Palestine (Terrorist Threats)

HC Deb 18 April 1990 vol 170 c842W

Mr. Latham

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether his Department will seek the co-operation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation to investigate in order to establish whether any credence should be placed upon the threats of terrorist violence against Britain and other countries reported to have been made by the Islamic Army Front for the Liberation of Palestine on 31 March.

Mr. Waldegrave

No. The PLO does not include a group of this name.

Mr. Latham

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether his Department will seek the co-operation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in order to establish whether any credence should be placed upon the threats of terrorist violence against Britain and other countries reported to have been made by a group close to the Palestine Hamas Organisation calling itself the Organisation of Revolutionary Action—Arab Resistance Front on 31 March.

Mr. Waldegrave

No. The PLO does not include a group of this name.