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...Libya has pulled off something of a diplomatic coup. Catching more powerful rivals like Nigeria and Egypt by surprise, Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi's regime has quickly marshaled many of the nations of the continent behind a plan to establish an African Union. The proposed political and economic bloc, which is set to replace the 38-year-old Organization of African Unity, is designed to more effectively manage the continent's affairs as well as its relations with the rest of the world. If all goes to plan, the Union's executive council, parliament, court of justice, peacekeeping force and financial...
TIME: What is behind Libya's efforts...
...Such doubts are rarer among the American families, most of whom are parties in a number of civil suits against Libya that have been consolidated before a U.S. District Court in New York. The cases seemed to be going nowhere after the Supreme Court ruled in 1995 that a sovereign state like Libya was immune from U.S. jurisdiction. Since then, however, the law has been changed to allow suits against certain states, including Libya. While they have been on hold pending the outcome of the Scottish criminal case, they are likely to get some impetus from the guilty ruling. According...
...agency's assistant director in charge of national security, says the inquiry "has never stopped." U.S. investigators are still trying to determine "the full organizational structure" behind the bombing, he says. "We're focusing on a hostile, isolated intelligence service that is protected by the borders of Libya. But the fbi has taken on more difficult targets and has had success. I remain optimistic...
...rare you find a smoking gun." In some cases, of course, a tiny bit of evidence can make all the difference. In the Pan Am 103 case, for example, it was the CIA that first identified the fragment of a timer from the bomb as implicating Libya. That set investigators on the road to the two suspects. "Without our assistance they might not have developed a case at all," says a senior intelligence official...