The World - News from March 2, 1989
CIA Director William H. Webster said that Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi’s chemical weapons plant is so big that he could easily share its output with other radical nations. “The production capability is far more than Col. Kadafi could ever need or use by any stretch of the imagination,” Webster told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kadafi has said the plant was built to produce pharmaceuticals. Webster also said that Libya would be able to target such countries as Israel with chemical weapons if Kadafi’s forces obtained air-to-air refueling capacity for their bombers.
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