The newspaper Le Soir has implicated two un-named Arab Embassies here in the Sept. 8 grenade attack on the El Al Brussels office by teen-age Arab commandos. The newspaper ascribed its information to “knowledgeable sources.”
It said that two Arab youngsters arrived at an Arab Embassy “involved in the struggle against Israel” by taxi on the day of the attack. A short time later they left, accompanied by two members of the Embassy staff and walked to an “African Arab Embassy.”
One of the youngsters was reported to have escaped later and flown to Baghdad with the aid of the Iraqi Embassy in Paris. Le Soir published claims by witnesses that the boy who appeared in Baghdad was not the grenade thrower, implying that the latter may still be in Belgium. The Foreign Ministry has refused to comment on these allegations. The police is conducting its investigation in secret, Le Soir said.
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