European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 28 the stars and stripes monday. April 18, t98s hijackers ask for fuel to leave Algeria Algiers. Algeria a hijackers asked algerian officials saturday 10 refuel the kuwaiti jumbo Jet parted Al the Algiers Airport so they could Fly to another country and Kiu the three Down hostages they still hold. They did not indicate a destination or set a deadline for refuelling and tempered the threat by expressing willingness 10 continue negotiations and to consider every we Are working to blow up this plane killing All the kuwaiti Riti icons aboard if he Kuwait government docs no give Freedom la out 17 Brothers said a hooded Hijacker Reading a statement in arabic to Ihrcke reporters allowed Nearine Boeing 747, which was hijacked april s with 112 people aboard while Bourn from Bangkok to the persian Gulf Sheik Dom. It spent three Days in Mashhad Iran five in Warnaca Cyprus and arrived in Algiers Early wednesday. The hijackers Are demanding the release of 17 pro iranian arabs convicted in Kuwait of bombing the . And French embassies there in december l��3.All Are in prison and three have been sentenced to death. Kuwait has refused to free them. Saturday night the kuwaiti government asked Alge Rian authorities to Preven he plane from leaving and stressed the need to safeguard the lives of the Passen Gers the Kuwait new Agency reported. The news Agency said the request was made by Kuwait s Premier. Prince Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah in a Telephone conversation with algerian Premier Abdelhamid Rahimi. Three hijackers wearing Light Blue hoods we represent for the 15-Minutc encounter with reporters from the new York times the French news Agency Fiance Presse and the algerian government Agency Algene Presse service. The hijackers one armed with a machine gun stood in the doorway of the Airliner during the encounter. In View of the kuwaiti intransigence we Are asking cur algerian Brothers to refuel the plane so that we can take off because we intend to Settle our score with Kuwait somewhere else the statement said. We do not want the massacre to Lake place Here in Friendly Algeria which welcomed us and which tried 10 Seilick the gunmen killed two passengers in Cyprus. They released s7 hostages at Mashhad 13 at Warnaca and one on Friday in 3s hostages including three member of the kuwaiti Roya family remain on the plane. There Are believed so be a cirt eight hijackers one or two of whom May have boarded in Iran. Algerian authorities gave no indication they would refuel the plane but said after it Inive thai they had assurances of no violence on algerian soil. Radio messages to the control lower. Each reporter was allowed iwo questions saturday. One asked whether there could be a solution in which the hostages would be freed in Algeria and the hijackers would solution will be proposed to us and we will examine it together with our algerian Brothers in a comprehensive manner was the reply. We must have comprehensive solution. We will examine every proposal in Good appeared to soften the threat indicating a solution to the 12-Day-old crisis Stilt could be found in Algeria. There has been no outward Lien of movement in negotiations but constant visits to the pane by algerian negotiators made Clear the bargaining process continued. Algeria has a record of negotiating solution to hostage situations. It successfully negotiated Hie release in 1981 of americans held at he is. Embassy in Tehran for 444 the plane was in Cyprus last week the Hijack ers tried to summon reporters bul the Carpi of govern ment refused permission. There was speculation Alge Rian authorities allowed the meeting saturday As part of a Hill secret Compromise. Sources in the Reagan administration and Western intelligence say they Ixl Ieve one of the hijackers is Hasan Ezzedine a lebanese under . Indictment for the june 19b5 hijacking of a Twa Airliner to Beirut. A . Navy diver was killed and 39 americans were held hostage 17 Days. One official said privately the United slates wants Ezzedine extradited. The sources said without elaboration that a coded radio message Tram Beirut to the Kuwait aircraft last week contained he name Ezzedine. The gunmen mentioned the Twa hijacking in their statement saturday bul said Only that inc two could not be compared. This hijacking is different from the 1985 Hijack ing icy said. This will have a different solution. Conditions Are not the intelligence sources say they believe the seizure was planned by Imad Mughni Yeh another of the four Leb anese Shine militants indicted by . Authorities for the Twa hijacking. Riots from Paga 1 strip. Al Wazir lived there until 1963 and close relatives remain. Israel is the Only party that could have carried out such enact said Hanna Siniora editor of the newspaper Al Fajr in Arab cast Jerusalem. His Al Wazir s portfolio is the occupied Territo Ries. This is an attempt to crush the uprising by spokesmen for israeli defense