European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. December 1, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 . Beefs up anti terrorist operations new York times in the last few years the Pentagon has created several teams and commands Tor the purpose of countering  joint special operations Agency headed by a two Star general is charged with preparing doctrine and p in to guide cd Unter 2r wrist forces in their formation training and operations. But it has no command authority Over the forces. The joint special operations command a secret unit stationed at tort Bragg n.c., is reported to have control Over units that might be used to repel terrorists or to Rescue americans taken hostage. They include the army s Delta Force of soldiers at fort Bragg and task Force 160 of High Speed helicopters at fort Campbell by. The Navy s Seal team six of frogman at Little Creek near Norfolk. Va., is the Navy s counter terror Force. The air Force s special operations Wing at Eglin fab in Florida would Fly specially equipped c-130 transports in a counter terrorist operation. The Delta Force has reportedly been deployed several times to advise venezuelan forces on How to retake a hijacked plane to Oman to prepare to retake a hijacked plane in Kuwait and to the Mediterranean at the time of the Twa hijacking. So far As is known however those forces were not used in any of those incidents. The publicly known a Pont have been More measured. The Central intelligence Agency the state department s Security Force the Federal Bureau of investigation the Pentagon and other parts of the government have beefed up anti terrorist operations devoting new Money and personnel to the task. But some officials and private experts Are concerned that terrorism s spectacular nature May draw resources away from More critical areas of nuclear and conventional defense. We need the capabilities because it s another form of warfare a military intelligence Olicer said. But terrorism is not a major policy problem. It s a policy  Walter Laqueur of the Center for strategic and International studies at Georgetown University agrees with this assessment. There is a tendency to overrate the importance of  he said. I Don t mean there is no problem that would be foolish. But the terrorist act by itself is nothing Only  and the Public attention he said creates a serious situation during a hostage taking. The president takes Over the Secretary of stale and the government practically come to a  Laqueur said. This is a  american and some foreign officials believe that Progress has been made internationally in stripping terrorism of its Mantle of political immunity in branding terrorism a common crime subject to r Irmal police work and judicial procedure. In october 1984, Interpol the International police organization began changeling requests among its member countries for information about terrorists and their organizations thereby ending a policy of treating terrorism As a political act. The United states has stepped up efforts to have terrorists extradited from other countries. But Stephen s. Trott. Assistant attorney general for the criminal division of the Justice department said the policy was being undermined by resistance in the Senate to a revised american British extradition treaty. In four cases Federal judges have refused British requests for extradition of members of the provisional Irish Republican army on charges of killing soldiers ruling that the crimes were political. The treaty revision. Signed last june would exempt certain violent crimes from the political Protection including murder manslaughter bombing and kidnapping. We re talking out of both sides of our Mouth. Trott said. On one Side we Are standing up and demanding that terrorists be returned to the . On the other Side we a unable to limit the political offence doctrine. We would t sit still Tor five minutes if somebody had shot president Reagan and beat it Over to England and said. Political offence " Robert Friedlander assistant counsel of the Senate judiciary committee s subcommittee on the Constitution said the hesitation of Many senators was based partly on political pressure from Irish groups in this  and partly on the sense that since the accused had killed soldiers not civilians they were involved in the kind of politically motivated armed insurrection that such treaties have sought to protect not Only police departments but also intelligence agencies Are sharing information across political boundaries with increasing ease according to officials involved attempts have even been made to open such channels Between Moscow and Washington. The United states offered information to the soviet Union after four members of the soviet embassy in Beirut were kidnapped recently. Robert b. Oakley of the state department s group on terrorism said. We believe that the threat is to All countries and Calls for cooperation among  he declared. In that spirit we did offer to talk about what we knew. But we assume they had better information than we did. They have More friends in West  one of the russians was killed and three were released after the soviet Union with syrian help reportedly pinpointed the location. Although the soviet Union and Eastern european countries have provided military training and weapons to palestinian guerrillas who have then conducted terrorist attacks the russians themselves have also been victims of terrorism and some american officials with Long experience in the Field see room for increased soviet american cooperation. I think it would be a very healthy thing if we could get into the information Exchange with them said Donald Gregg vice president Bush s assistant for National Security and a Veteran of More than 30 years with the Cia. Even in the Middle East where hatreds Are powerful intelligence sharing has sometimes crossed political lines. On Many occasions Israel has reportedly passed warnings through the United states to King Hussein of Jordan about plots to assassinate him a service based on Israel s calculation that a relatively moderate Hussein government in Amman is preferable to having radicals in Power there. Information on terrorists is made available to Israel by the United states Britain and other Western countries that refuse to provide the israelis with conventional military intelligence on the disposition of Arab armed forces the United states does t give us information on Jordan or Egypt said a senior israeli Allicer with a background in military intelligence but Washington does share Exter