Word: hindawi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury at the Old Bailey criminal court convicted Nezar Hindawi, 32, earlier yesterday of trying to smuggle a bomb onto the plane at Heathrow airport in the hand luggage of his pregnant Irish girlfriend...
Judge William Mars-Jones sentenced Hindawi to 45 years in prison. He said terrorists "can expect no mercy from our courts... A more callous and cruel deception and a more horrendous massacre is difficult to imagine...
Howe said in his announcement to the House of Commons that the evidence against Syria included testimony that Hindawi carried an official Syrian passport and met with the Syrian ambassador on the day the bomb was found...
...addition, we have independent evidence that the Syrian ambassador was personally involved, several months before the commission of the offense, in securing for Hindawi the sponsorship of the Syrian intelligence authorities," he said in the speech less than three hours after Hindawi was found guilty...
...evidence against Syria is tangled but persuasive. Hindawi was arrested in London shortly after the El Al plot was foiled. U.S. intelligence officers believe he was a Syrian intelligence recruit who tried to send his unsuspecting Irish girlfriend onto the El Al flight carrying a bag lined with explosives. His brother Hazi, in custody in West Berlin, has confessed to the attack on the friendship society. Inside the Syrian embassy in East Berlin, Hazi claims, he was given advice and "tactical guidance" on bomb preparation and timing devices. Hazi has denied any involvement in the La Belle explosion. Nonetheless, West...