In fact, Mubarak’s Libya policy was driven largely by economic and security concerns, and rarely took US interests into consideration. More than one million Egyptians worked in Libya, which was also a large export market. And Qaddafi was eager to help Mubarak subdue Islamist threats to the Egyptian regime. Unlike neighboring Sudan, which harbored Egyptian radicals, like al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who were bent on destabilizing the country, Libya turned them over to Mubarak.
И Каддафи был готов помогать Мубараку усмирять угрозы исламистов египетскому режиму. В отличие от соседнего Судана, который укрывал египетских радикалов, таких как лидер «Аль-Каиды» Айман аль-Завахири, которые стремились дестабилизировать страну, Ливия передавала их Мубараку.