Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 20 hard-line organizations opposed to Yasser Arafat's mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization took part. The PLO was not invited, and Nayef Hawatmeh's Moscow-oriented Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine did not attend...
Faculty members yesterday criticized Israel's Tuesday bombing of PLO headquarters in Tunisia as unjustifiable, although the United States government has condoned...
...bombing at Borj Cedria, twenty-one miles south of the capital city of Tunis, virtually wiped out PLO headquarters. Different reports list between 30 and 60 civilian and PLO deaths...
Haggard also questioned the justification that the bombing was in self-defense, saying it is still not known whether the PLO was responsible for slaying the three Israelis...
...claim of self-defense may just have been a ploy used by Israel to mask other intentions, suggested Haggard. Even if Israel didn't know for sure that the PLO committed the slayings, it may have wished to send, not only to the PLO but to the whole Arab world, a threatening message "we will strike back in any situation...