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With its finely wrought balustrade, the Doric columns supporting its portico, the Villa Pietri looked like a Roman nobleman's villa that had somehow been misplaced on the edge of the African continent. It was the headquarters from which Gaddafi directed the global activities of his terrorist network. The Libyan leader himself had assigned those who went out from the villa to do his bidding their leitmotif: "Everything that puts an infected thorn in the foot of our enemies is good...
...openly hired ex-employees of those organizations to further his causes. Two notorious former CIA agents now living in Libya, Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil (both wanted in the U.S. on charges of conspiring to sell explosives and to commit murder), are known to have supplied military and terrorist technology to Libya. More than a dozen onetime Green Berets, recruited by Wilson, have trained Libyan troops. Federal investigators are in the process of tracking down for further questioning numbers of CIA agents and Green Berets who have worked in Libya...
...Republican Army, from Basque and Corsican separatists to the Moro National Liberation Front in the Philippines. He runs a dozen or more training camps for guerrilla warfare, with advisers supplied by East Germany and Cuba, and is reported to have a slush fund of $1 billion a year for terrorist activities alone. He allegedly tried four times to have Sadat killed, and the Presidents of Niger, the Sudan and Tunisia have all accused Gaddafi of trying to oust them...
...case in Venezuela last week merits dubious note. In a rare triple hijack, two Aeropostal Airlines flights and one Venezuelan Airways (Avensa) flight were seized shortly after leaving Caracas' Simon Bolivar International Airport. Eleven hijackers, believed to be members of Venezuela's Red Flag terrorist group and representing various leftist causes, got through airport security by passing themselves off as a band of musicians. They boarded the aircraft carrying grenades and automatic weapons concealed in instrument cases. No sooner had the FASTEN SEAT BELT signs been turned off than the three planes' 235 passengers and 15 crew...
...right. Partly as a result of improving police intelligence, acts of violence tapered off this autumn, but there were still 753 incidents in the first ten months of the year. In a Shootout on a Rome street two weeks ago, two policemen were seriously wounded and a right-wing terrorist, Neo-Fascist Alessandro Alibrandi, was killed. Next day, in retaliation, a member of the national police was shot to death...