Word: chadli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Uganda's Idi Amin Dada failed to keep that despot in power. Despite generous support for the Palestinians, he has few real friends in P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat's entourage. Gaddafi's only notable success came last December when his forces invaded and virtually annexed Chad...
Colonel Gaddafi's comments on international terrorism are absurd. He is a prime example of one who exploits troubled fellow African nations to justify his expansionism. I was a resident in N'Djamena, Chad, until February 1979, when I was forced to leave. As I followed the events in Chad, I was amazed by Gaddafi's intervention and changing support for the various factions...
...planes from Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon (see preceding story). In the U.S. three weeks earlier, the Reagan Administration had expelled 27 Libyan diplomats in protest against what Washington regards as Gaddafi's outrageous policy of bankrolling terrorist activities around the world. In the Central African country of Chad, meanwhile, 4,000 Libyan troops served as a virtual occupation force five months after Gaddafi's military intervention in support of President Goukouni Oueddei in that country's civil war. This was exactly the sort of move that has enraged Gaddafi's neighbors-especially Egypt...
Nevertheless, Gadaffi seems determined to maintain his foothold in Chad, where his forces have been steadily encroaching for nearly a decade. Since 1973 Libyan troops have occupied the Aozou strip, a uranium-and manganese-rich area astride the Chad-Libyan border. On Libyan maps, the zone is known as Southern Libya. It was Tripoli's annexation of the strip that led to the original split between Habré and Oueddei, both northern Muslims who had been allied against the southern Christian government headed by General Félix Malloum. Habré, who had previously received arms from Gadaffi, resisted...
Rumors are flying around N'Djamena to the effect that Vice President Wadal Abdelkader Kamougue, the present leader of Chad's comparatively prosperous south with its sizable Christian minority, is being encouraged by France to secede from the arid, impoverished northern region. At the same time, Habré's well-disciplined force of 1,500 men is regrouping near the town of Abeche, 400 miles northeast of the capital, where they are receiving assistance from both the Sudan and Egypt for a protracted guerrilla war. After 16 years of combat. Chad's 4.5 million people...