Israeli Planes Raid Jordan

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31989, 16 May 1969, Page 11

Israeli Planes Raid Jordan

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) TEL AVIV, May 15. Israeli planes yesterday attacked an Arab guerrilla base about a mile and a half inside Jordan, a military spokesman announced.

The base was less than a mile south of the Jordanian village of Tabakat Fachl. The area is opposite a chain of Israel border settlements which have been under constant fire from across the Jordan since the 1967 six-day war. The raid lasted 15 minutek, Bagdad Radio announced that 10 Iraqis accused of spying for Israel, the United States and Iran, would be executed today. According to the names broadcast by the radio all the condemned men are Moslems. Since January 27 the ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party in Iraq has executed 28 people, including nine Jews, on spying charges. The radio did not say when the new groups, including soldiers and civilians, were tried. Abdel-hadi Al-bejjari, who' was condemned to death last January by a revolutionary court, is one of the condemned. His execution was postponed as his testimony was required in other alleged espionage cases pending before the Court. According to the radio the

i condemned men belonged to . three alleged espionage networks working for Israel, the i United States and Iran. ; Israeli troops in rubber ■ boats tried to cross the Suez • Canal south of Port Said ' shortly after midnight but were driven back, an Egyp- , tian military communique tyjSid yesterday. The communique said the I Israelis tried to infiltrate ; Egyptian positions along the canal north of El Cap, a small ; town a few miles south of ! Port Said.