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...embassy, carefully refrained from speculating about who was responsible for the attack, but he did say that his attacker seemed to be a "Middle Eastern type." Later that day Secretary of State Alexander Haig strongly suggested that the man behind the attack was Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan strongman and exporter of terrorism. Said Haig: "We do have repeated reports coming to us from reliable sources that Mr. Gaddafi has been funding, sponsoring, training, harboring terrorist groups who conduct activities against the lives of American diplomats." Haig had "no other information" directly linking the attempt on Chapman's life...
...Libyan government promptly dismissed Haig's charges as "insolent in the extreme." But French government sources said that Chapman had recently received a number of threats, some of which had been traced to Libya. In Rome, a U.S. embassy official said there was some evidence that Gaddafi was planning to go after American personnel. Indeed, U.S. security agents learned last September of a Gaddafi plot to kill Maxwell Rabb, the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Rabb was given special protection. One reason he was suddenly summoned home to Washington last month was to preserve his safety. In early October...
...Adviser, and attended by, among others, the State Department's Nicholas Veliotes, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, and Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs. According to TIME's sources, the French official proposed that the killing be done by a group of Libyan exiles, trained and controlled by the French. The U.S. would not be directly involved. The official did, however, ask for a general expression of Administration support for the venture and assistance in the aftermath of the coup. Specifically, he wanted the U.S. to give quick diplomatic recognition to Gaddafi...
Reagan Administration officials, however, have on numerous occasions said, as Haig did last week, that "dealing with" Gaddafi is an urgent priority. They have made it clear in the past that they would not be outraged at the prospect of another country's forcibly removing the Libyan dictator...
...proposal for an inter-African force, invited Oueddei to Paris, supplied his army with some small arms and repeated an earlier offer to help rebuild the Chadian army in a neighboring country, probably Cameroon. In early October, the French Development Minister, Jean-Pierre Cot, demanded the withdrawal of the Libyans from Chad by the end of the year. Oueddei, bolstered by the French, openly criticized the Libyan presence...