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 aided Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self-proclaimed emperor of the short-lived Central African Empire.

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.

She trained with the Libyan military, earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel ; however, according to Libyan civilians, Gaddafi did not merit such a high rank and was afforded that honor solely because she is Gaddafi's daughter .< ref name =" AA ">

Together with Fidel Castro and other Communist leaders, Gaddafi supported Soviet protege Haile Mariam Mengistu, the military ruler of Ethiopia, who was later convicted for a genocide that killed thousands.

Gaddafi supported Milošević even when Milošević was charged with large-scale ethnic cleansing against Albanians in Kosovo.

In 2011, Brzezinski supported the NATO intervention against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan civil war, calling non-intervention " morally dubious " and " politically questionable ".

In 2011, Wyden supported for the no-fly zone and other intervention in Libya in order to protect civilians, stating that " The violence of Colonel Gaddafi against his own people is a humanitarian crisis.

The union agreement was a surprise to observers, as previously it was thought that Bourguiba had not supported the idea, in part due to tensions brought about by the speech by Gaddafi in Tunis in December 1972.

The foreign dignitaries that had visited Istiqlal mosque are ; Bill Clinton President of United States in 1994, President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Prince Charles of United Kingdom, Li Yuanchao the vice chairman of Communist Party of China, President of Chile Sebastián Piñera, Heinz Fischer the President of Austria, Jens Stoltenberg the Prime Minister of Norway, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2012.

Taylor managed to flee the United States and shortly thereafter it is assumed that he went to Libya, where he underwent guerrilla training under Muammar Gaddafi, becoming Gaddafi's protégé.

Taylor was the next in line to take up the gloves, and returned to Test cricket on 14 December 1977 against Pakistan at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

On 1 September 1969 a small group of military officers led by then 27-year-old army officer Muammar Gaddafi staged a coup d ' état against King Idris, who was exiled to Egypt.

Although it was the primary language since colonial rule, Italian greatly declined under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who expelled the Italian Libyan population and made Arabic became the sole official language of the country.

Other heads of state took sides against Hussein, among them Muammar Gaddafi, who mocked him and his schizophrenic father King Talal.

The movie is now critically acclaimed, after initially receiving negative publicity in the West for being partially funded by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who invested $ 35 million in the movie.

Muammar Gaddafi who overthrew the monarchy of Idris of Libya in Libya in 1969, considered Nasser his hero and after his death, sought to succeed him as the " leader of the Arabs.

The tournament was won by Sri Lanka, who defeated Australia in the final at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

In his speech to the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September 2009, Colonel Gaddafi called upon the Libyan president of UNGA, Ali Treki, to institute a UN investigation into the assassinations of Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, who was overthrown in 1960 and murdered the following year, and of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.

According to Douglas Farah, " The amputation of the arms and legs of men, women, and children as part of a scorched-earth campaign was designed to take over the region ’ s rich diamond fields and was backed by Gaddafi, who routinely reviewed their progress and supplied weapons ".

According to Giulio Andreotti ( the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy ) and Abdel Rahman Shalgham ( Libya's Foreign Minister from 2000 until 2009 ), Craxi was the person who phoned Muammar al-Gaddafi to warn him of the impending Operation El Dorado Canyon air-strikes against Libya on 15 April 1986, permitting Gaddafi and his family to evacuate their residence in the Bab al-Azizia compound moments before the bombs dropped.

In March 2011, Ben-Ari criticized arrests of settlers who had thrown stones at the police in order to block the service of an arrest warrant, comparing Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch to Muammar Gaddafi and declaring that " his days are numbered.

The report said it was former House Speaker Jose de Venecia who brought Ramos to Gaddafi.

Eman al-Obeidi, a Libyan woman who was abused by the Gaddafi government during the Libyan civil war, is from Tobruk.

It was during his tenure at the Libyan desk that he claims that he learned of the MI6 plot to assassinate Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi from his MI6 counterpart David Watson ( PT16B ) and Richard Bartlett ( PT16 ) who had overall control and responsibility for the operation.

Fletcher, who had joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1977, was part of a detachment of 30 officers sent to St. James's Square to monitor a demonstration by Libyan dissidents opposed to the rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

The demonstration had been organised by the Libyan National Salvation Front ( LNSF ) following the execution of two students who had criticised Gaddafi.

Odlum's legacy is controversial: while noted as a skilled orator who cared deeply for Saint Lucia's working class, his idealism, support for controversial figures such as Muammar Gaddafi and departure from two Labour administrations were noted as factors which harmed him and others around him.

Saif Gaddafi declared that the humanitarian aid to the Benghazi hospital amounted to " not less than 300 million euros ," which was denied by the French, who declared that it was largely overestimated.

Cold War era GRU defector Viktor Suvorov would claim on Radio Free Europe that the conspiracy theory espoused by Gaddafi about CIA creating HIV and letting it loose in Africa had been invented by the KGB and was still promoted by Russian secret services, who were controlling Libya.