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...Airways Flight 422 swung open at Houari Boumedienne Airport in Algiers. Out stepped a frail- looking man, as a caravan of ambulances, police cars and fire trucks stood by below. After being led down the ramp by a doctor -- and a hooded gunman who quickly ran back inside -- Djuma Abdallah Shatti, a 55-year-old Kuwaiti, told of harsh conditions inside the blue-and-white Boeing 747. "Praise be to God, I am fine," said Shatti, who is diabetic, "but they had me tied up all the time, and I am tired. They are not good people. They beat...
...former Gestapo offices. In recent days Barbie had reportedly been weighing whether to exert his right under French law to stay away from the trial, which he denigrated as a "lynching campaign led by the French media." The tactic is not unprecedented. Last February, Lebanese Terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, accused of complicity in two assassinations in Paris, caused a commotion by walking out of his trial. In Barbie's case the judge ruled that the defendant need not return but reserved the right to order him to do so later...
...even behind bars, Barbie throws a long shadow. From the day of his capture, there were whispers that retribution could bring political catastrophe: the prisoner knows too much about too many. His lawyer is Jacques Verges, most recently the defender of the Arab terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, sentenced last February to life imprisonment by a French tribunal for complicity in the killings of two diplomats, one of them an American, and in the attempted murder of a third. With Verges' help, Barbie is quite capable of turning the tables, of forcing a trial of France under the Occupation...
...central issue was whether Abdallah was only a "little boss" who had "let himself be captured," as a French intelligence official claimed, or an architect of international terrorism, as the Americans maintained. Both sides agreed with the French police source who said of Abdallah, "He was good -- no paper trail, no proof. In short, a professional." After hearing the evidence, the judges apparently concluded he was too good, in fact, to be let off lightly...
Accused Terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah apparently has many friends in low places. Minutes after he was driven under heavy guard away from Paris police headquarters to the city's Sante prison, four other suspected terrorists were brought in. They arrived separately, at 15-minute intervals, crouched inside identical blue police vans with wire-mesh windows and police-car escorts. The four are reportedly acquainted with Abdallah, and their group is believed to have supplied him with weapons...