Exactly. Plus they were a pretty small group for quite a while, and land-based.
Another goofy thing in one of Lepper’s articles referred to Barry Fell — but Fell’s proposed Libyans actually were from the centuries BC, long before Mad Mo, and I’m pretty sure they weren’t Arab.
The only Libyans capable of pulling that off at the time would have been the Greek cities planted in Cyrenaica.