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...Organization of Socialist Muslims and, recently. Black September. In the early years gunmen under Abu Nidal's command are credited with having assaulted Syrian embassies and other targets, spurred on by Syria's crackdown on Palestinian forces in Lebanon and tensions between Iraq and the Damascus government of President Hafez Assad. Three months after the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic 1977 visit to Israel, Abu Nidal hitmen murdered an Egyptian newspaper editor and hijacked a jetliner at Larnaca in Cyprus. In 1981, as Iraq courted the U.S. and Western Europe, the seat of Abu Nidal's terrorist operations...
...confrontation between two men with vastly different resumes, styles and visions. Hariri, 60 at the time of his death, was a gregarious, self-made billionaire with friends from Paris to the Persian Gulf. Assad, an ophthalmologist, now 39, had inherited the presidency after the death of his father Hafez in 2000. Hariri had tried to court the younger Assad, but by last summer the two men were on a collision course. First Assad ordered Hariri to support a change to Lebanon's constitution that would extend the tenure of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, 68, a former Lebanese general widely viewed...
...steps of the late President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. In Hussein's view, Arab League backing would put pressure on Washington to take a more positive action on the peace initiative. The Jordanians also hoped that Hussein's demonstration of leadership could ease Washington's fears that Syrian President Hafez Assad will stifle the peace momentum...
...Prince Abdullah. Syria severed diplomatic relations with Jordan in 1980, and the situation became even more strained after Jordan's Hussein put together his Feb. 11 agreement with P.L.O. Leader Arafat to reach a negotiated Middle East settlement with Israel. The signs of rapprochement between Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad raised the long-term possibility of an even more broadly based regional peace...
Syrian President Hafez Assad, said one senior Administration official, is the "one person" who has the power to obtain the release of the seven Americans kidnaped in Lebanon over the past 16 months and still held hostage. Assad, however, is well aware that only Washington's concern for the safety of the seven hostages is inhibiting the U.S. from attempting any type of retaliation for the hijacking of Flight...