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Timeline: Attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets abroad
SINCE THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON ISRAEL'S OLYMPIC TEAM AT THE MUNICH GAMES ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO, SOME 300 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN STRIKES AGAINST ISRAELI AND JEWISH TARGETS • A BREAKDOWN OF TERROR ATTACKS.
ne of the terrorists from the Munich Olympics attack. | Photo credit:
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Following is a timeline of major attacks on Jewish targets and Israelis abroad in the past 40 years:
Sept. 5, 1972 — The radical Palestinian group Black September infiltrates Israeli team quarters at the Munich Olympic Games and take hostages. Two Israeli athletes are killed in the initial attack and nine hostages, as well as five terrorists and a West German policeman, are killed during a subsequent shoot-out at Munich airport.

Sept. 19, 1972 — A Black September letter bomb kills Ami Shehori, an attache at the Israeli embassy in London.

July 4, 1976 — Palestinian and leftist West German terrorists hijack an Air France airliner in Europe and divert it to Entebbe, Uganda. Israeli commandos strike and kill the terrorists while rescuing 98 Israeli and Jewish hostages. Three hostages and the head of the commando unit die in the violence.

Dec. 31, 1980 — A bomb blast wrecks the Jewish-owned Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, killing 15 people and wounding more than 80.

June 3, 1982 — Israel's Ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, is gravely wounded when terrorists from Abu Nidal's Palestinian Fatah group attempt to assassinate him outside the Dorchester Hotel in central London. Argov dies in 2003 at age 73 from injuries sustained in the attack.

Dec. 27, 1985 — Terrorists from Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council attack El Al counters at Rome and Vienna airports simultaneously, killing 19 people.

Sept. 6, 1986 — Arab gunmen kill 22 worshipers in a raid on Istanbul's Neve Shalom synagogue, an attack blamed on Abu Nidal.

March 7, 1992 — Israeli embassy security chief in Ankara dies in a car bomb attack. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.

March 17, 1992 — A car bomb smashes Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.

July 18, 1994 — At least 96 people are killed when a bomb explodes at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

July 27-28, 1994 — A car bomb targets the Israeli embassy in London, injuring 14. Twelve hours later, another car bomb at a Jewish fundraising group's offices in London injures five.

April 11, 2002 — A truck explodes near an ancient Jewish shrine of El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, killing 14 Germans, five Tunisians and a Frenchman.

July 4. 2002 — An Egyptian kills two people at the El Al counter in Los Angeles airport before El Al guards shoot him dead.

Nov. 28, 2002 — Fifteen people are killed in car bomb attack on a hotel frequented by Israeli tourists in the Kenyan port of Mombasa as two missiles miss an Israeli airliner taking off from the city.

Nov. 15, 2003 — Car bombs explode outside two synagogues in Istanbul, killing 24 people.

July 30, 2004 — A suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his waist strikes the Israeli embassy in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, killing at least two locals people.

Feb. 1, 2008 — In Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, unidentified gunmen open fire on the Israeli embassy, injuring three bystanders, including a French woman.

Nov. 26-29, 2008 — Coordinated bombing and shooting attacks by 10 gunmen at various sites, including luxury hotels, kill 166 people in Mumbai. India blames the attacks on Pakistan-based militants, and the only surviving gunman says they were members of the group Lashkar-e-Taiba. A Jewish center in Mumbai is among the locations targeted, and at least five people are killed there, including a rabbi and his wife who were taken hostage by the gunmen.

Feb. 13, 2012 — Bombers target staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia, wounding four people. In New Delhi, the bombers succeed and a car explodes. However, in Tbilisi, a bomb underneath a diplomat's car is found and defused.

July 18, 2012 — A bomb explodes on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian resort city of Burgas, killing at least six people and wounding around 30.

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