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...that Libyan-operated SA9 missiles had been fired at Israeli reconnaissance planes from Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon (see preceding story). In the U.S. three weeks earlier, the Reagan Administration had expelled 27 Libyan diplomats in protest against what Washington regards as Gaddafi's outrageous policy of bankrolling terrorist activities around the world. In the Central African country of Chad, meanwhile, 4,000 Libyan troops served as a virtual occupation force five months after Gaddafi's military intervention in support of President Goukouni Oueddei in that country's civil war. This was exactly the sort of move...
...have you read the novel The Fifth Horseman, in which you figure as an apocalyptic nuclear terrorist...
...important question of who masterminded and bankrolled the operations, the government claimed that ten days before the raid an extreme right-wing paymaster-not further identified -offered each terrorist 5 million pesetas (about $55,000) at a dinner in Perpignan, France, just across the frontier. But that did not account for the fact that the carpenter's shop had been rented five weeks before by a member of the gang...
Faced with these questions, Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotek>last week told the Cortes, the country's parliament, that "we do not know" who was behind the bank raid. Some high officials believe, however, that members of the political underworld are being recruited and trained for terrorist operations with military or police connivance, and that the financiers are wealthy supporters of the old Franco regime, who are deliberately trying to destabilize Spain. As the evidence mounted, Prime Minister Calvo-Sotelo finally admitted that the bank raid was "not an isolated action of common criminals...
...Malatya in eastern Anatolia and, in February 1980, to the town of Erzurum, 150 miles from the Iranian border. He then disappeared into Iran. Exactly where he went thereafter is a mystery. West German officials doubt that Agca visited their country, although Turkish sources claim Agca and another N.A.P. terrorist were seen near Stuttgart. Stamps in his forged passport indicate that Agca spent time in Spain. He is known to have visited Tunisia. Agca claims to have traveled to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Britain, France, Belgium, West Germany and Denmark. But it was to Austria, which Agca...