| December 11, 2007 | - President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to France on Human Rights Day.
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Washington Post
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| July 25, 2007 | -
Bulgarian medics who allegedly infected 426 Libyan children with HIV were pardoned and released by their home government.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| July 2, 2007 | - In Nairobi
Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi, surrounded by his squad of female bodyguards and wearing a shirt printed with pictures of the African presidents, called for the creation of a “United States of Africa” and implied that he should be its first leader.
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Telegraph
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| June 29, 2007 | -
Scottish jurists cast doubt on the conviction of a Libyan intelligence official jailed for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
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KUNA
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MSNBC
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LA Times
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USA Today
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Toronto Star
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| October 12, 2006 | -
Libya announced that it would provide laptop computers for 1.2 million schoolchildren.
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AP via local6.com
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| May 15, 2006 | - The United States announced that it would renew full diplomatic relations with Libya.
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BBC News
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| February 19, 2006 | - Riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed. In Volgograd, Russia, officials closed the city newspaper after it published a cartoon that showed Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, and Buddha watching TV together. Fifteen thousand people protested the cartoons in London. “We have to speak up,” said a Muslim demonstrator, “to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening.”
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CNN.com
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The New York Times
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| December 18, 2004 | - and Muamar Qaddafi said President Bush couldn't have won the election without him.
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New York Times
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| June 10, 2004 | - There were reports of a Libyan plot to assassinate the Saudi royal family.
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New York Times
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| April 28, 2004 | - "Brother Guide" Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya arrived in Brussels, along with his white stretch Mercedes limo and four female bodyguards wearing tight uniforms, to meet with European officials. He called on the United States and China to rid themselves of nuclear and chemical weapons. "Hopefully," he said, "nothing will force us to go back to the days when we used our cars and explosive belts."
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New York Times
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| April 5, 2004 | - The Treasury Department indicated that scholarly publications might be able to edit articles produced by evil countries such as Iran, Cuba, Libya, or North Korea without risking fines of up to $500,000 and ten years in prison.
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New York Times
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| March 28, 2004 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, speaking of Pakistan's
nuclear-weapons trafficking, said, "I do not believe that there's any evidence or any suggestion that President Musharraf was involved." Musharraf, for his part, denied that he had made a deal with the Americans to crack down on Al Qaeda in return for lenient treatment for selling nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya, Iran, and others; he also denied that his country's proliferation had done much harm. "If I hand over a missile or a bomb to any extremist, believe me, he can do nothing about it," Musharraf said. "He cannot explode it."
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Reuters
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| February 6, 2004 | - The Bush Administration praised Pakistan after General Pervez Musharraf pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist who took the blame for selling nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea; Khan claimed that no one in the government or in the military was aware of his activities.
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MSNBC
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| December 20, 2003 | - Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya announced that he has given up trying to acquire unconventional weapons and that he'll be good from now on.
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Associated Press
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| December 4, 2001 | - Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, the Philippines, Indonesia, and North Korea were also being mentioned as future targets.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Abu Sayyaf, a militant Islamic group in the Philippines, received a ransom, arranged by Libya, of $1 million each for six European hostages and reportedly will spend its new fortune on arms, ammunition, 10 motorcycles, and a speedboat; the group also kidnapped an American, whom they said they might behead, and demanded $18 million.
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| January 27, 2000 | - Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, the 36-year-old son of Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was linked to attacks that killed 38 Iraqis, wounded 225, and destroyed 50 buildings in a Mosul slum. The London School of Economics graduate, known in Libya as “the Engineer” for his reputation as a reformer and an advocate of human rights, allegedly funds the Seifaddin Regiment, which is allied with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
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AP
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