European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday february 15 1991war in the Gulf v at a glance for. Saw Law four year old children in practice wearing Gas masks. Oil Slick update saudi officials Are dramatically reducing their estimates of the size of two giant Oil Slicks in the persian Gulf. A a a a a a a a Page 3 ammo Supply questioned Allied troops could face potentially dangerous shortages of some types of ammunition if there is a ground War in the persian Gulf sources told a newspaper. A page4 tuned in. A a a a. 5 a 1 a \ fior wave radio listeners say they get from Static filled frequencies what they can to get anywhere else a sense of what life is like amid War in the Middle East. A Page 5 Bradley repaired two out of three Bradley fighting vehicles in the 2nd army Cav regt recently required slight transmission adjustments to Correct a manufacturing flaw. A page6 a. A a a a a 1 a a a a a a a a a a a desert sandstorm feared military planners Are worried that a ground offensive could be jeopardized by the Quot Shamal Quot a a blinding sandstorm kicked up by seasonal winds. A a. _ a a a page6. B a lawmaker seeks delay a Texas representative is seeking to delay scheduled increases in the annual deductible for the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services until the end of the Gulf War. A Page 17 correction because of an editing error a caption on the front Page of yesterdays paper incorrectly identified the location of an f-16 flying a Sunrise sortie. The plane was flying Over qatar., shots fired at . Embassy from staff and wire reports Bonn Germany a operations at the . Embassy were running normally thursday the Day after a Salvo of machine gun. Fire struck the building a spokesman said a a ambassador Vernon Walters told the staff we would not be intimidated by the terrorist attack a embassy spokesman Neal Walsh said. No arrests have been made i the attack launched from the other Side of the Rhine River from the embassy and no one was injured a. Security remained tight around the embassy compound. Roads leading to it were blocked by guards armed with sub machine guns and a Section of the popular River walk along the Rhine that passes in front Mohe embassy was  armed police in bulletproof vests also guarded roads leading to the american comm Nitya few Miles North of the embassy. Most americans in Bonn live in the neighbourhood of apartments and other .-owned buildings.1 army faction a Radical group a did t notice what happened until it was with a bloody past in Germany claimed All Over a said a police officer who did no to responsibility for the attack according to want to be identified. The Federal prosecutors office. An Raf letter accused the United slates of waging a a War of annihilation against the iraqi people Quot said Rolf Han Nich a Federal prosecutors spokesman. Hannich said it ended with a War against imperialist War a .a., nato out of the Middle  the letter was found in a plastic bag near a House in bit i swi rite r across the River from the embassy flans Jirgen Forster another prosecutors spokesman said three men  to have been involved in the attack a two gunmen and a Driver. Witnesses said they saw three men in Bulky Coats hurrying away from the area at the time of the shooting. The embassy was fired on about 7 . A fifteen of the bullets hit the embassy and several other houses beyond the embassy were also hit. The distance from the gun site to the embassy is about 450 meters a the policeman said. A Walsh said the damage was on the Side of the building away from Walters offices. A a a. A. Walsh said the embassy had not received any direct threats prior to the shooting and the compound had taken a a stringent Security precautions since the Onset of the Middle East conflict. Emiliano Kampster one of about 40 Young German War protesters camping near the embassy Beard the bullets zip Over his own head but did t know what it was. A i thought it was firecrackers because the bullets were lit a said the 16 it 4 a a a a. R. Ivil it Tiv in lit Oulu View 1-0 wednesday. German authorities said 60 year old whose Camp is located Between spent 9mm shells were found in the front the fiver and the embassy a a vhf he use no 8l, go neral Konsul 111 later found out those were tracer von Weiss Strasse in Komg Sumiter bullets used to Home in on the embassy i an elderly couple lives there but they also thought it was the beginning of an i attack by skinheads who have threat onedus  Heidi a american who did t want her family name used had no doubt about what was happening a we were watching television when it happened a said Heidi whose husband works at the american embassy. A we heard the gunfire loud and Clear although the housing area is about four Kilometres away from the embassy. The Only thing we were not sure of was what was the target a Heidi said. A right after the shots were fired Heidi said three helicopters began circling the area around the embassy Koni Swinter and the american housing area in Blittersdorf. Heidi said she thought people in the housing area were frightened v several people refused to be inter v viewed by the stars and stripes increased Security in Bonn kicks unlike clockwork when there is an emergency said Bonn police spokesman Michael Geldmacher. In addition to the 750 uniformed and civilian police who concentrate on protecting endangered persons there is also an emergency squad that is constantly on Call at the minister of interiors request. V a a. In Greece the Athens area experienced another round of terrorism shortly after the embassy in Bonn was attacked. Two cars were destroyed in a pair of bombings Early thursday police said. No injuries were reported. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for. The explosions but police suspected anti Western terrorists. One blast destroyed a car belonging to the head of a French cultural Institute and shattered windows on neighbouring apartment buildings. The other blast destroyed a vehicle belonging to a greek businessman police said. Athens has been rocked by a series of bombings since the War began. The explosions have caused damage but no injuries a greek terrorist group has claimed responsibility for Many of the attacks against american French and British targets. A a. A a contributing to this report staff writer de Reavis in. A a uni the lot Angelet times and the associated press by the stars and stripes the red army faction which claimed responsibility for wednesday nights attack on the  embassy in Bonn is an offshoot of student terrorist groups formed to protest the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, Hans Georg Fuchs a spokesman for the West German Federal police estimated in december 1989 that 200 people were organized in the factions so called fighting units and that there was a hard Core of about 15 people. The groups declared political objectives include destroying ave Stern capitalism through terrorism in order to precipitate a worldwide marxist revolution and breaking apart German-. Solidarity. The organization has killed several prominent germans. The victims include a West German supreme court president Gunther von Drenkmann who was slain in 1974. A Gerold von Braun Riihl head of the foreign ministry a political department who was killed in 1986. A Alfred her Hausen the chairman of Deutsche Bank killed in a 1989 bombing. Americans have also been attacked by Raf members. These attacks include a june 1979 a an assassination attempt failed against Gen. Alexander Haig then the nato commander in Europe. A bomb concealed under a Bridge in Bourg Belgium exploded Between Haigs car and an escort vehicle injuring two guards. Quot a August 1981 the organization bombed the Headquarters of . Air forces Europe at a Stein a injuring 18 americans and two West germans. Quot a september 1981 two anti tank grenades were fired in Heidelberg at the ear of Gen. Frederick Kroesen who was then commander of . Army Europe. A january 1985 the Home of the . Consul general in Frankfurt was fit bombed As was a . Airfield at Heid. Berg. A August 1985�? a car bomb explode at Rhein main a West Germany Kimg two people and injuring 13. The nig before members of the group killed spi Eduard Pimental 20, alter luring him o of a Wiesbaden area  Groi then used his identification card to get i base. In the 1980s, several group Memluk dropped out of the scene. After East Germany a communist Lea or shop collapsed last year eight suspect red army faction terrorists were four to have been living there under false Ide titles Werner Lotze the first of the suspect terrorist put on trial was sentenced do. 31 to 12 years in jail on charges of Murdi attempted murder and blackmail. He had taken part in the 19j9 Atta against Haig