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Chronoloo of Ubyan-Spoasorcd
Assassinatioa Attempt ... 1980-85
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Wnt GnM."y: Anti-Qadhafi Libyan S1udent killed in Bonn by Liby~n aunman
who was anated. The assassin also wounded two German passersby, one seriously.
'The victim had been a ta'let of the Libyan relime ror at least two years.
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Cy,ru: Libyan businessman assassinated in downtown Nicosia by an unidentified
&unman. The victim was the director or an offshore holdine company and was
believed to be an opponent of the Libyan relime.
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It.ly: Libyan .ieweler murdered in his shop in Rome. A silencer-equipped pistol
was lert at the scene by the assassin.
AlUtric: Former Libyan Ambassador to Austria severely wounded by two shots
fired from a car outside his home in Vienna. The victim had been a member of the
ori&inalaroup ofyoune officers wbo helped Qadhafi seize power in 1969. He quit
his post in dis,ust at the rqiDle in 1980.
Cr..J: Complaint lode:ed with United Nations, alleaine Libya tried to assassinate
President Hissein Habre in September 1984. Chad provided photoeraphs of the
suitcase bomb that was to be used in the attack.
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1984
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ED": President Mubarak announces that four assassins sent to Eaypt by Libya to
kill former Libyan Prime Minister al-Bakltush had been arrested and forced to
send rake pictures to the Libyan Embassy in Malta showina Bakltush apparently
dead. The official Libyan press had Callen Cor the ploy and claimed Bakkush had
been executed by suicide squads sent abroad "to liquidate enemies of the
revolution."
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It.ly:' Libyan exile found ,a"ed and straneled in a hotel in Rome. The victim had
been the subject of Libyan deportation requests.
U,riull Ki".lIotrC One of six Libyans awaitina trial for bomb atlacks in London in
March 1983 found shot to death in a London apartment. The victim may have
been silenced by the Libyan Government.
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