1980 Nairobi hotel bombing

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Coordinates: 1°16′42″S 36°48′57″E / 1.278295°S 36.815795°E / -1.278295; 36.815795

1980 Nairobi hotel bombing
LocationFairmont The Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Date31 December 1980
Attack type
Bombing
Deaths20[1][2]
Injured87
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On 31 December 1980, New Year's Eve, a bomb exploded in the Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. It partially destroyed the hotel, killing 20 people and wounding another 87.[3][4][5][1][2]

The owner of the hotel was a prominent member of the local Jewish community, and it has been suggested[who?] that the attack was in retaliation for Kenya providing support to rescue the Israeli hostages in Uganda during Operation Entebbe four years earlier.[4][5] Among the dead were at least four Kenyans, two Americans, two British children, a Danish employee of KLM, a Frenchman, and a Belgian child.[6][7] The bomber was said by the Kenyan government to be a Moroccan with a Maltese passport named Qaddura Mohammed Abd Al-Hamid, identified as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who departed on a flight to Saudi Arabia on the day of the bombing.[4][5][8]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Laing, Aislinn (21 September 2013). "Nairobi assault: Kenyan terrorist attacks since 1980". The Telegraph. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b "20 killed in bomb attack on Norfolk". mobile.nation.co.ke. Daily Nation. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Bomb likely cause of New Year's Eve blast". UPI. 1 January 1981.
  4. ^ a b c "Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2003". International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. 20 December 2003.
  5. ^ a b c Rubin, Barry; Rubin, Judith Colp (2015). Chronologies of Modern Terrorism. Routledge. p. 195. ISBN 9781317474654.
  6. ^ "Feds Have Older Kenya Bombing To Explain". New York Daily News. 12 August 1998.
  7. ^ "Suspected hotel bomber escapes". UPI. 4 January 1981.
  8. ^ "Kenya says Palestinian responsible for hotel blast". UPI. 7 January 1981.
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