Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...According to our records she hadn't been in Greece before. We're trying to trace passengers who might have noticed her on the Athensbound flight" of the same TWA jet Wednesday from Cairo, Nikos Kokkinakis told reporters...
...Greek sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a woman called May Elias Mansur, a known terrorist, flew on the TWA Boeing 727 from Cairo to Athens Wednesday morning. The plane went on to Rome, and the bomb exploded during its return flight from Rome to Athens Wednesday afternoon...
...around Athens and other cities and also put out a signal to trace this person through Interpol," one police source said. Earlier yesterday in Rome, Italian Interior Minister Oscar Luigi Scalfaro said, "It is certain that a suspect person, who is on file as a terrorist, got on in Cairo and got off in Athens, occupying in the airplane the exact seat where the explosion occurred...
...airline said 121 people were on board, including 111 passengers, seven crew members and three offduty crew members. Earlier accounts said 124 were on board. The flight originated in Los Angeles, stopped in New York and was scheduled to go on to Cairo, Egypt, after leaving Athens...
...spread to five other hotels near the pyramids and many nightclubs and casinos on the broad avenue leading to the ancient monuments. At least two police stations were burned down. Renegade policemen also set free more than 300 of the 5,000 inmates at the Tura Prison south of Cairo. Among those liberated were scores of Islamic fundamentalists and other political prisoners who have opposed the Mubarak government. Other rebellious police, joined by gangs of civilian rioters, marched through the streets of suburban Maadi, where many diplomats and other foreign nationals live, burning cars and looting shops. Unrest also flared...