In 1996, a terrorist arms storage in Bedford, Ohio, was loaded with dynamites near a kindergarten, the dynamites were so old that they were extremely unstable and about to explode. The dynamites were stored there in the 1980s when ASALA (Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia) and the JCAG (Justice Commandoes for the Armenian Genocide) were active in assassinating and bombings against Turks in the United States. Their goals were to seek revenge for the killings of Armenians in 1915 that is still disputed today and is labeled as the Armenian Genocide.

Kevork Guzelyan, former ASALA terrorist who attacked Turkish embassy and murdered the security guard in 1981: I would like to pray at Celal’s grave one day.

ASALA, otherwise known as the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, was a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that existed from 1975 through 1986. ASALA sought to compel the Turkish government to recognize the Armenian Tragedy as genocide, pay reparations to the victims of the Armenian Tragedy, and cede territory for an Armenian homeland based on the never-ratified Treaty of Sevres of 1920. The primary strategic goal of ASALA was to call attention to the Armenian Tragedy, and in this, they more or less succeeded. Before ASALA, the tragedy that the Armenians suffered had been more or less ignored by the world, but after ASALA, the entire educated world knew about the Armenian Tragedy. Nevertheless, ASALA failed to meet the rest of their objectives. To date, Turkey does not recognize the Armenian Tragedy as genocide, reparations have not been paid to the remaining survivors of the Armenian Tragedy and their families, and the internationally-recognized borders of Turkey have remained in tact. Yet still, ASALA did succeed in its primary objective, for the world now knows about the tragedy that befell upon the Armenian nation.