Some 15 West German leftwing urban terrorists and rightwing neo-Nazis were among the PLO terrorists who were evacuated from west Beirut, according to information the federal West German police made available to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The police said that among the Germans who left Beirut were some who were on Bonn’s list of most-wanted terrorists.
In the past few years the federal police has tried in vain to obtain the arrest of West German extremists who worked with the PLO in Beirut and in other parts of Lebanon.
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