The attack was carried out in response to the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing.
The U.S. received support from the United Kingdom, Australia, Israel, and 25 other countries. Its doctrine of declaring a war on what it called "terrorist havens" was not repeated until 1998, when President Bill Clinton ordered strikes on six terrorist camps in Afghanistan.
Forewarned by a telephone call from Malta's Prime Minister, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, that unauthorized aircraft were flying over Maltese airspace heading south towards Tripoli, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his family rushed out of their residence in the Bab al Aziziya compound moments before the bombs dropped.
Libyan retaliation...
The Libyan government was alleged to have retaliated by ordering the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Pakistan on September 5, 1986, which resulted in the deaths of 20 people. On December 21, 1988, came the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded in mid-air and crashed on the town of Lockerbie in Scotland after a bomb set by Libyan agents detonated, killing all 259 people aboard, and 11 people in Lockerbie. In Beirut, Lebanon, two British hostages held by the Libyan-supported Abu Nidal Organization, Leigh Douglas, Philip Padfield, along with an American named Peter Kilburn were shot dead in revenge. In addition, journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped, and tourist Paul Appleby was murdered in Jerusalem, Israel. Another British hostage named Alec Collett was also killed in retaliation for the bombing of Libya. Collett was shown being hanged in a video tape.
Mistyrains... the UN disagree's with your view ...
China calls UN findings on arms in Darfur 'groundless' DARFUR
October 21, 2010|By the CNN Wire Staff
China accounts for 90 percent of small arms sales to Sudan, which human rights groups have described as the "weapon of choice" for the Janjaweed.
China blasted as "groundless" Thursday a draft report that says Chinese ammunition has been used in the bloody Darfur conflict this year. The nation has called for a review before the report goes to the Security Council for approval.
If China blocks the draft from becoming final, a "dangerous precedent" would be set, a Western Security Council diplomat told CNN.
No other delegation in the committee supports the Chinese position, said the diplomat.
The Sudanese government managed to buy an unknown number of WS-2 multi-launch rocket systems from China, this is the first time this system is exported by China to any country, Sudan now is in possession of the ?most powerful long-range attack system? in the African continent.
