Word: syrian
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...rose to make a statement. Just four hours before, a London criminal court jury had convicted Jordanian Terrorist Nezar Hindawi, 32, of plotting to blow up an El Al jet by using his Irish girlfriend, Ann Murphy, as a human time bomb. Testimony at the trial had strongly implicated Syrian officials, and Howe was expected to issue a stinging denunciation of the Damascus government...
...Howe went much further. After calling the act a "monstrous and inhumane" crime, he said, "It is totally unacceptable that the Syrian Ambassador, members of his staff and the Syrian authorities in Damascus should be involved with a criminal like Hindawi." Then, to a roar of approval from Members of Parliament, Howe gave his extraordinary news: "We have therefore decided to break diplomatic relations with Syria...
...bold action, which could expose British nationals around the world to new terrorist violence, was the strongest in many years against the hard-line and secretive regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has long been accused of both harboring and sponsoring terrorists in his country's fight against Israel and its Western allies. An Israeli official immediately called the shutdown of Britain's diplomatic mission a "courageous...
...Lebanese Christian radio station said two French hostages were turned over to the Syrian military intelligence chief in Lebanon, Col. Ghazi Kenaan, at the Bekaa Valley town of Anjar in preparation for their release along with the six Americans...
...report by the Voice of Lebanon, which is anti-Syrian and affiliated with President Amin Gemayel's right-wing Christian Phalange Party, could not be confirmed independently...