Word: ghadafi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reversing its 10-year-old policy on Lockerbie and Libya. State Department spokesman James Rubin went on the record late Tuesday over the plan to allow a trial for the two Libyan suspects in the Netherlands -- and confirmed, as TIME Daily reported, that this was an attempt to "call Ghadafi's bluff." But it appears that State was caught off-guard by the timing of the original report in the English newspaper the Guardian, confirming it while officials in London were still sticking to the original script: Trial in Scotland or the U.S. only. For the first time since Lockerbie...
When Egypt's president visits with Colonel Ghadafi, Washington's sanctions policy against Libya is in trouble. "Egypt is America's best ally in the region, and if Mubarak is prepared to visit Ghadafi, then other countries are likely to follow suit," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The U.S.'s ability to maintain sanctions is waning, because African countries are threatening to ignore them...
...Nelson Mandela stop by Colonel Ghadafi's for the second time in a week (TIME Daily...
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