Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

92 • BURN SYNDROMEof mass destruction on 23 July 1998, while Khalil was acquitted ofcharges relating to the bombing plot but convicted for possession ofa forged immigration document.The 9/11 Commission Report of July 2004 specifically mentionedthe illegal entry of Abu Mezer into the United States from Canadaas an instance of the ease with which terrorists were able to enter theUnited States.BURN SYNDROME. Term describing the condition in which a terrorist,spy, or smuggler involved in a covert activity becomes obsessedwith the idea that he or she is being observed and his or her actionsbeing exposed. This compulsive fear leads the person to behave orto speak in a suspicious manner that then tends to lead to the personbeing exposed and apprehended. Such excessive nervous behaviorhelped to tip a U.S. immigration agent on 14 December 1999 to arrestan Algerian, Ahmad Rassam, for smuggling explosives from Canada,which exposed an al Qa’eda plot to bomb Los Angeles InternationalAirport as well as other targets in North America and Europe duringupcoming millennium celebrations.– C –CABINDA LIBERATION FRONT-CABINDA LIBERATIONFORCES (FLEC-FAC). Cabinda is the oil-rich enclave of Angolaseparated from the rest of the country by the territory of the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) on both banks of theCongo River from its estuary inland. During the Angolan civil warbetween the forces of UNITA (União Nacional para IndependénciaTotal de Angola) and those of the Angolan government, which hadcontinued intermittently since Portugal gave independence to itsformer colony in 1975, there has also been separatist violence by antigovernmentforces in the Cabinda enclave that seek independencefrom the rest of Angola.During 1990 the Frente para a Libertação de Enclave de Cabinda(FLEC) kidnapped 13 French oil workers, several Congolese workers,and two Portuguese aid workers, who were all held hostage butlater released unharmed. In 1992 FLEC kidnapped three Portugueseconstruction workers and two French citizens, as well as attacking