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i Page 12 WORLD THE BATTALION Monday, Februar)" I EgyptAir pilot suspended after seeking asylum CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — EgyptAir said Sunday it lias suspend ed a pilot who is seeking asylum in Britain and reportedly claim ing to possess infonnation about the airline’s fatal crash last year. Hamdi Hanafi Talia was suspended as of Friday — the day he flew a plane to London’s Heathrow Airport and asked for asylum — for failing to follow procedures, said the airline’s head of op erations, Capt. Hassan Misharfa. Taha faces dismissal under Egyptian labor law if he does not report to the state-run airline wdthin eight days of his suspension. In London, a spokesperson for the Home Office, which han dles immigration matters, said Taha’s asylum application was be ing considered. An Egyptian Embassy spokesperson said Taha was being held at an immigration donnitory near Heathrow. EgyptAir has said Taha claims to have information about the Oct. 31 crash of Flight 990 oft'the coast of Massachusetts that killed all 217 people on board. An investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing, but airline officials have dismissed the idea that Taha knew something about it. It is not clear why Taha chose to flee to London rather than simply come forward with any information he has. While crash investigators have not issued a finding, some American sources say U.S. officials are working on the theory the plane was brought down deliberately by co-pilot Gamil el- Batouty. Egyptian officials have vehemently dismissed the idea, saying they believe an unexplained problem in the plane’s tail was responsible. Train derails, killing 6 BRUEHL, Germany (AP) — An overnight express train derailed at a switch south of Cologne early Sun day, killing at least six passengers and injuring more than 100, authori ties said. Police said the train may have been speeding. The sleeper train carrying about 300 passengers had been traveling from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, News in Brief to Basel, Switzerland, when it hurtled off the tracks in the small town of Bruehl, German railways spokesper son Manfred Ziegerath said. Missing plane lands KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan plane carrying 151 pas sengers went missing for three hours Sunday before landing safe ly in neighboring Uzbekistan, an airline official said. There was no immediate explana tion for why the aircraft was diverted to the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, during its one-hour scheduled flight from the Afghan capital of Kabul to the north ern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Flight controllers lost contact with the Ariana Airlines flight just after the Boeing 727 took off from the Kabul airport, said Mullah Hamidullah, the head of state-run Ariana airline. IRA bombs hotel, damages peace hope BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)— Suspected Irish Republican Army dissi dents bombed a rural hotel Sunday — an attack that caused no reported injuries but gave Northern Ireland a bitter reminder of the days the province is struggling to leave behind. It was the first such attack here since 1998, and it came as international pres sure was building on the mainstream IRA to begin disarming in support of North ern Ireland’s peace accord. A caller claiming to be from the Con tinuity IRA, a small dissident group op posed to the IRA’s 1997 truce, told the BBC in Belfast that bombs had been left at two hotels in rural County Fermanagh. Police evacuated both hotels shortly before a bomb went off at the rear of Ma hon’s Hotel in the village of I rvi nest own. They said the bomb was placed beneath the hotel’s main oil storage tank, causing a fire that spread to nearby cars. Officers and British soldiers could not immediately find any suspicious devices at the other threatened hotel. They ex pected to resume their search at daybreak. No IRA dissident group had launched such an attack since 1998. There were several bombings in the province last year, but they were the work of pro- MSS “We cannot allow any paramilitary organizaiton ... to remain in existence with illegal guns and explosives” — Ken Maginnis Unionist member of British Parliament British Protestant groups. Every political party in Ireland con demned the attack, including the IRA-al lied Sinn Fein. Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander who is educa tion minister in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing Cabinet, saidthe(.| tinuity IRA was “unrepresentativj Irish republicans” and should" | band immediately.” But the blast underscored dentil from the pros ince’s major Protestaj) | tv, the Ulster Unionists, for an in start to IRA disarmament. "We cannot allow any paraml I organization, republican oripro-Bn loyalist, to remain in existence wiASl gal guns and explosives,” saidKe<| V innis, Fermanagh’s Ulster Unionisti I her of British Parliament. "Fvenifj |^ oc ^ lse adhere to their own cease-fires,il^P ^ e '^' ^ ucaponsot war will inevitably endjB rown ’ Fre the hands of dissidents.” iMclure. an The Continuity IRA began bonil targets after tin i R \ cailed a 1994c fire. The shadowy group’s sporaei tacks ha\ e caused only minor injunr|| no deaths, but it has never called a™ cease-fire. ()nly last month, polices! neighboring Irish Republic arrestdilj pected Continuity IRA activist inpt* sion of a van loaded with weapon ! explosives. 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