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New York (JTA) — The
bombs sat quietly in rented
vehicles, poised to wreak
early afternoon destruction
on some of the busiest
buildings in New York City.
This happened not in re-
cent weeks but on March 4,
1973 —during a visit to New
York by then-Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir.
But the bombs planted at
the El Al terminal at Ken-
nedy International Airport,
at the Israeli Discount Bank
and at the First Israeli Bank
and Trust Co. (now Bank
Leumi) failed to detonate.
Subsequently, the police
and prosecutors failed to
convict anyone of attemp-
ting the terrorist act.
Until last week, that is,
when acknowledged
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization official Khalid
Mohammed el-Jassem went
on trial and was swiftly con-
victed by a federal district
court jury of attempted born-
bing.
Charles Rose, executive
assistant U.S. attorney in
Brooklyn, presented
evidence that Mr. Jassem's
fingerprints matched prints
found on the bombs and
relied on hotel records to
link him with planning the
bombing. •
No witnesses identified
Mr. Jassem as the suspected
1973 bomber, and Mr.
Jassem's attorneys, William
Kunstler and Ronald Kuby,
claimed that the finger-
prints taken from the bomb
were "fabricated."
After three days of argu-
ment, the jury took just over
three hours of deliberation
to convict Mr. Jassem of the
20-year-old bombing.
The defense lawyers
argued that Mr. Jassem, a
45-year-old Palestinian liv-
ing in Cyprus seized by
Italian police in January
1991, was being "framed" to
"appease" Israel.
They also complained that
their client could not get a
fair trial in the hostile
climate created by coverage
of the recent explosion at the
World Trade Center. The
prime suspects in the Feb. 26
explosion, which killed five
people, are Muslim funda-
mentalists.
"There was no way this
man could get a fair trial
during daily press briefings
and inflammatory coverage
of the World Trade Center
explosion," Mr. Kuby said.
While Judge Jack Weins-
tein sequestered the jury
during the trial, Mr. Kuby
pointed out that jurors are
usually told in advance they
will be sequestered for a
case's duration, but weren't
for this case.
"The judge sprung it on
jurors the first day of the
trial to protect them from
the media," said Mr. Kuby.
Mr. Jassem, who the FBI
said was traveling in 1973
under the name of Khalid
Duhhan al-Jawary, will be
sentenced on March 17.
Mr. Rose said that at the
sentencing he intends to
present evidence "from Eu-
ropean police agencies" in-
dicating that Mr. Jassem
was involved in other ter-
rorist acts,
Mr. Kuby pointed to "the
factual evidence that the
FBI didn't have a clue until
18 years later, when a tip
came that they should arrest
this man.".
The New York Times cited
an anonymous source saying
the Mossad, Israel's intel-
ligence agency, supplied the
tip leading to Mr. Jassem's
arrest.
An official from the Israeli
consulate noted that
"officially we don't have a
reaction, but from our point
of view we're glad that ter-
rorism was brought to
justice."
Reno Backs
Religion Bill
Washington (JTA) — At-
torney General-designate
Janet Reno said during con-
firmation hearings this
week that the Clinton ad-
ministration would back
legislation that would make
it harder for the government
to encroach on free exercise
of religion.
The legislation, known as
the Religious Freedom Res-
toration Act, has broad sup-
port in Jewish and other re-
ligious communities. It was
designed to circumvent a
1990 Supreme Court ruling
that gave state governments
greater leeway in outlawing
certain religious practices.
While the 1990 case dealt
with ritual use of the
hallucinogen peyote, Jewish
groups consider the ruling a
dangerous precedent for
laws that could restrict such
ritual practices as kosher
slaughter.
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