Word: abu
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Ever since his arrest five months ago, there has been speculation about how infamous Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal ended up in Egyptian custody. Egyptian authorities refuse even to acknowledge they have the man whose terror organization killed or wounded some 900 people during the 1970s and '80s, but U.S. intelligence sources tell TIME they believe there's a mundane explanation at the heart of his capture--greed. Abu Nidal has assets in real estate and foreign bank accounts that the CIA estimated in 1990 was worth $200 million. But now Abu Nidal, who had been living in Libya, has cancer...
...punish an entire nation for one person's sins? The U.S. will lose a good leader in Clinton. SYED RAIYAN ABU ZAFAR Riyadh...
When a relative is condemned to death, it's not the usual thing to take out a newspaper ad urging the swift implementation of the sentence. But that is what the ABU-SULTAN family of the Gaza Strip did--and it got its wish. Last week the Palestinian Authority of Chairman YASSER ARAFAT conducted the first executions in its four years of self-rule when brothers MOHAMED and RAED ABU-SULTAN were killed by firing squad in Gaza City after being convicted of murdering another pair of brothers, MAJDI and MOHAMED AL-KHALDI, on a Gaza street. Their trial...
According to a senior Palestinian security official, it was Palestinian intelligence that hunted and trapped ABU NIDAL after two plots to assassinate YASSER ARAFAT were uncovered in the past year. The source says Palestinian intelligence tracked down the elusive Abu Nidal in Libya and, in an "exceptional operation," got him into Egypt. The official wouldn't say precisely how this was done. Asked if it was a kidnapping, he said, "More or less...
...source says officials of both the Palestinian Authority and Egypt are eager to deny putting a hand on Abu Nidal for fear of retaliation by his followers, who are well trained, armed and scattered around the gulf and North Africa. The source doubts the story that Abu Nidal is ill with leukemia and suspects the Egyptians cooked that up to cover themselves. He also notes that the Palestinian Authority informed the U.S. when Abu Nidal was apprehended...