Woman Hunted in W. Berlin Bombing That Killed 2 GIs

Police are searching for a West Berlin woman suspected of planting a bomb nearly two years ago that killed two U.S. servicemen and a Turkish woman and wounded more than 200 people in a West Berlin discotheque, authorities said Sunday.

President Reagan blamed Libya for the April 5, 1986, attack on the La Belle discotheque and ordered the retaliatory bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi 10 days later.

Libya said 37 people died and 93 were wounded in the U.S. raid. The dead included a 15-month-old adopted daughter of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Kadafi.

West Berlin Justice Department spokesman Volker Kaehne identified the suspect as Christina Gabriele Endrigkeit, 27, who has been missing since the bombing. A $93,000 reward is being offered for information leading to her capture, he said.

“On the basis of seized documents and according to eyewitness accounts of her behavior before the explosion, she is strongly suspected of bringing the explosives into the club and leaving the explosives there,” Kaehne said.

He made no mention of Libya. A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, “Mrs. Endrigkeit . . . allegedly acted on behalf of the Jordanian-born brothers Ahmed Nawaf Hasi and Nezar Hindawi.”

Hasi was convicted of an earlier West Berlin bombing and is serving a 14-year prison sentence. Hindawi is serving a 45-year sentence in Britain for his 1986 conviction on charges that he tried to smuggle a bomb onto an Israeli jetliner in London in the luggage of his Irish girlfriend.

Kaehne said Hasi remains a suspect in the La Belle bombing, but he refused to elaborate. Hasi was arrested two weeks after the attack, and police found what appeared to be drawings of the club in his possession, but he was never charged.

Hasi was convicted in the March 29, 1986, bombing of West Berlin’s German-Arab Friendship Society building, which injured nine people.

The West Berlin court ruled that the La Belle attack was plotted by Hindawi and Syrian intelligence officials.

Killed in the attack were Sgt. Kenneth T. Ford, 21, of Detroit, Staff Sgt. James E. Goins, 26, of Ellerbe, N.C., and Nermine Hanay, 28, a Turkish resident of West Berlin.