At a time of the Golf War a terrorist chose Sydney Airport for his demonstration against the War by arming himself with knives and Molotov cocktails in order to create enough havoc that he would get himself shot.

The man had no fear of being shot as he was involved with a religious group that believed in reincarnation.

Citation
On the morning of 5 March 1991, Mr Samuels a Security Officer with the Federal Airports Corporation, restrained an armed man threatening public safety at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport. The offender, suffering from a dangerous personality disorder, had endeavoured to damage motor vehicles, inflicted bodily harm on a number of people and was threatening members of the public, Security Staff and Police with a knife when Mr Samuels took action. Without regard for the dangers to himself briskly moved a female Security Officer to safety and tackled the offender, bringing him to the ground and enabling other personnel to subdue him. Although armed with a heavy torch, the Security Officer did not use it in restraining the offender as he did not wish to inflict unnecessary injury. In the course of his struggle with the offender Mr Samuels received a stab wound in the spinal area, resulting in him losing the use of his legs.