Word: khartoum
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...Israel, Gaddafi gives at least $125 million a year to Egypt, about $45 million to Syria and perhaps $20 million to Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and other Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas. (Sudan has officially accused Gaddafi of instigating the kidnap-murder of three U.S. and Belgian diplomats in Khartoum last month...
...Arab leaders, the one most openly furious about the Khartoum massacre was Sudan's President Jaafar Numeiry. In a bitter, bristling 45-minute speech over Sudanese radio and television, Numeiry swore that the eight Black Septembrists would be tried and punished for "a crime we will not forgive." They had committed, he charged, "a criminal, rash action devoid of revolutionary spirit and bravery...
Suspending all Palestinian activities in Sudan, Numeiry angrily asserted that Black September was indeed part of Al-Fatah. As proof, he charged the head of the Al-Fatah office in Khartoum with having masterminded the massacre. He said that the leader, Fawwaz Yassin, had left Khartoum for Tripoli on a Libyan airliner only hours before the attack on the Saudi embassy was launched. Detailed plans for the entire operation, in Yassin's handwriting, were later found in his desk. Sample: "Tareq -Issue instructions strictly and violently to all those inside the hall in a strong voice...Khaled-Control...
...actual attack seemed to have been led by Yassin's deputy, Abu Salem, who has also been a broadcaster on the Voice of Palestine, an Al-Fatah program on Sudanese radio. The other six guerrillas, carrying Jordanian passports, arrived in Khartoum on an Egyptian flight the day before the attack. Numeiry did not link the Egyptian government to the plot, but he implied that Libya, which had invited Yassin to Tripoli, might be connected...
...Washington last week, there were hopes that the horror of Khartoum might induce more Arab states to crack down on terrorist activities throughout the Middle East. As President Nixon put it: "The nation that compromises with the terrorists today could well be destroyed by the terrorists tomorrow...