Friday, November 11, 1983 23

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Israel Tightens Security After Tyre Suicide Bombing

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Cabinet on Sunday
began consideration of
further security measures
in south Lebanon in the af-
termath of Friday's suicide
truck bomb attack on Israeli
military headquarters in
Tyre.
According to Israeli army
figures, 28 Israeli soldiers
and border policemen and
32 Lebanese, mostly de-
tainees awaiting interroga-
tion but some of them em-
ployees at the Israeli instal-
lation, were killed. Of the 28
Israelis, 13 were Druze.
Twenty-nine Israelis and 12
Lebanese were injured.
Among the Lebanese were
relatives of the detainees
who had been waiting out-
side one of the buildings hit.
Five persons were extri-
cated from the rubble.
The attack was almost a
replica of the suicide truck
bombings that hit U.S. and
French military headquar-
ters in Beirut on Oct. 23, kil-
ling 230 American and 53
French servicemen and
wounding scores more.

Israeli military sources
said the death toll at Tyre
would have been much
higher had not a border
policeman guarding the
compound fired at the
speeding pick-up truck,
killing the driver and
causing the explosives to
detonate outside rather
than inside the building.
The amount of explosives
contained in the truck is
still undetermined.

A group calling itself the
"Islamic Jihad" (Holy War)
claimed responsibility for
the attack in Tyre. It is the
same group that took credit
for the attacks on the mul-
tinational force in Beirut
last month and on the U.S.
Embassy there last April.
Israeli Arab affairs ex-
perts identified the group as
extremist Shiite Moslems,
allied to Iranian Shiites.
They have been fighting
alongside the Syrians and
elements of the Palestine
Liberation Organization
against the Lebanese army.
Israel launched swift re-
taliation for the attack
which occurred at 6 a.m.

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local time Friday. Waves of
Israeli fighter-bombers
blasted terrorist targets at
Behamdoun to the Bei-
rut-Damascus main high-
way and Mansouriya, to
the south. These were de-
scribed as terrorist bases es-
tablished after Israeli forces
evacuated the region two
months ago to more secure
lines south of the Awali
River.

Reports from Beirut
Friday said tanks and
three Syrian artillery
batteries were destroyed
in the bombing and straf-
ing attacks. An Israeli
military spokesman said
all planes returned
safely to their bases.

Israel Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir warned
that the terrorists erred
gravely if they thought the
attack would force Israel's
total withdrawal from
Lebanon. "We shall leave
Lebanon only once we are
convinced that our leaving
will not unleash waves of
terror," he said. "We are
strong and we shall not
leave Lebanon before we
reach our goals which are
sovereignty for the
Lebanese and security for
Israel."
(A similar statement was
made in Geneva on Satur-
day by David Kimche, Di-
rector General of the Israeli
Foreign Ministry. He told
reporters that if the Syrians
think Israel was too pre-
occupied with its internal
affairs and unwilling to
fight, they were badly "mis-
reading" the mood in
Jerusalem.)
Shamir informed the
Cabinet that he had re-
ceived a message from
President Reagan express-
ing the support of the
American people for Israel
at this grim hour. Reagan
said he hoped that Ameri-
ca's "deep sense of sym-
pathy" with Israel in the
Tyre bombing would "ease
the loss that the people of
Israel feel."

The President's mes-
sage stated: "Today I par-
ticipated in a memorial
service for the casualties
suffered by American
forces in Beirut. Our
sense of loss was made
even greater by the
knowledge that your
forces have suffered
today casualties in the
same kind of terrorist at-
tack." News of the Tyre
bombing reached the
President at Camp
LeJeune, N.C., where he
was attending services
for the Marine dead.

rising for a minute of silence
for the dead in Tyre. Shamir
offered his condolences to
the bereaved families and
wished the wounded a
speedy recovery.
Israel is expected to
launch a campaign among
the Shiites in south Leba-
non to warn them against
assisting terrorists while
reiterating Israel's interest
in maintaining a good rela-
tionship with that commu-
nity.

The suicide attack ;
caused extensive damage
to the military headquar-
ters compound. One
building, housing gen-
eral security services,
was completely de-
molished. Another, hous-
ing border policemen,
was partially destroyed
as was a third where
Arab detainees were
being held.

One of the buildings
served as a storage for exp-
losives which continued to
detonate after the initial
blast, complicating rescue
operations. The dead and
wounded were pulled from
the rubble within 12 hours
by a new technique, de-
veloped after a gas leak
caused an explosion which
destroyed an Israel army
headquarters building in
Tyre a year ago, with heavy
loss of life.
Special equipment was
flown in from Tel Aviv to
help in the rescue work.
This included specially-
designed pneumatic lifts
capable of raising concrete
slabs of up to 20 tons, inflat-
able rubber pillows to sup-
port the slabs while the
wounded were extricated,
and long tubes to pump oxy-
gen into the rubble.
Lt. Col. Aharon Gonem,
the army spokesman for the
Sidon region, said the same
equipment was offered to
the American forces in Be-
irut after the bombings of
the Marine headquarters on
Oct. 23. The Israeli offer of
technical and medical aid
was rejected by the U.S.

Eye-witnesses to Fri-
day's attack, which oc-
curred shortly after
dawn, said a pick-up
truck was seen speeding
toward the headquarters
compound, zig-zagging
between concrete blocks
which had been erected
as a security measure.

A border policeman, iden-
tified as Nakad Sarbach,
opened fire on the vehicle as
it swerved along the ap-
proach road. He said later
he believed he shot and kil-
led the driver before the ve-
U.S. Undersecretary of hicle blew up just short of
State Lawrence Eag- the headquarters buildings.
Sarbach himself was
leburger who was in
Jerusalem Friday after hurled into the air by the
winding up two days of talks blast but was alert enough
with Israeli officials, de- to recapture several Arab
scribed the attack as "mur- prisoners who had seized
derous terrorism of the the opportunity to try to es-
worst kind" and said every cape. Doctors said Sarbach,
effort should be made to who was treated for in-
juries, suffered nothing
stamp out such acts.
The Cabinet was briefed worse than punctured ear-
on the Tyre attack by Chief drums.
The dead and wounded
of Staff Gen. Moshe Levy,
Air Force Commander Gen. were all identified by
Ehud Barak. The meeting Saturday morning. Israel
opened with the ministers army burial squads assisted

in identifying the Lebanese
victims whose bodies were
turned over to the Interna-
tional Red Cross to be re-
turned to next of kin for
interment.
A board of inquiry was
immediately set up by Chief

of Staff Levy to study the
attack. An immediate
measure taken was the re-
placement of the concrete
blocks of phalanxes of
parked vehicles around the
military
perimeter of the
headquarters.

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