Nothing new here. When Gaddafi seized power in 1969 (we had already cratered Wheelus AFB, IIRC) he announced that Italian WWII cemeteries would be dug up and desescrated (something King Idris would never have done). The Italian government sent in graves details to recover their war dead and the Italian military came along to insure that this mission would not be interfered with.
I was in Naples in 1969. Normally easygoing Napolitani were furious & were asking Americans when were we going to bomb those Libyan b@stards.
Never, I guess. Now we just send scads of money to the oil-rich Muslim Brotherhood in Tripoli.
I was stationed in England when Gadaffi took over.There were headlines in the British tabloid press saying that we (our base at Menwith Hill) were breeding poisonous flies to be used against Libya.