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...terrorist bombings in Paris that have left nine dead and 163 wounded since Sept. 8. The declared aim of the bombings, which have been claimed by the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (C.S.P.P.A.), is to force the release from prison of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 35, a pro-Palestinian Marxist with roots in Lebanon's Maronite Christian community. The leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (F.A.R.L.), a group that police say may be the same as the C.S.P.P.A., Abdallah is serving a four-year term on charges of possessing weapons and false identification. Last week...
...group's principal demand is for the release of three terrorists held in French prisons. Of the three, the most important is Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 35, presumed leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, who is serving a four-year sentence in Lyons for illegally possessing weapons and false identity papers. Abdallah's fingerprints were also discovered in an apartment found to contain the Czech-made pistol used in the 1982 Paris killings of U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. French authorities, however, say they still lack sufficient evidence to try him in connection with...
After last week's bombings, any prospects that Abdallah might get out of prison soon dimmed sharply. French public opinion is strongly behind Chirac's call for a war on terrorism. Meanwhile, Paris was bracing for more attacks. After the commuter-train bomb was found, an additional 800 national riot police were assigned to the capital, bringing to 3,300 the number of extra policemen stationed there since February. Reminding the public that police reinforcements alone were not enough to stop the terrorists, Interior Minister Pasqua called on the entire population to "transform themselves into a vast host of vigilant...
Groups calling themselves the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle East Political Prisoners and the Partisans of Rights and Freedom have issued conflicting claims of responsibility for the earlier bombings and threatened new attacks unless Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and two other jailed Middle Easterners are freed...
French police said Wednesday that Abdallah's brother, Robert, was a prime suspect in the cafeteria bombing, and 200,000 posters were being distributed with his picture and that of another brother, Maurice. Authorities offered a reward of one million francs--$150,000--for information leading to their arrest...