1980 Nairobi hotel bombing

Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya yes 1980 Nairobi hotel bombing Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya Kenya Nairobi -1.278295 36.815795 The attack site in Nairobi, Kenya 1980 12 31 yes -1.278295 36.815795 inline,title Bombing, terrorist attack 20 87 Qaddura Mohammed Abd Al-Hamid On 31 December 1980, New Year's Eve, a bomb exploded in The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. It partially destroyed the hotel, killing 20 people and wounding another 87. The owner of the hotel was a prominent member of the local Jewish community, and it has been suggested that the attack was in retaliation for Kenya providing support to rescue the Israeli hostages in Uganda during Operation Entebbe four years earlier. Among the dead were at least four Kenyans, two Americans, two British children, a Danish employee of KLM, a Frenchman, and a Belgian child.Feds Have Older Kenya Bombing To Explain http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/feds-older-kenya-bombing-explain-article-1.819931 New York Daily News 12 August 1998Suspected hotel bomber escapes https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/01/04/Suspected-hotel-bomber-escapes/9506347432400/ UPI 4 January 1981 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.Kenya says Palestinian responsible for hotel blast https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/01/07/Kenya-says-Palestinian-responsible-for-hotel-blast/1069347691600/ UPI 7 January 1981 See also 2002 Mombasa attacks References Bomb likely cause of New Year's Eve blast https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/01/01/Bomb-likely-cause-of-New-Years-Eve-blast/5850347173200/ UPI 1 January 1981 Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2003 https://www.ict.org.il/Article/893/Terrorist-Incidents-against-Jewish-Communities-and-Israeli-Citizens-Abroad-1968-2003#gsc.tab=0 International Institute for Counter-Terrorism 20 December 2003 22 June 2018 26 March 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210326041448/https://www.ict.org.il/Article/893/Terrorist-Incidents-against-Jewish-Communities-and-Israeli-Citizens-Abroad-1968-2003#gsc.tab=0 dead Barry Rubin Judith Colp Rubin Chronologies of Modern Terrorism 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=ynNsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA195 Routledge 195 9781317474654 20 killed in bomb attack on Norfolk https://mobile.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/1950774-1993444-format-xhtml-tt6skxz/index.html 21 January 2019 mobile.nation.co.ke Daily Nation 15 September 2013 en Laing Aislinn Nairobi assault: Kenyan terrorist attacks since 1980 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/kenya/10325230/Nairobi-assault-Kenyan-terrorist-attacks-since-1980.html 21 January 2019 The Telegraph 21 September 2013 Category:1980 murders in Kenya 1980 hotel bombing Category:Terrorist incidents against Jews Category:Antisemitism in Africa Category:Attacks during New Year celebrations Category:Hotel bombings in Africa Category:December 1980 in Africa Category:1980 building bombings 1980 hotel bombing Category:1980 mass murders 1980 hotel bombing Category:Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine attacks Category:Terrorist incidents in Africa in 1980 Category:Terrorist incidents in Kenya in the 1980s 1980 hotel bombing Category:20th-century mass murders in Kenya Category:Building bombings in Kenya Category:Attacks on hotels in Kenya