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...Libyan intelligence agents accused of bombing Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie have told a Scottish court they're not responsible for the atrocity - and even if Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima are convicted, few observers and family members of the victims believe that the real author of the crime is in the specially constructed courtroom in the Netherlands. Twelve years after the bombing that killed 270 people (189 of them Americans), the trial finally got under way Wednesday with the men entering a not guilty plea, and offering a list of individuals connected with various...
...Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi finally agreed last year to hand the men over, in a bid to break out of the international isolation and U.N. sanctions imposed on his country as a result of the case. "He held off for years out of fear that he would be personally implicated in the case," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Now he's cut these people loose and is more concerned about getting Libya back on line than with what happens to these individuals. And he's obviously encouraged by signs that influential interest groups in the West favor restoring ties...
Chalk it up to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's charm offensive. The Libyan leader has not only agreed to cooperate with the Pan Am trial; he has also signaled through official and unofficial channels that he is ready to do business with Washington. For starters, he has booted a number of radicals out of his country, including the infamous Abu Nidal. It may come as a surprise to those who remember the '80s--when Libya was implicated in the bombing of a discotheque in Germany that killed two American servicemen--to hear a senior U.S. official say, "At this moment, [Gaddafi...
...Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi this week tried to extend an olive branch to the U.S. in a strongly worded denunciation of terrorism. What constitutional office does Ghaddafi hold in Libya...
...meaning of liberation will not be realized until our people are freed from the dehumanizing legacy of deprivation we inherited from our past," the 57-year-old new president told tens of thousands of his countrymen and a checkered assortment of dignitaries ranging from Attorney General Janet Reno to Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi. "No night can be restful when millions have no jobs, and some are forced to beg, to rob and to murder to ensure that they and their own do not perish from hunger...