Word: abu
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...center of the storm was Abu Daoud, 39, a member of the Revolutionary Military Command of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Abu Daoud (real name: Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Auda) is a mysterious figure in the P.L.O.'s terrorist operations who is widely believed to have had a key role in the 1972 Munich massacre in which 17 people died, including eleven Israeli athletes (see box). Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon denounced Abu Daoud as an "arch-terrorist" last week; curiously, Israeli intelligence officials-who might have had a special interest in seeing a notorious terrorist apprehended-insisted that since Abu...
Iraqi Passport. That was certainly not the only anomaly in the affair. Even the circumstances of Abu Daoud's arrest in Paris were strange. He had come to the French capital as a member of a high-ranking Palestinian delegation to attend the funeral of Mahmoud Saleh, a former P.L.O. representative who had been gunned down a few days earlier on a Paris street. Traveling on an Iraqi passport issued in the name of Youssef Hanna Raji, Abu Daoud made no effort to disguise his easily recognizable features. He breezed through immigration and checked into...
...mail delivery and traffic. Four of the eight were small pro-Iraq or pro-Libya journals-thus in effect anti-Syrian. But An-Nahar, Lebanon's most prestigious newspaper, and its French-language sister daily, L'Orient-Le Jour, were also closed. Said An-Nahar Editor Michel Abu Jaudeh: "It would appear that what is in store is more ominous than what has already happened...
Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat last week broke a long silence by giving TIME's Wilton Wynn and Abu Said Abu Rish his first exclusive interview since September 1975. The scene was his secret, map-lined "operations room" on the outskirts of Beirut, his mood one of amiability and drive, even though he was noticeably fatigued from a long day of hospital and cemetery visits. Surprisingly, Arafat insisted that the war in Lebanon had left his Palestine Liberation Organization stronger than before. He indicated for the first time that the P.L.O. was prepared to accept statehood alongside Israel, at least...
...expectations differed from those of Arafat's, who had pictured the biography as a propaganda vehicle and refused to help Kiernan dig below the myth which his subject had so carefully constructed. Kiernan relied for most of his information on interviews with members of Arafat's family and "Abu Ammar's acquaintances. However, this belies another source of weakness, for Kiernan had to depend on an interpreter in conducting his interviews. It is regrettable that such an investigation, where impressions and the capacity to instill trust in one's interviewee are so vital, that the author could not speak Arabic...