History: Gaddafi's Islamic Legion
The goal, according to the Libyan press, would be to assemble an army of 1 million men and women fighters to prepare for the great Arab battle–"the battle of liberating Palestine, of toppling the reactionary regimes, of annihilating the borders, gates, and barriers between the countries of the Arab homeland, and of creating the single Arab Jamahiriya from the ocean to the gulf."
