Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Libya's Rabta chemical plant, which the U.S. claims produces chemical weapons, were denying culpability last week. But they no doubt were pleased that the deed had been done. According to the Pentagon, the fire caused "massive" damage to the main building of the complex 50 miles southwest of Tripoli. Said a U.S. intelligence analyst: "The plant's finished...
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi first blamed the U.S., then Israel and finally West Germany for sabotaging the installation, which Tripoli maintains is designed to manufacture pharmaceuticals. Officials in all three countries said they did not know what happened in Rabta and suggested the blaze might have started accidentally...
...Arab countries to welcome Egypt back into the fold. In recent months, Assad has felt increasingly isolated, especially after the Soviet Union served notice that it would no longer support his aim of strategic parity with Israel. Now only Libya lacks diplomatic relations with Egypt, but even Tripoli is making an attempt to smooth its dealings with Cairo: last October Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi paid his first visit to Egypt in 16 years to meet with Mubarak. By all accounts the session was businesslike but amicable...