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At least five ideologically diverse groups promptly claimed "credit" for the bombings. From one of these groups re-emerged the Venezuelan terrorist Illitch Ramirez-Sánchez, better known as the infamous and long-sought "Carlos," who in 1982 masterminded a previous French train bombing. His Organization of Armed Arab...
Last week French authorities closed down the Islamic Center in Paris, an alleged meeting place for extremists, while bolstering security around embassies and government buildings, in airports and at borders. But still the nation remained apprehensive. Some of the groups seeking credit for the New Year's bombings are...
Revolutionary terrorism and religious fanaticism shed more blood in the Third World, and this time some of the blood was American. U.S. troops went into combat for the first time since 1975, invading the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada and overturning a clique of hard-line Marxists who had murdered...
In Lebanon, the bloodletting went on without pause. In an effort to strike at terrorist bases, Israeli planes twice raided positions held by Iranian-backed Shi'ite militiamen in eastern Lebanon. In Beirut, two more car bombs exploded. A pickup truck loaded with explosives blew up outside the French...
In the wake of the gulf attacks, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saeb Salam warned, "The growth of Islamic fundamentalism is an earthquake. It is becoming more radical, making alliances with those who support Communist ideology." He and other Arab moderates felt the situation had been exacerbated, however, by the growing...