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Edited by Jeff Singer X 1 1 J f f M J IV I 1 J \X Tuesday, November 9,1993
Somali attack on U.N. forces threatens truce
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The
Somali security chief for the CARE
aid agency was killed Monday when
U.N. peacekeepers fired on gunmen
who attacked them in territory con
trolled by Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
The attack was the fourth on for
eign troops in as many days and sug
gested that Aidid’s month-long truce
with U.N. forces seemed to be crum
bling.
A spokesman for the U.S. force in
Somalia criticized Aidid as being “un
cooperative” and said the United
States was sticking by plans to put
American forces back on
Mogadishu’s streets.
Aidid, whose followers control
southern Mogadishu, had been clash
ing with the United Nations since
June, when the United Nations blamed
him for the deaths of 24 Pakistani
peacekeepers. After four months of
fierce battles with U.N. forces, he
declared a truce Oct. 9.
Some people have speculated that
Aidid was trying to buy time until
the United States withdraws from
Somalia in March.
Aidid has been known to strike
back when his power seems to be
waning. And at a news conference
Sunday, he made it clear that the old
acrimony toward the multinational
mission had not dissipated.
He vowed not to negotiate with
the United Nations, and on Monday,
his Somali National Alliance boy
cotted two U.N.-sponsored meetings:
one to discuss how to improve the
city’s security, the other to meet face
to-face with the faction headed by
Ali Mahdi Mohamed, which controls
Mogadishu’s northern half.
“The United States has been bend
ing over backwards to meet some of
the requests” by the Somalia Nation
al Alliance, U.S. military spokesman
Col. Steve Rausch said Monday. “We
arc disappointed. They seem unco
operative.”
He did not specify what requests
Aidid’s faction made.
At his news conference Sunday,
Aidid said there could be trouble if
U.S. troops return to the streets after
a six-month hiatus. On Monday, con
frontation edged closer when Rausch
reaffirmed that Army reinforcements
soon will be venturing beyond their
compounds.
“You will see an increased pres
ence,” he said, adding a warning of
his own about the repercussions of
Americans coming under fire: “These
forces are very capable; they are very
lethal.”
The United States has pushed back
the starting date for joint checkpoints
and patrols with forces from other
countries. When the Americans
moved into their new base outside
the capital a week ago, officials talked
about a couple of days. Now they say
a couple of weeks.
Hijackings from China mark trend
Latest hijacker dupes
pilots with soap bars
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A man claim
ing to have explosives commandeered
a Chinese airliner with 59 people on
board Monday in the second hijack
ing to Taiwan in three days.
The hijacker, armed only with bars
of soap, surrendered after the plane
landed at Taiwan’s international air
port. Identified as Wang Jihwa, 36,
the man told reporters he was fleeing
Chinese police after injuring his boss
at a pharmaceuticals factory in a fight
over unpaid wages.
The Zhejiang Airlines de
Havilland Dash-8-300 turboprop was
seized while flying in southeastern
China from Hangzhou to Fuzhou.
On Friday, a man with two knives
hijacked a C'hinese jetliner with 140
people aboard and asked for political
asylum in Taiwan.
Six Chinese airliners have been
hijacked to Taiwan this year, a surge
that officials in Taipei blame on slip
shod security in China.
As in the previous hijackings, the
airliner in Monday’s incident was al
lowed to return to China in a few
hours. But Taiwan refuses Chinese
demands to send back the hijackers.
The Nationalist government on
Taiwan and the Communist govern
ment in Beijing consider themselves
the rightful rulers of all China and
refuse to recognize each other.
But tensions have eased since
19X7, and Taiwan has taken a harder
line on hijackers this year.
Two Chinese who hijacked a com
mercial airliner to Taiwan in 19X8
served a year in prison and received
political asylum. But this year two
hijackers have been imprisoned for
10 years and the prosecution has
asked for a sentence of at least 12
years for a hijacker now awaiting
trial.
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Americans have been off
Mogadishu’s streets since May, when
the United States handed over com
mand of the multinational mission to
the United Nations. Although Amer
icans will resume patrols, Rausch said
there will be no active program to
disarm Somalis, despite concern that
the number of weapons on the street
threatens the quiet in Mogadishu.
In the Somali capital, the last
pitched battles occurred more than a
week ago.
