The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 51)
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- The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 51)
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negotiations regarding the settlement of Palestinian
refugees and the other developments that had indicated that
the period of conflict was drawing to an ena.?? Later the
Katatib claimed that one of the reasons for staging the
attack on the Syrian Synagogue was that the latter was
used as a meeting place for an underground Zionist
organization and for hiding weapons. 28
On November 6, 1949, Liet. Col. W. F. Stirling,
a correspondent of The Times and former British political
agent for tribal affairs was attacked at home by the Kata'ib
men and wounded in the chest.+?
The Kata'ib leadership
explained the attempted murder on the grounds that
Liet. Col. Stirling was one of the most important British
intelligence officers in Syria during the Hinnawi regime.2°
Other acts of violence committed by the Kata'ib
include the placing of bombs in an alliance school in
Beirut at the same time the Syrian Synagogue was bombed and
for apparently the same reasons; the throwing of hand
grenades more than once at the United States and British
legations in both Damascus and Beirut as an expression of
17a ipian Boss, "Syrian Synagogue Bombed", The New
York Times, August 7, 1949, p. 1.
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8,1-Hindi, loc. cit.
19 ceale, loc. cit.
20,1-Hindi and Dhahi, loc. cit. - تاريخ
- 1971-02-07
- المنشئ
- Basil R. Al-Kubaisi
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