ABSTRACT
Radical Shi'ite elements were held responsible for an intensive terrorist campaign carried out throughout 1988-1989 around the globe against Saudi diplomats. A Turkish terrorist group named Turkish Jundallah, considered responsible for the October 1988 murder of a Saudi diplomat in Turkey, was also suspected of carrying out the attack. The Basque Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) repeatedly attacked French targets in protest against the expulsion from France of ETA members since June 1986. The incidents also came in retaliation for a series of arrests of ETA members in France. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Islamic Jihad, which linked it with an exchange of information between France and Israel concerning the detention by the latter of the Shi'ite leader Sheikh Obeid. The offices of the commercial and labor attaches at the Spanish Embassy were targeted in bombing attacks. Responsibility for the incidents was claimed by the Basque ETA.
