The1986 United States bombing of Libya, code-namedOperation El Dorado Canyon, took place on Tuesday, 15 April 1986. The air strikes were carried out by the US Air Force, US Navy and US Marine Corps in response to the1986 Berlin discotheque bombing, for whichLibyahad been framed by theCIA...
In any event, the air raids have done nothing to end the prevailing chaos. They may even have made it worse. Libya's hapless government said it had no idea who carried out the strikes, underscoring its tenuous grip on a country that has little resembling either a functioning national army...
On Aug. 19, 1981, two U.S. Navy F-14s shot down two Soviet-made SU-22s of the Libyan air force that had attacked them in air space above the Gulf of Sidra. On March 24, 1986, U.S. and Libyan forces skirmished in the Gulf of Sidra, and two Libyan patrol boats were sunk. Q...
and have now revealed that they also took Al-Saadi Gaddafi in the same raid that yielded his brother Saif. Their father’s whereabouts are still unknown, but rebels
Less than a month later, Libya became the target of the biggest U.S. air strike since the Vietnam War when U.S. warplanes, both carrier-based and from British bases, hit Tripoli and Benghazi, killing 17 civilians and injuring 100. The raid was in retaliation for the bombing of a West...
Their plane was one of 18 that staged the raid from the Royal Air Force Base in Lakenheath, England. Sixteen planes returned today, and the 17th put down in Spain with mechanical problems. After night fell in Tripoli, the thud of anti-aircraft guns could be heard, arousing fears that anot...
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deteriorated in the early 1980s as the U.S. government increasingly protested Qaddafi’s support of Palestinian Arab militants. An escalating series of retaliatory trade restrictions and military skirmishes culminated in a U.S. bombing raid of Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986, in which Qaddafi’s ado...