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IC0 00 18 2 17 I 8 November 1972 . . .. SPECIAL REPORT "BLACK SEPTEMBER" The 5 September 1872 massacre,of 11 Israeli Olympic team members in Munich; the 28 November"I97l assassination of Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tal; the worldwide letter bomb conspitacy; and the ... recent 29 October 1972 hijacking of a Lufthansa 727 jet airliner, engi- neered to free three Elack September guerrillas held by West German authorities in connection with the Munich massacre -- all these incidents pose & acute question as to what ca0.b done to combat the rise in inter- national terrorism posed by the Black SeptemUer organbation. Printed below in its €id1 text is an article analyzing the background of the recent outburst of violence by the Elack Septembef. group and allied fedayeen revolutionists written by Ibrahim Saleh fiagar, an exceptionally well- informed author based in Rome, Italy. Behind Black SeDtember - Ibrahim Sal& Hagar All the indications are that Palestinian terrorist organizations, which have conducted a desperate but on the whole futile struggle against the State of Israel for the last twenty years, stand at a crossroads in their history. They may turn their attention increasingly to the outside world, in particular Europe, and possibly later on, other continents. In the latter event, all pretense of concentrating on 'lmilitary'l targets will go, and the whole western world w i l l find itself involved in a deadly dangerous confrontation with Palestinian Arab terrorism. Of crucial importance in the phase of 'diffused' terrorism which seems to be beginning is an organization calling itself 'Jihaz al Rasd' -- RASD for short, or "Operation Network. 'I This organization, which has been built up in its present form over the past three years, has been . . - i '