European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 a the stars and stripes saturday october 19, 1991. Iraq still won t come clean panel told Washington up Iraq is still trying to hide the extent of its nuclear weapons program from a world Community intent on destroying the nations arms capability a chief . Inspector told a Senate panel thursday. David Kay works for the International atomic Energy Agency which has been scouring iraqi Sites in search of evidence of its nuclear program. His . Team was held hostage in a Baghdad parking lot for 96 hours last month after uncovering a Cache of documents showing that Iraq was perhaps a year away from building a nuclear bomb. In testimony before the Senate foreign relations committee Kay said a there Are several areas where Iraq is still withholding information from the inspection efforts of the Iaea among them work on enriching uranium weapons design work and the procurement networks established to support the program. Investigators have concluded that Iraq not Only was just a year or so away from developing an atomic bomb but also was working on developing the technology of Hydrogen bombs which magnify the explosive Power of an atomic bomb by hundreds perhaps thousands of times. After Kay a testimony or. Robert Cal Luci Deputy director of the special . Profitt Heads provide Comfort 1ncirlik a Turkey air Force maj. Gen. James l. Jamerson relinquished command thursday of the operation provide Comfort ii combined task Force to air Force Brig. Gen. Glenn a. Profitt ii during ceremonies at in Ciurlik a. Since april Jamerson has served at various times during the operation As both Deputy commander and commander of provide Comfort. From january to March Jamerson commanded joint task Force proven Force which flew 4,600 tactical sorties from in Ciurlik during the persian Gulf War. He will return to his previous Post As Deputy chief of staff for operations at . Air forces in Europe Headquarters at Ramstein a Germany. Profitt previously commanded the 65th air div at Lindsey air station in Wiesbaden Germany and was director of electronic combat for the Central air Force in saudi Arabia during operations desert shield and desert storm. Commission on iraqi weapons of mass destruction gave committee members a private briefing on the extent of the iraqi Effort. He said it involved thousands of iraqi technicians and scientists working on a variety of paths that can Lead to nuclear weapons. Sen. John Glenn a Ohio and others introduced legislation that Glenn declared could put a brains Backbone and Teeth into our nuclear non proliferation it would also Send a signal to world suppliers that if they Are shown to be involved in supplying illicit nuclear programs they May not do business with the United states Glenn said. One of the co sponsors sen. Albert Gore jr., d-tenn., also asked the administration to release immediately what firms and corporate officials have been involved in supplying the iraqi program. A any information available to the . Government should be released at once a Gore said. A fall governments should be urged to divulge this information and let the chips fall where they May. Ideally the information should be divulged in its a we have to learn from our experience a Gore said. A had iraqi president Saddam Hussein not backed himself into a War had he Laid Low and continued his operations for a year or two or three we would be confronting a nuclear armed totalitarian state with the credible ability to annihilate countries hundreds and perhaps thousands of Miles from its Glenn said the legislation would a ban . Imports and government procurements from firms that the president determines Are assisting any nation or group to acquire either a nuclear explosive device or unsafe guarded nuclear additionally Glenn and others asked the president to work to strengthen the atomic Agency a nuclear safeguards. Kay described an iraqi weapons program of a considerable breadth a and told members that a based on evidence gathered during the sixth inspection involving the team being held captive Iraq would not have been satisfied with a simple or crude device but was already planning for weapons of increased Power and a clearly a Long term monitoring and verification program of substantial intrusiveness must be maintained in Iraq to ensure that a Clandestine program does not restart a Kay said. Nato troops escaping xenophobia in Germany by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau a current wave of attacks on foreigners in Germany appears generally to be bypassing foreign nato troops in the country . And German officials say. German police registered 1,020 reports of politically motivated crimes against foreigners Between Jan. 1 and oct. 11. Police were not aware of any incidents involving nato personnel or family members said Hartmuth Jaufmann spokesman