Muammar Gaddafi: Difference between revisions

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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, he 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.

===During the 2000's===

When [[Al-Qaeda]] perpetrated the [[September 11 attacks|September 11 terrorist attacks]] on the World Trade Center in New York City, Gaddafi publicly condemned their actions and attempted to rebuild relations with the United States. However, with the beginning of the War on Terror and the US' subsequent invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq, Gaddafi rescinded his attempts to reconcile with the US, believing that this was the wrong way to handle the situation. His stance on this only got stronger as the wars dragged on through the years.

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 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, he 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.
 ===During the 2000's===
 When [[Al-Qaeda]] perpetrated the [[September 11 attacks|September 11 terrorist attacks]] on the World Trade Center in New York City, Gaddafi publicly condemned their actions and attempted to rebuild relations with the United States. However, with the beginning of the War on Terror and the US' subsequent invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq, Gaddafi rescinded his attempts to reconcile with the US, believing that this was the wrong way to handle the situation. His stance on this only got stronger as the wars dragged on through the years.