On 5 April 1986, three people were killed and 229 injured when La Belle discothèque was bombed in the Friedenau locality of West Berlin. The entertainment venue was commonly frequented by United State
Roxy-Palast, the building in which the discotheque La Belle was located
Memorial plaque reading, "On the 5th of April, 1986, young people were murdered inside this building by a criminal bombing."
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Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 dur
West Berlin discotheque bombing
…Ronald Reagan ordered retaliatory strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya ten days later. The operation was widely seen as an attempt to kill colonel Muammar Gaddafi. However, in the bombing's aftermath, this claim was met with widespread skepticism. In 1987, Manfred Ganschow, the head of the West German team…
Gaddafi at the African Union summit in 2009
Gaddafi at an Arab summit in Libya in 1969, shortly after the September Revolution that toppled King Idris I. Gaddafi sits in military uniform in the middle, surrounded by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (left) and Syrian President Nureddin al-Atassi (right).
In 1971, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Libya's Gaddafi and Syria's Hafez al-Assad signed an agreement to form a federal Union of Arab Republics. The agreement never materialized into a federal union between the three Arab states.
Gaddafi addresses students, 1970