Libyan leader Moammar Kaddafi expressed regret on Sunday that former US President Ronald Reagan died without ever standing trial for 1986 air strikes he ordered that killed the Libyan president's adopted daughter and 36 other people.
Ronald Reagan ordered the April 15, 1986, air raid in response to a discotheque bombing in Berlin allegedly ordered by Kaddafi that killed two US soldiers and a Turkish woman and injured 229 people.
"I express my deep regret because Reagan died before facing justice for his ugly crime that he committed in 1986 against the Libyan children," Libya's official Jana news agency quoted Kaddafi as saying.
Moreover, Jana, in reporting Reagan's death on Saturday in California at age 93, described former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as Reagan's partner in the strikes because some of the warplanes took off from US bases in the UK.
"Ronald Reagan, Thatcher's partner in the failed American-Atlantic aggression against the house of the brother leader of the revolution, in Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986, died," Jana reported. (Albawaba.com)
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