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Still skeptical, the State Department believes the four agents were linked to a larger network of Libyan terrorists who are plotting to eliminate opponents of Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Within Libya this year, up to 2,000 people have been arrested for alleged disloyalty to Gaddafi. The mercurial colonel's latest project is building a $3 billion protective wall along 187 miles of Libya's border with Egypt. Gaddafi, whose erratic rule seems to be widely resented by his fellow citizens, has warned Libyan dissidents abroad that they are "doomed" unless they return home...
Armed largely by Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the northern-based Muslim guerrillas had succeeded last March in ousting President Félix Malloum, one of the southern Christians who have monopolized the government since Chad received its independence from France in 1960. Muslim Leaders Oueddei and Habré have since shared power in an eleven-faction alliance marked by mutual suspicion and hostility...
Amid the turmoil, there was more than one cause for Western concern. Not only is Chad a mineral-rich source of potential instability in the very heart of Africa, but the backer of one key rebel faction, Libya's Gaddafi, is a onetime protégé of the Soviet Union and a troublemaking champion of Islamic radicalism throughout the region...
...scene, of course, is fiction. No portable nuclear bomb awaited triggering; President Gaddafi, for all his Israelophobia, had taped no such doomsday threat. Yet for thousands of French readers the scenario seems icily plausible. The Fifth Horseman is France's hottest bestseller this winter only four weeks after publication. (The book will be published in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster in July.) Co-Authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem) have so convincingly interwoven fact and fiction that the details of civilization's vulnerability to nuclear blackmail appear totally realistic...
They even hired a former police officer to introduce them to the gamy underworld of New York pickpockets and ID-card fixers. Gaddafi was selected as the fictional blackmailer, explains Lapierre, "because he was not susceptible to [U.S.] reprisals, having such a small population and all that sand...