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- Fourteen people with
alleged links to the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) went on trial in Italy charged with
providing weapons and false documents to the group. (AP, 4/3/98)
- An Israeli court
indicted Iman Rabhi Sharbati, 31, and Karim Yousef Hadad, 19, for the murder of yeshiva
student Gavriel Hirschberg in Jerusalem in November 1997. (Ha'aretz, 4/14/98)
- Customs officials in Azerbaijan
stopped a Russian truck carrying steel en-route to Iran. U.S. officials believe the
22-ton shipment of special steel alloys was to be used in making fuel tanks for the
Iranian Shahab-3 missile. (The New York Times, 4/24/98)
- An Israeli court sentenced Hamas
terrorist Riyad Abu Hamdiya, 22, to four life terms in prison for several attacks that
killed seven Israelis. (AP, 5/3/98)
- German police are
investigating 39 militant far-right extremists from eastern Germany suspected of trying to
form a criminal gang after weapons and ammunition were found in a police raid. In a later
series of raids, German police seized a cache of weapons belonging to neo-Nazis in the
states of Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate. (Reuters, 5/12/98, 6/24/98)
- Argentina expelled
seven Iranian Embassy officials and arrested eight Iranian residents after accusing
Iran of masterminding the 1992 and 1994 Buenos Aires bombings of the Israeli Embassy and
the Jewish Community Center. (The New York Times, 5/17/98)
- A British court
convicted and sentenced to nine months in jail engineering student Ali Asghar Manzarpour,
37, for attempting to illegally export steel to Iran for the manufacture of nuclear
weapons. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 5/19/98)
- A senior leader of the Aum
Shinrikyo cult, Dr. Ikuo Hayashi, 51, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in
the March 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attack. (AP, 5/26/98)
- An Israeli court
convicted Israeli businessman Nahum Manbar of selling chemical and biological weapons
components and information to Iran. (Ha'aretz, 6/18/98)
- Egyptian police
uncovered a plot by Islamic militants to kidnap Americans in Egypt and trade them
for jailed extremist leaders. (AP, 6/25/98)
- A Paris court
convicted two Frenchmen and an Irishman for abetting terrorism after they organized
hideouts in France for two members of the IRA. (AFP, 6/30/98)
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