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169.
Date: October 12, 1990
Target: Parliament Speaker Rifaat el-Mahgoub
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Details: El-Mahgoub was
en route
to a meeting when four gunmen on two motorcycles attacked his Mercedes, killing him and two bodyguards. Another bodyguard was killed in the Peugeot follow-up car.

170.
Date: October 21, 1990
Target: Christian Leader Danny Chamoun
Location: Baabda, Lebanon
Details: Five uniformed gunmen armed with silenced 9mm pistols burst into Chamoun's home, killing him, his wife, and two sons. The assassins attacked during the shift change of bodyguards.

171.
Date: December 31, 1990
Target: Mayor Paul Mariani
Location: Corsica, France
Details: Mariana was gunned down outside his home. It was the 17th assassination on the island in 1990, and the third political figure killed in Corsica in three months.

172.
Date: February 15, 1991
Target: Activist Lawyer Bheki Mlangeni
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Details: Mlangeni received a tape recorder and headphones in the mail along with a tape entitled "Evidence of Hit Squads." He put on the headphones and turned on the recorder. The booby-trapped headphones exploded, killing him.

173.
Date: March 1, 1991
Target: Deputy Minister Ranjan Wijeratne
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Details: A 120-pound bomb, planted in a parked car by Tamil rebels, exploded as Wijeratne drove past
en route
to work. The blast killed him and 18 others, and wounded 73.

174.
Date: March 20, 1991
Target: Defense Minister Michel Murr
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Details: Murr was
en route
to work in an armored Mercedes when a car bomb exploded, killing eight, and wounding 21. Murr survived the attack. It flipped the car upside-down. The 132-pound, remote-controlled bomb was concealed in a parked car.
(2-STARS: Protective Strategies or Resources at the scene favorably influenced safety/survival.)

175.
Date: April 1, 1991
Target: Economic Official Detlev Rohwedder
Location: Duesseldorf, Germany
Details: Rohwedder was shot and killed by members of the Red Army Faction while at his home. His wife was shot and wounded.

176.
Date: April 30, 1991
Target: President A. Abashhidze
Location: Batumi, Georgia (Soviet Union)
Details: Vice President Nodar Imiadze and two others stormed Abashhidze's office with a machine gun and opened fire. Abashhidze and the prime minister were wounded. Bodyguards shot and killed Imiadze.

177.
Date: May 21, 1991
Target: Prime Minister Candidate Rajiv Gandhi
Location: Madras, India
Details: Gandhi arrived to speak at a political rally. Two female members of the Tamil terrorist group approached him. One wore a denim girdle, which contained a pound of plastic explosive and 10,000 metal pellets, wired to a toggle switch. As they approached Gandhi, an alert female constable stopped them, but Gandhi insisted that they be allowed to continue. The bomb-laden terrorist knelt at Gandhi's feet. As he helped her up, she threw the toggle switch, killing herself, Gandhi, and 16 others. In 1998, 18 defendants were convicted in the conspiracy to kill Gandhi.

178.
Date: June 18, 1991
Target: Judge Nabi Sher Junejo
Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Details: Gunmen ambushed Junejo's car as he was being driven to work. Junejo, his bodyguard, and chauffeur were killed. He was hearing a case involving terrorists.

179.
Date: July 16, 1991
Target: Diplomat Deniz Bolukbasi
Location: Athens, Greece
Details: A car bomb exploded as Bolukbasi was driven past, injuring him, his wife, the driver, and a passerby. November 17 terrorists were blamed.

180.
Date: July 18, 1991
Target: Mayor Andre Cools
Location: Liege, Belgium
Details: While getting into his car, Cools was shot through the neck and killed by a lone gunman. A councilwoman was shot in the abdomen and wounded. The gunman escaped.

181.
Date: August 4, 1991
Target: Party Leader B. Matic-Beli
Location: Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Details: Beli arrived home and was locking his car when two masked gunmen fired 40 rounds from machine guns, killing him. The gunmen escaped.

182.
Date: August 8, 1991
Target: Former Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar
Location: Paris, France
Details: Bakhtiar was found with an aide, both stabbed to death, on the first floor of Bakhtiar's heavily guarded home. There was no sign of forced entry; scheduled visitors killed them.

183.
Date: October 7, 1991
Target: Diplomat Cetin Gorgu
Location: Athens, Greece
Details: Gorgu was shot four times by two gunmen with pistols as he entered his car to go to work. The terrorists escaped in another car.

184.
Date: October 28, 1991
Target: Diplomat Abdul El Kharaby
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Details: Kharaby lost a leg when a bomb exploded as he drove past. Islamic Jihad terrorists claimed responsibility.

185.
Date: November 4, 1991
Target: Former King M. Zaher Shah
Location: Rome, Italy
Details: A man, posing as a reporter, gained access to Shah and pulled an ornate dagger, stabbing Shah three times. It cut his face and neck, but he survived.

186.
Date: December 30, 1991
Target: Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Details: A car bomb with 220 pounds of TNT exploded as Wassan was driven past in his armored limousine. The blast killed 30, and wounded 120. Though injured, Wazzan survived.
(2-STARS: Protective Strategies or Resources at the scene favorably influenced safety/survival.)

187.
Date: February 16, 1992
Target: Sheik Abbas Musawi
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Details: Israeli helicopter gunships attacked Musawi's motorcade, killing Musawi, his wife, son, and four bodyguards.

188.
Date: March 7, 1992
Target: Israeli Diplomat Ehud Sadan
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Details: A bomb placed on his car by an Islamic Jihad group exploded, killing Sadan, and wounding three others. The attack was in retaliation for Abbas Musawi's death.

