Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 6, 1991 TAG: 9102060425
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Elsewhere, a bomb exploded Tuesday outside a Beirut bank, in the 14th bombing in the Lebanese capital linked by police to the war. In Amman, Jordan, a U.S. military attache's car was set ablaze, apparently by a gasoline bomb, police said. But no injuries were reported.
Also, police in Saudi Arabia arrested an undisclosed number of suspects in a sniper attack on U.S. military personnel.
Since the war began Jan. 17, Western interests have sustained more than 70 gulf-related terrorist attacks.
In Lima, a U.S. Embassy spokesman reached by telephone confirmed the attack Tuesday was against the office of Pesevisa, the Peruvian subsidiary of the U.S. security company Wackenhut in Coral Gables, Fla.
Pesevisa is under contract to provide security for both the U.S. and Canadian embassies, the spokesman said.
Three security guards died when rebels driving by in a car fired machine guns and threw at least 22 pounds of dynamite at three diplomats' cars parked in front of Pesevisa, police said. Seven people were seriously injured, they said.
It was unclear to which embassies the diplomats' cars belonged.
Police said they found leaflets at the scene signed by the pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement condemning the United States for its role in the gulf war.
The Tupac Amaru group also attacked the U.S. Embassy twice last week and dynamited the North American Cultural Institute in November.
Athens police said two explosions occurred at about 2 a.m. today outside the Citibank's Aghia Paraskevi branch office, destroying the bank but causing no injuries.
There were no claims of responsibility.
by CNB