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...reason: four days earlier, the U.S. embassy in Helsinki had received an anonymous phone call from a person with a Middle Eastern accent. The tipster stated that a man named Abdullah planned to pass a device to a female Finnish passenger, who would unwittingly transport it to Frankfurt, then onto a U.S.-bound craft. U.S. and Finnish authorities dismissed the message because the caller was a known hoaxer...
Fringe politics, of either the left or the right, has rarely counted for much in staid and cautious postwar West Germany. But last week, to the shock of the country's political establishment, that dictum was punctured in both directions. In two major cities, West Berlin and Frankfurt, left-wing alliances of Social Democrats and environmental-activist Greens became majority factions. Both cities have also seen a resurgence of ultra-right parties: anti-immigrant Republicans in West Berlin and National Democrats in Frankfurt. The National Democrats, once a refuge of unreconstructed Nazis, gained 6.6% of the vote and representation...
August 1988: IBI closes down its Frankfurt office...
...protestations square with the fact that his company arranged for the supply of protective equipment for handling toxic chemicals at the plant and remained active in the project, according to one official, "well into 1988." Barbouti's case is not helped, moreover, by the fact that he shuttered his Frankfurt office shortly after the U.S. first informed Bonn that Imhausen- Chemie was implicated in the Rabta affair. Barbouti dismisses that as mere coincidence and not an attempt to hide his tracks...
British investigators said reconstruction of a baggage container provided evidence that the radio-cassette player may have been put on board with luggage in Frankfurt. The evidence further pointed to a radical Syria-based group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Only two months before the Pan Am bombing, during a raid on suspected PFLP-GC terrorists, West German police found a Toshiba Boombeat portable radio that held 10.5 oz. of plastic explosives. An FAA report on the discovery noted that the device "would be very difficult to detect by normal X-ray inspection, indicating that...