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- From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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- Subject: A common denominator between "ASALA/SDPA/ARF" terrorists and...
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:05:09 EST
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- In article <BznCsv.2wu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ptg2351@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Panos Tamamidis ) writes:
-
- > Could you explain to me why they now feel Turks, and they didn't did so
- > few years ago? And why do you thing that all of them support Sadik?
-
- It is so nonsensical. Why should the Turks trust "Gav*0s"?
- Another important development of the past 4 years is the apparent
- relocation of ASALA's headquarter away from war-torn Beirut to
- the more peaceful surroundings of Athens, Greece and Nicosia,
- Cyprus. Operating from their new locations under the rubric
- of the 'Armenian Popular Movement,' this, the most violent of
- the ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism Triangle, enjoys considerable
- support from the Greek Governments. Two major conferences held
- by this organization in Athens have benefited from the participation
- of a number of prominent Greek politicians, including that of
- the son of Papandreou, himself a member of the Cabinet.
-
- Indeed, the extent of Greek Government cooperation with the
- ASALA/SDPA/ARF terrorists also caused the U.S. Department of
- State to issue a strong warning as to the danger inherent in
- this policy.
-
- Source: Alan Cowell, 'U.S. & Greece in Dispute on Terror,' The New
- York Times, June 27, 1987, p. 4.
-
- Special to The New York Times
-
- ATHENS, June 26 - A dispute developed today between Athens and
- Washington over United States intelligence reports saying that
- Athens, for several months, conducted negotiations with the
- terrorist known as Abu Nidal...
-
- They said the contacts were verified in what were termed hard
- intelligence reports.
-
- Abu Nidal leads the Palestinian splinter group Al Fatah
- Revolutionary Council, implicated in the 1985 airport
- bombings at Rome and Vienna that contributed to the Reagan
- Administration's decision to bomb Tripoli, Libya, last year.
-
- In Washington, State Department officials said that when
- Administration officials learned about the contacts, the
- State Department drafted a strongly worded demarche. The
- officials also expressed unhappiness with Greece's dealings
- with ASALA, the Armenian Liberation Army, which has carried
- out terrorist acts against Turks....
-
- Source: "Hagop Hagopian said to have been part of 1972 Terror Attack at
- Munich Olympic Games," The Armenian Reporter, February 7, 1985, p. 1.
-
- "Le Matin, the influential Paris daily, based on unidentified sources,
- claimed last week that Hagop Hagopian, the founder and leader of one
- faction of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA),
- was among the Arab terrorists who staged an attack on the living quarters
- of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games...
-
- Le Matin added that up to 1982, Hagopian operated out of Beirut, Lebanon,
- but escaped from the country when Israeli forces entered the city. It was
- about this time that a statement issued by ASALA claimed that Mr. Hagopian
- was dead of wounds suffered during a bombing by the Israeli Air Force,
- although it is generally believed that the mysterious leader is alive and
- well and presently is residing alternately in Damascus, Syria, and
- Athens, Greece. The paper also noted that the socialist government of
- Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and his P.A.S.O.K. party accepted the
- Armenian underground leader with "open arms" and still providing him
- with assistance simply because of Greece's traditional enmity with Turkey.
-
- Le Matin further adds that ASALA derives only a small portion of its
- expenditures from wealthy Armenians who support the cause, with the rest
- coming either from other sources or from proceeds of an involvement in
- drug trafficking. The paper asserts that Bulgarian authorities also assist
- ASALA in obtaining all types of weapons that are used against Turkish targets
- and diplomats."
-
- Serdar Argic
-
- 'This war quickly developed into one of extermination.
- We closed the roads and mountain passes that might
- serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and
- then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
- (Ohanus Appressian)
-
-