European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday. January 14,1988 Hamadi trial witness recalls Hijack claim Dusseldorf West Germany api a Man testified Al Abbas All a Tamari s kidnapping trial thai Hamad once said his brother Mohammed Ham Adi was involved in the 1985 Twa hijacking in which an american was killed. The testimony came tuesday on the third Day of the trill of Abbas Hamadi 29. Who is charged with kidnapping two West germans in Beirut la try to Force Mohammed s release from a Frankfurt prison. The United Stales maintains Moham med Smadi was among the terrorists who in june 1985 hijacked a Twa air liner to Beirut and has indicted him for air piracy and murder. During the or cat. 39 americans were held hostage for 17 Days and a . Navy diver was killed Gazi a Aibick a resident of Stuttgart who said he met the Hamadi Brothers in 1983 in Saarland state testified tuesday that Abba Hamadi told him that Mohammed had something to do with Theta but Yazbeck added he did not believe Abbas because he was always a Legerat Inland telling officials said Al least two offi cers from the Federal criminal office i Wiesbaden were to testify on Abba Hamadi s purported involvement in the abductions and Mohammed Hamadi i alleged role in the Yazbeck was questioned tues Day by chief judge k aus Arend. Yaz Beck said Abbas Hamadi told him about his brother s alleged link to the hijacking of the Athens to rom flight several weeks after it was recalled telling Federal police investigators that Abbas Hamadi Laid head received a Telephone Call from Mohammed in which the 21-year-old younger brother told him about Bis alleged involvement in the Twa , n 25-year-old lebanese born num. Laid Abbas Hamadi did not appear to be a very political person. But he said Mohammed had Oik been a member of the shiite amal militia in Lebanon. In other testimony on tuesday Ursula Van a travel agent from Saarland state said her records show Abbas Hamad booked a scat for a Jan. 16, 1987, flight to maintain Abbas Hamadi and his accomplices kidnapped West German businessman Rudolf Cordes in Beirut the next Day and another West German businessman Alfred Schmidt five Days was released in september Cordes is still in Captivity also tuesday a West Geiman Cus Toms officer testified he first though Mohammed Hamadi was a drug smug Gler arc stopping him on a Hunch a Frankfurt Airport on Jan. 13,1987. The officer said he then determine that Hamadi was carrying a forged pass port. The three bottles of liquid Imti Adidas carrying that the officer originally thought might have been drugs late proved to be explosives he testified. Abbas Hamadi was arrested Al the air port two weeks later. Both had been re Luming from Beirut. Mohammed Hamadi is in a Frankfurt prison awaiting trial on charges Stem Ming from the Twa hijacking. The United Stales has requested his extradition la stand trial on charges connected with the hijacking but the West German government turned Down the request an said he will be tried in West Germany Reagan to enter Bethesda for routine medical checkup Washington a president Reagan will enter belch sea naval Hospital on Friday for a Rou Tine examination to chert for any recurrence of the Colon cancer for who i he had surgery in 1985, White House spokesman Marlin i Tiwater announced wednesday. Reagan said he fell pretty after a night time bout with nausea but Fitz Waitr said the planned Hospital visit has nothing to do with the president s overnight illness. On the Way to Camp David the president will Stop at Rich Coda naval Hospital for a routine Fol Low up examination which Wilt consist of a Clonos copy. Cat ican Chest a Ray and stress lest Fitz watch said. This l Samin lion was previously the colonoscopy consists of the examination of the lower Bowel with a flexible probe through which physician May View the intestinal tract. The cat Sean is a three dimensional a Ray. The president has had the examinations every six months since his cancer surgery and he has had several Small benign growths removed each time. On july 12, 1985, doctors removed a Small be Nign polyp from Reagan s Colon and found a larger one that was removed the following Day along wit two feet of the president s intestinal tract. The larger polyp was found to be cancerous but the doctors said the cancer had not spread beyond the tissues that were removed. Fitzwater said the president and the first lad wire scheduled to travel on to Camp David follow ing the tests. He said they were to remain there until monday which is the Federal Holiday celebrating the birth of Martin Luther King or. Bomber woman convicted in death of go husband Heidelberg is an american woman was found guilt by a German court of committing bodily injury that resulted in the death of her Active duty husband a spokesman said tuesday. Patrice m. Gay 22, was convicted dec. 10 and was sentenced to a year s probation said horse Kuhner a Heidelberg police spokesman. The incident began