Said Al Nasr is a Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

n Palestinian

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, convicted in Belgium

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 in 1980, for throwing two hand grenade

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s into a group of Jewish

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 children waiting for a bus

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 in Antwerp on July 27, 1980.

A 15-year old boy was killed, twenty others were heavily wounded. The jailed Said Al Nasr was 'traded' for part of the family Houtekins-Kets in 1990, a Belgian-French family kidnapped in Libya

Libya

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--a demand of the Abu Nidal

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 terrorist

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 group (Silco incident

Silco incident

The Silco incident involves the kidnapping of the Belgian-French family Houtekins-Kets by Palestinian terrorists and the Libyan government from their yacht Silco in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea on August 1, 1985...

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