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Article: Libya: Looking Toward a Post-Lockerbie Future; A Look at Libya's "Space Technology" in Tripoli's Cultural and Scientific Complex
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- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Libya: Looking Toward a Post-Lockerbie Future; A Look at Libya's "Space Technology" in Tripoli's Cultural and Scientific Complex
A visit to the Fatah Cultural and Scientific Complex in Tripoli, near what used to be Wheelus Field, the largest U.S. military air base outside the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, begins in the lobby of the building that opened in 1981. Young people and school groups sit at tables drinking sodas and awaiting their turn in the planetarium. An exhibit entitled: "The Libyan Arab people's determination triumphed over U.S. arrogance," decorates the walls. Disturbing photos and children's drawings capture the death and destruction caused by the April 15, 1986 U.S. bombing ...