1986 BERLIN DISCOTHEQUE BOMBING

April 5, 1986
1986 Berlin discotheque bombing

Roxy-Palast, the building in which the discotheque La Belle was located Location Coordinates Date Attack type Weapon(s) Deaths Injured Berlin, Germany 522823N 132012E April 5, 1986 1:45 am (CET/CEST) Bombing; terrorist attack Plastic explosive 3 (2 U.S. soldiers, 1 Turkish civilian) 229

VERENA CHANAA, Andrea Haeusler, Musbah Abdulghasem Perpetrator(s) Eter, Yasser Mohammed Chreidi, ALI CHANAA

Clashes between Libya and the United States

1st Gulf of Sidra Gulf of Sidra (naval) 1986 Berlin bombing 1986 bombing of Libya 2nd Gulf of Sidra 2011 bombing of Libya

Memorial plaque reading, "In this house on the 5th of April, 1986, young people were murdered by a criminal bomb attack" The 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing was a terrorist attack on the La Belle discothque in West Berlin, Germany, an entertainment venue that was commonly frequented by United States soldiers. A bomb placed under a table near the disk jockey's booth exploded at 1:45 am CET on April 5, 1986, killing three people and injuring around 230 people, including 79 American servicemen. Nermin Hannay, a Turkish woman, and U.S. sergeant Kenneth T. were killed instantly; a second American sergeant, James E. Goins, died from his injuries two months later. Some of the victims were left permanently disabled.

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CONTENTS

1 Blame and retribution 2 Trial and conviction 3 Background to the bombing 4 Compensation 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Blame and retribution

Libya was blamed for the bombing after telex messages had been intercepted from Libya to the Libyan East Berlin embassy congratulating them on a job well done. U.S. President Ronald

Reagan retaliated by ordering airstrikes against the Libyan capital of Tripoli and city of Benghazi (see Operation El Dorado Canyon). At least 15 civilians were killed in the U.S. airstrikes on Libya, including a child described as leader Colonel Gaddafi's adopted 15-month old daughter, and more than 2000 were injured, including the then-3 year old Khamis Gaddafi.

Trial and conviction

In spite of reports blaming Libya for the attack on the nightclub, no individual was officially accused of the bombing until the 1990 reunification of Germany and the subsequent opening up of the Stasi archives. STASI files led German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis to Musbah Abdulghasem Eter, a Libyan who had worked at the Libyan embassy in EAST BERLIN. Stasi files listed him as an agent, and Mehlis said he was the Libyan spy agency's main contact at the embassy. Eter and four other suspects were arrested in 1996 in Lebanon, Italy, Greece and Berlin, and put on trial a year later. In 2001 Musbah Abdulghasem Eter, and two Palestinians, Yasser Mohammed Chreidi (or Yassar Al-Shuraidi or Yassir Chraidi) and Ali Chanaa were convicted in Berlin's Landgericht of aiding in murder, and Chanaa's former German wife, Mrs Verena Chanaa, was convicted of murder. They were given sentences of 12 to 14 years in prison. Prosecutor Mehlis proved beyond reasonable doubt that the three men had assembled the bomb in the Chanaas' flat. The explosive was said to have been brought into West Berlin in a Libyan diplomatic bag. VERENA CHANAA and her sister, ANDREA HAEUSLER, carried it into the La Belle in a travel bag and left five minutes before it exploded. Ms Haeusler was acquitted because it could not be proved that she knew a bomb was in the bag.

Background to the bombing

The judge Peter Marhofer said it was not clear whether Gaddafi or Libyan intelligence had actually ordered the attack, though there were indications that they had. Two weeks before the La Belle discotheque blast, Gaddafi called for Arab assaults on American interests worldwide after a U.S.-Libyan naval clash in the Mediterranean, in which 35 seamen on a Libyan patrol boat in the Gulf of Sidra were killed in international waters claimed by Libya.[1] Chreidi was eventually extradited from Lebanon to Germany in connection with the bombing. He had been working for the Libyan Peoples' Bureau in East Berlin at the time of the bombing. Chreidi was said to have connections with Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, who used to live in Tripoli and was financed by Libya in the 1980s. Eter was reported to be the Libyan spy agency's point man at the embassy in East Berlin.

