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Show Sunday, March 10, 1996 The Daily Herald Bricfo Hijacker sought Chechen attention U.N. inspectors enter Iraqi site BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) After waiting 18 hours for Iraqi approval, U.N. inspectors entered a government building Saturday to look for information on banned weapons but feared Iraqis used the delay to prepare for the search. Iraq said the U.N. had deliberately provoked an artificial crisis to tarnish Baghdad's image just before talks are held on resuming limited Iraqi oil sales. A team of 28 U.N. weapons experts entered the Irrigation Ministry, where they suspected weapons-relate- d documents had been stored. By UTA WINKHAUS Associated Press Writer A MUNICH, Germany hijacking ordeal ended peacefully Saturday with the release of all 109 hostages and the a surrender of their captor Turkish man with a toy pistol intent on drawing attention to Chechen rebels in Russia. None of the 101 passengers and eight crew members on the commercial airliner was harmed. The hijacker was identified as Ramazan Aydin, a waiter from Duzce, Turkey, who turns 21 on Sunday and whose ancestors were from Chechnya. A judge ordered him jailed pending an investigation. Police say Aydin entered the cockpit of the Boeing 727 shortly after it took off Friday evening from Nicosia, Cyprus, bound for Istanbul, Turkey. Armed with what turned out to be a toy pistol, he forced the pilot to fly first to Sofia, Bulgaria, and then Germany. Although he told the pilot there were four other hijackers on the plane with him, Aydin told police afterward he had acted alone. The plane landed shortly before midnight in Munich and the hijacker demanded a Turkish interpreter, a human rights lawyer and a reporter be called. z Police spokesman Spoerl said the man repeatedly insisted he was not a terrorist, but only wanted to draw attention to "Russia's bloody war in Chechnya." Moscow rsnt troops to Chechnya 15 months ago to crush the region's bid for independence. An estimated 30,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the fighting. After three hours of negotiations by phone, the hijacker released six hostages, including a woman who was recently operated on and a child. An hour later, the pilot and a flight attendant were released. But the hijacker didn't surrender until about 5 a.m. after police promised to meet his demands. The man was allowed to speak to a reporter for Bavarian radio and meet with attorney Hartmut Finger before being taken to jail. One passenger, Servet Vatanay, told Turkey's ATV television by phone afterward that Aydin said he had gone to Chechnya as a volunteer fighter with his best friend, who died in his arms. Mosque gunfight kiils old ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan on Saturday accused Indian border troops of opening tire on a Pakistani mosque near the contested Kashmir frontier, boy. killing a At least 12 other people were injured in the cross border firing, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. The shooting Friday began shortly before afternoon Muslim prayers at the mosque in remote Madarpur village. Cross-bordfiring from both and Pakistani sides of the Ipdian Kashmir frontier is common, but in recent months it has become more frequent. er k German bank faked tax info London bomb possibly set off by IRA LONDON (AP) The bomb that rattled a West London neighborhood early Saturday had some of the markings of an IRA attack, but no one immediately claimed responsibility. Scotland Yard would say only that a "small, improvised explosive device" went off in large recycling bin, a tactic used previously by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. The blast caused no injuries but blew out windows in cars and nearby buildings. It left a small crater in a concrete wall around a cemetery near the Old Brompton Road, a major thoroughfare between the trendy South Kensington and Fulham neighborhoods. 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