The March 28th base, east of Tobruk, was littered with open safes, gas-masks, helmets, cardboard boxes of ammunition (stamped "Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya") and Russian explosives.
Still, oil money continues to make possible Libya's subsidy programs — the socialism in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya concept.
He presented his Jamahiriya system as the world's only true democracy, declaring that the U.S. and other democratic countries should study it and learn from it.
Qaddafi told Fallaci that he had created a state in which "there is no government, no parliament, no representation, no strikes, and everything is Jamahiriya".
The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya — memorably abbreviated as "the Great SPLAJ" — was born".The Green Book" proposes that, to avoid internal disputes, every nation should have one religion, but it makes no mention of Islam.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela acknowledged the efforts of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to promote economic, social and cultural rights, especially those of children.
Egypt commended the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya for progress in building a comprehensive national human rights framework of institutions and in drafting legislation and supporting its human resources in that area.
Tunisia noted progress made by the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, such as the adoption of the Great Green Charter, which was very comprehensive and enshrined fundamental freedoms and rights as enshrined in international human rights instruments.
But the resolution also includes an arms embargo that appears to prevent the supply of arms "to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya", apparently embracing both sides of the conflict as the Bosnian arms embargo did so catastrophically in the early 1990s.
Transformed in the mid-1970s into a "jamahiriya" (a term Gaddafi coined to mean government by the masses), Libya was supposedly run directly by popular committees representing all parts of the country and all walks of life.
Yet a few economic improvements aside, the Jamahiriya dictatorship remains steadfastly in place, and reformists such as ex-prime minister Shukri Ghanem have been sidelined, making this statement look either false or delusional.
