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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 WASHINGTON POST 6 June 1984 Pg.21 Israeli Attache Shot By Gunmen From Car In Suburb of Cairo CAIRO, June 5 (AP)—Unidentified assailants in a speeding car opened fire on an Israeli diplo- that in a Cairo suburb Monday night, wounding him in the hand and shoulder, an Israeli Embassy spokesman said today. - , _ It was the first known attack on. an Israeli in Egypt since the two ‘countries signed a peace trea- ty in 1979 and exchanged diplomats in 1980. Spokesman Isaac Bar-Moshe said Zvi Kedar, an administrative attache in his late 30s, underwent surgery for fractured bones in his left hand and was in good condition. His left shoulder was grazed by a bullet, Bar-Moshe added, describing the injuries 4s “minor.” _.Bar-Moshe said that Kedar was shot at after he stepped from his car outside his home in the southern suburb’ of Maadi, a residential area in- habited by diplomats about 10 miles south of the Egyptian capital. “The shots came from a speeding car,” Bar- Moshe said. “Apparently there was more than one ] person in the car, It was an ambush.” } _ An employee at the Cairo office of the official Soviet news agency Tass told the Associated Press that a typewritten Arabic statement signed “The Revolution of Egypt” and containing threats against Israeli diplomats in Egypt was delivered to the office Tuesday morning. ; The statement made no specific mention of Monday’s shooting, said the Tass employee, who spoke on condition he not be identified. The ex- istence of The Revolution of Egypt organization has not been‘reported before. There has never been any major organized op- position in-Egypt to its peace treaty with Israel, However, some groups, including a number of law- yers and Moslem fundamentalists, have -de-. nounced it, Egypt is the only Arab country to have signed a peace treaty with Israel, but relations soured after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in‘1982. N.Y. NEWS 6 June 1984 SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- 26 JUNE 1984 WASHINGTON POST 24 May 1984 Pg. 37 Nine Bombs Explode - — In Two Colombian Cities ’ BOGOTA, Colombia, May 23 (AP)—Nine bombs aimed at U.S. and Honduran targets ex- ploded in Bogota and Cali, kil- ling two people and injuring 11, police ‘said today. A breakaway leftist guerrilla group reportedly claimed responsibility. Two bombs exploded near the US. Embassy, arid a car bomb heard five miles away exploded 200 feet from the U.S. ambas- sador’s residence. Neither build- ing was damaged. A hard-line group that broke away earlier this year from the Revolutionary Armed Forces claimed responsibility for the bombings in a telephone call to the Bogota. daily. El Bogotano, according to the paper’s news editor, Henry Holguin. 18 May 1984 POLICE in New Jersey are checking to see if a bomb factory discov- ered. Wednesday night in’ Morris Plains is linked to any terrorist organization. «© _The. cache; which in- cluded “a large quantity" of black. powder, a home- made flame ‘thrower, blow guns with darts, and © instructions for making bombs; was« discovered when police raided a NEW YORK POST He said a woman. caller claim- ing to be a member of the break- away group said: “Honduras is cooperating with the United - States in the destabilization of the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.” The main faction of the Rev- ‘olutionary Armed Forces has agreed to a-one-year truce with government security forces start- ing next Monday. a All casualties occurred in one incident, when a bomb. exploded late yesterday afternoon in the downtown offices of the, Hondu- ran airline SAHSA, police said in . a communique. The two dead and three of the injured were . among a group of. young people that brought the bomb into the office, office manager - Rafael Olivo said. house at 24 Maple Av. Morris County Prosecu- .tor’ Lee Trumbull said. raiders also found stolen | goods. including two: stereos, telephone equip: ment and an air purifier in the -house owned by _ Mr. and Mrs. Eugene’ Whitonis.: They . were charged with receiving, stolen property. Two juveniles, 14 and 17, .were: avrestedon the same charge. , BEIRUT (UPI) — Americans in Beirut are under. new threat of death or kidnaping by terrorists, in- NEW YORK POST telligence reports indicated yesterday. ss don Stewart, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy . 28 May 1984 Pg.4 sa Retrat, confirmed the reports. ~ New peril for learned soraebedy had the intention of teking tere Beirut Yanks — 2 terrorize: consulate: . Maneouver,. B.C.—Two: saber-wielding Sikhs ‘burst into. the Indian consulate in’ Vancouver and ransacked offices. - “Police gaid the men, brandishing. two- foot-long. curved ceremonial _ swords, smashed a glass door, several pictures and some: furniture before they . were arrested, The men, upset over the use of troops against Sikh militants in the In- dian state of Punjab, gave up without a struggle. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RBP96-00788R000100330001-5 © rorist actions against the American University of : Beirut, the embassy, and Americans in general,” © Stewart said. . ea, More guards were posted at the American Uni- versity as teachers and embassy workers were : warned about a, kidnaping. threat from a funda- ‘ mentalist Shiite Moslem group. 3