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...rebel attacks on food convoys have made many of the roads virtually impassable, giving rise to deepening food and fuel shortages. Last week when the United Nations attempted an emergency airlift of food, medicine and blankets to Kabul, the effort was temporarily stalled because crew members of the EgyptAir cargo plane feared rebel attacks. Two days later, however, Ethiopian Airlines delivered the first supplies from...
...highly sensitive missions. After the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines, North led the hunt for those responsible. The chief suspect, however, managed to escape. When terrorists seized the Achille Lauro cruise ship off the coast of Egypt last year, North arranged the midair interception of an EgyptAir jet carrying Abul Abbas, the mastermind of the hijacking, to safety in Tunisia. North helped plan the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada and last April's Libyan air raid. It was not surprising that North turned up in Cyprus last week just when Released Hostage David Jacobsen arrived there. "Oliver...
...EGYPTAIR. Last December three Arab terrorists accused of belonging to the Libyan-supported Abu Nidal group diverted a Boeing 737 to Malta. After five passengers were shot and the captain pleaded for aid, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered a commando raid. In the attack, 58 of the 79 hostages left on the plane died. More than 40 were killed by burns or smoke inhalation from fires that the commando attack ignited...
...link between Abu Nidal and the TWA bombing seemed plausible. His dossier of terrorist acts includes the killing of a number of Palestinian foes and Israeli officials and the bombing of synagogues in Europe. His group may also have been involved in last year's hijacking of an EgyptAir plane, leading to the death of 60 people when the craft was stormed in Malta by Egyptian troops...
Gaddafi's most worrisome ally is the shadowy Palestinian radical Abu Nidal, who is reported to be living in Libya. The U.S. has accused him of carrying out the Rome and Vienna airport assaults, using passports provided by Libya. It also holds Abu Nidal responsible for hijacking an EgyptAir passenger jet to Malta last November, an act that ended in disaster when 60 people were killed as Egyptian commandos stormed the plane in a rescue raid. Much of Gaddafi's mischief has been aimed at his political foes. Since 1980, more than 15 anti-Gaddafi Libyan exiles have been assassinated...