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That probe is expected to culminate early this year in Greece with the murder trial, stemming from the 1982 Pan Am bombing, of the May 15 Organization's top operative, a slim, dedicated young Palestinian named Mohammed Rashid. Although the U.S. wished to extradite and prosecute him, Athens will try Rashid under the 1971 Montreal Convention, which permits those charged with attacks on airliners to stand trial in the country holding them. Through dozens of interviews with current or former U.S. officials and other sources, TIME reconstructed the steps by which Rashid was uncovered as one of the Middle East...
Awad's involvement with Rashid began in Baghdad. A former captain in the Syrian army, Awad had knocked around the Persian Gulf for a few years before he and one of his brothers settled down in Iraq. By 1982 he had his own construction firm and a lucrative contract to lay foundations for a string of warehouses at Baghdad's military airport. Early that year he met a handsome 30-year-old expatriate from Jerusalem named Mohammed Rashid. Awad knew Rashid was with the fedayeen -- freedom fighters -- but that was not unusual among Palestinians. Awad would go on picnics with...
...Rashid introduced Awad to someone new: a short, tough-looking, energetic man with the strong, deep voice of someone used to giving orders. It was Rashid's boss -- Abu Ibrahim, also known as Husayn al-Umari, the 46-year- old chief of the May 15 Organization. The date was June 6, 1982 -- the very day Israel invaded Lebanon. That afternoon as the expatriates sat in Rashid's living room watching the bloody assault unfold on television, Abu Ibrahim turned to Awad and asked angrily whether Palestinians like him were willing to help their country or only cared about making money...
...Verses will reach U.S. bookstores. The initial printing (125,000 copies) is large for a children's book, which is what Haroun and the Sea of Stories at first appears to be. But hold on. The tale seems eerily parallel to Rushdie's predicament. There is a storyteller named Rashid Khalifa, also known as the Shah of Blah, who loses the gift of the gab and can no longer entertain. What's worse, his condition is mysteriously linked to a fanatic cult that wants to wipe out not only made-up tales but also human speech. Children may take...
DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD. Incoming Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis is vowing to hand suspected terrorist Mohammed Rashid over to the U.S. to stand trial for the 1982 midflight bombing of a Pan Am jet near Hawaii. The U.S. has been trying to get hold of Rashid ever since he was arrested in Greece, but the unfriendly government of Andreas Papandreou always said no. However, Mitsotakis' gift may come with a condition attached: the return to Greece of accused embezzler George Koskotas, now in a Massachusetts prison. Koskotas would then be available to testify if Papandreou is brought...