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newdawn@peg.apc.org (David) wrote: >The following news item is from New Dawn's Web site at: > > http://www.peg.apc.org/~newdawn > >featuring 800k of sample articles, news, links and info on conspiracy, >the 'New World Order', gnosticism, Islam, cover-ups, UFOs, mind >control, Big Brother, metaphysics, intell agencies, psychiatric abuse, >the Middle East, ancient civilisation, prophecy, etc etc. > >Visit one of Australia's leading 'alternative' magazines online! > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >U.S. THREATENS TO NUKE LIBYA > >During April the Clinton Administration threatened a "surgical" >nuclear strike on an alleged underground "chemical weapons" plant >situated in the side of a mountain near Tarhunah, in north-western >Libya. > The U.S. Defence Secretary, Dr. William Perry, said the United >States is fully prepared to take "more drastic measures" if Libya did >not wield to American demands. > On May 24, the New York Times reported that "although the U.S. >constantly monitors every activity and development in Libya through a >sophisticated satellite network in the sky and by covert agents on the >ground, it did not fully comprehend what was going on until it became >impossible to knock the plant out with acceptable weapons already in >the arsenal." Among its options, the report states, the U.S. is >considering the use of a "small" nuclear weapon that "could penetrate >the mountain and destroy the plant without exterior fallout." > Remarkably, no mainstream media expressed alarm that the U.S. >is seriously considering a nuclear strike on another country, >especially in the wake of huge outcry over French and Chinese nuclear >testing. > During an interview with CNN, the Libyan leader Col. Muammar >Al Qadhafi said the work on the mountain at Tarhunah is part of the >Great Man-Made River Project (a massive irrigation program). > "We wanted to connect the two branches of the Great Man-Made >River from Tarhunah to Tripoli and a mountain stood in our way so we >had to drill a tunnel for the pipes to pass through." He said Korean >construction companies "could reveal the falsehood of American >allegations." He added that if the work is so suspicious in American >eyes, "then American permission will have to be sought before any work >is done on Libyan land or in its mountains to avoid American >allegations." > The U.S. is also pressuring Libya to hand over two men they >claim were responsible for the 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing over >Lockerbie. Although the case against the men lacks any evidence and >has been shown by numerous international legal bodies to be flawed, >the U.S. is continuing its vindictive campaign against the Libyan >leader. Due to its refusal to hand over the two men to British or U.S. >authorities, Libya has been under severe UN sanctions for the last >four years. > >(Source: New York Times, May 24, 1996; JANA, April 18, 1996; For >up-to-date news and info on Libya visit >http://www.peg.apc.org/~jamahir) > >Above new items extracted from New Dawn No.37 (July-August, 1996)