and foreign ministries refused comment. Avi Pazner who Speaks for prime minister Yitzhak Shamir said it was natural for the Plo to blame Israel. They always blame Ariel Merari of Tel Aviv University an expert on terrorism said the death of Al Wazir also known As Abu jihad father of the holy War might have been the result of Plo infighting and that Arafat the Flo chairman probably approved it. Riots began in the occupied territories As soon As news of the assassination was broadcast. Hospital officials said seven palestini ans were shot to death in Gaza and six in the West Bank. The israeli army command confirmed 12 Arab deaths and said troops killed five palestinians in the Gaza strip. It said seven other palestinians were slain and in was investigating the circumstances. Black hags of mourning fluttered in Gaza cily Home of five families related to Al Wazir Over streets blocked every few Yards by barriers of stones and Flam ing tires. Mobs of angry Young arabs clutching rocks blocks of Cement empty tear Gas canisters and anything else thai could be thrown crowded around approaching cars. Many masked their faces with shirts or scarves. Gaza has not been this lense since the beginning of the uprising said a woman who would not give her name. Outside the Home of Ahmed Al Wazir the dead Man s brother in Law about 100 mourners sat under a Lent As loud speakers from a nearby mosque blared mourning verses from the Koran holy Book of is Lam. The service was interrupted when mourners spoiled israelis armed with rifles and tear Gas at a nearby Street Comer. Come Here if you Are men the palestinians shout cd hurling stones. The troopers responded with tear Gas and gunfire was heard. Women in Long Black mourning dresses screamed at the soldiers. About 30 soldiers charged the protes ters firing tear Gas and live ammunition. The arabs dispersed in a thick while Cloud of tear Gas and no casualties were evident inside the House Ahmed Al Wazir said he had no doubts about who the killers were and denied allegations of a feud with Arafat. Most of the deaths in Gaza were at refugee Camps. Three people were reported killed in the Khan Younis Camp in the Southern Gaza strip two at the nearby afar Camp and one each at the Bereij refugee Camp in the Central Gaza strip and Abs san Village near Gaza City. In the West Bank Hospital officials said three people were killed in the town of Jenin and one each Al Silway Nearra Mallah Habla near a Alilya and a Batisch. Soldiers to replace striking Irish prison guards Lubun Ireland a All guards in the Republic of Ireland s 11 prisons which have about 2,000 in males went on strike saturday following the breakdown of talks with government officials. The government said it would use 1,000 police offi cers about 10 percent of the nation s police Force and about 300 soldiers to replace the guards. It is the first National walkout by prison guards in the nation s history. The Irish prison officers association said in a statement that the strike is a protest against the department of Justice s decision to impose new shift arrangements without consulting the guards. The Union says it wants Money used to pay for guard overtime to be used to hire More prison staff. But the government claims the cause of the dispute u the guards demand for compensation for overtime payments lost last year when extra staff was hired. The department Aid the extra Tuff was added partly to meet Union complaints about staff strike comes amid reports of unrest in some prisons. Four prisoners Al the High Security Portal Pic 47 Miles Southwest of Dublin were reported to Nave smashed their celts to protest 130 of the 200 prisoners Al the fort Lavoise prison Are convicted guerrillas of the outlawed Irish Republican army and the Irish National liberation army. Airliner blast from Paga 1 full loaow17 passengers a Bijou Pilot and Nancy air. The plan took off Al 6 4vm., m d Marlys Llaurent a spite woman up be port of Seattle which runs the air on they Pond the Wing was on fire and came immediately a r she said. The Pilot report trouble about three Miles out from the Airport Psi i Tluck Meyer of the Federal a vial Ion adminis Muon. Passenger Wilma s said she so the right minutes Emo the air. Everyone was holding a know who uie Man Wai Neil 10hue broken his Arm holding Onlo the plane nude a hard Landing about Halfway along runway. To a Spokane nurse i fire about five or 10 she said. "1 Don t bul i sure mull son Between Okudara suspect a still unidentified Man described As of Rhet Middle Eastern o North african. The Man was seen Uso 10 minutes before the said the policeman followed the Man plan Ning a robbery. As he was trailing the aspect tic car bomb went off. The policeman Turied to see to happened and when he Looker track the Man had disappeared. Of investigators said the believe the three terrorist suspects May already Breve left the country. Authorities i responsible for a Serin of attacks on is icon embassies and targets around the world a
