European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 14 stars and stripes Mideast edition april 2007 terror raid met with suicide bombs 4 policeman killed As crackdown continues in Morocco by John Thorne the associated press Morocco three suspected terrorists blew themselves up tuesday As police were closing in and another suspect was shot dead by police while he was preparing to detonate his authorities a police officer was killed and a child was officials tuesdays suicide blasts revived memories of five near simultaneous bombings in May 2003 that killed 45 people in an event that brought fear of terrorism into Many moroccan minds for the first police in the North african kingdom have led an unprecedented crackdown on terror suspects since then and tuesdays police raid was triggered by an investigation into a cybercafe bombing last officials said the raid targeted four suspects with alleged links to the bomber who killed himself in a Casablanca cybercafe on March these men had no ties with foreign said Mokhtar regional administrator for the Casablanca All of the suspects were members of the March 11 one of the bombers who killed Ayyoub was the brother of the cybercafe Abdelfattah an Interior minis try official the official asked that he not be citing ministry the violence started when respond ing to a surrounded a four Story apart ment building in the Hay Farah neighbourhood of the Fida area of Casablanca where the suspected terrorists were holed after police surrounded the one of the suspects fled to the where he blew Abd Eulail policemen collect the remains of a suspected terrorist who blew himself up tuesday in Morocco commercial three suspects blew themselves up and another Man was shot and killed by police As he was about to detonate his himself said a police official who refused to give his saying he was not authorized to do Morocco official map news Agency identified the bomber As Mohamed a second Man appeared to be on the verge of also detonating fumbling with his when a police sniper shot officials the suspect later died of his he was identified by police Asmo Hamed Ayyoub Randi blew himself up in the after noon As police were searching the neighbor Hood for officials a bloody pair of legs were seen lying in the Middle of a Road after that a police officer was killed and another seriously injured in the the official and a 7yearold boy was hospitalized with slight in the a fourth suspect detonated his explosives in the Middle of a witnesses map reported the blast injured eight people two it gave no further we All thought that the Guy had gone the other Way and then Kab Lam there was this explosion behind said a shopkeeper who gave his name Only As this is Horri theres no Trust Here because they the bombers can get so close to palestinians in Aid for 2007 by Slobodan Lekic the associated press Belgium the new Palestin Ian government will need billion in inter National Aid this year to get Back on our palestinian finance minister Salam Fayyad said Fayyad won an offer of technical assistance for his ministry from the but the blocs external relations Benita Fer restated the eur position the islamic Hamas which forms part of the must recognize Israel and com Mit to respecting past agreements before direct payments to the government can i made it Clear that possible re engagement does not mean resuming payments Over Ferrer waldner Fayyad said the palestinian authority was operating on Only a Quarter of the funds it needed to provide Basic services to the Popula we Are facing an acute financial he told reporters after meeting with Ferre we Are looking for donor support to Bridge the Gap of euro 1 billion for Fayyad this is assistance we need to get Back on our it was Fay ads first comment on the Issue since Hamas and the moderate Fatah party formed a National Unity Cabinet last Geert Vanden ape commissioner for external relations Benita said wednesday that the new palestinian government needs to respect past agreements before payments to the government palestinian authority finance minister Salam Fayyad is at who belongs to a Small moderate said he expected most of the assistance to come from Arab nations and the european a year the emergence of a government led by which is committed to israels led the eur and the to with hold direct Aid to the palestinian we Hope to get support to enable unto fun the minister adding that the inter National Boycott had devastated the pales Tinian but Fayyad also said he expected the Economy to become self sustaining As soon As Israel abolishes restrictions on Access to Palestin Ian and that International Assis Tance would then become five killed As gunfire returns o Somalia City by salad Uhul the associated press Somalia Ethiopia a backed government troops and islamic insurgents exchanged gunfire in Northern Mogadishu Early killing at least five wounding More than a dozen and end ing More than a week of relative Calm in this Battle scarred witnesses stray bullets struck a minibus in the capital and killed three said Saumo has san a the somali red Crescent society said five people had been killed and 16 wounded in the Mogadishu dominant the had brokered a ceasefire about 10 Days ago to end the worst fighting Here in 15 four Days of bloodshed that started in late March and killed at least hundreds of people and possibly More than in recent so Mali and ethiopian troops have been closing streets in Mogadishu and digging raising fears that a fresh bout of violence could be they Are exchanging Small gunfire since Early this Mogadishu resident Abdullah Ali Hassan said a Hatiye panel reported this week that the recent fighting killed More than civil ians and wounded the estimate was a dramatic escalation in the death toll from the four Days of an earlier estimate by a somali human rights group said More than civilians had been killed or living longer brings new social concerns United nations nations with grading populations must do More to help elderly stay healthy and ensure their social the world health organization said this is not Only True in affluent countries such As Japan and which have Long had some of the worlds oldest it is also becoming increasingly the health Agency in developing countries like Peru and Sierra where life expectancies have grown at a faster rate than those of Richer that Means countries already struggling to Cope with High rates of infectious illness also could have to contend with an increase in health problems common in older such As heart Dis ease and Wen and Shinzo Abe China leaders work to strengthen ties Tokyo strengthening a fragile japanese and Chi Nese leaders meeting in Tokyo pledged wednesday to work to Gether on North Energy development and the environment while defusing thorny disputes Over history and chinese Premier Wen Jinbao arrived in Japan on wednesday in the first visit by a chinese Leader in nearly seven building on a trip by prime minister Shin to Abe to Beijing last year to Sal Vage seriously damaged the two declared firm intentions to move Forward on rebuild ing signing agreements on Energy and the environment and issuing a joint statement that Laid out a series of issues for the countries to cooperate we must build future oriented and stable Japa China rela Abe said at a banquet in Wens Honor after the Israel scrambles jets to intercept Airliner Jerusalem Israel air Force fighter planes scrambled wednes Day to intercept a Airliner after it lost communications with air Security officials the Continental passenger plane was flying in from the when it lost following ant terror two israeli warplanes intercepted the plane and guided it Back Over the Mediterranean sea until communications were Channel 10 to when it was determined that there were no problems on Board and the Pilot was in the plane was allowed to land at Isra Els International the officials speaking on condition of anonymity because of the Sensi Tive 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