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wounded in the attack. Ubayd, who had ties to Syria at least until recently, apparently considers himself a successor tSizjayel when the Lebanese President's term expires next year.!

Islamic Jihad, a covername usually used by Hizballah elements in Lebanon, claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened to kill Ubayd. He was released on 16 February, after Syria reportedly intervened against the clan that kidnaped him in an interfamily Lebanese dispute. (b)(3)

South/East Asia

Australia

Melbourne Consulate Bombing: Additional Details Australian officials reportedly doubt the existence of the so-called GreekBulgarian-Armenian Front that took credit for a car bomb attack on the Turkish Consulate General in Melbourne, Australia, on 23 November 1986. All the prime suspects in the case reportedly have ties to the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG), a rightwing Armenian terrorist group; nevertheless, Australian officials still believe the bombing was carried out independently from JCAG's command structure. Authorities have uncovered the following details concerning the attack, which killed the bomber—later identified as an Armenian—and damaged the building housing the consulate: • The suspect being held for the bombing, an Armenian named Levon Demirian,

was interrogated in connection with the assassination of the Turkish ConsUL

General in Sydney in 1980, for which JCAG claimed responsibility. • Australian authorities believe that Levon's brother, Hovannes “Jano"

Demirian-an explosives expert-could have built the Melbourne bomb, but so far they have not connected him to either the car bomb or to the explosives found in the Demirian family's restaurant in a police raid after the attack. (b)(3)

Africa

Somalia

Somali Dissidents To Continue Kidnaping Foreigners? On 7 February Ethiopia handed over to French authorities 10 French aid workers who were kidnaped by Somali rebels. The doctors and nurses, who worked for the French relief organization Medecins Sans Frontieres, were kidnaped in January by members of the Somali National Movement (SNM) at an Ethiopian refugee camp in northwestern Somalia. The SNM took its French hostages across the border into Ethiopia, where it subsequently released them to authorities there. An SNM press release stated that the Somali refugee camps are used as a "recruiting ground" for the Somali military and security agencies. The press release stated further that international assistance given to the refugees in these camps is used to finance terror and oppression against the civilian population. It warned that foreigners remaining in Somalia cannot be guaranteed security. The US Embassy in Mogadishu believes it would not be difficult for the SNM to continue kidnaping foreign workers at refugee camps in Somalia because these workers are often reluctant to take security measures, probably in the belief that the humanitarian nature of their work protects them. (b)(3)

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