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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1992

Habash

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peace conference opened last
October. Five months ago,
Israeli security forces scored
a major coup when they un-
covered a network of Pop-
ular Front cells loyal to Mr.
Habash and arrested more
than 400 of its members in
an unprecedented
crackdown on the organiza-
tion.
The case which focussed
the attention of Mr.
Bruguiere, however, did not
involve any of the spec-
tacular terrorist attacks for
which Mr. Habash has
claimed credit, but rather a
1986 dossier concerning the
discovery of a cache of
weapons and explosives in
the forest of Fontainbleau
following a wave of bomb-
ings that had claimed 13
lives in the French capital.
Mr. Habash was linked to
the discovery through his
group's contacts with the
far-left Danish Blek-
ingegade movement, which
was disbanded in 1989 after
its members were convicted
of terrorist offenses, in-
cluding the supply of money
and arms to Mr. Habash.
But the investigation into
Mr. Habash's misdeeds was
aborted at midnight last
Friday when Palestinian
threats of violent reprisals
and a letter from Palestinian
leaders to the French consul-
general in Jerusalem warn-
ing of "a rift in Franco-
Palestinian relations" con-
vinced President Mitterrand
to allow Mr. Habash to go
free.
Doctors called in to ex-
amine the terrorist leader
declared that he was unfit to
answer questions, the deten-
tion order was allowed to
lapse and preparations were
immediately made for him to
leave Paris without further
delay.
Last Saturday, 66 hours
after he had arrived in Paris,
one of the world's most
wanted international
criminals was escorted back
to the airport by a fleet of
motorcycle outriders and
police cars, a pageant nor-
mally reserved for visiting
heads of state.
Unaided, George Habash
boarded an Algerian plane
that had been specially
chartered by the PLO to
transport him back to Tunis
— to a personal embrace
from Yassir Arafat and
freedom to pursue his bloody
campaign of terror against
Israelis.
President Mitterrand is
the only European head of
state to have officially
received Mr. Arafat, but this
has not prevented France
from becoming a favorite

hunting ground for Palestin-
ian terrorists. Nor is this the
first time France has craven-
ly capitulated to Middle East
terrorism and demonstrated
a supine attitude to its
perpetrators.
In 1977, Black September
leader Abu Daoud, who was
wanted in Israel and Ger-
many for master-minding
the 1972 Munich Olympics
massacre, was arrested in
France while traveling
under an assumed name.
The political deck was hasti-
ly rearranged and he was
allowed to leave the country
before extradition pro-
ceedings could be completed.
Ten years later, Vahid
Gordji, a translator at the
Iranian Embassy who was
summoned for questioning
about a wave of bombings in
Paris, was allowed to leave
after "tough talk" from
Teheran.
This time, the French
government might not
escape unscathed. George
Habash missed his appoint-
ment with the surgeons of
France, but the knives are
out for Francois Mitterrand.
Ironically, if the Habash
affair provides the coup de
gras for the Mitterrand ad-
ministration, the chief
beneficiary is likely to be the
far-right National Front
leader Jean-Marie Le Pen,
no friend of either Arabs or
Jews, whose radical
xenophobia is finding an in-
creasing echo among French
voters.

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NEWS

Czech Caller
Makes Threats

Prague (JTA) — A 40-year-
old man with a long criminal
record was arrested last
week in Brno, Moravia, in
connection with anonymous
telephone calls threatening
to attack synagogues and
other Jewish institutions
unless the government im-
mediately broke diplomatic
ties with Israel.
His calls were taken seri-
ously because the caller said
he would use weapons re-
cently stolen from a police
academy.
According to the police,
who did not disclose the
suspect's identity, he has
four previous convictions for
criminal offenses but no
connection with Palestinian
or other foreign organiza-
tions.
Nor can he help recover
the 70 submachine guns and
12 pistols stolen three weeks
ago from the police academy
in Holesov.

