European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday april 28, 1986 raid s aftermath libyan self criticism Tripoli Libya not the govern ment of Moa mar khad Afy is enmeshed in a bout of unusual self criticism Over the poor military fight it put up against the american air raid nearly two weeks ago. Khad Afy said by Eastern bloc sources in Tripoli to be upset by his forces performance has asked for a Quick critique by a team of yugoslav and czechoslovak Mili tary advisers of what went wrong. A column in a Mairiya an official weekly newspaper in Tripoli said on Fri Day it is High time that Libya put its House in order. We have to examine our selves to see How we behaved hour by hour during the crisis to see who was confused who panicked who made mistakes who ran and who stood  Western diplomats and Eastern military sources said there had already been unconfirmed reports of a shake up inside the Mili tary because of the poor showing. Those reports added to the khad Afy requested study and the newspaper column May her Ald a purge of some commanders the Diplo Mats said. The significance of the criticism and a possible purge goes beyond military mat ters. Its larger Impact May be political Sev eral sources said. In the american attacks Here and in Benghazi 400 Miles to the East Only one american plane an full bomber and its two Man Crew were lost the Pentagon re ported. American pilots evaded the libyan air defense system and were Over Tripoli drop Ping bombs before the first anti aircraft fire even began. During the attack some libyan soldiers abandoned their posts and their command ers were slow to give orders according to Western diplomats and Eastern bloc sources. The libyan air Force lost planes on the ground at bases in Tripoli and in Beng Hazi and never went up to Challenge the americans the sources and libyan wit Nesses at the Benghazi base said. Libyan warplanes were not seen Over Tri poli until a week after the raid. Libya has More than 500 combat aircraft Many of them soviet made Mig fighters but West Ern intelligence sources say the libyans Are poor night flyers. The report on the military s performance is due this week the sources said. A Mairiya is the official voice of the revolutionary committees a political Structure that khad Afy founded As a virtual parallel government to the bureaucracy and armed forces. The committees made up of fervent khad Afy loyalists have thoroughly penetrated the society from neighbourhoods to factories to military units. The committees Are headed by maj. Abdul Salam Jalloul Libya s no. 2 Leader who is considered a close ally of khad Afy. The newspaper is usually thought to rep resent their joint views Western diplomats said. The article was More explicit in taking the information ministry and the libyan press agencies to task. Libyan propaganda does t need announcers who gave the news about the bombardment of khad Afy s residence and his family and How they were injured but did t give relevant information and commen tary the column said. The newspaper also strongly suggested that Libya s claims that nearly 30 Ameri can planes were shot Down were exaggerated. We Don t need Anchorman who de scribe hitting the enemy planes As if they were falling like yellow leaves in  members of terrorist group plan attacks to free jailed palestinians paper says Bonn a the Abu Nidal group is planning terrorist strikes in Europe to free imprisoned palestinians including the Brothers recently arrested in London and West Berlin the mass circulation Bild newspaper said saturday. Bild without citing its sources also said the Brothers held in connection with a West Berlin disco bombing and the at tempted hijacking of an israeli Al Al Airliner were members of Abu Nidal s group. German Interior ministry officials played Down the Bild report. German Security officials have no con Crete indications that the Abu Nidal people Are planning any attacks in the Federal re Public of Germany Interior ministry spokesman Hans Guenter Kowalski told the associated press. Bild gave no details of the alleged at tacks but it said israeli intelligence had collected information about them. Ahmed Nawaf Mansur Hasi was arrested in Berlin a week ago on suspicion of involvement in the april 5 bombing of the la Belle discotheque which killed two peo ple and injured 230 others. In London Hasi s brother Nezar Hindawi has been charged with attempting to blow up an israeli Airliner. Bild said the two Brothers were in Tripoli Libya and Damascus Syria together last october. The newspaper said the two received terrorist training years ago in an Abu Nidal Camp in Damir Syria East of Damascus. The Hamburg based daily also said Syri an intelligence agents ordered Hindawi in Early 1985 to befriend an Irish woman and to put her on an Airliner with a bomb. German officials declined further com ment on the Bild report. Gun in plot reportedly came from Libya Rome up investigators probing an alleged plot to assassinate the . Ambassador to Italy have concluded the would be murder weapon entered Italy through libyan diplomatic channels a newspaper reported sunday. A special investigation into the alleged plot against . Ambassador Maxwell Rabb found that the pistol a Silencer equipped p38 Walther also had been part of an arms shipment to Libya from the German firm Rome s ii Messaggiero re ported. Rabb a close personal Friend of presi Dent Reagan has not commented on the alleged plot since it was revealed last week. The newspaper did not reveal specific details regarding the manner in which the pistol entered Italy but simply reported that prosecutor Rosario Priore s investigation had shown it arrived via libyan Diplo Matic channels. The statement could mean the gun arrived in a libyan