European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday july 28,1994 police reported a second car bomb explosion Early wednesday in an area of North London eight Miles from where tuesdays car bomb exploded outside of the israeli embassy in the Kensington District. London a a car bomb exploded Early wednesday outside a build. Ing housing jewish groups the second blast in 12 hours aimed at israeli targets and blamed on Muslim radicals Bent on derailing Middle Eastern peace. Five people were injured in wednesdays attack and 14 in the bombing of the israeli embassy on tuesday. Both buildings were seriously damaged. Police in London promised round the clock Protection wednesday to More than 100 jewish and israeli Sites after being accused of a lax response to the embassy bombing. Parking at those places will be strictly regulated police said. After the first blast Scotland Yard banned parking in front of some main buildings used by London a jewish com. Unity. But the action did not apply to Balfour House hit by a bomb before Dawn wednesday. The North London building holds offices of israeli and jewish organizations including the joint Israel Appeal which raises funds for charities in Israel and Britain. .4 a a car went up in a huge explosion said one witness Paul Clifford. A i was nearly shaken off my five people were treated for Shock and minor cuts from Hying Glass. Alan. Fox executive chairman of the Appeal said no one was in the three Story building at the time but All the win an israeli embassy official examines damage done to the London facility by tuesdays bomb blast. On wednesday another blast in London damaged a building housing several jewish groups. Dows were blown out. About 85 people work there during the Day. On tuesday afternoon a car bomb destroyed a two Story Brick Annex Between the israeli embassy and the consulate. All but one of the 14 people injured a a Man with a broken Arm a were released alter treatment for cuts smoke inhalation and Shock. The foreign office said it received a report from a unspecified source in the Middle East that Hamas a Muslim fundamentalist movement had claimed re Sponski bitty for the embassy bombing. But a Hamas representative in Jordan Mohammed Nazzal denied the group was involved. Hamas is the leading opponent of the Plo israeli agreement that granted autonomy to palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho. The israeli military attache in London said British police could have taken More Steps after the embassy bombing to protect jews in Britain. A your people gave their evaluation to the British authorities that there was a danger now to the jewish institutions and Here you Are a there was a blast in the Middle of the night a Brig Gen. A Riel novo said. Scotland Yard said that police had been making regular checks and that officers were close by at the time of the second explosion. London a metropolitan police commissioner said there was no Way to protect thousands of potential targets. A a a a a the London bombings came after Israel and Jordan formally ended More than four decades of hostility and pledged to normalize relations. Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel speaking in Washington after the embassy bombing but before wednesdays attack predicted a wave of attacks by a Radical islamic terrorists waging a fall out a jewish Community Center in Argentina was bombed july 18, killing at least 95 people. Authorities in Panama on tuesday said a bomb caused the july 19 crash of a commuter plane that killed All 21 people aboard including 12 jews. An anti israeli group in Lebanon indirectly claimed responsibility for both of those bombings. Tuesdays embassy bombing was the first attack on a jewish target in the Brit ish capital since Shlomo Argov then the israeli ambassador was crippled in an assassination attempt in 1982. Shortly thereafter Israel invaded Lebanon. N. Korea has 5 warheads High level defector claims Seoul South Korea apr North Korea is using negotiations to stall while it develops a delivery system and builds More nuclear War Heads a High ranking defector asserted wednesday. Kang Myong do believed to be a son in Law of North koreans Premier said in Seoul that the hard line communist country already has five nuclear warheads and will develop five More by the years end. A North Korea is buying time to finish its nuclear program by stalling negotiations a said Kang one of the highest ranking defectors Ever from the secretive state. The assertions come at a key juncture in the Long running standoff Over North koreans nuclear intentions. High level talks Between the United states and North Korea Are to resume aug. 5. In Geneva after a one month hiatus caused by the death of longtime Leader Kim ii Sung. North Korea has denied accusations that it is developing nuclear weapons but for months has not allowed International inspections that would prove its claim. Kangus assertions marked the first time a purported member of the North korean governments inner Cir Cle stated flatly that the North had nuclear weapons. South korean intelligence officials believe the 35-year-old Kang is the premieres son in Law As he claims. He provided family photos of himself with Nis wife a whom he left behind in the North a and the Premier Kang song san 63, who ranks third in the North a political Hierarchy. Kang Myong do also had a passport and other official documents to support his identity. 2 British peacekeepers wounded near Sarajevo Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a a in Convoy was sprayed with intense Small arms fire wednesday As it neared the just closed Road into Sarajevo. The United nations said it assumed bosnian serbs were the culprits. The Hail of bullets reportedly wounded two British peacekeepers and set an Oil Tanker ablaze. The attack came just a few hours after the Road in and out of Sarajevo was sealed off effectively re establishing a serbian Strangie Holdon the bosnian capital. , officials said evidence in the shoot ing pointed to the serbs. A the nearest position to the Convoy was the bosnian serbs position and the Convoy was hit by Small arms fire a said Paul Ris Ley a . Spokesman at peacekeepers Headquarters in Zagreb Croatia. A so our presumption is that it was the bosnian the serbs in announcing the closure of the route to civilian and commercial traffic tuesday had specified that . Vehicles would be allowed to use it. The attack could be grounds for the United nations to Call in nato airstrikes to protect the peacekeepers. Risley said that a air presence Quot a possible prelude to nato airstrikes a was asked for and granted by the Atlantic Alliance which sent planes Over the area. . Spokeswoman Claire Grimes said the Convoy was on a resupply Mission taking fuel from the British base in Vitez Northwest of Sarajevo to Gorade Southeast of the capital. It occurred ahead of a weekend meeting of foreign ministers of Russia the United states France Germany and Britain on ways to end the bosnian War. Earlier wednesday angry shoppers flooded markets buying out stocks of flour sugar and other Staples after learning of serbian plans to close the Only Road available to residents in and out of the City for the past four months
