
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 12, 1990                   TAG: 9007120487
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: WEST BERLIN                                LENGTH: Short

REPORT: E. GERMANS AWARE ATTACK COMING

Ousted East German leader Erich Honecker and his secret police chief allowed Libyan terrorists to carry out the 1986 discotheque bombing that killed two American soldiers, a leading newspaper reported today.

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

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