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...military aid to Guatemala, whose repressive military regime was recently accused by Amnesty International of complicity in 3,000 political murders since 1979. The State Department announced that it was closing Libya's embassy in Washington and expelling its diplomatic personnel because of well-substantiated charges that Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi was actively promoting international terrorism...
...refused to let Zia send a Pakistani antiterrorist unit and also declined to launch a Syrian commando raid against the hijackers. There was Zia himself, who apparently had no military option left and therefore chose to give in to the demands to avoid a "bloodbath." Finally, there was the Libyan government, which initially offered asylum to the 54 Pakistani inmates-then reneged while its disinvited guests were literally in midair...
...hundred yards of a dried-up stream bed behind Habré's former headquarters: clumps of human skeletons, many with their hands bound by elastic cords. Government officials say they were prisoners and innocent city dwellers butchered by Habré's forces as they retreated before the Libyan onslaught last December...
...Libyan influence is more felt than seen. In the markets, small groups of Libyan soldiers in fatigues or civilian technicians wearing Castro-style caps barter for elaborately decorated Chadian daggers and other trinkets. Virtually the only buildings in town that are being reconstructed are the Libyan embassy and bank. No one is allowed to approach the airport, where Soviet-built MiG-23 and MiG-25 jet fighters are based, or the closely guarded garrison, where up to 7,500 combat troops, supported by Soviet T-54 tanks, are bivouacked. Diplomats say that Libya is providing funds for Chad government salaries...
Nevertheless, Gadaffi seems determined to maintain his foothold in Chad, where his forces have been steadily encroaching for nearly a decade. Since 1973 Libyan troops have occupied the Aozou strip, a uranium-and manganese-rich area astride the Chad-Libyan border. On Libyan maps, the zone is known as Southern Libya. It was Tripoli's annexation of the strip that led to the original split between Habré and Oueddei, both northern Muslims who had been allied against the southern Christian government headed by General Félix Malloum. Habré, who had previously received arms from Gadaffi, resisted...