The word “martyr” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 2 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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The opening as it read in 2010
The Rome and Vienna airport attacks were two major terrorist strikes carried out on December 27, 1985.1At 08:15 GMT, four gunmen walked to the shared ticket counter for Israel 's El Al Airlines and Trans World Airlines at Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport outside Rome , Italy , fired assault rifles and threw grenades . They killed 16 and wounded 99 before three of the attackers were killed by police. The remaining one was wounded and captured by police. Minutes later, at the Schwechat Airport ( Vienna International Airport ) in Vienna , Austria , three terrorists carried out a similar attack. Hand grenades were thrown into crowds of passengers queuing to check-in for a flight to Tel Aviv , killing two people instantly and wounding 39 others. A third victim died on January 22, 1986, of hand grenade wounds sustained in the attack. After the attack, the terrorists fled by car, and Austrian police gave chase. They killed one terrorist and captured the other two. In all, the two strikes killed 19, including a child, and wounded around 140. Some contemporary reports claimed the gunmen originally intended to hijack El Al jets at the airports and blow them up over Tel Aviv ; others concluded that the attack on waiting passengers was the original plan and that the Frankfurt airport was meant to be hit as well. The attacks were first blamed on Palestine Liberation Organization , but its leader, Yasser Arafat , denied the accusations and denounced the strikes. The PLO asserted that the attacks were intended to force Austria and Italy into severing ties with the Palestinians. Responsibility for the two attacks was later claimed by the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) in retaliation for Operation Wooden Leg , the Israeli bombing of PLO headquarters in Tunis on October 1, 1985. Libya was accused of funding the terrorists who carried out the attacks; although they denied the charges, they did praise the assaults. According to published reports, sources close to Abu Nidal said Libyan intelligence supplied the weapons and the ANO's head of the Intelligence Directorate's Committee for Special Missions, Dr. Ghassan al-Ali, organized the attacks.2
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The opening as it stood in 2005
The Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks were two major terrorist attacks carried out on December 27 , 1985 . On that day, four terrorists walked to the ticket counter of Israel 's El Al airlines at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport in Rome , Italy , and opened fire with assault rifles and grenades. They killed 16 people and wounded 80 others before three of them were killed and the remaining one shot and captured by police. Five U.S. citizens were among those killed. Minutes later, at the Schwechat Airport ( Vienna International Airport ) in Vienna , Austria , three terrorists carried out a mirror attack. They killed four people and wounded 39 others. The terrorists then fled the airport by car, and Austrian authorities gave chase. They killed one terrorist and then captured another. In all, the attacks killed 20 and wounded 120. They were carried out by terrorists from the Abu Nidal group, which was retaliating for the Israeli bombing of PLO headquarters in Tunis on October 1 . Libya was accused of funding the terrorists who carried out the attacks, but although they denied the charges they did praise the assaults.
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The Rome and Vienna airport attacks were two major terrorist attacks carried out on 27 December 1985.Seven Arab terrorists attacked two airports in Rome , Italy, and Vienna , Austria with assault rifles and hand grenades.Nineteen civilians were killed and over a hundred others were injured before four of the terrorists were killed by El-Al Security personal and local police, who captured the remaining three.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
The Rome and Vienna airport attacks were two major terrorist attacks carried out on 27 December 1985. Seven Arab terrorists attacked two airports in Rome , Italy, and Vienna , Austria with assault rifles and hand grenades. Nineteen civilians were killed and over a hundred others were injured before four of the terrorists were killed by El Al Security personnel and local police, who captured the remaining three.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
1985 terror attacks by Palestinian nationalists The Rome and Vienna airport attacks were two major terrorist attacks carried out on 27 December 1985. Seven Arab terrorists attacked two airports in Rome , Italy, and Vienna , Austria, with assault rifles and hand grenades. Nineteen civilians were killed and over a hundred were injured before four of the terrorists were killed by El Al Security personnel and local police, who captured the remaining three.
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