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LONDON--Britain broke relations with Syria yesterday, charging that Syrian officials conspired with a Jordanian who was convicted hours earlier of trying to blow up an Israeli jumbo jet by smuggling a bomb on board in London...
Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told Parliament there was conclusive evidence of official Syrian involvement in the "monstrous and inhumane" attempt to sabotage the El Al flight to Tel Aviv and kill the 375 people aboard...
Within an hour of the verdict, the Foreign Office summoned Syrian Ambassador Loutof Allah Haydar and told him of Britain's intention to expel him and the 20 other diplomats in the Syrian Embassy...
Howe said in his announcement to the House of Commons that the evidence against Syria included testimony that Hindawi carried an official Syrian passport and met with the Syrian ambassador on the day the bomb was found...
...addition, we have independent evidence that the Syrian ambassador was personally involved, several months before the commission of the offense, in securing for Hindawi the sponsorship of the Syrian intelligence authorities," he said in the speech less than three hours after Hindawi was found guilty...