Word: muammar
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...announcement that it would not object to handing over two suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing to the U.N. or the Arab League for trial. The session was accompanied by a series of articles in the government press critical of the policy line of the country's leader, Muammar Gaddafi...
...reward Syria for siding with the U.S. in the gulf war and to help win the release of the hostages. Even Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's investigation of the bombing, told the New York Times it was "outrageous" to pin the whole thing on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi...
...MUAMMAR GADDAFI HAS ANY FRIENDS LEFT IN the world, they are keeping a decidedly low profile. After refusing once again to hand over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, Gaddafi discovered just how hard U.N. sanctions could bite. On Wednesday, after the World Court declined Gaddafi's request to halt the sanctions, a ban on commercial flights in and out of Libya went into effect. Cairo and Tunis ordered Libyan planes headed for their countries to turn around, and Rome even dispatched several F-104 jets to intercept a Libyan passenger plane about to enter...
...Libyan intelligence agents suspected of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people. The understanding was that the two would be passed on for trial in either the U.S. or Britain. But when an Arab League delegation called in Tripoli, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pronounced his ambassador "incorrect" and sent them away empty-handed. Meanwhile, the World Court in the Hague opened hearings on a Libyan charge that the U.S. and Britain have resorted to "blackmail" by threatening the use of force unless Libya surrenders the suspected bombers...
...explain his plan to the American public. But others say Bush should play to his foreign policy strengths, telling Americans that he wants to solidify the gains in Eastern Europe, stabilize the former Soviet Union, win a free-trade agreement with Mexico and keep foreign bullies like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and North Korea's Kim Il Sung in line. Said one disgusted campaign official last week: "This man brought peace to the world, but he's afraid to use his own playbook...