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...other explosives. Guards were assigned to Captain and Mrs. Rogers, who went into hiding. They had received anonymous death threats shortly after the airliner tragedy. In July, Mrs. Rogers got a threatening call from someone she thought sounded Middle Eastern. "Are you the wife of the murderer?" the caller asked. When the Vincennes returned to its San Diego port in October, the ship's crew was ordered to be on alert for possible attacks when off the ship...
...jail, listening to the cassette, Koskotas heard the fright in the caller's voice. It was an echo of his own fears. Mantzouranis had an important message to pass on: Koutsogiorgas wants to be certain the prisoner knows what he is doing. "Menios says," the voice from Greece emphasized, "that George should not betray the only people who can help him now." Koskotas pondered silently and for a second felt a twinge of his old power. Then he dismissed the warning. He wanted to talk...
Morse would not comment on the sex of the caller, or on the police department's efforts to identify the caller. The secretary who received the call which prompted the scare was unavailable for comment...
...Jibril as a Flight 103 suspect. "Abu Nidal certainly wants to undermine Arafat and do a favor to his sponsors, the Libyans, helping them take revenge on the Americans," says one Israeli expert. "But he has no expertise in this type of action. His specialty is assassinations." While a caller to the U.S. embassy in Helsinki had warned that terrorists allied with Abu Nidal planned to sabotage a Frankfurt-to-New York Pan Am flight, Finnish authorities insist that the tipster was a habitual alarmist whose call was a mere coincidence. Said FBI director William Sessions last week: "The bureau...
Still another possibility was that Islamic extremists linked to Iran were involved. In London an anonymous caller to the Associated Press claimed that the Pan Am plane had been attacked in retaliation for the shooting down of an Iranian Airbus last July by the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes, which mistook the passenger plane for an F-14 fighter. All 290 aboard perished...