Since Friday, gunmen have been
taking potshots at U.N. troops, injur
ing several Somalis but no peace
keepers.
The increased violence rolled right
up to the United Nations’ door Mon
day. Turkish guards fired warning
shots to force off Somalis angered
when told no jobs were available at
the U.N. compound.
Two hours later, two gunmen
opened fire on a convoy of Malay
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These forces are
very capable; they
are very lethal.
— Col. Rausch
U. S. military spokesperson
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sian armored personnel carriers,
which shot back, said U.N. military
spokesman Capt. Tim McDavitt.
Simon Israel of CARE confirmed
that the Malaysian troops came un
der fire, but said they shot back in
discriminately, killing CARE’s So
mali security chief. CARE has filed
a complaint with the United Nations
and is seeking compensation for the
Somali worker, who leaves a widow
and eight children.
Lawyer posts Kevorkian’s bail
to quiet ‘Free Jack’ protesters
DETROIT — The jailed Dr.
Jack Kevorkian was getting so
much attention that a lawyer who
doesn’t condone his role in assist
ed suicides put up $2,000 to bail
him out Monday.
Kevorkian, who went to jail Fri
day rather than post bond himself,
said he was disappointed to be
leaving but “there’s no way I could
refuse. That would be unconscio
nably headstrong.”
Lawyer John A. DeMoss, who
posted $2,000 in cash for the
$20,000 bond, said he doesn’t rep
resent Kevorkian. DeMoss said he
is sympathetic to terminally ill peo
ple who want to end their lives but
does not support Kevorkian and
his backers.
“I think they’ve reduced the is
sue of suicide and assisted suicide
to a hysterical bunch of rhetoric
that has no meaning,” DeMoss said
from his office in Mount Clemens.
“If I can get him out of jail and get
those people to stop protesting in
front of the jail and saying 'free
Jack’ and so forth, then 1 think my
$2,000 is well spent.”
Later Monday at a news con
ference in the Southfield office of
his attorney, Geoffrey Ficgcr,
Kevorkian said he expects to be
jailed again within days, this time
for his role in the death of an Ann
Arbor woman at his Royal Oak
apartment.
On leaving jail Kevorkian said:
“1 feel all right. I met lots of nice
people.”
A few hours later, the Michi
gan Commission on Death and
Dying met to discuss laws govern
ing assisted suicide.
Michigan passed a ban on as
sisted suicides in response to
Kevorkian’s activities.
STATE WIRE
Police detonate homemade bomb found at Columbus home
COLUMBUS — Police used a
Eellet gun Monday to detonate a
omcmadc bomb found on the porch
of a house in Columbus.
Police found a plastic soda pop
bottle containing the chemical bomb
on the porch of the house while in
vestigating a Sunday break-111 of a
nearby Mr. Automotive store.
“The police had come over to ask
me about the brcak-m at the automo
tivc place,” said Diane Schumacher,
who rents the house. "While we were
talking, he asked me if 1 knew I had a
bomb on my porch.”
Ms. Schumacher said the officers
knew it was a bomb after recogniz
ing one of the ingredients in the con
tainer.
Ms. Schumacher said she first no
ticed the container in her yard Sun
day.
“My sistcr-in-law picked it up and
sat it on the porch and said it started
to fizz. I thought I’d bring it in later
and release some of the pressure. The
policeman said if I had, 1 might not
have had a hand left,” Ms.
Schumacher said.
C'apt. Ed Scriven of the Columbus
Police Department said that police
were investigating the incident.
SPORTS WIRE
Browns coach cuts quarterback Kosar in favor of Testaverde
BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland
Browns cut Bernie Kosar Monday,
ending a short and stormy relation
ship between the longtime starting
quarterback and coach Bill Belichick.
Kosar, who agreed to a non-guar
antecd, seven-year, $26 million ex
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tension of his contract earlier in the
year, had been benched by Belichick
in favorofbackup Vinny Testavcrdc,
who was signed as a free agent dur
ing the summer.
When Testavcrdc separated a
shoulder last month. Kosar returned
to the starting lineup but Belichick
wasn’t happy with him, saying it was
apparent that Kosar’s physical skills
had diminished over the years.
Kosar completed 79 of 138 passes
for 807 yards with five touchdowns
and three interceptions this year.
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