Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief among the politicians invited was Kim Koo, Rightist chairman of the Korean Independence Party. Few party-liners were prepared for this proposed alliance. On the day the Communists issued their invitation, Manhattan's Daily Worker referred to Kim as "the notorious old terrorist Kim Koo [who is without] any following among the people...
...hills overlooking the Garden of Gethsemane, Arabs and Jews bombarded each other with mortar and grenades. In an orange grove near Rehovoth, Jews blew up a British train bringing soldiers back from leave in Cairo. In the twisted steel and splintered wood, 28 were found dead, 47 wounded. The terrorist Stern Gang of extremist Zionists boasted that it had blown up the train...
...outrage. They drove off British police who tried to help rescue the wounded. Then, in a series of reprisal attacks, they killed nine British soldiers, wounded at least as many. Jerusalem was all but paralyzed as armed bands of Britons, Arabs and Jews prepared for more fighting. Said the terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi: "As from today all British personnel, military and police, entering Jewish sections, will be subject to execution...
...Sister Ruth apparently loves neither one and is loved by neither. Onetime leader of Germany's Communists, she was tossed out of the party in 1926 and now edits an anti-Stalinist newsletter in the U.S. Gerhart she has described as "the perfect terrorist type," Hanns "a Communist in every philosophical sense of the word." Hanns in turn calls her his "former sister" and Gerhart refers to her as a member of a "rogue and rat gallery...
Just before dawn, three grey-hatted gendarmes rapped sharply at the door of a modest Athens villa. Kosta Tsakolos, head of OPLA (Communist execution squad) during the 1944 leftist revolution, opened the door. "Come with us," ordered a policeman. "I am not coming with you," said the terrorist chief. "Under Greek law you cannot make an arrest at a home during the hours of darkness...