" Hafed Al-Ghwell, a Libya expert and director of communications at the Dubai campus of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, commented " This is a regime with a long history of killing people in jail and then claiming it was suicide.

* Libyan Satyr, which according to Pliny the Elder lived in Libya and resembled humans with long, pointed ears and horse tails, similar to the Greek nature-spirit satyrs.

The coastlands by Tripoli, Libya called Tarabulus also had been, before the Turks, in long political association with Tunis.

Activist groups had long expressed concern over the memberships of the People's Republic of China, Zimbabwe, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, and the past memberships of Algeria, Syria, Libya, Uganda and Vietnam on the Commission.

Due to Morroco's long history with French colonialism, alongside neighbouring countries including Algeria and Tunisia, sole French-medium education is very widespread, with Arabic being introduced and taught as a second language, as well as the study of a third language later on, usually either English, Spanish, or Italian ( in Libya ).

In Libya, a soft black fez, called the checheya, is worn by the rural population with or without a long tassel.

Egypt has long had ties with Libya, and the first king of the new dynasty, Shoshenq I, was a Meshwesh Libyan, who served as the commander of the armies under the last ruler of the Twenty-First Dynasty, Psusennes II.

Neither side could afford the possibility of a longer conflict since they were threatened by other enemies: Egypt was faced with the task of defending her long western border with Libya against the incursion of Libyan tribesmen by building a chain of fortresses stretching from Mersa Matruh to Rakotis, while the Hittites faced a more formidable threat in the form of the Assyrian Empire, which " had conquered Hanigalbat, the heartland of Mitanni, between the Tigris and the Euphrates " rivers that had previously been a Hittite vassal state.

In March 2011 Harvey was asked how long Britain would be involved in the military operation in Libya.

David Mattingly reports foggara extending for hundreds of miles in the Garamantes area near Jarma in Libya: " The channels were generally very narrow-less than 2 feet wide and 5 high-but some were several miles long, and in total some 600 foggara extended for hundreds of miles underground.

It was long believed that Kehek was a reference to the Libyan tribe, Qeheq, and thus it was postulated that invaders from Libya took advantage of the death of Ahmose to move into the western Nile Delta.

The surviving hijackers force the plane to fly to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates ; after a long stay there, they force it to fly to Damascus, Syria, and Benghazi, Libya, where they release the passengers and crew 89 hours after the hijacking began and blow up the airliner.

With six members of the squad aged 30 and above, notably Samir Aboud, for whom the match against Senegal brought down the curtain on a long international career, the focus now turns to the future of Libyan football ; although domestic football has yet to be rescheduled following a year-long hiatus, qualification for next year's Cup of Nations could see a new-look Libya side enter the fray in South Africa.

In 2005, " Liwa ", along with American partner " Occidental Petroleum ", was able to win eight out of fifteen exploration areas in the long awaited EPSA-4 auction, making both " Liwa " and " Occidental Petroleum " two of the first international petroleum companies to be allowed to operate in Libya after the Libyan Embargo was lifted.

Libya refused to extradite the two accused, but held them under armed house arrest in Tripoli, offering to detain them for trial in Libya, as long as all the incriminating evidence was provided.

Since no bilateral extradition treaty was in force between any of the three countries, Libya refused to hand the men over but did offer to detain them for trial in Libya, as long as all the incriminating evidence was provided.

Zerzura was long rumored to have existed deep in the desert west of the Nile River in Egypt or Libya.

Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime in Libya had a long and well-documented history of support for rebel and paramilitary groups.

The Aozou Strip ( dark green ), claimed and occupied by Libya between 1976 and 1987, and territories held by Libyan-backed GUNT-forces ( light green )

In August 1981, in the first incident of the Gulf of Sidra, two Libyan jets fired on U. S. aircraft participating in a routine naval exercise over international waters of the Mediterranean Sea claimed by Libya.

Under protest from the PLO, Iraq, and Libya, who claimed that because Abu Daoud was traveling to a PLO comrade's funeral he should receive diplomatic immunity, the French government refused a West German extradition request on grounds that forms had not been filled in properly, and put him on a plane to Algeria before Germany could submit another request.

Libya has in the past claimed a strip along their border of about 19, 400 km² in northern Niger.

Only eight African countries are not geopolitically a part of Sub-Saharan Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara ( claimed by Morocco ), Sudan and South Sudan, they form the UN subregion of Northern Africa which also makes up the largest bloc of the Arab World.

International disputes :: part of Algeria's south-eastern region is also claimed by Libya ; Algeria supports the exiled Polisario Front of the Western Sahara ; it rejects the Moroccan administration of the Western Sahara ; some countries question Algeria's use of capital punishment.

He also denied ever traveling to Iran or Libya, and claimed that North Korea's nuclear program was well advanced before his visit.

( Edwin P. Wilson claimed he had seen a telegram showing that Libya paid Billy Carter two million dollars.

As printed by Solidarity, the report claimed £ 1, 075, 163 had been received by the group from Libya and several Middle Eastern governments, between 1977 and 1983.

In 1973, Libya claimed the Gulf of Sidra as a closed bay and part of its territorial waters.

In 1973 Libya claimed much of the Gulf of Sidra as its territorial waters and subsequently declared a " line of death ", the crossing of which would invite a military response.

Libya denied these charges as well, notwithstanding that it claimed they were " heroic operations carried out by the sons of the martyrs of Sabra and Shatila.

Two recent conflicts occurred in the Gulf of Sidra where Libya has claimed the entire gulf as its territorial waters and the U. S. has twice enforced freedom of navigation rights, in the 1981 and 1989 Gulf of Sidra incidents.

About the situation in Libya, she claimed that the confrontations pertained to a civil war in which France's interest was not to interfere.

Prior to the team's final game in the qualification campaign, against Zambia, coach Marcos Paquetá claimed that the team was now " not only playing for football success but for a new government and a new country ".< ref > 7 October 2011, < u > Libya eye unlikely qualification < u >, BBC Sport, Accessed October 8, 2011 .</ ref > The match was played on 8 October 2011, and resulted in a 0 – 0 draw which was good enough for both teams to qualify.

A brief filed by the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence on behalf of Gaddafi claimed that " there is no basis for asserting that the ICC should defer the case to Libya ".

The frontier claimed by the Chadian government was based on a 1955 treaty between France and Libya, which, in turn, referred back to an 1899 agreement between Great Britain and France about " spheres of influence ".

He claimed that the rebels of Libya, which had formed an alliance with NATO, were former members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group ( LIFG ) and that this same group was listed as a bona fide terrorist organization with the United Nations Security Council.

# Mebo's owner, Edwin Bollier, claimed that in 1991 the FBI offered him $ 4 million to testify that the timer fragment found near the scene of the crash was part of a Mebo MST-13 timer supplied to Libya.

For this reason, Susan and Daniel Cohen, parents of Pan Am Flight 103 victim Theodora Cohen, claimed that Libya had backed the film.

Sadr's son claimed that he remains secretly in jail in Libya but did not provide proof.

In response, an armed group called the Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya ( TFSL ) staged an uprising in November 2008 which lasted for five days and claimed 33 lives before being crushed by government security forces.

Libya reported that both pilots had ejected to safety, and claimed that an American fighter had been downed.

In 1986, the base was a primary target of Operation El Dorado Canyon ( see below ), a US retaliatory strike against Libya for Libyan missile attacks on US aircraft over Libya's claimed territorial waters in the Mediterranean Sea and alleged Libyan involvement in alleged terrorist attacks on US servicemen in Europe.