Europeans allowed 'Palestinians' free passage in return for not being targeted
On Sunday, a former Italian President admitted that his country had a deal with the 'Palestine Liberation Organization' (Yasser Arafat and his friends) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of 'Palestine' pursuant to which the Italian government allowed 'Palestinian' terrorists freedom of movement within Italy in return for Italian national and international sites not being the targets of terror attacks.In an article written by former Italian President Francesco Cossiga for the national newspaper Corriere della Sera he confesses, "I always knew, though not by official documents and information kept from me, about the existence of an agreement based on 'don't harm me and I won't harm you' between the Italian Republic and organizations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the PLO."Ronen Bergman writes that it's not just the Italians who paid the 'Palestinians' to leave them alone.
According to Cossiga the agreement was approved and directed by former Italian Premier Aldo Moro, who "was awarded an extraordinary capability for the direction of Italian intelligence agencies and special forces after he received approval for the deal."
"According to the deal, the Palestinian organizations could establish bases in Italy, enjoyed freedom of movement when entering and exiting the country, and could move around without undergoing mandatory security checks because they were protected by the secret service," Cossiga explained.
"During my time as interior minister I learned that PLO people were holding heavy artillery in their homes and protected by diplomatic immunity as representatives of the Arab League. I was told not to worry and I managed to convince them to lay down their heavy artillery and make do with light weaponry."
Cossiga's article was published just one day after Corriere della Serra's reporter in Israel interviewed Bassam Abu Sharif in Jericho, who is considered the foreign minister of the PFLP. In the interview Sharif admitted that Italy permitted free movement to Palestinian organizations within its boundaries.
In March 1988, the CIA provided French intelligence officials with passport photos of Imad Mugniyah as well as information about the forged passport he was using. This enabled French immigration authorities to identify him at the border control. Yet because they feared that Mugniyah’s arrest would prompt the murder of French hostages held by his group in Lebanon, the French stepped back, to the great chagrin of the administration of George Bush Sr.Bergman tells similar stories about Germany, Spain and Turkey in Europe and about Jordan and Saudi Arabia in the Arab world.
In another case, the French paid millions of dollars to Hizbullah so that the group would release two hostages.
Some of you may also recall that someone apparently paid a large ransom for al-Beeb reporter Alan Johnston and that Fox News was rumored to have paid $2 million to free two of its reporters two years ago.
Still, among all these instances, it seems that only in Italy - and possibly Spain - did it rise to the level of an actual long-term policy of allowing the terrorists freedom of movement. Ironically, both Italy and Spain are countries that were afflicted with domestic terrorists during the same time period. You would think they would have learned the lesson that cowering to terrorists doesn't pay?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:42 AM
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How ironic that Aldo Moro was kidnapped and murdered by PLO colleagues and trainees, the RAF aka the Baader-Meinhof gang. Almost seems fitting.
Sorry, mrzee. You got it wrong. The operation was a Red Brigades operation...fitting their perverted logic...even if it might have well served the interests of other people who did not want, just like the Red Brigades did not want [it was the last thing they would have wanted, since their whole strategy was OPPOSITE the Italian Communist Party strategy of democratic socialism!], the entry of the Italian Communist Party, then the second largest party in Italy, in the Government coalition, which is what Moro was going to ask the Parliament that day...and even if there were English speakers (WITH AMERICAN ACCENTS!) in the LARGE commando who murdered Moro's body guards and kidnapped him.
No Germans involved there...apparently...
Sorry, mrzee. You got it wrong. The operation was a Red Brigades operation...fitting their perverted logic...even if it might have well served the interests of other people who did not want, just like the Red Brigades did not want [it was the last thing they would have wanted, since their whole strategy was OPPOSITE the Italian Communist Party strategy of democratic socialism!], the entry of the Italian Communist Party, then the second largest party in Italy, in the Government coalition, which is what Moro was going to ask the Parliament that day...and even if there were English speakers (WITH AMERICAN ACCENTS!) in the LARGE commando who murdered Moro's body guards and kidnapped him.
No Germans involved there...apparently...
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