Suspects Describe Alleged Abu Nidal Plans

DAYTON, Ohio — A suspected member of the Abu Nidal terrorist group said in a taped conversation that the organization could mobilize and train young people to “slaughter” 3,000 Jews in the United States, the FBI said Monday.

Another alleged associate of the group agreed to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington and asked for a bomb, the FBI said in an affidavit filed at a federal detention hearing for that man, one of four suspected Abu Nidal members in the U.S. Midwest who were indicted last week.

A third associate boasted of having a cache of weapons, including a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, the affidavit said.

Conversations among the four men were recorded as part of the FBI’s surveillance of the Abu Nidal group.

Arrested Thursday were Luie Nijmeh, 29, of Miamisburg, Ohio; his brother, Saif Nijmeh, 32, of St. Louis, and Tawfiq Musa, 43, of Racine, Wis. Zein Isa, 61, on Death Row in Missouri after being convicted of killing his daughter in 1989, was also named in the indictment, issued in St. Louis.