Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this kind of expertise on explosives? No one is jumping to quick conclusions. But Palestinian sources, as well as some in the U.S. Government and Israeli intelligence, probably the world's best trackers of terrorist groups, point to Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Fourteen members of Jibril's group, which fiercely opposes P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's decision to recognize Israel's right to exist and open talks with the U.S., were arrested by West German authorities in October. Seized with them was a cache of arms that included...
Another suspect is Abu Nidal, the fanatic P.L.O. terrorist whose Fatah Revolutionary Council allegedly carried out the 1985 Christmas massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. He too would like to scuttle Arafat's Middle East peace moves. "Such an act of terrorism by Abu Nidal would be a message to the U.S. and a slap in the face for Yasser Arafat," said Ian Geldard, director of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism. Allied with Libya, Abu Nidal would presumably have access to Muammar Gaddafi's ample supply of Semtex, a plastic explosive made in Czechoslovakia...
...safely that American G.I.s in Viet Nam used them as emergency cooking fuel. Yet plastic explosives pack roughly twice the force of an equivalent amount of dynamite. Many nations, including the U.S., produce them for military purposes. But large amounts have made their way into the hands of terrorist groups around the world, posing a fiendishly difficult problem for airline security. Because the explosives can be so easily formed into innocuous shapes, they can pass undetected through security checks. The deadly plastic is also odorless and cannot be sniffed out by trained dogs...
...violent response," says Gerolmo, 35. "The film would be similar to John Ford's 1962 western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. It's a movie that asks some serious questions about using violence in the name of the law." Initially then, Gerolmo might have meant the FBI's terrorist tactics to be seen critically, or at least ambivalently. But he must have known that American movie audiences want the thrill without the filigree. He must also remember the famous advice from a newspaperman in Liberty Valance, which sums up the approach Mississippi Burning would take to Mississippi history: "When...
...shoot-out of ( 1986, so it has written new rules. According to Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz Ad-dali, it now strictly adheres to United Nations terrorism standards. "Revolutionaries like members of the P.L.O. or the African National Congress are welcome," he said, "but you will not find one terrorist here...