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After the election, Holbrooke wrote a memo to Warren Christopher and Anthony Lake advocating the strategy known as "lift and strike"--lifting the arms embargo that prevented the Muslims from defending themselves, and bombing the Bosnian Serbs.
Bakri has pledged global war against the United States "until every American soldier has been withdrawn from Saudi Arabia and the whole Persian Gulf and until the embargo which is starving the Muslim people of Iraq has been lifted."
The problem, he said, was the embargo.
On Tuesday, the Pan-Arab al-Quds al-Arabi described this as a "deliberate" snub linked to Egypt's refusal to join other member states of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in defying the air embargo that was in force against Libya for seven years until last month, when the country handed over two Lockerbie bombing suspects for trial by a Scottish court in the Netherlands.
Le Monde 's editorial Thursday was titled "The Pope, Fidel, and Uncle Sam," and it blamed the United States embargo for the fact that Cuba was still Communist.