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From: abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (J. Abeles (Bellcore, Murray Hill, NJ))
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Subject: Re: Terrorism, etc. (Just a thought...)
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 08:26:20 EDT
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("> >" and ""= J. Abeles; ">"= D. Bloom)
> > 4)  We Americans capture the perpetrators of the hijacking.  Questions:  Why
> > was Egypt helping to return them to the PLO?
> 
> If Mubarek didn't make it seem like he was outraged at the US commandeering
> of the Egyptian airliner, chances are he would have already gone the way of
> Sadat and been assassinated. Radicals within Egypt are already staging violent
> demonstrations... imagine if he would have co-operated with the Americans???

I don't disagree that this is a possibility, but isn't it interesting that
Syria has evidently now delivered the actual corpse of the victim, which
proves that he did not die of natural causes as claimed by Yasir Arafat?
This appears to be a discretionary action on their part against the PLO.
Also, note that Syria didn't feel constrained from aiding the U. S. in 
obtaining release of some of the Beirut hostages.  

Anyway, I am not going to apologize for the anti-US behavior of Egypt, as
you have virtually done.  If the Mubarak government feels that it cannot
act as the ally of the US that it is (receiving $2 billion in annual aid,
and relying on us to keep the Soviets out since 1971, not to mention 
keeping Israeli troops out of Cairo in 1973) I am not going to help them
pursue a self-serving opportunistic agenda.