Word: tripoli
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...without the authorization of Congress, to put down regimes involved in slavery and piracy. The war was the first in which the U.S. flag was carried and planted overseas; it saw the baptism by fire of the U.S. Marine Corps--whose anthem boasts of action on "the shores of Tripoli"--and it prefigured later struggles with both terrorism and jihad...
...Barbary States of North Africa--Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli (today's Libya)--had for centuries sustained themselves by preying on the maritime commerce of others. Income was raised by direct theft, the extortion of bribes or "protection" and the capture of crews and passengers to be used as slaves. The historian Robert Davis, in his book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800, estimates that as many as 1.25 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved. The Barbary raiders--so called because they were partly of Berber origin--struck...
...month signed a $200 million deal with Libya's state-owned oil-and-gas company to search for reserves and build a liquefied-natural-gas terminal. Shell could use a new partner: this year it has twice admitted overstating proven reserves. Officials from ConocoPhillips and Marathon have also visited Tripoli. "Libya is a nice market because of the quality of its crude and proximity to Europe," says Jeb Armstrong of Argus Research. But don't confuse this crush with true love. Says Armstrong: "Russia remains the grand prize...
...looking good. You are still young." COLONEL MUAMMAR GADDAFI, Libya's leader, to Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, when the two met near Tripoli, ending three decades of Libyan isolation...
...I.R.A., brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, killed an unarmed policewoman with a blast of machine gun fire from its London embassy, and still supports Robert Mugabe's despotism in Zimbabwe. So seeing Tony Blair shake Gaddafi's hand last week in a ceremonial tent near Tripoli was a head-snapping diplomatic moment. But to Blair, the reward justified the awkwardness: after years of negotiations with London and Washington, Gaddafi has crated his nascent nuclear and chemical weapons programs. Moreover, he's no friend of al-Qaeda, which loathes his secular state, and is willing to share...