Middle East: Attack From the East Bank

Attack From the East Bank

"The militant martyr Nasser Ibrahim Abdel Aziz carried out his own suicide operation." With that, an anonymous telephone caller who identified himself as a spokesman for the Abu Nidal terrorist organization told a French news agency in Paris that a surprise attack against an Israeli border patrol in the occupied West Bank last week had been committed by the same shadowy Palestinian terrorist group that staged the bloody Dec. 27 attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports. Israeli authorities doubted that Abu Nidal was involved. The terrorist killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded two others before he was * shot to...

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