MuLtiCoLoR GEM CU 1980's DICTATOR KHADDAFI BILL 90% OFF
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MuLtiCoLoR GEM CU 1980's DICTATOR KHADDAFI BILL 90% OFF
Young MK w Nasser MK with Fidel Green Day! All Wrapped Up Making a Point Salutes Himself RED HOT LIBYA BANK NOTE Muammar Khaddafi is one of the most notorious rulers of the 20th Century, and also one of the craftiest. He has been in power since 1969, longer than our last 7 Presidents combined!!! This is the only currency in the world to depict Khaddafi. In fact, it shows him twice (once in the watermark). Unlike most Iraqi "Saddam" notes printed in many denominations and in very large quantities, this bill has always been, and will always be, very scarce. Saddam's portrait appeared on every series of notes that was circulated during his long rule. Khaddafi appears on just a handful of notes. Beautifully engraved in multi-colors, this bill has long been out of print yet remains in Gem Crisp Uncirculated condition due to the foresight of our "African" connection. Very limited supply. Get one while you can - they're not making any more of them and we can't replace our supply. We retail this incredible bill here in NYC for $40! SAVE 90% AT OUR SUPER STARTING PRICE!! LIMITED PROMOTIONAL OFFER TO SEE IF ANYONE IS PAYING ATTENTION!!! Some history.... The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (known as Libya) has always been torn between the different political and economic centers of North Africa. Bordering pharaonic Egypt, Libya shared its culture and two Libyan dynasties ruled Egypt between the 10th and 8th centuries BC. However such influences did not lead to a unified state. The Carthaginian and Roman empires on the western border further stressed this division. After the Arab conquest in the 7th century, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt became the new power centers. The development of maritime trade and the ensuing piracy turned Tripoli into one of the major Mediterranean ports, bringing European involvement which caused further intervention by the Turkish Sultan. In 1551, Suleiman the Magnificent annexed the region to the Ottoman Empire. A weakened central authority gave increasing autonomy to the governors precipitating independence movements. The beginning of the 19th century saw piracy again on Libya's shores; this was used as a pretext for US military intervention and in 1804 US forces attacked Tripoli. In 1837, Muhammad al-Sanussi founded a clandestine Muslim brotherhood (the Sanussi religious sect) which promoted resistance to Turkish domination, though the Italians really posed a greater threat. With the decline of the Ottoman Empire, Italy declared war on Turkey in 1911 and seized the Libyan coast, the northernmost Turkish possession in Africa. With the outbreak of World War I, the Italian presence was confined to Tripoli and Homs (Al-Khums) while the rest of the territory remained autonomous. At the end of the War Italy attempted to recover control of the territory but faced resistance for 20 years by Sidi Omar al-Mukhtar's forces. In 1931, al-Mukhtar was captured and executed and the Italians formally annexed the territory. From Egypt and Tunisia, the Sanussi brotherhood remained active and co-operated with the Allies in World War II. Muhammad Idris al-Sanussi, leader of the brotherhood, was recognized as Emir of Cyrenaica by the British. At the end of the conflict, the country was divided into an British zone (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica) and a French (Fezzan) governed from Chad. In 1949, a UN resolution restored legitimate union to the region and established the independent nation of Libya, with Idris al-Sanussi as leader for his religious authority. Idris consolidated his position with support from the powerful Turkish-Libyan families, military advisers from the US and Britain and transnational oil companies. In 1960, foreigners settled in the country, as the oil began to flow in great quantities. In 1966, Muammar al-Khaddafi, the son of Bedouin nomads, founded the Union of Free Officials in London, where he was studying. He returned to Libya and on September 1 1969 he led an insurrection in Sabha overthrowing the King. Khaddafi's Revolutionary Council proclaimed itself Muslim, Nasserist and socialist, beginning to eliminate all US and British military bases in Libya, and imposing severe limitations on transnationals operating in the country. The production of petroleum and its derivatives was placed under state control but the Government kept some ties with the foreign companies. Khaddafi began an ambitious modernization program, with special emphasis on agricultural development. Each rural family was allotted 10 hectares of land, a tractor, a house, tools, and irrigation facilities. Over 1,500 