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...Rukns as his "divine warriors." In 1985 he invited the group to a Chicago rally featuring a live satellite broadcast in which Gaddafi urged blacks serving in the U.S. military to desert and join his forces. Last year El Rukns' "generals" produced a videotape pledging their allegiance to the Libyan strongman...
Sankara had close ties with Moammar Kadhafi, although his support for the unpredictable Libyan leader was confined to rhetoric and he was considered a thorn in the side of France and other Western nations...
...along to Britain, Argentina's enemy in the conflict. Woodward relates that a suspect being interrogated for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Lebanon died after being tortured by a CIA officer with an electroshock device. (The officer involved was later fired.) There are gossipy revelations about Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi (according to CIA intelligence, he liked to wear high-heeled shoes and makeup) and piquant glimpses inside the Reagan inner circle. After Reagan was shot in 1981, Woodward says, his recovery was far slower than the White House acknowledged, and some aides "began to consider the possibility...
...designed more for water-skiing than war, but in Iran's case the Administration embargoes them because the country has launched motorboat attacks in the Persian Gulf conflict. In a now notorious episode, a U.S. company was about to ship 50 radios (price: $28,500 each) to a supposed Libyan fig farm. But the Pentagon blocked the sale after learning that the radios were equipped with 785,000 fast-switching channels for evading eavesdroppers and were "ruggedized" for possible use in jeeps or tanks...
...greeted Gaddafi's latest setbacks with unconcealed glee. "We basically jump for joy every time the Chadians ding the Libyans," said a U.S. official. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman asserted that "Libya has illegally occupied Chad for a number of years" and is believed to have up to 5,000 troops in the country, mostly in the Aozou Strip. The Reagan Administration has provided $33 million in military aid to Chad over the past ten months and last week was considering a new request for antiaircraft Stinger missiles. The White House hopes that Libya's losses in the war will...