Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-month-old Palestinian uprising in Arab territories occupied by Israel, the region's leaders rushed to condemn the action. Some Arab officials suspected Iran of being behind the takeover. The evidence was largely circumstantial: one hostage freed during the six-day stop at Larnaca reported that several gunmen joined the hijackers in Iran and brought aboard submachine guns, hand grenades and explosives...
...hijackers and the 17 prisoners appear to share religious ties. Sixteen of the men jailed in Kuwait are Shi'ite Muslims who are thought to support Iran and its leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Hostages released from the jetliner said the gunmen often spoke in religious terms. Sherif Mahrojk Badrawi, a Kuwait Airways ticket agent in Cairo, called them "good Muslims" who "spoke to us in a very Koranic language. They were always using verses from the Koran." The hijackers are thought to belong to Hizballah, a radical Shi'ite group...
ALGIERS, Algeria--Shiite Moslem gunmen slipped out of a Kuwaiti jetliner just minutes before their 31 hostages were freed at dawn yesterday, ending 16 terror-filled days during which two passengers were killed...
Kuwait had refused throughout the ordeal to bow to the gunmen's demand that 17 pro-Iranian extremists imprisoned in Kuwait be released...
...gunmen, whom the hostages said numbered eight, were taken in unmarked automobiles to an undisclosed location, the Algerian officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity...