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Article: Bomb Suspects' Tie to Terrorist Groups Unclear; N.Y. Search Yields No `Operational Link'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 3, 1997
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After three days of intensive investigation, federal officials
said they have yet to find any link between Middle East terrorist
groups and two suspects arrested Thursday in an alleged suicide-bomb
plot to attack New York subways.
At the same time, though, senior law enforcement officials
said that Arabic documents found in the suspects' Brooklyn apartment
advocate violent anti-Israel, anti-American aims similar to those of
radical Palestinian organizations such as Hamas, which claimed
responsibility for the suicide bombing in Jerusalem that on
Wednesday killed 15 people.
Investigators found one crudely written English-language
document that praises Hamas and several other terrorist ...
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