Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Berri, who helped engineer the 1985 release of 39 American hostages aboard a hijacked TWA jetliner in an apparent exchange for Israeli-held Arab prisoners, proposed a wide-ranging plan. Offering to negotiate with the seven terrorist factions that have taken captives, Berri said he would seek freedom for all 24 foreign hostages kidnaped during the past two years. Doubts were immediately raised, however, about Berri's chances of success. His Syrian-backed Amal militia is a bitter rival of the Iran-supported Shi'ite fundamentalist groups that are believed to hold most of the hostages...
Such remarks were carefully followed, if not always believed, by terrorist groups in Lebanon. At week's end the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement that seemed to end speculation that the four hostages it holds will be part of any prisoner swap. The issue of their fate will remain "suspended," the group said, because of the U.S. Administration's "failure to respond to our demands." The statement called the four captives "criminals" and vowed to punish them, but stopped short of renewing the previous threat to kill them. In the climate of violence and uncertainty...
...want to get in touch with Master Terrorist Abu Nidal, the number in Damascus is 774236. That jewel of information comes from Mahmud Ibrahim Khaled, sole survivor of the four-man team responsible for the massacre at Italy's Leonardo da Vinci Airport on Dec. 27, 1985. According to senior judicial sources in Rome, where Khaled is being held while awaiting trial, the 20-year-old terrorist feels that he has been betrayed by his comrades and is willing to tell...
...Washington's invitation to six allies to attend a conference in Rome on the hostage crisis. Other governments vetoed the idea of the meeting, fearing that any joint action might jeopardize the lives of the kidnap victims. Moreover, Iranscam has deprived the U.S. of much of its credibility in terrorist diplomacy, and allies are more reluctant than usual to follow Washington's lead...
...Chilean government contends this man is a terrorist, and has arrested the physicians for cooperating with him. They have also tried to link the physicians with the assassination attempt on President Pinochet in September...