PLO Operates Airport Shops, Newspaper Says
From Times Wire Services
London —
The Palestinian Liberation Organization has taken control of duty-free shops at several Aftican airports as a cover for smuggling arms for guerrilla attacks, a British newspaper reported.
The mail said PLO front organizations recently won concessions at three international airports in Africa. The locations were not given.
“Control of the duty-free shops gives PLO terrrorists the perrfect cover to smuggle firearms. . . around the world,” the newspaper reported Sunday.
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