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The first LLA attacks began in May 1979, with a bombing targeting the country's main post office. In 1979 Mokhehle claimed to, in addition to the Libyan-trained troops, possess 500–1000 guerrillas based in the deep mountains of
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is said to have funded the LLA, despite the massive ideological differences, and allowed the guerrillas to pass through South
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