Suicide Aiission Trained •
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BY
511.%1“:11,
JTA Tel Aviv Correspondent
ment
TEL AVIV tJTA1—The captur-
ed Japanese gunman who with two
others massacred at least 25 people
and wounded more than 70 with
grenades and submachine-gun fire
in the Lydda Airport passenger ter-
minal Tuesday night. told his Is-
raeli interrogators that he and
his companion had trained in
Lebanon where they arrived six
weeks ago and that theirs was • a
suicide mission.
U
ebanon, Gunman Admits
Adm
Israel will take r% ery were asembled. cocked and were
step to fight this new madness. firing long bursts all around the
The human price we paid' in densely packed hall. Hand gren-
blood can never be repaired." ades exploded in the middle of the
Peres remarked that wanton crowd. A group of passengers try-
terrorism in the past "involved ing, to escape out into the airfield
only Arabs and Jews. the introduc- was followed by one of the gun-
tion of Japanese into the picture men who fired bursts at them and
. . . shows what the Arabs think threw a grenade. The terrorists
of their ability to fight us."
were described as extremely calm,
of
Prime Minister Golda Meir. who
Another gunman. apparently
interrupted a vacation to visit with
mistaking his companion for a
the wounded, said in a national
fleeing passenger, shot him to
Tv address Wednesday that Israel death. A second later he was
would "find a remedy to make
killed by the explosion of his
sure that what had happened will
own grenade which may have
never occur again." She said that
been deliberate. The third gun-
the Lebanese
government sane-
man continued to spray the hall
tioned
guerrilla operations and.
with bullets.
• observers feel, hinted that Israel
He was {Jaunted upon by Claude
' would retaliate against that coun-
Zeitoun. an airpart technician, who
try.
held him until assistance came and
In Beirut. Lebanese officials dragged the man, later identd.. I
said that plans were being made as Saka, int., an anteroom.
to slap any such move by Israel.
The dead and wounded as
A spokesman for the Popular Front
the floor. Luggage was t;catterc
for the Liberation of Palestine, As stunned ss it nessos
and airport
which claimed - cre,lit - for the at-
personnel
recovered
ffcm
the
tack, said that the organization shock. alr.`,olances
were speedin4
would respond. with "unprecedent-
t:)ward the terminal tr on all di-
ed v:olence. -
re. tugis At least 1:2 of the woinded
The machine gun and grenade at- were reported in scrums condition
lockers were likened to the Karni- as they were rushed to !: o:pitals
kazi (suicide) squads of fanatic in Tel A,
Petah 'Ilksa and
Japanese during the closing stapes Sarafaml.
. of World War It
The Popular Fri nt for the 'Alter-
Samba Hai Saka. who was seized
by an airport technician in the
midst of the carnage, said the at-
tack had been planned weeks ago.
The other gunmen were slain, one
apparently by a fellow terrorist. All
belonged t a fanatic underground
leftist group known as Red Star.
Saka said that after completing
their training in Lebanon, the trio
stayed with Arab terrorists in
Germany and Austria until they
boarded an Air France flight to
Tel Aviv at Borne Air;!ort Tues.
day.
•
Six of the known dead were
Jews. The rest were non-Jews, in-
cluding at least 11 Puerto Ricans
on a pilgrimage to Christian holy
places in Israel_ The Jewish dead
included Prof. Aharon
chalsky. 59. of the Weizmann In-
stitute of Science; Yehoshua Ber-
ation of Palestine. an extremist
Th e slaughter was oax leuslv
kowitz, a customs official; Adam
carefully planned and carried out terrorist organization headed by
Zamir: and Ilenia Tartner. 39-
• with robot-like precision, Blood ! Dr. Gedrge Habash, said the mas-
year-old mother of three who was
•overed the floors and walls of the sacre was imended in part to
at the airport to meet her husband.
airport terminal. Human bodies avenge the deaths of two hijack-
The other victims had not been
on May to_ But
blown to bits by grenades were mg terrorists
identified on Wednesday.
strewn over the floor, and the Saka's confession that the attack
Israel's
transport
minister,
was
planned
weeks
ago belied the
walls were pockmarked with bullet
Shimon Peres, declared Tuesday
['FBI'S claim .
holes.
night that the "blood bath" at
Saka told Israeli interrogators
The carnage was m itnesed by
Lydda Airport was "one of the
hundreds of Visitors at the airport that there are Many 111 . 1FP Japa-
most serious things in the his-
nese -Arab
terrorist trainin
to greet arriving passengers. Only camps.
and
tory of aviation and in human
he assured that many
moments earlier—at about 10:3(1
behavior." lie said "the govern
p m_ local tune—the scene at the of them were being trained for acts
crowded terminal was normal . against Israel His group the Red
Marshall Goldman's
•
About 250 passengers were waiting Star. is held respons(ble for 14
at the baggage conveyor for their assassinations in Japan and the
hijacking of a plane to IX: rea Iwo
luggage.
years ago
The three gunmen, well dressed.
Saka at first refused to an-
were part of a large group of pas-
swer question, which were put to
sengers, including Puerto Rican
.4 GENTIf MAN S BOLTIOUE
him in English and in Japanese.
pilgrims, who had just debarked
But after identifying his slain
from the Air France flight and
4—
companions, he agreed tee co-
passed passport control.
41 ■ 4
and even
out
marks but of their sho,,
trade-
Mrs. Meir Asks Israelis
to Sacrifice to Aid Olim
Premier
TEL AVIV t.ITA , _
Jorda n
Kink Hussy ut con- Golda Yetiasked Israe:,-
volum
denined the attack as the work of
sick group." not rep leer more, even at the cost of
a - men ally
mm
iI-
raks. , self sacrifice, to help new
resenta ive of either the
rants and the resident poor.
tinians ,r the Jordanian people_
Addressing the 45th annual meet-
Tougl security- guards were stn
o f th e Bnai Brith in Israel.
tioned t Lydda. and foreign air-
ho charge
she criticized those w ho
lines u•re warned that the air-
that immigration absorption is at
port wo dd be closed to them un-
the expense of the country's poor.
less lb y tightened security. Air
Mrs. •Meir said it was time the
France promised to start search-
public asked the government to
ing lit gage of all passengers
take all it can from the haves for
bound f r Israel, no matter where
the sake of the have,nots. "for the
they lir aril.
sake of all of its to provide our
()Mei is at Orly Airport in Paris
children with a healthy atmosphere
also 'sal I that they searched three
to grow up in."
Israel bound planes after an anony -
mous c Iler warned that a hoo ,
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