Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...books" to enlist Saudi help in carrying out three covert operations. One was the attempted assassination of Sheik Fadlallah, who had been linked to the bombings of American facilities in Beirut. After that plot failed, Woodward writes, the Saudis offered Fadlallah a $2 million bribe to cease his terrorist attacks. He accepted, and the attacks stopped...
...silencing of Calero at Harvard Law School did deny us an opportunity to hear this U.S.-sponsored terrorist excuse his violence. Hopefully, Tony Avirgan and his lawyer Daniel Sheehan, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School associated with the Christic Institue, will yet enable Calero to speak, but under oath and cross-examination. Michael L. Charney, M.D. Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
...punished. As regular troops and Revolutionary Guards paraded through Tehran to mark the seventh anniversary of the gulf war, Khamenei vowed in New York that the "United States shall receive a proper response for this abominable act." U.S. military and diplomatic posts were placed on a worldwide alert against terrorist assaults...
...Secretary Weinberger was elated as he hailed the operation: "We were capable, we were ready . . . and they ((U.S. forces)) did an extraordinary, skillful and difficult task very well." The successful military show was staged only a week after the FBI's seizure of a much wanted Shi'ite Muslim terrorist, Fawaz Younis, who was lured onto a yacht in the Mediterranean, seized and spirited off to stand trial in the U.S. for the 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner that carried four Americans among its 70 passengers and crew...
...moral requirement that representatives be chosen by those they represent is difficult to put aside. Yet this is exactly what the plan calls for. Israel quite correctly refuses to sit across a bargaining table from a terrorist organization...