Word: rome
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...operation. By that time, the four P.L.F. hijackers aboard the Boeing 737 at the Sigonella air base in Sicily had been taken into Italian custody and charged with murder, kidnaping and hijacking. But the mysterious Abul Abbas had literally flown the coop, aboard a Yugoslav JAT jet bound from Rome to Dubrovnik and Belgrade. Back at Camp David, when President Reagan received word from Deputy National Security Adviser Admiral John Poindexter of Abbas' escape, he cursed mildly...
...Ambassador to Rome Maxwell Rabb had more elaborate things to say. More than 13 hours before Abbas' flight, at 12:30 a.m. EDT, Rabb had delivered a formal request to the Italian Justice Ministry for Abbas' provisional arrest on charges of complicity in hijacking and murder. According to the Italians, the evidence offered by the U.S. to support that request was inadequate. The formal reason Craxi later gave for denying the request was that the EgyptAir Boeing 737 in which Abbas had ridden along with the hijackers was Egyptian government territory. In addition he noted that Abbas carried an Iraqi...
...Egypt, matters were already at full boil. On the same day that the strange drama with Abbas played out in Rome, Mubarak was pronouncing himself "deeply wounded" by the EgyptAir interception. Said Mubarak at a Cairo press conference: "We had not expected this attack from a friend." Four hours before Mubarak spoke, the first of several anti-U.S. demonstrations broke out at Cairo University. Among the slogans chanted by several hundred outraged students: "The Americans are our enemy!" The next day at a press conference in Khartoum, the capital of neighboring Sudan, Chairman Arafat added his own sneers. Said...
...whether Klinghoffer had actually been shot. The Syrian government of President Hafez Assad, a foe of Arafat's, quickly reported the discovery of the corpse, and an FBI agent flew to Damascus to help make an identification based on Klinghoffer's dental records. Later the body was flown to Rome, where it was confirmed that Klinghoffer had suffered gunshot wounds to both the head and chest...
...Rome, Italian Deputy Premier Arnaldo Forlani summarized the mood well as he declared that "silence is more useful than an excess of words, and in this affair there have already been too many." He, as well as the Reaganauts, seemed keenly aware that the apprehension of the Palestinian hijackers represented a short-term victory but that the episode might even prompt new outrages. Said a senior intelligence official: "I expect terrorists to change tactics and attack U.S. officials and facilities again, maybe even in the U.S." The nature of terrorism is such that no one can tell where the next...