Summary
The 1987 FBI arrests in Los Angeles of eight individuals accused of ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose subsequent twenty-year prosecution effort failed (Palestinian Chicago — Identity in Exile, PDF p.61).
Details
- Lybarger, citing Cainkar 1988, places the case among the law-enforcement interventions and revelations — including the INS’s 1986 Alien Terrorists and Undesirables: A Contingency Plan — that heightened Palestinian immigrants’ sense of estrangement and exile in the United States (PDF p.61).