Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: F2E010@BARILVM.BITNET (Don Goldenfarb) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Palestinian Terrorist Organizations Have Nonconventional Weaponry Message-ID: <1990Jun4.192801.2543@cbnews.att.com> Date: 4 Jun 90 19:28:01 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Distribution: na Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel Lines: 41 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Don Goldenfarb >From Yediot Acharonot...May 10,1990 "Terrorists Have Bought Tens of Handgliders, Remote Control Drone Airplanes, and They are Employing Microbiologists" by Yohanan Lahav Palestinian Terrorist organizations have bought tens of handgliders, drones, and have microbiologists working for them, who are able to produce biological weapons, reports Jane's Defense Weekly, in its latest issue, which spends much time on the status of the Palestinian terrorists and their preparedness to use nonconventional weaponry. Arab countries, which produce nonconventional weapons, may give these weapons to the terrorists so that they will use them in the field, and the it will seem as though these states are not involved. According to the Weekly, already in 1981 Syria bought 12 motorized handgliders from East Germany, for the terrorist organizations of Ahmed Jibril and Abu-Abbas. The Soviets, East Germans, and the South Americans trained the terrorists to use the handgliders. Also Iraq bought items like these in France. Yasser Arafat's "Force 17" enlisted handglider pilots of various nationalities for special operations, these include British, Irish, West Germans, and Scandinavians. Abu Abbas's organization, with the help of British intermediaries, bought no less than 10 handgliders in 1985 and about 10 more last year. Libya put French handgliders, that it had bought, at the use of Abu Nidal and Ahmed Jibril, while Iran did so for the Hizbullah. The terrorists also have equipment for bacteriological experiments, and they have already sent poisons of this type to chosen victims. They may use this weapon with a time activated device, a remote controlled device, or even by air with handgliders or drone aircraft. The weekly also said that the terrorists may use these new weapons to poison water sources.