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...defend particular terrorists, for example Abul Abbas Zaidan, who led the hijacking of the Italian ship on which the American tourist was killed...
...P.I.O. had been engaged since 1978 in the hopeless task of trying to improve the image of the Palestine Liberation Organization. It made no bones about being an arm of the P.L.O., which makes few bones about engaging in terrorism. Just last spring the P.L.O. decided to retain Abul Abbas on its executive committee, even though he masterminded the 1985 hijack of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, in which elderly American Leon Klinghoffer was murdered...
...Algiers conference, Western observers were dismayed to see Abul Abbas, one of the 15 members of the P.L.O.'s executive committee, who is wanted by the U.S. and Italy for his role in the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. At week's end after Abbas had resigned from the policymaking body to mollify moderates, he was re-elected to another term...
...Israel, an Iraqi victory in the six-year-old war would be the worst possible outcome; Iraq has supplied frontline troops to three Arab-Israeli wars and provided shelter and support for terrorists such as Abu Nidal and Abul Abbas. A continued stalemate would be best of all: it simultaneously weakens the frontline Arab states, deflects Arab attention from Israel and checks the expansion of Iranian-inspired Islamic fanaticism. But an outright Iranian victory could prove a mixed blessing. Moreover, just as the Tehran arms deal has backfired on the Reagan Administration, it might also turn out to be detrimental...
...After the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines, North led the hunt for those responsible. The chief suspect, however, managed to escape. When terrorists seized the Achille Lauro cruise ship off the coast of Egypt last year, North arranged the midair interception of an EgyptAir jet carrying Abul Abbas, the mastermind of the hijacking, to safety in Tunisia. North helped plan the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada and last April's Libyan air raid. It was not surprising that North turned up in Cyprus last week just when Released Hostage David Jacobsen arrived there. "Oliver North...