Word: berlin
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...Israelis but confirmed in some particulars by some Western intelligence agencies, link Syria with the recent attempt by a Jordanian-born Palestinian to plant a bomb aboard a London-Tel Aviv El Al flight with 360 passengers aboard. Evidence also surfaced that could tie the Syrians to a West Berlin explosion that destroyed the German-Arab Friendship Society, and possibly to a subsequent blast at La Belle discotheque in the same city. The nightclub bombing, which killed a U.S. soldier and a Turkish woman and wounded another 230 people, was one of the terrorist outrages that Ronald Reagan blamed...
Even more than the attacks in West Berlin, the close call at London's Heathrow Airport, where an alert Israeli security agent found an explosive device in the luggage of a terrorist's unsuspecting Irish girlfriend, raised questions about the war risks the Damascus regime may be willing to undertake --and about Assad's motives. Had the plane been destroyed, with hundreds of casualties, the tragedy would almost certainly have led to some kind of Israeli military response...
Just 25 days before Adolf Hitler committed suicide in Berlin, U.S. Army Private Wil bert Massman entered Munich with the 179th Infantry Regiment and settled into a small apartment on the city's east side, using it as an office. While rummaging through a bookcase, Massman stumbled on a red leather album embossed with a swastika. Flipping through the album, he saw 72 photos of World War I scenes, four of which showed a man who appeared to be the young Adolf Hitler. Other items, bearing the monogram A.H., convinced Massman that the apartment had once been Hitler's. Massman...
...bombs in these cases were thought to be made in Damascus. From the Syrian capital they were transported to the Syrian embassies in East Berlin and London. Their alleged targets: the German-Arab Friendship Society in West Berlin (blown up on March 29), an El Al jet en route from London to Tel Aviv with 360 aboard (saved by an alert El Al baggage inspector), and possibly the La Belle discotheque, also in West Berlin (destroyed on April 5, killing a U.S. Army sergeant and a Turkish woman and injuring 230). The prime suspects are two Syrian-trained Palestinian brothers...
...Hindawi was arrested in London shortly after the El Al plot was foiled. U.S. intelligence officers believe he was a Syrian intelligence recruit who tried to send his unsuspecting Irish girlfriend onto the El Al flight carrying a bag lined with explosives. His brother Hazi, in custody in West Berlin, has confessed to the attack on the friendship society. Inside the Syrian embassy in East Berlin, Hazi claims, he was given advice and "tactical guidance" on bomb preparation and timing devices. Hazi has denied any involvement in the La Belle explosion. Nonetheless, West German police reported that the disco explosives...