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In the photo report about the 40 years of Gaddafi coup published by BBC today
we can see an image of plenty of flags showing green Arabic words (not sure if
it is the Shahada) over a white background:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46300000/jpg/_46300229_flags2_ap.jpg.
If the Arabic words are actually the Shahada, the flag could be the al-Liwaa
related to the Islamic Caliphate (but it is ideologically unconnected with
Gaddafi's Libya where hard Islamic movements are unlawful)
Santiago Tazón,
2 September 2009
It seems that there are two different flags. The one that I could figure out
had the inscription "Allahu Akbar". I couldn't figure out the second, but it
doesn't looks like the Shahada.
Dov Gutterman, 2 September 2009
image by Ivan Sache, 8 June 2012
On 27 February 2011, Kevin Frayer (AP) photographed in Benghazi insurgents
displaying a square flag, horizontally divided red-white-green with a black
crescent and four-pointed star in the white stripe. The counter-colouring of the
central stripe and crescent and star, when compared with "regular" insurrection
flags, is odd; however, I don't believe this is an optical effect.
http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2011/02/28/tout-le-monde-attend-la-chute-de-tripoli_1486026_3212.html
- "Le Monde", 28 February 2011 (image archived
here)
Ivan Sache, 8 June 2012
I actually think the stripe is black.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascan,
11 June 2012
image located by David Phillips, 14 March 2014
This image comes from "Libya drifts after ousting prime minister", McClatchy
News Service article in San Francisco Chronicle, March 13, 2014
Photo
caption:
A militia soldier guards the entrance of the rebel-held Es Sider
port.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/world/article/Libya-drifts-after-ousting-prime-minister-5316067.php
This is the flag of Cyrenaica.