European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse D u.s., soviets holding arms talks Page 2 q defense department changes medical care Billing Page 5 d reporter fears hell be tried As spy Page 28 the stars and stripes vol. 45, no. 142 sunday september 7, 1986 i of � o d 8693 a 21 slain in synagogue attack Istanbul. Turkey i i gun men massacred 21 Sabbath worshippers with machine guns and grenades and touched olt a raging fire in Istanbul s main synagogue saturday. Turkish officials said. Police said More than 30 people were in the synagogue at the Lime of the at tack. Authorities said 21 of them died while tour women on a Balcony managed to escape unhurt. At least seven other persons were wounded. The police said two terrorists also die Din what prime minister Turgut of Al de scribed As a suicide the dead reportedly included seven rabbis. The chief rabbi of Istanbul David Asseo apparently was wounded officials said. In one of several shadowy claims of responsibility for the Slaughter a extremist pro iranian guerrilla group called the islamic resistance said the at tack was in retaliation for israeli raids in Southern Lebanon. In Turkey we arc used to terrorism an anti terrorist squad policeman said at the scorched synagogue. Hut this car nage in a place of worship is the policeman said the terrorists wore Black masks Black sweat shins dark Cotton trousers and Tennis ear Lier official reports said the gunmen entered the synagogue in the Guise of tourists or photographers. Millood and human hair was spattered on the White domed ceiling of the newly see attack on Page 28 App Tolu \ policeman searches he nibble after Terni risks using automatic heu Pons and bombs attacked a synagogue in Istanbul Turkey. Death toll set at 15 in jetliner hijacking police stand guard near a pan am jetliner after the end of the plane hijacking carried out by four men in Karachi Pakistan. A Polo Karachi. Pakistan Dpi Security forces were caught off guard when four hijackers opened lire on some .150 hos tages aboard a can am jumbo Jet at the end of a 15-hour drama that left at least 15 people dead. Pakistan s aviation chief said saturday. Related Story. Page 28. There was no commando raid on the plane As pakistani officials reported ear Lier and at i ast 10 minutes elapsed after the shooting started aboard the Boeing 747 before Security forces tried to reach the plane said Kurshid Anwar Mirza director of the civil aviation authority. We had told our people Security forces to stay in readiness Mirza told an Airport news conference saturday. They were not in that near Vicinity. This happened earlier than what we had anticipated. There was no organize Force coming Mirza said confusion broke out when the plane ran out of fuel and the Power was Cut off. As he prepared to have forces storm the plane he said where Are our peo ple where Are the commandos the must come pakistani officials said at least i5 peo ple were killed among them three americans. Hospitals reported 127 people injured. While House officials said 17 of the injured were americans. Pakistani officials meanwhile issued conflicting statements about the Fate of the four hijackers All believed to be palestinians. Some said All four survived. Others said one was killed one was wounded see hijacking on Page 28