189.
Date: March 12, 1992
Target: Parliament Deputy Salvo Lima
Location: Palermo, Sicily
Details: Lima was riding to work in his chauffeur driven car when his tires were shot out by a Mafia gunman on a motorcycle. After his car screeched to a halt, Lima scrambled out and attempted to flee, but the assassin got off the motorbike, shot Lima in the back and then ran over and finished him off with a bullet to the neck. The killer then sped away.

190.
Date: March 17, 1992
Target: Eliora Carmon (Diplomat's wife)
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Details: A car bomb parked outside the Israeli Embassy exploded, killing 28, including Carmon, and Zehava Zehavi, wife of the First Secretary. Two hundred and forty were injured by the Islamic Jihad attack.

191.
Date: May 5, 1992
Target: Presidential Candidate Gilchrist Olympio
Location: Lome, Togo
Details: Gunmen with submachine guns opened fire on Olympio's motorcade as he was being driven cross-country. He was wounded and three opposition leaders were killed.

192.
Date: May 23, 1992
Target: Judge Giovanni Falcone
Location: Palermo, Sicily
Details: Falcone was driving his armored Fiat in a three-car motorcade from the airport to his home. Mafia terrorists had placed over 1000 pounds of explosives in a culvert under the highway, and were watching his motorcade from a small airplane overhead. They detonated the device, throwing Falcone's car 300 yards, killing him, his wife, and three bodyguards, and wounding nine others.

193.
Date: May 29, 1992
Target: President Sib Mojaddidi
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Details: Guerrillas fired three rockets at his jet after it had landed at the airport and was taxiing. One struck the cockpit, injuring the copilot, and two rockets missed.

194.
Date: June 8, 1992
Target: PLO Leader Atef Bseiso
Location: Paris, France
Details: A gunman shot Bseiso seven times with a silenced pistol as he was getting out of a taxi in front of his hotel. The gunman escaped.

195.
Date: June 29, 1992
Target: Council Leader Mohamed Boudiaf
Location: Algiers, Algeria
Details: Boudiaf was making a speech when a gunman, dressed like a policeman, opened fire with a submachine gun. Boudiaf was struck in the back and head, killing him. A second gunman also opened fire and threw grenades. Bodyguards killed the first gunman and wounded the second. Forty-one people were wounded. The first gunman was later said to be an Islamist who was part of Boudiaf's bodyguard detail.

196.
Date: June 30, 1992
Target: PLO Commander Anwar Madi
Location: Sidon, Lebanon
Details: One gunman opened fire on Madi's BMW with a submachine gun and another shot him in the ear with a pistol. Both gunmen escaped. Three bodyguards were wounded.

197.
Date: July 9, 1992
Target: Activist Khalil Abul-Hana
Location: Talabaya, Lebanon
Details: Gunmen overtook Abul-Hana's BMW and blocked its path. They opened fire with automatic weapons, killing him.

198.
Date: July 19, 1992
Target: Judge Paolo Borsellino
Location: Palermo, Sicily
Details: Borsellino was walking outside his mother's apartment when a car bomb exploded, killing him and five bodyguards, and wounding 20 others. The blast destroyed his armored limousine and two police cars.

199.
Date: July 27, 1992
Target: Mafia Investigator Giovanni Lizzio
Location: Catania, Italy
Details: Lizzio was driving home when two motorcycles pulled alongside and gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons. Lizzio was killed and the assassins escaped.

200.
Date: September 17, 1992
Target: Party Leader Sadiq Sharafkindi
Location: Berlin, Germany
Details: Sharafkindi was killed with three other Kurds while sitting in the Mykonos Restaurant. Three gunmen entered the restaurant and opened fire with submachine guns.

201.
Date: September 18, 1992
Target: Judge Miriam Perez
Location: Medellin, Colombia
Details: Four gunmen with submachine guns killed Perez, her driver, and two bodyguards as she was being driven to work. She was about to sentence a drug lord.

202.
Date: October 20, 1992
Target: PLO Officer Mustafa Ibrahim
Location: Sidon, Lebanon
Details: Masked gunmen burst into a crowded cafe and opened fire with automatic weapons, killing Ibrahim and his two bodyguards. The Abu Nidal Group was blamed.

203.
Date: November 16, 1992
Target: Naval Commander Clancy Fernando
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Details: Fernando was
en route
to his office when a bomb-laden motorcycle pulled alongside and exploded. Fernando, his driver, a bodyguard, an aide, and the Tamil terrorist were all killed.

204.
Date: December 5, 1992
Target: Party Leader Jiri Svoboda
Location: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Details: A masked man rang Svoboda's doorbell, then stabbed him in the chest when he answered the door. Svoboda survived the attack.

205.
Date: January 8, 1993
Target: Deputy Prime Minister Hakija Turajlic
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovenia
Details: Turajlic was shot and killed by Serb gunmen while sitting in a U.N. armored car with its door open at a Serb checkpoint.

206.
Date: February 9, 1993
Target: Provincial Governor Nasrullah Mansouri
Location: Gardez, Afghanistan
Details: A car bomb, apparently attached to Mansouri's car, exploded, killing him, another senior official, and three bodyguards.

207.
Date: March 16, 1993
Target: Opposition Official Mohammed Nagdi
Location: Rome, Italy
Details: Nagdi was
en route
to work when two men on a motorbike pulled alongside and opened fire with an automatic weapon, killing him.

208.
Date: March 24, 1993
Target: Archbishop Oscar Romero
Location: San Salvador, El Salvador
Details: Romero was shot and killed by a sniper. He was an outspoken critic of the government.