The World - News from Feb. 22, 1987
A small group of White House officials plotted last April’s bombing raid on Libya as a way of assassinating Moammar Kadafi, but the attempt failed because guidance systems on some bombers didn’t work, according to an article in today’s New York Times Magazine. Planning for the Libyan attack involved many of the same people who were working on sending arms to Iran, including Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter and Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, the article said. It quotes unidentified sources as saying that Israeli intelligence had pinpointed the Libyan leader’s location but that laser guidance systems on four of nine F-111s failed, and the bombs missed.
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