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...that Libyan intelligence agents had tagged a brown "bomb bag" containing the radio with stolen Air Malta tags and placed it on an Air Malta Flight KM-190 routed to Frankfurt, whence it eventually was loaded onto Pan Am Flight 103. It was detonated by a simple timing device. Libya has been under U.N. economic sanctions since April 1992. Last week Thurman was on the scene in Long Island as parts of the TWA plane were dragged out of the surf. He and his lab team will conduct microscopic examinations of pieces of the plane's skin and infrastructure, looking...
...years, even the most jaded U.S. diplomats have been stunned by the intensity of anti-American resentment in this part of the world--much of it stemming from uncritical U.S. support of Israel. Over the past 15 years, the U.S. has closed embassies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan and Libya. Many remaining diplomatic outposts have turned into virtual fortresses. Part of the U.S. chancellery in Cairo is built to withstand a nuclear blast. In Beirut the ambassador travels in a military convoy protected by a machine-gun turret. "It has been a long time," says a U.S. official, "since...
...going to take a long, difficult investigation," says a U.S. official. How long? In the case of Pan Am Flight 103, it took nine days just to determine that the disaster was caused by a bomb. Identifying the alleged culprits--who were eventually found to have been sponsored by Libya--took an additional three years of work. And because of protection from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the suspects were never even brought to trial. Unlike the 270 people they are accused of murdering, those men are walking the earth today...
...Islamic movement aimed at toppling the pro-Western monarchy in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, security officials in Saudi Arabia and the U.S. suspect that he has become a central participant in a loose network that provides funds for Islamic terrorists. Rather than depending solely on states like Sudan, Iran or Libya, this group's jihad is being coordinated and underwritten by individuals as well. In addition to making his own financial contributions, bin Laden plays another role, several sources believe: he raises money from Islamic businessmen, mainly in the Gulf, runs it through companies in the U.S., Europe and the Middle...
...Libya's Muammar Gaddafi is among the great manipulative villains of our time. Your article warns us that he is building the "world's largest underground chemical-weapons plant" to produce nerve gas [WORLD, April 1]. Industrialized and developing countries are equally threatened by megalomaniacs playing with the most destructive gadgets man has ever created. Democracy is threatened, and the superpowers seem as powerless as banana republics. HELENE THIBAULT Ottawa...