Peace Demonstration outside Downing Street in London England UK April 1986 scanned in 2020 Protesting against US President Reagans bombing of Libya a few days earlier. The 1986 United States bombing of Libya, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, comprised air strikes by the United States against Libya on Tuesday 15 April 1986. The attack was carried out by the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps via air strikes, in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque bombing ten days earlier. There were 40 reported Libyan casualties, and one plane was shot down.

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Location: Westminster London UK
Photo credit: © BRIAN HARRIS / Alamy / Afripics
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