1985 Kuwait City bombings

1985 terrorist attack 1985 Kuwait City bombings Kuwait City, Kuwait 11 July 1985 Bombings 11 89 Abu Nidal Organization and Islamic Jihad Organization On 11 July 1985, two bombs exploded in two cafés in Kuwait City, Kuwait, killing 11 people and wounding 89 others. A group affiliated with the Palestinian Abu Nidal Organization claimed responsibility for the attack,https://books.google.com/books?id=ynNsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA199 Chronologies of Modern Terrorism 199 Barry Rubin Judith Colp Rubin Routledge 2015 9781317474654 along with the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Jihad Organization.https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1985/07/12/bombs-wreck-2-cafes-in-kuwait-killing-9-and-wounding-56/ Bombs Wreck 2 Cafes In Kuwait, Killing 9 And Wounding 56 Orlando Sentinel 12 July 1985 https://web.archive.org/web/20230530223147/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1985/07/12/bombs-wreck-2-cafes-in-kuwait-killing-9-and-wounding-56/ 30 May 2023 live Attack The first bombing took place at the Al Sharq, a seaside café, as families gathered on the eve of a Muslim holy day, and the second explosion occurred in the densely populated Salmiyeh district.https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/12/world/9-killed-in-kuwait-bombings.html 9 Killed In Kuwait Bombings 12 July 1985 The New York Times AP https://web.archive.org/web/20230530192645/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/12/world/9-killed-in-kuwait-bombings.html 30 May 2023 live A third bomb was found and detonated by Kuwaiti security forces in another café.https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4r1DwAAQBAJ&dq=%221985%22+kuwait+bombings&pg=PT225 Michael Stohl The Politics of Terrorism, Third Edition CRC 225 2020 9781000147049 An emergency cabinet session of the Kuwaiti government was called under the Foreign Minister, Sheik Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the acting Prime Minister at the time. Authorities closed the Kuwait International Airport to outgoing flights in response "as a precaution." Several motives were considered for the attacks in the press, notably including foreign policy linked to Iran and Syria. The attacks were the latest in a series of terrorist attacks in Kuwait following the 1983 Kuwait bombings thought to be linked to Iran, including the hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221 and the attempted assassinations of newspaper editor Ahmed Al-Jarallah and Kuwaiti ruler Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.https://books.google.com/books?id=m1XjHn8rrl4C&pg=PA405 405 Itamar Rabinovich Haim Shaked Middle East Contemporary Survey: 1984-1985 lx The Moshe Dayan Center 1988 9780813374451 The cafés were also targeted as "wounds in the heart of Islam" by the terrorists for allowing men and women to eat together.https://books.google.com/books?id=1GdtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22wounds+in+the+heart%22 John K. Cooley 110 Payback: America's Long War in the Middle East Brassey's 1991 9780080405643 In January 1987, two men were sentenced to death for the attacks, a third to life imprisonment, and a fourth to a three-year prison term. See also 1983–1988 Kuwait terror attacks References Category:1985 building bombings Category:1985 in Kuwait Category:20th century in Kuwait City Category:20th-century mass murders in Asia Category:Abu Nidal attacks Category:Attacks on coffeehouses and cafés in Asia Category:Hezbollah attacks Category:July 1985 in Asia Category:1985 mass murders Category:Murder in Kuwait Category:Restaurant bombings in Asia Category:Terrorist incidents in Asia in 1985 Category:Terrorist incidents in Kuwait