NID -- LIBYA: ARMS SUPPORT FOR ABU NIDAL

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00516218
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2016
• Case Number: F-2016-00651
• Publication Date: June 13, 1986

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LIBYA: Arnie Arnie Support for Abu Nidal
Markings on six Bulgarian handgrenades captured from Libyan
terrorists In Turkey In April closely match those on grenades
used in four recent attacks attributed to the Abu Nidal terrorist
group.
Four Libyans were arrested by Turkish authorities on 18 April as they
approached a US officers club in Ankara carrying handgrenades
acquired from the local Libyan People's Bureau. Analysis of markings
on the grenades indicates that they were made in Bulaaria in 1980
They bear the same
markings �as other 1980-vintage Bulgarian
grenades used by suspected Abu Nidal terrorists in attacks last year
on the Cafe de Paris in Rome, at the Rome and Vienna airports. and in
Malta during the EgyptAir hijacking
Comment: The similarities between the grenades seized in 1985 and
those captured in Turkey corroborate previous reporting that Tripoli
provides operational support for the Abu Nidal group and uses its
diplomatic installations to pass weapons to terrorists. Austrian
authorities had determined that the Vienna airport terrorists used
passports confiscated by Libya from Tunisian workers, and some of
the terrorists arrested after the Rome and Vienna airport attacks said
they belonged to the Abu Nidal group.
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