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- A British investigation uncovered that Iran is
using Britain as the hub of a sophisticated supply network to accelerate its program for
producing missiles and nuclear warheads. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 1/20/98)
- A Paris court handed down jail terms ranging from four
months to six years against 22 members of an underground Islamic extremist network
operating in France. In another case, six suspects went on trial in Paris accused of
smuggling arms to Islamic militants in Algeria. (Reuters, 1/21/98)
- France's top terrorism judge named six Libyan
suspects in the September 1989 bombing of a French passenger jet that killed 170
people. Suspects include Abdallah Senoussi, brother-in-law of Libyan leader Muammar
Qaddafi. (AP, 1/29/98)
- Authorities in eastern Germany discovered a crude
bomb-making factory in the university town of Jena and are searching for three fugitive
far-rightists. In September 1997, a suitcase bearing a swastika and containing small
amounts of explosives was found outside a Jena theater. (The New York Times,
2/13/98)
- A Palestinian court sentenced a member of Hamas,
Amjad al-Henawi, 26, to 10 years in jail for his role in the 1996 terrorist shooting death
of American citizen David Baum in the West Bank. (Reuters, 2/14/98)
- A French court sentenced 36 Islamic militants to prison
terms as long as 10 years for supporting terrorists responsible for the 1995 Paris
bombings. The network was accused of having provided money, weapons and logistical support
to Algeria's Armed Islamic Group. (AP, 2/18/98)
- Egyptian police arrested five Islamic extremists
accused of planning to bomb the American and Israeli embassies in Cairo. (AP, 2/24/98)
- Israel made public the December 1997 arrest of the
director of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) in Israel, Mohammed Anati, 26, charged
with membership in and activity on behalf of the HLF, an illegal organization in Israel.
He is suspected of providing families of Hamas suicide bombers and jailed terrorists with
money raised by the American branch of the HLF. (Reuters, 3/1/98, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, 3/3/98)
- Israel uncovered a Hamas cell responsible for at
least 10 attacks on Israeli targets, including two 1997 suicide bombings in Jerusalem that
killed 22 Israeli civilians. (Reuters, AP, 3/5/98)
- Belgian Special Forces apprehended seven men suspected
of belonging to a European network of Algeria's Armed Islamic Group that supplies
money, arms, and fake documents to extremists in Algeria. Among those seized was fugitive
Farid Melouk, 32, who was tried and sentenced in absentia to seven years in jail
for providing support for the GIA. (Reuters, 3/6/98)
- Ukraine announced that it would halt a deal to
supply nuclear technology to Iran, including the supply of turbines to the Bushehr nuclear
plant project. (Reuters, 3/6/98)
- American officials appeared to have put a stop to the
Chinese sale to Iran of hundreds of tons of material used in enriching uranium to weapons
grade. (The Washington Post, 3/13/98)
- An Algerian court sentenced seven Islamic
militants to death and meted out prison sentences to five others for the killing of French
Roman Catholic bishop Pierre Claverie and his driver in August 1996. (Reuters, 3/23/98)
- The British Embassy in Cairo refused to grant entry
visas to three Egyptians who have ties to the terrorist group Gama'at al-Islamiyya.
(AP, 3/29/98)
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