Compensation
On August 17, 2003, newspapers reported that Libya had signaled to the German government that it was ready to negotiate compensation for the bombing with lawyers for non-U.S. victims.[9]

A year later, on August 10, 2004, Libya concluded an agreement to pay a total of $35 million compensation. In October 2008, Libya paid $1.5 billion into a fund which will be used to compensate relatives of the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. Lockerbie bombing victims with the remaining 20% of the sum agreed in 2003; American victims of the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing; American victims of the 1989 UTA Flight 772 bombing; and, Libyan victims of the 1986 US bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi.

VERENA
Verena is venerated as a saint by the Coptic Orthodox Church and by the Roman Catholic Church. According to tradition, she was associated with the Theban Legion and died on the 4th day of Thout (September 14).

Saint Verena
Born Died Honored in Feast 3rd century Egypt 4th century Switzerland Coptic Orthodox Church; Roman Catholic Church September 1; Thout 4 poor; sick; lepers; young girls, nurses, Pieter

Attributes comb; water jar Patronage

Tradition states that she was brought up in the 3rd century in the Theban region (modern day Luxor in Upper Egypt) in a noble Christian family, who handed her over to Bishop Sherimon, Bishop of Beni Suef, who in turn taught her and baptized her as a Christian.

Contents

1 Travel to Switzerland 2 Return of Part of relics to Egypt 3 See also

4 References

Travel to Switzerland
According to tradition, Saint Verena joined the THEBAN Legion in its mission to Rhaetia (part of modern day Switzerland) and was a relative of Saint Victor of the Theban Legion. The soldiers' relatives were allowed to accompany them in order to look after them and take care of their wounds. When Saint Maurice, Saint Victor and the other members of the THEBAN Legion were martyred, Saint Verena led the life of a hermit. First, she settled in a place called Solothurn, but later moved into a cave near present-day Zurich. she comes from Garagous village, Qous, Qena, Egypt. As a hermit, Verena fasted and prayed continuously. According to tradition, she performed several miracles. Verena was particularly concerned over young girls and used to look after them spiritually and physically, due to her expertise as a nurse. As a result of her fame, legend states that the local governor arrested her and sent her to jail, where Saint Maurice appeared to her to console and strengthen her. She was released from jail, and continued to perform miracles. Due to her, many converted to Christianity. Saint Verena was interested in serving the poor and used to offer them food. Moreover, she enjoyed serving the sick, especially those suffering from leprosy. She used to wash their wounds and put ointments on them, not fearing infection. She died at Switzerland.

The Mercy of Saint Verena, Stuttgart 1524

Return of Part of relics to Egypt

In 1986, a delegation from Saint Verenas Church in Switzerland, brought to Egypt a part of Saint Verenas relics. The first Coptic church consecrated in the name of Saint Verena is Saint Maurice and Saint Verenas Church in Cairo, which was consecrated by HH Pope Shenouda III on February 22, 1994. In October 2004, a delegation from Saint Verena's (Saint Mary & Saint Verena's) Coptic Church in Anaheim, California in the United States of America, along with His Grace Bishop Serapion of Los Angeles and Fr. Joseph Boules, traveled to Switzerland to bring a part of Saint Verena's relics to Anaheim. Her church in Anaheim now has a museum dedicated to her relics and artifacts.

PYROMANIA - CASCADA
GERMAN TV exposes CIA, MOSSAD links to 1986 Berlin disco bombing. La Belle Disco Club Berlin: U.S. Servicemen Killed By C.I.A. & MOSSAD.

