Orly airport attack

Orly airport attack

Infobox civilian attack
title = Orly Airport attack


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location = Paris-Orly Airport, Paris, France
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date = 15 July 1983
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type = Bombing
fatalities = 7
injuries = 63
perps = Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
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The Orly Airport attack was a bombing near the Turkish Airlines bureau in the Orly Airport in Paris, France, carried out by the Armenian militant organization ASALA on 15 July 1983. The bombing killed seven people and 63 people were injured. [cite book |author=Hoffman, Bruce |title=Inside Terrorism |year=1998 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=0231114680 |pages=p. 77 |quote=...killing seven persons and wounding fifty-six...] [cite book |author=Charters, David |title=The Deadly Sin of Terrorism |year=1994 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=0313289646 |pages=pp. 108-109 |quote=Seven people were killed and sixty-two wounded...] Varadjian Garabidjan, an Armenian who was a Syrian citizen, admitted responsibility, and was charged with murder. [UPI (July 21, 1983). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB35D0E77B0046C&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "ORLY AIRPORT BOMB WAS TO BLOW ON TURKISH FLIGHT, ARMENIAN SAYS"] , "The Miami Herald", pp. 27A.]

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