"Italy Marks One of Europe's Deadliest Bombings"
Bombing of the Central Train Station at Bologna, Italy
Magazine article
By: Thomas Sheehan
Date: January 22, 1981
Source: Feature Article from The New York Review of Books.
About the Author: Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
INTRODUCTION
In 1980, Bologna was the center of the Italian Communist Party, making the city a target for anti-communist extremists.
On the morning of Saturday, August 2, 1980 at 10:25 A.M., an improvised explosive device (IED), packed with forty-four pounds of explosive materials detonated inside the central railroad station in Bologna, Italy. Eighty-five people were killed and an...
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