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U.S. Agrees on Libya's Push For Nuclear Weapons

(Ha'aretz) Ze'ev Schiff and Nathan Guttman - The U.S. agrees with Israeli assessments that Libya has renewed its efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb, and that those efforts have been stepped up since 1999, when UN sanctions on the country were removed. Israel's concern is that Libya, which doesn't have long-distance missiles capable of reaching Israel, could use one of its planes, a ship - or perhaps most dangerous - a terrorist organization to deliver a nuclear weapon, if it does acquire one.
2002-09-06 00:00:00
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