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  Libya - MSN Encarta
Aozou Strip, disputed area between Chad and Libya
Its support for the Palestine Liberation Organization later expanded to barely concealed subsidies for terrorists in other nations, and in the early 1980s the regime was believed to be linked to a campaign of assassinations directed against Libyan dissidents residing abroad.
In 1974 Libya seized a segment of Chadian territory known as the Aozou Strip, claiming rightful ownership of the region under a colonial-era treaty.
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 Chad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Libya invaded Chad in 1980, to help Oueddei remain in power and to forward an expansionist policy that projected to unify politically Libya and Chad.
Before, The Libyans had already occupied a narrow strip of land known as the Aouzou Strip in 1972-73.
Libya claimed and occupied the Aozou Strip (blue) from 1976 to 1987
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Libya
He used oil funds during the 1970s and 1980s to promote his ideology outside Libya, supporting subversives and terrorists abroad to hasten the end of Marxism and capitalism.
In addition, beginning in 1973, he engaged in military operations in northern Chad's Aozou Strip to gain access to minerals and to use as a base of influence in Chadian politics.
Chadian forces were able to force the Libyans to retreat from the Aozou Strip in 1987.
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