North
African country bordered by
Tunisia,
Algeria,
Niger,
Chad, the
Sudan, and
Egypt. Formerly a colony of
Italy until
1951. Since
1969, the leader of the country has been
Muammar Qaddafi (also transliterated from the
Arabic to several other spellings, enumerated on http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8744/spelling.htm) who holds no official title but is pretty much in control of the government. The major industry is
oil.
The U.S. bombed the capital city of Tripoli in April 1986, supposedly in retaliation for a the bombing of a West Berlin nightclub with a lot of Americans in it (which was never conclusively proven to be done by Libyans) and to prevent more terrorist attacks.