European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 54, no. 149 soc a wednesday september 13,1995 d 8693 Anat strikes on target jets carry out heaviest raids yet on six serbian Sites Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr nato warplanes attacked a half dozen serbian military targets throughout Bosnia on tuesday in an escalating War of nerves with the bosnian serbs despite increasing pressure from Russia to halt the airstrikes. A . Official speaking on condition of anonymity said Alliance jets targeted military installations around Sarajevo and in Eastern Bosnia a ammunition dumps storage Sites militarily strategic Bridges and command and control posts. He would not elaborate. Tuesdays pounding was the heaviest in the Sarajevo area since the intensive airstrikes began nearly two weeks ago. Sarajevo Shook with one of the first attacks which began around 2 . Nato jets bombed a bosnian serbian ammunition Complex in vog Osca on the Northern Edge of the bosnian capital. The blasts rattled doors and windows in Northern Sarajevo rousing residents still Savouring the fact that their enemies who have terrorized the City since april 1992, were now at the receiving end of attacks. The nato operation backed by heavy artillery of the .v rapid re action Force based on mount i Man Southwest of Sarajevo is aimed at forcing the bosnian serbs to remove their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo and open up the besieged City. A there Are still no indications of any withdrawal of bosnian serb heavy Wear turks support iraqi kurd while battling kurdish rebels by Bill Sammon staff writer Diyarbakir Turkey when the bullets started slamming into his bus Aldemir Aziz had to make a decision. A a a a a a a a a a a a a a he could Stop to Check on the dead and wounded a a round already had ripped through his own hand a and risk further carnage. Or he could kill the lights and gun the Gas cutting his losses in the process. He chose the latter. �?o1 would have died if i had stopped a said Aziz who shuttles passengers Between Diyarbakir and Ankara Turkey every week. A it was the inside raq last in a series second time in two weeks i had been  Aziz refuses to speculate on who keeps shooting at him in the darkness just outside of this age old City in Southeastern Turkey. But those familiar with the latest shooting a which killed three and injured 15 last month a say the gunmen were local militia members who believed the bus contained members of the kurdish workers party an outlaw group of kurd that has been fighting for Independence from Turkey since 1984, Battles Between the party known by the initials pkg Ana the turkish military have become a fact of life in this Region where the population is continued on Page 23 a amps Ken George bus Driver Aldemir Aziz was shot in the hand during a recent trip from Diyarbakir to Ankara in Turkey. Three passengers Quot were killed and 15 injured when unknown gunmen opened fire at his bus. On a said it. Col. Chris Vernon a . Spokesman. A in consequence the nato-. Air land operation is ongoing and will continue until our stated objectives arc met.�?�. But that position increasingly strained the West a relations with Russia. In its sharpest statement to Date Moscow accused nato of a a genocide against the bosnian serbs and the rus see nato on Page 2 ., allies dominate air Power age Hawley says by Kevin Dougherty Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a Germany a precision bombing during the persian Gulf War and natos Aerial Campaign Over. Bosnia show that we live in a new a air Power age a a time when the  And its allies enjoy a a degree of dominance that is unmatched the top air Force commander in Europe said tuesday. A it Only happens every 50 or 100 years where you have a major transition in terms of the alignment of forces in the world a said Gen. Richard e. Hawley commander of the  Air forces in eur rope. A a a a a a we Are in one of those transitional periods and we Are in a position if we can continue to work together within the framework of the North Atlantic treaty organization to influence what happens at the other end of that transitional period. O. A a a the importance of nato is if any thing even greater today than it was when i was Here As a Captain sitting nuclear Alert in the f-4 at Pitburg 20 plus years  Hawley is not directly involved in the Day to Day air Campaign in the former Yugoslavia dubbed operation deliberate Force but views himself As a a Force provider a dispatching people and planes. A air Power is our strength Quot he said. A we have a degree of dominance in the air that is. Unmatched in any other medi  and therefore it makes Sens for nato and for the United states to play to our  he said air Force members can to a deluded themselves into believing they can accomplish Ihetu tasks without other forces such As ground troops. But that equation is changing with the new air age it. Quot air Power has in Many ways become the military instrument of Choice a Hawley said. It is the primary option a for the see Hawley on Page 2 Powell backs abortion rights gun control a. A a a a \ a. 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