Rome - Italian police yesterday arrested a Libyan for his alleged role in a 1986 bombing that killed two US soldiers and a Turkish woman at a West Berlin nightclub, an act which triggered US air strikes on Libya. Judicial officials in Berlin said they will ask Italy to extradite Musbah Eter Abulgasem (40) who fled Germany a month ago after being charged there with the bombing, if he refuses to return voluntarily.
Libyan held over disco bomb
Rome - Italian police yesterday arrested a Libyan for his alleged role in a 1986 bombing that killed two US soldiers and a Turkish…
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