1981 Vienna synagogue attack

The 1981 Vienna synagogue attack was a terror attack on the Stadttempel of Vienna, Austria carried out by Abu Nidal Organization.[1][2]

Attack

The machine-gun and grenade attack killed two people and wounded thirty attending a Bar mitzvah service at the Stadttemple in Vienna on August 29, 1981.[3] Two Palestinian gunmen, Marwan Hasan, 25 years old, of Jordan, and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh, 21, born in Iraq, were convicted of murder and attempted murder. Rajeh was also indicted for the May 1 slaying of Heinz Nittel, head of the Austrian-Israel Society.[3]

gollark: I like "respect" as "recognizing people as fellow humans who you should maintain some basic standard of niceness with". And "respect" as "admiring people based on achievements". And "respect" as "acknowledge people's opinions on things reasonably" and such. I do *not* like "respect" as "subservience"/"obedience" - the "respect for authority" sense. These are quite hard to define nicely and just get lumped into one overloaded word.
gollark: > I don't really like the term of "respect", because people use it to mean so many different often mutually exclusive things based on convenience then equivocate them in weird ways;
gollark: See, I consider this somewhat, well, worrying, given what I said about "respect" for authority figures being pretty close to "subservience" a lot.
gollark: "i will be respected here." implies EVERYONE, not just staff.
gollark: I don't think it ever really had those except one time when the debug interface [REDACTED]/

References
  1. Terrorist Group Profiles, DIANE Publishing, 1989 ISBN 1-56806-864-6, p. 6
  2. Death of a Terrorist; Hopes rise with the fall of Abu Nidal, Kenneth R. Timmerman, August 20, 2002, The Wall Street Journal
  3. Palestinians get life in Austrian Slayings, The New York Times, January 22, 1982

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