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PAGE 6 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE September 19, 1986
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In the wake of the Karachi air
port massacre, Israel’s U.N. Am
bassador Btnyamin Netanyahu has
called f or the Western democracies
to wield their anti-terrorist strike
forces anywhere in the world. And
he believes that the takeover of
Pan Am flight 73 might be linked
to the bloody Neve Shalom syn
agogue massacre in Istanbul.
Netanyahu refused to respond
directly to passenger criticism of
Pakistani commandos, who report
edly did not arrive until 15 minutes
after the shooting stopped. He
would only say, “Not all countries
have the experience in handling
these emergencies. The response
has to be quick and effective.” The
Karachi terrorists who assaulted
Pan Am flight 73 “probably selected
a location peripheral to the West
ern World, for just this reason,”
said Netanyahu.
Netanyahu’s solution: “The
democracies and their allies have
the ability to gird the globe and get
to any point within hours. When a
plane of a Western democracy is
hijacked to a third country,” as
serted Netanyahu, “that government
should readily invite the special
forces of the country of whose
plane or citizens was hijacked.”
While not advocating mixed or
multinational anti-terrorist teams,
Netanyahu insists “if the democra-
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cies’ separate forces could coordi
nate in advance, they would achieve
better communications among them,
and faster transport to effect any
rescue.” But such coordination can
only work, insists Netanyahu, “if
we don’t insist that the country
where a hijacked plane happens to
be parked, is the one which will
necessarily perform the rescue. If
this becomes automatic policy, there
would be no loss of national face or
prestige.”
American “specialists,” presum
ably Delta Force, were dispatched
to Karachi and had already been
granted Pakistani permission to
land. However, before they could
land, and with Pakistani comman
dos caught off-guard, electrical
generators went out on the plane,
throwing the terrorists into a frenzy
of murder, “but horrific as the cas
ualties were,” observes Netanyahu,
“it was important that the terror
ists were not able to leave the
ground so they could kill even
more passengers.”
Immoblization is indeed the new
anti-terrorist strategy. “In this
case, the plane could not take off
and it could not land,” asserted
Netanyahu. In tune with this con
cept, Pan Am security procedures
now call for the cockpit crew to
escape via an emergency hatch,
which happened in Karachi even as
the terrorists were climbing aboard.
This not only immobilized the air
craft, but its communications
equipment as well. The terrorists
were prevented from even nego
tiating effectively. If a crew had
agreed to re-enter the plane, CIA
agents stationed in Karachi were
prepared to shoot out the jet’s tires
preventing departure, accordingto
sources. In any event, Cyprus offi
cials had already denied permis
sion to land, said Netanyahu.
“The more this principle spreads,"
asserts Netanyahu, “the better for
future hijackings.”
Meanwhile, Israeli intelligence
is scrambling to identify the true
intentions of the four terrorists
who stormed the the jumbo jet. But
because Pakistan and the Jewish
state have no relations, Israeli
security is awaiting the findings of
American intelligence.
Israel has two interests. First,
now that airlines have tightened jet
boarding security, the question of
airport perimeter security is in
creasingly important. Second, was
the goal of the terrorists to fly to
Cyprus to free Force 17 comman
dos currently in prison for murder
ing three Israelis last fall in Lar-
naca, as they claimed, or was it to
crash the jumbo 747 into Tel Aviv
or Haifa.
In the ensuing 17 hours, the ter
rorists offered to release all pas
sengers in exchange for a crew that
would fly them to Cyprus. But ter
rorism sources stationed in the
United States suspect the true ob
jective was to fly to Beirut, load
stocks of explosives, and take off
again, this time crashing the Pan
Am 747 into Tel Aviv or Haifa.
The willingness to exchange pas
sengers for the use of an empty jet,
supports the crash scenario, ac
cording to these sources.
An Israeli government source
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