Word: tripolis
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...eruption came as the Reagan Administration was applying calculated pressure on Gaddafi, and on U.S. allies, to prevent the production in Libya of poisonous gases that could be used in chemical warfare. The U.S. insists that a huge chemical plant at Rabta, 50 miles southwest of Tripoli and ringed with antiaircraft batteries, is primarily intended to produce mustard gas and chemical nerve agents. In a pre-Christmas TV interview, Reagan refused to rule out the possibility of a military strike against the plant. On background, Pentagon experts even suggested that Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can be launched by surface ships...
...there I was, sitting at the keyboard of an IBM PC AT, my eyes glued to the screen. Game or not, my pulse raced and my hands sweat as the MiG-25 came threateningly closer. Finally it peeled off toward Tripoli, its Soviet- trained pilot seemingly unaware of my 17-ton, coal-black aircraft a few hundred feet below. Apparently the F-19's array of detection-defeating * components, from the radar-absorbent panels on its wings to the nose cone coated with ceramics to minimize telltale infrared radiation, was working as designed. But I had also learned...
...disclosure gave some credence to speculation that the City of Poros attack was carried out by members of Abu Nidal's terrorist organization. Police suspect that the leader of the raid was Hejab Jaballah, an Abu Nidal confederate whose last known residence was Tripoli. Jaballah entered Greece on a Libyan passport almost six weeks before the assault, and was thought to be one of two men killed when a car loaded with explosives blew up at dockside only hours before the Poros bloodbath...
...others, on charges of diverting funds from a Libyan student organization | to bankroll pro-Gaddafi activities. None of the eight was charged with plotting assassination. However, Hudson told U.S. Magistrate Leonie Brinkema that Hawamda was a Libyan intelligence agent. An FBI informant claimed Hawamda had received a request from Tripoli in April 1987 to gather information on "a U.S. official...
...downing over N'Djamena provoked a shrill outcry in Tripoli. The Libyan news agency JANA called the raid a "combined Franco-American military action" and charged that Washington and Paris were "behind the aggression against Libya." In Paris, Libyan diplomats accused France of bearing "direct responsibility" for the escalation of the war. Libyan Ambassador Hamed el Houderi warned that "those who put oil on the fire risked getting burned...