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...Whenever religion is involved, terrorists kill more people,'' says Bruce Hoffman, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at Scotland's University of St. Andrews. Last December a group of Algerian Islamists hijacked an Air France Airbus A300, which they planned to blow up over the center of Paris solely to kill as many people as possible. They would almost certainly have done so if they had not been killed on the ground in Marseilles...
...Clinton Administration began a new push for a global boycott of Libyan oil in an effort to force President Mummar Gadhafi to turn over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Britain and France, who also want to try the Libyan intelligence officers, have agreed to help. But Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in announcing the plan today, conceded that it would be tough to persuade the rest of Libya's dozen-odd European customers to scrap flourishing oil deals with the country. President Clinton, mindful of pressure by families...
...added two Libyan intelligence officers charged in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland to its Ten Most Wanted list, promising a record $4 million reward for information leading to their capture and conviction. "We'll follow them to the ends of the world to bring them to court," Robert "Bear" Bryant, an assistant FBI director, told a news conference. The suspects, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, were charged in the U.S. and Scotland in 1991 with planting a suitcase bomb that killed all 270 people aboard 103. The FBI, which believes they...
...three main characters are roommates who could be the three Musketeers, except that their motto is simply, "All for one." David (Christopher Eccleston), a bland accountant, Alex (Ewan McGregor), a cocky journalist, and Juliet (Kerry Fox), a frosty doctor, all live together in a flat in urban Scotland...
Original Sin, P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy) James' fourteenth novel, marks a return to mystery after the author's latest foray into straight fiction with The Children of Men. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, of New Scotland Yard, directs the investigation of a series of publishing house murders, untangling a twisted skein of death, suicide and deceit. Or is it really Detective Inspectors Daniel Aaron and Kate Miskin who do the footwork on this case? Why is Dalgliesh always away at meetings? James reacts strongly to any such queries...