European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes wednesday june 10, 1992 writer s attacks on islam led to killing suspect says it Cairo i Gyp apr a Muslim extremist told interrogators tuesday that he gunned Down a prominent secular writer on political and religious affairs because of his outspoken attacks on militant islam police said. Meanwhile As police searched for a second suspect in the killing of Farag Fouda 47, authorities gave Security Protection to other writers and journalists who criticize extremists. Analysts said Fouda a assassination could indicate the extremists Are shifting their targets from government officials to writers. Because Fouda a life had been threatened he had been under police Protection in the past. But he asked that it be cancelled because it made him uncomfortable. A Man firing a machine gun from the rear seat of a stolen motorcycle shot Fouda in the lower Abdomen monday night As he his son Ahmed and a Friend left Fouda a suburban office. Fouda died from massive internal injuries and bleeding. Ahmed is was in stable condition from wounds in the thigh and Back Fouda s Friend Wahid Raafat was released from a Hospital after treatment for minor injuries. The Interior ministry identified the arrested gunman As abet Shafi Ahmed a 25-year-old fish wholesaler and member of the extremist group Al jihad holy War. A Ahmed has confessed that he joined the jihad group several years ago and said he started planning for this at tack five months ago a an investigator said. A the said Fouda had to be killed because of his attacks on Muslim groups. He condemned government criticism of islamic  the investigator a police officer speaking on condition of anonymity said the second suspects identity was known. He escaped the shooting scene by abandoning the motorcycle and jumping aboard a commuter train. Al jihad members arc suspected of assassinating president Anwar Sadat in 1981. It and other extremist groups that splintered from the More moderate Muslim brotherhood have attacked numerous officials police and members of Fly pts a coptic Christian minority. The groups want immediate implementation of strict islamic Laws or sharia. The last major attack attributed to them was an oct. 12, 1990, ambush on a downtown Cairo Street in which motorcyclists killed parliament speaker Rifat at Al Mahgoub and five others. Hala Mustafa a writer and political analyst at the Al ashram Center for strategic studies said the attack on Fouda is especially worrying. Quot this is a dangerous precedent. It Means the violence has gone beyond Trie regime and the politicians a Mustafa said. A the charge now is secularism. They condemn anyone who thinks differently from them. Fouda a Muslim was critical of islamic extremism As practice by the Gama at isl Amiya or a islamic  in his writings Fouda called them Gama at Zalamia a a groups of  he wrote weekly sarcastic essays in the government Magazine october that took potshots at the groups. He was a professor of agricultural Economy and wrote five books about politics secularism and islamic extremism. Drugs aflame Kuna Chen Der Singh Pakistan s narcotics minister torches a Hill of drugs monday at Azza Rhyl outside Peshawar Pakistan. Authorities burned 319,000 pounds of hashish and 6,274 pounds of heroin with an estimated value of $160 million. The illegal drugs had been seized in raids Over the years throughout the North West Frontier province a mountainous area that Borders Afghanistan. Canada names 4 new astronauts Ottawa apr science minister William we inc Gard on monday announced the selection of three men and a woman As winners of a Competition that Drew 5,300 applicants to become Canadas next astronauts. The four Are maj. Chris Gladfield of Sarnia Ontario Julie Payette of Montreal Robert Stewart of Calgary Alberta and dafydd Williams of Toronto. T he four were chosen by the Canadian space Agency irom 5,300 applicants a 1,000 More than responded Lor the first selection in 1983. Candidates had to be Canadian citizens with at least a Bachelor s degree in engineering physical science biological science Medicine or mathematics. A candidate also needed a minimum of three years of related pro less Iona experience or an and Aneed degree. A these four highly qualified people have been chosen to join the original six Canadian astronauts a the minister said. A i congratulate them on having come this far and w ish them Success As they begin this new and exciting phase in their  monday s finalists had some notable Competition. The Toronto Rock v Roll band drag wont be rocketing into space. Neither will the Man who sent in his application rolled up in the cargo Bay of a Model space shuttle. And neither will dozens of elementary school pupils a perhaps prompted by their teachers a who wanted to join Mare Garneau and Roberta Bondar As canadians in space. The next Canadian in space will be Steve Maclean of Ottawa whose space shuttle Mission is scheduled for september world Israel puts limits on visas of peace demonstrators from wire reports Jerusalem a Israel on monday curtailed the visas of More than 100 american and european demonstrators detained during the weekend for trying to break through a police Roadblock and join a West Bank rally. Meanwhile about 1,000 palestinians were permitted Back to work in Israel As the  partially lifted a two week closure of the Gaza strip. About 35,000 Gaza strip labourers Are employed in Israel. The peace activists Are in Israel for a week of demonstrations that coincide with the 25th anniversary of the 1967 six Day War when Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza  kill husband Dhaka Bangladesh a a 25-year-old newlywed was beaten to death by angry villagers after he fatally doused his wife with acid because her father refused to make a dowry payment the United news of Bangladesh reported monday. Mohammad Alam was killed sunday in the Eastern District of Chu Adanga some 150 Miles from Dhaka after he threw a Large Quantity of nitric acid at his new Bride Tamecha Khatun Una reported. Her father had refused to pay $185 in dowry the Agency  found off Morocco Ceuta Spain a at least four moroccans apparently drowned Early monday trying to Cross the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain a news report said. The Crew of a russian merchant ship spotted four bodies in the water 4.5 Miles Northeast of Tangier Morocco at 9 a.m., the Independent Europa press news Agency reported from the Spanish North african enclave of  slain in Kenya Nairobi Kenya a the . Embassy on monday expressed concern about violent crime in this East african capital following the weekend murder of an american woman. Andrea Agol was shot dead saturday afternoon near a popular shopping Center during the theft of her car. An embassy spokesman said Agol was believed to be married to a kenyan and in her Early 20s. Her Hometown was unknown but her parents live in Boise Idaho said the  hurts 13 in Spain Madrid Spain a a powerful car bomb believed set by Basque separatists exploded during Rush hour tuesday spewing shrapnel around a residential neighbourhood and injuring at least 13 people officials said. Kreuzberg assistant principal Dies of cancer on Way to . By the stars and stripes t he assistant principal for the american elementary school in Kreuzberg Germany died saturday after a three year Battle with cancer. Helen t. Sheng 68, died while in route to the United states from the Lan Stuhl  regional medical Center according to a department of defense dependents schools news release. Sheng a body will be cremated and the ashes returned to the family in san Diego the release stated. Sheng was a Dodds employee for 28 years teaching in Okinawa Japan before coming to Germany in 1966. She taught in schools in Heidelberg Fulda and Mainz before coming to Kreuzberg in 1982. Sheng is survived by her sister Pauline Fong of san Diego. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 . Thursday in the Kreuzberg Cavern Chapel. In lieu of Flowers donations May be sent in Sheng a name to the american cancer society according to the release