Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free december 1986 iraqis say toll ayatollahs human wave mowed Down Iraq spa Iraq said yesterday that More than iranian soldiers were killed in an abortive offensive launched on Christmas eve across the disputed Shatt Alarab an iraqi military communique said iranians were killed on the iranian held Eastern Bank of Shatt Alarab while perished trying to Cross the another iranians were killed in Battles fought on the iraqi held Western it the communique said Irani an vessels were destroyed in the today in addition to 107 Iran said Friday it had pulled Back its units after fulfilling the objective of the Kerala in Offen to punish the iraqis for recent air raids which it said killed More than 300 Iran placed iraqi casualties at killed and wounded with no fewer than 100 prisoners Cap Arab diplomatic sources in the persian Gulf Region said even Given the usual exaggeration in Ira Nian and iraqi Battlefield commune there was Little doubt the iraqis had gained a significant Vic the iranians were More than 12 hours behind the iraqis in reporting the Tehran usually Flam Boyant communiques were markedly neither sides communiques could be independently corps commander iranian president Ali Khamenei hinted in a Friday speech that the revolutionary guards May have carried out the offensive without waiting for the godhead from the iranian High our fighters were unable to wait until the final offensive to punish the Khamenei refer ring to a decisive blow that Iran has vowed to deliver to Iraq before next the commander of the third iraqi army tales told reporters meanwhile that he estimated iranian casualties in his East Basra sector at to dead and he denied iranian charges that the iraqis had used chemical weapons to bring the attack across Shatt Al Arab to a Aldouri conceded that the Offen Sive was carried out mostly by revolutionary guard but he asserted that the outcome would have been the same even if Iran had committed its regular armed iraqi officers said that at least iranians were killed on the strategic Island of us 25 Miles South of including entire teams of frogman who infiltrated the tiny Island in an attempt to establish a Bridgehead at the Start of the trucks loaded with iranian prison ers paraded in strategic which the iraqis believe would have been the ultimate target of the of meanwhile Iraq reported fresh iranian ground attacks in the Shatt Alarab regions off its second largest it said that 200 iranians were killed opposite the positions of the second army corps in the Central Border teenager killed crossing Highway an unidentified teenage male was killed crossing Pembina Highway near Markham Road yesterday of police said the victim was stand ing on the Centre median of Pembina Highway when a southbound out of went up the Boulevard driving the youth into oncoming northbound the victim died at the scene of the Accident which occurred around police said they were unable to immediately identify the victim be cause he carried no a spokesman said police suspect the youth did not live in Winnipeg but Are continuing their i Vestiga charges have not been ruled out in the the spokesman gunman robs Trust company a Lone gunman robbed the guar Anty Trust 1555 Regent Avenue yesterday afternoon around a police spokesman said one armed with a robbed the Branch of an undisclosed amount of no shots were fired in the Holdup and no one was no arrests have been Public support grows for Ontario vigilante up a Man who shot one of three men charged with a breaking at a Dairy store is receiving a flood of said Cathy who has collected several Hundred names on a petition to have the charges people Are coming from All Over to sign the Bearss we want to show Rob that his neighbors Are supporting Robert was arrested last week and charged with possess Ion of a dangerous weapon and care less use of a firearm following the incident at Shaws Dairy store in managed by Putnam wife Nancy and owned by her a police said Putnam and his responded to a burglar alarm that went off about 3 at the store in this Community 30 kilo metres East of Steven John of no fixed was wounded in the right Arm when he was shot As he ran from the less than 100 metres from the Home of Robert and Nancy Hoffer was treated and released from charged in connection with the breaking were Thomas Edward of and a 17 year old male whose Iden Tity cannot be released under the Young offenders suspects arrested in Reserve killings two suspects have been arrested in the shooting deaths Early Friday of two residents of the Shamattawa Indian police a police spokesman said Alex Ander and Beatrice Dixie were shot and killed in their Homes within hours of each other on this isolated Indian Reserve about 350 Kilometres Northeast of police have arrested two 18 and who were scheduled for court appearances in reports of a shooting brought Sha Mattawa ramp to the residence of Mary Anne Miles at about 4 on police found Hill shot the second shooting death was reported about police found redhead lying on his Back on the wooden floor of his shot once in the rib Shamattawa police have been joined in their investigation by the ramp officers from detachments in Thompson and Gillam and an identification unit from he had every right to defend his wife Bearss said in an other people have sent Flowers and Cash and telephoned the Putnam Home offering people we dont even know Are sending Flowers and Money for court Nancy Putnam 1 think with All this going on it is making him feel a lot Putnam is scheduled to appear in Thomas provincial court drifter no cause to fear Airport claims Toronto up Passen Gers worry about Security at Pearson International Airport even though a drifter spent several hours on an empty jumbo Jet before a Pilot discovered a transport Canada official the Public need not fear that there going to find peo ple lurking on i can assure you of spokes Man Rhea Cohen this is a very rare and to my knowledge its never happened but the incident this last May be a hint that something needs to be fixed so that the perimeter Fence is said Roger a spokesman for the Canad an airline pilots matter of concern any Access to the aircraft by anybody without going through Security is a matter of Burges Webb this time everything seems to have turned out but the next Guy who tries it May not be so an air Canada Pilot found Leslie of no fixed in the Luggage rack of a 747 firs class Section after a training flight tuesday Macmillan told police he crawled under a Hainlink Fence surrounding the Airport ramp and on through the jets open door some time after Peel regional police turned Macmillan Over to the Salva Tion army and did not Lay the commando crawl9 communist new Peoples army guerillas perform the commando crawl during their training in the Jungles off Mindoro South of a company sized unit of guerillas participated in the monthlong the training exercise culminated with a rally on 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