The World - News from Feb. 2, 1987
Security forces in France and the Netherlands helped foil a series of jailbreaks planned by Libya and the outlawed Irish Republican Army last summer to free terrorists in Britain, the Sunday Times of London reported. The newspaper, citing security sources, said Libya, at meetings in Paris and Amsterdam, had offered financing if the IRA organized the operation. The IRA hoped to free three of its members, including the mastermind of a 1984 bombing that was aimed at Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the newspaper said. At least nine Libyans are jailed in Britain on charges such as murder and conspiracy to carry out bombings.
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