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- <text>
- <title>
- Libya: Global Terrorism
- </title>
- <article>
- <hdr>
- Patterns Of Global Terrorism: 1991
- Middle Eastern Overview: Libya
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The culmination of two important investigations in 1991
- demonstrated Libya's continued responsibility for acts of
- international terrorism. In October, a French magistrate issued
- international arrest warrants charging four Libyan Government
- officials--including two senior officials--with the 1989
- bombing of UTA 772 in which 171 persons, including seven
- Americans, died. One of those indicted is Abdullah Sanussi,
- Qadhafi's brother-in-law. On 14 November, simultaneous
- indictments were issued by US and British courts accusing two
- Libyan intelligence officers, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and
- Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, of planting the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103
- that killed 270 persons, including 189 Americans, in December
- 1988.
- </p>
- <p> These two cases starkly revealed Libya's direct participation
- in two major acts of terror. We believe that these two
- incidents, resulting in the murder of 441 people, were executed
- with the knowledge and approval of officials at the highest
- level of the Libyan Government.
- </p>
- <p> The international reaction to the evidence indicating Libyan
- involvement in these two bombings has been overwhelmingly
- positive. Even many of those states with close political,
- economic, ethnic, or religious ties to Libya have recognized
- that the evidence clearly supports Libya's responsibility. At
- year's end, the United States, France, and Great Britain were
- building support for a United Nations Security Council
- resolution to require that Libya submit the accused to the
- appropriate legal forum and provide proof that it has ceased its
- support for international terrorism. (This resolution was
- unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Council on
- 21 January 1992.)
- </p>
- <p> Despite some meaningless gestures in response to
- international pressure following the Pan Am and UTA indictments,
- Libya continued its support for a variety of terrorist or
- insurgent groups worldwide during 1991. Radical Palestinian
- groups such as the PLF, the ANO, and the PFLP-GC have maintained
- headquarters or training facilities inside Libya and receive
- money, training, and other support from the Government of Libya.
- In the Philippines, Libya has supported the NPA, which has
- killed a number of Americans and held one American hostage at
- the end of 1991. Libya has also supported the MRTA in Peru, the
- PIRA in Ireland, the PKK in Turkey, and many other radical
- groups.
- </p>
- <p>Source: United States Department of State, April 1992.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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