A London court ruled that a Jordanian-born terrorist, jailed for plotting to blow up an El Al plane, cannot appeal for parole. Nezar Hindawi, a Syrian citizen, was given a 45-year prison sentence for smuggling a bomb on board a 1986 flight from London to Tel Aviv in the baggage of his pregnant Irish girlfriend.
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