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39
Wright,
The Emergence of Libya,
p. 333.
40
Ibid., p. 336.
41
Bisson, Bisson, and Fontaine,
La Libye
, p. 90.
42
Mustafa Ben Halim,
The Years of Hope
, English trans. (London, England: AAS Media Publishers, 1994), p. 119.
43
Not altogether different from US concept of “transformational democracy” more than fifty years later, according to which development assistance would go to countries that had made substantial progress toward democracy and the war on terror.
44
Ben Halim,
The Years of Hope
, p. 129.
45
Muḥammad Yūsuf al-Maqaryaf,
Lībīyā bayn al-Māḍī wa al-Ḥāḍir
, al-Qāhirah: Maktabat Wahbah, 2006, p. 95.
46
Gwyn Williams,
Green Mountain
, Dar Al Fergiani reprint (orig. London, England: Faber & Faber, 1963), p. 83.
47
Richard Goodchild,
Benghazi: The Story of a City
, Department of Antiquities Cyrenaical Libya, 1962 (Reprint), p. 26.
48
Gurney,
Libya: The Political Economy of Oil
, p. 42.
49
Dennis Gidney, “Esso Standard Libya Inc (ESL) Training and Development Program pre-1982,” unpublished.
50
aṣ-Ṣādiq an-Nayhūm,
al-Ḥaqīqah
, 1969, unknown publisher.
51
El Amrani, “Is there a Libya?”
52
Libyan human rights lawyer Azza Maghur, in the wake of the 2011 uprising, posted to Facebook rare photos of masses of women marching through downtown Benghazi in the early 1960s, demanding the right to vote—another sign of the unexpected mix of liberal and conservative currents coexisting in the east at this time.
53
Nicholas Hagger,
The Libyan Revolution
(Johannesberg, South Africa: Alternative Books, 2009), p. 56.
54
Musa Kusa, “The Political Leader and His Social Background: M. Qadafi, the Libya Leader” (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1978), unpublished MA thesis in sociology, p. 143.
55
Hagger,
The Libyan Revolution
, p. 54.
56
Mohammed Hassanein Heikal (then editor-in-chief of
Al Ahram
newspaper and a trusted advisor to Nasser and Sadat), arriving in Benghazi shortly after the coup, was said to have remarked famously: “Where is Abdulaziz?” (a reference to Shalhi), a remark many saw as a subterfuge to disguise Nasser's involvement and/or knowledge.
57
The year of Gaddafi's birth is unknown; he may have been twenty-six at the time.
58
This thesis evidences more than a little forethought on Kusa's part—and would certainly have been noticed by, and appealed to, Gaddafi for its well-articulated but still obvious praise for Gaddafi's “charismatic personality” and comparisons with Gandhi, Ataturk, and (indeed) Hitler as a leader able to forge powerful sociopolitical movements.
59
Kusa, “The Political Leader and His Social Background,” p. 142.
60
Douglas Kiker,
The Atlantic
, June 1970, quoted in Kusa, p. 60.
CHAPTER 2
1
See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dqn9Hwf-H0
; Agnelli: Fiat and the Network of Italian Power; Alan Friedman, New American Library, 1989, New York, p 194
2
Stephen Dorril,
MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service
(New York, NY: Touchstone, 2000), pp. 793–794.
3
Ibid., pp. 736–737.
4
Chorin interview with Ahmed Ibrahim Fagih, November 21, 2011.
5
Chorin interview with Ambassador David Mack, November 2011.
6
ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Šalġam,
Ašḫāṣ ḥawl al-Qaḏḏāfī
(Dubai: Dār al-Farǧiyānī/Madārik Publishers, 2012), p. 11.
7
Chorin interview with Omar Benhali , October 2011.
8
Fāṭimah ḤamrÅ«Å¡, “Hal Kān bi-Imkān WālidÄ« an Yuǧannib al-ʿĀlam DiktÅ«riyyat al-Qaḏḏāf'i?” (Was it possible that my father could have averted GaddafÄ«s dicatorship?)
al-Kalimah
, November 20, 2011.
9
Ḫālid MaḥmÅ«d, “LÄ«bÄ«yā: al-Istiqālāt taÊ¿á¹£if bi-l-Maǧlis al-IntiqālÄ« . . . wa ḤakÅ«mat al-KÄ«b Taltazim aá¹£-á¹¢amt,”
aš-Šharq al-Awsaṭ
, January 23, 2011.
