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Highlights

Significant Developments

Western Europe

Italy

Suspected Hizballah Terrorist Arrested in Milan Italian customs police arrested a Lebanese national, Bashir Khudr, on 12 January at Milan airport after they discovered explosives and detonators concealed in his luggage. Nearly 11 kilograms (kg) of explosives were hidden in two bas-relief paintings and various sizes of tinfoil-wrapped chocolate Easter eggs. The detonators were hidden inside batteries placed in a portable radio. Airport security guards had stopped Khudr as part of standing instruction:

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Khudr is believed to be a member of Hizballah, and Italian authorities suspect that the explosives were to be used against Israeli targets in Rome. Initially, questions were raised about Khudr's possible association with Fatah's Colonel Hawari. Moroccan authorities arrested four Hawari operatives last August after they discovered that two of them were carrying pottery objects composed of explosive materials. Subsequent technical evidence indicates there is little similarity between the(b)(3)3 Khudr carried and those carried by Hawari operatives.

There is no evidence at this time to link Khudr to Mohammad Hammadi, the suspected Hizballah member arrested on 13 January in Frankfurt while he was attempting to smuggle weapons into West Germany. Khudr has been linked, however, to the “Ladispoli Seven," - -seven Lebanese Shia arrested in Italy in November 1984. believed to be planning an attack against the US Embassy in Rome (b)(3)

Portugal

Members of Anti-ETA Vigilante Group Arrested Four Portuguese members of the Antiterrorist Liberation Group (GAL)--the first time that Portuguese nationals have been known to be involved with this groupwere arrested in Lisbon on 4 January. GAL terrorizes members of the Basque Fatherland and Liberty separatist group (ETA). Portuguese authorities also arrested Jean-Philippe Labade, the suspected leader of GAL, who-along with the four Portuguese-is believed to have attacked and wounded six ETA supporters in two separate actions in the French Basque region in February 1986. French authorities reportedly arrested Labade in 1984 for killing ETA leader Tomas Perez Revilla, but he was released on a technicality.

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Secret DI TR 87-003 12 February 1987

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