Gadaffi orders manoeuvres
NZPA-AP Tripoli Libya’s Army, Navy and Air Force have begun eight days of live-ammun-ition exercises in the Tripoli area and .in commercial traffic zones.
On Saturday the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, said that he had ordered his forces to intercept any Israeli civilian aircraft within range.
Israeli fighters intercepted last week a Libyan executive jet carrying an official Syrian delegation from talks in Tripoli to Damascus. The passen-
gers were questioned and searched, but later allowed to leave unharmed. Radical Palestinian leaders in Tripoli have warned that they will strike at Israeli and American aircraft in reprisal. The country’s armed forces were ordered fully mobilised last month after the United States ordered its Mediterranean-based 6th Fleet to near the Libyan coast, in a show of strength to back U.S. economic sanctions against Tripoli.
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Press, 10 February 1986, Page 6
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