Neo-Nazi: George Hanna aka Ian Davison at Palestinian terror attack in Larnaca, Cyprus, Septemer 1985.One of three held in yacht shooting a Briton, UPI, Sept. 28, 1985
LONDON -- One of three gunmen thought to be Palestinian and held in Cyprus in the fatal shooting of three Israelis on a yacht has been identified as a Briton by Cypriot police, British news reports said today.
British reports said Ian Davison, 28, left his northeast England home to enlist in the Palestine Liberation Organization after the 1982 ...
Davison identified himself as George Hanna when he surrendered to Cypriot police with two companions after the three gunmen boarded an Israeli-owned yacht in Larnaca harbor Wednesday and killed a woman and two men, all Israelis...
... Davison, who left school in his hometown of South Shields at 16 and spent four years in the United States, joined the PLO in Jordan and became a member of Yasser Arafat's 'Force 17' personal bodyguard.
He was among 4,000 PLO fighters shipped to Cyprus and then to South Yemen when the PLO pulled out of Lebanon in 1983, the reports said.
In his early days, Davison said he was a footall 'skinhead, a real young Fascist...* * *
Schoenberg, H. O. (1989). A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO. United States: Shapolsky Publishers, p. 415:
Such was the case in the shooting of the crew of a yacht at Larnaca, Cyprus, which was the work of British neo-Nazi Ian Davison and two Palestinian Arabs, Elias Nassif and Usama al-Tuqan, all of whom were members of Arafat's personal bodyguard / hit squad known as Force 17