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...instead were plotting a grand spectacle of murder and revenge. They were evidently hoping to take a number of people at the airport hostage, commandeer an El Al jetliner and order it flown to Tel Aviv where, along with an El Al plane seized simultaneously by their accomplices in Rome, they would destroy the aircraft and everyone on board. The action was to have been in retaliation for the Israeli bombing of P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis last Oct. 1. That attack killed some 70 people and wounded more than...
...Italy, Special Prosecutor Domenico Sica questioned the sole surviving terrorist from the Rome attack, who gave his name as Mohammed Sharam, 19. Sica then flew to Vienna to compare notes with investigators there. He is next expected to make a quick trip to Brussels, where police last week arrested two Arabs and charged them with conspiracy to commit a crime. Also arrested was their host, a Belgian video store owner in the provincial town of Hasselt, in whose possession police found 40 lbs. of explosives. The Belgian had been previously convicted on charges of illegal arms possession. The disclosure seemed...
Exactly ten minutes after terrorist attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports the morning of Dec. 27, the news flashed to Athens international airport, where a scheduled flight of Israel's El Al airline was preparing for takeoff. Moments later, a police dragnet began searching for possible terrorists. For the much criticized Athens facility, where Shi'ite extremists last June boarded TWA Flight 847 before hijacking it to Beirut, times had changed...
Such draconian restrictions could well become commonplace. Across Western Europe last week, special precautions went into effect in response to the Rome and Vienna bloodbaths. Austrian officials strengthened the special antiterrorist unit that guards Vienna's Schwechat Airport but ruled out isolating the El Al check-in area in a remote corner of the airport because, as one spokesman put it, the airline did not want to operate in "a ghetto." Highly visible armed police patrolled El Al check-in areas at Frankfurt, Munich and Paris airports. Passengers on the twice-weekly El Al flight between Tel Aviv and Madrid...
Last year members of the organization were held responsible for 33 assaults, ranging from the Sept. 16 bombing of Rome's Café de Paris (40 injured) to the Nov. 23 hijacking of an EgyptAir jetliner (59 dead) to the atrocities two weeks ago in Rome and Vienna (19 dead, 112 injured). Those who may have the most reason to fear Abu Nidal, however, are his compatriots. Almost 70% of the attacks charged against his organization have been aimed at fellow Arabs, especially those willing to consider compromises with Israel that might lead to a negotiated Middle East peace settlement...