Word: nidal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought to be the chief hit man for Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal has been arrested in southern Lebanon. Security officials there disclosed today that they had seized Mahmoud Khaled Eintour, 48, also known as Abu Ali Majed, the man who allegedly headed the assassination branch of Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council. Lebanese officials, who plan to try Eintour on kidnapping and murder charges, blame him for hijacking a French yacht off Gaza in 1987 and arranging the killing of a top Jordanian diplomat last year. Nidal himself tops most wanted lists in the U.S., Europe and the Mideast...
...smugglers, including tougher checks on suspected terrorists at U.S. entry points. Clinton's order targets a laundry list of the infamous. Among them: Islamic Jihad, thought responsible for Sunday's killing of 19 Israelis; Hizbollah, suspected in the 1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut; Abu Nidal; Hamas; Black September; the Fatah Revolutionary Council; the Palestine Liberation Front; and the outlawed Jewish extremist group Kach. In Jerusalem, a Kach spokesman today warned: "We intend to fight Clinton in every possible...
...trial, pointing at the jury and pounding his fist on the table. "Allah-Akbar ((God is great))!" shouted the other defendants. "Al-Nasr lil-Islam ((Victory to Islam))!" And from the gallery came a retort New Yorkers in the court could understand. Cried the brother of defendant Nidal Ayyad: "You are all f---ing liars! My brother is innocent...
...back to April 1992, DePippo wove together phone calls, fingerprints, chemical analysis, chunks of metal and parking stubs into a narrative that led to the on-ramp of the B-2 parking level of the World Trade Center. Throughout the tale, he clearly delineated the roles of Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima and Ahmad Ajaj in the criminal partnership...
Abouhalima admits to knowing two of his fellow defendants in the bombing case, Nidal Ayyad and Mohammad Salameh, both age 25. The government claims to , have evidence showing Abouhalima meeting on many occasions with other alleged plotters to prepare for the bombing. In one case, Abouhalima joined Salameh to remove explosives from a New Jersey apartment, the indictment claims. In another instance, prosecutors say they can prove Abouhalima participated in a "test explosion." The alleged test may have taken place in a remote part of Pennsylvania, where Abouhalima conducted weapons training with Siddig Ali, his fellow "commander" from the Afghan...