Background After years of isolation, Libya began to open to the international community and to improve its relationship with the West in 2003 by taking responsibility for the 1988 bombing of a PanAm plane above the Scotland and formally renouncing weapons of mass...

PDF Version Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Libya. Overview Libya continues to block Internet content related to political opposition, content critical of the government, and Web sites that advocate the rights of the minority group...