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  Calculator for Libyan Dinar (LYD) Currency Exchange Rate Conversion
Enter the amount to be converted in the box to the left of the currency and press the "convert" button.
The Libyan Dinar is the currency in Libya (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, LY, LBY).
The Libyan Dinar is divided into 1000 dirhams.
coinmill.com /LYD_calculator.html   (315 words)

  
  CAT Report - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1994)
Although Libyan law prescribes a penalty for an act of torture without defining that act, as in the case of article 435 of the Penal Code, article 17 of the Promotion of Freedom Act defines the nature of torture in the same terms as those embodied in article 1 of the Convention.
Libyan territory is deemed to include Libyan aircraft and ships, wherever they may be, unless they are subject to foreign legal jurisdiction under the terms of international law.
The corresponding provisions of Libyan legislation, deal with the competence of the national courts to hear the cases referred to in the provisions of articles 5, 6, 8 and 9 of the Convention.
www.law.wits.ac.za /humanrts/cat/libya1994.html   (6198 words)

  
 Libyan Constitutional Union - The Jews of Libya
The Libyan case appears to observers to be quite a simple case, like any of the dozens of similar cases that filled the third world over the latter half of this century.
We at the Libyan Constitutional Union (LCU) are certain that the manner in which the monarchist Libyan Government dealt with the events of June 1967 regarding its Jewish citizens accelerated the demise of the Libyan throne and coloured with hostility the choice of its replacement.
Attempts by The Libyan Constitutional Union to raise the Constitutional banner were stifled at birth, and the movement was isolated and kept in the dark to the extent that our call could only manage to break through barriers and reach the Libyan Opposition itself after 24 years of perseverance.
www.libyanconstitutionalunion.net /libjews.htm   (5097 words)

  
 Libya and the U.S.: The Unique Libyan Case - Middle East Quarterly
U.S. and Libyan officials could sequence resolution of their differences so as to build confidence, and the prospective rewards were large enough to create an incentive to resolve the outstanding differences.
In the mid-1990s, Britain negotiated an end to Libyan support for the Irish Republican Army and won Libya's acceptance of "general responsibility" for the shooting of a British police officer in front of the Libyan embassy in London in 1984.
Their distaste for the Libyan leadership, however, seems to have obscured the many ways in which Libya was a problem that lent itself to resolution.
www.meforum.org /article/886   (4207 words)

  
 Libya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Native Libyans are primarily a mixture of Arabs and Berbers.
Libyan Arabs have a heritage in the traditions of the nomadic Bedouin and associate themselves with a particular Bedouin tribe.
Family life is important for Libyan families, the majority of which live in apartment blocks and other independent housing units, with precise modes of housing depending on their income and wealth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libya   (5891 words)

  
 Libya: What happened and When?
The Libyan constitution was updated to declare that Libya is one nation and no more three states and the name was changed from The United Kingdom of Libya to The Kingdom of Libya.
The Libyan students in schools and universities marked the occasion by demonstrating in the streets and the police intervened and some students got shot.
Libyan students formed an independant union refusing to recognize a student union that was sponsered by the government.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa/libyans.htm   (2661 words)

  
 Libyan Wars, 1980-1989, Part 6
Exactly at this moment, when the Libyans were in better position to capture whole southern Chad than ever before, however, the tensions with the USA increased once again, and Libya was facing a confrontation in the Gulf of Sirte which it could not possibly win.
The Libyan supply routes were now much shortened, and they were able to reinforce their troops in Chad, bringing their strength to a peak of 14.500 troops.
Simultaneously, the remants of Libyan forces which retreated from Chad, were once again concentrated at the Tanoua and Ma’atan Bishrah oasis, where a new unit was organized along the same lines like Chadian highly-mobile troops, equipped with light vechilles and infantry-weapons, and placed under the command of Col. Ali Sheriff al-Rifi.
www.acig.org /artman/publish/article_360.shtml   (3813 words)

  
 YWAM Sahara - Libyan Arabs
With the military coup of 1969, Qadaffi proclaimed the new Libyan Arab Republic, or the Libyan Jamahiriya.
Until the early 90s Libyans were involved in the civil war in neighbouring Chad, and they finally withdrew from the Aouzou strip in the north in 1993.
Any Libyan Arab believers may be wary of gathering with other believers due to the pervasive secret policing and the fear of being betrayed, as well as being persecuted and punished for their faith.
www.gosahara.org /la.html   (2897 words)

  
 Libyan Health Professionals Arrested
They were convicted of intentionally infecting the children, despite evidence that the spread of HIV among these children began before the foreign workers arrived in Benghazi, and that unsafe medical conditions were likely the reason for the spread of the virus.
The 10 Libyans, nine police officers and a physician, accused of torturing the medics to extract false confessions are now facing trial for their crimes.
Libyan officials have discussed the possibility of releasing the Bulgarian nurses if the government of Scotland releases a Libyan national serving a life sentence in Scotland for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
www.phrusa.org /campaigns/action_alerts/libya.html   (1436 words)

  
 Libyan Iron And Steel Company
The Libyan Iron and Steel Company is one of the largest companies in the great Jamahiriya with an annual designed capacity of 1,324,000 ton of liquid steel.
The company is situated near the coastal city of Misurata, about 210km east of Tripoli on an area of 1,200 hectares.
Thus, The Libyan Iron and Steel Company has acquired the 12th European Award of quality for the year 1998, and it has also rewarded the international quality Certificate 9001/2000 (ISO) on 25/3/2002.
rd.business.com /index.asp?epm=s.1&bdcq=Libyan&bdcr=1&bdcu=http://www.libyansteel.com/&bdcp=&partner=2662601&bdcs=nwuuid-2662601-C61E24EE-BEA5-0568-E9B0-10450D842AD7-ym   (263 words)

  
 Moscow's Thriving Libyan Connection
Libyan oil revenues, primarily from Western oil-importing countries, became a major source of hard currency for the Soviets, who sorely needed cash to finance food and technology imports from the West without hindering their ongoing military expansion At the height of Qaddafi's military buildup, two Soviet ships unloaded weapons in Tripoli harbor each day.
Libyan security personnel are trained in Dresden, East Germany,27 and Qaddafi enjoys'access to Soviet and East German intelligence networks on matters concerning internal dissidents and foreign enemies.
Libyan intellectuals, students, middle-class businessmen, and government bureaucrats have become disenchanted with Qaddafils economic policies, his militarization of society, and his revo lutionary gibberish.
www.heritage.org /Research/MiddleEast/bg362.cfm   (3058 words)

  
 Libyan desert glass expedition
Libyan Desert Glass is a natural glass composed of nearly pure silica (98 wt %).
Chemical analyses show that the glass is locally enriched in meteoritic elements, with typical chondritic proportions.
The only explanation for these observations is that Libyan Desert Glass results from a meteorite impact on a silica-rich target.
www.saharamet.com /desert/impactite/glass.html   (153 words)

  
 afrol News - Controversy over "Libyan plot to kill Saudi Prince"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Financing Islamist movements through a Libyan charity, Mr Alamoudi claims he was to become a prominent brick in the network allegedly set up to organise the assassination.
The "Libyan plot" to kill Crown Prince Abdullah was made known to US media this week, although only described as an allegation under investigation.
The Libyan and Saudi leaders exchanged insults in March last year after Colonel Ghaddafi accused Crown Prince Abdullah of siding with the devil because he was supporting the US invasion of Iraq.
www.afrol.com /articles/13331   (702 words)

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