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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                3 gis i in somalian barrages Mogadishu Somalia apr three american soldiers were wounded in mortar and rocket grenade attacks on . Bases overnight a . Military spokesman said thursday. It was the third attack on . Bases in two Days. The soldiers were in stable condition in the main american Field Hospital said . Spokesman maj. Dave Stockwell. Their names and hometowns were not released pending notification of their families. A in a separate incident wednesday night attackers raked the military Airfield with Small arms and mortar fire. No damage or casualties were reported. The casualties bring to 22 the number of americans wounded since hostilities intensified in Mogadishu on june 5. In All 35 peacekeepers have died and 162 have been wounded since then. On wednesday two americans a a civilian working for the Houston based construction company Brown amp Root and a Soldier guarding him a were wounded when their truck hit a land mine in a Mogadishu suburb. The explosion followed a night of fierce clashes. Most recent attacks have been blamed on gunmen commanded by fugitive warlord Mohamed Farrah aided whose forces control the Southern sector of the embattled Seaside capital. Stockwell said 12 mortar shells at least six rocket a propelled grenades and Small arms fire hit four . Locations Between late afternoon wednesday and before Dawn thursday. Two americans were wounded when grenades were fired at Hunter base a unmanned logistics facility on the notorious october 21 Road in southwestern Mogadishu. The Road is lined with derelict factories and scrub land favored As cover by snipers. The third american was hit As six mortar shells rained Down on . Positions among former University buildings within the . Headquarters Complex. Mogadishu resident stand around a destroyed vehicle that was carrying a . Building contractor and a . Military guard when it hit a land mine on  . Report assails .-led chopper raid by Keith b. Richburg the Washington Post Nairobi Kenya a an internal report by the . Legal office in Somalia raises a important Legal and human rights questions about an american led helicopter attack on a somalian leaders compound in july. It said the world body has a a a moral and a a legals obligation not to kill people a even in Somalia a combat like conditions a before offering them a Chance to surrender. The three Page report focused on the july 12 attack by . Cobra gunships that fired Tow missiles and cannons into a strategy meeting of key advisers to fugitive militia Leader Mohamed Farrah aided in Mogadishu the somalian capital. Several aided commanders were killed in the raid which . Officials said was timed to wipe out a a key terrorist cell plotting ambushes against . Peacekeepers including americans. The . Envoy in the War torn country retired . Adm. Jonathan t. Howe said last month that the attack was a Well planned for the time the meeting was taking place. But the report prepared by the United nations Justice division in Somalia the Day after the helicopter assault asked whether the United nations should target individuals and a whether the United nations should hold itself to a higher Standard of conduct in what originally was a humanitarian Mission to protect food supplies in Somalia. A we believe As a matter of policy Short prior notice of a destruction of a building with humans inside must be Given a the report stated. A from the Legal moral and human rights perspective we counsel against conducting military operations that give no notice of at tack to occupants of  the unsigned report was said to have been written by Ann Wright who until a few Days ago was the United nations top Justice official in Somalia responsible for helping rebuild the shattered nations police Force and judicial system. Wright left at the end of her contract to return to the United states. The report considered sensitive within the . Bureaucracy was Given to the Washington Post by . Employees who said they have grown disillusioned with the world body s military Campaign against aided and his militia. Surge of Ira bombing prevented police say Belfast Northern Ireland up a police defused two Large bombs in Northern Ireland and authorities in the Irish Republic raided a bomb making factory to thwart a massive Ira bombing Campaign the Royal Ulster constabulary said thursday. An Ruc spokesman said a 1,000-Pound bomb and a 600-Pound device were defused by Security forces in Northern Ireland. The Gardai police Force in the Irish Republic found what a spokesman said was an Irish Republican army bomb making factory near letter Kenny South of the Border in county Donegal. Police in Northern Ireland said they were questioning a number of men in Cookstown 55 Miles West of Belfast after a bomb packed with homemade explosives was found in a shed on Farmland several Miles from town. The second bomb was defused close to a British military checkpoint on the Border with the Irish Republic near Belleek 75 Miles Southwest of Belfast. That bomb was primed to explode and was carried on a trailer being towed by a tractor that crashed in a Field near the intended tar get. A both bombs would have caused massive damage and almost certainly people would have been killed Quot the Ruc spokesman said. A they were a significant find and a certain indication that the Ira has planned a massive bombing  in the Irish Republic a spokesman for the Gardai police Force in county Donegal said the bomb factory contained a number of bombs ready to use and two stolen vehicles. It was found late wednesday he said. A the find was made As a result of undercover operations in the area a the spokesman said. A no arrests were made but the bombs were ready to be used and we believe their intended targets were in Northern  Early release planned for terrorist s brother Berlin a Germany plans to Grant an Early release sunday to a lebanese guerrilla convicted of hostage taking in a Case related to the murder of a . Sailor the Justice ministry said. The release of Abbas Hamadi 34, will take place More than a year after kidnappers in Lebanon freed two German Aid workers following three years in Captivity. Abbas Hamadi a brother Mohammed Ali Hamadi was sentenced by a German court to life in prison for killing . Navy Sailor Robert Stethem during a 1985 Twa hijacking. He is not being released. Abbas Hamadi was arrested in 1987 at the Frankfurt Airport after a flight from Beirut where he had engineered kidnappings in an attempt to free his brother. He was sentenced in 1988 to 13 years in prison. In Lebanon officials were reported ready to Fly to Germany to take Abbas Hamadi but they did not announce what they will do with him. The . Embassy declined to com ment on the release but was understood to be watching the Case. The United states pressed for Mohammed All Hamadi a extradition after his arrest in Germany in 1987. Germany refused on grounds that he could be executed if convicted in the United states while Germany has no death penalty. In the past Iran has intervened strongly with Germany to release the Hamadi Brothers. In 1989, two German Relief workers Heinrich Striebig and Thomas a web the Hezbollah in an apparent attempt to free the Hamadi Brothers. Another Hamadi brother Abdul Hadi Hamadi is Security chief of Hezbollah which is believed to be responsible for taking a number of westerners hostage in the 1980s. Germany refused demands to release the Hamadi Brothers but eventually agreed to put them in the same prison and permit More family visits  
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