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Libya: Production
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Although never a rich province, Libya prospered during the second Ottoman era. As the Ottoman order spread throughout the territory, many nomads settled in coastal villages; local agricultural production and trade increased. The Sanusiyya, a religious brotherhood with political aspirations, saw its substantial trading interests flourish in Cyrenaica and the Sahara.
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"Libya agreed to purchase 14 [Dassault-made] Rafale fighter planes and 60 helicopters....The Rafale...is France's next generation, multi-role combat aircraft, combining both fighter and bomber roles...." Production of the Rafale has been seen as "a flagship program for France's arms industry." (Reuters).
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As another way to build its nuclear expertise... Libya also pursued "peaceful" cooperation with the Soviet Union, under IAEA safeguards. The main result of Soviet-Libyan nuclear cooperation was the completion in 1979 of the 10 MW research reactor at Tajura. This reactor offered Libya the opportunity to explore plutonium production technology, which Libya did, while evading IAEA safeguards intended to detect such activities. Between 1984 and 1990, Libya produced several dozen small uranium oxide and uranium metal targets, a number of which were irradiated in the Tajura reactor to produce radioisotopes. Thirty-eight of these targets were dissolved and the radioisotopes extracted in hot cells. Libya has reported to the IAEA that very small amounts of plutonium were extracted from at least two of these targets.[23] Presumably the data gathered in these experiments would have proved useful if Libya had decided to pursue plutonium production more actively.
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Wednesday, 18 April, 2007: One of the most famous Hollywood production companies "Sixth sense" intends to make a movie, based on the tragic story of the Bulgarian medics on a death row in Libya. Representatives of the company are to meet the nurses' relatives next week. The jailed medics should sign contracts, which allow the filmmakers to screen their story. The Bulgarians did not accepted the offer at first. It is possible... they to reconsider their decision. [SNA]
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