He cites the case of Libya's willingness to abandon its nascent fission program after being pressured mulitilaterally as evidence of this.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been criticized after one of his son's companies was found to be producing components for centrifuges purported to be intended for use in Libya's secret uranium enrichment program.

In a program which aired on Libya's Al-Jamahiriya TV on May 29, 2011 ( as translated by MEMRI ), Dumas sharply criticzed Sarkozy, stating that the only thing I know French Leaders is that they have gone crazy.

In a 2004 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Sabha base was linked with Libya's nuclear weapons program.

* Interviewed by satellite in Tripoli by the ABC News program This Week With David Brinkley, Libya's President Muammar Gaddafi denied a U. S. State Department report that he had sent a " hit squad " to assassinate U. S. President Reagan.

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.

Under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's missions used the name people's bureau and the head of the mission was a secretary.

Libya's coastal plain shared in a Neolithic culture, skilled in the domestication of cattle and cultivation of crops, that was common to the whole Mediterranean littoral.

Although oil drastically improved Libya's finances, popular resentment grew as wealth was increasingly concentrated in the hands of the elite.

Libya's use — and heavy loss — of Soviet-supplied weaponry in its war with Chad was a notable breach of an apparent Soviet-Libyan understanding not to use the weapons for activities inconsistent with Soviet objectives.

In 1996, the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act ( ILSA ) was enacted, seeking to penalize non-U. S. companies which invest more than $ 40 million in Libya's oil and gasoline sector in any one year.

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.

By 1989 there were signs of a revival of the overseas construction market — the Dong Ah Construction Company signed a US $ 5. 3 billion contract with Libya for the second phase of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project, which, when all five phases were completed, was projected to cost US $ 27 billion.

Yet in truth she discovered that a race was springing from Trojan blood to overthrow some day these Tyrian towers — a people late regem belloque superbum — kings of broad realms and proud in war who would come forth for Libya's downfall.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice explained that this was due to "... Libya's continued commitment to its renunciation of terrorism ".

* In November 1995, a Sunday Telegraph newspaper article alleged Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi ( Muammar Gaddafi's son ) was connected to a currency counterfeiting plan.

After Bokassa's creation of the Council for the Central African Revolution ( in imitation of Libya's government council ), Patassé was named a member of the Council of the Revolution with the rank of Prime Minister in charge of Posts and Communications, Tourism, Water, Forests, Hunting and Fishing, as well as Custodian of the Seats of State ( September 4, 1976 – December 14, 1976 ).

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.

Griffin and Holland tried to enlist the financial aid of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, but the idea was rejected once the Libyans found out about the NF's reputation as fascist ( a quarter of Libya's adult male population was killed by Benito Mussolini's troops during World War II ).

He served as Deputy Director and Director of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Economy in Libya ; was Director of Marketing of Libya's National Oil Corporation ( NOC ); was Director of Economic Affairs and Under Secretary and Chief Advisor at the Ministry of Petroleum in Libya.

In March 2006, Ghanem was appointed Chairman of Libya's NOC.

He stirred controversy in the interview by repudiating Libya's responsibility both for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the 1984 murder of British WPC Yvonne Fletcher ( who was shot and killed in April 1984 outside the Libyan Embassy in London ).

On 21 March, the flag was flown by the Permanent Mission of Libya to the United Nations and appeared on their official website, and thereafter in late August by the Arab League and by Libya's own telecommunications authority, the Libya Telecom & Technology, on its own website.

Modern Misrata was established around the 7th-century during the beginning of modern Libya's rule by the Islamic Caliphate.

The 59-year-old member of Libya's Revolutionary Committee said he was in the Libyan Embassy in 1984 but " was not at the scene " when the shooting happened.

The Navy has always been the smallest of Libya's services and has always been dependent on foreign sources for equipment, spare parts, and training.

Libya's refusal to comply led to the approval of Security Council Resolution 748 on 31 March 1992, imposing international sanctions on the state designed to bring about Libyan compliance.

Tobruk or Tubruq ( Ţubruq ; also transliterated as Tóbruch, Tobruch, Ţubruq, Tobruck and Tubruk ) is a port city on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt.

Libya's Qadhafi sent 3, 000 troops to aid Amin, but the Libyans soon found themselves on the front line, while behind them Ugandan Army units were using supply trucks to carry their newly plundered wealth in the opposite direction.

However after Libya's crackdown on anti-government protesters in early 2011, the United Nations enacted an international arms embargo on Libya resulting in the cancellation of Russian arms deals.

* As Sawani, 21 km north of the city of ‘ Aziziya, on the road to Tripoli, and former storage site of Libya's modular " Uranium Conversion Facility " and uranium separation centrifuge.

Kufra's location in Libya's southeast places it on the country's border with Egypt, Sudan ( unlike any other Libyan district ), and Chad.

On May 16, 2006 she summarized her investigations on U. S. foreign policy regarding Libya's dismantling of its weapons programs in an essay spanning two days.

On April 14, 1986, in response to acts of terrorism then believed, and now known, to have been sponsored by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi — in particular, the Berlin discotheque bombing of April 6 — and against the backdrop of heightened tension and clashes between the Libyan and U. S. navies over Libya's disputed territorial water claims in the Gulf of Sidra, the United States launched a surprise attack on key facilities in Tripoli and other parts of Libya.

Despite this setback, Libya's performances improved as the tournament went on ; they went on to secure a 2 – 2 draw with Zambia in terrible conditions at the Estadio de Bata, before a brace from Ihaab al Bousseffi guided them to a famous 2 – 1 victory over Senegal, their first Nations Cup win in 30 years and a first on foreign soil.

Libya's last clash with Morocco was at the 2006 African Nations Cup, where it finished goalless ( However, Libya also recently contested a fiery two-legged play-off tie for the 2009 African Championship of Nations, which Libya won 4 – 3 on aggregate ).

In 2003, he published a report critical of Libya's record on human rights.

Gaddafi was involved in negotiating compensation from Libya's former colonial power, Italy, and on 30 August 2008 a Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation Agreement was signed in Benghazi by his father and Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

An international team of lawyers representing the interests of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi wrote to US leaders demanding that he be protected from assassination and holding the United States and NATO responsible for the Libyan leader's " brutal assassination " and repeated attacks on Libya's civilian population

* March 25 – British prime minister Tony Blair visits Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, in return for the dismantling of Libya's weapons of mass destruction programme in December 2003 ( the first time a major western leader had visited the nation in several decades ).

* The merger of Libya and Chad was announced in Tripoli by Libya's President Muammar al-Gaddafi, and his guest, President Goukouni Oueddei of Chad, who had taken power in December with the help of 4, 000 Libyan troops.