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Black September
Call Number: CE 339Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Jordanian government position on the Palestinian Resistance Movement in Jordan. Admits that the Jordanian government used heavy armament against Palestinian Guerillas during the Black September Massacre in 1970. Claims that the price paid to maintain law and order was low despite massive deaths and injuries. Since Black September, Palestinian Resistance fighters carry out operations against the occupation from within the Israeli occupied West Bank. The official stance of the Jordanian government with respect to the Palestinians is that they support their right to resist the occupation but they prevent actions from Jordan.
Interview with Michael Adams, British correspondent successful in negotiating the release of hostages from a plane hijacking by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Adams criticizes the Jordanian repression of Palestinians during Black September. Confirms that the US provided weapons to the Jordanian government for their attacks against the Palestinian guerillas in Jordan and that the US trained Jordanian Special Forces.
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