Word: libya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dershowitz, who has defended members of the Jewish Defense League and the Weathermen against criminal charges, said the United States should boycott countries that harbor terrorists, such as Algeria and Libya...
...world to place sanctions on these 'in' countries," Dershowitz said, adding that he thought the U.S. should couple the U.N. resolutions calling for limitations on trade with South Africa with a similar one on Algeria and Libya...
Since terrorism in general and skyjacking in particular became international political threats, Western governments have created special units to combat guerrillas and, if possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include...
...French embassy in The Hague in order to free a compatriot from prison points to an alarming central fact about contemporary terrorism: the growing links of these organizations. A number of West German radicals, for example, got their combat training at Palestinian-run camps in Lebanon and Southern Yemen. Libya, which seems willing to bankroll revolutionaries all over the world, has supplied many of the groups with arms...
...tightening links raise the conceivability of a global organization, or perhaps a loose confederation, with a single leader-a boss of all bosses of world terrorism. At the moment, the most probable candidate for that job would be Wadi Haddad, 48, a squat Palestinian who operates covertly from both Libya and Iraq. (He seeks anonymity to a point that one of the few pictures of him known to have existed has been stolen from the files of an Arab government intelligence agency.) Born in Safad, near Lake Tiberias, Haddad studied pediatric medicine at the American University of Beirut and later...