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 Libya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Libya (Arabic: ليبيا;) is a country in North Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, located between Egypt on the east, Sudan on the southeast, Chad and Niger on the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
The sanctions were lifted on September 12, 2003, after Libya agreed to accept responsibility and make payment of US $2.7 billion to the families of those who died in the bombing.
On December 19, 2003, Libya admitted having had a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program and simultaneously announced its intention to end it and dismantle all existing WMD to be verified by unconditional inspections.
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 Why War? Keywords: Libya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Monday he is keeping in force a declaration of national emergency against Libya despite Moammar Gadhafi's pledge to scrap all elements of his chemical and...
An I.A.E.A. resolution on Libya, passed by the agency's board of governors on Wednesday, is part of that c...
The deadline for men from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria was Dec. 16, the first in a series of deadlines to end in...
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 LIBYA FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The '''Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Libya''' (Arabic: ليبيا;, transliterated ''Lībiyyā'') is a country in North_Africa, bordering the Mediterranean_Sea, located between Egypt on the east, Sudan on the southeast, Chad and Niger on the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
Relations between the UK and Libya became strained following the 1984_Libyan_Embassy_Siege, when shots were fired at a crowd of protesters, killing a policewoman, leading to a break in relations.
In practice, however, Libya is essentially a militarydictatorship, with Qadhafi ruling by decree, assisted by a small clique of military and political officials.
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 Libya - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Libya (Arabic: ليبيا;, transliterated Lībiyyā) is a country in North Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, located between Egypt on the east, Sudan on the southeast, Chad and Niger on the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
The name "Libya" derives from the ancient Egyptian term "Lebu", referring to Berber peoples living east of the Nile, and adopted into Greek as "Libya".
Natural hazards: hot, dry, dust-laden sirocco (known in Libya as the ghibli) is a southern wind lasting one to four days in spring and fall; dust storms, sandstorms.
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 Why War? Keywords: Libya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Israel and North Korea are classified as Red Flag countries, apart from I...
Under the program, all male visitors ages 16 to 45 from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria were ordered to register with the INS by Dec 16.
Monday was the deadline for nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria.
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 Libya
Libya's relations with the international community have been strained since 270 people were killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
April 1992: U.N. Resolution 748 imposed economic sanctions on Libya for refusing to extradite two Libyan nationals accused of carrying out the attack, and for not cooperating in the investigations of other bombings.
November 1993: U.N. Resolution 883 extended the sanctions to include a freeze on Libyan funds overseas, a ban on the sale of oil equipment for oil and gas export terminals and refineries, and tougher restrictions on civil aviation and the supply of arms.
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 Wikinfo | Libya
On December 19, 2003, Libya admitted having had a weapons of mass destruction programme and simultaneously announced an intention to end it and dismantle all existing WMD.
Libya has also agreed to limit its long range missiles to just 300km.
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 TradePort Country Profiles from World Trade Press
Libya's January 2002 devaluation of the official exchange rate of the dinar by 51 percent was originally devised to boost exports but only brought on higher inflation.
Libya continues to overproduce against its OPEC quotas, although these quotas are expected to change in the wake of the Iraqi-U.S. conflict.
Libya has been trying as of late to pay back long-standing debt in an effort to ingratiate itself with the international finance community.
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 Libya
The country, Libya, described below, was named after her.
Note that in ancient Greece, the word Libya is used in a broader meaning, encompassing all of Africa.
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 Libya - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
The Reagan administration saw Libya as an unacceptable player on the international stage because of its uncompromising stance on Palestinian independence, its support for revolutionary Iran in its 1980-1988 war against Saddam_Hussein's Iraq (''see Iran-Iraq_War''), and its backing for "liberation movements" in the developing world.
Among the victims of the April 14 attack was the adopted daughter of Qadhafi.
Libya's wars against other Arab states are discussed in the entry Middle_East_conflict ---- In Greek_mythology, Libya was a daughter of Memphis and Epaphus.
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 Libya - Foreign Affairs & Defence
And for many years Libya supported the mostly Christian rebels in southern Sudan, who are led by John Garang, as against the central government in Khartoum.
Libya's activism in Africa and the Mediterranean basin is motivated by a desire to be a regional power.
In the 1980s, Libya's reckless and adventurous intervention in the Third World was driven by Qadhafi's desire to disseminate his Third Universal Theory and his personal aspirations for worldwide recognition.
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 Libya
Main article: History of Libya Tripoli and Cyrenaica were Roman colonies; and were conquered by Arab Muslims in the 7th century.
The government is called a "jamahiriya," a modification of the Arabic word "jumhuriya" (republic) that translates loosely as "people's state." In practice, however, Libya is essentially a dictatorship, with Qadhafi ruling by decree, assisted by a small clique of military and political officials.
Main article: Economy of Libya Libya's economy under the current Prime Minister (Ghanem) is undergoing an incredible business boom.
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 Articles - Libya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
By the 19th century the area was an increasingly independent Ottoman province until it came under the control of Italy in 1912.
Since 1969 Libya has been ruled by Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, who came to power in a coup and deposed the Libyan monarchy of King Idris.
In 1980, the Libyan government paid Jimmy Carter's brother, Billy Carter, $220,000 to lobby for better diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya.
www.worldhammock.com /articles/Libya   (1244 words)

