The writer Kai Bird claimed that on August 8 , 1982 , shortly before Yasser Arafat 's departure for Tunis , Stevens visited Arafat in his bunker , begged him not to leave with his PLO fighters , and warned him of the dangers the Palestinian women and children would face if left alone in the camps . Bird traced this account of Stevens ’s meeting with Arafat to Imad Mughniyah , Arafat ’s bodyguard at the time , who went on to become a leader in Hezbollah , the Lebanese Shi'ia Islamist militant party . Mughniyah later orchestrated a string of kidnappings and attacks , including the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut of October 1983 , the hijacking of TWA flight 847 in June 1985 , the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in March 1992 , and the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in June 1996
TWA flight 847
TWA Flight 847
Janet Lee Stevens