European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 a the stars and stripes monday August 26,1991iran opposes foreign troops in Gulf Cairo Egypt up a iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velamati said sunday that his country opposes deployment of any foreign troops in the persian Gulf area. And he criticized Turkey for trying to create a Buffer zone in Iraq to prevent incursions by kurdish insurgents. A Iran is against the presence of any foreign forces in the Region either in the persian Gulf or any other areas in this part of the world a Velamati told the iranian daily Jom Huri eslami. The publication usually reflects the views of the ruling clergymen. Velamati was responding to a question on the presence of nato rapid deploy ment troops in the Region and whether Iran held any talks with Turkey on the matter. The foreign minister said his country will not allow anyone to violate its sovereignty and will not interfere in the internal affairs of other states. Velamati was apparently reacting to re Orts from Kuwait that the tiny Sheik Dom and asked for the permanent deployment of . And British troops on its territory to fill the Security void caused by the departure of Western forces and to protect the emirate from iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The Call for . And British troops came thursday by kuwaiti foreign min ister Sheik Salem Al Sabah during a meeting with his country a National Council an advisory body that replaced the dissolved National Assembly last year. A participants at the meeting called for expanding proposals presented by the Deputy prime minister and foreign minister to include setting up bases for the United states and Britain after the ordeal which Kuwait passed through under iraqi occupation a said Rashid jew Essiri Deputy head of the 75-member consultative Council. Kuwaiti prime minister Sheik Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah warned on the anniversary of last years aug. 2 iraqi invasion that Iraq has not Given up its territorial designs on the emirate. Iran has said that defending the Oil Rich Gulf Region is the responsibility of the Gulf states any foreign presence in the Region including Arab troops from beyond the area. Velamati criticized turkish president Turgut Ozal for trying to establish a Buffer zone inside Iraq to protect the country from kurdish insurgents seeking autonomy in Turkey. A since the very beginning of the crisis we have reiterated that territorial integrity of countries including Iraq must be preserved a Velamati was quoted As saying. Iraqi super gun the United nations plans to demolish this 170-foot signed to arc chemical biological or nuclear weapons Long iraqi super gun that its inspectors lower left re up to 1,000 Miles. The guns existence was revealed a onily saw at Jabal Hamran Iraq. The gun was do under terms of the persian Gulf War Man says he killed to Crew newspapers say London apr a turkish Man has admitted killing two members of a British broadcasting corp. Television Crew whom he escorted into Northern Iraq in March British newspapers reported sunday. But the reports said Hashim Ciftci had no information about Rosanna Della Casa the third member of the bbl television Crew who is missing. A foreign office spokesman said two Scotland Yard detectives returned from Turkey and Northern Iraq last week. He said they have submitted a report of their investigations into the deaths of cameraman Nick Delia Casa and his brother in Law sound Man Charles Maxwell. The spokesman refused to give details of the report. But the sunday times and the observer newspapers reported that Ciftci had confessed to the killings to the detectives. The menus bodies were found in northeastern Iraq on May 23 by Royal marines. The newspapers reported that Ciftci said he did not harm Della Casals wife Rosanna who was last seen by journalists around March 30 in Dahouk Iraq with Maxwell and her husband. The observer identified Ciftci As a 23-year-old smuggler while the sunday times described him As an 18-year-old guide. Both papers said he was being held by the Kurdistan democratic party. Ciftci reportedly abandoned Rosanna Della Casa in the mountains of Northern Iraq after he shot the two men to death following an argument Over his fees. The sunday times said Ciftci shot the men with the semiautomatic Rifle the team carried for Protection. It said that when he returned 12 hours later to Rob the dead men of their cameras and Money Rosanna Della Casa was fighting reported in Croatia Belgrade Yugoslavia a Federal army jets and tanks fired on croatian positions in Eastern Croatia sunday in one of the most serious clashes Between the army and forces of the breakaway Republic croatian Media reported. A Shell hit a car in Vukovan killing three civilians the local radio said. Eleven other people were injured it said. Federal troops and croatian Security forces also exchanged fire in the Krajina Region South of Zagreb. Radio Zagreb said one croatian guardsman was killed. The clashes came one Day after croatian forces shot Down a Federal air Force plane near Vukovan a town 24 Miles Southeast of the croatian stronghold Osi Jek on the Danube River Border with Serbia. Radio Zagreb said serbian guerrillas helped by Federal troops were trying to take Vukovan and described the fighting As the heaviest involving the Federal military since Croatia declared Independence june 25. Radio Zagreb also reported heavy fighting Between croatian forces and serbian militants near Borovina Selje just North of Vukovan. Colombia to probe reports of . Flyovers Bogot a Colombia apr colombian aviation authorities will investigate reports that . Military planes flew Over restricted areas near the jail of Surron dered tiring Bess Priblo Escobar an aviation spokesman said saturday. The local press reported that two . Planes flew near the jail in a Nigado near the cocaine trafficking Center of Medellin in july and August. T he reports have stirred fears in Colombia that the United states May try to capture the Leader of the Medellin cocaine Cartel. A commission made up of Colombia s top aviation authorities will question local air traffic controllers about the reports an aviation spokesman said in a Telephone interview. The . Embassy denied the first incident reported to have taken place on july 17. It said All its planes receive permission before flying colombian routes. . Planes routinely Fly Between Howard fab in Panama and the Palan Quero base in Colombia. Escobar surrendered in june along with 14 associates in Exchange for government promises of reduced jail sentences and immunity from extradition. However colombian Justice minister Fernando Carrillo called the news reports a fantasy elsewhere in Colombia anti narcotics police destroyed 2,500 acres of poppy plants used to make heroin the local press reported. The discoveries in the southwestern provinces of Huila and Cauca in Early August were the largest yet of poppy production in Colombia. A English tourist 19, crushed to death Bayonne France up a a Young English tourist was crushed to death when a Road collapsed onto a Beach in southwestern France police said sunday. Johanna Noble 19, from Nottingham England took shelter from the Sun in a natural Cliff hollow saturday afternoon. She died when a massive Section of a unused Road that ran along the Side of the Beach caved in pinning her to the ground. Other bathers were unable to remove the Asphalt and gravel from on top of the teen Ager witnesses said
