The Peace Conquerors was an environmental extremist group that claimed responsibility for several acts of terrorism in the mid 1980s in Western Europe and Australia.  <P><br /><br />The group first emerged in Belgium in June 1985 when it claimed responsibility for a small bombing attack on Bayer (a pharmaceutical firm) offices in Brussels.  Although the bomb blew out windows and caused some light structural damage, no one was injured in the attack.  In a call made to the Associated Press, a spokesman for the previously unknown Peace Conquerors said the bombing was in response to Bayer's chemical dumping in the North Sea and the company's legal action against environmental group Greenpeace.   <P><br /><br />Several days later the group claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing at Frankfurt airport that killed three people and injured dozens. Peace Conquerors said the attack was in response to a proposed expansion of the airport and threatened further attacks, specifically the bombing of a "major building at the Frankfurt airport and a jumbo jet before the end of the month."  Several other groups claimed responsibility for the attack, including the Red Army Faction and the Revolutionary Arab Organization. <P><br /><br />A week after the Frankfurt attack, Peace Conquerors again claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack.  This time the group took responsibility for the June 23rd bombing of an Air India jet off the coast of Ireland.  The attack killed over 300 people and the group said it was in a response to "global pollution" and that they did not care if innocents were killed.  <P><br /><br />Although this attack seemed to confirm the group's earlier promise to destroy a jet before the end of the month, it quickly emerged that Sikh extremists, and not the Peace Conquerors, were responsible.  Furthermore, the Frankfurt bombing was shown to be the work of the Revolutionary Arab Organization, a front-name for Abu Nidal and his terrorist cohorts. <P><br /><br />In July 1985 the Peace Conqueror's "Pacific Branch" threatened attacks in Australia against Union Carbide, the chemical company responsible for an industrial accident in Bhopal, India which killed hundreds.  One month later the group claimed responsibility for a small bombing at a Union Carbide facility in Sydney.  No further attacks were reported, and the group has all but faded away.  <P><br /><br />Peace Conquerors' claims of responsibilty for deadly attacks, such as the plane bombing, make them relatively unique among eco-terrorists. Most environmental extremist groups tend to shun deadly violence against human beings. Although some of these claims for violent acts proved false, casting doubt on Peace Conquerors' actual involvement in terrorism, it is very likely that the group was in fact responsible for both the Bayer attack in Belgium and the Union Carbide bombing in Australia. <br />