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In October 2010, the domain of "sex-positive" URL shortening service vb.ly, which was registered in 2009 by Violet Blue and Ben Metcalfe, was seized by the Libyan web authorities for not being compliant with the law of Libya.

2003 in Scotland

24 November - The High Court in Glasgow imposes a minimum sentence of 27 years for Al Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

2007 Arab League Summit

According to Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham, Libya boycotted the summit in protest of the lack of “seriousness” of Arab countries.

Abdurrahim El-Keib

In 2006 he left Alabama to chair the EE Department at The Petroleum Institute in the UAE (where El-Keib remained until he joined the Libyan Transitional National Council as one of its representatives for Tripoli in the summer of 2011).

Afghan War prisoner escapes

In July 2005, Omar al-Faruq, the highest-ranked prisoner at the base and one of the highest-ranked al-Qaeda officers ever captured, escaped along with Libyan Abu Yahya al-Libi, Saudi Muhammad Jafar Jamal al-Kahtani and Syrian Abdullah Al-Shami.

André Liohn

In 2012, with fellow photographers Christopher Morris, Jehad Nga, Bryan Denton, Lynsey Addario, Eric Bouvet and Finbarr O'Reilly, he created the project Almost Dawn in Libya, four photo exhibits in the main Libyan cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Misurata and Zintan.

Atiyah Abd al-Rahman

The Washington Post reported that another prominent Libyan exile, Noman Benotman, he was sent to Algeria in the 1990s to serve as an envoy to a group they said was then known as the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).

Battle of Benghazi

First Battle of Benghazi, part of the Libyan civil war, fought 17-20 February, 2011

Second Battle of Benghazi, part of the Libyan civil war, fought 19-20 March, 2011

Battle of Panormus

Towards the end of 252 BC or early 251 BC, Carthage had put down a Libyan revolt in Africa and sent an army under the command of Hasdrubal, son of Hanno the Great, to Sicily.

Battle of Sirte

Battle of Sirte may refer to military events, either in the Gulf of Sidra or in the Libyan city of Sirte located on its shore.

Battle of Zawiya

The First Battle of Zawiya, fought between pro- and anti-Gaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war from 24 February to 10 March 2011

The Second Battle of Zawiya, fought between pro- and anti-Gaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war starting on 13 August 2011

Bayle St. John

During a residence of two years in Egypt he wrote The Libyan Desert (1849), and while in Egypt he learnt Arabic and visited the oasis of Siwa.

Bombing of Libya

1986: Ouadi Doum air raid, a French campaign during the Chadian–Libyan conflict

Branko Smiljanić

Also in his first year with Al-Ittihad he won the Libyan Premier League, Libyan Cup, Libyan SuperCup and lead the team to the CAF Champions League semi-final for the first time in the club and Libyan football history.

Central Bank of Libya

In March 2011, the governor of CBL, Farhat Bengdara, resigned and defected to the rebelling side of the Libyan civil war, having first arranged for the bulk of external Libyan assets to be frozen and unavailable to the Gaddafi regime.

Fezzan

Fezzan was a stronghold for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi through much of the Libyan civil war, though starting in July, anti-Gaddafi forces began to gain ground, taking control of the region's largest city of Sabha in mid-to-late September.

Free Patriotic Union

It has been founded and led by the Libyan-raised petroleum entrepreneur Slim Riahi.

Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi

The newspaper reported that in 2005, Gaddafi, then a student in Copenhagen, had directed the abduction and beating of a Libyan national at the home of the Libyan consul in Gentofte.

Ilija Lončarević

In April 2005, however, Lončarević was appointed head coach of the Libyan national team for a second time, after their previous coach, Mohamed El Khemisy, resigned from the post following a 4-1 defeat to Egypt in the World Cup qualifiers.

Jay Bothroyd

During his time at Perugia, he befriended then-Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's third son, Al-Saadi Gaddafi.

Kano Accord

The Kano Accord was a failure, for it offended Libyan interests by excluding pro-Libyan factions like Abba Siddick's "Original FROLINAT" and Ahmat Acyl's Volcan Army, that menaced to form a counter-government if excluded from the GUNT.

Lawrence Gonzi

Malta’s support for the Libyan revolution has been appreciated by the country’s new rulers and the chairman of the Transitional National Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has already made it clear that Malta will have a “distinguished role” in the rebuilding of Libya.

Libya lobby in the United States

The Libyan government has engaged a number of American firms who have disclosed their work under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, including White & Case, Blank Rome, The Livingston Group, and Monitor Group.

