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...stewardesses. Panicked, the passengers dived for cover. The shots pierced the fuselage, causing the plane to lose pressure. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling, and Captain Galal began an emergency descent from 35,000 ft. to 14,000 ft. One of the terrorists ordered him to fly to Libya, but Galal convinced him that, with the plane damaged and fuel limited, it was unsafe to attempt to fly farther than Malta. At first the tower at Malta's Luqa International Airport refused to let the Egyptian airliner land, but authorities relented after Captain Galal told them that...
...seriously. Abu Nidal is the code name used by Sabry Khalil Bana, 45, who quit Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization in 1973, contending that Arafat had softened his opposition to Israel. Abu Nidal, in turn, was condemned to death by the P.L.O. Interviewed by Arab reporters recently in Libya, where he reportedly established a headquarters a few months ago for his Fatah Revolutionary Council, Abu Nidal has also been a frequent visitor to Iraq and Syria...
...Israelis are going to retaliate," observed a top-ranking U.S. intelligence official. "It was an attack aimed against them, and they will not let this go by." One possible target is Abu Nidal's main base at Tripoli, Libya. He is also reported to have a base on the outskirts of Damascus. A retaliatory raid there would seriously challenge the Syrian air force...
...North America are in natural decline, yet the company has not cranked up spending on newer fields abroad--while competitors like ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips have begun to do so. "I would love to see them make more investments, especially in some of the areas that have recently reopened, like Libya," says Ted Parrish, co-manager of the Henssler Equity fund, which counts ExxonMobil as its No. 1 holding. Other investors put it more bluntly: "Over time you may have to question whether they are being too disciplined," says John Linehan, manager of T. Rowe Price Value fund, which owns ExxonMobil...
...would the think-then-decide model have prevented war? Well, as foreign secretary Jack Straw put it, “…the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran.” Nevertheless, Straw reports “that Bush had made up his mind to take military action.” Months later Bush was still publicly pretending that he hoped war would be unnecessary, and constantly implying he had secret intelligence to the effect that Saddam and bin Laden were...