The U.S. State Department asked Egypt whether it is holding terrorist Abu Nidal. The inquiry came as Egypt’s foreign minister, Amre Moussa, denied widely published reports that Egypt had arrested Abu Nidal, who has been linked to terrorist attacks over the past two decades.
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