Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

Gaddafi also styled himself as an advocate of Pan-Africanism, and was active in the establishment of the African Union in 2001.

French jets also destroyed five tanks belonging to the Gaddafi government.

In addition, the Revolutionary Guard Corps also served as a brigade-sized protection force for Gaddafi.

Gaddafi also trained and supported Charles Taylor, who was indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the conflict in Sierra Leone.

Libya also still provided bounties for heads of refugees who criticized Gaddafi, including 1 million dollars for Ashur Shamis, a Libyan-British journalist.

Gaddafi also took part in the G8 summit in L ' Aquila in July as Chairman of the African Union.

Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

Relations with Libya also became more mutual following the eight month Libyan civil war in 2011, which resulted in the National Transitional Council ousting longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from power.

He was also linked along with an associate Denys Rowley in a failed attempt to overthrow Gaddafi of Libya in 1970 / 71.

In February 2011, LSE had to deal with controversy regarding the authorship of the PhD thesis of one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and also a £ 1. 5m donation to university.

In addition, small numbers of Eastern European mercenaries have also turned up supporting the Gaddafi regime.

CCTV also mislabeled a person holding a banner which said " Vive la France " and claimed that he was a supporter of Gaddafi.

His suitability for the role was challenged in the House of Commons by Shadow Justice Minister Chris Bryant in February 2011, at the time of the 2011 Libyan civil war, on the grounds that he was " not only a very close friend of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, but also ... a close friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni ".

The toga is also used by peoples that can claim descent from Romanized Punics, such as the Arabized Berbers of Tripolitania, in Libya, the most prominent example probably being the late Muammar Gaddafi.

This was organized by Muammar Gaddafi who also helped to bring Charles Taylor to power.

Serbia and Libya had maintained good relations since Gaddafi vocally opposed NATO intervention in Serbia in the 1990s, while he also backed Serbia's opposition to Kosovo's independence.

He also called on Libyan ambassadors around the world to distance themselves from Gaddafi ’ s regime.

Since February 1984 the Libyan embassy, which was also known as the Libyan People's Bureau, had been staffed by " revolutionary committees " made up of students loyal to Gaddafi who had assumed control of the diplomatic mission with the tacit approval of the Libyan government.

Many CPGB-ML members were also active in the Stop the War Coalition until the party's expulsion in October 2011 over its support for Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan civil war, their respective trade unions and pensioners ' campaigns.

His support of figures such as Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi was also noted as controversial, with his relentless left-wing approach to politics being identified as damaging both to others and to the causes he championed.

In exchange for the release of the nurses, he said Nicolas Sarkozy not only signed with Gaddafi security, health care and immigration pacts ( assistance with border management and scholarships for Libyan students in the EU ): according to Libyan sources cited by the Agence France-Presse, a $ 230 million ( 168 million euros ) MILAN antitank missile sale was also part of the release deal.

A number of the RP-46 variant of the DP have been spotted in present day Somalia, in use with militant forces, and also among rebel forces in the 2011 Libyan uprising to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi

Gaddafi said that his father was barred from visiting Ground Zero, which also frustrated him.

After a meeting with Gaddafi in September 1976, Bokassa converted to Islam and changed his name to Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa, but in December 1976 he converted back to Catholicism.

When no funds promised by Gaddafi were forthcoming, Bokassa abandoned his new faith.

Following the fall of the Gaddafi regime in August 2011 former state-affiliated dailies have closed and new titles have appeared, many short-lived.

The Central Bank of Libya has issued a revised 10-dinar banknote with revised features, one example is the removal of the reference of the Gaddafi era " Jamahiriya " from upper right back, plus the use of English on the notes for the first time in two decades.

Muammar Gaddafi at the 2009 African Union | AU summit in Addis Ababa.

In February 2009, Gaddafi was selected to be chairman of the African Union for one year.

Most recently, a number of unidentified white South African mercenaries were hired to smuggle Gaddafi and his sons to exile in Niger.

Muammar Gaddafi was forced to accede to a ceasefire ending his dreams of African and Arab dominance.

Khalifa was said to have moved to another North African city following the disintegration of the Gaddafi government.

* Muammar al-Gaddafi, known as Colonel Gaddafi, was an active organizer of African unity and the proposed formation, based on Gamal Abd El Nasser and Kwame Nkrumah's dream, of a United States of Africa.

In April 2001 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi made a speech at the African summit on HIV / AIDS.

In April 2001 the trial gained brief attention after Muammar Gaddafi gave his speech at the African summit on HIV / AIDS implicating the CIA.

In December 2010, Gaddafi announced that his charity foundation " will no longer be involved in promoting human rights and political change in the north African country ," and that instead, it " will focus on its " core charitable mission " of delivering aid and relief to sub-Saharan Africa.

" More " than 200 African kings and traditional rulers ... bestowed the title ' king of kings ' on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi " during a meeting " in the Libyan town of Benghazi in what was billed as a first of its kind.

Col Gaddafi urged the royals to join his campaign for African unity ....' We want an African military to defend Africa, we want a single African currency, we want one African passport to travel within Africa ,' Col Gaddafi told the assembled dignitaries, who come from countries such as Mozambique, South Africa, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In February 2009, upon being elected chairman of the 53-nation African Union in Ethiopia, Gaddafi told the assembled African leaders: " I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa.

" The BBC reported that Gaddafi had proposed " a single African military force, a single currency and a single passport for Africans to move freely around the continent ".

Gaddafi had also indicated that the proposed federation may extend as far west as the Caribbean: Haiti, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and other islands featuring a large African diaspora, may be invited to join.