Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

His country was among Taylor's first backers in an alliance inspired by Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi of Libya (where some of Taylor's men trained in 1988)...

The failure by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to dislodge Koroma is not because his regime has many friends (except for Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadèma and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi)...

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi may plan to fly to South Africa in breach of United Nations Security Council (Lockerbie) sanctions on Libya flights...

Oddly Abuja's response has been to cause maximum irritation to Washington by inviting Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to fly to Kano and Abuja in contravention of UN sanctions...

Moammar el Gadaffi's offer of air support...

Mobutu's office confirms that he has sent emissaries to Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to discuss military supplies...

At the beginning of October French intelligence persuaded Compaoré to cancel his trip to Libya at the last minute (he was going to dicuss Liberia with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi) because it feared that the head of the presidential Guard Hyacinthe Kafando was about to launch a coup...

He visited Burkina and Libya ostensibly for the opening of Tripoli's Great Man- Made River project; Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Captain Blaise Compaoré have been Taylor's key suppliers of weapons and training and of soldiers (at least in Burkina's case) since his rebellion started in 1990...

Geneva-based North-South XXI which claims to be a non-governmental organisation and which last year was accredited as such to the United Nations Economic and Social Council administers the annual Gadaffi International Human Rights Prize which is named after Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

Despite major questions about its value Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is pressing ahead with his Great Man-Made River...