27, 1985) Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking (September 5, 1986) Neve Shalom Synagogue attack (September 6, 1986) City of Poros ship attack (July 11, 1988) Nicosia Israeli Embassy bombing (May 11, 1988) Khartoum attacks (May 15, 1988)
¹ Attacks launched from Lebanon ² Attacks launched from the Gaza Strip ³ Attacks launched from Egypt 1970s 1990s

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