European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 b the stars and stripes . Monday March 0,1993bomb equipment found sources say by the los Angeles times new York a authorities investigating the world Trade Center terrorist explosion have found bomb making paraphernalia in a vacant new Jersey apartment believed to have been occupied until last week by an associate of Mhammed a. Sarameh the prime suspect sources said saturday. In addition these sources said hundreds of pounds of chemicals discovered by the Fri in a Public storage locker in new Jersey on Friday proved to be a very unstable when detonated by bomb experts. Quot can Vou imagine anyone. Driving around new York with that stuff in a Van a asked an astonished official who declined to be identified. If these chemicals prove to be identical to the materials used in the blast it could support a theory held by some investigators that the bomb May have gone off prematurely feb. 26 in a parking garage underneath the massive twin Tower Complex in Manhattan. Sarameh 25, a palestinian with a jordanian passport has Yacknow Liged that he rented the truck that is believed to have transported the explosives into the world Trade Center. In addition investigators said that they have identified him As the same Man who rented the storage locker where the chemicals were found. On saturday investigators were searching for a Man described As a a a jordanian associate Quot of Salameh who accompanied him to a Ryder rental office in new Jersey on feb. 23, when the truck was rented after $400 in Cash was deposited. Ilhan a Fean a a8ent investigating the world Trade Center explosion Load bags and boxes of debris into a Van saturday. Apparently lived in an apartment at 40 Pamrapo ave. In Jersey City where Fri agents found the bomb making paraphernalia. A neighbor told the los Angeles times that the occupants of the apartment who kept Odd hours moved out shortly after the world Trade Center explosion. By any Standard the investigation of the bombing has been unusually productive in its Early stages with the arrest of two suspects thursday the discovery of two separate caches of bomb making materials Friday and an apparent link to a Radical islamic group. Yet while Federal officials Are known to be optimistic about the inquiry investigators admitted saturday that they Are a Long Way from being Able to organize these Puzzle pieces into a conclusive criminal Case. They still have not resolved the Basic question was it a Well planned act of International terrorism or simply the Handiwork of a few fanatics investigators were working tirelessly Over the weekend to stabilize the world Trade Center Crater to allow further digging. But Raymond Finnegan construction chief for the port authority of new York and new Jersey said Quot it could take a week before we can get Down there Quot suspect s background politics still a mystery by the new York times new York the fact that the primary suspect in the world Trade Center bombing is of palestinian origin has opened yet another line of thinking into his possible politics and motive. The jordanian government said the suspect Mohammed a. Salameh 25, was born sept. I 1967, in Bindiya a Village near the town of Nablus on the West Bank of the Jordan River. His birth came at a convulsive time in the Middle East just three months after Israel captured the West Bank in the six Day War. The cease fire line split Many jordanian palestinians from their relatives in the occupied Region. It was on the West Bank at that time that palestinian political identity was most intensely forged and expressed on the world stage. It also was then that the Palestine liberation organization began developing into a potent political Force with Nablus a Center of palestinian nationalism. If Salameh was folded by these Mohammed a. Salameh. Born on the West Bank events there would be reason to think he is hostile to Israel and its supporters. It is not yet Clear where Salameh a allegiances lie and his palestinian origins May have absolutely no bearing on his motivations. It remains murky for instance where Salameh grew up and what his influences were As he grew into adulthood jordanian officials however did say that Salami he a father was a former warrant officer in the jordanian army. That would suggest that his father regarded himself As a jordanian especially since he would have served when the West Bank was controlled by Jordan and a palestinian identity would have been overshadowed by a jordanian identity. Before the israeli occupation of the West Bank the vast majority of people there did not As clearly define themselves As palestinian As they did following the occupation. Indeed most palestinians who came of age following the six Day War Are More Apt to have allegiance to Yasser Arafat the Plo Leader whereas most older palestinians Are More inclined to align themselves with King Hussein of Jordan. Civilian witnesses re create emotion of King beating by Jim Newton los Angeles times los Angeles a Benjamin Avila remembered four police officers hitting Rodney g. King Quot All Over his  Robert Hill could not remember exactly How Many officers there were but most of the blows he saw were to Kings legs. Felipe Lopez was mane vering for a better View and missed a portion of the beating As did Dorothy Gibson. Gibson remembered hearing someone yell Quot please Stop a a and she assumed that that person was King. But on reflection she admitted that she could not be absolutely sure. In the opening Days of the civil rights trial against three los Angeles police officers and a former officer those four witnesses gave accounts that were As conflicting As they were powerful fleshing out the jury a knowledge of the incident while subjecting their credibility of doubt. The testimony was Long awaited a none of the four Quot civilian witnesses Quot was called to the stand in last years state trial a and their emotional accounts captivated jurors and enlivened the Early Days of the prosecutions Case. Although the civilian witnesses were engaging they also presented lawyers on both sides with challenges prosecutors were forced to grapple with calling witnesses whose statements were easily contradicted while defense lawyers had to Deal with the fallout from witnesses relaying the horror of watching police beat an individual. On balance Legal experts believe that the civilian witnesses probably accomplished what prosecutors had hoped. They took the jury to the scene re creating through the eyes of average people a a nurse a probation officer and two musicians a the Shock of the events that unfolded on that Chilly March night in 1991. A the real value of the civilian witnesses testimony is to convey that emotional Impact a the feeling of watching King beaten a said Peter Arenella a Law professor at the University of California at los Angeles. A a that san important element that was missing from the state  on trial Are sgt. Stacey c. Koon officers Laurence m. Powell and Theodore j. Briseno and former officer Timothy e. Wind