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In the 1970s and the 1980s, this support was sometimes so freely given that even the most unsympathetic groups could obtain Libyan support; often the groups represented ideologies far removed from Gaddafi's own.
During the 1980s, the West blamed him for numerous terrorist attacks in Europe, and in April 1986 U.S. war planes bombed Tripoli in retaliation for a bombing of a West German dance hall.
From 1912 to 1927, the territory of Libya was known as Italian North Africa. From 1927 to 1934, the territory was split into two colonies, Italian Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania, run by Italian governors. Some 150,000 Italians settled in Libya, constituting roughly 20% of the total population.
Feb 9, 2010 · Blending Islamic orthodoxy, revolutionary socialism and Arab nationalism, Qaddafi established a fervently anti-Western dictatorship in Libya. In 1970, he removed...
While the latter two goals persisted during the 1970s, Arab unification was de facto abandoned in 1974, despite subsequent agreements with Algeria in 1982 and Morocco in 1984. Instead, the second half of the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s were marked by more pragmatic Libyan foreign policy.
South America and the former Soviet Union in the late 1980s and 1990s, many of which were dominated by small groups of actors, control of the new Libya has been disputed by a variety of major actors. The principal constraint on Libya's transitional institutions is too little authority, not too much. Libya's nascent political institutions remain ...
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May 19, 2016 · For all these reasons, in 1981, Europe had a lukewarm reaction to American attempts to isolate Libya and ignored the efforts of US secretary of state Alexander M. Haig to convince Europeans to boycott Libyan products or engage in other economic sanctions.
