List of terrorist incidents, 1972

List of terrorist incidents, 1972

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1972.

*flag|SFR Yugoslavia, January 26: Yugoslavian Airlines Flight 364 is brought down by an explosion. Officially a bomb was placed on the plane by Ustasa agents, but speculation exists that the plane was downed by two Czechoslovak SA-12 surface-to-air missiles because it has entered a restricted military area without permission. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane is destroyed and 27 of 28 passengers die. One stewardess survives a 10,160 meter (33,330 ft) drop.
*flag|United States, January 27: Two policemen, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are shot in the back by at least three persons; four suspects in the case are members of the Black Liberation Army; one suspect is later killed in a street battle with St. Louis police; the recovered pistol matches Laurie's.the talking drum collective/Jacuma Kambui: [http://thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html Listing of Justice Department Report on BLA Activity from January, 1970 - January, 1976] , September 18 1979]
*flag|Japan, February 19: A stand off five Japanese United Red Army and many Japanese police, riot controller begin taking the 31 years-old wife has hostarged lodge house at Karuizawa. Aftermath, nine-days, the Japanese authorities attempt to rescue a female hostage ends with a standoff between five Japanese United Red Army and the authorities, in which two policemen are killed and 12 injured.
*flag|United Kingdom, February 22: The Official Irish Republican Army kills seven civilians in Aldershot after it bombs a British Army military barracks.
*flag|Canada, April 4: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.
*flag|Belgium, flag|Israel, May 8: Four PLO terrorists hijacked the aeroplane of Sabena Flight 572 carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members on route from Brussels to Tel Aviv. In a mission titled "Operation Isotope", 16 members of Sayeret Matkal posed as refueling and technical personnel and stormed the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.
*flag|Israel, May 30: Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 78.
*flag|United Kingdom, July 21: Bloody Friday nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs.
*flag|United Kingdom, July 31: Claudy bombings; three car bombs are detonated in Claudy, killing nine people. No group has claimed responsibility.
*flag|Israel, flag|West Germany, September 5: Black September kidnaps and kills eleven Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.
*flag|United Kingdom, flagicon|Israel, September 19: The group Black September post a letter bomb to the Israeli embassy in London killing an Israeli diplomat. [BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/19/newsid_2523000/2523027.stm 1972: Parcel bomb attack on Israeli embassy] , "On this day", September 19 1972]
*flag|United States, October 27: Police car bombing in Los Angeles claimed by Black Liberation Army.the talking drum collective/Jacuma Kambui: [http://thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html Listing of Justice Department Report on BLA Activity from January, 1970 - January, 1976] , September 18 1979]
*, December 1972: A travel agency in Queens, New York, is bombed; the incident is attributed to FIN, a Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro.Fact|date=May 2007
*, December 11: New York City. The VA-Cuba Forwarding Company is bombed. Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro suspected.Fact|date=May 2007
*flag|United States, December 28: A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000 ransom by the Black Liberation Army.the talking drum collective/Jacuma Kambui: [http://thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html Listing of Justice Department Report on BLA Activity from January, 1970 - January, 1976] , September 18 1979]

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*List of terrorist incidents

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