Word: syria
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British investigators said reconstruction of a baggage container provided evidence that the radio-cassette player may have been put on board with luggage in Frankfurt. The evidence further pointed to a radical Syria-based group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Only two months before the Pan Am bombing, during a raid on suspected PFLP-GC terrorists, West German police found a Toshiba Boombeat portable radio that held 10.5 oz. of plastic explosives. An FAA report on the discovery noted that the device "would be very difficult to detect by normal X-ray inspection, indicating that...
According to Pentagon sources, Iraq is among at least nine nations developing biological weapons. The others: the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Taiwan, Egypt, Israel, Iran and Syria...
Terrorist incursions into Israel from Lebanon and Syria have increased since Arafat's declaration, as dissidents indicate their opposition...
...with Egypt cutting off a key Israeli port and massing troops along Israel's southern border, Syria shelling the northern border and both nations calling for war, Israel fought back. Israel won the West Bank and Gaza in that war and at the time indicated that it was eager to negotiate a peace settlement to give them back. The Arab leaders meeting at the time refused, charging "no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel...
...blast aboard an El Al airliner that landed without casualties. West German police are searching for any connection between this group and the Pan Am tragedy. "The group is pro-Syrian, anti-Arafat and anti-P.L.O.," contends a U.S. State Department fact sheet. "It has strong ties to Syria, although Libya has also long supported...