European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 q the stars and stripes saturday september 20,1986 French continue terror investigation Chirac ready to Deal crushing blow Paris not prime minister Jacques Chirac promised thursday that France would deliver a crushing and unflinching response to inc perpetrators of a wave of bombings if they could he caught and their guilt established. But French officials agreed that their investigation into the attacks is at a preliminary stage with link hard intelligence available about the terrorists or who might be sponsoring them. But officials con firmed thursday that the explosive used in the current wave of bombings which began on sept. 8, were the same As those used in the previous Uve of ice Roris attacks which continued from last december to March 20. They identified the explosive As Scales la. Which is made in Czechoslovakia. Another attack against a French target occurred thursday when the French military attache in Leb anon. Col. Christian Goutierre was shot dead by a gunman in East Beirut. Chirac speaking in his capacity As mayor of Paris warned the terrorists and those who manipulate them directly or indirectly that they would not succeed in Selling off panic among Hie Frondi. Let them know that if we obtain proof of the origin of these attacks the response still be crushing and Chirac said. He also urged parisians to remain Calm dignified and courageous in the face of five bombing attacks in 10 Days Here thai have killed eight people and wounded More than 170. The latest bombing occurred on wednesday when five people died and 60 were wounded 19 seriously when a bomb went off in front of a crowded depart ment store on the left Bank later in a nationwide address the prime minister rep Nuich an earlier vow that France would not yield to this was an allusion to demands that France free a i Anes terrorist imprisoned Here made by the group that has claimed responsibility for must of the attacks. Chirac also pledged that France would fight terror ism without pity but with respect for Oie Funda mental rules of our meanwhile be Monde reported that the police had identified two suspects in the bomb attack wednesday. A police official confirmed the report and said that based on photographs witnesses had identified the two men who delivered the bomb at a crowded shopping area and then drove away in a Black Bow car. The police said that the bomb had not been thrown into the crowd As initially reported but that one of the two men had emerged from the vehicle dropped what looked like a package into a garbage pail near the store s Entrance then got Back into the car and drove away. Several seconds later the bomb exploded the official said. The newspaper identified the suspects As Salim Elkhoury a member of the terrorist organization called the lebanese armed revolutionary faction ande Milc Abdallah o brother of the lebanese terrorist imprisoned in France. Hut Reuters which got in touch with the suspect in Quayat. A Village in Northern Lebanon quoted Mahdal Lah As saying thursday that he had never been to France and was not responsible for the attacks. One official describing the slow Progress of the investigation said All we can say now is that our information is very contradictory and that there is no Clear intelligence on the identity of the group who is Back ing them and what they really in added however that if the group s real goal is too lain the release of one of its leaders Georges Ibra him Abdallah the recent wave of attacks has made it impossible for us to release him several government officials privately questioned the Efficacy of the police invest Galion. We have no Good leads a French official sail. Everybody has his own theory but nobody really knows a French riot p
