Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climbed aboard the yacht anchored off Cyprus, the suspected Lebanese terrorist was offered a beer. Then two FBI agents kicked his feet out from under him and fractured both his wrists while slapping on a pair of handcuffs. Fawaz Younis, 28, who had been lured aboard the yacht last September with promises of a drug deal, was wanted for leading the hijacking of a Jordanian airliner at Beirut International Airport in 1985. He was then transported to a U.S. Navy ship, where he was interrogated nine times in four days. Not surprisingly, Younis confessed to the hijacking...
However, the judge did not dismiss the indictment against Younis, who is the first person to be charged under a 1984 federal hostage-taking statute that gives the U.S. jurisdiction over terrorist acts overseas involving American citizens. His trial is scheduled to begin March...
...drive home that point, Yuli Vorontsov, First Deputy Foreign Minister, visited Islamabad to deliver a vague threat. Said he: "Any delays in the signing of the accords from now on will not be of the Soviet Union's making. We don't know who will take that responsibility." Continued terrorist bombings in Pakistan, almost certainly the work of Kabul's agents, underscore Moscow...
...forward to complain that this famous victory over terrorism violates ^ the First Amendment. The Government replies that no one has been denied the right to advocate anything he or she might wish -- including terrorism -- either alone or in a group. The only restriction, it says, is on a foreign terrorist organization's ability to maintain an official presence here, against our Government's will, by the simple expedient of hiring American residents...
However this appears to be nothing more than a meager attempt to justify some very disturbing activities. There was no evidence available at the FBI project's beginning that even hinted at actual terrorist activity, let alone any violation of federal law. Indeed, the investigation proved there was none. Nevertheless, the investigations both continued and expanded...