Word: terrorist
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...State Department last year described it as "the most dangerous terrorist organization in existence." Its leader is possibly the world's most wanted man, accused of killing or wounding nearly 1,000 people, most of them innocent people, in attacks around the world over the past 15 years. But last week there were reports that this ferocious dealer of death and destruction, Abu Nidal, 52, head of the Libyan-based Fatah Revolutionary Council, is ill and possibly dying in a hospital in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, his illness variously reported to be cancer and heart disease. Declared a Cairo...
...accounts, is his organization. With many Palestinians who once saw their future through the barrel of a gun now seeking a seat at the peace table, a senior P.L.O. official claims that the terrorist network is disintegrating. And it is doing so in a shower of blood. P.L.O. officials recount how three of Abu Nidal's top lieutenants were shot at his house near Tripoli late last year and their bodies buried under tons of concrete. In all, says the P.L.O., 25 associates have been murdered at the house, and other F.R.C. members suspected of disloyalty have been executed...
...apparent turn to moderation of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is seeking to bring his country out of isolation. Last October Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak bluntly told the Libyan that improved relations with Cairo depend on Gaddafi's abandoning his support of terrorism. So hostile has Gaddafi become to terrorist groups that some reports place Abu Nidal not in a hospital but under house arrest in Tripoli...
Earlier this month, Ammerman accompanied a six-member delegation of American and British families to West Germany to quiz investigators and government officials on terrorist links to Flight 103. The group emerged from three days of talks with little new information. But they left the Germans with the clear impression that their persistence will not fade...
About one matter there was no dispute: three terrorist leaders were shot dead last week in the suburbs of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo. Government security forces killed Rohana Wijeweera, 46, fugitive founder of the terrorist Sinhalese People's Liberation Front (J.V.P.), as well as two other J.V.P. officials...