Editing Muammar Gaddafi (section)

===Activities in the 1990's===
In the 1980s, the Reagan Administration implemented sanctions against Gaddafi. Several other countries would follow suit. Gaddafi also faced growing opposition within his own borders as well during this time period, mostly from [[Militant Islam|militant Islamist]] groups such as the [[Muslim Brotherhood]]. In response, security forces raided mosques believed to be centers of counter-revolutionary preaching. In October 1993, elements of the increasingly marginalized army initiated a failed coup in Misrata, while in September 1995, Islamists launched an insurgency in Benghazi, and in July 1996 an anti-Gaddafist football riot broke out in Tripoli. The Revolutionary Committees experienced a resurgence to combat these Islamists.

Gaddafi claimed responsibility for the [[Lockerbie bombing]] of December 1988.<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/02/23/ex-minister-gaddafi-ordered-lockerbie Ex-Minister: Gaddafi Ordered Lockerbie], ''The Daily Beast''</ref>

In 1991, he met with Pakistani Prime Minister [[Nawaz Sharif]] and demanded Pakistan sell nuclear weapons to Libya. After Sharif refused, urging economic ties, Gaddafi insulted him by calling him a "corrupt politician", prompting Sharif to remove the Libyan ambassador to Pakistan, cancelling further talks until 1993 after Sharif resigned.

In 1995, feeling that previous peace accords were not enough, Gaddafi decided to expel all Palestinian refugees from Libya along with several foreign workers from countries such as Sudan, Iraq, etc, believing that Israel would create a Palestinian state without Palestinians. This move was widely condemned by various organizations such as the United Nations, the Arab League, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. This caused many Palestinian refugees to be stranded between the Libyan-Egyptian border, which only let through Palestinians coming in through Jordan or the Gaza Strip

Muammar Gaddafi was the intellectual author and key financier of the brutal war that left hundreds of thousands dead in Sierra Leone in West Africa in the 1990s perpetrated by [[Charles Taylor]] (currently imprisoned in Frankland). The war would not have happened in the first place had it not been for the desire of the Libyan leader to punish the rebel government of Sierra Leone.<ref name = Leone>[https://www.shout-africa.com/top-story/libya-indict-muammar-gaddafi-now-for-war-crimes-in-sierra-leone/ Libya: Indict Muammar Gaddafi now for War Crimes in Sierra Leone.], ''Shout Africa''</ref>