Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRIPOLI, Libya--United States warplanes heavily damaged a naval installation that U.S. officials said was a commando training base during the American raid last week on reputed terrorist targets in Libya...
...Berlin, a shattered discotheque; in Rome and Vienna, airline terminals strewn with bodies. So far, the U.S. has been spared the horror of a major terrorist attack. But as hostility intensifies between the U.S. and Libya, the shadow war could come closer to home. Security experts warn that extremists could find easy pickings in American cities. "We are absolutely unprepared here in the U.S.," says Dr. Robert Kupperman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former National Security Council staffer. "Everywhere in the country, government facilities, commercial installations and civilian networks make...
...another likely target city, New York, the FBI and local police have established joint contingency plans to deal with terrorist attacks. Nevertheless, says an FBI official, "a determined nut can do great damage before you can neutralize him." For example, four men and two women said to be members of a terrorist group known as the United Freedom Front were able to set off ten bombs in military-reserve centers and corporate facilities in the New York City area before they were apprehended. The group was finally convicted of multiple conspiracy and bombing charges in federal court last month...
...strike against Khadafy's "terrorist infrastructure" may have impaired his ability to export violence, in which case it will have been a limited success. But if the attack failed to cripple him, it will prove self-defeating...
...EPISODE underscores the enormity of our Catch-22. The terrorist threat is an amorphous, elusive one that leaves us few opportunities to fight back. When concrete targets avail themselves, the U.S. should strike, although in striking, we risk incurring reprisals that we are almost powerless to prevent...