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Fatah Official Implicated in TWA Flight 840 Attack

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After Hawari's expulsion from Tunisia, he reportedly Palestinian group that is a part of Fatah was

returned to Baghdad, Iraq, where he also maintains a responsible for the TWA Flight 840 attack on 2 April home and an office. His activities were reportedly 1986. The explosion occurred shortly before the temporarily suspended, probably because of pressure aircraft was to land in Athens and killed four

from angered Fatah and PLO officials. In late Americans.

December, however, Hawari reportedly returned to Ja Lebanese

Christian, May Mansour, as the work in his Baghdad office and resumed the position perpetrator.

as head of his organization.

(b)(3) that she was working on behalf of Fatah's Colonel Hawari. Hawari, a close confidant of PLO chief Yasir In early January, PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat Arafat, heads a special Fatah security unit. May reportedly ordered Colonel Hawari to suspend foreign Mansour—who also had ties to a Syrian-backed terrorist operations. The group's resources were to be group-reportedly was recruited by a Hawari

used instead against Amal and Syrian forces in operative to serve as a courier. Mansour reportedly Lebanon. Arafat reportedly is willing, however, to received the explosives to place aboard the aircraft allow Hawari's group to help the radical Shi(b)(1). from Hawari operatives in Cairo. The explosion Hizballah conduct foreign terrorist operation(b)(3) ripped a hole in the fuselage and killed the fourincluding a 9-month-old baby—when they were sucked out of the aircraft

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Arafat's order probably does not mean that Hawari Moroccan authorities arrested four Hawari

has been taken out of the terrorism business but more operatives—two Palestinians and two Tunisians-last likely reflects the importance the PLO places on the August who were carrying explosive devices and false war of the camps in Lebanon and Arafat's strong passports

one of the Palestinians commitment to reestablishing a PLO presence in revealed Mansour's involvement in the attack and also Lebanon. Syria and Israel may become the short-term identified her as one of 14 Hawari operatives

focus of Hawari's operations-probably in an effort to responsible for bomb attacks. The technology of the further the PLO's goals in Lebanon. The group's bombing device used on TWA 840 resembled that willingness to assist Hizballah in foreign terrorist used by the radical Palestinian 15 May Organization, operations, however, means operations could forms, whose former operatives haya hoon working with the Western targets

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(b)(3) The arrest of the four Hawari operatives in Morocco fueled intense debate within Fatah over Hawari's operations and raised questions concerning Arafat's knowledge of these operations,

The arrests also caused friction between the PLO and Tunisia after it was discovered that Hawari maintained a covert office in Tunis. Tunisia reportedly expelled Hawari and his apparat from Tunisia shortly after the arrests in Morocco. The PLO also apparently was forced to reduce its presence in Tunisia (b)(3)

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