Word: abu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thrust onto the defensive, the U.S. upbraided Israel for the attack. Under Secretary of State Elliot Richardson publicly deplored both the Abu Zabal bombing and the Munich attack; privately, he emphasized Washington's unhappiness over the bombing during a two-hour meeting with Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Rabin...
Staging their tenth air raid in a month around Cairo, Israeli planes were supposed to bomb an air force supply depot at Khanka, twelve miles north of the Egyptian capital. But two planes swept over the nearby community of Abu Zabal and dropped several bombs on a steel plant whose 1,700 employees had just arrived for the 8 a.m. shift. The Egyptian government reported 70 of the civilian workers killed and 98 wounded in the raid. It was the worst toll of civilians since the 1967 war, and its aftereffects are likely to be felt for a long time...
...Hour Warning. Western correspondents summoned to Abu Zabal found a rustic, peaceful scene on the town's fringes. Fellahin stolidly plowed their fields. On an adjacent canal, tall-masted feluccas sailed gracefully. At the National Metal Industries Co., however, fires smoldered everywhere, and at a hospital close by, bodies were stacked like cordwood. Because the Israelis so rarely make mistakes, there was doubt that the attack was inadvertent. Yet Israeli officials seemed genuinely surprised when reports began coming out of Egypt on the bombing of the factory. Finally, the military command announced that there had been inaccurate bombing because...
...time being. "Nasser! Nasser!" screamed the crowds as Egypt's President drove to prayers at Al Azhar mosque with visiting Sudanese Premier Jaafar Nemery and Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Two newspapers in the Egyptian capital, noting that U.S. Phantom jets had been used to carry out the Abu Zabal raid, called it "an American-Israeli crime in which Nixon is an accomplice...