Word: plo
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...interesting to note that, until recently, Israel, focusing its enmity on the more popular PLO and viewing Hamas as a potential challenger to the PLO's power, has treated Hamas with leniency and has facilitated the group's rise...
...Pollard? After all, it's no secret that all nations--even allies--spy on one another. In addition, the U.S. and Israel had already signed two intelligence exchange agreements to share information collected in their respective spy networks. Pollard relayed to the Israelis information regarding Iraq, Syria and the PLO in Tunis--material necessary for Israel's survival and not intended to harm the U.S. That doesn't vindicate Pollard's actions, but it should keep them in perspective...
Other sources reached at the office of the PLO chair said 12 people were aboard the aircraft. They included three crew members and a team of bodyguards and administrative assistants...
...other PLO official was on the flight from Khartoum, capital of Sudan, the sources said...
NICOSIA, Cyprus--A jet carrying Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chief Yasser Arafat disappeared in a sandstorm 15 minutes before it was to have landed in Libya on a flight from Sudan, officials in his office in Tunis, Tunisia reported...