Word: libya
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...record of success is not very good. Out of 24 major attacks on American targets since Iranian fundamentalists seized the Tehran embassy in 1979, only eight ever ended in arrest and trial, and three of those eight assaults took place in the U.S. Only once, when Libya was blamed for the 1986 bombing of a German discotheque, did the U.S. retaliate militarily. But persistence has paid off: the Palestinian who set a bomb on a Pan Am jet that killed one person in 1982 was finally turned over to American courts in June. The U.S. has also developed extensive...
LONDON: That repressive muzzle known as the Official Secrets Act hasn't stopped Britons from finding out what allegations are being leveled against their own intelligence services. On Thursday The Guardian broke the injunction on reporting whistleblower David Shayler's claims that MI6 tried to blow up Libya's Colonel Ghaddafi. How? The Guardian simply reprinted Wednesday's New York Times article on the subject. That forced the Foreign Office to actually deny the story for the first time; an official told Reuters it was "inconceivable" that they would grant the authority for assassinations "in normal peacetime circumstances...
...official: The U.S., at least, is 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...
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...
...Although Mubarak obtained an unprecedented waiver of U.N. restrictions for his flight into Libya Thursday, the move may signal a wider crisis in Washington's use of sanctions: "Sanctions tend to work for a limited period, after which they inevitably begin to collapse," says Dowell. "Washington's long-term sanctions against various countries have been very unpopular around the world, and their value has often been questionable." But with U.S. standing in the region at a low ebb following the Iraq crisis and the collapse of the Mideast peace process, there may not be much Washington can do to keep...