Word: tripoli
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...Libya clash reached Egypt. Since it was already past midnight in Cairo and direct air travel from Egypt to Libya is nonexistent, Borrell phoned a travel agent in Seattle (where it was still midafternoon) to book air passage through Zurich. Eight hours later he was in Tripoli, trying to pry a few nuggets of information from the Libyan government. "The biggest frustration," says Borrell, "was that the action was hundreds of miles away, out in the gulf...
...statement denying involvement in the bombing, purportedly signed by the terrorist, was distributed yesterday to reporters in the north Lebanon city of Tripoli...
There was no immediate official Libyan comment on the attack. But an employee of the government news agency in Tripoli, Libya, asserted that it had "nothing to do with...
...delegates had left early aboard the Libyan executive jet, but Habash, Jabril and other leaders of pro-Syria Palestine Liberation Organization factions had remained behind or left by other means. Once the news of the Israeli seizure reached Tripoli, Jabril angrily threatened to avenge the interception with attacks on Israeli and even American airliners. Summoning journalists to a press conference, he declared: "Tell the world not to board American or Israeli planes. From this day onward, we will not respect civilians who take such planes...
Habash, whose organization helped pioneer skyjack terrorism in 1968 but later publicly disavowed the tactic, acknowledged that he had flown from Damascus to Tripoli aboard the same plane earlier in the week and said he believed he had been an intended target of the Israeli interception. Said Habash, who was nearly kidnaped by Israeli commandos during a similar attack in 1973: "The capture of any Palestinian leader is a good thing from their point of view...