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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 19. August 1981 / Timeline August 19, 1981
Version 3.518. August 1981, 20. August 1981
08/19/1981
USA nedskyder to
libyske jagerfly over Middelhavet - Reagan: Vi udfordrede
Kadafi
Den amerikanske præsident Ronald Reagan siger, at han
personligt gav flåden ordre til at udfordre Libyens territoriale krav i
Sidra-bugten og holde øvelser i omstridt farvand for at
vise, at "Amerika har styrke til at bakke sine ord op." Reagan
sagde, at Libyens leder, oberst Kadafi, havde trukket en
grænse i Sidra-bugten, og at USA krydsede den "for at
fastslå den kendsgerning, at det er internationalt farvand",
skriver Information.
08/19/1981
On August 19, 1981, 2 Libyan SU-22 aircraft fired an "Atoll"
air-to-air missile at 2 U.S. F-14 aircraft from the carrier Nimitz
over the Gulf of Sidra. The Atoll missed but the F-14's did not;
the U.S. Navy pilots shot down both Libyan aircraft. On October 15,
1981, the United States deployed 2 AWACS planes to Egypt to patrol
the Egyptian-Libyan border area.
Source: CRS Issue Brief for Congress: Libya, 2002. -
18 s.
- http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/9577.pdf
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