The World - News from Jan. 20, 1986
A group calling itself “the Black Flags” threatened to kill two Spanish Embassy officials and an anti-terrorist officer kidnaped in Beirut unless two Lebanese Shia Muslims jailed in Spain are freed. The group, which diplomats in Beirut believe is composed of relatives of the Shias held in Spain, also warned of terrorist attacks on Spanish targets. The two men held in Spain are serving 23-year sentences for the attempted assassination of a Libyan diplomat in 1984. Spanish officials in Beirut called on Nabih Berri, leader of the Shia militia Amal, to intervene.
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