European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Sims an vol. 51, no 296 35c tuesday february 9,1993 d 8693 a i a n a n a i re Iner Jet col i Ide i All 132 killed aboard plane carrying Muslim pilgrims Tehran Iran a an iranian Airliner carrying Muslim pilgrims collided with a military plane and went Down in flames monday killing All 132 people aboard the jetliner Iran s official news Agency reported. It was not known what happened to the Crew of the military plane but the islamic Republic news Agency reported that the Pilot and Copilot were believed killed. Earlier Irna cited witnesses say ing they saw one crewman parachuting. The 10 15 . Collision occurred min utes after the leased russian Airliner took off under Clear skies from Tehran s main Airport for the shiite Muslim holy City of Mashhad the report said. Witnesses said they saw passenger thrown from the russian Tupolcv-134 after the nose of the military Jet a russian de signed Soukhoi crashed into the Airliner s Tail Irna reported. The collision caused two explosions the Irna report said. I saw the plane crashing As it was Bur Ning with smoke coming out of it Irna quoted one witness As saying. The jetliner had 119 passengers and 13 Crew members including a russian Pilot the official news Agency report said. Local journalists reported the wreck age fell on a military base at Karaj West of the capital. They said fleets of ambulances took bodies from the scene. Irna said most of the wreckage fell in a 600-Square-Yard open area at the Mili tary base which is surrounded by hous ing. It was not Clear if anyone on the ground was killed. Pilots who Fly out of much Rabid air port which serves both military and civil Ian Craft complain of near collisions nearly every week in Tehran s Over crowded skies. Mashhad a northeastern City of 500,000 people is the capital of Khora san province. The Tomb there of a found ing Imam of shiite islam is one of Iran s most important religious shrines. It is visited year round by pilgrims. It was not immediately Clear How Many see Airliner on Page 2 Turkmenistan aps a somalian Effort doomed . Official in Kenya says by Steve scholar staff writer Mombasa Kenya the massive re Lief Effort in Somalia is doomed to fail ure according to the . Consul i Mombasa because the military failed to consider culture anthropology and history before getting embroiled in operation re store Hope. The Relief Effort is doomed to failure because military planners Only considered geography when it planned the opera Tion said Consul Donald Stador in an interview last week. According to Stador a career Diplomat who has been in Mombasa three years and is set to take up consular duties in Guate Mala soon the somalis have been a War fighting people for More than 150 years. They will fight each other Over a Small Patch of Camel grazing land he said. They re fractious love to fight and just getting food will not solve the Long term problem. The food will save lives an that s Good but once the coalition forces Are gone those lives May be lost to civil  military leaders differed with Stader s Gloo my assessment. They spoke of normalcy return ing to Many parts of the country particularly Mogadishu. The comparison Between Early december and late january is startling said joint task they re to fractious love to fight and jus getting food will not solve Thelong term problem. The food will save lives and that Good but once the coalition forces Are gone those lives maybe lost to civil War Donald Stader . Consul i Mombasa Kenya Force Somalia spokesman Marine col. Fred Feck. Businesses Are springing up and people Are starting to talk to each  Somalia still has pockets of dangerous activity Peck said As evidenced by the recent cordon and search Mission in aug of and fighting Between see Effort on Page 2 Sarajevo Relief flights resume the Scrapheap of War members of a . Army explosives ordnance disposal learn in Somalia nil a Hole with confiscated munitions monday on the outskirts of Mogadishu. The estimated 5,000 to 6,000 pounds of shells were destroyed in a controlled explosion. From hire reports Sarajevo b9snia and Herzegovina re Lief flights to Bosnia resumed monday and government forces and rebel serbs agreed on an other cease fire in an area of battered Eastern Bosnia . Officials said monday. The flights were halted saturday after anti aircraft fire struck a German Relief plane after it took off from Zag to. One crewman was injured. The office of the . High commissioner for refugees in Zagreb Croatia announced re sumption of the Airlift to Sarajevo. But planes were taking off from . Bases in Germany and from the croatian port of split rather than Zagreb. Of 14 planned flights six had arrived in Sarajevo by midday officials said. In addition the resumption involved Only French and american aircraft because Britain Germany and Canada were reluctant to dispatch see flights on Page 2