>>Back in the eighties Bill Casey had a "regime change" plan for Libya but wasn't allowed to let it out of the box. It was quieter than all this bombing but Libya would have been Ghadaffi-less real quick.
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>Connected to the mid-eigthies bombing or something entirely different ?
Do you mean our bombing of Libya ( the louder option ) or his Lockerbee bombing?
I think it was motivated by a lot of things, but his support for George Habbash and probably some very nasty stuff in Lebanon was a big part of it. A lot of people took the stuff in Beirut - not just the barracks, but Buckley, *very* badly and there was a thirst for some serious payback - some of which I believed happened - quietly.
In any case, there are no shortage of people who believe somebody should have put a bullet in this guy 30 years ago.
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