Yassir Arafat - Portrait of a Terrorist
March 1971 ? A five man Fatah team destroyed fuel tanks at Rotterdam oil docks, causing $1 million damage.
July 1971 ? Attacked an Alia (Royal Jordanian Airlines) office in Rome.
July 1971 ? Attacked an Alia plane at Cairo airport.
August 1971 ? Hijacked an Alia plane to Algeria.
September 1971 ? Attempted hijacking of an Alia plane from Beirut to Cairo.
November 1971 ? Assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi el-Tal in Cairo.
December 1971 ? Attempted assassination of the Jordanian ambassador to the United Kingdom in London.
February 1972 ? Assassinated five Arabs from Yesha one Jordanian in West Germany.
March 1972 ? Attempted attack against King Hussein?s London residence.
September 1972 ? Eight terrorists seized dormitory of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Village in Munich. Eleven Israeli athletes murdered, five terrorists killed, three arrested but released following Lufthansa hijacking, October 1972.
September 1972 ? Sent letter bombs from Amsterdam to Israel and Israeli missions in Paris, Geneva, Montreal, Vienna, Ottawa, Brussels, Kinshasa, Buenos Aires, Phnom Penh, and Washington, DC.
November 1972 ? Assassinated a Syrian journalist in France.
December 1972 ? Captured the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok. Terrorists held six employees hostage, but released them after nineteen hours.
January 1973 ? Attacked the Jewish Agency building in Paris.
January 1973 ? Murdered an Israeli citizen in Madrid.
March 1973 ? Occupied Saudi Arabian embassy in Sudan. Three Western diplomats, including the American and Belgian Ambassadors, killed. Terrorists captured.
March 1973 ? Assassinated a Jewish businessman in Cyprus.
September 1973 ? Attempted missile attack against El Al aircraft at Rome airport.
June 1974 ? Three Fatah members landed by a small boat just south of the Israeli town of Nahariya and killed four Israelis and wounded eight others before being killed by Israeli troops.
September 1975 ? Occupied Egyptian Embassy in Madrid. Terrorists seized six diplomats whm they threatened to kill unless Egypt withdrew from Geneva talks and condemned interim agreement with Israel. Terrorists took hostages to Algiers, where they were released.
March 1978 ? Sabotaged the Iraqi Embassy in Belgium.
July 1978 ? Attempted assassination of Iraqi ambassador to the United Kingdom.
August 1978 ? Attempted assassination of Iraqi consul in Karachi, Pakistan.
April 1985 ? The coastal freighter Atavarisu was intercepted and sunk while try8ing to infiltrate a Fatah radinig force into Israsel. Twenty Palestinians killed and 8 captured.
September 1985 ? Seized and murdered three Israeli hostages in Larnaca, Cyprus.
October 1985 ? Kidnapped and murdered two Israeli sailors in Madrid.
February 1986 ? Force 17 claimed responsibility for a bus bombing in Israel that wounded six people.
June 1986 ? A Palestinian was killed while attempting to place a bomb in Jerusalem; Force 17 claimed responsibility.
July 1986 ? Fatah operatives in Morocco arrested while planning terrorist attack.
September 1986 ? An Israeli citizen was stabbed to death in a market in Gaza. Force 17 took responsibility for the attack.
February 1987 ? Nine people were injured by a bomb placed on a bus en route to Jerusalem from Haifa. Force 17 took responsibility for the attack.
July 1987 ? Force 17 claimed responsibility for a bus bombing in Israeli that injured two people.
July 1987 ? Anti-Arafat cartoonist assassinated in London. Force 17 was implicated in the attack.
August 1987 ? One Israeli was murdered and two were wounded in two separate shooting incidents in Gaza. Force 17 took responsibility for both attacks.