Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!rlvd!kgd
From: kgd@rlvd.UUCP (Keith Dancey)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <1325@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-May-86 05:34:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: rlvd.1325
Posted: Fri May 16 05:34:37 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 23-May-86 22:41:23 EDT
References: <720@ark> <7584@kestrel>
Reply-To: kgd@rlvd.UUCP (Keith Dancey)
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, Atlas Buildings, U.K.
Lines: 25

In article <7584@kestrel> ladkin%kestrel@kestrel.UUCP writes:
>
>In article <122@paisley.ac.uk>, alastair@cs.paisley.ac.uk (Alastair McAvoy) writes:
>> This could have been done by placing economic sanctions,
>> which I am sure the whole of Europe would have agreed
>> to if they had known the outcome of the bombing,
>
>Sanctions had been suggested by the U.S., quite forcefully
>I believe, and had met with a distinct lack of interest in
>Europe. Until now. One could draw cynical conclusions from 
>all this.
>
>Peter Ladkin


Indeed, one could - including those about the knowledge of US oil
companies being allowed to deal with Libya by the same Administration
that ordered the bombing raid...
 
-- 
Keith Dancey,                                UUCP:   ..!mcvax!ukc!rlvd!kgd
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Chilton, Didcot, Oxon  OX11 0QX             
                                            JANET:       K.DANCEY@uk.ac.rl
Tel: (0235) 21900   ext 5716