* 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.

As of 2005, its commander was Hasan al-Kabir al-Gaddafi, a cousin of the former Libyan leader.

The sincerity of the good faith efforts of the Libyan government may be questionable since Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri, told a U. S. diplomat in 2009 that the Libyans were willing to host wounded Guinean junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara after a failed assassination attempt in 2009.

The recall was in responses to a suggestion by Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, that Nigeria should separate into a Muslim northern state and a Christian southern state.

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.

In 1981, Somalia broke diplomatic relations with Libya, claiming that Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi was supporting the SSDF and the nascent SNM, but relations were restored a few years later in 1985 and have since been good.

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi ended his aid to the Christian and animist, southern-based, Sudanese People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) led by Garang and welcomed the incoming government of General Sawar Dhahab.

* September 16 – Omar Mukhtar, the leader of Libyan resistance ( b. 1862?

** Gulf of Sidra incident ( 1981 ): Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U. S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra.

* 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 ).

* October 20 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan leader ( b. 1942 )

* Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was indicted for allegedly ordering the killings of protesters and civilians during the 2011 Libyan civil war, however he was killed before he could stand trial in October 2011.

Progress came to a grinding halt in August 1971, when an attempted coup d ' état with links to Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi was uncovered.

* Omar Mukhtar ( 1862 – 1931 ), Libyan resistance leader

On 26 August 2011 it was reported that Storm Shadows had been deployed against a military bunker in Sirte, the home town of Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.

* Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi stated that Garaudy is " Europe's greater philosopher since Plato and Aristotle.

Personalities and groups associated with Arab nationalism include Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab Nationalist Movement, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party which came to power in Syria and Iraq for some years, and its founder Michel Aflaq.

Mesić improved Croatian foreign relations with Libya by exchanging visits with the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, contrary to the wishes of U. S. and British diplomacy.

Then the two Sukhois split as they flew past the Americans ; the leader turning to the northwest and the wingman turning southeast in the direction of the Libyan coast.

Shortly afterwards, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa stated that " Libya has decided an immediate ceasefire and an immediate halt to all military operations ".

* In March 2004, a Libyan official stated that the country has never produced anti-personnel mines, but is known to have laid land mines in the 1970s and 1980s.

He stated " The Libyan security services blew up the plane.

The Libyan ambassador to Italy stated that Gaddafi controlled illegal immigration to meet his goals-" he wanted to turn Lampedusa black with Africans ".

On May 24, 2011, McKinney appeared on state-run television in Libya and stated that United States participation in military intervention in the 2011 Libyan civil war was "... not what the people of the United States stand for and it's not what African-Americans stand for ".

Ali Mohammed Salem, deputy governor of Central Bank of Libya stated the exchange rate of Libyan dinar would be pegged to special drawing rights for one to three years, according to an interview to Reuters on 27 December 2011.

However, during the 2011 Libyan civil war, she expressed support of the Libyan opposition ; on February 26, 2011, she released a press release which stated, " stronger penalties must be imposed in order to hold the regime accountable for its heinous crimes, and to prevent further violence against the Libyan people ".

Shayler stated that MI6 had been involved in a failed assassination attack on Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi in February 1996 without the permission of the then foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind.

Scheuer has stated his objection to any involvement by the US in the Libyan insurgency, being particularly critical of the work of United States ' UN representative Susan E. Rice, calling the whole affair " none of our business " and essentially a " recruiting tool for terrorists.

He stated that the commission was intended to be " for members of Libyan and foreign organizations of human rights " and that it will " investigate the circumstances and events that have caused many victims.

" Later in the month, he went on state television to deny allegations that the government had launched airstrikes against Libyan cities and stated that the number of protesters killed had been exaggerated.

A Libya Telecom spokesman stated to Blue: " Pornography and adult material aren't allowed under Libyan Law ...

That the Meshwesh were of Libyan origin is explicitly stated in a genealogy contained on the stela of Pasenhor ( dated to the reign of Shoshenq V, where the Great Chiefs of the Meshwesh ( including the kings of the 22nd Dynasty ) are stated to be the descendants of " Buyuwawa the Libyan.

He also stated that " It was clear that three months was what they ( the Libyan government ) were aiming for " adding that " On the balance of probabilities, he felt he could sort of justify that.

