GUNMEN SLAY 2 AT PARIS PLO OFFICE AS ARAB FACTIONAL STRIFE INTENSIFIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05-01219R000300440052-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 52
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/03/01 :CIA-RDP05-012198000300440052-8
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As Arab Factional Strif e Intensifies
PARIS (AP) - Two -Arab gun- guerrilla renegade Abu Nidal, AQafat's
men assassinated the Paris represent- bitter enemy in the Palestinian move-
ative of the Palestine Liberation Or? ment.
ganization and another PLO employe Recent action has included a raid
yesterday in the latest round of a
bloody Arab vendetta being waged in
world capitals.
The terrorists, who stormed into the
PLO's downtown offices armed with
on the Iraqi Embassy in Paris Mon-
day, in which hostages were taken; an
unsuccessful attempt to assassinate
the Iraqi Ambassador in London with
a bomb three days earlier, and abor-
pistols and grenades, were captured tive attempts Wednesday to ,assassi-
after firing more than a dozen bullets nate the Iraqi consul in Karachi, Paki-
into Izziddin Qalaq and. killing the ~,stan, and the ambassador in Beir t. ?
other PLO employe with a grenade, (, At the heart of the conflict is~Sabr;
police said. The second victim's legs anna better known by his code
were blown off. ame Abu Nidal ("Father of the
Three other members of the offic~~truggle"), a renegade. former ,leader
staff were reported wounded. of Fatah, the largest' and strongest
It was the second such. raid in Paris pL0 group.
this-week and appeared to be part of He defected to Baghdad after a~ Fa-
an underground battle between Yas-
ser Arafat's PLO and shard-line, anti- tah guerrilla court sentenced him to
Arafat alliance of the Iraqi govern- death for plotting to assassinate Ara- ?.
ment and radical Palestinian guerril- fat in 1974, and he has since set up
las. one of thg most. efficient. terror net-
In Lebanon, the PLO accused the' works in the Arab world, relying
Iraqis of masterminding the assassins- heavily on Iraqi. subsidies.
tion of Qalaq, 40, and vowed "swift re- Fatah's attacks against Iraqi targets
taliation from all directions." The kill- followed Baghdad's refusal to hand
ings came barely 24 -hours after the Abu Nidal over to the PLO last
Iraqis threatened "stern reprisals" for month.- -
a -spate of terror attacks,- which it "We shall force them (the Iraqis) to ,
blamed pn Arafat's guerrillas, on send him to us crawling on his knees;''
Iraqi diplomats abroad. a Fatah leader vowed.
The war of terror between Iraq and "There is no power on earth that
the PLO began in earnest last month can save the defeatist leadership o,~
"`
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s punishment
when the Iraqis refused, hynilaver ".,;the 1?LO,~r,~1~Iraq
the acts of piracy against Iragi`em !
sies,~' retorted the Iraqi gbvernm!
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Police said the terrorists capturecf'lils
Paris yesterday were carrying Jor
nian passports identifying them as
dulkadir Hatem, 25, and Assail. Kayee~
21, both said to have been born in.'Jgl~~
den. Police said they hid dou
An eyewitness who barr~eaded. hi
self in an office when the attack bag
said he heard repeated gu~ttfi~cc ? a~
century building on Boulevard Hatis~' `i
then clustered around the entry xQ `Et-
building and officers went ftltA',f
courtyard and other offices' ' " '
solve the .Arab-Israeli displtte,? iit~ists
on total dismantliing of . fife.' Jewish
state and supports Palestinlann e ~p-
fists who are twins to totsnie''~afgt
At one point,. a man . np~` ,
brandishing a pistol andset~ly
hold-ng a hostage. Shortly aftel'gv~)};
another man, his hands botlnll~~;th? _
gather, was shown at the d~iadti'tv,tito
indicate to police the terrosl8~t,~ had
been seized. When he was tal~en~fs~ a
police van, blood was streami,f~o~
his face. , ., ~, ~~.
The suspect had been oveirpba~ered
by security men of the Arab- Leag~te,
which shares its offices in :the `~tttld-
ing with the PLO.- '
The militantly anti-Israel; ~govegi'n-
went of Iraq believes only war; cen,:ie-
with Israel if negotiations yield-" a
PLO-governed state on the West Bank
of .the Jordan River and in the' Gaza
Guerrilla sources in Beirut had said
two ? men who attacked. the Iraqui
E~''~t3"'1~?~s'giscd;~ t~?'boagbixg ~ss~s-
sinatton of his predecessor, Mahmoud
Hamchari, in ::1973. Israeli secret
age~a> were alleged to have. carried
ot~t#atildlLir~: ~ ~ t
? ~-i gn interview earlier 1 ~hh'is year,
6~aq 4s~$ lris~:~ffiee~'had^'9b~f count
of .the number of death threats by t~l-
aphdhe: and fetter, 'and the, liter
bio~bst addreensed to us.":
"~VhBt dose one life .cotmt,'' he
asked, "compared to the struggle of
bur people?"
"if I fall,. others. will .replace me,"
he said.:
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