Americans Housed in Targeted Army Camps, Libya Says
Claiming that the United States has targeted Libyan army camps for attack, a spokesman for Col. Moammar Kadafi said Saturday night that the installations had been turned over to foreign companies to house their employees, including American citizens.
“All the foreign workers from the oil fields will live in these camps permanently,” Kadafi said in a statement released by the spokesman, who refused to be identified. “We would like to point out that the number of Americans in these camps comes to some 1,000.”
The spokesman said most of the transfer of foreign workers to the army camps occurred Saturday. There was no independent confirmation of the action.
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