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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Two men accused of killing two American Air Force officers and three Iranians were captured after a one hour gun battle with security forces, the official news agency Pars reported today. A brief government an nouncement said Vahid Rahman Afrakhteh and Mohsen Khamoushi were seized Monday afternoon. They are accused of killing U.S. Air Force Col. Paul R. Shaffer Jr., 45, of Dayton, Ohio, and Lt. Col. Jack J. Turner, 45, of Carbondale, Il., last May. Pars said they were also involved in killing Iranian Gen. Zandi Pour and _ his driver, as well as_ the assassination of an Iranian U.S. Embassy clerk. The news agency said the terrorists’ confessed under interrogation and also identified their accomplices in the killings. It added that documents on the captured men “showed the ring was planning to assassinate more people,’’ but it did not elaborate. A group calling itself the Revolutionary Republican Movement of the Armed Forces of Iran said in Paris that it was responsible for the murders of the two of ficers. The Iranian government blamed Marxist guerrillas.
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Tue, Jul 29, 1975
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