Killing SHAMIS DEEF (7.24.1986) & Countdown To Somalia War in 1986 Through West Berlin, Germany.

GERMAN TV EXPOSES CIA, MOSSAD LINKS TO 1986 BERLIN DISCO BOMBING

By a German correspondent 27 August 1998 A documentary broadcast August 25 by German public television presents compelling evidence that some of the main suspects in the 1986 Berlin disco bombing, the event that provided the pretext for a US air assault on Libya, worked for American and Israeli intelligence. The report, aired by Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF television) on August 25, 1998 , is of the greatest relevance to events of the past three weeks, in which attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania have become the justification for US missile strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan, and a shift in American foreign policy to an even more unbridled use of military force internationally. With Washington declaring war against terrorism and arrogating to itself the right to use its military might unilaterally against any target anywhere in the world, the German TV report raises the most serious and disturbing questions. All the more so, since the US media and leading Republican politicians, within hours of the American embassy bombings, began citing Reagans 1986 air attack on Libya as an exemplary response to terrorist attacks, and pressed Clinton to carry out similar military action. THE AIR STRIKE ON LIBYA On April 15, 1986 US war planes bombed the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi. They destroyed the home of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and killed at least 30 civilians, including many children. Gaddafi himself, the main target of the air strike, was not hurt. Two hours later President Ronald Reagan justified the unprecedented attack on a sovereign country and its head of state in a national television address. The US, Reagan claimed, had direct, precise and irrefutable proof that Libya was responsible for a bomb blast in a West Berlin discotheque. The explosion 10 days earlier at the disco La Belle, a favorite nightspot for US soldiers, had killed three people and injured 200. Since November of 1997 five defendants have been on trial in a Berlin court for their alleged involvement in the La Belle attack. But in the course of more than half a year the case has proceeded very slowly. ZDF television, which carried out its own investigation into the case, explained why in the August 25 documentary produced by its political magazine Frontal.

WHAT THE GERMAN DOCUMENTARY REVEALS The Frontal report arrives at the following conclusions: 1) The lead defendant presently on trial, Yasser Chraidi, is very possibly innocent, and is being used as a scapegoat by German and American intelligence services. 2) At least one of the defendants, Musbah Eter, has been working for the CIA over many years. 3) Some of the key suspects have not appeared in court, because they are being protected by Western intelligence services. 4) At least one of those, Mohammed Amairi, is an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. The man charged with being the mastermind of the La Belle attack, 38-year-old Yasser Chraidi, was a driver at the Libyan embassy in East Berlin in 1986. He later moved to Lebanon, from whence he was extradited to Germany in May 1996. Frontal interviewed the two Lebanese responsible for the extradition of Chraidi: the former public prosecutor Mounif Oueidat and his deputy Mrad Azoury. Both confirm that the German authorities used deceit to have Chraidi extradited. According to Azoury, he received no evidence that Chraidi was actually involved in the attack; there were only hints. Oueidat states that the Germans showed tremendous interest in getting Chraidi. The Americans were behind this demand, he says. This was obvious. They spurred on the Germans to speed up the extradition. Eventually Chraidi, declared to be a top terrorist, was flown to Germany in a spectacular security operation. But a Berlin judge found the evidence presented by the prosecution so weak, he threatened to release Chraidi within three weeks unless more proof was presented. At this point another man was brought into the case, who, according to Frontal, was obviously supposed to be spared by the prosecution until then. On September 9, 1996, the very day the Berlin judge threatened to release Chraidi, Berlin public prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, Berlin police inspector Uwe Wilhelms and a Mr. Winterstein of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) met Musbah Eter in the Mediterranean island state of Malta.

CIA INVOLVEMENT The meeting had been prepared by the BND, which maintains close connections to its American counterpart, the CIA. Musbah Eter was running an international business in Malta, which, according to Frontal, served as a cover for extensive intelligence operations on behalf of the CIA.

