Lighting Up a Dark Corner of Cold War Terrorism

"Watching the Jackals" explores how Prague harbored and helped the world’s most infamous, dangerous terrorists

WELL BEFORE AL-QAEDA, ISIS AND THE HOUTHIS ARRIVED on the terrorist scene, it was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Abu Nidal and Carlos the Jackal that grabbed headlines. In the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, such groups — most of them championing an independent Palestine — hijacked airplanes, took hostages and killed thousands, includin…