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...officials over the past two weeks, it is not yet clear whether Waite has anything of substance to offer the kidnapers in exchange for their freeing the Americans. The captors have continued to demand as a quid pro quo the release of 17 Shi'ites jailed in Kuwait for terrorist attacks on the French and American embassies and other installations. So far, the U.S. and Kuwait have been unwilling to consider a deal...
Already the postmortems were under way in Malta, Cairo and various Western capitals. Malta's Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici defended his country's long-standing policy of refusing to refuel a hijacked plane unless terrorists first released all passengers aboard. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused the hijackers of being members of a Palestinian terrorist group opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and closely aligned with Mubarak's enemy, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Though Mubarak did not mention the group by name, he seemed to be referring to the Abu Nidal faction, which has previously taken responsibility...
...Nabil." After the commando assault began, said Galal, Nabil hurled a grenade toward the rear of the plane. Realizing he had taken his eyes off Galal, Nabil turned and fired at him. The pilot ducked, and the bullet grazed his head. Seizing a fire ax, Galal felled the terrorist with one swing, then jumped to safety. In the aftermath of the horror of Flight 648, many questions remained unanswered. Were the terrorists, whose trip was indeed believed to have begun in Tripoli, directly linked to Gaddafi? Were they agents of Abu Nidal, the Palestinian renegade who is bent on undermining...
Governments have good reason to be concerned about the terrorist escalation. In the first ten months of 1985, according to the U.S. State Department, the number of terrorist attacks--630--surpassed the total for all of 1984. Last year two innocent people died in hijackings; the toll this year is already...
...station units of its highly regarded Special Air Services at five airports. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the American lawyers in July, "We have behind us many fine declarations and communiqués of good intent. We need action, action to which all countries are committed until the terrorist knows that he has no haven, no escape...