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turn a multinational effort to apprehend extortionists operating in
Europe into a farce. Had the regulations restricting the operation of
foreign policemen in different countries not been overcome and the
effort a success, this may have led to more serious problems in future
cooperation, because suspicions would have been proven justified. 51
While the FRG efforts of cooperation outside the West, where group
efforts may conflict with its own interests, have not been as beneficial
as some would like, its cooperation within the West has been
substantial. 52 One problem with international cooperation is its
tendency to mirror the domestic policy of 'no concessions I discussed
earlier in the counterterrorism assumptions. In foreign policy this has
extended to the 'self-help' of the Mogadishu rescue. 53
Perhaps its strongest bilateral cooperation efforts have been with
France. The 1963 Franco-German Treaty of Friendship, provided a
convivial context for discussions about terrorism when it became a
problem in the seventies. The two states added to this with the February
1977 aggreement on joint customs and police posts. The February 1985
efforts initiated by the two Interior Ministers to improve cooperative
police and intelligence efforts, with irrnnediate information exchanges,
bloomed in April 1987 with an agreement over constant contact between
Gennan and French officials who would aid the exchange of internal
security, legal, and investigative procedure information through their
particular expertise when in the neighbouring country. Ideally this will
lead to similar cooperative efforts with other European states. 54
The lack of a general international agreement on terrorism makes it
more difficult to counter. Agreements that specifically list the
extradi table crimes have proved unworkable in the past, and new ones
which list crimes not covered by the treaty are in use. Fortunately,
terrorism is less often considered as an excludable political crime so
progress is being made. The best way forward, however, is a hannonising
51 Sepp Ebelseder, "Katastrophenalann beim 'Party-Service I II Stern 43
(9) 22-8 February 1990, 214-5, 214.
52 Busch et.al., 216, 231, 309.
53 Martha Crenshaw, "Introduction: Reflections on the Effects of
Terrorism", in: Martha Crenshaw (ed.), Terrorism, Legitimacy r and Power:
The Consequences of Political Violence (Middletown, Conn: Weselyan
University Press, 1983), 1-37, 13.
54 Malcolm Anderson, Policing the World: INTERPOL and the Politics
of Inte:rnational Police Co-operation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989),
136, 156; SUeddeutsche Zeibmg 6 February 1985, 1; Die Welt 9 April
1987; "Zusamrnenarbeit" Terrorismus: Infonnationsdienst 6, 1987, 5.