Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Little of the sprawling army complex of Bab al Azaziyeh, in the heart of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, is visible over the high stone-and-concrete wall that encircles it. Red-bereted guards are on duty at the gates, remote-control TV cameras scan the street outside, and the occasional gun of a Soviet tank protrudes through slits in the wall. But Libyans know that their leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, uses the barracks as a residence, though for security reasons he often sleeps elsewhere. Thus when gunfire was heard in the vicinity of Bab al Azaziyeh, many Libyans thought...
...nature of that four-hour battle remained unclear last week, as conflicting versions emerged from anti-Gaddafi exiles, the Libyan regime and other sources in Tripoli. What was certain was that Gaddafi was alive and well, and in the capital. Even so, the incident was the most audacious challenge to Gaddafi's control in the 15 years since he overthrew the aging King Idris. The shooting lasted from early morning until midday, ending in the death of seven attackers. Three others were arrested and at least another three escaped. Within 48 hours, Libyan authorities had used the incident...
...days earlier three members of "opposition Islamic organizations" had entered the country from Tunisia. One was shot and killed; the others, according to this official version, were carrying the names of their coconspirators, presumably Libyan members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including those who were holed up in the Tripoli building...
...demonstration by anti-Gaddafi Libyans outside the country's London embassy three weeks ago was sparked by the hanging on the Fatah University campus in Tripoli last month of two Muslim fundamentalists, a veterinary student and a chemistry graduate. The pair had been in prison for four years but managed nonetheless to keep in contact with a Sunni Muslim student group opposed to what it regarded as Gaddafi's perversion of Muslim teachings. Gaddafi is said to have met with the two imprisoned students on more than one occasion in an effort to "convert" them...
Nonetheless, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who had insisted from the beginning that the shots were fired from outside the embassy, accused the British of falsifying the evidence. Not surprisingly, Libya announced that pistols and ammunition had been discovered in the British embassy in Tripoli, a charge Britain denied. Gaddafi repeated his previous threat to resume Libyan aid to Irish Republican Army terrorists as a means of punishing Britain for expelling his diplomats, but promised that there would be "no danger at all" to the Britons living in Libya...