Informed sources in Jordan have predicted a new wave of terrorist activity by Palestinians in Western Europe, directed primarily against Jewish targets but at American institutions as well, the newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported today. The paper’s correspondent in Amman, Harm Botje, said that according to the Jordanian sources, a fierce debate is going on among Palestine Liberation Organization and other terrorist leaders who have taken refuge in west Beirut after the defeat of the PLO by Israel in Lebanon.
The radical wing of the PLO appears to be prevailing, the sources said, particularly the group around George Habash who heads the Popular front for the Liberation of Palestine. Habash and his followers have concluded that as a result of the route of the PLO in Lebanon, large scale terrorist activity abroad is the only way to enforce the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and a homeland, Botje reported.
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