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First settled by the Berbers, Libya was ruled by Carthage, Rome
and the Vandals, the Ottomans, Italy from 1912 and Britain and
France after World War II. It became an independent
constitutional monarchy on January 2, 1952. In 1969 a junta led
by Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi seized power. In the mid-1970s Libya
helped arm violent revolutionary groups in Egypt and Sudan. The
Soviet Union has sold Libya advanced arms and established close
political ties. Libya and Egypt fought several air and land
battles along their border in July 1977. Chad charged Libya with
military occupation of its uranium-rich northern region in 1977.
Libya's 1979 offensive into Chad was repulsed and Libya withdrew
from Chad in 1981 and 1987, leaving over $1 billion in military
equipment. Widespread nationalization, corruption and the fall
in the price of oil has hurt Libya's economy. On May 6, 1981,
The United States closed the Libyan mission in Washington. In
August, 2 Libyan jets were shot down by U.S. Navy planes. Great
Britain severed diplomatic relations on April 22, 1984 after the
death of a British policewoman and the wounding of 10 Libyan
exile demonstrators by machine-gun fire from within the Libyan
embassy in London. The United States accused Libyan leader
Qaddafi of ordering the April 5, 1986 bombing of a West German
discotheque killing two U.S. servicemen. The U.S. responded by
sending warplanes to attack targets in Tripoli and Benghazi
on April 14, 1986. @