Moscow's Libyan tool. (Soviet Union's relations with Libya)

From: National Review | Date: June 6, 1986| Author: | Copyright information

IN THE great flood of international verbiage about the U.S. bombing of Libya, curiously little was said, either by politicians or in the media, about the true nature of Qaddafi's Soviet connection. Let me try to fill in some relevant details.

To the casual observer, Qaddafi has naturally seemed an eccentric phenomenon, self-generated, self-financed (through huge oil earnings, now mercifully dwindling), and above all self-motivated. True; and false. In its initial phase, the colonel's revolutionary-state philosophy claimed to be against both capitalism and Communism. Since ...

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