Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifteen people, including three Americans, died in the attack. Another 127 were injured by the four gunmen, who disguised themselves as Karachi Airport security workers and stormed the plane. Two of the attackers, all of whom were believed to be Palestinians, were killed...
...gunmen originally asked to be flown to Cyprus to free Palestinian terrorists jailed there. The flight originated in Bombay and was headed for New York by way of Frankfurt...
Interior Minister Yildirim Akbulut said the gunmen locked the synagogue's main door with an iron bar to keep worshipers from escaping and sprayed the congregation with bullets...
...gunmen, disguised as airport security workers, seized the aircraft with nearly 400 people aboard early Friday. They initially demanded to be flown to Cyprus, so they could free Palestinian terrorists jailed there...
London's lobbying effort was directed at the extradition treaty signed by the two governments nearly a year ago but stalled in Senate subcommittee ever since. It would change a provision of the previous pact, signed in l972, that has allowed Irish Republican Army gunmen taking refuge in the U.S. to escape extradition by claiming that their crimes were "political." The new treaty would make it easier for U.S. courts to send terrorists back to the United Kingdom for trial...