As a quarrel Between Gay anther husband spec. 4 Marvin Gay of he co 43rd signal in a Community spokesman said. Neighbors called military police who found Marvin Gay in the stairwell of his off Post quarters with a Stab wound in his neck. The Soldier died in route to the said Patrice Gay had had a difficult child Hood and was mistreated of her husband before Thesla Bing. He declined to elaborate. The woman was confined for five months in a Hei Delberg jail before her Case came to trial Kathner said. She resumed to the United slates after the Gays son 2-year-old Marvin jr., stayed with relatives in the Stales while his Mother was confined Kuhn said. From Paga 1 aged to have had tics to Libya and Syria there is no connection Between the str bile said. My client docs not know her. And he had Noth ing to do with the la Belle bombing Volker Kachnic he West Berlin Justice department spokesman said wednesday Security officials suspect Endri Keil planted the bomb for to comment on press reports that Endrin kit it a drug addict who planted the bomb for Money he said there is a drug aspect to the Kachnic said according to available information she had no tics to Libya or Syria. Hasi 36, who was born in Jordan was convicted of planting a bomb in the West Berlin office of the Ger Man Arab society one week before the disco people were injured. Endrin kit 27, was arrested in the Baltic seaport of Tybeck monday one Day after the West Berlin Justice department announced she was wanted. There was no explanation of Why it look two years to suspect her. She was interrogated in Berlin wednesday for the second straight Day. Hasi is the brother of Czor Kinda i who is serving 45-year prison term in Britain for placing a bomb in the Luggage of his pregnant Irish Girlfriend in a foiled attempt to blow up an israeli Airliner in april 1986. In sentencing Hasi in november 1986, for the attack on the Arab German society West Berlin judge Hans Joachim Chinze said a syrian link has been proven Security officials had testified the Brothers had had links to Libya As Well As palestinian accomplice of Hasi. Farouk Salameh 41, was Given Al 3-yearsentence.the United slates blamed the disco attack on Libya and 10 Days later bombing the libyan capital of Tripoli and the port of Benghazi. Secretary of slate Getse Shiltz said in Ottaw monday that the arrest or Endrin kit did not mean Libya had not been behind the said it is Clear Libya was directly involved in the bombing. Israel from Paga 1 1985 prisoner Exchange he returned to the West Bank and recently published a Book about prison life. Entitled cel no. 704," it was a Best seller in the Westbank. Besides run us those deported wednesday were Jamal Mohammed Jibarah released in the 1985 prisoner Exchange after serving six years in prison for recruiting i to activists and planning terror attacks. Bashir Ahmed Al Kheiri 45, an attorney from a Mallah who spent 15 years in jail Asa Plo Recruiter. Hussam Abdul Rahman Khadr 25, jailed for i months in 198sasaplorecruiter.thearmyaccuseshim of initiating most of the disturbances in inc West release in july 1987. The riots began dec. 8 in the territories occupied inthe 1967 Middle East conflict when Namors spread that n traffic Accident that killed four arabs bad Bee planned to avenge the slaying of an israeli bus mess thirty two palestinians have been killed by Israel fire since dec 8, naval from Page 1 others. The americans have been Cool toward a soviet proposal for a . Force describing the idea As vague. Al Abas said the acc Leaden were not enthusiastic in their reaction to Carlucci s plan but promised to study it jetliner the acc groups saudi Arabia Kuwait Oman Bahrain the United Arab emirates and Qatar. It also said France rejected a joint command forthe proposed Force it quoted the american sources As saying Paris wants each contingent to retain its inde pendent command Carlucci ended a Gulf tour sunday and he made nonpublic reference to such a plan. But he said the mix of . Forces in the area might be a assumed by american allies. I b altered by the Rales from Page 1 Mcl Calfe said adding thai authorities could not deter mine whether a my Ora woman left the note. Authorities would not reveal where the note was found but police Tours indicated it was discovered in a washroom. Authorities kept passengers and Crew members on the plane for at least 40 minutes after it landed escorted to the Airport by another plane and a helicopter. An airline spokesman earlier bad described the Inci Dent a a combination of a hijacking and a bomb threat but later discounted the statement Metcal Esaid it was treated As a bomb threat but without going into details i guess it Wal a hijacking As airline spokesmen denied earlier radio reports that two Canadian forces f-1s Jelt were scrambled 10 investigate but confirmed thai the dc-10 was escorted to the Airport at Edmonton about 200 Miles North of Calgary site of the 1988 Winter olympics that begin feb. I
