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...blasted military and intelligence targets in and around Tripoli and the coastal city of Benghazi. Going to the source of Libyan fanaticism, four F-111s aimed 16 bombs, each weighing 2,000 lbs., at the Bab al Azizia barracks: the living quarters and command and communications center from which Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had incited, planned or supported terrorist murders throughout the world...
...ruthless attacks on Americans and the citizens of many other countries will never let up until terrorists and the states that sponsor them are made to pay a price in kind. In his televised address following the raid, the President asserted that the air strike "will not only diminish Colonel Gaddafi's capacity to export terror, it will provide him with incentives and reasons to alter his criminal behavior." That argument won the support of only three U.S. allies: Britain, which gave permission for the F-111s to use English bases, Canada and Israel. All the others at minimum counseled...
...minders" from the Libyan Ministry of Information, reporters visited a residential area, a hospital and a morgue. On Tuesday evening a group of handpicked correspondents, mostly women, were driven to the children's hospital at Al Fatah University and shown two young boys, who were identified as sons of Colonel Gaddafi's. Both were lying under oxygen tents, strapped to their hospital beds. On one outing, a Libyan militiaman held a plastic bag and plucked from it a child's charred foot that had been severed at the ankle. Holding it up in the air, he said, "That's what...
...view of American journalists were foiled by the confusion of the city. On Wednesday afternoon, a group of journalists were herded into a bus and told they were being taken to Gaddafi's house in the Bab al Azizia compound. Expectations were high that they might see the colonel. But as the bus approached the walled barracks, a dozen or so armed guards burst through an open gate, while the sound of gunfire ricocheted from inside the compound. The bus immediately sped off and headed back to the hotel. Was it a coup? For the press corps in Tripoli...
...urged its NATO < allies to take tougher, nonmilitary action against Libya, she told Parliament, results had been "totally insufficient. She held to the view that "if one never took any action because of the risks involved, the alternative would be to be totally and utterly passive and supine before Colonel Gaddafi and anyone else who practices state-sponsored terrorism...