Word: kuwaiti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was no mystery about who was responsible for the Kuwaiti bombing. As Sheik Jaber traveled in a motorcade along a waterfront road on the way to his office at the Sief palace, a small Japanese-make car drove head-on into the convoy. The vehicle exploded, killing the driver, two guards in the convoy's two lead cars and a passerby. The Emir, who was traveling farther back in the motorcade, escaped with minor cuts. In a telephone statement, Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, claimed responsibility for the attack, and once again demanded the release of 17 terrorists...
...terrorists had previously threatened to execute their captives but had not explicitly linked the hostages' fate with that of the prisoners in Kuwait. The same group is believed to have hijacked a Kuwaiti airliner last December and killed two Americans aboard in a futile effort to win freedom for their terrorist brothers. In its message to the hostages' families last week, Islamic Jihad declared, "For the last time, we wish to stress that all contact with your relatives will be cut off and the consequences will be catastrophic if you do not act seriously and force your governments to intervene...
India's diplomatic community has been the target of at least three other violent attacks over the past three years. In June 1982 the first secretary of the Kuwaiti embassy was shot and killed in his home in New Delhi. Then, in October 1983, Jordan's Ambassador survived a shooting outside his residence in the capital. Last November, Percy Norris, the British deputy high commissioner, was murdered while on his way to work in Bombay. No suspects have been charged in any of the attacks...
...ugly episode illustrated how terrorism so easily can feed on itself: the hijackers' demand was for the release of 17 fellow terrorists held in Kuwaiti jails. As proof that they were deadly serious, the men killed one American before the answer came; once their ultimatum was rejected, they killed another American. The suspicion still lingers that Iran colluded in the crime or at least did not act swiftly enough...
...Iran's options also appeared to be limited. Given the Khomeini regime's past expressions of support for anti-American terrorists in the Middle East, Iran was not likely to besmirch its image by staging a daring raid to rescue American and Kuwaiti hostages. Even if Tehran had the political will to challenge the militants, it probably lacked the military know-how to carry off such a risky mission without endangering the lives of all the hostages on board. And without the direct cooperation of Iranian officials, no outside power was likely to intervene to end the deadlock...