List of terrorist incidents in 1972

This is a timeline of incidents in 1972 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
January 26	Bombing	27	1	Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia	Yugoslavian Airlines Flight 364 is brought down by an explosion, killing everyone on board expect one Serbian flight attendant named Vesna Vulović. 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.	Ustasa
January 27	Shooting	2	0	New York City, United States	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.[1]	Black Liberation Army
February 19–28	Hostage taking	3	12	Karuizawa, Japan	A standoff between five Japanese United Red Army and Japanese police, riot controller begin taking the 31-year-old wife has hostaged 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.	United Red Army
February 22–23	Hijacking	0	0	Aden, Yemen	Lufthansa Flight 649 was hijacked by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members half an hour after the aircraft had departed Delhi-Palam Airport. Eventually, all hostages on board the seized Boeing 747-200 were released when the West German government paid a ransom of US$5 million.	PFLP	Israel-Palestine conflict
February 22	Car bombing	7	18	Aldershot, United Kingdom	The Official Irish Republican Army kills seven civilians in Aldershot after it bombs a British Army military barracks.	OIRA	The Troubles
April 4	Bombing	1		Montreal, Canada	Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.	Unknown
April 6	Bombing	0	0	Sōji-ji, Japan	Bombing of a cemetery for Japanese people who lived in Korea under Japanese rule.	East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front
May 8	Hijacking	1 (+2 terrorists)	3	Lod, Israel	Four PLO terrorists hijacked the aeroplane of Sabena Flight 571 carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members en 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.	PLO	Israel-Palestine conflict
May 30	Mass shooting	26 (+2 terrorists)	79 (+1 terrorist)	Lod, Israel	Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 79.	Japanese Red Army PFLP-EO	Israel-Palestine conflict
May 31	Car bombing	3	2	Savogna d'Isonzo, Italy	A group of Carabinieri fell into an ambush in Savogna d'Isonzo, Italy: a Car bomb Fiat 500 killed 3 officers and other 2 were injured. The attack was carried out by militants of Ordine Nuovo.	Ordine Nuovo
July 21	Bombings	9	130	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Bloody Friday: Nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs.	PIRA	The Troubles
July 31	Car bombings	9	30	Claudy, United Kingdom	Claudy bombings; three car bombs are detonated in Claudy, killing nine people. No group has claimed responsibility.	PIRA	The Troubles
September 5–6	Massacre	12 (+5 terrorists)		Munich, West Germany	Black September kidnaps and kills eleven Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.	Black September	Israel-Palestine conflict
September 16	Bombings	0	16	Sydney, Australia	Bombings of Yugoslavian travel agency. Believed to have been in retaliation for the execution of two Croatian Australians in Yugoslavia.	Croatian nationalists
September 19	Mail bombing	1	0	London, United Kingdom	The group Black September post a letter bomb to the Israeli embassy in London killing an Israeli diplomat.[2]	Black September	Israel-Palestine conflict
October 4	Bombing, false flag	0	2	Paris, France	Bombing of a PLO bookstore in Paris. The bombers claimed to be Zionists extremists but were actually neo-Nazis hoping that the bombing would incite confrontations between French Arabs and Jews	French neo-Nazis
October 23	Bombings	0	0	Asahikawa, Japan	Bombings of a monument depicting Japanese soldiers surrounding an elderly Ainu and the Ainu research center at Hokkaido University	East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front
October 27	Car bombing	0	0	Los Angeles, United States	Police car bombing in Los Angeles claimed by Black Liberation Army.[1]	Black Liberation Army
October 31	Car bombing	2	12	Belfast, United Kingdom	Car bombing of a Catholic-owned pub in Sailortown by the Ulster Defence Association. Two girls aged 6 and 4 are killed.	Ulster Defence Association	The Troubles
December	Bombing	0	0	New York City, United States	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.	Cuban exiles
December 7	Attempted hijacking	7 (Terrorists)		Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	Attempted hijacking of an airliner by the Eritrean Liberation Front. All 7 hijackers were killed by security guards on board the plane and were the only fatalities.	Eritrean Liberation Front	Eritrean War of Independence
December 11	Bombing	0	0	New York City, United States	New York City. The VA-Cuba Forwarding Company is bombed. Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro suspected.	Cuban exiles
December 28	Kidnapping	0	1 (kidnapped)	Brooklyn, United States	A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000 ransom by the Black Liberation Army.[1]	Black Liberation Army
December 28	Hostage-taking	0	0	/ Bangkok, Thailand	Four members of Black September cause the Israeli Bangkok Embassy hostage crisis.	Black September	Israel-Palestine conflict

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References