Cairo's PLO Office Is Exporting Terror

By YITZHAK SHARGIL

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Re-
cently captured terrorists
claimed under interroga-
tion that they were briefed
and dispatched on their
mission by the El Fatah
office in Cairo which Is-
raelis believed was shut
down when the peace proc-
ess with Egypt began.
El Fatah is the terrorist
arm of the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization. The re-
nort that its Cairo office, lo-
ted on Adlie St., near the
,nagogue, is still function-
ing has disturbed Israeli of-
ficials.
The terrorists who made
the disclosure were ap-
prehended in the Gaza
Strip. According to security
sources there has been a
significant rise in terrorist
activity in that territory
and a corresponding decline
on the West Bank. Terrorist
acts inside Israel have in-
creased but attacks on Is-
raeli targets abroad have
dropped in recent months.
Security sources re-
ported that activity by

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former United Jewish Ap-
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the Syrian-backed Al
Saiqa terrorists and the
Iraqi-backed Palestine
LiberStion Front has in-
creased but there has
been a lessening of ac-
tivity by George
Habash's Popular Front
for the Liberation of
Palestine.

with
Palestinian
nationalist aims, security
agencies have difficulty
finding people willing to
cooperate. This has
created obstacles in ob-
taining intelligence.
There has been a signific-
ant decline in the number of
West Bankers in general
who are willing to cooperate
with Israeli authorities.
Recruiting officers for
terrorist groups are known
to be particularly active
among Israeli Arabs who
went on the pilgrimage to
Mecca, the security sources
reported.

The average age of the
terrorists is between 18-28.
About 10 percent of those
arrested and convicted re-
sume hostile activity after
release from prison. Secu-
rity sources acknowledged
that there has been an
enormous improvement in
the quality of manpower,
Since the 1967 Six-Day
performance of terrorists War, 85 percent of terrorist
and in the organization of crimes were solved by the
terrorist cells.
authorities but not all the
The cells are small. Their perpetrators were captured
members are usually and put behind bars. Some
trained individually.
managed to escape into
Unlike the common prac- neighboring countries.
tice in the past, members
During 1979 and the first
are not necessarily from the quarter of 1980, there were
same village. Internal secu- 54 acts of terror in
rity is tight and each Jerusalem which has be-
member has only minimal come a favored target of ter-
knowledge of the activities rorists.
of the group as a whole
In the same period, 97
which limits the amount of terrorist cells were un-
information they can supply covered in the process of
under interrogation. The organization compared
educational level of the ter- to 122 cells during the
rorists continues to rise.
previous year. In 1979-
The Israeli sources ex- 1980, 1,345 terrorist sus-
pressed concern over the - pects were held for ques-
politicization of the popu- tioning on the West Bank
lation in the occupied and 738 on the Gaza Strip.
territories. Because of The numbers in the prev-
growing identification ious year were 1,664 and

566, respectively.
According to Israeli
sources, the Palestinian
National Guidance Council
on the West Bank is domi-
nated by representatives of
the more extreme rejec-
tionist groups and El Fatah
is finding it difficult to
maintain control of the
situation. The sources said
that 13 of the 22 members of
the Council are rejectionists
who oppose the Camp David
accords and the autonomy
scheme.

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