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30 lip 2021 · They saw a face that had been ubiquitous on Libyan state television: Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the second son of the country’s notorious dictator and one of the rebels’ chief targets.
The United States Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps carried out air strikes, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, against Libya on 15 April 1986 in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque bombing ten days earlier, which U.S. President Ronald Reagan blamed on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
3 maj 2016 · The 1988 bombing killed 270 people, including 189 U.S. citizens. Just one man, a Libyan, was ever convicted for the attack, and even though Libya’s former leader, Muammar Qaddafi, for years...
Despite its popular support in the US, the raid was widely condemned by European nations, who felt that Libya and other Arab nations would set out to avenge the 39 civilians killed in the attack; a death toll reported to include Gaddafi's adopted daughter.
20 paź 2021 · Libya has not managed to emerge from the conflict that preceded dictator Moammar al-Gadhafi's death on October 20, 2011. Parliamentary elections scheduled for December have been postponed....
19 gru 2012 · On 1 September 1969, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi seized power in Libya, abolishing a pro-Western monarchy and launching a revolution that combined elements of Nasserism and Islamic radicalism.
8 wrz 2021 · More than 700,000 migrants are currently stranded in Libya, according to the International Rescue Committee, which calls the journey that Precious took “the world’s most dangerous migration ...
