European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday november 25, 1985 shiites plan suicide attacks paper says London a governments and All the world s major airports have been alerted by the . Federal aviation administration that an iranian trained fanatical gang or arabs is ready o carry out suicide attacks on airliners with bombs concealed in suitcases the tabloid mail on sunday reported. It said that attacks could Start within the next few Days and quoted Jack Casucci described As Faa s head of Security As saying. We Are taking this threat extremely in Washington Robert f. Buckhorn an Faa spokes Man declined to comment on the report. We Don t comment on Security measures we take. I have no the mail said the attacks were planned for this month and december by shiite extremists trained in an iranian guerrilla Camp with the United states As the most Likely the report recalled the horrifying potential of the shiite Fervour that showed itself in the suicide Van attack on the . Embassy in Beirut in 1983 when some 60 people were killed. The weekly said the plot involves 400 or More arabs travelling on false passports and was uncovered when two of them were arrested at Rome s Airport last month. It said the men had explosives hidden in the lining of suit cases specially constructed to avoid a Ray detection. According to the Story the Faa warning stated detection of the explosives and time switches through a Ray is extremely Trie report said that further investigations turned up the names on 400 false passports that the gang intended to use and that these have been passed to airports with details of the suitcases imitation Samsonite models manufactured by the Elba blast from Page 1 shopping Center was treated at a German Hospital and released Swisher said a list of specific injuries was not available but included cuts from flying debris smoke inhalation and Shock. No one has yet claimed responsibility German police said. A guard who was on duty at the time was one of the people injured in the the associated press quoted v corps spokesman maj. Christopher Chalko As laying. Police with dogs trained to sniff out bombs checked the area after the blast for other explosives he told the a. Alexander pc Chotei of the Federal prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe told the a he assumed terrorists carried out the bombing As they did a similar attack aug. 8 at Rhein main a outside Frankfurt the Rhein main explosion which took place at 7 15 a.m., just As people were re porting for work killed two americans and injured More than 20 other people. The terrorist groups red faction and direct action claimed responsibility for that bombing. Hans Beilstein spokesman for the Hes sen state prosecutor s office in Wiesbaden said the bomb was packed in a Silver Metal Lic Bow 525 Sedan that was bought by a moroccan looking Man saturday at a second hand car Dealership near Frankfurt. He said the car bore an a Schaffenburg License plate. He said police Are looking for witnesses who May have seen the car or the Man since saturday. Witnesses May Call the prosecutor s office at 06121-86090, -91, -92, -93, 94, -9i, -96, -97, -98 or -99, or May Contact my local police station. The a quoted Frankfurt police spokes Man Karl Kraus As saying the Bow was bought at the same Dealership that told the car used in the bombing at the base in a gust american officials estimated that several thousand shoppers May have been at the Exchange Complex As the Busy sunday shopping Day was drawing to a close. A witness to the explosion told the Amer ican forces network All of a sudden there was a real loud crash. I turned around to look and see where it came from. Automatically i put my hands Over my head. 1 looked and there was a big yellow Flash from Between the two military and German police sealed off the entire shopping compound after the blast. The explosion blew a Hole in the Back of the pickup Point through which Racks full of dry cleaning could be seen. Windows were blown out of the nearby Baskin Robbins ice Cream outlet. Topper club an studios and other buildings within about 300 Yards of the explosion. The United press International quoted a spokesman for the Frankfurt fire depart ment As saying the pickup Point building will probably have to be torn Down German police who Are conducting the investigation said it was too soon co deter mine whether the explosive had been plan Ted in a car already on the compound or whether the car had been driven to the site with the explosive in it. They also were unable to say How much explosive had been used. The explosion damaged 42 cars including some at an cafes car sales outlet. The car in which the explosion apparently occurred was barely recognizable a mass of Black charred Metal. The roof of a nearby Van looked As if it had been peeled Back with a can opener. Sheet Metal from dam aged autos was strewn about the area some hanging from the roof of the pickup Point. . Military shopping Center in Frankfurt so of top Toulon John Shaffer 35, an employee of the Community and family support Center Europe was inside the pickup Point whet. The bomb went off. I d probably been there for about i min Ute. I was looking through a form clothes and could t find them so i headed Back to the front desk to get some help. That s when i heard a huge Kaboom twas really loud. Stuff was flying All Over. There was real heavy smoke. I could St neb the explosion. I could smell a gasoline smell. And i said to myself what the bed was that i wanted to run toward the door i did t know whether another bomb would go off. Then 1 heard another Guy screaming and Yelling in Back. He was Yelling my leg is broken. I knew by looking at hrs leg that it was a compound fracture. I yelled out the door to get an ambulance and there were other people screaming and Yelling and i did t know if the building was going to go up again. 1 went to the door to got other people to help. One of them was paramedic. I went Back to him the injured nun he was rolling around and moving and i did t want him to injure himself any More. I went Back and tried to find a splint to keep him from moving so i took a piece of tile from the roof to slide under toe Guy then we took what looked like a Bathrobe and Tore it up to splint the he said he remained in the pickup Point for about 20 minutes helping the injured. Shaffer estimated he was about 20 feet from the blast. I Don t know How i did t get Hurt. Why i did t get Cut Why i did t get hit. I just Don t know stall Willa i Diana Valdati Branda Hollar hid be Small Lawalt or. Contr Lulad to Ihli it porn. Temperatures Jet from Page 1 have been killed during an in flight shoot out. At least ii people All women earlier were allowed to leave the plane. Seven peo ple injured aboard the jetliner also either were allowed off or Weie thrown off the plane Mifsud said. Mifsud said the seven people hospitalized included an american Man two israeli women two egyptian stewardesses an egyptian Man and a woman removed from the Tarmac who is believed to be american. A Man who identified himself As the Pilot was overheard telling the control Tower by radio that the hijackers killed seven Passen Gers. Mifsud said one woman most probably an american earlier was shot to death and her body thrown out of the plane. He could confirm no other deaths but said there May have been other corpses he told reporters that another passenger who had been also thrown out and left under the plane was found alive after she was picked up by two Airport officials who delivered food to the plane. He said the woman in her 30s, Proba Bly is american adding that officials were trying to determine her identity. He said she had a head wound but is conscious and appears in relatively Good shape. Mifsud said the hijackers had never identified themselves or made political de mands but egyptian aviation authorities had identified them earlier As members of a sunday s pro football Chicago la Atlanta 0clavmaixt 24, Cincinnati t Houston 37, san logo 35miami 23, Burlak. 14 naw Ort Oara a mar Mola 23niw York jail 16, new England 13 Wadi Naton a Ploll urge 23 group calling itself Egypt revolutionaries. Egypt sent commandos trained in anti Hijack operations to Malta aboard a Mili tary plane which parked at the opposite end of the Airport from the hijacked jetliner. Five men with automatic weapons were seen outside the military plane. According to a list released by the greek Security police the plane was carrying 87 passengers six Crew members and four be county guards. Three americans Scarlett Rogenkamp 38 Jackie Mink 30 and Scott Patrick Baker 28, were listed among the passengers. The . Embassy in Athens sad Rogenkamp was from los Angeles and Wmk was from Texas. 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