The Air: Terror on the Ground

"Suddenly everything started flying," said one of the victims of the hand grenade that shattered El Al's downtown Athens passenger terminal last week. "The ceiling seemed to fall in, and there was broken glass all over the place." Caught soon after the explosion, two young Jordanian terrorists proudly owned up to the attack. "We do not deny our acts, " they boasted. "We are hitting the enemy where we find him." In all, they injured three Americans, one Briton and eleven Greeks—one of whom, a 2½-year-old boy, died after a half-dollar-sized fragment was removed...

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