Word: terroristic
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...image of American firmness on terrorism was somewhat shaken by Secretary of State James Baker's visit last week to Syria, a country the U.S. officially lists as a sponsor of terrorist organizations. Baker emphasized that the U.S. has "differences" with Syria and its steel-fisted dictator, Hafez Assad. But he wanted to encourage Damascus to send more troops to the international effort in the gulf. His four-hour meeting with Assad was also intended to underscore for Arab nationalists that not all radicals side with Iraq. Assad agreed to dispatch 300 tanks and an estimated 15,000 soldiers...
...substantial Arab League forces. President Bush hesitates to order an assault that would certainly bring death to some hostages (as well as to many troops) and cause some U.S. allies to desert the anti-Iraq coalition. But Saddam Hussein offers a provocation -- perhaps killing hostages, perhaps a terrorist outrage -- that allows the U.S. to justify an attack...
...Some glimmerings of this alignment surfaced last week when Egypt and Syria agreed to send as many as 50,000 more soldiers to help defend the Saudis. The new grouping would not be entirely reassuring to the U.S. unless Syria's leader, Hafez Assad, completely abandons support of Palestinian terrorist groups. But the U.S. would benefit if Egypt developed political influence to match the cultural clout it already wields as a supplier of films, books, newspapers and teachers to much of the Arab world...
...that fell into Iraq's hands when its troops stormed Kuwait were 17 prisoners who had been serving sentences ranging from five years to life in a Kuwait City jail. The convicts turned out to be a valuable prize. The 17, all linked to the Shi'ite terrorist group Islamic Jihad, were convicted for killing six people in the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies and other targets in the Kuwaiti capital. Islamic Jihad, which has ties to Iran, has repeatedly demanded freedom for the 17 prisoners as one of the conditions for the release of Western hostages...
...were unconfirmed reports last week that two Lebanese members of the group had already returned to Lebanon. Western terrorism experts believe Saddam could be especially interested in one of the prisoners, Mustafa Badreddin, a Syrian- trained explosives expert who is the brother-in-law of Imad Mughniyah, a Lebanese terrorist and suspected kidnapper identified as the mastermind behind the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847. Originally scheduled to fly from Athens to Rome, the plane was eventually taken to Beirut, where Robert Dean Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver who was a passenger on the flight, was beaten and shot...