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...election, militant youths rioted in Tizi Ouzou, the main town of the Berber Kabylie region, where political leaders had called on voters to boycott the election. The same day militant Islamic rebels killed 25 people in Sendjas, a village in Chlef province. LIBYA Possible Offer Libyan government officials denied reports that they were offering $2.7 billion in compensation to families of victims of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 killing 270 people. A New York law firm claimed the money would be offered in exchange for lifting sanctions and for the removal...
...Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi has long insisted his country had nothing to do with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, even after last year's conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent for involvement in the attack. But according to a letter obtained by TIME, Gaddafi will make a "substantial formal offer" to compensate families of the 270 victims within a month. The April 23 letter to families was written by New York City attorney James P. Kreindler, who has been in Paris negotiating with senior Libyans behind closed doors. Kreindler's missive does not predict...
There is a catch, and it's a big one. If Gaddafi pays compensation and also admits Libyan responsibility for the crime, he will expect in return a resumption of oil trade and other commerce currently prohibited by U.S. sanctions and, eventually, renewed diplomatic relations with Washington. But that may not be so easy, especially since a recent CIA report says Libya is aggressively seeking weapons of mass destruction, notably chemical arms and ballistic-missile delivery systems. "The President has made absolutely clear that these weapons will not be tolerated," a senior Bush Administration official tells TIME. "That means, very...
Other member nations include Saudi Arabia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Libya. Saudi Arabia’s notorious repression of women is clearly disgraceful, while the Congo is known primarily as an epicenter of genocide and ethnic cleansing. And it was, of course, Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi’s henchmen who blew up a West Berlin discotheque in 1986 and were also implicated in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people...
...Khemais detailed two ways to unleash an attack. One involved an unidentified "efficient" product that could be stored in tomato cans. When released, it would suffocate victims. At another point, Ben Khemais referred to a makeshift "gas bomb" whose "method," he said, had recently been refined by a Libyan professor...