
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, December 13, 1993                   TAG: 9312130129
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: AZIZIA, LIBYA                                LENGTH: Short

GADHAFI INVITES TERRORISTS

Moammar Gadhafi, who claims to have broken his ties with terrorists, appeared before 20,000 admiring citizens Sunday night and invited two of the world's most wanted men to Libya.

Gadhafi invited Palestinian guerrilla bosses Abu Nidal and Ahmed Jibril to visit during a speech denouncing punitive U.N. sanctions. The sanctions were imposed to force Libya to turn over two suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing.

He also invited leaders of the Irish Republican Army to his country so he could advise them not to carry out terrorism, Libyan television reported. Libya is accused of supplying Semtex explosives and other arms to the IRA in its fight to oust Britain from Northern Ireland.

The invitations were Gadhafi's most overt gesture of defiance of the United Nations. He has signaled recently he may be preparing to terminate Libya's membership in the organization, which he accuses of being a puppet of the West, especially the United States.

by CNB