Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi supplied a crucial number of arms to the IRA, as part of a strategy at this time of opposing United States interests in the Middle East by sponsoring paramilitary activity against it and its allies in Western Europe.

Under Muammar Gaddafi, the prime governor of Libya from 1969 to 2011, relations between both countries were strained due to Gaddafi's support of the Irish Republican Army. Gaddafi was sympathetic to their cause and also wanted revenge for the US Air Force's bombing attacks on Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986.

Feb 23, 2011 · Muammar Gaddafi, who took over Libya in a 1969 coup, saw the IRA as a comrade-in-arms fighting British imperialism and he was partly responsible for providing it with more modern weaponry.

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi[pron 1] (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya as a dictator from 1969 until his assassination by the rebel forces of the National Liberation Army in 2011.

Dec 30, 2021 · Suffering from extensive sanctions following the bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie in 1988, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in the summer of 1992 decided to reveal details of his...

Oct 12, 2024 · On Tuesday, November 28th, 1972, the Provisional IRA launched 10 attacks across Northern Ireland with the weapons Gaddafi had gifted to them, firing 15 warheads/rockets at various targets ...

Dec 28, 2021 · As well as huge amounts of armaments, Colonel Gaddafi's regime also supplied the Provos with over $12.5m in cash – the equivalent of roughly €40m today. British intelligence was shocked to...

Dec 31, 2021 · Amazing details of the strength of support the Provisional IRA received from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya are contained in secret state papers, details of which were revealed for the first...

Jul 23, 2021 · So far, the British Government has refused to directly compensate victims of IRA Libyan-supplied weapons and semtex explosives out of the former overthrown leader General Muammaur Gaddafi’s funds, long frozen in British banks.

May 1, 2018 · The Provisional IRA’s campaign against the British state in Northern Ireland (1969–1998) attracted a wide range of attention from the Third World, especially from the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Under the leadership of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan government sent enormous supplies of weapons to the Provisional IRA in the middle of the 1980s.