After the military overthrow of
King Idris in 1969 the
Libyan Arab Republic (later the
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), the new government supported (with weapon supplies, training camps located within Libya and monetary finances) an array of armed
paramilitary groups largely
left as well as some
right-wing. Leftist and
socialist groups included the
Provisional Irish Republican Army, the
Basque Fatherland and Liberty, the
Umkhonto We Sizwe, the
Polisario Front, the
Kurdistan Workers' Party, the
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, the
Palestine Liberation Organization,
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
Free Aceh Movement,
Free Papua Movement,
Fretilin,
Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front,
Republic of South Maluku and the
Moro National Liberation Front of the
Philippines. In 2006, Libya was removed from the
United States list of terrorist supporting nations after it had ended all of its support for armed groups and the development of
weapons of mass destruction. == See also ==