OPEC siege

On December 21, 1975, six military officials attacked a meeting of OPEC leaders in Vienna, Austria. The attackers took more than 60 hostages after killing an Austrian policeman, an Iraqi OPEC security officer, and a Libyan economist. Many other individuals were wounded.

The self-named "Arm of the Arab Revolution" group was led by Carlos the Jackal. The siege caused in complex diplomatic negotiations.^[1] It ended two days later, after flights to Algiers and Tripoli, with all the hostages and terrorists walking away from the situation.^[2]

Since this was one of the first times that Arab states were targeted by terrorists also led to them being more active in antiterrorism efforts at the United Nations.^[3]

References

↑ Blumenau, Bernhard (2014). The United Nations and Terrorism. Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 55–59. ISBN 978-1-137-39196-4.
↑ "OPEC raid 1975". Wien-Vienna.com. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
↑ Blumenau, Bernhard (2014). The United Nations and Terrorism. Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-137-39196-4.

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[1] Blumenau, Bernhard (2014). The United Nations and Terrorism. Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 55–59. ISBN 978-1-137-39196-4.

[2] "OPEC raid 1975". Wien-Vienna.com. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved February 15, 2012.

[3] Blumenau, Bernhard (2014). The United Nations and Terrorism. Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-137-39196-4.

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