European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday april 18, 1986 raid on Libya called absolutely flawless7 Washington up .. Planes attacking five primary targets in Libya destroyed at least 13 aircraft on the ground and heavily damaged the nerve Center of Moa mar khad Afy s terrorist operations the Pentagon said thursday. It was an absolutely flawless profession Al performance by the British based air Force pilots of the Al 1 if jets and by a 6es from two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims said. Thirteen of 24 Al 11 is that took off and 12 of 14 a-6es that were launched carried out Low level bombing  before Dawn tuesday the Pentagon said. Five of Lulfs and two a-6es aborted their missions be fore reaching their targets it said. Three of the Al 1 ifs aborted because of technical failures it said. The status of the two crewmen aboard one of the air Force planes that was thought to have exploded in a fireball on return from its target was changed from missing to killed in action Sims said. The Pentagon released to reporters a videotape taken by a camera looking through the target acquisition radar of an Al 1 if that carried out an attack at less than 500 feet on the Azziz Yah Barracks in Tripoli Libya khad Afy s Headquarters. The camera showed the plane closing in on khad Afy s tent his sometime living quarters in the Middle of the Barracks com Pound. Four 2,000-Pound laser guided bombs were dropped by the plane on the Barracks Sims said. Another Al 1 if loosed 12,500-Pound bombs on the military Side of the Tripoli Airport he said. The bombs dropped on the Airport destroyed Between three and five soviet built 11-76 transport planes and caused major damage to the Barracks and support facilities Sims said. The Navy a-6es, carrying out a simultaneous attack on the Benina military Airfield in Benghazi Libya 400 Miles to the East destroyed four and probably More soviet made Mig-23 fighters two prop driven planes and two helicopters and damaged a third helicopter Sims said. Sims said there also was major dam age to the Benghazi army Barracks used As an alternate command Post for terrorist operations. This was a near flawless professional operation under extremely difficult Circum stances Sims said. I Don t think there s been anything like it in. Military an nals. We Don t know where khad Afy was Sims said. We did know where the nerve Center for training was and that s what we attacked. We hit what we aimed  Sims said there was no separate assess ment of damage to civilian areas. Bomb carrying woman seized frying to Board Airliner London a police thursday seized an Irish woman carrying a bomb hidden in the false Bottom of hand Luggage As she tried to Board an israeli Airliner that had stopped in London on its Way from new York to Israel police said. Security police at Heathrow Airport detained the woman after a suspicious Al Al airline guard searched the Luggage and bomb disposal experts disarmed the explosives police said. No charges were lodged immediately. Police said they were Hunting for the woman s Arab Boyfriend and they believe it was a very real possibility the woman was duped and had planned to Board the plane without knowing what was in the lug Gage. Scotland Yard anti terrorist squad cmdr. George Churchill Coleman de scribed the bomb As an improvised explosive device that would have gone off in the plane. He declined to describe the device in further detail except to say it weighed less than 10 pounds. The Al Al jetliner flew into London with 250 passengers from new York and was to pick up 140 More passengers at Heathrow. The Boeing 747 was towed to a Security zone while forensic experts examined it. It was ringed by police armed with machine  and dogs trained to sniff out explosives. The plane Al Al flight ly016, took off at 3 40 . Get. Heathrow police chief superintendent Stuart Higgins said when the woman went to Check in the Al Al Security guard at the desk was not Happy at the appearance of her  he said the guard searched the Luggage found what he considered to be a suspect device and called on police who were standing nearby. Higgins indicated the explosives were in hand Luggage but they were destined for bodies from Page 1 slain in retaliation for tuesday s bombing raid. The statement dated wednesday warned the american and British terrorists will be a target of our  americans missing in Lebanon Are the Rev. Lawrence Jenco a roman Catholic priest Terry Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press David Jacobsen director of the american University Hospital Thomas Sutherland Dean of agriculture at the University librarian Peter Kilburn and William Buckley a. Embassy political officer. Also missing in Lebanon Are eight frenchmen an italian an irishman and a South korean. Earlier thursday gunmen in a speeding car fired a fusillade of rocket propelled Gre Nades at the former residence of the British ambassador in moslem West Beirut. Police said there were no casualties among the 12 lebanese servants and gardeners at the site. The voice of Lebanon radio station said it received a claim from an Anonymous Tele phone caller that the building was rocketed by a pro libyan guerrilla unit the Omar Mukhtar squads. On the night of the attack on Libya. Embassies and bases around the world were put on full Alert. The Reagan administration facing a spi ral of International terrorism defended its bombing raid on Libya As absolutely the right thing to do and said thursday that the world will Benefit in the Long run from a hard line stance against terrorists. President Reagan called the slaying of the three hostages in Lebanon a tragedy that demonstrates that terrorism is some thing that we have to Deal with once and for All All of us  White House spokesman Larry Speakes