The World - News from May 5, 1989
Danish police investigating a string of armed robberies linked to a Palestinian terrorist group stumbled onto a cache of weapons and explosives in an apartment near Copenhagen’s airport. Officers found 26 anti-tank missiles, 220 pounds of plastic explosives, 62 hand grenades, 12 anti-tank mines and a “large assortment” of machine guns, pistols and other automatic weapons. The seizure was part of an ongoing probe that has resulted in the arrest of five men linked to the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The five allegedly staged four major robberies in Denmark that netted about $16 million. The money then was funneled to the PFLP, authorities said.
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