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It happened during the height of the great terror panic, just three days before a bomb would go off at a West Berlin disco, killing a US serviceman, wounding thirty-five others, and providing the pretext for US air raids on Libya. On 2 April 1986 an explosion on a TWA jet approaching Athens killed four US citizens. A mysterious group—the" Ezzedine Qassam Unit" of the" Arab Revolutionary Cells"—claimed responsibility, saying it was in retaliation for the US Navy's clash with Libya in the Gulf of Sidra. The name" Ezzedine Qassam" was unknown in the country whose citizens were the targets of violence, and it was reduced to insignificance by the media barrage on the terrorist danger. The essential fact was that US citizens had been murdered. Only brief items such as these appeared: Qassam was" a Palestinian who fought and was killed by the British during their occupation of Palestine in the 1930s"(Washington Post …