Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LONDON--Britain broke relations with Syria yesterday, charging that Syrian officials conspired with a Jordanian who was convicted hours earlier of trying to blow up an Israeli jumbo jet by smuggling a bomb on board in London...
...jury at the Old Bailey criminal court convicted Nezar Hindawi, 32, earlier yesterday of trying to smuggle a bomb onto the plane at Heathrow airport in the hand luggage of his pregnant Irish girlfriend...
Howe said in his announcement to the House of Commons that the evidence against Syria included testimony that Hindawi carried an official Syrian passport and met with the Syrian ambassador on the day the bomb was found...
Hindawi, who worked briefly as a journalist for an Arab-language newspaper in London, was accused of putting a bomb in his girlfriend's carry-on bag for the flight April 17. It was timed to explode over Austria, but an El Al security guard found it in the bag's false bottom...
Witnesses said four jets, Phantoms and Israeli-built Kfirs, flew in from the Mediterranean and made three bomb and rocket runs on the guerrilla positions starting...