Israel charged at the Security Country today that Jordan and Syria – with active did from Egypt and Iraq — were collaborating intensively in recruiting and training terrorists for raids against Israel, adding that the King Hussein regime had opened an office in Amman for mass enrollment of El Fatah raiders.
The charge, spelled out in detail, was made by Joseph Tekoah, Israel’s permanent representative here, as the Council resumed its second session in two weeks on the Middle East crisis. Both Jordan and Israel asked for the new session after a day-long battle last Friday on an 85-mile front between the two countries. The Council met Friday and Saturday and then recessed, reportedly for behind-the-scenes talks on a United States proposal to station UN observers on the Jordan-Israel demarcation line, but no resolution was presented during the afternoon meeting today. After hearing the Israeli representative, and those of Algeria, Jordan, Canada, France, Pakistan, Brazil and Denmark, the session was recessed again until 3 p.m. tomorrow.
Asserting there has been constant guerrilla attacks and Jordanian shooting across the Jordan River, Mr. Tekoah said. “The operations of the terrorist organization are coordinated between the governments of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq.” He asserted that El Fatah members were being exempted from regular army service, that the Jordanian Arab Legion encouraged terrorists to open fire against Israel from army bases and provided El Fatah with military information about Israel, that hundreds of Syrian army regulars had been transferred to terrorist units in Jordan, that Iraq was taking an active role in terrorist acts and that a regular Egyptian army unit had been transferred to join guerrilla units in Jordan. He said this information had been obtained from former army officers captured by Israel in recent clashes and he listed the officers by name and with their army unit numbers.
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