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* July 1973: Red Army members led a hijacking of Japan Airlines (JAL) plane over the [[Netherlands]]. The passengers and crew were released in [[Libya]], where hijackers blew up the plane.
* January 1974: [[Laju incident]]: Red Army attacked a [[Royal Dutch Shell|Shell]] facility in [[Singapore]] and took five [[hostage]]s; simultaneously, the PFLP seized the [[Japan]]ese embassy in [[Kuwait]]. The hostages were exchanged for a [[ransom]] and safe passage to [[South Yemen]] in a [[Japan Airlines]] plane.
* [[September 13]], [[1974]]: The [[France|French]] Embassy in [[The Hague]], Netherlands was stormed. The ambassador and ten other people were taken hostage and a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] policewoman, Hanke Remmerswaal, was shot in the back, puncturing a [[lung]]. After lengthy negotiatons, the hostages were freed in exchange for the release of a jailed Red Army member (Yatsuka Furuya), $300,000 and the use of a plane. The plane flew the hostage-takers first to [[Aden]], South Yemen, where they were not accepted and then to [[Syria]]. Syria did not consider hostage taking for money revolutionary, and forced them to give up their ransom.
* August 1975: The Red Army took more than 50 hostages at the AIA building housing several embassies in [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]]. The hostages included the US consul and the [[Sweden|Swedish]] chargé d'affaires. The gunmen won the release of five imprisoned comrades and flew with them to [[Libya]].
* September 1977: The Red Army hijacked [[Japan Airlines Flight 472]] over [[India]] and forced it to land in [[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]]. The Japanese Government freed six imprisoned members of the group and allegedly paid a $6M ransom.
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