Word: wallers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bother bargaining? As Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Monday, the proposal is "a way to call the Libyan government's bluff," whether or not it results in a trial. "The U.S. is being pragmatic," says Waller. "If Ghaddafi accepts, then this is the best justice the U.S. -- and the victims' families -- are going to get. If not, the U.S. will use his refusal as fodder to convince the U.N. Security Council to keep the sanctions...
...bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland, if handed over by Libya, would be tried in a third-party country -- the Netherlands -- and by Scottish judges. But the U.S. isn't expecting Ghaddafi to accept. "This all may be for show," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "Ghaddafi must have ordered the bombings -- there are no rogue agents in Libya -- and it's hardly likely that he'll turn over two of his lieutenants...
...Even if authorities do ultimately arrest the suspects in custody, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to bring to justice everyone responsible for the bombing. "A professional terrorist operation is usually compartmentalized," explains TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "Many of those involved have no idea of the identity of the people on either side of them in the chain, let alone of the author of the attack...
Washington is playing down the significance of Tanzania's arrest of 30 people in connection with Friday's bomb attack. "The State Department isn't setting too much store by these arrests because the attacks were clearly carried out by professional terrorists," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "They'd have had an escape plan rather than be waiting around to be arrested...
...Although the intelligence community hasn't ruled out any possibility, they're focusing attention on radical Islamic groups who've committed such acts in the past. "But remember," cautions Waller, "the perpetrators very often turn out to be someone other than the first suspects." The arrests in Tanzania of three groups of foreign nationals appears, at this stage, to be a speculative sweep. On the positive side, unlike the frustrating investigation into the 1996 attack on U.S. personnel in Saudi Arabia, officials believe that local authorities will more fully cooperate. But perhaps the most important factor is Washington's unimpeachable...