National Front for the Salvation of Libya United States' Central Intelligence Agency. On 17 April 1984, the NFSL organised a demonstration of Libyan dissidents outside the Libyan embassy in London. During the demonstration, shots were fired from the embassy into the group of protestors, striking eleven people, including one of the police officers controlling the demonstration, Yvonne Fletcher, who died shortly afterward. Fletcher's murder quickly led to the severing of diplomatic relations between Britain and Libya. Three weeks after the embassy protest, on 8 May 1984, NFSL commandos took part in an attack on Gaddafi's Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli, in an attempt to assassinate the Libyan
Timeline of the Libyan Civil War (2014–present) members of that body declared the establishment of the State Council, as envisaged by the LPA. On April 6, the State Council selected Abdurrahman Sewehli as its president and Saleh al-Makhzoum as its First Deputy.<ref name="al-Makhzoum/army"></ref> On the same day, Saleh al-Makhzoum stated that the Presidential Council, utilizing its powers as Commander-in-chief, would soon announce the leadership of the Libyan army, in cooperation with House of Representatives and the State Council. Furthermore, he suggested that a resolution for the controversy pertaining to article 8 of the LPA would be achieved. On the 17th of April, the Libyan National Army managed