European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Fears raised Over terrorism in . Support beams Are put into the garage under the world Trade Center on sunday to Shore up the area and allow investigators to at . Bomb site from wire reports new York a investigators inched deeper into the huge bombed out Cavern under the world Trade Center on Sun Day continuing their search for a garage worker and More clues about the explosion. Riding on a spider scaffolding Quot the kind of portable platform used by High Rise window cleaners a explosives experts worked their Way Down the sides of the Cavern checking the jagged edges of blown out Concrete floors for evidence. They had yet to reach the sub base mint level where much of the nibble collapsed after the bomb went off in an underground garage feb. 26, killing five people. Another search for missing building employee Wilfredo Mercado was concluded for the Day without results after two dogs sniffing through the rubble were unable to find any Trace of him. So far Only one Man is accused in the bombing that rocked the Trade centers 110-Story twin towers. Mohammed a. Salameh 25, was arrested thursday. Investigators say Salameh rented the Van that held the bomb. Officials of various agencies gathered sunday to plot their next Steps. Among the questions investigators were expected to pursue. A who and where is a Man reportedly seen accompanying Salameh to the Jersey City n.j., truck rental office when he rented the Van three Days before the explosion a what Are Salami he a links to Al Sayyid nos air who was acquitted of murdering Radical rabbi Meir Kahane but remains in state prison on other charges stemming from Kahaney Skilling officials also were investigating a report that an agent of the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms tampered with evidence to claim credit for the find by substituting her name for that of an investigator from another Agency. John of Brien a spokesman for the at acknowledged that a Bureau agent was being questioned in a a procedural matter regarding the collection and preservation of . In Jersey City about a dozen members of the coalition for jewish concerns from new York City waved picket signs outside the Al Salam mosque where Salameh was a regular worshipper. A we Are Here to condemn this place and this mosque Quot said rabbi Avi Weiss president of the coalition. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman a Blind Muslim cleric from Egypt often preached at the mosque. The Sheik is being investigated in three slayings in the United states and has been accused by Egypt of inciting attacks in Cairo against foreign tourists. New York apr the bombing at the world Trade Center is feeding a fear among . Law enforcement that americans May be facing organized terrorism on their Home ground. Although americans and their institutions have been victimized in scores of bombings sky jacking assassinations and other politically driven acts of violence Over the past 25 years few have occurred in the United states. Officials credit that to several factors the distance from the centers of revolutionary ferment the easy availability of .-related targets abroad Washington a Tough anti terrorist policy of no negotiations and Swift armed retaliation and the efficiency of its Law enforcement but officials say there is no reason to assume the attack on the world Trade Center a symbolic heart of capitalist democracy was simply an isolated event in an Abc to interview sunday former Cia director Robert m. Oates called Iran responsible for most Middle East terrorism at present but said it was a too Early to say Quot whether such activity was coming to shores. Others closer to the smell of death in the Trade centers shattered underground garage Are More worried. A it May very Well be that this is the beginning of the holy War. Against the West a lashing out against the great satan Quot said a Federal Law enforcement official. A if the holy War has indeed started there Are Tough times that concern was reinforced when Fri agents found bomb ingredient chemicals in a new Jersey storage space rented by Mohammed a. Salameh the 25-year-Ola palestinian held As a suspect in the Trade Center bombing. It while saying Only that they Are a seeking others a Federal agents made Clear their inquiry will focus on the Middle East a Home for dozens of groups whose causes Range from destruction of Srael to the overthrow of .-Allied Arab Oil states and the replacement of secular governments with islamic fundamentalism. An Fri tabulation for 1987-91 listed 34 a terrorist incidents Quot in the United states mostly vandalism or sabotage with no deaths or injuries. Twenty three of those were related to puerto Rico. Suspects included such groups As the animal liberation front the Evan Mecham eco terrorist International conspiracy and up the irs inc. Even so More serious activity is not unknown in the United states. The 20th Century has witnessed scores of bombings against politicians diplomats judges government agencies Ana seek redress for University s Black list Oneonta . Apr Darryl Taylor will never forget the Welcome he received at the state University of new York at Oneonta. Twp weeks after arriving on Campus last fall Taylor was summoned from the Shower by two state troopers investigating the attack of an elderly White woman allegedly by a Black Man. They asked the freshman where he was sept. 4, checked his hands for cuts and left a i was scared a said Taylor from Brooklyn. A i thought they were confusing me with someone else for something i knew i did no to but police weren to confusing Taylor with anyone. The 7/-year-old woman told police that her knife wielding assailant was a Young Black Man. She said she Cut him on the hand before he fled. Taylor fit the description. He is Black. So Are 124 of his fellow classmates whose names and addresses were handed Over to state police by school officials. And so did every other one of the 350 or so Black men in this predominantly White co Liege town in upstate new York 70 Miles w est of Albany. Six months later the reverberations from the a Black list still Register. And for some time authorities will have to Deal with the resulting lawsuits and the anger it made me see the world for what it really is if you re Black student Darryl Taylor of Oneonta a Black men. Over a four Day period almost every one of them was stopped questioned and searched by state police some two and three times. A what a Welcome a Taylor said. A it made me say a Wake it was racist and it made me see the world for what it really is if you re maj. Joseph Loszynski who pleads the state police Barracks that conducted the investigation acknowledged that Federal Law forbids the distribution of a list such As the one Oneonta state provided. But he said that if he had it to do All Over again the investigation would have been conducted the same Way. A if the roles were reversed and the same circumstances and physical evidence was there and we had indications that they came from a Central location like the schools dorms i would have made As Many at tempts to interview its occupants a even if Thev n White Loszynski said. It lamp a Scott fein a lawyer representing Black students the investigation was a throwback to deep South prior to the civil rights Era in those Days Black men were routinely stopped Ess a a t0?&Quot that they had Commil rapes. They did t qare look an officer in the Eye fear of looking suspicious and stepped into the Sti gutters when a White woman passed to avoid even simplest Contact. , peking unusual redress in the sin Seraj cu1.ts filing in addition to fun for Oneonta state s multicultural Center they want a a a a 5choarships for Oneonta state president Alan Donovan said he Trie vice president i pm suspend in and demo vice president Leif Hartmark who compiled the Lis but Donovan said the a Black list investigation Jusi. Radl drop in How a of smal mown s a int in t an excuse for what happened Here cause it was inexcusable a Donovan a but it h pens All Over. Unfortunately Oneonta is not unique
