Word: libyan
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...ardor with which spurned suitors such as Croatia are seeking travelers is matched only by the enthusiasm of countries that have never had much luck attracting visitors. Two years ago, in an effort to dramatize his country's openness, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi personally bulldozed a customs house on the Egyptian border. The invitation was ignored. Earlier this May, Gaddafi retailored his message to welcome foreign firms interested in developing the country's exquisite but deserted beaches and superb collection of classical antiquities. What the colonel neglected to mention is that U.N. sanctions ban international flights to the country. Thirsty...
...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, less structured, more unyielding, more difficult to predict...
Perhaps the most unsettling possibility is that the hand behind the blast will never reveal itself and never be discovered by anyone else. Though two Libyan intelligence agents were indicted in the downing of Pan Am 103, they have never been brought to trial, and no nation or group ever came forward to take responsibility. Just blocks from the World Trade Center, the walls of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. are still scarred from the effects of a bomb that was hidden in a horse-drawn wagon on Sept. 16, 1920. When it exploded into a lunchtime crowd, 40 people...
Within a day, the police picked up 11 Iranian, Syrian, Libyan and Turkish suspects, said Acar, and authorities believe the murder may be linked to six others, including the deaths of an Israeli security officer and a U.S. serviceman. Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel spoke of "certain powers trying to create division and havoc in Turkey." In Ankara hundreds of thousands of mourners tossed red carnations at Mumcu's flag-draped coffin. At the Iranian consulate in Istanbul and elsewhere, protesting crowds chanted, "We are not Iran...
Since the Libyan press is at least as tightly controlled as the parliament, experts suggest Gaddafi himself might be orchestrating the change in policy. If he is, the suggested offer still falls short of demands from the U.S. and Britain. The two insist that the Libyan intelligence operatives be tried either in Britain, over whose territory the bomb went off, or in the U.S. Still, the offer might confuse the issue enough to weaken international solidarity when the next round of economic sanctions against Libya is scheduled to take effect, in August...