Word: libyans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There is no doubt God Almighty was on our side." So said Group Captain Colin Adams, commander of the British Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri, Cyprus. Adams was talking about a raid launched against his base last week by a small group of pro-Libyan terrorists who, police believe, arrived by car. Firing 60-mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, the attackers concentrated on well-populated areas, including a beach and a sports complex. Miraculously, casualties were limited to two injured women and a slightly damaged building. Several hours later the Unified Nasserite Organization, a previously unknown...
Shortly before the April l4 strike, the Malta government disclosed, its air-traffic controllers had warned their Libyan counterparts of approaching war planes. A Maltese official called the notification a "normal procedure." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman said the raid was nonetheless a "tactical surprise...
...compromise with with my mother was that I would fly into Switzerland, the so-called neutral area of the big war zone. That was really my first and last attempt to be safe and avoid the imagined Libyan villains. From there I rode a train to Paris and stayed, forgetting my mother's antiterrorist lessons...
...nearly simultaneous explosions led some to fear that a new wave of terrorist activity was under way in Western Europe, following the bombing of the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi by U.S. warplanes in April. The Paris bombing, however, seemed sharply focused on a domestic issue. A communique addressed to the daily Le Monde suggested that a recent decision by the French government to grant police new powers to stop and interrogate suspects may have triggered the terrorists' action. In Bonn, Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann urged West Germans who might be sympathetic to the noble-sounding aims of terrorist...
...life sentence in absentia. Ever since he was released by the Italians after the U.S. forced his plane to land in Italy, Abbas has been on the run. In a separate development last week, the Greek government fell into line with other West European governments and asked some 20 Libyan officials to leave Athens...