Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsb!cdp From: cdp@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Libya: Let's not Bomb 'em Message-ID: <11000117@uiucdcsb> Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 03:07:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.11000117 Posted: Tue Jan 21 03:07:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jan-86 22:34:28 EST References: <3630048@csd2.UUCP> Lines: 43 Nf-ID: #R:csd2.UUCP:3630048:uiucdcsb:11000117:000:2281 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!cdp Jan 21 02:07:00 1986 >I think measures to damage Libya's economy and to increase >security against terrorists would be better. I agree with >the ending of trade with Libya, the freezing of Libya's >assets in the US, and requiring US citizens to leave. >I think we should also try to reduce European trade with >Libya, both by applying pressure on European countries >and by trying to depress the world oil market and counter >the influence of OPEC (this would have other benefits as >well). One thing we should do immediately is enact an oil >import fee to reduce our foreign oil consumption (and our >deficit as well). If European countries are unwilling to >end trade with Libya, we should at least try to get them >to make it less attractive for their citizens to work there. >For example, they could tax earnings in Libya at a high rate. >This would perhaps be easier politically to do than ending >trade, and the Libyan economy is quite dependent on the >foreign citizens working there. We should also increase >security at obvious targets like airports, bus stations, >etc. We should publicize places that are not secure (i.e. >Athens airport) to put economic pressure on these places >to beef up security. > > >Isaac Dimitrovsky VERY unsuccessful try mr. Dimitrovsky. If you read newspapers or watch the news you should know that Athens airport is considered the safest airport in Europe at this moment. Policemen with machine guns and armored vechicles are everywhere you look. Every passenger is hand searched on top of three X-ray checks. I wonder why you single out Athens (where an incident happened with one victim) and you do not mention Rome's Vienna's or Frankfurt's airports where several terrorist attacks have taken place in the last few months with tens of victims. You should know that the investigations of the Greek Security, IATA and FBI converge to the conclusion that the pistols used in the TWA hijacking were smuggled in the plain in Cairo, not Athens. Don't forget that Greece has paid dearly with more victims in the last two incidents than US or Israel--there were 15 Greeks dead in Malta and 5 in Rome but noone mentioned anything of course--and I am sure the Greek security is anxious to blow the ass of every bastard terrorist who will dare enter Athens airport.