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...occupied territories are afraid of. They consider themselves high achievers, entrepreneurs, educated and democratic, and they swear they will establish the first true Arab democracy. They now have their chance to prove it, and they are worried that they may end up with another Arab autocracy like Libya, Syria or, at best, Egypt. Arafat's established style of leadership does not reassure them...
...vowed that North Korea cannot be allowed to acquire an atomic arsenal. A nuclear-armed Pyongyang could not only frighten Japan and South Korea into building the Bomb but also might be willing to sell atomic weapons to any rogue states that would pay, such as Iran and Libya...
...Middle East. Woolsey must try to bring the familiar intelligence tools, from satellites to spies, into this world of new threats. "There are ways," he said in an interview with TIME, "in which the Soviet Union was easier to keep track of than Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, the smuggling of fissionable material, terrorist groups, ethnic cleansing...
Just in the past year CIA information helped: the French government prevent the shipment of missile-related graphite cylinders to Pakistan; the Germans to interdict a shipment of Scud-missile production equipment being transferred to Syria; Italian authorities to block the delivery of excavation equipment en route to Libya for possible use in construction of an underground chemical- weapons plant; and the Swiss to stop the sale of equipment ordered by a nuclear-related Pakistani company...
...agency uses satellite inspections on other installations, such as chemical plants or oil refineries. Specialists pored over images of Libya's Rabka refinery, comparing every pipe, every cylinder, with known refinery procedures, to show that the Libyans were also trying to produce chemical weapons at the site. In Haiti the agency watches two oil refineries to judge how well the embargo is working. The imagery office is made up entirely of senior-grade CIA officers, and one of them calls it "an all-officer army." This analyst has spent most of his career studying refineries and claims that just...