Word: abdallah
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...most intriguing French activity in the Middle East last week was reported in the Paris daily newspaper Le Monde. The paper said that France, via Algeria and Syria, had arranged a "truce" with Lebanon's Abdallah clan, whom France has held responsible for the September wave of bombings. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, presumed leader of a group called the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, is serving a four-year term in a French prison for possession of arms, explosives and false documents. According to Le Monde, the terrorist group, based in northern Lebanon, was pressured to hold off on new actions...
...ites being held in southern Lebanon by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia. It was not clear whether a grand swap would also involve other Arab prisoners held in the West. According to one report circulating in Beirut, France would turn loose Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. French officials promptly denied any such deal...
...radio reported without elaboration that the eight were being freed "in return for releasing Georges Ibrahim Abdallah," a Lebanese Christian jailed in France on charges related to terrorism...
...gone by since the last terrorist bombing, and there was some relief as police arrested seven French militants and four Lebanese for questioning. But no one dared predict that the nightmare was over. Indeed, a C.S.P.P.A. communique warned that the "fire will spread" if its demands were not met. Abdallah, meanwhile, was transferred from Fleury- Merogis prison outside Paris to La Sante prison in the capital for added security...
...Canard Enchaine, a satirical Paris weekly, charged that a French counterespionage agent had met with an "emissary" of the F.A.R.L. in Madrid last May; following that encounter and other alleged contacts in Damascus, the group had suspended its terrorist attacks in Paris in exchange for possible French leniency toward Abdallah. According to Le Canard, the deal was scotched when the U.S. intervened with a civil suit against Abdallah for his suspected role in the 1982 murder of the U.S. military attache. Chirac denied that his government had ever negotiated with the F.A.R.L. "I am allergic to blackmail and to terrorism...