The World - News from Dec. 29, 1987
A witness heard a terrorist shout “Long live Lebanon!” before lobbing two hand grenades into a USO club in Barcelona, Spain, police said. The witness was not identified. A U.S. sailor, Ronald Strong, 22, of Reeders, Pa., was killed and nine others wounded in the attack on Saturday. The Barcelona daily La Vanguardia confirmed that police have doubts that a Catalonian separatist group, which claimed responsibility for the attack, had actually carried it out. It said police were investigating the possibility that the assailant belongs to an Islamic terrorist group.
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