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Another suspect is Abu Nidal, the fanatic P.L.O. terrorist whose Fatah Revolutionary Council allegedly carried out the 1985 Christmas massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. He too would like to scuttle Arafat's Middle East peace moves. "Such an act of terrorism by Abu Nidal would be a message to the U.S. and a slap in the face for Yasser Arafat," said Ian Geldard, director of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism. Allied with Libya, Abu Nidal would presumably have access to Muammar Gaddafi's ample supply of Semtex, a plastic explosive made in Czechoslovakia...
...member of Abu Nidal's P.L.O. faction is, in fact, already charged with a plane bombing. Greece is holding Mohammed Rashid on false passport charges while deciding whether to extradite him to the U.S., where he is wanted for the 1982 explosion aboard a Pan Am flight from Tokyo to Honolulu. The pilot landed in Hawaii with 285 passengers, but a 16-year-old Japanese boy, seated close to the exploding bomb, was killed...
Still, Israeli intelligence places Abu Nidal well behind Jibril as a Flight 103 suspect. "Abu Nidal certainly wants to undermine Arafat and do a favor to his sponsors, the Libyans, helping them take revenge on the Americans," says one Israeli expert. "But he has no expertise in this type of action. His specialty is assassinations." While a caller to the U.S. embassy in Helsinki had warned that terrorists allied with Abu Nidal planned to sabotage a Frankfurt-to-New York Pan Am flight, Finnish authorities insist that the tipster was a habitual alarmist whose call was a mere coincidence. Said...
After being held hostage for 13 months by Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Virginie Betille, 6, and her sister Marie-Laure, 7, were freed last week. The French girls, their mother and five members of a Belgian family had been captured while sailing off the coast of Gaza. Abu Nidal charged that the two families were Israeli spies, which they deny. The girls were delivered into French custody in Benghazi, Libya, but the others remained in captivity...
...Abdullah, planned to give a bomb to an accomplice named Yassan Garadad, who in turn would persuade an unwitting woman passenger to take the deadly package on board with her. The caller, who spoke with a Middle Eastern accent, claimed that Abdullah and Garadad were linked to Abu Nidal, the renegade Palestinian terrorist whose group has claimed responsibility for more than 100 vicious attacks...