TERRORISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000201060005-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 8, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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8 February 19b4
TERRORISM BROKAW: Terrorist attacks, of course, are always tough for
police and security officials to deal with. But a new
brand of terrorism, the suicide bombing, is what really
frightens the world's law enforcers because its potent
extra ingredient is religion. In tonight's special
segment, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Garrick Utley
begins a three-part series on this powerful new threat by
examining who's behind it.
UTLEY: The State Department in Washington, a symbol of
American power and influence overseas, a natural target for
Middle East terrorists. That is why concrete barriers
surround the building. They are designed to stop suicide
attacks, and they are there for a good reason. In meetings
with intelligence sources in the Middle East and Europe and
here in Washington, we have'learned that the United States
has received at least two warnings of a plot to blow up the
State Department building; that it would involve a truck
bomb similar to those used in the attacks on the U.S.
Embassy and Marine headquarters in Beirut; that the
terrorists were working out of Arlington, Va., and that
they received their orders from Iran. Iran plays an
important role in the new terrorism because under Ayatollah
Khomeini it provides the religious fanaticism which has not
been a factor in terrorism up till now. Iran supplies the
young martyrs, who are promised a place in paradise if they
give their lives in a terrorist attack, but Iran does not
have the skills of modern terrorism. Syria does, and the
governments of the two countries have formed. an alliance
aimed at a common enemy, the American presence in Lebanon.
It is state terrorism. DAVID *KEMPKE: The terrorism that
took place in the Lebanon was really directed by Syrian
intelligence.
UTLEY: David Kempke is a senior official in Israel's
foreign ministry and the former director of the *Mosad, the
Israeli intelligence service. KEMPKE: It's inconceivable,
as far as I can see, that any other country, I mean Iran or
anybody else, could have directed, in such operations, from
territory directly controlled by the Syrians.
UTLEY: This is the territory of the Bekaa Valley in
Lebanon, where Syria allows Iranian.Shiite terrorists and
revolutionary guards to train. NBC News reporters have,-.--
seen the Iranians here but were not allowed to take
pictures of them. It is also know that Syrian intelligence
agents have. worked here in the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.
The Iranian connection is important because Shiites are the
largest single religious group in Lebanon. Many of them
look to Tehran as a symbol of Shiite power, and Lebanese
Shiites also provide a source of terrorists. This man is a
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central figure of the new terrorism. He is Hussein Musawi,
a Lebanese Shiite, an admirer of the Iranian revolution,
and an agent of Syria. He runs the terrorist camps in the
Bekaa Valley. Intelligence reports say his men helped
organize the bombing of the Marine headquarters:' This
photo was take just moments after the explosioh; it was
equal to 12,000 pounds of TNT, the biggest terrorist bomb
American experts have ever seen and the most sophisticated.
Terrorism is war on the cheat; a way for small countries
like Syria or Iran to attack a big power, like the United
States, while denying that they are responsible for it.
But identifying the government behind an attack like this
or at the U.S. Embassy is easy; stopping the terrorists who
do it isn't. The terrorist groups are so small, they are
so unstructured, that Western intelligence agencies have
not yet been able to penetrate them. The Islamic Jihad,
the organization which claims to have carried out the major
attacks, doesn't even exist. It is a cover name for the
terrorists. KEMPKE: Your have to strike very, very hard,
not only against the terrorists, but those that help the
terrorists, and that can also be countries.
UTLEY: But that would mean all-out wat'with Syria and
Iran, so the terrorism continues. It succeeded in turning
American public opinion against the Marines' presence in
Lebanon, and now the Marines-~are leaving. But that is only
part of what this new terrorism hopes to achieve, to
ultimately destroy American influence and poster in the
Middle East. Garrick Utley, NBC News, Beirut.
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