Libya–Malta relations

In 1980 an oil rig of the Italian company Saipem commissioned by Texaco to drill on behalf of the Maltese government 68 nautical miles south-east of Malta had to stop operations after being threatened by a Libyan gunboat.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103

Ali Aujali, who served as a Libyan diplomat both under Gaddafi and under the National Transitional Council, claims that Gaddafi ordered the flight to be shot down to demonstrate the negative effects of international sanctions imposed on Libya after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (LN 144) was a regularly scheduled flight from Tripoli to Cairo via Benghazi.

Libyan Investment Authority

On May 29, 2007, during a visit to Muammar Gaddafi by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, British Petroleum (BP) signed a $900 million exploration and production agreement with the Libyan National Oil Company.

Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation

The Libyan national television was broadcast via satellite to the Arab world and Europe via the satellites Arabsat and Hot Bird from 1997.

Libyan Sibyl

The Libyan Sibyl, named Phemonoe, was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Zeus Ammon Oracle (Zeus represented with the horns of Ammon) at Siwa Oasis in the Libyan Desert.

LORAN-C transmitter Lampedusa

The base commander, Lt. Kenneth Armstrong, received notice from U.S. Sixth Fleet Intelligence at La Maddalena that the Libyan fighters had been shot down, and immediately grounded the unarmed logistics flight, which was scheduled to move on to Tel Aviv.

Mansour Kikhia

Mansour Mohamed El-Kikhia (Member of the interim Libyan National Transitional Council).

Matthew VanDyke

In February, the Libyan civil war began, and VanDyke was in contact with several of his Libyan friends in Tripoli, Libya via email and Facebook.

Mercenary revolt

The Mercenary War (c. 240 BC) (also, Libyan War or Truceless War): an uprising of mercenary armies formerly employed by Carthage, backed by Libyan settlements revolting against Carthaginian control

Mustafa Krer

In December 2004, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew and Libyan Prime Minister Shukri Muhammed Ghanem discussed the case.

Naraggara

The name Naraggara, a Libyan inscription, suggests a pre-Roman origin for the city, along with the name being bilingual in Latin and Neo-Punic.

Nihad Awad

CAIR spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, said that the organization did not receive any money from the Libyan government.

Order of Katonga

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni decorated the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on 6 April 2004 in Tripoli, honouring him for his contribution to the National Resistance Army (NRA) bush struggle that liberated Uganda from dictatorship, adding that Colonel Gaddaffi has always been at the forefront of the liberation of Africa and unification of the continent.

Paolo Caccia Dominioni

During his engineer's career in prewar Egypt, he developed a deep friendship with the Belgian expatriate Vladimir Peniakoff – later to be known as Popsky, creator and leader of a World War II SAS special unit nicknamed Popsky Private Army (PPA) – with whom he toured the Libyan and Egyptian desert: the same desert that would see few years later the two friends facing each others as enemies when World War II broke out.

Paul F. Lorence

On April 14, 1986, in response to acts of terrorism then believed, and now absolutely known, to have been sponsored by Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi – in particular, the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing of April 6 – and against the backdrop of heightened tension and clashes between the Libyan and U.S. navies over the disputed Gulf of Sidra, the United States launched a surprise attack on targets in Tripoli and other parts of Libya.

Qasr Ahmad

Qasr Ahmad is the location of major commercial and financial activities of the Libya government, being the ground soil of the first Libyan free economic zone project, the headquarters and factories of the Libyan Iron and Steel Company, and the administration of major private Libyan banks.

Rail transport in Libya

On 10 June 2007 a contract was signed with American General Electric Co. for supply of locomotives and training of Libyan nationals in operational and maintenance work.

Sarah Besan Shennib

Sarah Besan is a direct descendent of the House of Shennib, great-granddaughter of Sir Omar Faiek Shennib, founder of the current House of Shennib Head of Royal Libyan Court (the Royal Diwan), Minister of Defenc and Vice President of National Assembly of Libya.

The Maltese Double Cross – Lockerbie

A former CIA operative, Oswald LeWinter says the appointment of 'Libyan dirty tricks expert', Vincent Cannistraro, to head the CIA's team investigating Lockerbie 'would be funny, if it were not an obscenity';

Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya

In February 2011, forces commanded by Issa Abdel Majid Mansur briefly controlled Murzuq and Qatrun, being later repelled by Libyan government troops.

Wefaq Sabratha

Wefaq Sabratha(وفاق صبراته) is a Libyan football club based in Sabratha, Libya.


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