Top Items About Libya
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Jokes | Libyan rat race (Qaddafi joke) | Here’s a story they tell in Libya. Three contestants are in a race to run five hundred metres carrying a bag of rats.... | root | 155 | |
| Anecdotes | Journalist Andrew Solomon on entering Libya | New Yorker writer Andrew Solomon (2006): For a foreigner, there’s no better illustration of the push-me, pull-you quality... | root | 55 | |
| Anecdotes | Journalist Andrew Solomon & surveillance in Libya | New Yorker writer Andrew Solomon (who visited Libya in... | root | 31 | |
| Quotes | Libyan official on the Lockerbie bombing | “I can’t believe the Libyans at that time could have pulled off something that big. Something that stupid—that is... | root | 29 | |
| Quotes | Libyan PM on Superpower America | "We would like a relationship, yes, but we do not want to get into bed with an elephant [he said, laughing, and spreading... | root | 28 | |
| Anecdotes | Reaching the top in Libya | The Leader [Muammar Qaddafi]’s vagaries have kept Libya’s élites off balance, sometimes in almost absurd ways. In... | root | 25 | |
| Anecdotes | Muammar Qaddafi & George Tenet: Powerful Combination | In December 2003, President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair jointly announced that Libyan leader... | Anonymous | 24 | |
| Trivia | Muammar Qaddafi's absurd policy proposals | Among Muammar Qaddafi`s absurd policy proposals? He once insisted that families should use only one bar of soap a week.... | root | 22 | |
| Anecdotes | Muammar Qaddafi: United Nations Farce | In January 2003, Libya was elected to chair the United Nations Human Rights Commission. And why not? Libyan dictator... | Anonymous | 17 | |
| Anecdotes | Moammar Qadhafi: Soccer Riot | "During a soccer game in Tripoli, Libya [in February 1997], a team sponsored by a son of President Qadhafi suffered... | Anonymous | 17 |
