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Originally Posted by Grover  Why did you post this?
Are you offering an apology because the attacks of 9/11 that were brought on by US foreign policy not only killed innocent Americans but also innocent Canadians? Thank you Robert....apology accepted. |
SO, Grover, I can see that Canada's foreign policy has caused your country some grief too....
International terrorism
[edit] Relating to Cuba
September 22, 1966 - A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.
October 5, 1966 - Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
May 31, 1967: A small bomb explodes at the Cuba Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. The attack is attributed to Cuban Nationalist Action.
October 15, 1967: A bomb explodes at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal.
May 29, 1969: A bomb is placed in the doorway of the Cuban consulate in Montreal, it fails to go off.
July 12, 1971: A small bomb goes off at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal.
April 4, 1972: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.
January 21, 1974: A bomb explodes at the Cuban embassy in Ottawa. It is attributed to Orlando Bosch.
September 22, 1976: An explosive device is thrown from a car at the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
[edit] Relating to militant Sikh aspirations for Khalistan
June 23, 1985 - Air India flight 182 leaving Montreal's Mirabel International Airport is blown up mid-flight to London.
May 26, 1986 - An attempt is made in Vancouver to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu, a cabinet minister in the Indian province of Punjab
August 28, 1988 - Indo-Canadian Times editor Tara Singh Hayer is shot and partially paralyzed
November 18, 1998 - Newspaper editor Tara Singh Hayer is assassinated for his strident opposition to Sikh militants.
[edit] Relating to Armenia
April 8, 1982 - Turkish Commercial Counselor to Canada Kani Güngör is paralyzed after an attack by Armenian nationalists at his Ottawa apartment.
August 23, 1982 - Turkish military attaché to Canada, Col. Atilla Altıkat, is assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Ottawa while sitting in his vehicle at a traffic light.
March 12, 1985 - A group of Armenian terrorists seize the Turkish embassy, killing a Canadian security guard
[edit] Other incidents
April 7, 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa by an alleged Irish nationalist or Fenian rebel sympathizer named Patrick Whelan.
November 25, 1965 - Croatian nationalists bomb the Yugoslavian consulate in Toronto.
January 29, 1967 - The Yugoslavian embassy in Ottawa and the consulate in Toronto are among six Yugoslavian offices bombed in North America.
September 3, 1984 - Montreal's Central Station is bombed, killing 3 people and wounding more than 30. Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly retired American armed forces officer, claims to have been protesting Pope John Paul II's visit to Canada.
April 5, 1992 - The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported left-wing group.
[edit] Domestic terrorism
February 13, 1969 - the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive destruction and seriously injuring twenty-seven people.
October 5, 1970 - British diplomat James Cross and October 10 Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte are kidnapped by the FLQ in Montreal. (The dead body of Pierre Laporte was discovered in the trunk of a car in Montreal on October 17, 1970; Cross was released on December 3, 1970.)
October 14, 1982 - The anarchist group the Squamish Five, who were Canadian version of Direct Action, bombs a Litton Industries factory north of Toronto that is manufacturing guidance devices for American cruise missiles, ten are injured.