  
 Demographics of Laos -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Vientiane (The district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)) prefecture, the capital and largest city, had about 569,000 residents in 1999.
The demographic makeup of the population is uncertain as the government divides the people into three groups according to the altitude at which they live, rather than according to ethnic origin.
Ethnic (A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945) Vietnamese and (Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system) Chinese constitute about 1% of the population.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/De/Demographics_of_Laos.htm   (520 words)

  
 Demographics of Libya -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
(A military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Libya has a small population in a large land area.
More than half the population is urban, mostly concentrated in the two largest cities, (A port city and commerical center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea) Tripoli and (Port in northern Libya on the Gulf of Sidra; formerly a joint capital of Libya with Tripoli) Benghazi.
Small (A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara) Tuareg and Tebu tribal groups in southern Libya are (A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons) nomadic or seminomadic.
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 Libya - Gurupedia
Iran in its 1980-1988 war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq (see Iran-Iraq War), and its assistance for "liberation movements" in different parts of the world, many which were conducted by separatist terrorists such as: the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claimed as territorial waters but was not recognized internationally.
Libya was a daughter of Memphis and Epaphus.
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 Libya Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Libya (Arabic: ليبيا, transliterated Lībiyyā) is a country in North Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, located between Egypt on the east, Sudan on the southeast, Chad and Niger on the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
However the raid appeared to have had its desired effect as Lybian attacks against Americans became more subtle, with the exception of the Lockerbie bombing.
Does not border the Mediterranean, but is Mediterranean in its climate, fauna and flora.
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 Libya
Bulgarian nurses in Libya only obstacle to US-Libyan relations: L...
Libya disconnects phones in memory of 1911 Italian invasion
Libya dismisses asylum seeker in Morocco as mental patient
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 Demographics By Country Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
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 Arab American Demographics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
**Includes those from Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Every ten years, the Census takes the demographic pulse of the population, collecting information ranging from family size and citizenship to education, income, and occupation.
A question on “ancestry” or ethnic origin gives us a snapshot of that segment of the country, which identifies with an Arabic-speaking origin.
www.aaiusa.org /demographics.htm   (864 words)

  
 Libya - OneLook Dictionary Search
Libya : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Libya : The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
Phrases that include Libya: capital of libya, al jamaa al islamiyyah al muqatilah bi libya, communications in libya, demographics of libya, economy of libya, more...
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 GlobalCircle portal  L-M   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Laos geography, demographics, economy, modern history to 1994
Libya geography, demographics, economy, modern history to 1994
Lithuania geography, demographics, economy, modern history -to 1994
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 The world's top Libya websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Home / Top / Regional / Africa / Libya
Features map and brief descriptions of geography, economy, government, and people.
News from Libya gathered from various sources on the web.
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 Government Resources
Libya Demographic Data (from IDB Summary Demographic Data,
Libya Population (in Libya - A Country Study)
Libya Population Pyramid (from IDB Population Pyramids, U.S. Census Bureau)
library.louisville.edu /government/international/libya/libyacensus.html   (51 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lybia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Updated 258 days 19 hours 53 minutes ago.
Climate: Mediterranean along coast; dry, extreme desert interior
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 GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Africa - Libya - People Facts and Figures
GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Africa - Libya - People Facts and Figures
World > Africa > Libya > People (Facts)
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 The world's top libya websites
/ Top / Regional / Africa / Libya / Society_and_Culture / Issues / Human_Rights_and_Liberties
/ Top / Science / Social_Sciences / Archaeology / Regional / Africa / Libya
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