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- A German court found that the highest levels of Iran's government gave
orders to carry out the assassination of three Iranian Kurdish dissidents and their
translator at a Berlin restaurant in 1992. (The Washington Post, 4/11/97)
- Responding to American and Israeli appeals, Ukraine has decided against providing
turbines for the nuclear reactor that Russia is selling to Iran. (The New
York Times, 4/15/97)
- An Israeli court indicted Israeli businessman Nahum Manbar, 51, on charges of
selling ingredients of mustard and nerve gas to Iran from 1990 to 1994. (The New
York Times, 5/7/97)
- French anti-terrorism investigators asked a court to try the brother-in-law of Libya's
leader Muammar Qaddafi and five other Libyan operatives in absentia on charges of
blowing up a French airliner and killing 171 people over the Sahara in 1989. (The
New York Times, 5/8/97)
- Two Turks who hijacked an Air Malta airliner en route to Turkey to demand the
release of a Turkish gunman serving a life sentence for trying to assassinate Pope John
Paul II freed their hostages unharmed at Cologne airport following negotiations with
German authorities. (Reuters, 6/9/97)
- Philippine authorities uncovered a plot by Abu Sayyaf militants to stage
terrorist attacks and rob commercial banks in a southern Philippine province. (UPI,
6/10/97)
- The Israeli Government issued a decree banning three organizations that it contends
supplies financial aid to and supports Hamas. The ban authorizes the Israeli
Government to seize assets and any money found in Israel belonging to the Holy Land
Foundation for Relief and Development, a Muslim charity based in Richardson, Texas;
the England-based Palestine Relief and Development Fund, and the France-based Committee
for Help and Solidarity with Palestine. (The Dallas Morning News, 6/21/97)
- A British court found six men guilty of having plotted to black out London and
most of southeastern England in a series of bombings of electrical power stations
by the Irish Republican Army in July 1996. (The New York Times, 7/3/97)
- More than one million people marched in Madrid and Barcelona in a demonstration against
terrorism after the funeral of a town councilman who was killed by ETA/Basque terrorists.
(The New York Times, (7/15/97)
- A military court in Jordan convicted Jordanian soldier Ahmed Daqamseh, 26,
of killing seven Israeli schoolgirls on a class outing along the Israeli-Jordanian border
in March 1997 and sentenced him to life imprisonment. (The Washington Post,
7/20/97)
- Five Japanese Red Army terrorists were convicted in Beirut and sentenced to three
years in jail on charges of passport forgery and illegal entry into Lebanon. One
terrorist, Kozo Okamato, 49, served 12 years in an Israeli prison for leading the May 1972
armed attack on Israel's Ben-Gurion airport in which 24 people were killed and 100
wounded. (The Washington Post, 8/1/97)
- The trial of seven Iraqis accused of hijacking a Sudanese airliner on a
flight from Khartoum to Amman and forcing it to land outside London opened in London.
(Agence France-Presse, 9/15/97)
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