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...TRIPOLI, Libya--United States warplanes heavily damaged a naval installation that U.S. officials said was a commando training base during the American raid last week on reputed terrorist targets in Libya...
Libyan officials yesterday allowed Western reporters to see parts of the Sidi Bilal naval installation, which includes Libya's naval academy, in the first tour by journalists of damage to purely military targets during the raid...
...Berlin, a shattered discotheque; in Rome and Vienna, airline terminals strewn with bodies. So far, the U.S. has been spared the horror of a major terrorist attack. But as hostility intensifies between the U.S. and Libya, the shadow war could come closer to home. Security experts warn that extremists could find easy pickings in American cities. "We are absolutely unprepared here in the U.S.," says Dr. Robert Kupperman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former National Security Council staffer. "Everywhere in the country, government facilities, commercial installations and civilian networks make...
...carefully keeps track of visitors and residents from hostile nations such as Libya, Iran and Syria. There are approximately 3,200 Libyans in the U.S. who have been granted temporary visas, including an estimated 1,200 students. The Government also maintains huge computer databases with information on individuals suspected of having radical, anti-U.S. associations. Meanwhile, the supersecret National Security Agency uses the world's most technologically advanced surveillance techniques to eavesdrop on questionable telephone calls and radio communications abroad and intercept and decode suspicious telex messages. To conform to U.S. privacy laws, the intercepts take place outside...
When he returned to Libya, Gaddafi began to organize his fellow officers into secret cells to plan a way to overthrow the regime of the aged King Idris, whom he regarded as a corrupt and effete tool of Western oil companies. In 1969 Gaddafi led an efficient, bloodless coup, an effortless overthrow that seemed to have the tacit support...