artesian wells were drilled and two million hectares of desert were irrigated and turned into fertile farmland. Rapid growth meant that immigrant workers and experienced technicians from other Arab countries were needed. In 1973 following publication of Khaddafi's Green Book a complex structure of popular participation was created through people's committees and a People's General Congress. In the cities, a social security system was created, with free medical assistance and family allowances to encourage large families. Industrial workers were granted 25 per cent participation in the profits of the companies. Industrial investment was 11 times greater than during the monarchy and agricultural investment was 30 times greater. This massive oil-financed reform transformed Libya into the North African Nation with the highest per-capita income on the continent, at $4,000 a year. In 1977, the country changed its name to the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (meaning mass state in Arabic). But while Khaddafi achieved ample positive results internally, external relations were dismal. Attempts to unite with Syria and Egypt met with failure, and overtures towards Tunisia came to nothing. Khaddafi became the main critic of the diplomatic rapprochement between Egypt and Israel; he clashed with the Saudi monarchy and the Emirates, and maintained his long-standing antagonism with King Hassan of Morocco. In OPEC, Libya opposed the moderate stand of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates on oil prices, and firmly resisted the pressures and manoeuvres of transnational corporations. From 1980, Libya became diplomatically active in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. The Government supported the Polisario Front in Western Sahara and participated directly in the civil war in Chad, defending the Transitional Government of National Union, led by Goukouni Oueddei. US President Reagan undertook a huge international campaign to link the Libyan leader with world terrorism. In August 1981 in the Gulf of Sidra, two Libyan planes were shot down by the US Sixth Fleet. Khaddafi skillfully avoided any violent response to the provocation, winning the sympathy of the conservative Arab regimes which had until then been hostile to his government. In 1983 Libya attempted to resume friendly relations with Morocco, a move which met with success in August 1984 when an agreement was signed. Most North African nations were surprised at the pact, for Moroccans and Libyans held opposite views on practically all political issues. However, the rapprochement could be regarded as a consequence of increasing cooperation between the Algerian, Tunisian and Mauritanian governments. Moreover, Morocco aimed at neutralizing Libyan support of the Polisario Front, while Libya sought to cut off Moroccan aid to Habre's regime in Chad. The US accused Libya of terrorism and, in 1986, in addition to imposing an economic blockade, bombed Tripoli and Benghazi, causing dozens of victims among the civilian population. Later it was revealed the real target had been Khaddafi. In November 1991, US and British courts charged the Libyan Government with two terrorist attacks in 1988 against commercial flights: one over Lockerbie, Scotland, involving a Pan Am airliner, which left 270 dead, 189 of whom were Americans. The second was over Nigeria, against a UTA plane, with 170 victims. Interpol issued an international detention warrant against two Libyan agents accused of both attacks. In January 1992, Libya announced it was willing to cooperate with the UN in investigating both attacks. Khaddafi rejected an extradition request from by the UN, and proposed, unsuccessfully, a trial in Tripoli. This hardened the UN's position. It demanded again the extradition of the accused and urged Khadaffi to renounce 'terrorism' before April 15 1992. After that day, the EU and the seven other industrialized countries adopted economic sanctions, and Khaddafi appealed - unsuccessfully - before the International Court of Justice. In 1994, the UN intensified the embargo. The isolation, however, did not impede the growth of the private sector nor of foreign investments, mainly in projects to tap oil resources. One section of the water pipeline designed to supply water to remote desert communities was re-opened in 1996. The Movement of Non-Aligned Countries and the Organization of African Unity supported in 1998 a Libyan request to try the two suspects of the Lockerbie bombing in a neutral country. After long multilateral negotiations, the UK and the US proposed that the two accused be tried in The Hague by Scottish judges under Scottish law. The proposal was finally accepted in March 1999, and in April, the UN Security Council lifted the sanctions in force since 1992. In