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Monday • August 4,199
Investigators find bomb-plotting
suspects have little in common
Authorities have charged two Palestinians with conspiracy
JERUSALEM (AP) — Lafi Khalil
comes from a West Bank village, ac
cessible only by dirt roads. He had a
reputation as a ladies’ man, and
friends say he dreamed of marrying
an American and finding a good job
in the United States.
Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, a leftist
Palestinian activist with a mercurial
temper, lived in the politically
charged West Bank city of Hebron.
A friend says relatives pooled mon
ey to send him abroad, fearing he
was headed for trouble at home.
The divergent lives of the two
Palestinians ran together in New York,
where U.S. investigators say they plot
ted to bomb a subway station.
Khalil, 22, and Abu Mezer, 23,
were arrested Thursday when po
lice raided their Brooklyn apart
ment. Two potential suicide-style
explosive devices were found, ac
cording to authorities who have
charged them with conspiracy.
Israel has sent secret service
agents and police to New York to
look into the alleged plot, an Israeli
official told The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity.
Islamic militants on Sunday sug
gested that Khalil was an informant
for Israel, using his good looks to glean
information from Palestinian women.
A picture pieced together from
friends, family and official sources
indicates the two have little in com
mon except having spent time in Is
raeli jails. There is no evidence they
knew each other before reaching
the United States.
Abu Mezer left the West Bank in
1993 — the year the Israel-Palestin
ian peace agreement was signed.
He headed for Canada, telling a
friend he wanted a “new life and a
new situation.’’
The friend, who identified him
self by only his first name, Hussein,
said he and Abu Mezer were active
in the Popular Front for the Libera
tion of Palestine, which opposes
Arab-Israeli peacemaking, before
Abu Mezer switched to Yasser
Arafat’s Fatah movement.
“We stayed active for a year. We
wrote graffiti on walls and threw
stones at soldiers. We did a lot dur
ing the uprising,” said Hussein, 23.
“He was courageous... but is a seri
ous person with a hot temper.”
Abu Mezer went to Canada, ille
gally crossed over the United States
and applied for asylum.
A week ago, Abu Mezer called his
brother from New York and asked
for family permission to marry his
American girlfriend and bring her
back to Hebron, Noor recalled. The
family said that was fine.
Khalil lived at the northern end
of the West Bank in Ajoul, a poor
grape- and olive-growing commu
nity 30 miles north of Jerusalem.
He spent part of his childhood in
Kuwait, and in 1994 lived for a while
with his parents in Jordan. In No
vember 1996, he left his village again,
this time for Mexico, later reaching
Los Angeles and then New York.
When he got to Brooklyn he was
ill and pressed for money.
"He may have gotten invohJ
with the wrong people who took:
vantage of his needing a place
stay,” said an uncle, SuhailKhal
Khalil worked for an Ak|
owned grocery store and
uncle he wanted to marry an Arc
American woman.
Hamas, the Muslim
group that Israel blames foil
Jerusalem market bombing
killed 15 people last week, suggest!
in a leaflet Sunday that Khalil had:[
formed on Palestinian activists in:
Israeli prison and recruited PalestJbU
ian women for Israel intelligence
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rest him.
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evade blame.
Spanish climbers die; Alps death toll at 29
AOSTA, Italy (AP) — Seven Alpine moun
taineers died this weekend, raising to 29 the to
tal number of people killed in the treacherous
peaks in the last three weeks.
Rescuers used helicopters Sunday to recov
er the bodies of four Spanish climbers who were
killed a day earlier. They were part of an expedi
tion of five Spaniards who were climbing in two
groups. The survivor, Ivan Muriel Jara, 28, said
he watched three of his companions, tied to
gether, plunge to their deaths.
He and his climbing partner went tumbling
down the slopes, the Italian news agency ANSA
reported. Muriel landed on an ice ledge, but the
other man fell to his death.
Helicopters lowered rescuers 260 feet and
lifted Miiliel to safety.
Police in the Alpine town of Courmayeur,
where the bodies of Muriel’s four companions
were taken, identified the dead as Ignacio Come
Duenas, 26; Patricio Guerra Fernandez, 23, and
Federico Mera Miranda, 23, all from Seville, and
Rafael Castillo Luque, 28, from Cordoba.
A German from another expedition died Sat
urday in a hospital after he fell from the Italian
side of Mont Blanc, authorities reported.
Ulrich Cristophe Kinkel, 32, had been climb
ing Mont Blanc with a Spaniard companion,
Juan Luis Fuente, ANSA said. The 25-year-old
Spaniard was rescued and is recovering.
Authorities said snow and cold, coupled with
exhaustion and inexperience, probably con
tributed to the accidents.
The 15,750-foot Mont Blanc, on the bor
ders of France, Italy and Switzerland, isom
of Europe’s most visited peaks. Evenexpe
rienced climbers die on its icy cliffs ever)
year, victims of unpredictable weather
hidden crevasses.
TWo climbers died July 12 and fourmoredied
July 30.
A Russian and a French climber also diedin
the Alps on Sunday. The 29-year-old
woman was crushed under falling rockwhie
climbing at 11,500 feet in France near
Swiss border. The French climber was kil
on a Swiss glacier.
