Taking them on.Taking Them On Not content with taking on the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi Noun 1. Muammar el-Qaddafi - Libyan leader who seized power in a military coup d'etat in 1969; deposed the Libyan monarchy and imposed socialism and Islamic orthodoxy on the country (born in 1942) Gaddafi, Khadafy, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Qaddafi, Qadhafi has reactivated demands, dating from the Second World War, for reparations reparations, payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to supposedly due the Libyan government from Italy, Germany, and Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. . Italy, which ruled Libya as colonial territory for many years, and harshly during the Mussolini period, is the chief target of the claims. In that era, Libyan authorities say, 27,000 Libyans died as victims of Italian colonialism, including almost six thousand executed opposition guerrillas. There is a claim for minefield damage and another for damage to domestic animals killed in bombardments during the war. The Italians say they fulfilled any obligations by paying a large sum to the pre-Quddafi Libyan government in 1956. Much more recently, the Italians sent Qaddafi a set of maps showing the location of Axis minefields, with an offer to supply engineers and demolition experts to clear them. The offer was never acknowledged. Brochures distributed here also allege that at the end of the war, Great Britain simply replaced the Axis powers Axis Powers Coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II. The alliance originated in a series of agreements between Germany and Italy, followed in 1936 by the Rome-Berlin Axis declaration and the German-Japanese Anti-Comintern as the colonial authority. Britain ended all military connections with Libya when the Royal Air Force evacuated its base at El Adem in 1970. |
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