Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is obviously a master plan from Khadafy to cause terrorist incidents worldwide, and particularly they've targeted Americans," the official said...
More than 30 U.S. facilities have been targeted for potential terrorist attack by agents of the Khadafy government in recent months, the official said. He added that an unspecified number of diplomats have been followed by Khadafy agents...
...Name a terrorist group, says the State Department, and Libya has probably provided financial assistance, at least. Gaddafi has backed not just radical Palestinian organizations but outfits as distant as Colombia's M-19 guerrillas, which engineered the bloody takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice last November; the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front on the French Pacific-island territory of New Caledonia; and anti-Turkish Armenian terrorist groups. Last month, when Gaddafi played host to the ambitiously titled Congress of the World Center for Struggle Against Imperialism and Zionism, his guests included representatives of the Irish Republican Army...
...more potent measures were needed. Even Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has a deep reluctance to take military actions unless the results are quick and clean, for once was in harmony with Secretary of State George Shultz, who has consistently advocated retribution against Gaddafi and anyone else connected with terrorist acts...
...Tuesday and stroll through a cheering, worshipful claque. The official government line was that three U.S. planes had been downed and there were no Libyan casualties. After the battle, Libyan radio exhorted its audience: "O, heroes of our Arab nation, let your / missiles and suicide cells pursue American terrorist embassies and interests wherever they may be!" Gaddafi, seemingly pumped up by the battle, was still on a high Friday, when he appeared on the balcony of his well-protected bunker in Tripoli. "We will impose our sovereignty on the Gulf of Sidra with our blood!" he proclaimed, declaring that...