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An Arab League delegation, testing the sincerity of Libya's offer to turn over two men wanted in the bombing of Pan American Flight 103, flew to Tripoli on Tuesday while the U.S. government kept up its drumbeat of doubts. "History would suggest that we should be skeptical that this is indeed a good-faith offer," said Margaret Tutwiler, the State Department spokeswoman.

Outside the large Russian Embassy compound here, the burned-out shells of four cars stand on the curb, windshields smashed, diplomatic license plates singed. The wreckage marks the day a mob of angry Libyans stormed the embassy and were fought back from the chancery door with bursts of tear gas as they demanded an answer from the Russian "traitors." In many ways, however, the black hulks also mark the end of the Cold War in the Middle East.

With events justifying its skepticism, the Bush Administration pressured the United Nations on Wednesday to impose sanctions on Libya after the government of Moammar Kadafi reneged on a pledge to turn over the two suspects in the Pan American Airways Flight 103 terrorist bombing. But diplomats were uncertain when the Security Council will take up the American-British-French resolution aimed at punishing Libya.

This country's General People's Congress struck a defiant tone Saturday against handing over for trial two men accused in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, while leader Moammar Kadafi, facing one of the most serious crises in his 23 years of rule, lashed out at a "bankrupt and weak" international order.

This country's General People's Congress struck a defiant tone Saturday against handing over for trial two men accused in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, while leader Moammar Kadafi, facing one of the most serious crises in his 23 years of rule, lashed out at a "bankrupt and weak" international order.

Accusing the United States and Britain of "illegal and arbitrary blackmail," Libya asked the International Court of Justice on Thursday to protect it from sanctions for refusing to turn over two men suspected in the 1988 bombing of a Pan American Airways jet. Trying to head off passage of a U.N.

Outside the large Russian Embassy compound here, the burned-out shells of four cars stand on the curb, windshields smashed, diplomatic license plates singed. The wreckage marks the day a mob of angry Libyans stormed the embassy and were fought back from the chancery door with bursts of tear gas as they demanded an answer from the Russian "traitors." In many ways, however, the black hulks also mark the end of the Cold War in the Middle East.

As a busload of foreign journalists was being expelled from Libya the other day, it passed a small, straggling line of people shuffling into a stadium near the Aziziya barracks, where Libya's leader, Col. Moammar Kadafi, nearly lost his life in the U.S. air strike on Tripoli three years ago.

Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi caused an uproar at an Arab League summit meeting here Wednesday by telling a host of assembled kings, sheiks and presidents that many of them are "lackeys of imperialism" who ought to "go to hell." Kadafi was "on his most outrageous behavior," one source at the closed-door meeting said. Arab League Secretary General Chedli Klibi conceded that the session had been "stormy."

Accusing the United States and Britain of "illegal and arbitrary blackmail," Libya asked the International Court of Justice on Thursday to protect it from sanctions for refusing to turn over two men suspected in the 1988 bombing of a Pan American Airways jet. Trying to head off passage of a U.N.

With events justifying its skepticism, the Bush Administration pressured the United Nations on Wednesday to impose sanctions on Libya after the government of Moammar Kadafi reneged on a pledge to turn over the two suspects in the Pan American Airways Flight 103 terrorist bombing. But diplomats were uncertain when the Security Council will take up the American-British-French resolution aimed at punishing Libya.

An Arab League delegation, testing the sincerity of Libya's offer to turn over two men wanted in the bombing of Pan American Flight 103, flew to Tripoli on Tuesday while the U.S. government kept up its drumbeat of doubts. "History would suggest that we should be skeptical that this is indeed a good-faith offer," said Margaret Tutwiler, the State Department spokeswoman.

As a busload of foreign journalists was being expelled from Libya the other day, it passed a small, straggling line of people shuffling into a stadium near the Aziziya barracks, where Libya's leader, Col. Moammar Kadafi, nearly lost his life in the U.S. air strike on Tripoli three years ago.

Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi caused an uproar at an Arab League summit meeting here Wednesday by telling a host of assembled kings, sheiks and presidents that many of them are "lackeys of imperialism" who ought to "go to hell." Kadafi was "on his most outrageous behavior," one source at the closed-door meeting said. Arab League Secretary General Chedli Klibi conceded that the session had been "stormy."