Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gaddafi asked Washington to reopen the embassy and even offered to pay for the rebuilding of the burned U.S. embassy in Tripoli. Washington refused. Gaddafi made several subsequent overtures, but was rebuffed each time. The Administration wanted not only payment in cash for the embassy damages and an apology from Gaddafi (who refused, because he claimed that he had not sanctioned the attack) but also the release of a Libyan national who had worked at the Tripoli embassy and had been jailed by Gaddafi on charges of spying...
...captain in the Libyan army, he staged a bloodless coup against the country's effete, Westward-leaning monarch, King Idris. Shortly after the coup, Gaddafi proclaimed the principles of his governmental policy, which included the elimination of all foreign bases (including the American-run Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli), neutrality in foreign policy and national unity in a country that until then had been sharply divided along provincial and tribal lines. A year later, Gaddafi announced that not only had these objectives been met but that the minimum wage had been doubled, huge development projects had been started...
...limousine; and attacking him with handguns. The alleged motive for the Libyan assault: Gaddafi's determination to seek revenge after U.S. military planes returned the fire of two Libyan aircraft and shot them down over the Gulf of Sidra in August. A Libyan government spokesman in Tripoli dismissed the reports as a product of "the CIA fantasy farm." Said he: "There is no such hit team working under orders from the Libyan [government...
...jurors did not accept the prosecution's claim that Tafoya had been hired by Edwin Wilson, a former CIA agent now working for Gaddafi in Tripoli, to kill Zagallai because the Colorado State student had criticized the Libyan dictator. Still, they did seem to conclude that some unknown other conspirators had sent Tafoya to rough the student up. The fact that Zagallai ended up blinded in one eye, rather than dead, apparently impressed the jurors that Tafoya had not been bent on murder. They were also told by the defense that Tafoya fired his gun only after a struggle...
...kill Maxwell Rabb, the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Rabb was given special protection. One reason he was suddenly summoned home to Washington last month was to preserve his safety. In early October, a group of between five and ten Libyans was rounded up in Rome and sent back to Tripoli. Since then, unconfirmed reports have circulated in Paris that Gaddafi was planning assaults on other selected U.S. embassies and personnel in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. downing two Libyan fighters in the Gulf of Sidra last summer...