It was German bullets that killed the nine Israeli hostages-Cairo spokesman Egypt blames German police
By John Spencer
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JOHN Olympic killings at Furster military airport was laid Germany yesterday by the government.
In a strongly-worded statement the official Cairo government spokesman, Dr Mohammed Zayyat, said: 'The government of the Federal Republic of Germany acted in an unwise and unsound fashion and it must bear the consequences.' He said German bullets had killed the nine Israeli at the airport. Zayyat rejected accusations against Egypt by the West German government and said these were a distortion and an effort by Bonn to evade its responsibilities in He added that Willy Brandt, the German chancellor, had phoned Egyptian premier Dr Aziz Sidky on Tuesday night to suggest that the guerrillas and hostages be flown to Cairo in a private plane.
'The strange thing is that this telephone call took place at a time when German officials-according to statements by responsible German officialswere planning on ambush for the guerrillas at an American military airport that belonged to NATO and which led to the regrettable results which took place, ; Dr Zayyat declared.
Egypt yesterday ordered special prayers in all mosques for the repose of 'the Palestinian commando martyrs killed treacherousine chir statememt polices. remarks by Conrad Ahlers, tor the Bonn government, claiming Arab governments, particularly Egypt, had not been very helpful in response to Brandt's efforts to solve the hostages crisis.
Contrary to Ahlers' claim, it is clear that the German police set out from the start to kill the guerrillas, luring them into a floodlit trap at the airport where trained snipers could gun them down.
They had no intention of negotiating with the guerrillas and in their eagerness to annihilate the Palestinian fighters they sealed the fate of the hostages as well. feldbruck on West Egyptian Games. country. Wilson formula for police-state tactics HAROLD WILSON, leader of the British Labour Party-and like his West German co-thinker Brandt a fervent pro-Zionist —has demanded Draconian international measures against so-called terrorism and attacked the Tories for 'dragging their feet' over this issue.
His hand strengthened by the reactionary deliberations of the Trades Union Congress this week, the Labour chief has come out with open hatred for the struggle of the Palestinian fighters against Israeli domination and declared his hostility to the Arab revolution.
Outdoing the Tory government is his call for extreme measures the Arabs, Wilson forces British airports and international to houng the Palestinian guerrillas.
he said the British government should insist eam immediately withdraw fror he Olympic Games as urged b: the Israelis, should stop arms sales to Egypt and cancel the pro jected visit of the Egyptian Foreign Minister.
He said legislation should be introduced if necessary to close the Palestinian Liberation Organization's London office 'until the sponsors.. gainst terrorist acups measure.
A • Bill for this purpose, whic revolutionaries' TrOM britain, alreidon fose said the governWilson also said ment 'dragging jacking and take the issue out of the "legalistic debating chaminto convened action conference of national security forces with power to act n Britain, there should be : *full-time specialist anti-hijacking and anti-terrorist unit fully trained and conducting regular trial exercises against all known terrorists on the lines of the Israeli counter-subversive unit operating at Lydda airport:
This extremely reactionary statement for bourgeois nationalism is part of the sharp turn to the right by the British Labour and trade union chiefs which was clearly visible at the TUC in Brighton. Star-spangled ban BLACK American athletes Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett, who stood and chatted on the victory rostrum while the band played the 'StarSpangled Banner' at the Olympic medal ceremony, have been banned for ever from the Olympic The two athletes won gold and silver medals in the 400 metres. The International Olympic Committee said yesterday they had been banned from Munich and all future Olympics for contravening the 'spirit and ethics of the Ôlympic tradition'.
Matthews said on television afterwards that he did not stand to attention during the national anthem because 'I could not do so with a clear conscience'. Collett explained: 'Our behaviour on the stand mirrored the attitude of the white Americans to the black Americans.
•When the national anthem was played I could not stand there and I cannot go along with the words. I don't believe that they are true. I wish they were. We have the potential for a beautiful country,, but I don't think we have a beautiful US Earlier the IOC had sent a letter to the Olympic team chiefs expressing displeasure over 'disgusting display of your two athletes during gold medal ceremony'.
Wilson: Outdoing Tories the British Wilson's demands are nothing more than a blueprint for the police-state hounding of foreign revolutionaries and the establishment of special armed squads with the specific purpose of counter-revolution.
Wilson has aligned himself completely with the blood-stained German social-democratic government and the Zionist regime which has usurped the Palestinians' homeland and robbed them of all their rights.
The same man who remained silent for weeks on end about the Ugandan Asians now emerges without any hesitation on the side of the oppressors to hound and witch-hunt the victims of imperialism.
His demand for the expulsion of the PLO-whose London spokesman has deplored the Munich action-puts him in the same chauvinist camp as the extreme right-wing Monday Club and the National Front.
This monstrous betrayal of basic internationalist principles is fully in the tradition of the British Labour Party and of social-democracy internationally.
It is a direct threat to the rights of the British working class and demonstrates in the clearest possible fashion the thinking of the top circles of the British labour bureaucracy.