Nizar Hindawi
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Nizar Hindawi (1954) is a Jordanian who was found guilty of attempting to bomb an El Al flight in what became known as the Hindawi Affair. He was born in Baqura, Jordan, just south of the Sea of Gallilee. In 1979, after beginning a career as a journalist in Amman, Hindawi moved to London. According to his trial, he went to Syria in 1985, where he was recruited by officials in Syrian Air Force Intelligence to carry out a bombing on an El Al airliner. Once he received the explosives in London, he gave them to his fiancée Anne Murphy, who unknowingly took his bag. When she attempted to board her flight from Heathrow Airport to Tel Aviv on April 17, 1986, El Al security officials stopped her, and the police began a search for Hindawi. Hindawi surrendered to police the following day, and after his trial, was given the longest criminal sentence in British history. He is still serving his sentence today, and although Hindawi became eligible for parole in April 2001, his right of appeal has been denied.
References
- ["El Al bomber too dangerous to release, court rules"] by Jenny Booth, Times Online
- ["Terrorism: The Syrian Connection"] by Daniel Pipes, originally published in The National Interest, Spring 1989.
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