| | 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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