The German authorities wanted him on a murder charge. But during the Malta meeting a deal was struck: Immunity for Eter, if he incriminates Chraidi for La Belle. The next day Eter went to the German embassy and testified. As a result, the warrant against him was scrapped and he was allowed to travel to Germany. In the words of Frontal, Eter is the key figure in the La Belle trial. At the time of the disco bomb attack he worked for the Libyan embassy in East Berlin. But he paid regular visits to the US embassy. According to Christian Strbele, the lawyer for Chraidi, this highly unusual fact is proven by extensive notes of the East German secret police, who watched Eter very closely at the time. There are many indications that Eter was actively involved in the La Belle bombing. According to interrogation transcripts studied by Frontal, he had the detailed knowledge of a participant. He even admitted that he brought the operating instructions for the bomb to the flat of a codefendant. Frontal asserts that besides the defendants in the present trial, another group was involved in the La Belle bombinga group of professional terrorists, working for anybody who paid them, led by a certain Mahmoud Abu Jaber. Members of this group, according to Frontal, have barely been bothered by the prosecution and live securely in other countries. In the months preceding the La Belle attack they lived in East Berlin and met, almost on a daily basis, with the present defendants. Hours before the attack they moved to West Berlin, where the bomb exploded. Their movements were monitored by the East German and Russian secret services, who concluded that they were working for Western intelligence. The Russian KGB, in a document cited by Frontal, gave the opinion that American counterintelligence planned to use Mahmoud to concoct a case for the involvement of Libyan terrorists in the attack. According to the same KGB document, Mahmoud had warned West Berlin intelligence two days before the explosion. Frontal followed the traces of Mohammed Amairi, the right-hand man of Mahmoud Abu Jaber, who, according to the documents it has studied, was particularly involved in the preparation of the La Belle attack.

An agent of Mossad Amairi left Germany for Norway in 1990, when a warrant was issued for his arrest. He now lives in the Norwegian town of Bergen, where Frontal found and interviewed him. He stopped the interview when he was asked what secret service he had been working for. His lawyer, Odd Drevland, finally told the story. When Amairi moved to Norway he was arrested and branded a danger to the country on the front page of tabloids. But then the Israeli secret service Mossad took charge of him and everything changed.

Was Amairi a Mossad agent? asked Frontal. He was a Mossad man, answered Drevland. In the meantime, Norway has granted asylum to Amairi and he will soon receive Norwegian citizenship. The Berlin prosecutor has lifted the warrant against him. These secret service intrigues present a task for the Berlin court that is almost insoluble, concludes the Frontal report. But one thing is certain, the American legend of Libyan state terrorism can no longer be maintained. There are striking parallels between the 1986 bombing of Libya and last weeks missile strikes against targets in Sudan and Afghanistan. Once again Washington claims to have proof to justify its use of deadly force. But as the Frontal report shows, such claims cannot be trusted. Twelve years after the bombing of Libya, Reagans proof turns out to be anything but irrefutable. Instead there is powerful evidence that the La Belle attack was a carefully prepared provocation. It may come as a shock to many Americans, all the more so given the utterly venal and lying role of the US media, but US intelligence services are well versed in the most unscrupulous and bloody methods, not excluding those that result in injury or death to Americans. No serious consideration of the August 7 East African bombings can rule out the possibility of a provocation, organized either directly or indirectly by US agencies. Certainly the US embassy bombings, with their terrible human tollfor the most part, African provided a welcome pretext for forcing through a desired shift in policy and obtaining public support for unilateral military action. Indeed, within hours of the US embassy bombings, the International Herald Tribune had published a column declaring the attacks were acts of war and the United States could take reprisals against the bombers under international law without the approval of the United Nations. We wait with interest to see whether any of the American television networksCBS, NBC, ABC, CNNor any of the establishment newspapers will even take note of the German expos of the events surrounding the bombing of Libya. We have no expectation that they will.

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