Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$7.8 million (FY02)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.3% (FY02)
Transnational Issues Liberia
Disputes - international:
rebels and refugees contribute to border instabilities with Sierra
Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, and Guinea; the Ivorian Government accuses
Liberia of supporting Ivorian rebels
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southeast and Southwest Asian heroin and
South American cocaine for the European and US markets; corruption,
criminal activity, arms-dealing, and diamond trade provide
significant potential for money laundering, but the lack of
well-developed financial system limits the country's utility as a
major money-laundering center
This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003
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@Libya
Introduction Libya
Background:
Since he took power in a 1969 military coup, Col. Muammar Abu
Minyar al-QADHAFI has espoused his own political system - a
combination of socialism and Islam - which he calls the Third
International Theory. Viewing himself as a revolutionary leader, he
used oil funds during the 1970s and 1980s to promote his ideology
outside Libya, even supporting subversives and terrorists abroad to
hasten the end of Marxism and capitalism. Libyan military adventures
failed, e.g., the prolonged foray of Libyan troops into the Aozou
Strip in northern Chad was finally repulsed in 1987. Libyan support
for terrorism decreased after UN sanctions were imposed in 1992.
Those sanctions were suspended in April 1999.