Additionally Clinton stated that having already raised the question of al-Megrahi's return to a Scottish prison with the leadership of the NTC, she would raise the matter again once a Libyan government had been formed.

In direct contradiction to the co-pilot's own account the Libyan government stated that the attack occurred without warning.

The emir would eventually become king of the free Libyan state.

The goal, according to the Libyan press, would be to assemble an army of one million men and women fighters to prepare for the great Arab battle – “ the battle of liberating Palestine, of toppling the reactionary regimes, of annihilating the borders, gates, and barriers between the countries of the Arab homeland, and of creating the single Arab Jamahiriya from the ocean to the gulf ”.

Dally is inclined to the view that Libyan infantry would have copied the Iberian use of the sword during their fighting there and so were armed similarly to the Romans.

In the 1970s, during the international petrol crisis, he sold part of the company to Lafico, a Libyan company owned by Colonel Qaddhafi ; Agnelli would later repurchase these shares, however.

On July 18, 2011, former Libyan foreign minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham, who had defected from the Libyan government in March at the beginning of what would become the 2011 Libyan civil war, told al-Hayat that the Libyan government was responsible for the bombing of UTA Flight 772.

This new state would have Constantinople as its capital: it would be the " Greece of Two Continents and Five Seas " ( Europe and Asia, and the Ionian, Aegean, Marmara, Black, and Libyan Seas, respectively ).

Once the Libyan Central Bank receives most of the assets that had been internationally frozen during the civil war, it is probable that local banks would ease these restrictions.

In March 1991, with the Cold War nearly over, Johns told The New York Times that the U. S. State Department's repeated denunciations of Muammar al-Gaddafi and threats of military conflict with the Libyan leader were becoming monotonous and counterproductive and the U. S. would be better served by simply developing " policies to curb his power projection.

This parallel event was cancelled, however, following a press release from the Libyan authorities that " The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya will pleasantly provide entry visas to all the qualified participants of this great Championship ", which was taken by most ( including FIDE ) to mean that all players, including Israelis, would be welcome to take part.

On April 14, 1986 Andreotti revealed to Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham that the United States would bomb Libya the next day in retaliation for the Berlin disco terrorist attack which had been linked to Libya.

The conflict would have ended there, had not two of the mercenary commanders, Spendius and Mathos, persuaded the Libyan conscripts in the army to accept their leadership, and then

Ronald Reagan is credited with increasing spending on national defense and diplomacy which contributed to the end of the Cold War, deploying U. S. Pershing II missiles in West Germany in response to the Soviet stationing of SS-20 missiles near Europe, negotiating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ( INF ) to substantially reduce nuclear arms and initiating negotiations with the Soviet Union for the treaty that would later be known as START I, proposing the Strategic Defense Initiative, a controversial plan to develop a missile defense system, re-appointing monetarists Paul Volcker and ( later ) Alan Greenspan to be chairmen of the Federal Reserve, ending the high inflation that damaged the economy under his predecessors Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, lowering tax rates significantly ( under Reagan, the top personal tax bracket dropped from 70 % to 28 % in 7 years ) and leading a major reform of the tax system, providing arms and other support to anti-communist groups such as the Contras and the mujahideen, selling arms to foreign allies such as Taiwan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq ( see Iran – Iraq War ), greatly escalating the " war on drugs " with his policies and Nancy Reagan's " Just Say No " campaign, ordering the April 14, 1986 bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for an April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub frequented by U. S. servicemen, in which the Libyan government was deemed complicit, and signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which compensated victims of the Japanese American Internment during World War II.

It appeared as early as March 7, 2011, when a Reuters article wrote that Britain's vision of a no-fly zone over the country would be " likely to experience " mission creep " and move closer to U. S. thinking on the need to target ( Libyan leader ) Gaddafi's defenses ".

" Hundreds of documents retrieved from Libyan foreign ministry offices in Tripoli following the 2011 Libyan civil war show that the CIA and the United Kingdom's MI6 rendered suspects to Libyan authorities knowing they would be tortured.

He also confirmed that the release of the medics would allow him to perform an official visit to Libya to meet the Libyan president to negotiate other international issues.