Terrorism Cyprus

A car loaded with explosives blew up near the Israeli Embassy on Wednesday after guards prevented the driver from parking outside the embassy building. Three people were killed and 15 were injured. Police said the car was rigged with about 300 pounds of dynamite. Cyprus' interior minister, Khristodoulos Veniamin, said: "It is clear the embassy was the intended target of the car bomb."

A car loaded with explosives blew up near the Israeli Embassy on Wednesday after guards prevented the driver from parking outside the embassy building. Three people were killed and 15 were injured. Police said the car was rigged with about 300 pounds of dynamite. Cyprus' interior minister, Khristodoulos Veniamin, said: "It is clear the embassy was the intended target of the car bomb."

Anti-terrorist police have arrested four people in London in connection with an extortion threat to release a deadly gas over the island of Cyprus, and more arrests are expected, the Cypriot government said. The blackmailers threatened to release deadly dioxin gas over the capital of Nicosia unless they were given $15 million, officials said. In London, Scotland Yard said that three men and a woman were arrested after a six-week investigation at Cyprus' request.

A car bomb killed three senior officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the Cypriot resort of Limassol on Sunday. The PLO, accusing Israel, vowed revenge. "They were murdered by the Israeli Mossad secret service," the PLO said in a statement from its Cyprus office. "This ugly new crime committed by Israeli intelligence will not pass without retribution. The people of Palestine and their revolution know how to teach the Israeli enemy a lesson they will not forget," it said.

Two masked men in a car riddled a British military vehicle with machine-gun fire Monday, seriously wounding a serviceman and a 16-year-old British girl, police and British officials said. Authorities said the gunmen escaped. The attack was the first against British personnel on the island since an Arab terrorist raid on a British base last year.

A car bomb killed three senior officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the Cypriot resort of Limassol on Sunday. The PLO, accusing Israel, vowed revenge. "They were murdered by the Israeli Mossad secret service," the PLO said in a statement from its Cyprus office. "This ugly new crime committed by Israeli intelligence will not pass without retribution. The people of Palestine and their revolution know how to teach the Israeli enemy a lesson they will not forget," it said.

Anti-terrorist police have arrested four people in London in connection with an extortion threat to release a deadly gas over the island of Cyprus, and more arrests are expected, the Cypriot government said. The blackmailers threatened to release deadly dioxin gas over the capital of Nicosia unless they were given $15 million, officials said. In London, Scotland Yard said that three men and a woman were arrested after a six-week investigation at Cyprus' request.

Two masked men in a car riddled a British military vehicle with machine-gun fire Monday, seriously wounding a serviceman and a 16-year-old British girl, police and British officials said. Authorities said the gunmen escaped. The attack was the first against British personnel on the island since an Arab terrorist raid on a British base last year.