Word: abu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some leading radicals rejected the Libyan leader's thinly veiled call for a new terrorist campaign, including George Habash and Abu Moussa...
Khadafy has repeatedly denied American assertions that he harbors and supports such Palestinian terrorists as Sabry al-Banna, the renegade Palestinian known as Abu Nidal whom the United States blames for the December 27 airport attacks in Rome and Vienna...
...Rebel radio broadcasts rarely referred to Abdul Fattah Ismail, the former President who was thought to be leading the rebellion, thereby fueling speculation that he had been killed when fighting began two weeks ago. Late in the week, the radio reported that the insurgents had chosen Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al Attas, who had been in Moscow since the conflict started, as acting leader...
...indeed, and that means their citizens would suffer. In the second place, no one has produced any hard evidence for the record that Libya harbors the terrorists concerned here. For that matter, no one has established the terrorists' identity. Israeli officials have said the culprit probably isn't Abu Nidal; their conclusion would appear to destroy Reagan's theory prima facie. And in addition, even Reagan's Defense Department, in its report on the airport murders, didn't blame Libya...
...said Courtois. "Rather than waste my time spending x number of years in prison, I decided to ally myself with his cause." Khalki, who until three weeks ago had been serving time for robbing a post office, then took the floor and proclaimed his allegiance to the Abu Nidal terrorist group, a maverick Palestinian band that is aligned with Libya. Extremely agitated, the grenade-juggling Khalki told his television audience that he wanted to "give the French state a slap in the face...