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Tragically, their wish does not look likely to be granted. For even in the unlikely event of the trial's location being resolved, Gaddhafi is asking the impossible with a further demand that the U.S. hand over six airmen involved in the 1986 air-strike on Tripoli. "Otherwise," fumed the colonel, "to hell with them." Which leaves the Lockerbie relatives exactly where they were nine years ago: struggling with a lot of unresolved questions...
...northern Virginia, Colonel Mike Tanksley sketches the barest outlines of the new Armageddons. These are only "What ifs?" he insists, so there cannot really be details. Yet his war scenario resounds with almost biblical force. The next time a tyrant out of some modern Babylon (Baghdad, Tehran or Tripoli, for example) threatens an American ally (Riyadh, Cairo, Jerusalem) the U.S. doesn't immediately send legions of soldiers or fleets of warships. Instead Washington visits upon the offending tyranny a series of thoroughly modern plagues, born of mice, video screens and keyboards...
...defy U.N. sanctions barring air travel to or from Libya, and today he did, sort of. The sanctions were imposed in1992 to force Libya to turn over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. Today a planeload of 150 Muslim pilgrims left Tripoli for a pilgrimage to Mecca -- only to turn right around and land again. Then U.N. officials decided to make an exception for religious flights, saying, "Libyan pilgrims should not be denied the right to pilgrimage and should not suffer for the actions of their government...
...anyone. "Inspiration may play the same role as instruction. A state can issue a mandate to carry out an act," says Jenkins, and leave the rest "up to local initiative." That poses a severe problem for counterterrorists who are used to searching for, say, an organization run from Tripoli and coordinated by alleged diplomats operating out of Libyan "people's bureaus" (embassies) around the world. "We're always looking for a central headquarters," says Jenkins. But the new terrorists, he says, comparing them with their predecessors of the 1970s and '80s, are "more religious, more ecumenical, more implacable, less organized...
MONTEZUMA! TRIPOLI! MACEDONIA! Macedonia? Yes, the former Yugoslav republic, unthreatened and at peace with its neighbors, may nonetheless be sent U.S. troops, thus saving it from a hypothetical Serbian aggression and allowing Bill Clinton to draw a line in the quicksand. Even the Macedonians are laughing. "Why here?" Macedonian Defense Minister Vlade Popovski told reporters. Because "we want to try to confine the conflict ((in Bosnia)) so it doesn't spread to other countries," the President said last week, ignoring the fact that Macedonia hasn't requested U.S. assistance...