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"The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) was a Sunni opposition group, created in 1995 in Libya to overthrow Muammar el-Qaddafi. The LIFG was preceded by a secret Libyan group in the 1980s, of which a faction left to fight in Afghanistan in the late 1980s. This faction returned in the early 1990s to help establish the LIFG. The group officially announced its existence in 1995 and was led by Abdelhakim Belhadj. The group was most active in the eastern Libyan region of Cyrenaica and was known for assassination attempts against Qaddafi, bombings in Morocco in 2003, and violent clashes with the Benghazi police. The LIFG was allegedly tied to Al Qaeda and had hostile relations with the Groupe Islamique Arme (GIA)."  from Stanford

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