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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world monday november 14,1994 hijackers of algerian plane give up Palma de Mallorca Spain a hijackers who threatened sunday to blow up an air alg6rie Airliner with 35 people aboard surrendered without incident after an eight hour standoff. The three assailants commandeered the Fokker 27 Turboprop Airliner on a flight from Algiers to the Southern algerian City of of Margla when it was detoured to Palma de Mallorca a Spanish Island in the Mediterranean Airport director Pedor Meaurio said. The hijackers threatened to blow up the plane unless Algeria agreed to release political prisoners and hold new elections. The demands were similar to those of islamic militants battling the government in Algeria. A there was no violence a Meaurio said. A inside the uary 1992 legislative Box where there was to be a bomb was a Coffee grinder. They said they represented no party they just wanted to give a message to the world.�?T. He said the three had been detained by Spanish authorities but said he did not know what would happen to them. The aircraft carrying 34 passengers and four Crew members landed in Palma de Mallorca at 11 . Three passengers were released in the first hours of the standoff a two women and a Man who officials said had suffered a a nervous  All those aboard were reported to be algerians. Islamic militants began an insurgency against Algeri a a military backed regime after the army cancelled january 1992 legislative elections that the islamic salvation front appeared to be winning. Seven hours into the standoff one of the hijackers left the plane to negotiate face to face with algerian and Spanish officials. Reports said that the hijackers offered to give up in Exchange for political Asylum and the Promise of not being returned to Algeria. Conditions of the surrender were not immediately Clear. The Young men hijacked the plane entering the cockpit 15 minutes into the flight and demanding that the plane be detoured. Officials said the Pilot suggested Palma de Mallorca As a destination. Spanish Security forces surrounded the aircraft when it touched Down in Palma de Mallorca but stayed at a a respectful distance a As hijackers  photos Canadas it War fallen by the Washington Post Toronto a Canada remembered its War dead Friday but the traditional ceremonies of Honor and tribute were overshadowed by horrific images of one Canadian military Mission that went Homic idally awry. Last week newspapers across Canada published gruesome photographs of a bloodied blindfolded somali being tortured in 1993 by Canadian peacekeepers in their compound at Belet Huen near Somalia a Border with Ethiopia. Canadas largest circulating daily the Toronto Star ran one color photo under the headline Quot Canadas  All the newspapers were inundated with protests during a week when nearly every Canadian male pins a red poppy to his Lapel in Observance of remembrance Day on Friday. Scidane Arone 16, was captured inside the Canadian compound March 16, 1993, allegedly in the act of thievery. His captors tortured him inside a tent for several hours and his cries were audible to dozens of peacekeepers in the Vicinity who apparently did nothing to Stop the abuse. A. A. A. In a bizarrely poignant note As Arone was being beaten and burned with a Cigar Rillo he cried out repeatedly a Canada Canada.  he eventually died from the beatings. The Amateur photographs a snapped As a a trophies by one of the men under the chief torturers orders a were re leased by a Canadian military tribunal that is soon to conclude its court martial of the soldiers involved in the torture murder. Other photographs shown in evidence were judged too brutal for release. The photos show Canadian airborne regt Cpl Clayton matches holding a Baton in Arones bloodied Mouth. In one photo he is smirking As he Points at Arones battered body. However matches the apparent ringleader was declared unfit to stand trial three Days after the incident he attempted suicide and suffered permanent brain damage As a consequence. The picture taker pvt. Elvin Kyle Brown is serving the longest sentence yet rendered for the Arone killing five years in a military prison. Canadas outspoken fisheries minister Brian Tobin Tola the Star that a canadians collectively today have got to be feeling a powerful sense of disgust and  a whatever we teach these people whatever ethic we instill in them to make them rough Tough and prepared for Battle does no to jus Ify that kind of behaviour a Tobin said. Publication of the photographs prompted outcry from canadians including Many veterans who said the images wrongly dramatized an unrepresentative incident. Of i it v v a a of a a a 1 a desert truck Stop a a kuwaiti army scout questions a bedouin Camel Herder in the wait last thursday in a bid to end crushing International sane kuwaiti desert near the Iraq Kuwait Border soon after Iraq for tons that were imposed after iraqis invasion of its smaller Mally recognized the Small emirate. The iraqis recognized Kun neighbor in 1990. Inmates escape when prison Basseterre St. Kitts a a 45-member Caribbean Security Force arrived in this Small nation saturday to help overwhelmed police round up about 150 inmates who escaped during a riot and fire that destroyed the Only prison. The inmates at her majesty a prison downtown rioted Friday to protest the release of the Deputy prime ministers sons who had been arrested on drug and weapons charges. The fire burned through the night in the 18th-Century prison and part of the police station. It was extinguished saturday. The escapees included three charged with or convicted of murder prime minister Kennedy Simmonds told this former British Colony in a broadcast saturday. St. Kitts and Nevis the Western hemispheres smallest nation made up of two islands with a total of 40,000 people has a police Force of about 300 and no soldiers. A with dangerous and desperate prisoners at Large and our own resources stretched to the limit i sought assistance from the regional Security system a Simmonds said. The Barbados based regional Security system is a Force of police officers and soldiers from seven Eastern Caribbean states including St. Kitts and Nevis. Patrick Manning prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago told reporters late Friday that an additional 63 trinidadian soldiers were ready to go to St. Kitts if needed. The soldiers were deployed to various parts of the  a several soldiers carrying sub machine guns joined local police in guarding a four Block area surrounding the prison and adjacent police Headquarters. Hundreds of residents of Basseterre a City of 12,000 people took a break from their saturday shopping to gawk at the spectacle. Some inmates were in the streets still wearing their prison garb of Blu jeans and Blue shirts. They said they had been told to go Home. The government did no to say where it would put the inmates. The riot began an hour after Dean Morris 38, was released on $101,000 bail Friday. He was charged with weapons Possession and conspiring with his brother Vincent and others to sell cocaine. Another brother Dave Morris 27, was released on $3,000 bail thursday on weapons Possession charges. They Are sons of Deputy prime minister Sidney Morris who has been out of the country since thursday. Bail is rarely granted on drug and firearms charges. The decision to free the Brothers also prompted protests outside the prison. Detectives said the arrests of Dean and Daye Morris on wednesday was connected to the act. 1 disappearance of Vincent Morris and his Girlfriend and the oct. 13 killing of a top police official searching for them. Also on saturday farm labourers found the car that Vincent Morris 36, and Joan Walsh 35, were last seen in. The car was parked in a sugarcane Field in a sparsely populated area 14 Miles North of Basseterre. The vehicle was charred and the labourers said two skeletons were in the trunk. Local workers said the car Wasny to there a week earlier. Police closed off the area and did no to comment on the find. Teens rampage in Paris suburb hurts 8 policemen Paris apr eight policemen were injured and eight youths arrested after crowds of teen agers went on a rampage when police tried to Force them from a suburban shopping mall saturday night. About 100 police officers battled youths throwing rocks and bottles for three hours in the Western suburb of Les Sureaux after dozens of Young people refused to leave the mall at closing time. Security officials at the shopping Center called in police provoking Street Battles Between police and several dozen youths who also set fires and smashed store windows and Telephone Booths. One police car was destroyed and three others burned and trash bins were empt their contents spread across streets. To ransacked a plumbers truck and pipes and wrenches at police. Shopping malls have become hangout disaffected youths in decaying French urls which offer Little Choice of recreate areas  
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