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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, April 9, 1986
Paper savs Libvan is bomb suspect
From Kansan wires
BERLIN — A Libyan diplomat based in this divided city's communist zone is suspected of directing the weekend bomb attack that wrecked a crowded nightclub popular with American soldiers, a West Berlin official said yesterday.
He confirmed a report in the Hamburg newspaper Bild that Alamud Abdullah Elamil, 47, was suspected of directing the attack on the La Belle discotheque early Saturday. Two people were killed, including an American serviceman, and 230 were wounded.
"This report is correct," said the official of the West Berlin Interior Ministry, who is close to the investigation. He spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official would not elaborate and referred further queries to the 100-member police commission investigating the bombing.
Meanwhile, in Washington yesterday, the Reagan administration said it had a substantial amount of information about Libya's role in the bombing and last week's explosion on board a TWA jettier over Greece, which killed four Americans.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes, however, said he was not yet prepared to announce administration conclusions about who was responsible for the incidents.
President Reagan is to hold a news conference tonight, and officials may have been soft-pedaling the issue to let him take full credit for any revelations or announcements.
On Monday, Richard Burt, the U.S. ambassador to West Germany, had said there was clear evidence of Libyan involvement in the Berlin bombing.
A man who answered the telephone at the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin, capital of communist East Germany, hung up when asked for comment on the newspaper report.
Bild said a meeting of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Cabinet today would consider expelling two Libyan Embassy staff members who were said to be suspected of involvement in the disco bombing. It gave no further details, and a government spokesman said he could not confirm the report.
Dieter Plete, deputy chairman of the investigating commission, said police did not believe
He refused further comment on the Bild report, saying: "Hypothetically, if we confirmed something like this, the trail could go cold."
Elamin planted the bomb himself, "but as to whether he is suspected as an organizer or had any other link, I will not say no."
"There are hints not just regarding Libyans, but to Arabs of other nationalities, Palestinians and so forth, and also to German attackers," he said. "We cannot ignore any aspect."
Officials in Bonn, capital of West Germany, said they had increased surveillance of the Libyan Embassy and tightened border controls.
West Berlin newspapers speculated earlier this week that the bombing was committed by a foreigner who crossed from East Berlin and then returned.
Although East Germany built a wall around the communist sector in 1861 to keep its citizens from crossing into West Berlin, it does little or nothing to stop foreigners from doing so.
A senior official in Bonn said the government was not inclined to reconsider its opposition to a bill in Germany.
Comrades praise soldier killed in bombing
United Press International
BERLIN — Some 250 soldiers and civilians paid a final tribute yesterday to a slain U.S. Army sergeant, a "super soldier" from Detroit who was killed in last weekend's terrorist bombing of a West Berlin nightclub.
Comrades in arms fired a three-volley rifle salute for Sgt. Kenneth T. Ford, 21, and a bugle sounded taps.
The 45-minute ceremony at McNair Barracks chapel was attended by 250 people, including Ford's unit and friends, U.S. Berlin commander Maj. Gen. John H. Mitchell, and British, French and German officials.
Ford's company commander praised the sergeant's service record and his platoon leader eulogized the young squad leader as a likeable "super soldier" who quickly taught himself German and took along candy to give children he met
on patrol tours along the Berlin Wall.
Ford was posthumously awarded the Army's meritorious service medal at the memorial service.
The soldier and a 29-year-old Turkish woman died early Saturday in the bombing.
Manfred Ganschow, spokesman for the Berlin police task force investigating the incident, said 53 people were still hospitalized with injuries received in the bombing.
U.S. pressures allies for Libyan sanctions
United Press International
Washington is demanding that West Germany, at the very least drastically reduce its diplomatic ties to Libya by expelling most Libyan diplomats from Bonn, the West German sources said.
BONN, West Germany — The United States, citing the bombing of a West Berlin nightclub popular with U.S. servicemen, has stepped up pressure on West Germany to apply wide-ranging sanctions against Libya, government sources said yesterday.
The Blind newspaper reported that the Cabinet today would consider whether to expel two Bonn-based Libyan diplomats in connection with the Saturday bombing, which killed an American serviceman and a Turkish woman and injured 230 other people, including 64 Americans.
The newspaper also said it had information from reliable security officials that Elamin Abdullah Elamin, a 47-year-old Libyan boy, was assassinated in East Berlin, was under suspicion in the nightclub bombing.
Bild said Elamin had been
transferred from the Libyan embassy in Bonn in July 1985 following the murder of a Libyan opposition leader on a Bonn street in April 1985.
West Germany, which rebuilt earlier U.S. calls for sanctions against Libya after the Achille Lauro ship hijacking last October and the Rome and Vienna airport attacks in December, has said it action only on the basis of incriminating proof — not theories.
The West German Foreign Ministry has created a crisis staff to determine whether a foreign power was involved in the nightclub bombing of Paris, or whether it accessed the latest U.S. documents at its meeting today.
Richard Burt, the new U.S. ambassador to Bonn, has emerged as a leader of the renewed U.S. effort to isolate Libya. During an interview on a U.S. television network late Monday, Burt implicated Libya in the bombing of the Berlin disheteque.
The bombing at the club popular with American troops came after Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy vowed retaliation.
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