To: goldworldnet who wrote (288908 ) 8/21/2002 2:28:06 PM From: Emile Vidrine Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670 Orgins of terrorism in the Middle East 1945 October 31 Jewish terrorist offensive against British rule in Palestine begins, with a wave of bomb attacks on police vehicles, railway sites and Haifa oil refinery. One policeman, one soldier and two railway workers killed. November 27 Eight British soldiers killed in bomb attack on police station Jerusalem, Palestine, in Jewish Irgun terrorist attack. 1946 January 7 Three American civilian officials killed when Nazi "Werewolf" terrorists burn down their house in Passau, Germany. March 11 Iranian scholar Amhed Kashravi stabbed to death by Fedayyan-e eslam guerillas in Iran. July 22 Ninety people killed and forty five wounded after Jewish terrorists blow up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Palestine, which was home to British government and military offices. The terrorists held workers at pistol point while they planted the explosives in the basement of the hotel. October 31 British embassy in Rome, Italy, wrecked by two bombs in suit cases left by Jewish Irgun terrorists. No casualties. 1947 July 12 Jewish Irgun terrorists kidnap and then hang two British Army sergeants. The terrorists were trying to secure the release of three Irgun members who had been sentenced to death by the British authorities in Palestine. September 29 Jewish Irgun terrorists bomb police station in Haifa, Palestine, killing four British and four Arab policemen, as well as two Arab civilians. Forty six people injured. December 3 Train derailed near Arras, France, by Jewish-Communist terrorists killing twenty and injuring forty. December 12 Twenty Arabs, five Jews and two British soldiers killed and thirty wounded in Jewish terrorist bomb attacks on buses in Haifa and Ramleh, Palestine. British mandate to rule Palestine ends on 15 May 1948; state of Israel established. December 29 Jewish Irgun terrorists throw grenades from passing taxi into café near the Damascus gate, Jerusalem, Palestine, killing eleven Arabs and two British policemen. April 9 Jewish Irgun terrorist group attacks Deir Yassim, Palestine, murdering two hundred and fifty four Arab women and children captured in the remains of the village. Bomb explodes near US embassy in Bogota, Colombia, during Organisation of American States conference. September 17 United Nations mediator in Palestine, Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, murdered by Jewish Stern gang extremist in Jerusalem, Palestine, who fired at point blank range through window of his official car.