Word: terrorist
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Besse's murder took place as another terrorist drama unfolded in a West Berlin courtroom. Opening amid tight security, the trial of Palestinians Ahmed Hasi and Farouk Salameh brought forward evidence that the Syrian government was linked to the March bombing in West Berlin of the German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian...
...Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners were apparently responsible for the September reign of terror. But not this time. Discovered in the Raspail Metro station near the scene of the murder were leaflets printed with the five- pointed star of Action Directe, a home-grown, radical leftist terrorist group that is committed to waging urban guerrilla war against "bourgeois imperialism." The tracts claimed responsibility for the shooting in the name of Action Directe "Commando Pierre Overney," a Maoist worker who was killed by police in 1972 during labor strife outside the main Renault factory in suburban Paris...
Besse's death followed a series of murders of well-known European military and industrial leaders by indigenous terrorist organizations. In January 1985 Action Directe claimed responsibility for the death of General Rene Audran, a prominent French Ministry of Defense official. Days later, members of the West German Red Army Faction murdered Ernst Zimmermann, a Munich defense industrialist. Some experts believe the atrocities are linked, and point to a communique the two groups issued last year declaring they would form a "West European guerrilla movement." Last week French authorities were investigating a possible West German connection to the Besse slaying...
Since the joint communique was released, Action Directe, the R.A.F. and radical leftist sympathizers have staged at least 60 terrorist strikes in Western Europe. In Bonn last month a terrorist killing foreshadowed the Besse murder: gunmen ambushed Gerold von Braunmuhl, a senior Foreign Ministry official, as he was returning home from work. The groups' affinity for dedicating their acts to terrorist martyrs has strengthened the image of a coordinated network...
West European leaders acknowledge that the terrorist threat to their countries cannot be solved without a concerted effort. The day after Besse's murder, French Interior Minister Pasqua and his West German counterpart, Friedrich Zimmermann, agreed in a two-hour meeting to begin exchanging members of their antiterrorist liaison teams in an attempt to develop a regular flow of information between the two countries...