Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...P.L.O. leaders, a wariness that has made the talks difficult and sporadic fighting all but a certainty. P.L.O. fears have been reinforced by the fact that there have been at least four attempts on Arafat's life within the past six weeks. Two operations centers were bombed shortly after Arafat visited them. Last Friday an Israeli jet attacked an eight-story apartment building in the Sanayeh district of West Beirut, killing or injuring 250 people. Contrary to reports, the building had not been used as an Arafat headquarters, although it did house the family of Arafat's chief...
...repelled by the senseless attack on ceremonial guards. "I saw one trooper with his head blown off and two others lying on the ground covered with blood," said a businessman. Wounded troopers staggered in the road muttering, "Bastards, bastards." Of the 27 people who were injured by the nail bomb in Hyde Park, 17 were civilian bystanders. Said a worker in nearby Knightsbridge: "The first thing I saw was a middle-aged lady on her hands and knees screaming, with part of her foot blown away. Soldiers were lying on the ground partly hidden by the dead horses." In addition...
Police investigators traced the blue Morris sedan to a parking lot at a hotel in Kensington. One witness also gave them a description of a man seen parking the car just before the Hyde Park bombing. Police believe that the 10-lb. nail bomb, probably hidden in the trunk of the car, was detonated by remote control from a spot within sight of the incident. If true, it was a measure of how cold-blooded the killers were. Police speculate that a similar device may have been used in the Regent's Park explosion...
...Major Abbas Dowran, who was famous in the Iranian air force for his exploits in previous missions over Iraq. Baghdad officials suspected that Iran, in its preparation for an all-out assault along its central border with Iraq, had sent the Dowran mission not only to bomb the Iraqi capital but also to survey and test the city's air defenses...
...besieged Palestinians: We will not let the situation develop into a war of attrition." Meanwhile, Fadel el Dani, 37, the deputy director of the P.L.O. office in Paris, was assassinated late last week when his car blew up as he was starting it, apparently the result of a bomb. The P.L.O.'s Paris director, Ibrahim Souss, blamed "Israeli terrorism" for Dani's death, but the Israeli embassy denied that Israelis had been responsible...