Three Arab terrorists, arrested in Stuttgart March 1 for illegal possession of explosives and guns, were expelled from West Germany yesterday without standing trial. The decision to release them was taken in face of Palestine Liberation Organization threats to kill German officials and destroy German property in Beirut.
The expulsion order was believed to have been given by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on the advice of Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Only last week, West Germany’s Ambassador to Lebanon was summoned home and reportedly brought fresh threats from PLO headquarters in Beirut. The German school and German cultural center there were closed last week.
The three terrorists ousted were believed to have been planning the murder of a score of Moslem fundamentalists living in West Germany who are opposed to the regime of Syrian President Hofez Assad. They entered the country with Syrian passports.
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