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...administrator for the large electrical utility Energoinvest. "If we wanted to go anywhere, we had money for it. We would go skiing or on picnics every weekend." Kruno, who served as a director of technology at Energoinvest, says he turned down offers of high-paying jobs in Libya and Iraq because he and his family could not consider leaving their beloved Sarajevo. "We are Europeans," says Rabija. "Who would want to live where you have to keep your face covered?" Kruno called his wife a Sarajevo patriot. "When we would go to the coast for vacations, we would stay only...
...degree, the highly secret campaign--known within the CIA as the "Rabta-II Operation"--has succeeded. Gaddafi wanted Rabta-II to be producing chemicals by last year, but construction is far behind schedule. That's because CIA officers and State Department diplomats have disrupted the global network Libya set up to smuggle in foreign workers and equipment for the project. But Clinton aides concede Gaddafi remains determined to finish the facility, and the best Washington has done as yet is delay the inevitable. Last month in congressional testimony, CIA Director John Deutch admitted that Libya was still busy building what...
...terminal at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, what they saw on the video screen took their breath away. It was a huge underground chamber of several thousand square feet, almost three stories high. Two years earlier, Washington had succeeded in an international campaign to close down Libya's chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Now Muammar Gaddafi was building a second nerve-gas plant near the town of Tarhunah just like the one at Rabta. Only this time it was carved into the side of a mountain where no spy-satellite eyes could see the factory inside...
...next year the agency learned why. The CIA has never had much luck penetrating the inner circles of Gaddafi's government. But because Libya has few skilled workers, it imports thousands of foreign technicians for big construction projects. The agency was able to develop a network of informants among the foreign workers, and one of them now reported that Gaddafi had big plans for the Rabta hardware. Much of it would eventually be moved to a new chemical-weapons plant inside a mountain near Tarhunah. CIA spy satellites immediately began pointing their cameras at the mountain. Secret cables went...
...former senior CIA official recalls that in early 1992 "alarm bells started ringing at the agency." Analysts feared that Libya intended the plant to have the same capacity as the original Rabta facility, which over two years produced about 100 tons of mustard gas and nerve agents. Unless destroyed, the experts concluded, the new factory could keep Gaddafi's favorite terrorists well stocked with chemical poisons for decades...