diplomatic Pouch not normally subject to customs searches or was hand carried in by a libyan Diplomat. The newspaper said investigators were Able to identify the pistol As being part of a specific shipment from Germany to Libya because its registration number had been etched on by a special process. Two of the three libyans suspected in the plot former libyan embassy official Are i Mohamed Mituri and suspected Trig German Rageb Hammouda Dag Hugh Al ready Are in jail on arms violation charges. No charges have been filed regarding the alleged plot pending further investigations. The third suspect libyan Diplomat Mussbach Mahmud wer Falli remains at Large. Italian prosecutors allege Mituri and wer Falli ordered Dag Hugh to assassinate Rabb As Well As the egyptian and saudi ambassadors to Italy Yehia Rifaat and Khaled Al Nasser Al Torki. Dag Hugh was arrested feb. 5, 1985 but the alleged plot was not revealed until last week while italian authorities conducted investigations. When apprehended Dag Hugh was carry ing a Check for $2,000 signed by a libyan Diplomat police said. Ii Messaggiero said a libyan Diplomat also had placed $40,000 in a Bank account for Dag Hugh As pre pay ment for the assassinations allegedly or dered. Late saturday Italy following moves by other West european governments announced it was expelling 10 members of the libyan embassy in Rome and would severely restrict the movement of All other libyan diplomatic personnel in the country. Twister Fossell pickup truck kills girl 4 Rock rapids Iowa a a pick up truck tossed in the air by a Tornado struck and killed a 4-year-old girl who was walking across her Yard with her father on saturday night authorities said. The twister was one of at least two that touched Down in Northwest Iowa and South Ern Minnesota killing the girl injuring five other people and causing heavy damage to at least 15 farms authorities said. A spokeswoman at Merril Pioneer Community Hospital in Rock rapids identified the child As Joni Deboer 4, daughter of Jeff Deboer of Rural Lyon county. The dad and daughter were walking across the Yard and a pickup was thrown on top of them said Gary Deboer who lives nearby but is not a relative. The Hospital spokeswoman who declined to give her name said one of two injured people brought to the Hospital was in Crit ical condition and the other was in fair condition. Two people were injured and another was killed at a farm place located near Little Rock when it was struck by one of the tornadoes the Lyon county sheriffs department said in a news release. The sheriffs department said 15 farms were damaged by the tornadoes with some receiving extensive damage. There s quite a bit of damage said a sheriffs dispatcher who declined to give his name. He said two storms apparently struck in Lyon county in extreme Northwest Iowa one three Miles East of Rock rapids and the other six Miles North of Little Rock. Meanwhile eyewitnesses reported heavy damages to farms Over a wide area of Rural Lyon county. I was just eating supper said Gary Deboer. It looked like something dark. I wanted to leave and the rest said they were not going to leave. By the time i headed for the basement i could see it headed across the Highway and it was really  we had the emergency squad out Here Deboer said it was reported we had some body Hurt Here but we did  Ruth Koedam who lives near Rock rapids said her family lost four farm buildings and have Only their House left. She said a neighbor s barn was blown into one of the Koedam farm Fields. Koedam also said Power lines and Trees were Down All around the area. About two Miles away across the state line in Minnesota authorities said three people were hospitalized at Arnold memo rial Hospital in the town of Adrian after a twister struck eight nearby farms. News update vets names added Washington up engravers have begun adding 108 More names to the Black Granite of the Vietnam veterans memorial. The 108 new names include those of 95 service members killed on com Bat missions outside the formally recognized War zone. The other 13 Are victims who died of wounds after leaving the War zone. Anti nuke Leader Oakland Calif. A or. Helen Caldicott a Leader in the anti nuclear movement says she is sex. Hausted from 16 years of working for nuclear disarmament and plans to retire to her native Australia. I am Bone weary the co founder of the 50,000 member physicians for social responsibility has said. Caldicott 47, in Oakland to speak at Mills College said her retirement this summer will be permanent. San Ysidro memorial san Diego a the City will place a Small memorial at the site of a former Mcdonald s restau rant where a gunman opened fire in 1984, killing 21 people. City manager Sylvester Murray told the san Ysidro chamber of Commerce that the plan Calls for an attractive dignified memorial on a portion of the now vacant lot. The rest of the property will be used As parking for an adjacent Post office. San Ysidro about 20 Miles South of downtown is governed by san Diego. Ins clears agent san Diego a a . Border patrol agent who shot and wounded a 12-year-old Tijuana boy last year after a fellow agent was pelted with rocks has been cleared by the immigration and naturalization service. Edward Cole a Border patrol agent for six years who has been transferred to Buffalo n.y., was exonerated by three investigating authorities at the Federal and local lev Els. Verne Jervis an ins spokesman in Washington said an internal investigation found that Cole complied with Agency policies for drawing and firing a weapon. The san Diego county District at Torney s office and Federal prosecutors have declined to prosecute Cole. But the California attorney general s office is continuing to look into the Case