U.S. MUST EXPAND SCOPE TO ANTI-TERRORIST REPRISALS.(Main)

Byline: Bernard D. Kaplan

Last week's new outbreak of terrorism in Karachi and Istanbul leaves the U.S. with little choice but to widen its anti-terrorist reprisals beyond Libya, intelligence experts here believe.

"Until now, the Americans could target Khadafy alone," Col. Alexander de Marenches, former head of the French secret service, said in an interview here. "It served the dual purpose of putting him on notice and intimidating other backers of terrorism. That worked for five months. But events have rendered the tactic obsolete."

Even if Col. Muammar Khadafy, the Libyan strongman, had a hand in one or both of the latest terrorist outrages, …