Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noticed three suspicious-looking bottles in a suitcase the man had opened for inspection. Upon closer scrutiny, the agents recognized the liquid in the bottles as methylnitrate, an explosive similar to nitroglycerine. The man, who called himself "Youssef Rida," was immediately taken into custody and charged with planning a terrorist bombing...
Hamadei was the second suspected terrorist to be arrested in Europe last week. In Italy, police at Milan airport seized another Lebanese man, Bachir Khodr, 26, who arrived from Beirut. Inspection of picture frames and chocolate Easter eggs in Khodr's luggage found them to be filled with 24 lbs. of plastic explosives. A portable radio that he carried contained 36 detonators. Authorities in Italy believe Khodr may be a member of a pro-Iranian terrorist group called Hizballah and could possibly have ties to Hamadei. Italian Interior Minister Oscar Scalfaro asserted that the "arrest in Frankfurt is linked with...
...were different from, and far more limited than, the terrorism that plagued Italy for a decade, starting in the early 1970s. But the holdups and cold-blooded assassinations of symbolic targets like Georges Besse, the Renault auto- company president who was gunned down last November by the extreme-left terrorist group Action Directe, are beginning to resemble those of the Red Brigades...
...when a man suddenly ran through the cabin toward the cockpit, wildly shouting "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" A plainclothes security officer yelled, "Stop that!," but the battle between as many as four hijackers and half a dozen Iraqi security men had already begun. According to Passenger Dado, the first terrorist then lobbed a grenade into the rear cabin and another into the cockpit, wounding the pilot and co-pilot. Despite the damage to the aircraft, the injured pilot managed to keep it on course for 17 minutes, until he reached a remote desert airfield in northern Saudi Arabia...
...shook the Middle East last week, the hijacking was almost certainly related to the 6 1/2-year-old war between Iraq and Iran. In Tehran, the government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini denied involvement and said it condemned "any moves that may threaten the lives of innocent passengers." But in Lebanon, several terrorist groups, including the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the hijacking. One survivor of the crash reported that the terrorists spoke with southern Lebanese accents, implying that they were indeed Shi'ite fundamentalists loyal to Khomeini...