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...Berlin, a shattered discotheque; in Rome and Vienna, airline terminals strewn with bodies. So far, the U.S. has been spared the horror of a major terrorist attack. But as hostility intensifies between the U.S. and Libya, the shadow war could come closer to home. Security experts warn that extremists could find easy pickings in American cities. "We are absolutely unprepared here in the U.S.," says Dr. Robert Kupperman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former National Security Council staffer. "Everywhere in the country, government facilities, commercial installations and civilian networks make...
Confronted with diplomatic criticism of the raids, the administration said that if the Soviets had acted on its pleas, authorities might have been able to foil the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, which killed an American serviceman and a Turkish woman and wounded some 200 others...
...America did not respond to terrorism, but to aggressive acts of war--under the guise of terrorism--sponsored by the state of Libya. The distinction is important. If reports are correct, Khadafy, with the help of Libyan diplomats working out of Libyan People's Bureaus in West Berlin, engineered an attack on a West German discotheque. Although terrorism was Khadafy's tool, his action was akin to a military attack. Seen in this light, the American military response is, at the very least, a justifiable move...
...there any sense that the war against terrorism was being won on the ground. At week's end a bomb went off in a West Berlin nightclub, killing an American soldier and a West German woman and injuring more than 150 people. Responsibility was claimed by the Holger Meins Commando, which is linked to the Red Army Faction and had previously asserted that it was responsible for the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in Stockholm in February...
...general said U.S. officials learned of the impending attack on Saturday and were trying to warn off-duty soldiers at gathering spots in West Berlin when the blast occurred at the La Belle club...