Gums,
When it became apparent that the UK had allowed/not objected to the use of Lakenheath the Gadaffi regimes support for IRA activities escalated dramatically. Further much larger quantities of weapons, money and crucially Semtex were shipped. Eldorado Canyon might have been an American vote winner but it had massive consequences including the enabling of atrocities like Enniskillen and Lockerbie and hundreds of others.