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Word: iraqi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris, two gunmen who had stuffed grenades and guns beneath their raincoats bluffed their way into the Iraqi embassy. They whipped out the weapons, but one of the two, after tossing a grenade, unaccountably dashed away and disappeared. His companion took nine employees hostage and held them for eight hours. Once again the gunmen's target escaped: Iraqi Ambassador Mundir Tawfik Wandawi was at the Elysee Palace bidding French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing farewell before he too departed for a new assignment. After an eight-hour vigil, the Palestinian was persuaded to release his hostages and surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The New Blood Feud: Arab vs. Arab | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...Beirut, a Palestinian Jeep carrying a .50-cal. machine gun sprayed the Iraqi embassy. No one was hurt, but in northern Lebanon, Palestinian factions battled in a running fight that by week's end had taken a reported 37 lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The New Blood Feud: Arab vs. Arab | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...Karachi, two armed men rode up to the Iraqi consulate general aboard a motorcycle. One of the two was bayoneted by a Pakistani policeman. The other, captured after a brief shootout, confessed that he had been sent from Beirut to murder Consul General Naji Zain Din and had picked up his weapon and instructions from Palestinians in Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The New Blood Feud: Arab vs. Arab | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...Paris, pro-Iraqi Palestinians struck while Arafat was in Havana attending a Cuban-sponsored world youth festival. Storming Arab League headquarters on Boulevard Haussmann, two gunmen shot their way into the offices of the P.L.O. One of them killed Ezzedin Kalak, 40, a close friend of Arafat's, as well as Kalak's assistant, Hammad Adnan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The New Blood Feud: Arab vs. Arab | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...Islamabad, finally, two pro-Iraqi gunmen launched an attack on the local P.L.O. office that killed three Palestinians and a Pakistani policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The New Blood Feud: Arab vs. Arab | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

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