Word: syrian
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...official. "It was an attack aimed against them, and they will not let this go by." One possible target is Abu Nidal's main base at Tripoli, Libya. He is also reported to have a base on the outskirts of Damascus. A retaliatory raid there would seriously challenge the Syrian air force...
...antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. Syria had deployed such weapons there in 1981, only to have them destroyed by the Israelis during their 1982 invasion. The redeployment into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley was made late in November after Israeli war planes had shot down two Syrian jets over Syria. An Israeli army spokesman disclosed the missile move publicly on Dec. 15. Other Israeli officials contended that the U.S. had secretly persuaded Assad to withdraw them. Assad did so but, showing his muscle in the region, abruptly sent the weapons back into the Bekaa just two days later. That move was announced...
...Nidal organization seems to have operated mainly out of Baghdad under a variety of names. Among them: Black June, the Arab Revolutionary Brigades, the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims and, recently. Black September. In the early years gunmen under Abu Nidal's command are credited with having assaulted Syrian embassies and other targets, spurred on by Syria's crackdown on Palestinian forces in Lebanon and tensions between Iraq and the Damascus government of President Hafez Assad. Three months after the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic 1977 visit to Israel, Abu Nidal hitmen murdered an Egyptian newspaper editor...
...headquarters is now in Libya and that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is picking up the estimated $14 million annual tab for Abu Nidal's organization, some Western intelligence agencies note that the Fatah Revolutionary Council retains an office in Damascus as well as a training camp in Lebanon's Syrian-dominated Bekaa Valley...
...more than a decade, Syria's President Hafez Assad has insisted that the road to peace in the Middle East must pass through Damascus. At least two such detours through the Syrian capital have just taken place. On Dec. 28, the warlords of Lebanon's feuding militias assembled in Damascus to sign a Syrian-brokered agreement designed to end almost eleven years of civil war. Last week Assad's image was burnished further when Jordan's King Hussein traveled to Syria for the first time in six years...