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...took the Weir-delivered threat seriously, but both the State Department and the government of Kuwait reaffirmed their determination not to capitulate to terrorists. Release of the prisoners, said a Kuwaiti official, "has never been a condition in any negotiation." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb said the Government "will not pressure other governments to make concessions to those holding hostages." Washington has been firm in its support of Kuwait's punishment of the jailed terrorists, who left 60 wounded and five dead in their wake. Both countries would now find it difficult to back down...
This was the first hijacking of an American airliner in the Middle East since Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, and the Administration was deeply disturbed. It was convinced that the hijackers of Flight 847 were in the same league as the ones who seized a Kuwaiti airliner last December, took it to Tehran and eventually killed two American passengers. That incident ended when the Iranians sent a platoon of security men aboard the plane dressed as a maintenance crew. The hijackers were arrested, but there is no evidence that they were ever brought to justice...
There was no mystery about who was responsible for the Kuwaiti bombing. As Sheik Jaber traveled in a motorcade along a waterfront road on the way to his office at the Sief palace, a small Japanese-make car drove head-on into the convoy. The vehicle exploded, killing the driver, two guards in the convoy's two lead cars and a passerby. The Emir, who was traveling farther back in the motorcade, escaped with minor cuts. In a telephone statement, Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, claimed responsibility for the attack, and once again demanded the release of 17 terrorists...
...terrorists had previously threatened to execute their captives but had not explicitly linked the hostages' fate with that of the prisoners in Kuwait. The same group is believed to have hijacked a Kuwaiti airliner last December and killed two Americans aboard in a futile effort to win freedom for their terrorist brothers. In its message to the hostages' families last week, Islamic Jihad declared, "For the last time, we wish to stress that all contact with your relatives will be cut off and the consequences will be catastrophic if you do not act seriously and force your governments to intervene...
India's diplomatic community has been the target of at least three other violent attacks over the past three years. In June 1982 the first secretary of the Kuwaiti embassy was shot and killed in his home in New Delhi. Then, in October 1983, Jordan's Ambassador survived a shooting outside his residence in the capital. Last November, Percy Norris, the British deputy high commissioner, was murdered while on his way to work in Bombay. No suspects have been charged in any of the attacks...