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Another embassy went under siege last week. This time the site was Washington, D.C., and it was Americans, for a change, who were laying the siege. At the Libyan embassy in the nation's capital, four diplomats had rejected a State Department ultimatum to quit the country after they were officially declared "unacceptable...
...four, who range in age from 29 to 37, were accused of harassing other Libyans in the U.S. with threats of physical harm and even death unless they returned home. "We asked them to leave because they were engaged in contemptible and wholly unacceptable activities," said a State Department spokesman. The Libyans responded by insisting that they were students rather than diplomats, and holed up inside the five-story, red-brick embassy, which they refer to as a People's Bureau. Eight carloads of police and FBI agents took up positions around the building, waiting to seize the aging...
Still skeptical, the State Department believes the four agents were linked to a larger network of Libyan terrorists who are plotting to eliminate opponents of Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Within Libya this year, up to 2,000 people have been arrested for alleged disloyalty to Gaddafi. The mercurial colonel's latest project is building a $3 billion protective wall along 187 miles of Libya's border with Egypt. Gaddafi, whose erratic rule seems to be widely resented by his fellow citizens, has warned Libyan dissidents abroad that they are "doomed" unless they return home...
Gaddafi's threat has given rise to fears that Libyan death squads may be operating overseas. Four anti-Gaddafi Libyans were murdered in Rome and London earlier this year; suspects arrested for the crimes are all fervent supporters of the colonel. At week's end a fifth Libyan dissident was assassinated when a gunman got his victim to accompany him to a Rome cafe, then pumped two bullets into his head. Italian police arrested a Libyan citizen who reportedly confessed to the murder, saying that the dissident was an "enemy of the Libyan people and of Gaddafi, which...
...package containing specifications for the construction of a hydrogen bomb has just been delivered to the White House, together with a cassette-recorded message from Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi. With rising horror, the mansion's current resident, a decent but untested Southerner, listens to the ultimatum on the tape: If the U.S. does not make Israel withdraw from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem within 36 hours, a nuclear device concealed in New York City will be detonated by satellite command...