European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday april 7, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 terrorists move War to gis Back Yards by United press International unlike the Rice paddies of Vietnam or the european Countryside of world War ii the Field of Battle for . Service members overseas these Days has become their bars and cafes and the Barracks where they sleep. The bombing of a Berlin dance club saturday was the first attack in Germany on a club frequented by . Service members but it was Only one of a growing num Ber of attacks on the most visible presence of . Mili tary might the troops in the Field. That fact was brought Home in october 1983 when 241 marines were killed while they slept when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives Laden truck into a bar Racks in Beirut. In response to terrorists bringing their attacks to the service members own Back Yards Security is being tight ened at military bases and embassies worldwide and americans in Many places Are being told to keep a Low profile. But As the attack on the la Belle disco in West Berlin shows americans Are still vulnerable if they congregate As soldiers off Post tend to do. One american i and a turkish woman were killed in the attack. Arab and German terrorist groups claimed responsibility. Troops have been the target of assaults in Central America where the United states has a Large and controversial military presence in Al Salvador and Honduras. In May 1983, Navy cmdr. Albert Schaufelberger Deputy commander of . Military advisers in Al Sal Vador was gunned Down on a san Salvador Street. Four marines were among the 13 people killed when an Urban guerrilla group opened fire at an outdoor cafe in the Zona Rosa Section of san Salvador last june. The Central american revolutionary workers party the smallest of five leftist rebel armies attempting to Over throw the .-backed government of president Jose Napoleon Duarte claimed responsibility. There were 12 attacks last year on . And nato installations in Germany in which two people were killed and 65 injured. In november a car bomb attack on the . Army shopping Center in downtown Frankfurt injured 35 peo ple. The West German Federal criminal office said two palestinian terrorists were suspected in the attack. Germany s red army faction is believed to have lured an american Soldier out of a bar in Wiesbaden in August and murdered him to obtain his military identity card. The group used the card to drive a car bomb onto Rhein main a outside Frankfurt the next Day. The bomb killed two americans and injured 20 people. The red army faction also planted a bomb that injured 20 people in 1981 at the . Air Force s euro Pean Headquarters at Ramstein a Germany. In 1981, it tried to kill Gen. Frederick j. Kroesen then commander of the . Army in Europe As he drove with his wife to his Heidelberg Headquarters. In Spain a bomb went off in the Al Descanso Steak House near Torrejon a outside Madrid in april 1985, killing 18 spaniards and injured 82 people including 15 americans. The Steakhouse was a favorite of . Air Force personnel stationed at Torrejon. Officials never determined who planted the bomb but suspected the islamic jihad terrorist group. In Italy the list of military casualties includes the february 1984 assassination of Scamon Hunt the Rome based american director general of the multinational peacekeeping Force in the Sinai Peninsula. In december 1981, Gen. James Dozier the top . Officer at the nato military installation in Vicenza was kidnapped in Verona. Police freed him in a raid on an apartment in Padua in january 1982. There have also been several bombings at . Mili tary installations in Greece. German police keep watch sunday morning outside the Berlin discotheque la Belle which was the target of a terrorist bomb saturday morning. Two people were killed. Attacks fit Libya terror pattern official say Santa Barbara Calif. A a new round of terrorist attacks in Europe fits the pattern of a libyan backed plan of indiscriminate violence against Ameri cans that has targeted More than 30 . Diplomatic installations and several . Diplomats an administration official said saturday. The official speaking on condition he not be identified said the administration is not prepared to link libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy directly to the explosions last week aboard a Twa Airliner approaching Athens Greece and in a Berlin nightclub jammed with american soldiers. However he said the incidents vindicate what we have been saying that there is a pattern that there is a master plan of terrorism aimed at americans that is being backed by khad Afy. The official said the plan has included targeting of More than 30 . Diplomatic installations abroad and of a number of american diplomats overseas this year. He said none of these attacks had been carried out but some of them had been thwarted. This is a khad Afy pattern the official said. We Are seeing the footprints of the khad Afy terrorist plan All Over the Middle East and asked about a . Response to last week s attacks he said clearly our patience is wearing thin and he added one of the tenets of our anti terrorist policy is that we want to get to the right people. If it s khad Afy we go to that the official noted that France on Friday had expelled two representatives of the libyan people s Bureau or embassy in Paris for plotting terrorist acts against All nations Are affected by it terrorism and All nations have to work to do something about it and one of the ways is the libyan people s bureaus which Are located in a number of european countries capitals the official said. Asked specifically whether the United states is asking allies to throw out libyan representatives the official said he would not go that White House spokesman Larry Speakes said presi Dent Reagan is deeply concerned about the increasing number of terrorist incidents aimed at americans in Europe and he has instructed his top advisers and officials to stay on top of it and provide an carry assessment Speakes said. He said Reagan wanted to see measures taken by the United states in cooperation with its allies to prevent such terrorist incidents but he did not elaborate on what these Steps might be. He said Reagan was briefed on the West Berlin explosion Friday night and again saturday by Donald Fortier Deputy assistant to the president for National Security official who spoke to reporters said the latest terrorist incident was being assessed by officials in Washington and we Are not yet ready to draw specific conclusions about who did this or whether or not it Points to but we think that these Type incidents do fit a Pat Tern which seems to be an idea of indiscriminate Vio Lence that you strike out at americans but whoever else is killed or injured does not know of Well Over 30 . Diplomatic installations in Europe and the Middle East that have been targeted he said. They have also targeted number of High ranking . the official said the United states would be calling upon european governments to cooperate in dealing with terrorism noting that their citizens Are increasingly being victimized by terrorist attacks even though americans Are the targets. European countries Are now beginning to feel the Brunt of this the official said. First of All it was tourist Trade and loss in . Travel dollars there. But they re also affecting european citizens citizens of european countries Are being he said the United states would be urging european countries privately through diplomatic channels to vigorously pursue and assist us and cooperate with us in the Pursuit of potential terrorist activities and doing what can be done to thwart
