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...Scotland, in 1988. He also sent a statement to the U.N. Security Council in which his country renounced terrorism and accepted responsibility for the actions of a Libyan spy found guilty of blowing up the aircraft. A U.S.-backed agreement calls on the U.N. to permanently lift sanctions on Libya, which were suspended in 1999 after Gaddafi handed over two suspects...
Having the sisters in Jordan suits the Bush Administration too. The Americans know they can rely on Abdullah's intelligence agency Mukhabarat to keep a close eye on Raghad and Rana. "It could have been worse," said a State Department official. "They could have gone to Libya or Syria, where we'd have no way of knowing what they were...
...Muammar Gaddafi finally ready to make amends? In an interview with TIME, the Libyan ruler said his country will accept responsibility under international law for the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. In exchange for Libya's admission and payments of $2.7 billion to the families of victims, he said, the U.N. sanctions that have blocked the world from doing business with Libya would be lifted - and eventually the U.S. would end its own sanctions and remove Libya from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. But the ever-erratic ruler...
...Died. Foday Sankoh, 65, leader of a rebel group in Sierra Leone infamous for its brutality; in Freetown, Sierra Leone. After receiving guerrilla warfare training in Libya with future ally Charles Taylor, Sankoh took command of the Revolutionary United Front, which, from 1991 to 2001, made a trademark of hacking off the limbs of rival fighters and noncombatants before U.N. intervention forced a cease-fire. Sankoh, arrested in 2000, died while waiting to face war crime charges and, according to David Crane, chief prosecutor for the U.N.-sponsored war crimes court for Sierra Leone, was "granted a peaceful end that...
...That North Korea is selling arms abroad is no revelation. At least half a dozen countries?including Pakistan, Libya and Syria?are known to have purchased missiles from the rogue regime. But analysts and hard-liners in the U.S. are increasingly concerned that a desperate North Korea is spreading more than conventional arms?it is bartering its atomic weapons technology to Iran, creating an unholy, and far more dangerous, alliance between the two other members of President George W. Bush's "axis of evil." "If I send a shipment of missile components on a plane, it doesn't mean...