Attack of the Rue des Rosiers : one of the brains arrested in Jordan after 32 years

The presumed logistician for the attack of the Rue des Rosiers in Paris (August 9, 1982) was arrested in Jordan. Souhair Muhammad Khalid al-Hassan Abassi, aka Amjar Atta, 62, should soon be extradited to France.
In the context of the investigation into the attack, now led by the anti-terrorist judge Marc Trevidic, warrants of arrest had been delivered last February against three alleged members of the commando which Amjar Atta. This latter was arrested on June 1 by jordanian secrets services.
Amjar Atta is suspected to have been the number 3 "Special Operations Committee" of Fatah-CR, a committee headed by Abu Nizar, the right arm of Abu Nidal. It would be one of the brains for the attack of the Rue des Rosiers.
August 9 1982, a grenade was thrown inside a restaurant in the Rue des Rosiers, and a shootout had broken out in the streets. The attack killed six people and wounded 22 others. Not claimed, he had been assigned to the Abu Nidal Organization, dissident branch of the palestinian Fatah. Mahmoud Khader Abed Hicham Adra aka Harb (war in sunni tribe), 59, who now lives in Ramallah, West Bank, Abu Abdulrahman and Walid Zayed, aka "Suhail Othman", 56, who lives in Norway, presumed members of the commando who committed the attack, are also the subject of an international warrant of arrest.

Source : Le Parisien