European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 51, no. 322 500 sunday March 7,1993 a d 8693 a gis somalis in bloody Battle american troops kill three and wound two witnesses say Mogadishu Somalia apr at earlier on Friday belgian and Canad Lian casualties. Compared the situation to the Vietnam least three somalis were killed and two an soldiers shot dead five somalis and five people were taken to a Nadir War when . Troops were targets of at injured in an overnight firefight with . Wounded two. Hospital. A nurse speaking on condition tacks by local youths troops witnesses said saturday. No . At a hearing Friday an american sol she not be identified said three were Quot How Many times in Vietnam did kids casualties were reported. Dier suspected of using excessive Force dead when they arrived. Carry explosives into a Village a asked the deaths Friday night if confirmed against somalis last month told author witnesses claimed the americans gunnery sgt. Hany Conde during a hear would be the latest casualties of the Fric ties that every somali on the Street posed opened fire when they heard gunshots from ing Friday to decide whether he faces a Tion Between somalis and the foreign a potential threat. Looters who had entered a nearby Market court martial. Military Force that came to protect do american military officials confirmed they said the shooting lasted three to five a some people want us Here. Some pc Natch food from looters and restore some an Exchange of fire in a neighbourhood in minutes before the soldiers fled. Pie done to. When you re out there you can t semblance of order to the devastated Central Mogadishu on Friday night but a Marine suspected of using excessive Tell a said the 33-Ycarold radar Horn of Africa nation. Said they had no information on Soma Force against a somalian teen last month see go on Page 2 3 More arrested in Fri probe of . Bombing new York apr three people arrested by Federal agents staking out a new York mosque May be connected to the feb. 26 bombing of the world Trade Center the Fri said. A judge said another Man charged with striking Fri agents searching his apartment Quot May be involved up to hts eyeballs a in the fatal blast. And a Federal investigator said an illegal jordanian immigrant charged with aiding in the bombing May have been left Quot holding the bag by terrorist associates who disappeared possibly fleeing to the Middle East. Authorities searching a self storage warehouse in Jersey cite n.j., seized bomb parts and More than 100 pounds of cd Plosives indicating other bombings might have been planned said the investigator who has played a prominent role in the investigation. He spoke Friday to the associated press on condition of anonymity. Yet despite a week of investigative work authorities. Still do not know what kind of explosives were used in \. The bombing a or exactly what the motive was. Mohammed a. Salach a jordanian remained jailed without bail on charges of aiding and abetting the see Fri on Page 2 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 military analyst with 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 is amps Ken George army staff sgt. Jerry Feagin a Ward master for the 212th Mash in Zagreb Croatia serves Canadian Wayne Shurran a lunch of tamales Green peas and mashed potatoes. Mash members in Zagreb. To begin return to Germany by boo 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 Quot Newcomb said. But they re being sent Home on a Short Leash and they can be recalled on see Mash on Page 2