I remember living in soho in the 80s into the 90s when the El Al offices in regent street had a permnent armed officer outside the front and back as well as inside given the level of threat 1978 I remember, well just about,the terrorists attack in grosvenor square when the PFLP attacked a El Al airlines staff bus leaving the Europa Hotel for heathrow using sub machine guns and grenades. "An El Al flight attendant was killed in the attack, while members of a wedding party were among those wounded by gun shots and a taxi driver was blown from his cab by a grenade. A man presumed to be one of the terrorists was found dead after the attack. A second terrorist was captured by the police, while a possible third escaped."The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility for the attack""The flight attendant killed in the attack, Irit Gidron, 29, was buried in Israel next to the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre""The terrorist arrested, Fahad Mihyi, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack.""In 2000, Yulie Cohen Gerstel, one of the flight attendants injured in the attack, contacted Mihyi who was imprisoned at Dartmoor Prison. Mihyi was apologetic for his role in the terrorist attack. Gerstel advocated for his parole as shown in the 2002 documentary My Terrorist."
Julian Pavey ● 582d