said up to 500 non essential diplomatic personnel in Sudan where a. Embassy employee was seriously wounded when he was shot in the head wednesday would be evacuated beginning Friday. The cargo hold. Churchill Coleman speaking at a Scot land Yard news conference said the woman they apprehended is a hotel employee in London who had been going to Tel Aviv Israel on vacation. He did not give her name. He confirmed police were seeking Nelar Nawaf Mansur Al Hindawi whom he de scribed As the woman s Boyfriend. Churchill Coleman did not give the Man s nationality. The affected area of the Airport was sealed off and flights were delayed. Heath Row which handled 31 million passengers last year is the world s busiest Airport in terms of International flights. Al Al guards always ask passengers be fore checking them in whether anyone has Given them items to carry on Board. The procedure follows incidents some years ago in which Arab terrorists duped innocent passengers into carrying aboard weapons and explosives disguised As harmless bag Gage. Khad Afy from Page 1 reopened thursday morning. Khad Afy did not mention his children Dur ing the 21-minute speech but repeatedly re turned to the theme of the deaths of children. Reagan s government should collapse and he should be put on trial As a War criminal and murderer of children he said. He called British prime minister Marga ret Thatcher a murderess of children and called for her downfall for allowing the United states to use american planes based in Britain in the attack. Khad Afy expressed gratitude to Italy France Spain Greece and Malta for their opposition to the. Raids. But he said unless Italy and Spain bar the. 6th Fleet from their ports he would increase operations in those regions in self defense. He called on Arab nations to Cut political and economic ties with the United states because of the attack. Reagan said in ordering the raids that the United states had evidence Libya was behind the april 5 bombing of a West Ber Lin discotheque in which a. Soldier and a turkish woman were killed. Khad Afy charged in his speech Reagan has issued orders to his armed forces to kill our children. We have not issued any orders to murder  in a comment apparently aimed at americans he said we will not kill your children. We Are not like you. We do not bombard  quoting reports that Reagan increased the guard on his family khad Afy said he would not sink to the level of a trivial actor who came yesterday and will be going to Morrow. Reagan can lift the Protection of his children and family for we Are not child killers like  a kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai Al Aam thursday quoted unidentified khad Afy aides As saying when the raid was launched the colonel was in an air conditioned tent supplied with two telephones stretched on the ground Reading a Book about the vietnamese War and watching a film about american terrorism in Viet  anti aircraft fire again streaked through the skies Over the capital wednesday night and gunfire ricocheted around khad Afy s compound. Government officials denied the gunfire signalled factional fighting among the libyans. Libya also reported new. Air attacks wednesday against Tripoli and the towns of to Rhoenah 50 Miles to the South and Allous 40 Miles East of the capital. But the Pentagon denied the report and reporters in Tripoli saw no signs of new bombard ments. Security from Page 1 cent for one tour to Italy said Dennis Neal promotions manager. Increased Security and curfews Are in effect but sports pro Grams and visits to castles and Salzburg Austria Are continuing he said. Some people have cancelled with us and when possible we try not to charge a cancellation fee when the situation is duty re lated he said. However people Are still participating and the programs Are still going  the original Usa eur order inform ing commanders of the increases in Security warns people to avoid bars and restaurants normally frequented by americans. As an example of the increased Security four camouflaged water trucks flanked the Fence outside the bad Kreuz Nach Ger Many shopping area and armed soldiers roamed the housing area. In Darmstadt Germany parking was prohibited within 20 feet of buildings. Military police at installations through out Germany continued to inspect trunks and hoods and look under vehicles before allowing them on posts. Travel editor Linda White contributed to this Story. Temperatures april 16 l h50 81 48 6728 44 43 6150 -53 46 5033 55 41 6132 56 43 4939 45 39 6260 70 37 4137 45 34 4732 41 48 7438 62 36 6034 43 25 4725 56 46 5668 85 56 7633 47 57 7732 63 53 69 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston s. C. Charleston w. A. Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas it. Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las vegas l h42 63 54 7036 47 69 8554 83 33 5838 53 57 7443 48 56 5961 69 31 6062 81 48 5633 41 34 5745 56 39 5651 58 30 5041 54 67 7944 56 55 6451 57 42 5444 48 67 8547 52 32 63 Little Rock los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Minn st. Paul Nashville new Orleans new York City Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland Maine Portland Ore. Providence Raleigh Reno st. Louis st. Petersburg Salt Lake City san Diego san Francisco Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita european weather forecast for Friday mostly Cloudy with scattered rain in the North. Central and Southern areas will be partly Cloudy to occasionally mostly Cloudy with scattered rain showers and isolated Thunder storms. High temperatures from upper 40s to mid 50s lows from mid 30s to Low 40s. Sunset Friday 8 24, Sunrise saturday 6 24. Outlook for saturday Little change in weather. Temperatures slightly cooler. 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