Word: fada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loyalties from Gaddafi to 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...
...presence of the Libyans, captured a few days earlier at Fada in northeastern Chad, proved, if proof were any longer needed, that the soldiers of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have been fighting on the ground in Chad for a long time, despite the Libyan leader's frequent denials. More important, the prisoners were tangible evidence of the biggest victory of the Chad army since the latest round of fighting began in 1982. Gaddafi responded to the defeat at Fada by dispatching four MiG-23s to bomb the towns of Arada and Oum Chalouba. The raid did little damage...
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