Word: tripolis
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...pilot ducked, and the bullet grazed his head. Seizing a fire ax, Galal felled the terrorist with one swing, then jumped to safety. In the aftermath of the horror of Flight 648, many questions remained unanswered. Were the terrorists, whose trip was indeed believed to have begun in Tripoli, directly linked to Gaddafi? Were they agents of Abu Nidal, the Palestinian renegade who is bent on undermining Mubarak and other Arab moderates? Had they somehow smuggled their weapons onto the plane in Athens, despite what Greek authorities insisted had been five security checks of passengers boarding Flight...
...next day Israel sent its jets and helicopter gunships to bomb three Palestinian bases, including two refugee camps, outside Tripoli in northern Lebanon. Lebanese officials said 15 people were killed and 29 wounded. Some analysts suggested that the air raids came in response to recent bombings inside Israel, including attacks in two Tel Aviv suburbs; others viewed the Israeli strikes as a direct reprisal for the Tuesday car bombings. Israeli officials denied that the air attacks and the suicide bombings were linked...
...that is at the heart of an atom bomb. Though UF6 is hard to make, it's possible to track: forensic tests focus on trace isotopes, such as U-234, whose prevalence differs from country to country and even from mine to mine. After the U.S. gained access to Tripoli's bombmaking labs a year ago, it ran tests on the UF6 it found there. U.S. officials would not connect all the dots, but one told TIME the fuel from Libya bore "a very clear signature" that pointed to North Korea...
...obscurity, the world is only beginning to reckon with his legacy. It's still a seller's market in the nuclear bazaar. And now there's room at the top. --With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain/ Karachi, Sayed Talat Hussain/ Islamabad, Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon/ Washington, Scott MacLeod/ Tripoli, Andrew Purvis/ Vienna, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg and Nahid Siamdoust/ Tehran
...Libyan government believes that the mole may have been Tahir, Khan's trusted aide. "[The U.S.] made a compromise with him," the source says. "He will be safe. They won't touch him, but he had to cooperate." The source has told TIME that when the CIA finally confronted Tripoli in late 2003 about its nuclear ambitions, the officers played a tape of a 1997 Casablanca meeting that was attended by only Khan, Tahir and two representatives of the Libyan government. The source believes that Tahir was wearing a concealed microphone during that meeting...