September, more than 20 African and Arab leaders gathered in Tripoli to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Libyan revolution. Fifteen years after having severed diplomatic relations, London sent its ambassador to Tripoli in December 1999. Libya took advantage of this to launch a diplomatic offensive in the region, offering itself as mediator in the Sudan conflict and resuming relations with Chad. In March 2000, Washington sent a high level delegation to study the lifting of obstacles to investments and trips to Libya, banned since 1981. According to the UN Development Program's 2001 report, Libya leads the human development index in Africa, mainly because of its oil wealth. Several incidents of violence took place between Libyans and illegal immigrants in recent years. In September 2000, the clashes left 50 dead. There are currently 1,000,000 immigrants from other parts of the continent. After the foiled coup in Central African Republic (CAR), in May 2001, the Khaddafi Government decided to deploy troops in that country, in order to protect President Patassé. In November, Patassé once again requested Libya's help. Once peace was restored, CAR demanded the withdrawal of Libyan soldiers for fear of a prolonged stay by the foreign army. The US extended sanctions imposed on Libya and Iran for five more years in August 2001, even though it lacked European support. It argued that the sanctions were aimed at stopping financing of terrorist groups in those countries. Any company that invested more than $20 million in the oil industry or set up in those countries would be sanctioned by Washington. In early 2001, the Scottish court absolved one of the Lockerbie suspects: Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. The other, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was sentenced to life imprisonment. In January 2002, Tripoli sought an appeal, but it was denied. Khaddafi accused the court of being under the influence of Washington and London and of lacking sufficient evidence. Meanwhile, a member of the Union of Arab Lawyers also announced his disagreement with the sentence, alleging it was a political pact which sought to condemn the Libyan political system. The Government had accused six Bulgarian and one Palestinian doctor of 'deliberately' infecting 400 children with HIV in 1999, as part of a conspiracy led by agencies - such as the CIA - against Libyan security. However no substantial evidence was found. By April 2002, Libyan justice had still not proved the doctors’ involvement, nor decided whether the punishment, if they were guilty, should be life imprisonment. UPDATE (thanks to rcg blog) The Libya thing It's wonderful news that Libya has decided to get rid of its stocks of antique chemical weapons and its "nuclear weapons program," but I'm highly skeptical of the suggestions that this is the direct result of our invasion and occupation of Iraq. Much has been written about this elsewhere, so I'll keep it short. First of all, Khaddafi is no idiot. He knows that the US military has been badly overextended by the invasion of Iraq, and that he's certainly not next on the list of countries Dick Cheney would like to invade. Realistically, Libya wouldn't make it into the queue anytime soon, and he could weasel out at his convenience before then. Secondly, Khaddafi has been seeking rapprochement with the West for years, and as a secular Arab nationalist, has his own serious problems with Islamists. He'd like nothing better than to see al-Qaeda taken down, just to relieve himself of one of his own headaches. Khaddafi in recent times has even done his best to distance himself from Arabs, period. According to his own statements, he's all about Africa these days. The timing of this is convenient for those looking for new justifications for our extended stay in Iraq (since the old ones haven't quite worked out), but the Iraq-Libya connection doesn't hold up under significant analysis.Actually, there is one way where this does make sense. Libya has been looking for a deal to get out of the dog house for a long time -- that's why they coughed up the money to pay off the families of the people killed in the Lockerbie bombing. The US has been reluctant to let Khadaffi off the hook. These days, the administration really needs some foreign policy wins, especially some that make Operation Iraqi Freedom look like the right thing at the right time. At this time, Khadaffi and Bush both have something that the other needs, ergo, a deal. NOTE: The U.S. just resumed diplomatic relations with Libya and Condolezza Rice has traveled to meet with Mr. Khaddafi. This guy definitely has nine lives. Libya is presently a very powerful force at the United Nations. | ||||||||||||
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