"Euro-Terrorist Deal?" Freeper help. Where is this article?

Rush/Frontpagemagazine.com ? | 03/06/03 | LS

[LS]

Yesterday Rush briefly touched on a supposed deal the French and Germans had that went way beyond economics---it was a deal for the Euros to oppose war in Iraq in return for no terror attacks on their territory. He obliquely referenced an article in David Horowitz's Frontpagemagazine.com, but I could not find it in any search or on the webside. Does anyone know what article this was, and were I can find it?

[reformedliberal]

I was also told about this and searched Front Page and didn't find it. OTOH, it seems obvious.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Appeasement of Terrorists

The Ocalan affair is a throwback to the worst moments of international terrorism in the mid-1970s. At that time, European governments of both left and right made deals with various terrorists in order to ensure that violent acts were not committed in Europe. These terrorists included Abu Nidal (who led Black September, the extremist Palestinian group that was the most dangerous of all Palestinian terrorist organizations), Carlos the Jackal (the Venezuelan-born terrorist who commanded the kidnapping of OPEC oil ministers from Vienna in December 1975), George Habash (the Marxist Christian Arab who was leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which carried out bombings and hijackings and trained terrorists from all over the world in Lebanon), and various elements of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Most, if not all, of the Western intelligence services, including the U.S. CIA, the French SDEC, and the Italian Sismi, had representatives in Beirut who liaised with the PLO and other groups, and many terrorist leaders lived and traveled in Europe, protected by the benevolent indifference and even the private cooperation of the host governments. If, by chance or an excess of bureaucratic zeal, a terrorist was arrested, he or she was generally put on a private plane and flown to safety in North Africa or back to Beirut. The Italians actually chartered Alitalia planes to fly terrorists to Libya; the French preferred Beirut.

Against this backdrop of active appeasement, the idea of terrorism was deconstructed by the intellectuals of the day, who coined catchy phrases—such as "one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter"—that justified the Europeans’ failure to fight the terrorist plague. Indeed, some terrorists became folk heroes, such as Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Carlos the Jackal, and the dashing Leila Khaled, a Palestinian hijacker who carried out, among other exploits, the hijacking of an El Al airliner in London in 1970. So long as appeasement worked, so long as the terrorists’ targets were Israelis, Spaniards, Turks, and the occasional American diplomat, so long as European cities and citizens were left alone, the terrorists operated freely.

Away from Appeasement . . .

Things changed when terrorism was unleashed against Europe. It eventually became clear that European terrorists of both political extremes trained at the same camps as the foreign groups, and that there was a substantial degree of cooperation among them. Spanish Basques trained in North Africa and Lebanon, Italians of the Communist Red Brigades and those of the right-wing Ordine Nero trained in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, along with Germans of the Baader-Meinhof group and the Red Army Fraction. The IRA got support from Libya, as did most any terrorist who bothered to ask.

These were unpleasant facts that made it hard to justify tacit support for foreign terrorists, especially when European passenger aircraft were hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, and European airports became sites of mass murder. As the Europeans cracked down on their own terrorist groups in the late 1970s and early ’80s, many of the "freedom fighters" lost their sex appeal. Hardly a murmur was heard from the European intelligentsia and political elites when Carlos was finally arrested in Sudan a couple of years ago and locked away in a Parisian jail.