Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosion aboard Flight 840, an anonymous caller telephoned a Western news agency in Beirut and said that the bomb had been planted by a little-known group called the Izzeddin Qassam unit of the Arab Revolutionary Cells, which in turn is linked to Palestinian renegade Abu Nidal, probably the world's most wanted terrorist. The caller said the bombing was in retaliation for U.S. missile attacks on Libyan targets last month during the showdown over the right of foreign ships to use the waters of the Gulf of Sidra. A four-page handwritten statement repeating this claim and promising further...
...boasts of terrorists for the sake of publicity are notoriously unreliable. On Friday, for instance, still another Palestinian splinter group made the improbable claim that it was responsible for the crash of the Mexican airliner early last week. But the link between Abu Nidal and the TWA bombing seemed plausible. His dossier of terrorist acts includes the killing of a number of Palestinian foes and Israeli officials and the bombing of synagogues in Europe. His group may also have been involved in last year's hijacking of an EgyptAir plane, leading to the death of 60 people when the craft...
Name a terrorist group, says the State Department, and Libya has probably provided financial assistance, at least. Gaddafi has backed not just radical Palestinian organizations but outfits as distant as Colombia's M-19 guerrillas, which engineered the bloody takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice last November; the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front on the French Pacific-island territory of New Caledonia; and anti-Turkish Armenian terrorist groups. Last month, when Gaddafi played host to the ambitiously titled Congress of the World Center for Struggle Against Imperialism and Zionism, his guests included representatives of the Irish Republican Army...
Gaddafi's most worrisome ally is the shadowy Palestinian radical Abu Nidal, who is reported to be living in Libya. The U.S. has accused him of carrying out the Rome and Vienna airport assaults, using passports provided by Libya. It also holds Abu Nidal responsible for hijacking an EgyptAir passenger jet to Malta last November, an act that ended in disaster when 60 people were killed as Egyptian commandos stormed the plane in a rescue raid. Much of Gaddafi's mischief has been aimed at his political foes. Since 1980, more than 15 anti-Gaddafi Libyan exiles have been assassinated...
...Israeli troops withdrew from most of Lebanon, and there is little appetite for another full- scale incursion. But for many Israelis, the wounded at Qiryat Shemona dramatically underscored the continued vulnerability of the northern border region. Just 90 minutes after the attack, Israeli fighter planes bombed two buildings near Palestinian refugee camps outside the port city of Sidon that were reputed to be headquarters for Fatah, the P.L.O. guerrilla faction. At least ten people were killed and 25 were wounded...