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...Kane was in Tripoli, Lybia in 1967 during the Six Days...
...fifth of June, the Israeli attack started and we were evacuated to a U.S. Air for base," he says. On June 6th, Arab mobs rose throughout the Middle East, and in Tripoli they began knifing Americans in the streets. All non-essential personnel were required to evacuate. "On the seventh of June, my family got on a plane and boarded for Rome. My happiest moment was seeing them on this plane...
...against the wall of his crumbling former home, plastered with posters of mutilated children, he called for compensation for the 1986 bombings and the crippling economic sanctions that followed. Gaddafi's words, which were much more strident than the initial Libyan response to the verdict, naturally found support in Tripoli editorials the next day. The Green March daily called the verdict "an open attempt to blackmail the Libyan people and to control its free revolutionary will, which has earned the respect of world...
...cruiser Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airbus over the Strait of Hormuz, killing 290 people and fueling calls for revenge from hard-liners in the Iranian government. Pan Am 103 blew up less than six months after that incident, but more than two years after the bombing raids on Tripoli. The logic of revenge is inscrutable, certainly, but the idea of Iranian involvement was strongly suspected at the outset and still has not been universally abandoned. More central to Swire's argument: on Oct. 26 of the same year German police raided two apartments of the Popular Front...
...Tripoli looks her best at night, glittering out over the Meditteranean. There are no power cuts. Water pressure is strong. Mobile phones are working fine. Still, as the capital of an oil-rich country, it ought to be a lot more polished and prosperous. Which is why the man and woman on the street has so much hope riding on an end to sanctions...