DATE=8/25/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-237663
TITLE=CAPE TOWN BOMB (L ONLY)
BYLINE=MICHAEL HAMLYN
DATELINE=CAPE TOWN
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
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INTRO: AT LEAST ONE PERSON HAS BEEN KILLED AND 24 INJURED AFTER
WHAT POLICE ARE CALLING A DEVICE WAS THROWN INTO A PLANET
HOLLYWOOD OUTLET AT ONE OF CAPE TOWN'S MAJOR TOURIST ATTRACTIONS,
THE VICTORIA AND ALFRED WATERFRONT. MICHAEL HAMLYN HAS THIS
REPORT FROM CAPE TOWN.
TEXT: POLICE SAY THEY DON'T KNOW HOW BADLY HURT THE INJURED ARE
BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN EVACUATED TO A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT
HOSPITALS. IN A TELEPHONE CALL TO A LOCAL RADIO STATION, A GROUP
CALLING ITSELF 'MUSLIMS AGAINST GLOBAL OPPRESSION' HAS CLAIMED
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BLAST. IN THE PAST, THE GROUP HAS BEEN
ACTIVE MAINLY AGAINST ISRAELI TARGETS.
AT THE TIME AT THE TIME THE BOMB WAS THROWN -- AROUND SEVEN
TWENTY IN THE EVENING LOCAL TIME, THE RESTAURANT WAS PACKED WITH
TOURISTS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE RELAXING AFTER WORK.
THE WATERFRONT HAS ALSO BEEN THE TARGET IN THE PAST OF
DEMONSTRATIONS BY ANOTHER MUSLIM-LED GROUP CALLING ITSELF PEOPLE
AGAINST GANGSTERISM AND DRUGS, OR PAGAD. ONE MAN WAS SHOT DURING
A DEMONSTRATION THERE 18 MONTHS AGO. PAGAD HAS BEEN CAMPAIGNING
AGAINST THE DRUG TRADE AND THE GANGS WHICH ARE PREVALENT IN THE
POVERTY-STRICKEN AREAS WHERE MUSLIMS LIVE. THE GROUP HAS ALSO
BEEN ACCUSED OF USING PIPE BOMBS -- CHEAP HOMEMADE EXPLOSIVE
DEVICES -- AT THE HOMES OF PEOPLE THEY HAVE TARGETTED.
PLANET HOLLYWOOD, FRANCHISED FROM THE AMERICAN COMPANY OWNED BY
STARS BRUCE WILLIS, DEMI MOORE, ARNOLD SHWARZENEGGER, AND
SILVESTER STALLONE, OPENED ON THE WATERFRONT LAST YEAR. (SIGNED)
NEB/MH/KL
25-Aug-98 5:20 PM EDT (2120 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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