Said Al Nasr
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Said Al Nasr is a Syria
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n Palestinian
Palestinian people
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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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