Thursday, March 27, 1986
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Khadafv calls for suicide strikes
United Press International
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan leader Moammar Khadjay urged Arabs yesterday to form suicide squads and attack U.S. targets in retaliation for strikes in the disputed Gulf of Sidra.
In a radio broadcast, Khadfay called on Libyans to become "human bombs" to destroy "American terrorism" and said Arabs should form suicide squads to hit U.S. "companies of terror."
The call came 24 hours after Khadiya said on television that Libya would strike U.S. targets around the world if U.S. forces escalated the conflict in the Gulf of Sidra.
Khadaday claims nearly the entire Gulf as Libyan territory, but the United States and other nations maintain that Libyan territorial waters are limited to 12 miles.
Khadafy talked with Maltese
Prime Minister Karmenu Bonnici, who flew in to discuss Malta's call for a U.N. Security Council session over "U.S. aggression" against Libya, Libyan television said.
Libyan television said Khadafy and Bonniell agreed that military activities in the Mediterranean threatened the region's economy, and they discussed turning the Mediterranean into a non-militarized "sea of peace."
Downtown Tripoli was quiet late yesterday. The main Green Square in the heart of the city, site of most large public demonstrations, was deserted.
There was no tension on the street between Libvans and foreigners.
"We like Americans, but it is the Reagan administration that is evil," a young man said at the airport.
U. S. reporters fly in to cover the U.S.-Libyan crisis were greeted cordially and served tea at the airport under a banner proclaiming in misspelled English, "We are the natural and historical contradiction to America as an amperial power."
In earlier public statements, Khadiaf pledged that foreigners in Libya — including Americans — would not be subject to reprisals because of the U.S. retaliatory strikes against Libyan coastal defense bases and gunboats in the gulf.
It was not known how many Americans are in Libya, but estimates have ranged from 100 to nearly 1,000.
Khadady, dressed in casual clothing and flashing a "V"*for*-victory sign, was surrounded by an exuberant crowd when he visited a trade fair in Tripoli on Tuesday.
"We exercise our duties to fight for our houses and our families."
Khadafy said in English, "If America wants to escalate this confrontation, we are ready to escalate it all over the world."
Anti-U.S. sentiment was evident in street posters depicting the United States as a skeleton wearing a cowboy hat in league with a buzzard representing Israel.
An airport poster pictured President Reagan, showing his face against a desert background, and a skeleton with the caption, "The barbarian Reagan is a necrophilic, because his approach suffocates humans."
Libyan Radio broadcast what it said were international statements of support for Khadiy interspersed with patriotic music.
The United States said it attacked the Libyan targets in retaliation for Libyan efforts to shoot down U.S. war planes over the Gulf of Sidra.
Embassies are targets, official says
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A number of U.S. embassies located on busy streets in world capitals are sitting ducks for fanatical terrorists, a State Department official told Congress yesterday.
David Fields, assistant secretary in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, said U.S. officials were alarmed about a relatively new form of terrorism — the suicide attack — particularly in light of the war on ISIS.
Libyan leader Moammar Khadify vowed Tuesday to execute Americans abroad after a clash between U.S. and Libyan forces in the disputed waters of the Gulf of Sidra.
U. S. embassies were put on alert at the outset of Navy maneuvers last weekend in the gulf. Libya claims the Gulf of Sidra as its own. Embassy precautions increased worldwide Tuesday with
Fields told a hearing of the Senate Anti-Terrorism Caucus that there have been a number
of cases in the past several months in which LIbynas have been observed shadowing Americans.
He refused to elaborate on the incidents but said the shadowing had occurred more than two or three times. Fields did not know whether it was still going on.
However, another State Department official who requested anonymity said the Libyan's surveillance was first detected about the time of the terrorist attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports Dec. 27. A Palestinian group linked to Libya carried out the attacks.
He said the surveillance is continuing and was detected in Europe and the Middle East. It is considered a significant threat to the safety of U.S. diplomats.
Fields told the hearing that suicide attacks were being used more frequently by countries engaged in war.
Recent suicide attacks include the Beirut, Lebanon, bombings of the U.S. Marine head
quarters, where 240 Marines were killed in 1983 and the car bombing of the U.S. Embassy that killed 88 people.
"We have learned that there is no shortage of volunteers, whatever their motivation," Field said. "The terrorists who are recruited for this type of mission are carefully hand-picked . . . by intelligence officials of terrorist groups or Middle Eastern governments."
Fields said a number of U.S. embassies abroad were in danger because they were located on busy streets, had little control over public access and were not separated from other buildings.
"Some of our facilities sit directly on busy city streets and are particularly vulnerable to explosive-laden vehicles," he said. "These are sitting ducks."
Last week, the House approved a $4.4 billion antiterrorism bill to increase security at U.S. embassies, provide funds for new buildings and upgrade existing ones.
12 killed, 120 hurt in Beirut bombings
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A car bomb turned a crowded street into an inferno and another bomb gutted an apartment in Christian East Beirut yesterday as rival artillerymen pounded the capital and its suburbs. At least 12 people died and nearly 120 were injured.
Police said the first explosion injured six people, including a woman and her 4-year-old child, and the second blast killed eight people and wounded about 80. Both bombs were aimed at offices of a Christian political party loyal to President Amin Gemayel. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings.
Soldiers loyal to Gemayel and pro-Syrian militias turned their heavy guns on the capital and a string of nearby villages, killing at least four people and wounding 33.
A spokesman for the American University of Beirut Hospital said late yesterday that it had admitted one man injured by shrapnel from shells and received the body of another man. Police sources said at least another four wounded were taken to other west Beirut hospitals.
The bombings were believed to be the latest in a campaign that began in late January after Gemayel refused to endorse a Syrian-mediated peace agreement between Lebanon's three main warring Christian and Muslim militias.
The first explosion occurred in the Furn Al Chebak area of east Beirut when 33 pounds of TNT ripped through an apartment that shared the floor with unused offices of the Christian Phalange Party.
Two hours later, eight people were killed and some 80 wounded on a narrow street in the residential Ashrafiyeh area of east Beirut when 330 pounds of TNT crammed in or under a car detonated, spewing flames and shrapnel that hit scores of Easter shoppers, police and hospital sources said.
About 40 of the injured suffered small cuts from shards of glass but were treated and quickly released from hospitals, officials said.
"Everything around me suddenly caught fire and people -- dead and wounded -- were flung across several hundred yards," said Elate Atalta午 minutes after the bomb explosion. "Dozens of cars, shops and several apartments are on fire. It is an inferno."
Other residents said before the blast they had noticed a smoking car and had pursued its driver, who walked away quickly and lost his pursuers in a nearby school.
The mid-morning explosion that gouged a crater 6-feet wide and 3-feet deep only lightly damaged a nearby branch office of the Phalange Party
— the apparent target of the bombers.
As rescue workers removed burning cars and debris, artillery shells and Soviet-made Grad rockets launched into buildings and streets only a mile away.
In the Dikwanah residential district, a lone shell blast killed a man and wounded 13 people.
Military sources said more than 300 shells and rockets pounded Christian areas of Beirut and mountains to the northeast and caused a number of casualties. The army returned the fire.
The two blasts in Beirut were the ninth and 10th explosions in a bombing campaign that began Jan. 21 against the Phalange Party.
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