The World - News from Jan. 1, 1986

The Islamic Jihad terrorist group said in Beirut that it plans to carry out more kidnapings and suicide bombings against Americans and will strike Israeli targets “all over the world” in 1986. In a statement mailed to a Western news agency, the shadowy group also singled out Turkey as a “tool for the implementation” of Israeli and U.S. policies in the Middle East and threatened terrorist attacks against Turkish embassies. The group has claimed responsibility for devastating suicide-bomb attacks on American and French installations in Beirut in 1983-84 and also says it holds a number of Americans and Frenchmen who are missing in Lebanon.