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Appendix
Libyan Support for International Terrorism Since 15 April 1986
Summer 1990
Libya provided the Haitian Liberation Organization over
$20,000 to carry out an attack against the US Embassy in
Port-au-Prince. Haitian officials arrested two of the oper-
atives before they could execute the attack.
May 1990
Palestine Liberation Front members attempted a seaborne
raid on Israel; four were killed and 12 captured. The
Libyans were involved in all aspects of the foiled operation,
providing sophisticated equipment, navigational aids, ex-
pert planning assistance, and weapons used in the attack.
March
1 990
A bomb exploded on the second floor of the Hilton Hotel in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The blast occurred about 50
meters from the suite occupied by the Israeli Ambassador.
The Ethiopian Government subsequently expelled two
Libyan diplomats for their alleged involvement in the
incident.
September 1989
UTA Flight 772 exploded over Niger, killing
all 171
passengers and crew on board. The French investigation
concluded that Libya masterminded the operation, which
was carried out by the LPB in Brazzaville, Congo. The
French have issued international arrest warrants for four
Libyan Government officials for their involvement in the
attack.
April -|989
Five people— including two Americans—were injured and
several vehicles damaged when a bomb exploded near the
main entrance of the US-Costa Rican Binational Cultural
Center in San Jose, Costa Rica. The Santa Maria Patriotic
Organization carried out the attack, and its members were
trained in Libya.
December 1988
Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Scotland,
killing all 259
persons on board, including 189 Americans. Eleven were
killed on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland.
July 1988
Abu Nidal organization (ANO)
terrorists attacked the
Greek cruise ship The City of Poros with machineguns and
handgrenades. Nine people were killed and nearly 100
injured. The weapons used had been provided by Libya,
and one terrorist had entered Greece using a Libyan
passport.
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February 1988
December 1987
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October 1987
October 1987
June 1987
May 1987
April 1987
Libyan-supported terrorists were involved in the bombing
attack against a US Air Force communications facility near
Humosa, Spain.
Two known Libyan terrorists, along with a Senegalese
national, were arrested in Dakar, Senegal, in possession of
explosives and weapons.
The USO lounge in Barcelona, Spain, was bombed,
resulting in the death of one US sailor and the wounding of
nine others. A fictitious group claimed responsibility for the
attack. The investigation, however, implicated Libya as
having sponsored the operation.
The ANO hijacked the yacht Silco in international waters in
the Mediterranean; the Silco carried eight Belgian and
French nationals. The last of the hostages was freed on 21
January 1991. The Libyan intelligence service directed the
ANO action.
French customs intercepted the Eksund, a French ship
carrying 150 tons of arms and explosives to the Provisional
Irish Republican Army. The shipment included surface-to-
air missiles and the plastic explosive Semtex. Four earlier
shipments to PIRA,
in 1986 and 1985, arrived at their
destinations successfully.
A bomb exploded at the office of World Vision, a US private
voluntary organization in Moudou, Chad. No one was
injured. The bomb reportedly was placed by terrorists
assisted by the Libyan People’s Bureau in Cotonou, Benin.
Two Libyans gunned down a Libyan dissident in Rome,
Italy. The hitmen were captured, and they identified
themselves as members of the “Libyan Revolutionary
Committee.”
Two gunmen attempted to assassinate a prominent Libyan
dissident in Vienna, Austria. One of the gunmen dropped
his Libyan passport as he fled.
Two Arabs shot and wounded a British Army warrant
officer and his companion traveling In a car near Limassol,
Cyprus. Two Arabs later arrested for the attack were
identified as Libyan-supported terrorists.
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March 1987
March 1987
January 1987
January 1987
September 1986
September 1986
August 1986
June 1986
April 1986
A bomb exploded on the Kousseri Bridge, which links
Cameroon and Chad. The timer was prematurely set, killing
the operative, a Chadian working on behalf of the Libyans.
A bomb exploded at the cafe “L’Historil”
in Djibouti, killing
1 and wounding over 50. The Libyan-supported Popular
Struggle Front carried out the attack under threat of losing
Tripoli's financial support.
A bomb exploded in a government building in Cayenne,
French Guyana. The Libyan-run Islamic Call Society in
Curacao assisted Guyanese dissidents to carry out the
attack.
A Libyan businessman and vocal critic of Colonel Qadhafi
was shot and killed by two gunmen outside Athens,
Greece, by suspected Libyan hitmen.
Libya provided explosives used
in the ANO attack against
the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, which
killed 21.
During an attempted hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in
Karachi, Pakistan, ANO terrorists killed 21 people, includ-
ing two Americans; 120 people were wounded. The Libyan
People’s Bureau
in Islamabad assisted at least one of the
hijackers by providing him with travel documentation.
Gunmen attacked the British Air Base at Akrotiri, Cyprus,
using mortars, rocket-propelied grenades, and small-arms
fire, wounding two British nationals. The six terrorists
escaped by pretending to be members of a Libyan Arab
Airlines flight, and the captain made false statements to
airport authorities about the crew’s size to disguise their
presence.
In addition, markings on mortar parts recovered
from the attack showed the weapons to be part of two
separate shipments delivered to Libya in 1976 and 1977.
A Libyan businessman opposed to Colonel Qadhafi was
shot dead
in Versailles, France, by Libyan hitmen.
Libya was behind the shooting of a US Embassy officer in
North Yemen.
Two Libyans were apprehended as they approached the
US Officer’s Club in Ankara, Turkey, to attack
it with six
Soviet-made fragmentation grenades they had received
from the Libyan People’s Bureau,
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April 1986
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Libya arranged for the murder of one American and two
British hostages in Lebanon.
Libya was linked to the shooting of a US Embassy officer in
Khartoum, Sudan.
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