10
Ibid.
11
Ġāzī bin ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Qusaybī,
al-Wazīr al-Murāfiq
, 2nd ed. (Beirut: Arab Center for Studies and Publishing, 2001), pp. 125–126.
12
Chorin interview with Ahmed Ibrahim al-Fagih in Cairo, November 25, 2011.
13
Chorin interview with Wayne White, April 2, 2012.
15
Bob Woodward,
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981–1987
(New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1987), p. 441.
16
Ḫālid MaḥmÅ«d, “ad-Duktur MaḥmÅ«d ǦibrÄ«l yukaÅ¡Å¡if li-aÅ¡-Å harq al-Awsaá¹­ Ê¿an Muḫaá¹­á¹­at al-QaḏḏāfÄ« li-l-Ê¿Awdah ʾilā as-Sulá¹­ah,”
aš-Šarq al-Awsaṭ
, October 18, 2001.
17
Dirk Vandewalle, “The Failure of Liberalization in the Jamahiriyya,” in
Qadhafi's Libya 1969–1994
, Dirk Vandewalle, ed. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995), p. 209.
18
Yahia Zoubir,
Islamisme Radical et Lutte Antiterrorist: Maghreb-Machrek
, no. 184 (Summer 2005): 53–66, p. 55.
19
Mohamed El Jahmi, “Libya and the U.S.: Qadhafi Unrepentant,”
Middle East Quarterly
, vol. XIII, Winter 2006, pp. 11–20.
20
Not to be confused with the United Arab Republic, linking Egypt and Syria from 1958 to 1961.
21
John Wright,
The Emergence of Libya
(London, England: Silphium Press, 2008), p. 347.
22
Issam M. Hajjaji, “Healthcare in Libya,” unpublished article, January 2012.
23
Waniss A. Otman and Erling Karlberg,
The Libyan Economy: Economic Diversification and International Repositioning
(Springer: Berlin, 2007), pp. 146–147.
24
Hajjaji, “Healthcare in Libya.”
25
This achievement should be measured against what he did
not
do, given the vast resources at the regime's disposal, and the fact that within twenty years of his assumption of rule, more than 20 percent of the population would be either below international development institutions' measures of poverty, or unemployed, or both.
26
Dirk Vandewalle,
Libya Since Independence: Oil and Statebuilding
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998), p. 81.
27
Ibid., p. xxiv.
28
Ibid., p. 66.
29
Ibid., p. 67.
30
Omar El Fathaly and Monte Palmer, “Institutional Development in Qadhafi's Libya,” in
Qadhafi's Libya 1969–1994
, Vandewalle, ed., p. 171.
31
Ibid., p. 161.
32
George Joffe, “Qadhafi's Islam in Historical Perspective,” in
Qadhafi's Libya 1969–1994
, Vandewalle, ed., p. 149.
33
Musa Kusa, “The Political Leader and His Social Background: M. Qadafi, the Libya Leader,” unpublished master's thesis in sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1978, p. 81.
34
Chorin interview with Benhalim, May 31, 2012.
35
Vandewalle,
Libya Since Independence
, p. xxvi.
36
Vandewalle, “The Failure of Liberalization in the Jamahiriyya,” in
Qadhafi's Libya 1969–1994,
Vandewalle, ed., p. 210.
37
Moncef Ouannes,
Militaires, Elites et Modernisation dans la Libye contemporaine
(Paris: L'Harmatta, 2009), pp. 102–109.
38
Hanspeter Mattes, “The Rise and Fall of the Revolutionary Committees,” in
Qadhafīs Libya 1969–1994
, Vandewalle, ed., p. 97;
ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Šalġam, Ašḫāṣ ḥawl al-Qaḏḏāfī
, p. 470.
39
Aḥmad Ibrāhīm al-Faqīh,
aṭ-Ṭāġiyyah fi-t-Tarīḫ, Muqaddimah fi Tašrīḫ aṭ-Ṭāġiyyah
, unpublished, 2011, p. 46.
42
Woodward,
Veil
, p. 367.
43
Aḥmad Ibrāhīm al-Faqīh,
aṭ-Ṭāġiyyah fi-t-Tarīḫ, Muqaddimah fi tašrīḫ aṭ-Ṭāġiyyah
, unpublished, 2011, p. 57.
44
Otman and Karlberg,
The Libyan Economy
, p. 54.
45
The International Court of Justice gave the Aouzou strip back to Chad in 1994.
