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- A military court in Egypt convicted and sentenced
to death brothers Saber and Mahmoud Abu el-Ulla for shooting and fire-bombing a
tourist bus in Cairo in September 1997 in which nine German tourists and their Egyptian
driver were killed. (AP, 10/30/97)
- A British court convicted six Iraqis of hijacking
a Sudanese passenger jet with fake hand grenades in August 1996. (AP, 10/31/97)
- A state court in Germany convicted two German
businessmen of shipping $10 million worth of weapons technology to Libya from
1990-93, knowing it would be used for a poison gas plant. (AP, 10/31/97)
- Five people charged with the April 1986 bombing
of a Berlin nightclub, in which two American soldiers and a Turkish woman were
killed and more than 200 others injured, went on trial in Germany. Palestinian Yasir
Shraydi, 38, is accused of being the chief organizer of the attack which is believed to
have been ordered by diplomats at the Libyan Embassy in then East Berlin. (The
New York Times, 11/19/97)
- Forty people, three in absentia, accused of helping Algerian
Islamic militants plant bombs that killed 8 people and wounded more than 170 in
Paris in 1995, went on trial in France. (The New York Times, 11/27/97)
- France has detained Mohamed Kerouche, a suspected member
of Algeria's Armed Islamic Group, recently expelled from Britain as an illegal
immigrant. (Reuters, 12/22/97)
- Notorious terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, 48, known as
"Carlos the Jackal," was convicted in France for killing two
French secret service agents and a Lebanese informant in Paris in June 1975. He is blamed
for 83 deaths and hundreds of injuries during his terrorist campaign in the 1970s
and 1980s. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 12/30/97)
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