Word: gaddafis
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Perhaps you've heard that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, ex-Mr. Terror himself, is supporting President Bush's war on Osama bin Laden. In an e-mail interview with TIME, the Libyan leader's ambitious son, Seif al Islam (Sword of Islam), or just Seif to his friends, elaborates: "The kind of terrorism that Libya was accused of is different from today's terrorism." How's that? Seif, 29, an architect with a business degree who heads a charitable foundation, maintains that his father supported freedom fighters, like Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat, now given "red-carpet" treatment...
LIBYA Not as active in terror anymore, but some Libyans have trained under al-Qaeda. Gaddafi is no fan of bin Laden...
Israel has responded the only way it can, and precisely as any other country would. When, in 1986, the U.S. found Libya responsible for a terrorist bombing that killed American soldiers in a Berlin discotheque, it did not send Muammar Gaddafi a subpoena. It bombed his barracks...
...Last week, the assembled leaders relished a new era in Arab relations, holding a non-emergency summit for the first time in 14 years. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pitched a tent outside a palace and visited a donut shop during a surprise walkabout. A rumor swirled around Amman that Saddam himself was planning to attend. It would have made an electrifying appearance. But he failed to show...
...Libyan leader has been known to temper his bluster with conciliation, particularly in the last few years. Libya has already agreed to pay $33 million in compensation to families of the 171 people killed when a French airliner was shot down over Niger in 1989; six Libyan officers, including Gaddafi's brother-in-law, received life sentences in absentia from a French court in 1999 for that attack. An investigative judge, Jean-Louis Brugui?re, was given the go-ahead late last year to pursue Gaddafi for "complicity in voluntary homicide," complicating France's advocacy for an end to sanctions...