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Police Agency Shuns Crackdown on International Terror
(Editor's note: This is
the last in a series of arti-
cles by London scholar and
researcher S. A. Barram
on Interpol, the interna-
tional police agency, its
Nazi ties in the past, and
its threat to modern so-
ciety.)
BY S. A. BARRAM
The international charac-
ter of modern terrorism has
made it virtually impossible
for a single national police
force to deal with it. There-
fore, to combat interna-
tional crime successfully,
the cooperation of law en-
forcement agencies from
many countries is needed.
Such liaison in this con-
nection, includes preventive
measures—screening of
travellers at airports and
border posts, watching and
trailing of suspects and
most important, informa:
tion relay on suspects'
movements.
Interpol, the Interna-
tional Criminal Police Or-
ganization, has been estab-
lished just for this
purpose—the combat of in-
ternational crime.
Whereas governments,
in their dealings with ter-
rorists, have been ham-
pered by political and eco-
nomic considerations, an
international police force,
if it were free of political
and economic considera-
tions, could effectively op-
erate against terrorists.
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However Interpol, which
to many is an organization
of super efficient detectives,
dreaded by the interna-
tional underworld, is far
from an effective set-up in
the combat of crime.
Its arrest statistics, dur-
ing the year ending 1970,
showed 452 arrests, which
would be a good average for
a London Bobby. The statis-
tic does not show convic-
tions, as Interpol keeps only
arrests records.
Also, the number of ar-
rests does not include ter-
rorists, for Interpol ascribes
political motives to interna-
tional terrorism. According
to article (3) of its Constitu-
tion it refuses to get in-
volved in the combat of ter-
rorism: "It is strictly
forbidden for the organiza-
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Interpol, as the only
world-wide organization
which connects the police
of over 120 member states,
refrains from actively
combatting murderers,
extortionists and kidnap-
pers and limits its scope of
activity to the academic
study of methods of terror-
ism alone.
The original intention of
article (3) was the preven-
tion of a recurrence of Inter-
pol's World War II involve-
ment in political police
activities.
The seizure of hostages,
extortion, assassination
massacre of civilians,
whether Jewish or not, does
not fall under the definition
of political crime.
To interpret the defini-
tion to cover any violent act
which has been mantled
under a political label, is to
evade due process of justice.
It means that any ordi-
nary gangsters which have
made political attacks on
wealthy individuals and cor-
porations to camouflage
standard kidnapping and
gangsterism under the cloak
of ideology, would fall under
the protection granted by
article (3) of Interpol's Con-
stitution.
The problem of interna-
tional terrorism has been
raised by several upright
police delegates who in-
tended to grip the problem
at the Interpol Assembly
in Cannes in 1974.
However, what prospect
of success could those dele-
gates have had in the light
of the numerous member
states who overtly and cov-
ertly support terrorism:- Al-
geria, Bahrain, Cuba, Iraq,
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Libya, Mordcco, Oman, Pak-
istan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Sudan, Syria, Tunisia,
Uganda, Union of Emirates,
Zaire and others?
Another effort was made
this year in February. Avia-
tion organizations insti-
gated a congress at Interpol
headquarters in Paris to co-
ordinate the defense of air-
lines and airports. Among
the 32 countries who partici-
pated at the congress were
several Arab countries that
support terrorism.
For years international
aviation organizations
urged Interpol to change its
attitude towards hijacking
and terrorism. Their de-
mands, based on interna-
tionally accepted conven-
tions, have been widely
supported by the public, the
media and many upright
politicians, but Interpol re-
mained unyielding.
Interpol's policy endan-
gers law abiding innocent
people and forfeits the ele-
mentary purpose of the pol-
ice and the administration
of justice—which is the
protection of human rights
with all its implications.
If Interpol limits its ac-
tivities in regard to inter-
national terrorism to the
study of methods, it plays
strictly by the rules when
it comes to Nazi criminals.
Genocide, war crimes,
experimentation on human
beings, euthanasia and per-
secution of minorities are
defined by Interpol as politi-
cal, religious or racial
crimes and consequently,
the organization, applying
article (3), grants protection
from extraditing the perpe-
trators of Nazi atrocities.
In 1961, the World Jewish
Congress issued an official
protest to the General As-
sembly of Interpol—with-
outsuccess. Interpol re-
mained adamant.
Regardless of Interpol's
violation of the Universal
Declaration of.. Human
Rights, of the embarrassing
past of its executives, re-
gardless of its inefficiency
to combat crime, that the
organization refuses to
track down perpetrators of
genocide and international
terrorists, the fact that In-
terpol has achieved a status
of a supra international in-
stitution, accountable to no
one but itself, funded by
governments which have no
say on the policy of the or-
ganization and the way it
spends its money, warrants
a modification of its consti-
tution and change of man-
agement.
If Interpol has become the
self appointed guardian of
society, who will protect us
from our guardians?
NY Jewish Civil Servants
Layoffs Number in Thousands
NEW YORK, (JTA) —
About half of the 20,000
New York City civil service
workers laid off because of
the current fiscal crisis are
Jews, according to Louis
Weiser, president of the
Council of Jewish Organiza-
tions in Civil Service.
The council is a fraternal
organization comprised of
some two dozen groups rep-
resenting Jews in a wide
range of municipal depart-
ments.
Weiser said that the coun-
cil had organized job banks
in efforts to help laid off
Jewish civil servants obtain
new jobs. He said between
30 and 40 dismissed Jewish
policemen had been helped
to find jobs in fields related
to their police training, such
as positions in private secu-
rity firms.
He gave the following
breakdown of Jewish civil
servants dismissed to date
in the municipal economy
drive: 140 police, 50 fire-
men, 25 correction offi-
cers, 500 in the Human Re-
sources Administration,
the city's superagency for
welfare and poverty pro-
grams; an estimated 7,000
teachers and other person-
nel among board of educa-
tion personnel; and about
1,500 in various other city
departments for a total of
9,215 laid-off Jewish civil
service employes.
Weiser said that, in addi-
tion to the creation of job
banks, the Council also has
been monitoring layoffs to
make sure they are made in
accordance with Civil Serv-
ice regulations, such as that
requirements of seniority
prevail, with exceptions for
war veterans.
He said there had been in-
quiries from non-Jewish
laid-off workers concerning
the announcement last Au-
gust that the Israel Aliya
Center of the American Sec-
tion of the World Zionist Or-
ganization was contacting
dismissed Jewish municipal
employes in an effort to per-
suade them to go to Israel
where jobs are available for
police, firemen and teach-
ers.
-
Weiser said the Council
officials have been explain-
ing that government work-
ers must be Israeli citizens
and that while Jews are au-
tomatically entitled to Is-
raeli citizenship under the
Law of Return, non-Jews
planning to go to Israel to
seek government jobs must
become citizens under the
standard naturalization
procedures.
Israel Is Seeking
Social Workers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
senior official of the Wel-
fare Ministry has proposed
a recruitment drive among
laid-off social workers in
New York City to fill Is-
rael's need for another 500
professional social workers
to carry out the country's
minimum social welfare
programs.
The official said a thor-
ough campaign by the Min-
istry might convince many
victims of New York's fiscal
crisis to seek their profes-
sional future in Israel.
A recent survey con-
ducted by the Welfare Min-
istry disclosed an increasing
gap between the number of
university graduates in so-
cial work and the demand
for their services.
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