European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. February 1993 world the stars and stripes b Page 9 bosnian refugees dying . Reports Clinton aides Are weighing options with great urgency from wire reports thousands of Muslim refugees Are fleeing Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina on foot because of Lack of food and some Are reportedly dying in route a in. Document said thursday. Meanwhile the Clinton administration said thursday that it is weighing options on Bosnia with great urgency while a Lead ing House democrat., urged the White House to relax its objections to a .-sponsored peace plan for the Republic. You need a plan that will Stop the fighting Stop the killing said rep. Lee h. Hamilton chairman of the House foreign affairs committee. Hamilton d-ind., said in an interview wednesday that unless the administration accepts some modification of the plan put Forward by International envoy lord David Owen arid Cyrus r. Vance it risks a widening of the ethnic warfare inthe former Yugoslavia. White House press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said president Clinton supports the work by Owen and Vance but Willback the plan Only if All the parties agree to in the meantime he s continuing to consider his options he s working with advisers Myers said. His National Secu Rity staff is meeting regularly on this and they re considering their options wit great she rejected suggestions Clinton was in effect blocking the plan by declining to endorse it. A report from the . High commissioner Tor refugees in the Eastern bosnian town of Tutza said serbian Force were allowing muslims to move out of the area thus effecting another More simple method of ethnic cleansing " due to the Lack of food people have been leaving the area of cd ska and Kamenica and making their Way to Tula on foot a distance of about 20 Miles said a statement received in Belgrade Yugo Slavia. The statement said 1,500 Muslim refugees had arrived in Tula by tues Day. A additional 2,500 had already crossed the front line Between serbian and Muslim held areas cast of Tula and800 More were expected by today the re port said. Arrangements were brim made to Lodge the refugees in a Alosija Casu of Tula the report said. These people Are arriving in very bad medical condition due to travelling on foot in cold weather and there Are reports of deaths along the Way the statement said adding that serbian forces were simply standing by and letting them pass the front last week serbs said they would allow passage of those muslims who have not bloodied their hands from the Region of cd ska and Kamenica for humanitarian Israel denies bail to 3rd american in Hamas probe Jerusalem Dpi an israeli military court rejected the bail request thursday of a third Arab Amer ican implicated in a deepening investigation of suspected american links to the Radical Muslim Hamas court ruled Mohammed Haja 34, who has been undergoing medical treatment in new York but has never resided in the United states could be kept in custody 10 More Days. Military prosecutors Are trying to demonstrate his connection to the islamic fundamentalist group whose members were deported to Lebanon by the hundreds seven weeks ago. Two other Arab americans Mohammed Jarad and Mohammed Salah both residents of Chicago had their bail requests turned Down tuesday and were ordered held in custody. The three men Are naturalized . Citizens. While prosecutors have traced Bank transfers fro the two Chicago men to a Money changer in the occupied West Bank the Case against Haja appears weaker and authorities have been considerably More vague about the details. Haja s american born wife Adla has insisted her husband had nothing to do with Hamas and said he had Only been to the United states on Short visits for medical treatments. He did t do anything that they say he did Saida la Haja 28, who was born in Norfolk va., but has lived throughout her marriage in her husband s Village of Bir Gaballah on the Northwestern outskirts of Jeru Salem. He was a sick Man and he went to new Yor for the she complained that israeli authorities have prevented her from visiting her husband who was arrested Jan. 25. After interrogating Salah a used car Salesman and Arad who owns the holy land grocery and bakery on Chicago s Northwest Side Israel arrested More than 60palestinians suspected of involvement in Hamas activities. Among them was Ribhi Awad the Money changer who received $230,000 from a . Bank and mar wan Khawaja an electrical Engineer from East Jerusalem. Awad and Khawaja said they did not know the Money was for Hamas. The court freed Awad Butha Waja remains in custody. Breezing through visit a stiff wind flaps Pope John Paul la s cowl Over his face wednesday in Cotonou Benin the pontiffs first Stop on an eight Day tour of Africa. Warmly received by provincial crowds the Pope implored Muslim leaders to unite with christians in the search for peace. On thursday evening John Paul was scheduled to meet with voodoo practitioners who have a Long tradition in Benin. The Pope Flics to Kampala Uganda today for a five Day visit then will proceed to Khartoum capital of Sudan before returning to the Vatican. Somalian warlords asked to list arms forces Mogadishu Somalia a american and . Commanders moved thursday to Shore up a somalian cease fire and Advance disarmament asking rival warlords to hand Over lists of All weapons and men under their control. The request was made in a letter to 14 faction chiefs from Marine it. Gen. Rob Ert b. Johnston who commands the . Led military coalition in Somalia and from Gen. Imtiaz Shaheen of Pakistan who represents the United nations. The request came As . Spokesman Farouk Mawlawi said american and Bel Gian forces were positioning themselves for a show of strength against one of the faction warlords known As Gen. Morgan. Morgan whose real name is Mohamed said Hirsi has been engaged in sporadic skirmishes for the past two weeks near the Southern port of Kismay with the forces of another warlord col. Omar Jess. The fighting scuttled a round of preliminary peace talks that had been scheduled to Start in Mogadishu on monday. The country s leading warlord Gen. Mohamed Farrah aided accused Morgan of cease fire violations. All 14 factions including morgans agreed to a cease fire and disarmament program As mandated by a . Security Council Resolution at a meeting in Addis Ababa Ethiopia last month. Morgan a son in Law of ousted presi Dent Mohammed Siad Barre continued to fight after the dictator fled into exile two years ago. Jess is one of aided s Prin Cipal allies. American and belgian forces have twice attacked Morgan s militia in the past two weeks first on Jan. 25 and again on monday using helicopter gunships and armoured personnel carriers. The first attack came when Morgan ignored a warning to halt an Advance to Ward Jess position. The second was launched when a . Army cobra gunship spotted one of Morgan s armed vehicles moving toward a belgian army patrol. At least eight vehicles and several Artil Lery pieces were destroyed in the two at tacks. The letter from Johnston and Shaheen asked the faction leaders for a detailed list of All weapons heavy and Light under the control of your political it also requested the geographic Loca Tion and numbers of All forces under your control to assist in the planning for transition of armed combatants to somali the generals said they wanted Bot lists no later than feb. 15, they said their goal was to implement the cease fire and disarmament agreements agreed to by the factions. The repeated seizures of hidden weapons caches including one of 60 tons uncovered by . Marines and soldiers i Mogadishu on wednesday have under scored the difficulties of disarming the factions