The latest deaths bring the total nurabeni
people who have died in the Alps to 29 sincetk'
middle of July. Last year, 98 people died in the
Swiss Alps, according to the Swiss AlpineQub.
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Israel braces for more attacks, detains suspects
JERUSALEM (AP) — On alert for
more suicide bombings, Israel
mounted a tough blockade on
Palestinian areas Sunday and de
ployed soldiers, bomb squads and
extra police in major cities. A
Palestinian was shot and killed
near a Jewish settlement in the
West Bank.
On edge after Wednesday’s dou
ble suicide bombing that killed 15
people and wounded more than
150, citizens flooded police switch
boards with calls Sunday. A TV an
chor had urged viewers to report
suspicious objects or people.
“We have indications that there
will be more attempts at terror
ism,” Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu told CBS television.
“We are unfortunately prepared
for the worst.”
The last two victims of Wednes
day’s attack, Grigory Pesachovich,
15, and Mark Rabinovich, 81, were
buried Sunday in Jerusalem.
In a violent incident likely to in
flame tensions in the West Bank, a
57-year-old man from the Pales
tinian village ofYata in the Hebron
area was shot and killed Sunday.
Israel’s Channel 2 TV quoted eye
witnesses as saying the man was
shot from a passing car that had Is
raeli license plates. He staggered to
the entrance of the settlement of
Carmel near Hebron, where he
died, the report said.
Israel radio identified the victim
as Issa Jebril Missaf and quoted lo
cal Palestinians as saying the car es
caped into Carmel.
In the wake of Wednesday’s
bombing in Jerusalem’s Mahane
Yehuda open-air market, Israel has
questioned and detained dozens of
Palestinians.
The army said Sunday that it had
detained 37 Palestinians suspected
of “terrorist activity” in a sweep of
the West Bank late Saturday and
early Sunday.
Soldiers and police maintained a
heavy presence in maj or cities Sunday.
Long lines of cars waited at road
blocks leading into Jerusalem, in
cluding a bride in her wedding dress,
as soldiers checked identity cards
and peered into trunks. Inside the
city, bomb squads and police snarled
traffic as they checked out the reports
about suspicious objects.
^ ^ We have indica
tions that there will
be more attempts at
terrorism.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister
The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv is
sued a warning to Americans in Is
rael, recommending that they
avoid downtown areas of Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem and other major cities,
especially crowded bus stations
and markets.
A Palestinian wedding had to be
postponed Sunday when the bride
was unable to get to the ceremony
in her husband’s village of Abovd
from her home in the West
town of Ramallah.
“ Maybe I won’t meet my husband
tonight,” said 19-year-old
Moussa, dressed in a white
gown as she stood at the roadblock
holding a bouquet of flowers.
“It is very cruel of them topre
vent a bride from going through
checkpoint. What wrong have#
done?”
The army not only barred trave
into Israel but also prevented move
ment between Palestinian cities.
Palestinians criticized the Israel
measures as collective punishment Jj e d ^
“Israel has not identified tliesui-
cide bombers ... but hasrushedto
blame the Palestinian Authorityfe
the attack and imposed a seriesof
collective punishment measures
an editorial in the Palestinian.ki
Quds daily said Sunday.
Leaflets in the name of the Mus
lim militant group Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack,
Hamas leaders have cast doublet
the authenticity of the claim.
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Preparations underway
for Mir repair mission
BAIKONUR, Kazakstan (AP) —A
powerful rocket that will carry cos
monauts and repair equipment to
the hobbled Mir space station rolled
to the launch pad Sunday — its last
stop before Tuesuay’s liftoff.
A team of some 400 experts will
check the rocket and its capsule be
fore it blasts off from Russia’s
Baikonur cosmodrome.
“The cosmonauts know the work
before them and we have no doubt
that they’ll fulfill the orders they
have been given,” said Gen. Yevge
ny Kulnikov, chief of Russia’s mili
tary space program.
U.S. astronaut David Wolf will
travel to Mir next month via space
shuttle Atlantis. He was a late sub
stitute for 5-foot-3 Wendy
Lawrence, who was too small to
wear the Russian spacesuit she
would need if she had to make a
spacewalk.
Kulnikov and other top names of
Russia’s military-run space program
were at Baikonur to witness the cer
emonial rolling-out of the 300-
booster rocket that is to sendtfc
Soyuz-TM-26 space capsule to i
rendezvous with Mir.
The rocket and capsule, place-
on a transport train, slowly covered
the 3-mile distance to thelaunchin!
pad — the same one from whid
Yuri Gagarin blasted off for thefc
manned space flight in 1961.
“Can you believe a mind beh^
such a technological creation'
asked veteran cosmonaut Alexar
der Serebryakov. “Forty years in of
eration and still one of the bestwaf
to get to space.”
Tuesday’s launch could do rntf
to restore confidence in Russia’s a:
ing space program and the
Mir station, a necessary step in
restoring the country’s reputatid
as a space superpower.
The mission is aimed a repaj
ing damage to Mir’s modua
which ruptured and lost half
power in a collision June 25 wib
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