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Colombia: Terrorists on motorcycle murder Jewish businessman and his companion in downtown Bogota. The victim had played a role in negotiating an end to the M-19 seizure of the Dominican Embassy in 1980 and had acted as an intermediary (b)(3)ɔm negotiations with terrorist groups. No one claimed responsibility.
15 February
Portugal: Director General of prison services assassinated near his home in Lisbon. The terrorist group Popular Forces of 25 April, several of whose members are currently imprisoned, claimed responsibility F (b)(3)
Spain: Police arrest five alleged ETA members and detain four suspected informers in Bilbao. The ETA members were charged with murdering a police (b)(3) chief in Munguia in 1979 and killing a civilian in Bilbao in 1984.
France: Suspected ETA-M propaganda chief deported to Cape Verde Islands. He was arrested in Biarritz on 25 November 1985 and originally given a three-month prison sentence on arms charges. Two other sonorod ETA members had been deported to Cape Verde on 28 January.
(b)(3)
16 February
Portugal: Abu Nidal member released on conditional liberty and expelled. The man was acquitted in the 1983 assassination of PLO representative Issam Sartawi,
was convicted of using a false passport and was serving three years in prison.
(b)(3)
Luxembourg: Bomb destroys automobile in front of prominent notary's residence in suburb of Cents. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, the first since early December.
(b)(3)
17 February
Denmark: Gambian suspect in October 1985 murder of the Israelis in Barcelona arrested in Copenhagen.
F(b)(1); (b)(3)
France: Two gunmen in car murder 60-year-old man and 16-year-old girl in
Biodarray. Police suspect th(b)(3j'errorist Liberation Group mistook them for
Basque sympathizers.
Iran: Small parcel bomb explodes at bus station in south Tehran, killing one person and injuring two others. A previously unknown anti-Khomeini group, the “Azadi (Freedom) Organization," claimed responsibility. (b)(3)
18 February
Portugal: Bomb explodes in trunk of American-owned car at US Embassy in Lisbon. There were no injuries and no major property damage. The Popular Forces of 25 April claimed responsibility for the attack. [
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