Some publications were financed by Gaddafi . The Socialist Labour League 's '' Workers News '' was one such publication : " in among the routine denunciations of uranium mining and calls for greater trade union militancy would be a couple of pages extolling Gaddafi 's fatuous and incoherent green book and the Libyan revolution . " Libya was accused in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland ; UN sanctions were imposed in 1992 . UN Security Council resolutions ( UNSCRs ) passed in 1992 and 1993 obliged Libya to fulfill requirements related to the Pan Am 103 bombing before sanctions could be lifted , leading to Libya 's political and economic isolation for most of the 1990s . The UN sanctions cut airline connections with the outer world , reduced diplomatic representation and prohibited the sale of military equipment . Oil-related sanctions were assessed by some as equally significant for their exceptions : thus sanctions froze Libya 's foreign assets ( but excluded revenue from oil and natural gas and agricultural commodities ) and banned the sale to Libya of refinery or pipeline equipment ( but excluded oil '' production '' equipment )
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi