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...most disturbing aspects of the bombings was that they were the work of experts. The attacks had been well planned and coordinated by a team of terrorists; they clearly were not random acts by one or two individual troublemakers. The grim possibility was that the mayors had been the targets of an underground Jewish terrorist organization. If this should prove to be true, it would introduce a new and frightening dimension into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Those decisions led directly to more violence; six Jews were killed and 16 were wounded, presumably by Arab terrorists, outside the Hadassah clinic in Hebron. Among the victims was a follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the fanatical Kach movement and former head of the Jewish Defense League. Vowed Kahane: "Two teeth for a tooth!" Israeli authorities later arrested and imprisoned him under an administrative detention order. In the meantime, Jerusalem police discovered an arms cache on the roof of a Jewish religious school in the Old City. The investigation of the bombings focused on both Kach...
...Does the possibility that a Jewish terrorist underground movement has been created concern...
...said nothing at all. Banisadr, who had been willing to accept "the martyrdom of our children in England," now declared merely that "the brave resistance of our children" had brought "its sweet fruit." Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh insisted, as before, that the London incident was a "terrorist act," while the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran was "a legitimate outcry against 25 years of oppression." Even more bluntly, one of the Revolutionary Council's leading zealots, Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, told a journalist who asked if the London incident could lead to a settlement of the Tehran crisis...
...later, "there was smoke, screaming, explosions and gunfire." Bursting into the room where most of the male hostages were kept, the gunmen opened fire on their Iranian prisoners, killing one of them and wounding two others, including Chargé d'Affaires Gholam Ali Afrouz. Given the amount of terrorist fire occurring at that moment, said Morris, it was a miracle that only one man was killed. When one gunman took careful aim at an S.A.S. commando entering through a window, Constable Lock tackled the terrorist, and the commando shot the gunman dead...