Word: chadli
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...attack proved swift, brutal and decisive. In just two hours, Chadian soldiers routed Libyan troops from an airfield that had served as Libya's main support base in northern Chad since 1984, the year after Libya invaded its neighbor in force. The exuberant Chadians claimed they had killed 1,269 enemy troops and taken 438 prisoners while losing just 29 soldiers. Chadian officials also said that in the hasty retreat last week from the air base at Ouadi-Doum, the Libyans left behind a trove of Soviet-made equipment, including combat aircraft, tanks and rocket launchers. The defeat, stated...
...ignominious defeats of his 18-year rule. State-run Chadian radio hailed the capture of the 12,500-ft. airstrip at Ouadi-Doum as the "beginning of the end of Gaddafi's expansionist dreams." The debacle not only delivered a near fatal blow to Libya's occupation of northern Chad but also damaged Gaddafi's standing at home, where Libyans are already grumbling about a sickly economy that is suffering from the slump in oil prices...
...Chadian President Hissene Habre and his French-backed army. Habre, who received $15 million in U.S. emergency aid late last year, began a major drive against the Libyans in December. The effort paid off one month later, when government forces captured the Libyan base at Fada, in northeastern Chad. According to U.S. and French officials, Libyan forces were busy trying to recapture Fada when the fighting erupted at Ouadi-Doum...
...Brent Regan 41 12 17 29 11 22 Marc Potvin 41 5 15 20 27 70 Todd Flichel 40 4 15 19 31 62 Joe Quinn 37 4 13 17 11 22 Mike Natyshak 43 5 10 15 45 101 Rob Urban 27 5 8 13 23 54 Chad Arthur 19 6 4 10 15 41 Alan Leggett 37 3 5 8 13 26 Clarke Pineo 20 3 5 8 3 6 Kevin Dahl 30 2 6 8 21 50 Tom Pratt 39 1 7 8 23 46 Gary Kruzich 36 0 8 8 7 17 Geoff Williams...
...plane, which reportedly had ferried food and other supplies to Libyan forces in Chad, is one of eight American-built carriers Libya bought before Gaddafi expelled U.S. forces in 1970. Libyan radio claimed bad weather had forced the plane down and warned Egypt to return it. Meanwhile Egypt, chary of Libyan troublemakers, withheld a decision on three of the airmen and granted asylum to two of them...