46
“Aseer harb Tchad yarwi hikayatih,” Abdelaziz ‘Isa in
Wifaq Libya
, October 29, 2011, p. 6.
47
al-Faqīh.
aṭ-Ṭāġiyyah fi-t-Tarīḫ
, p. 26.
48
William J. Foltz, “Libya's Military Power,” in
The Green And the Black
, René Lemarchand, ed. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana Universtiy Press, 1988), pp. 62–66.
50
Ġāzī bin ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Qusaybī,
al-Wazīr al-Murāfiq
, 2nd ed. (Beirut: Arab Center for Studies and Publishing, 2011), p. 123.
51
Moncef Djaziri, “La Crise de Lockerbie,” in
L'annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
(Paris: CNRS, 2000), p. 187.
52
Michael J.Graetz, “Energy Policy: Past or Prologue?,”
Daedalus
, Spring 2012, p. 32.
53
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre,
The Fifth Horseman
(New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980).
54
Chorin interview with Ambassador David Mack, December 2011.
55
Djaziri, “La Crise de Lockerbie,” p. 184.
56
Ronald Bruce St. John,
Libya and the United States: Two Centuries of Strife
(Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), p. 10.
57
IbrāhÄ«m al-FaqÄ«h, “aṯ-á¹®awrah aÅ¡-Å aÊ¿biyyah al-LÄ«bÄ«yyah Tataḥawwil ʾilā Ḥarb TaḥrÄ«r,”
al-Mušāhid
, (unknown date), pp. 25-26.
58
al-Faqīh.
aṭ-Ṭāġiyyah fi-t-Tarīḫ
, p. 82.
59
Moncef Ouannes,
Militaires, Elites et Modernisation dans la Libye contemporaine
(Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009), p. 261.
60
al-Faqīh,
aṭ-Ṭāġiyyah fi-t-Tarīḫ
, p. 82.
62
Otman and Karlberg,
The Libyan Economy
, p. 380.
63
Ibrahim, an uncle of Information Minister Ibrahim Musa, was captured in Sirte with Gaddafi on October 20, 2011; see
http://vivalibya.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/urgent-appeal-for-the-life-of-ahmed-ibrahim
.
64
Brownbook, Issue 22, Dubai.
65
John Biewen and Ian Ferguson, “Shadow Over Lockerbie,” American RadioWorks, March 2000.
66
Milton Viorst, “The Colonel in His Labyrinth,”
Foreign Affairs
, March-April 1999.
67
French investigative journalist Péan argues the motive for the UTA bombing was “non-respect of promises made by France for Iran's assistance in freeing three French hostages in Lebanon,” a charge made by a correspondent for the Lebanese newspaper
aš-Šūrā
subsequent to the the attack.
68
ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Šalġam, Ašḫāṣ ḥawl al-Qaḏḏāfī
, p. 430.
69
Chorin interview, source requested anonymity.
70
Mustafa Ahmed Benhalim, “Muthakiraat ra'is wuzara' Libya al asbaq” (London, England: Alhani publishers, 1992), dedication.
71
Chorin interview with Ahmed Ibrahim al-Fagih, November 21, 2011.
72
Ouannes,
Militaires
, p. 104.
73
Ammar Al Mabruk Iltif,
Libya: National Report on Human Development
(Tripoli, Libya: National Authority of Information and Documentation, 2002).
74
Ibid., p. 163.
75
Ibid., p. 81.
76
ʿĀdil al-ǦawǧirÄ«, “al-Ḫaá¹­ar Ê¿alā an-Niẓām min ad-Dāḫil, Lā min Muʿāraḍat al-Ḫāriǧiyyah,”
al-Wasaá¹­
, February 8, 1993.
77
Ibid.
78
Ibid., p. 33.
79
Chorin interview, 2005, source requested anonymity.
80
“Libyan Arab Airlines flight 1103—Freedom opens up abuses of Libya's past,” see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rLt_LbAx0c
.
81
Luis Martinez,“Libye: Transformations socio-Economiques et mutations Politiques sous l'embargo,” (p. 211) in
Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
, tome XXXVII, CNRS Editions, 1998, pp. 205–225.
82
Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2003), p. 195.
83
Danielle Bisson, Jean Bisson, and Jacques Fontaine,
La Libye: A la Decouverte d'un Pays
, Tome 1: Identite Libyenne, L'harmattan Paris, 1999, p. 140.

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