However, during the course of our conversation, Des briefly mentioned a story I’d never heard of - of the first time the Provisional IRA were gifted weapons by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1972 ...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi supplied weapons, including Semtex explosives, to the IRA during the Troubles. Libya compensated US victims of terrorism, but UK victims were left out of the deal.

The IRA was also being supplied with weapons by Muammar Gadaffi, the enemy of Israel leading Libya, and Aldouby filmed the men receiving weapons from Gadaffi. "At that point, Gaddafi was selling or ...

They have described the government's response as unacceptable. Former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi supplied arms to the IRA and, during the Troubles, Libyan Semtex plastic explosive was a ...

Even Colonel Gaddafi's Libya disapproved of the attack. It was a major PR disaster for the IRA. These two extraordinary events would lead to a transformation of the political landscape in Northern ...