In response to a terrorist attack in west Germany in 1986, the United States bombed targets in which country?

A. Israel

B. Lebanon

C. Libya

D. Iraq

Libya is the correct answer.

C. Libya

Explanation:

As a response to the bombing of a Disco in West Berlin, US raids attacked Lybia in a operation called El Dorado Canyon.

The air strikes against Lybia was ordered by Ronald Reagan as a measure to counter terrorist in a time were increasing Anti Americanism and Anti British movements were increasing in popularity among radicals.

The air strikes on Tripoli are believed to have been a measure following the official US stance on terrorism that emerged some years before.

The evidence of the Lybian involvement came as US intelligence intercepted a radio message sent from Lybia to diplomats in East Berlin.

The last decades of the last century specially were prone to terrorist and attacks from radicals that emerged as a bipolar world no longer existed and left America vulnerable to groups seeking to reivindicate geopolitics in the Middle East and worldwide.