Word: tripoli
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...fall of 1988, al-Kassar's operation had been spotted by P.F.L.P.-G.C. leader Ahmed Jibril, who had just taken on the assignment from Tehran to avenge the U.S. downing of its Airbus. A CIA undercover agent in Tripoli reported that Jibril also obtained Gaddafi's support. According to Mossad, Jibril dined with al-Kassar at a Paris restaurant and secured a reluctant promise of assistance in planting a bomb aboard an as yet unselected American transatlantic...
Many countries also began expelling Libyan embassy staffers, who were forced to fly to Malta and then take the ferry to Tripoli. Some 1,000 Americans and 10,000 Europeans work in Libya, but so far, most have elected to stay. Surprisingly, nearly the whole Arab world went along with the sanctions, though some Arab diplomats complained that the U.S. had not exhausted the diplomatic game before spearheading the campaign for the embargo...
...demonstrators did a thorough job on Venezuela's embassy in Tripoli last week, smashing furniture, torching rooms, even uprooting plants from the garden. The sacking followed the United Nations Security Council's imposition of sanctions against Libya for refusing to surrender six suspected agents sought in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 and a French airliner over Africa in 1989. Crowds also attacked or demonstrated before the embassies of other countries that had voted in favor of the sanctions...
...post-Soviet Russia has taken a firm stand against terrorism. At week's end, it joined with all the other members of the Security Council to strongly condemn the latest violence in Tripoli...
...Arab League two Libyan intelligence agents suspected of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people. The understanding was that the two would be passed on for trial in either the U.S. or Britain. But when an Arab League delegation called in Tripoli, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pronounced his ambassador "incorrect" and sent them away empty-handed. Meanwhile, the World Court in the Hague opened hearings on a Libyan charge that the U.S. and Britain have resorted to "blackmail" by threatening the use of force unless Libya surrenders the suspected bombers...