European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Star amp an vol. 51, no. 322 sunday March 7,1993 b d 8693 a gis somalis in bloody Battle american troops kill three and wound two. Witnesses Sav dish. Somalia map a at a i a. A a. / Mogadishu Somalia apr at least three somalis were killed and two injured in an overnight firefight . Troops witnesses said saturday. No . Casualties were reported. The deaths Friday night if confirmed would be the e latest casualties of the Fric Tion Between somalis and the foreign military Force that came to protect donated food from looters and restore some semblance of order to the devastated Horn of Africa nation. Earlier on Friday belgian and Canad Lian casualties. Wout cd cd of dead five ,li5 and Urve p up a were taken to a Nadir at n c m a a i Hospital. A nurse speaking on condition at hearing Friday an american sol she not be identified said three were Aier suspected of using excessive Force dead when they arrived. A stat a last Nons old author witnesses claimed the americans a mtenthns"1 in a acct p pc cd fire when Lucy card gunshots from a potential threat. Looters who had entered a nearby Market. American military officials confirmed they said the shooting lasted three to five an Exchange of fire in a neighbourhood in minutes before the soldiers  Sulu. On Friday night but a Marine suspected of using excessive said they had no information on Soma Force against a somalian teen fast month compared the situation to the Vietnam War when . Troops were targets of attacks by local youths. Quot How Many times in Vietnam did kids Cany explosives into a Village Quot asked gunnery sgt. Harry Condo during a hearing Friday to decide whether he faces a court martial. Quot some people want us Here. Some people done to. When you re out there you can to Tell Quot said the 33-Ycar-old radar see go on Pago 2mash members in Zagreb to begin return to Germany by Bob Klose staff writer Zagreb Croatia a members of the american 212th Mobile army surgical Hospital from Wiesbaden will begin heading Back to Germany in the next few Days Hospital commanders said. Quot we Are sending about 46 people Home this week a said or. It. Col Everett Newcomb a cardiologist and Hospital commander. Newcomb said the decision to Send the personnel Home two months ahead of the completion of the units 179-Day deployment period was made in january and was approved by the . European come in Stuttgart recently. The Hospital a 60-bed facility in tents on the Edge of Zagreb a International Airport has More staff than it needs to serve a patient Load. That Load is less than the 212th anticipated when it was sent to Croatia in september Newcomb said. The personnel who represent a Cross Section of the 350 men and women who operate the Mash unit will return to their respective units. Quot they will help with the medical care in Germany that was left a Little Short with our deployment Here a Newcomb said. But they re being sent Home on a Short Leash and they can be recalled on see Mash on Page 2 huh Kahyin locker tie to Van renter from wire reports new York a a pc scr containing bomb parts and potential ingredients for explosives was rented by the same Man who hired the Van believed used for the bombing of the world Trade Center according to published reports. A Federal investigator said the Man an illegal immigrant Quot from Jordan who has been charged with aiding in the bombing May have been left a holding the bag Quot by terrorist associates who disappeared possibly fleeing to the Middle East. A judge said another Man charged Wilh striking Fri agents investigating the bombing Quot May be involved up to hts eyeballs1�?T in the fatal blast. Three people arrested by Federal agents staking out a new York mosque May also be connected to the bombing one week ago the Fri said. Authorities searching a self storage warehouse in Jersey City n.j., seized bomb parts and More than 100 pounds of chemicals that could be used to make Ceplo Sives said the Federal investigator who has play prominent role in the investigation. He spoke Frid de a a to see bomb on Page 2 adv j i j Only 1,500 iraqis May have died Washington apr a former defense department analyst concludes in a new study that previous estimates of iraqi casualties from the persian Gulf War were too High and actual military dead May have been As Low As 1,500. Previous estimates have ranged up to 120,000 soldiers killed. John Heidenrich former Mililay analyst Wilh the defense intelligence Agency writes in the current Issue of the quarterly foreign policy that iraqi military wounded in operation desert storm were Likely about 3,000. Quot the Low casualties of the Gulf War demonstrate that we can wage War without excessive brutality Quot Heidenrich concludes. Heidenrich who studied the iraqi armed forces during the 1991 Gulf War for the Secretary of defense Dis see iraqis on Page 2