31 July 1989
☠Execution of Col. William Higgins announced
AttackerIslamic Jihad & the hostage-taking fronts➜TargetUnited Nations / UNIFILUnited States
On 31 July 1989 the "Organisation of the Oppressed on Earth" broadcast a tape showing the body of the American Colonel William Higgins, kidnapped in February 1988 while on a United Nations mission, hanged in reply to Israel's abduction of Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid three days earlier.