for the Federal criminal office in Wiesbaden. The . Army cited one such Case however that took place in August. Soviet troops also apparently have suffered several attacks by skinheads and other right Wing radicals. An official at the soviet embassy a Berlin office confirmed thursday that his country is seeking German government Protection for soviet troops. German newspapers reported that soviet troops have fired warning shots and used Gas pistols to deter attackers. . Army Europe Headquarters referred to increasing violence in Germany in an oct. 4 memorandum to unit commanders saying the such attacks a Are of concern to Usa eur due to the multiethnic makeup of our society and our military forces and the danger that . Personnel could be a group of skinheads knocked Down and kicked a . Soldier aug. 27 in Potsdam said army spokeswoman Millie Waters. The Soldier was treated for minor injuries and released and no arrests occurred. The army knows of no other incidents involving its soldiers Waters said but it is advising troops to travel cautiously in Eastern Germany and to avoid crowds of skinheads or Drunken rowdies. The air Force warned of possible Radical violence at a National association for the advancement of coloured people March sept. 28 in Frankfurt. The March attracted few people and no trouble occurred. Aside from that the air Force has remained silent on the subject. A we done to feel at this Point that we re a target and that there a a need for a warning a said it. Col. . Crowley a . Air forces Europe spokesman. Bombs planted by Neo nazi terrorists exploded in several .-plated cars in Germany in 1982 and 1983, but attacks against americans in Germany since then generally have come from left Wing Ter. A wrists. Most right Wing Radical attacks against foreigners this year have occurred in the states of Baden Wiir Temberg Niedersachsen nor Rhein westfalen and Sachsen Jaufmann said. Sachsen is the Only one in Eastern Germany a Region where rising unemployment has fuelled hatred of outsiders. Attacks on an Asylum seekers apartment building a few weeks ago in the Sachsen town of Hoye Swerda set off a string of similar outbursts around the country however. Applicants for political Asylum such As those from Africa and Asia Are the primary targets but radicals also have attacked immigrant Eastern europeans of German descent. Jaufmann said the 1,020 reported incidents this year included 208 arson cases a 149 in the West and 59 in the East. The numbers correspond roughly to the population ratio Between the two regions. Also the criminal office has recorded 90 injurious attacks against people 48 were in the West and 42 were in the East. Most other crimes involved Only property damage. The German parliament has agreed on a plan to place future Asylum applicants in Large refugee Camps and to process their applications within six weeks. Of the hardest hit Western states Only prosperous Baden Wurttemberge has Large . Troop concentrations. Attacks there have become More frequent. Most have occurred in Freiburg and in the area Between Karlsruhe and Mannheim said Claus Kilgus a state criminal office supervisor in charge of tracking right Wing extremists. Arson attacks against foreigners dwellings in Freiburg prompted the founding of a special investigating commission there. Recently the state ordered round the clock patrols at Asylum seekers apartment buildings. Police watching such a building in Mannheim arrested a Man carrying a Molotov cocktail at 2 . Sunday Kilgus said and other suspects have been arrested in connection with attacks already carried out. Restructuring nato Gen. Colin a Powell Leftin Lii ii Man of the joint chiefs of staff Ana Jelense Secretary Dick Cheney arrive for the Start of a momentous nato meeting at Taormina a resort in Sicily. The key strategy talks that began thursday will focus on proposals to slash the Alliance s nuclear arsenals in Europe by 80 percent. Army adding Avenger system to Korea division s air defences Seoul up the . 2nd inf div stationed in South Korea has added the Avenger system a vehicle mounted version of the stinger surface to air missile to its air defense Battery a . Army spokesman said Friday. The Avenger system includes two four stinger missile launcher pads mounted in the cargo bed of a High mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle it replaces the Chaparral air defense missile system which was recently retired from service the spokesman said. As such Avenger is not a new weapon system but is based on two existing proven systems the spokesman said. Stingers May also be shoulder fired. The newly deployed systems provide the 2nd inf div with double the firepower of the Chaparral As Well As on the move fire capability. The missiles May also be fired from a location away from the main system. The Chaparral required a stationary platform for firing
