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...than 24 hours after South Africa's commando raid last week, it was business as usual at the whitewashed single-story headquarters of the African National Congress in downtown Lusaka. An A.N.C. official glanced only casually at visitors as they passed through the half-open steel gate. Within the compound, Oliver Tambo, 68, a lawyer and political activist who became acting president of the organization in 1967, sat inside a cramped and sparsely furnished office, drafting a press statement about the attack. None of the 20 or so staffers on hand seemed unduly alarmed by the raid. "We live with...
...children and wounded women. But Libyan plans to frame the 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...
...Secretary John Lehman. "They knew if they turned them on to guide their missiles, they would get a HARM down the throat." Nor was any defense mounted by the Libyan air force, whose pilots are notoriously poor night flyers. Five F-111s were assigned to hit Colonel Gaddafi's compound, and four of them dropped 16 laser-guided 2,000-lb. bombs. The hope, said a senior Administration official, was to "turn the barracks into dust." The bombs cratered the compound, blew out windows and caved in a wall, but did not flatten any buildings. Gaddafi was probably safe...
After the Security Council met in the Oval Office on Wednesday, April 9, a joint security-intelligence team prepared a list of five targets. First on the list was the Bab al Azizia army compound, which serves as Gaddafi's command center and residence. "We hit Gaddafi's barracks because it's the nerve center for his command structure and headquarters of his loyalist guard," says a top national security aide. There is little doubt that Azizia was also targeted in the hope that the Colonel would be very much at home and killed or injured in the attack. Using...
...injury of two others. Dr. Mohamed Muafa, who identified himself as the Gaddafi family's physician, said he had found all three children in the wreckage of the colonel's home an hour after the attack. Washington officials were frankly surprised there were not more casualties in Gaddafi's compound. Of the five bombers assigned to hit it, four dropped 16 laser-guided 2,000-lb. Paveways. The bombs cratered the compound, blew out windows and caved in a wall or two, but they did not flatten any buildings. Gaddafi's tent was still standing, only slightly grazed...