Police said today that a Palestinian terrorist group may have been responsible for the explosion that blasted doors and windows at the Vienna Jewish Center last night, believed at first to have been the work of neo-Nazi elements. The group, which calls itself “Eagles of the Revolution,” was also linked to the bombing of a Jewish student canteen on the Left Bank in Paris last month in which 26 persons were injured.
Officials of the Jewish Center said earlier that the explosion seemed to be connected to recent neo-Nazi demonstrations in Austria marking the birthday of Hitler. But according to police, the “Eagles of the Revolution” is probably the “Eagles of the Palestinian Revolution,” affiliated with the Syrian-supported Al Saiqa terrorists. They recalled that the same group attacked a Soviet Jewish immigrant transit center near Vienna in 1973, causing the government to shut it down for security reasons.
An anonymous telephone caller to the Vienna office of the French news agency, Agence France Press, said the Jewish Center was attacked in the name of “The Eagles of the Revolution.”
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