A British correspondent reported from Amman today that contingents of European students are training with Arab guerrilla forces in Jordan for combat and sabotage against Israel. A spokesman for El Fatah, the largest of the Palestinian guerrilla groups, denied that it had any European recruits, but John Bulloch claimed that he saw and spoke to them, in his dispatch.
The London Telegraph correspondent wrote that the students come from Britain, Ireland, France, West Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland and several Eastern European countries. They are spending a month in Jordan and train with light weapons and other equipment. Mr. Bulloch said that a few of them intend to remain in Jordan and join guerrilla forays against Israel. The rest plan to undertake anti-Israel activities in Europe which would range from organizing boycotts of Jewish firms to actual sabotage, Mr. Bulloch reported.
(The New York Times reported from Amman Friday that Kamal Nasser, a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization, said there were a number of European recruits training at two camps in Jordan and that more were expected. According to the Times, one camp with 125 students is located near Jersah and another, with 100, is near the Great Bekka refugee camp. The Jersah camp includes a large number of British students according to commando sources, the Times said. Most of them are members of British groups who have been converted to the Arab cause and some are from France, Scandinavia and West Germany. The guerrilla spokesman told the Times that two young French recruits were killed while fighting along with guerrilla forces several months ago.)
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