Word: benghazi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressive detail. One involves three waves of carrier-based planes that would strike in quick succession under cover of predawn darkness. First, fighter planes would launch missiles that home in on radar to knock out once again the radars at the SA-5 missile sites at Surt and Benghazi. Then, attack planes would wing in low and fast to knock out the missiles and their launchers. Once they had been destroyed, the third wave would hit adjacent airfields, destroying the runways so that Gaddafi's 550 combat aircraft could not scramble to counterattack the fleet. Supposedly, all that would take...
...satellite stations and dishes, main telephone terminals. Knocking them out would, in theory, virtually cut Libya off from the outside world, at least for a time. Other potential targets offer both rewards and drawbacks. Hitting two training camps for terrorists that are known to operate near Tripoli and Benghazi would most closely fit the punishment for terrorism to the crime of inciting and supporting it. But the camps are thought to be empty right now, and when occupied they are also heavily used to train young recruits for the Libyan army, who bear no responsibility for Gaddafi's terrorism. Bombing...
...bombers flying over the gulf had spotted a Soviet-built Nanuchka- missile Corvette sailing west out of the Libyan port of Benghazi. When the ship passed the twelve-mile limit, the A-6s attacked. Two hours later, at 1:15 a.m. Libyan time, the Aegis system aboard the Yorktown spotted a French- built Combattante patrol boat cruising the darkened waters of the gulf north of the "line of death." As the ship neared the American fleet, it speeded up. Kelso ordered the firing of two Harpoon missiles. "They saw a flash," said one official, "but we really aren't sure...
...gulf. Weinberger later said he "would assume" that Soviet technicians helped the Libyans repair the base. American planes launched two more HARM missiles, and again the radar went dead. The final American strike occurred later that morning: a pair of fighter jets hit at least one Libyan vessel near Benghazi...
...Libyan troops in the civil war in Chad. The officers are also reported to be upset about the growth of the "people's army," a politicized militia whose existence threatens the armed forces' influence. Last month Libyan air force planes bombed an army base in Benghazi after all or part of the garrison mutinied. Reports from foreign residents say that about 20 soldiers were killed. But the biggest disruption occurred on March 25 when a mysterious explosion heavily damaged the army's arms and ammunition depot at El Abjar, outside Benghazi. Western observers believe the destruction...