Word: extremist
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...P.L.O. official Atef Bseiso, 44, outside his Paris hotel. Bseiso was on a secret mission to meet with French intelligence agents to discuss security matters. The killers' efficiency led to rumors of secret-service involvement -- not only Israeli but French as well. Also suspected was Abu Nidal, the Palestinian extremist believed responsible for other P.L.O. killings, though his group denied involvement...
...consulate in Oran, Algeria, and Reuters news agency in Beirut. The Beirut caller even knew that the plane had been delayed for five hours in Cologne, and explained that was why it blew up over Canada instead of over the U.S. He said the Shi'ite Muslim extremist group planted a bomb on board to prove "our ability to strike at the Americans anywhere...
...dissolution of the Soviet Union has cut off a principal source of money and materiel for left-wing extremist groups throughout the world. The formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe that once offered training bases and safe haven to terrorists are now cooperating with the West in tracking them down. In the Middle East, allied bombs and U.N. sanctions have left Iraq without the means or gumption to continue sponsoring terrorists. Since the gulf war, Syrian President Hafez Assad has taken care not to antagonize the U.S. He has expelled some foreign terrorists from Syrian-controlled Lebanon and has reportedly...
...operations in the African nation of Sudan, which has been taken over by another fundamentalist Islamic regime. Tehran is known to have dispatched thousands of its Revolutionary Guards there, and they are said to be conducting instruction in the arts of bombing and bloodshed for members of several extremist organizations at new training camps around Khartoum...
...Yeltsin succeeds, a democratic Russia will integrate itself into the West. It will bolster European stability, cooperate with Western powers in far-flung crises and enhance prosperity through trade. If he fails, a new despotism will arise based on extremist Russian nationalism. This could trigger war among the former Soviet republics, force the West to rearm, threaten Eastern Europe's security, relieve pressures in China for political reform and lead to sales of Russian arms and military technology to rogue states such as Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya and North Korea...