European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes . Friday March 12,1993bomb suspects seem worlds apart Nidal Ayyad by the los Angeles times Newark . A in Many ways he is everything that the prime suspect in the world Trade Center bombing is not a Man of educational achievement with a professional career just starting a family a newly sworn american citizen with real roots in his Community. But authorities say the remarkably dissimilar Mohammed a. Salameh and new est suspect Nidal Ayyad share significant Bonds a a palestinian heritage and key roles in the deadly bombing. They simply were friends insisted distressed and tearful members of Ayyad s family during the Young chemical engineers Brief appearance in Federal court Here wednesday a the Only thing he did was know Mohammed Salameh Quot said a 17-Ycair-Oid brother Raziq Ayyad. A the has the right to choose his investigators suspect that they shared much More than Friendship a a joint Bank account Access to a secured storage shed believed converted into a makeshift bomb lab expertise in concocting a Halfton chemical bomb and links to accused Assassin it Sayed nos air imprisoned last year for gun violations connected to the shooting of rabbi Meir Kahane. Kahanic a Radical zionist who wanted arabs expelled from Israel and its occupied territories became a Symbol of repression and a target of rage to most palestinians. He was assassinated in new York City in 1990.it is the Kahane element that May ii Nally suggest a motive. As one Federal investigator said a nos air in killing the Devil Kahane seems to have United a lot of these whatever brought them together Ayyad and Salameh appear to be an Odd couple. Ayyad was a distinguished student at Rutgers University who studied chemical explosives As part of his instruction. Salameh was unable to pass a written Driver s License test in four attempts was sometimes ridiculed by friends for being a Stu pid Quot and had appeared hopelessly confused about How to change a blown fuse at his Jersey City apartment Ayyad worked As a process Engineer in the development Laboratory of Allied signal corp. Salameh scrambled to get occasional jobs in construction. Investigators picked up their common Trail soon after identifying the probable source of the bomb a rented Ryder Van. It turned out the yellow Ford eco online had been rented by Salameh and that he had been accompanied to the Jersey City Ryder lot by Ayyad driving a rented red car. Further investigation led authorities to the joint Bank account the self storage locker they apparently shared and records of Telephone Calls believed made by Salameh from that suspected makeshift bomb lab to Ayyad s desk at Allied Sig Nat in Morristown . When Salameh was arrested late last week Federal agents discovered Ayyad s business card among the suspect s personal effects. Admits lying memory lapse los Angeles apr Tut through a wearying Cross examination Rodney King admitted to lies contradictions and memory lapses confessing he was not too sure about his earlier claim that police had taunted him with racial slurs. A i forget a lot of things that happened that night Quot the Black Motorist said before stepping Down from the stand wednesday. But King insisted he did t deserve the 2991 police beating even though he had been speeding and drunk. During his two Days on the stand King wandered and grew weary but kept Cool even under harsh Cross examination. Officers Theodore a Briseno Laurence m. Powell and Timothy e. Wind and sgt. Stacey c. Koon Are charged with violating King s civil rights during the beating in which King was clubbed Ana kicked while an onlooker videotaped the scene although prosecutors refused to comment on King s testimony they declined to question him after Cross examination suggesting they did no to feel the need to rehabilitate him in the eyes of the jury. Defense attorneys said outside court that Kings testimony generally helped their Case even though he proved to be a sympathetic witness. A a it a better for us Quot said Ira Salzman who represents Koon. A now he a not this mythic looming presence in the sky. He a just a King left court without comment. He never testified in the officers state trial which ended in acquittals and an outbreak of deadly rioting last year. Much of the Cross examination focused on Kings assertion tuesday that officers had taunted him with the word Quot Nigger Quot As they clubbed him. Later tuesday As Cross examination began King said he Wasny to certain that word was used. Asked repeatedly wednesday whether he was sure that officers used the slur King said again and again Quot in a not Quot i heard either a Nigger or a killer Quot he said. King said that when questioned by investigators he initially denied hearing racial slurs because he said his Mother had told him in the Hospital Quot we All know what went on. You done to need to make it a racial Issue Quot defense attorney Michael Stone also established that Kings accounts varied about where he put his hands when he was stopped a on the steering wheel or dashboard a As did his account of when he was first struck. Some of his recollections also conflict w Ith the video. Stone also elicited King s Concession that he lied when he told investigators the Day after the beating "1 done to do he admitted he had used marijuana some Lime before the beating. King maintained his composure even under relentless Cross examination by Briseno a attorney hark and Braun who accused King of lying about racial slurs to make himself Rich in a $50 million lawsuit against the City. A police photographer wednesday documents items found at the scene of the murder of or. David Gunn. Abortion protester arrested after doctor is slain at Fla. Clinic Pensacola Fla apr an abortion foe in his sunday Best fatally shot a doctor in the Back behind a women a clinic then turned himself in to police posted out front for an anti abortion demonstration authorities said. The slaying wednesday at the Pensacola women s medical services clinic was the first Ever reported at an anti abortion demonstration. Abortion rights activists called it an example of growing extremism in the antiabortion movement. While about a dozen demonstrators picketed the clinic Entrance or. David Gunn was shot three times after getting out of his car near the Back door police said. R Quot the Guy just went up chased or. Gunn and just shot him Point Blank Quot said a witness Steve Powell Michael Frederick Griffin 31, of Pensacola was charged with murder after walking around the building and surrendering to police watching the protest sgt Murray Holt said. He was held without bail and was to appear in court thursday. Griffin was dressed in a Gray suit Quot like he w As going to Church when he told the officers a a a in be just shot doctor Gunn a a said John Burt a Lay preacher w to led the abortion protest. On sunday Griffin had offered a prayer for the Der Tor at the Whitfield Assembly of god Church outside Pensacola Burt said. Griffin Gunn he asked that the congregation Pray and As i that we would agree with him that doctor Gunn Wolf give his life to Jesus Christ Quot Burt said. A the wante him to Stop doing things the Bible says is wrong an1 Start doing what the Bible says was Gunn a 47-year-old father of two worked of worn in s clinics in three states. Friends said he was com netted to ensuring women had Access to abortions even in conservative areas where no other doctor would per Orin them. Gunn who wore leg braces because of Chii Dhoti i Eufaula Ala. He performed abortions a f 0 Alabama clinics one in Georgia and two in Flor
