The World : Warning on Libyans in U.S.
FBI Director William H. Webster told a Senate subcommittee that three-fourths of the 2,000 Libyan students in the United States are financed by Col. Moammar Kadafi and could be a terrorist threat. Webster, testifying for an FBI budget increase, said his agency has “taken a number of terrorists out of circulation” but that the potential for domestic terrorist violence is “quite real.” Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III said earlier in the week that he planned to meet with immigration officials to consider what action might be taken to force Libyans out of the country.
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