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- WORLD, Page 41World NotesLIBYAA Dish Best Eaten Cold
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- Ever since a suitcase bomb blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over
- Lockerbie, Scotland, a few days before Christmas in 1988,
- suspicion has focused primarily on Iran and Syria. But now there
- is new information about another suspect: Libya. According to
- press reports in Europe and the U.S., French investigators have
- developed evidence that Libya plotted attacks on American and
- French targets beginning in September 1988. The Libyans
- supposedly directed terrorists to put a bomb aboard the Pan Am
- plane and another on a French U.T.A. DC-10 jet, which blew up
- over Africa in September 1989. The two explosions killed a total
- of 441 people.
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- "Prejudiced and silly," said Libyan Foreign Minister
- Ibrahim Bishari of the report. Libya's motive supposedly was
- revenge for the U.S. air strike on Tripoli in 1986, itself in
- retaliation for a Libyan-inspired bombing in Germany, and for
- France's defeat of Libyan-supported guerrillas in Chad. U.S.
- officials long thought Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had got
- the message and had stopped his once loudly proclaimed support
- of terrorism -- but perhaps the message received was not the one
- intended.
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