Via email from Gabrielle Goldwater. U.S. Government: Arafat personally approved 1973 attack on U.S. diplomats in Khartoum Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume E-6, Documents on Africa, 1973-1976 Released by the Office of the Historianwww.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e6/67234.htm THE SEIZURE OF THE SAUDI ARABIAN EMBASSY IN KHARTOUMSummary In the early evening hours of 1 March 1973, eight Black September Organization (BSO) terrorists seized the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum as a diplomatic reception honoring the departing United States Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) was ending. After slightly wounding the United States Ambassador and the Belgian Charge d'Affaires, the terrorists took these officials plus the...