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Post by lionking on Jun 2, 2007 7:06:18 GMT -4
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Post by gwiz on Jun 2, 2007 10:48:27 GMT -4
It's true that the declassified document exists, here's the report in the Guardian newspaperWhether the information that the diplomat's contact passed on is accurate is another matter.
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lenbrazil
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Post by lenbrazil on Jun 4, 2007 8:37:46 GMT -4
I wrote the following for another forum: Wow an at best second hand report from an anonymous source how compelling! Actually it probably is 3rd or 4th hand unless Colvin or his “source” made it up. I would presume the Arab parliamentarians would have been closer the PLO than the PFLP. My guess is that it was made up by a PLO rep who felt the kidnapping threatened his organizations ties with Europe. There only two ways someone at the meeting could have know this IF it were true
1) he was part of the PFLP high command – but in this case he would be unlikely to tell a British diplomat about it 2) he had information from an intelligence service – this isn’t always reliable because they might make up stuff for to suit their interests, but presumably if an Arab intelligence service had evidence of this it would have come out by now.
The source seems to have cited the wrong intelligence service Shin-Bet deals with domestic security like the MI5 and FBI. If the Israeli had done something like it would have been the Mossad.
My presumption that people at the meeting would be aligned to the PLO is not baseless the Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation (the correct name of the organization) meet in Damascus in 1974 and demanded “The association of the PLO and its leader Arafat in any negotiations… The European members of the permanent secretariat of the Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation ( PAEAC) travelled frequently to the United States to attempt to influence America policy in favour of the PLO's claims, and against Israel. The Arabs demanded that Europe recognise Yasser Arafat as the Palestinian leader”
In it 1975 meeting in Strasbourg “the association called on European governments to recognize the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinian Arabs”
Note the quotes above are the authors words not PEAC's
www.uitkijk.net/docs/by_eurabia_122002_eng.doc
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