The World - News from May 22, 1986

A Libyan defendant told a court in Ankara, Turkey, that he planned to blow up American cars in the Turkish capital in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya last month. Ali Ejefli Ramadan said his target was not the U.S. officers’ club, as charged in the indictment, but American vehicles parked in front of the club. Ramadan rejected the prosecutor’s charge that Libyan Embassy officials helped him in the bomb plot, saying his earlier statement was made under torture. Ramadan and Libyan co-defendant Rajab Muhtar Tarhuni were captured April 18 near the club, carrying a bag containing six Soviet-made hand grenades.