Japanese Terrorist Sought in USO Blast in Naples
Police said today that a member of Japan’s Red Army terrorist group was the prime suspect in a car bomb explosion outside a U.S. military club that killed an American servicewoman and four Italians.
Investigators said they were searching for Junzo Okudaira, 39, who is also suspected in rocket and bomb attacks on the U.S. and British embassies in Rome last June.
At least 17 people, including four U.S. sailors, were hurt in the Thursday night blast outside the United Services Organization club in downtown Naples.
‘Barbarous Attack’
The Pentagon identified the slain sailor as 21-year-old Angela Simone Santos, a radioman 3rd class from Ocala, Fla. She had been stationed at the Naval Communications Area Major Station in Naples since March, 1985.
A man called a French news agency office in Rome today and claimed the attack in the name of a group calling itself the Organization of Jihad Brigades.
“The American imperialists must die today, two years after their barbarous attack against the Libyan Arab state,” the caller said in accented English.
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