World War III: The assault on the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

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The history in general of World War III
The history in general of Libya
The history of U.S. foreign policy toward Libya (link pending)

Response to the Lockerbie incident
Economic terrorism: U.S.-led embargo of Libya, from 1996

Security Council temporarily lifts Libya sanctions

South News, 7 January 1999. The UN Security Council agreed to temporarily lift its embargo on Libya to allow Saudi ambassador and South African under-foreign secretary to fly to Tripoli to try to secure agreement from Muammar Qadhafi for the Lokerbie trial to take place in The Hague.

Un journal libyen n'écarte pas une confrontation mondiale

Panafrican News Agency, 26 December 2000. L’organe des Comités populaires libyens, n’écarte pas une confrontation mondiale provoquée par les pressions exercées par les pays occidentaux sur ceux du sud afin de les obliger à inonder le marché international de pétrole, provoquant ainsi une baisse des prix (in French).

Lessons from Qaddafi

By Ronald Bruce St. John, The Progressive Response, 17 March 2002. In April 1986 American pilots bombed multiple targets in Libya, including the French embassy and civilian sites. It was in response to alleged Libyan involvement in a string of terrorist incidents. The Qaddafi regime responded almost immediately to the attack in a string of terrorist reprisals lasting almost four years.