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...second of the meetings took place on Christmas Day at a Bedouin tent in the desert. After seeing Waite, Gaddafi agreed to let the Britons go. The inducement Waite offered: a promise that the Church of England would establish a hot line that Libyans residing in the United Kingdom could use if they felt they were being harassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Waite's Secret Mission | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...standing policy of refusing to refuel a hijacked plane unless terrorists first released all passengers aboard. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused the hijackers of being members of a Palestinian terrorist group opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and closely aligned with Mubarak's enemy, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Though Mubarak did not mention the group by name, he seemed to be referring to the Abu Nidal faction, which has previously taken responsibility for a number of particularly heinous terrorist crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Massacre in Malta | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...bullet grazed his head. Seizing a fire ax, Galal felled the terrorist with one swing, then jumped to safety. In the aftermath of the horror of Flight 648, many questions remained unanswered. Were the terrorists, whose trip was indeed believed to have begun in Tripoli, directly linked to Gaddafi? Were they agents of Abu Nidal, the Palestinian renegade who is bent on undermining Mubarak and other Arab moderates? Had they somehow smuggled their weapons onto the plane in Athens, despite what Greek authorities insisted had been five security checks of passengers boarding Flight 648, or had the weapons been taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Massacre in Malta | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

WORLD: The U.S. and Israel ponder retaliation for the airport massacres 26 Libya's Gaddafi vows defiance as Washington and Jerusalem agonize over how to hit back for the Rome and Vienna attacks. Meanwhile, the shadowy figure suspected of masterminding those terrorist acts and many others remains on the loose. Pakistan's Zia ends martial law and a 20-year state of emergency. The new year gets off to a bloody start in South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents, Jan 13 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...terrorist attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports that left 19 people dead and 112 injured. All signs pointed to Abu Nidal, the shadowy leader of a renegade Palestinian group currently based in Libya (see following story), as the man who masterminded the slaughter. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi taunted the U.S. and Israel, declaring that a retaliatory strike against his country, which openly supports and encourages Nidal and his accomplices, would set off a "tit for tat" cycle of violence. Libyans, warned Gaddafi, would harass Americans "in their own streets" and spread bloodshed throughout the Mediterranean region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: An Eye for an Eye | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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