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...President Hafez Assad firmly reiterated that denial in an interview in Damascus with a group of TIME journalists, including Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Assistant Managing Editor Richard Duncan, International Editor Karsten Prager and Middle East Bureau Chief Dean Fischer. Assad not only rejected allegations of a Syrian terror connection but as usual accused Israel of terrorist activity and of being responsible for Middle East tensions in general. Though he offered no evidence, Assad broached his own elaborate theory of an Israeli plot in the London El Al incident. Assad, 56, who suffered a serious heart ailment three...
...there would have been at least one accusation against Israel in terms of its own long history of terrorism. In 1948 Israel assassinated Count [Folke] Bernadotte, a Swedish citizen authorized by the U.N. to help reach a peaceful solution in Palestine. Israel committed a hijacking in 1954, seizing a Syrian civilian plane. Also in 1954 Israel engaged in subversive acts in Egypt, in the so-called Lavon scandal. [A reference to Israeli attacks on Western targets in Egypt. The strikes were made to appear as Egyptian terrorism in order to sour Egyptian-Western relations during sensitive negotiations on the withdrawal...
...There is a trial in London involving an alleged attempt to blow up an Israeli jetliner last April. The person arrested in London is said to have had Syrian help...
...London] operation failed because its failure was premeditated. If Syria had had a hand in it, the accused would not be facing trial in a British court. The hijacker went to the Syrian embassy in London following the operation and told the staff he was cooperating with Syria. The embassy staff was surprised and contacted Syria's security authorities, who instructed the embassy to turn him out and to call the British police if he refused. The hijacker shouted, "You will see what...
...learned that he was a Jordanian, Nezar Hindawi. He worked for one of the Arab newspapers published in London. He came to Syria once, a year before the incident, and said he had a Jordanian passport which had expired and which Jordanian authorities declined to renew. He requested a Syrian passport. It was granted--an ordinary matter that happens often in Arab countries...