Germans Say Libya Behind ‘86 Bombing

Libya ordered the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco that killed two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman, prosecutors said Friday in an indictment naming five suspects in the attack.

The prosecutors’ evidence, including an intercepted radio transmission from the Libyan capital of Tripoli to the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin, supports Washington’s contention that Col. Moammar Gadhafi ordered the April 5, 1986, bombing.

President Reagan cited at least two such intercepted messages as justification for retaliatory U.S. air raids on two Libyan cities, which killed at least 15 people.

Berlin prosecutor Detlev Mehlis said one of the suspects, a Libyan, has confessed and will testify against the other four.