Do dictators pay attention?

[Linoleum]

Perhaps some do (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/21/cnna.woodruff.gadhafi.son/index.html).

[XPav]

Gadhafi/Khadaffi/Qadafi hasn't shown up on the terror-o-meter since the last 80s, and got really quiet after El Dorado Canyon.

Look, containment works!

[Troy S Goodfellow]

Wasn't the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie (1988) the last significant Libyan action? There was no military response to it at the time, but there were sanctions in response to Libya's refusal to turn over suspects. After that, not a peep. (A few people believe that the Pan Am bombings were sponsored by Syria - not Libya - which would push Libyan terrorism back to 1986 before Gadaffi's house got bombed by Reagan.)

My guess is that Gadaffi just got tired of the whole terrorism thing. The collapes of the USSR meant no more money or arms training and he has tried to reinvent himself as Africa's senior statesman.

Troy

[XPav]

Wasn't the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie (1988) the last significant Libyan action? There was no military response to it at the time, but there were sanctions in response to Libya's refusal to turn over suspects. After that, not a peep. (A few people believe that the Pan Am bombings were sponsored by Syria - not Libya - which would push Libyan terrorism back to 1986 before Gadaffi's house got bombed by Reagan.)

Yeah, you're right, I confused Lockerbie with the German disco.



My guess is that Gadaffi just got tired of the whole terrorism thing. The collapes of the USSR meant no more money or arms training and he has tried to reinvent himself as Africa's senior statesman.


Containment works!

[Toddy]

Some sources claim that the Reagan bombing was a mistake, too, in the the nightclub bombing was actually a Syrian-sponsored operation. Others have claimed Iran. I'm not sure Libya was ever a main player with terrorism, at least compared to those two. Reagan might better have bombed Damascus and Tehran.

[bago]

Ghadaffi got old and decided he liked power and women more than rhetoric and pan-arabism.

Have you seen his body guards? All women. Fairly attractive too.

How much do you want to bet the CIA bought him out ?

[Brad Grenz]

I believe the last significant act of Libyan terrorism was the drive-by shooting of Dr. Emmett Brown in 1985. Apparently he had been paid to build a nuclear bomb, but delivered a dummy built out of old pin-ball machine parts.

[ydejin]

I believe the last significant act of Libyan terrorism was the drive-by shooting of Dr. Emmett Brown in 1995. Apparently he had been paid to build a nuclear bomb, but delivered a dummy built out of old pin-ball machine parts.

LMAO. That was a good one Brad :D

[Brad Grenz]

I can't believe I blew the date! Fixed now.