Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: THURSDAY, July 12, 1990 TAG: 9007120487 SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-6 EDITION: EVENING SOURCE: DATELINE: WEST BERLIN LENGTH: Short
The West Berlin bombing, which also killed a Turkish woman, prompted the U.S. Air Force raid on the Libyan capital of Tripoli 10 days later.
According to the report in the West German paper Die Welt, secret police chief Erich Mielke knew on March 20, 1986, that Libyan terrorists were about to attack a U.S. target in West Berlin, but did nothing to stop it.
Sixteen days later, a bomb at the La Belle discotheque killed the soldiers and Turkish woman and injured more than 200 other people.
-Associated Press