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- ↑ "Grenade Thrown Into Aden Airport; 1 Dead". The Canberra Times . 11 December 1963. p. 1. Retrieved 6 November 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "News In Brief". The Canberra Times . 3 January 1964. p. 3. Retrieved 6 November 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Terrorist Grenade Attack", Nashua Telegraph, 9 June 1965 accessed 4 November 2013