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Raid on Libya
Thursday, April 17, 1986
Blasts spare Khadafy's tent
The Associated Press
TRIPOLL, Libya — Bomba wrecked Moammar Khadiyah's house and ruined his tennis court during the caid by U.S. warplanes that targeted the Aziziyi fortress where the Libyan leader lives and works.
The U.S. jets devastated several buildings, but a Libyan official escorted a group of journalists to the compound said yesterday that Khadafy had survived the Tuesday night bombing.
"He was in his tent," not at his house during the raid, explained a white-turbanned guide strolling through a short promenade littered with shards of glass, broken palm tree branches and shrapnel.
Khadiya's house, a light blue two-story building, lost most of its facade when a bomb hit about 10 yards from the house.
Twisted metal and broken aluminum frames cover the narrow streets inside the compound. A few dead trees stand in the scene.
All nearby military buildings lost their windows.
Some walls were blown down when the bombs crashed inside the compound, hurling a storm of flying red-hot
Khadady's office, a yellow four-story building crowned by h.v. a dome, was pierced with thousands of holes.
Reporters counted six bomb and missile craters during the brief tour of Khadafi's quarters. But the extent of the damage seen suggested that many other bombs penetrated the compound during the 20-minute raid.
Shattered desks and bookshelves protruded from piles of debris and broken concrete.
They also refused to talk many people other than Khadifa's adopted 15-month-old daughter were killed.
Libyan officials refused to say how many bombs hit inside the fortress, where Soviet-made anti-aircraft missile batteries and anti-aircraft guns are manned around the clock.
"Ask Reagan," snapped a guide. "He should know how many bombs he dropped on us."
TRIPOLI, Libya — Stunnee the residents of a posh Tripoli neighborhood yesterday began digging out from under a devestating U.S. air raid that reduced middle-class homes in blasted burglar craters on the streets.
United Press International
Libyans dig out from rubble
"Reagan is the biggest terrorist in the world," said one man who broke into tears after learning five members of a family with whom he worked. "What do you think of this? Do the American people know about this?"
At least five homes in the upper middle-class Bin Ashour neighborhood were destroyed and more than 100 others were damaged by fire. A Tripoli on Tuesday in retaliation for Libyan involvement in terrorism.
The United States said the raids on Tripoli and Benghazi, which left at least 17 people dead, were aimed at terrorist-related targets.
Many residents of Bin Ashour, home to several foreign embassies, said they were shocked by the attacks.
"Libyanas are not used to this," said an engineer who identified himself only as Mohammed. "The people here have not seen any fighting like this. Maybe in their grandparents' time, but not now.
"How can this happen? How can this suffering be in this neighborhood where the people who were the victims of the attack by the playwright, teachers, doctors?"
All day yesterday, soldiers dragged away the rubble of the destroyed homes. Yellow bulldozers pushed through the debris billing up chunks
of concrete, along with sofas and other household furnishings. One militia man chucked a squashed yellow baby carriage onto a pile of concrete blocks. Branches of trunks and palms were down all over the
On one street was a playground struck in the attack. Seesaws and a swinger were mangle, but the rubbing on the walls near peat along the edge of the park.
The French Embassy was heavily damaged in the raid, and the Swiss, and Romanian embassies and the ambassador also sustained damage.
At least three huge craters -- all about 30 feet wide and 15 feet deep -- were seen in the middle of streets.
Some residents said they had moved to friends' homes after the attack but returned yesterday.
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