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    A letter bomb is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened. They have...
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  • Shachori was assassinated in a letter bomb attack on 19 September 1972, perpetrated by Black September. Eight bombs were addressed to embassy staffers...
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  • apartment in Hollywood, Florida. On September 12, 1996, López mailed a letter bomb rigged with sulfuric acid to Björk's residence in London, then returned...
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    general public, and saw the use of improvised explosive devices, arson, letter bombs, assassination attempts and other forms of direct action and violence...
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  • includes various bomb attacks and other politically driven violent incidents. 1867 13 December 1867: "Clerkenwell Outrage": A bomb planted by Fenians...
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  • In the United Kingdom, a series of seven letter bombs were sent during January and February 2007 to various companies and agencies, all related in some...
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    or other indiscriminate weapons in Misurata . On 30 November 2022, a letter bomb was delivered to the Instalaza company headquarters in Zaragoza. Hours...
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    months after the threat first came to light, "Sally" sent out several letter bombs, one of which was received and exploded in the face of the householder...
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  • In late November and early December 2022, a number of letter bombs were mailed to locations across Spain. Packages were received at high-profile individuals...
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    physicists Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner, the letter warned that Germany might develop atomic bombs and suggested that the United States should start...
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    Artillery shells Bomb Grenade Improvised explosive device Land mine Nuclear explosive device Unexploded ordnance Naval mine Car bomb Letter bomb Stun grenade...
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    Killing of Ami Shachori (category Deaths by letter bomb)
    On 18 September 1972, a letter bomb mailed from Amsterdam to the Israeli embassy in London killed Dr. Ami Y. Shachori, the Israeli agriculture attaché...
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    fatal. Their purpose might not have been to kill the receiver. A Mossad letter bomb led to fugitive Nazi war-criminal Alois Brunner's losing four fingers...
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    that letter bombs were also posted to her father, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, in 1947. Former Lehi leader Yellin-Mor admitted that letter bombs had...
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  • two letter bombs. September 20, London: eight more letter bombs are addressed to Israeli officials are intercepted. September 20, Ottawa: six letter bombs...
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    still in prison, he was blinded in one eye by a letter bomb which was sent by Los Pepes. The prison bombing also caused him partial deafness for life. He...
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  • murderer who was sentenced to death and executed in Alabama for the 1989 letter bomb murder of Robert S. Vance, a U.S. federal judge serving on the Court...
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    the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people...
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  • bombing Chiron and Shaklee's corporate offices in 2003, activists have since used the banner to firebomb vehicles and threaten to send letter bombs to...
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    after ANC leader Nelson Mandela's release from prison, he was sent a letter bomb by the apartheid regime. It was hidden inside two religious magazines...
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    "Coal-Gate: Attorney General misrepresented facts to Supreme Court, says letter bomb". NDTV.com. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 13 October 2023. Bhatt, Abhinav...
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    He lost an eye and then the fingers of his left hand as a result of letter bombs sent to him in 1961 and 1980, reportedly by Israeli intelligence. The...
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  • of disruption and fear which included placing bombs outside oil industry offices and sending letter bombs to the Scottish Office in Edinburgh. McIntosh...
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  • September: The Palestinian terrorist group Black September posted a letter bomb to the Israeli embassy in London killing an Israeli diplomat. 1973, 8...
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  • letter bombs are sent by suffragettes, many of which burst into flames at post offices around the country. 29 January 1913: A number of letter bombs are...
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  • hostage takings against Israel. Similar to the Mossad letter-bomb campaign, dozens of letter bombs were sent from Amsterdam to Israeli diplomatic posts...
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    were injured when they opened letter bombs addressed to them. These would prove to be the first of a series of letter bombings targeted at advocates for ethnic...
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  • when an IRA bomb exploded in the Bank of England in London. Another bomb was defused in a shop in Oxford Street. 27 August - An IRA letter bomb blew off...
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    Two months after the bombing, Shaw was appointed High Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago. The Irgun immediately sent a letter bomb to him there, but it...
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    February 2007, a letter bomb was sent to the DVLA in Swansea and injured four people. It is suspected that this is part of a group of letter bombs sent to other...
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