Word: zaidan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defend particular terrorists, for example Abul Abbas Zaidan, who led the hijacking of the Italian ship on which the American tourist was killed...
...leader of the hijacking, Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, received a life sentence in absentia. Ever since he was released by the Italians after the U.S. forced his plane to land in Italy, Abbas has been on the run. In a separate development last week, the Greek government fell into line with other West European governments and asked some 20 Libyan officials to leave Athens...
Until last week, Americans had seen Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, better known as Abul Abbas, only in a few still photographs and snippets of TV footage. The accused plotter behind last fall's hijacking of the Achille Lauro and hence a suspect in the murder of cruise ship Passenger Leon Klinghoffer, Abbas is on most-wanted lists in the U.S., Italy and Israel. Suddenly, however, the elusive Palestinian showed up on American television last week. In exchange for the exclusive 3 1/2-min. interview, NBC News executives agreed not to disclose Abbas' whereabouts, an arrangement that stirred up almost as much...
Still, when Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini, 60, leader of the small but pivotal Republican Party, abruptly withdrew from the government with two other Republican ministers on Oct. 16, Craxi's government seemed doomed to collapse. Spadolini was angered by the Prime Minister's decision to release Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the Palestinian Liberation Front leader who Washington believes planned to use the Achille Lauro to launch an attack on Israel. Furious at having been excluded from any prior consultation in that decision, Spadolini was also protesting what he considered the pro-Arab tilt in Rome's Middle East policy...
...would have forecast the chain of events triggered by the four scruffy young members of a splinter of the Palestine Liberation Front who were being interrogated last week in a maximum-security prison in Spoleto about their role in the Achille Lauro hijacking. Nor could Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the man U.S. authorities were pursuing with grim determination from Italy to Yugoslavia to the murkier reaches of the Middle East, be described as a major figure of the international terror network. But Washington had turned Abbas, the P.L.F. leader who it believes helped plan the hijackers' mission, into the personification...