Egypt and Libya
My 21-year-old daughter, Theodora, was one of those murdered by Libyan agents in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, so I read Kim Murphy’s article on Egypt’s defense of Moammar Kadafi (Dec. 1) with great interest and growing anger. The Mubarak government has clearly become Libya’s chief defender and protector. The insensitivity and arrogance of Osama Baz, “the second most powerful man in Egypt,” is almost breathtaking.
Baz is quoted as saying that the U.S. does no understand the Middle East “and what motivates people of the region to behave in a certain manner.” He then goes on to state, “Bear in mind it is not an easy thing for a government to extradite its own citizens to be tried in another country.”
Baz should bear in mind that it is not an easy thing for a government to have its own citizens blown out of the sky by agents of another government and then sit by and do nothing, which is what he in essence is suggesting that the U.S. do.
One can hope that the new Congress will be less willing to shell out over $2 billion a year to a government that is serving as a mouthpiece for murderers of Americans.
DANIEL COHEN
Cape May Court House, N.J.
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