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In May 1970 the discovery of an arms cache in Sebba provided evidence of a monarchist plot centred on Fezzan. This was the so-called 'Black Prince' conspiracy (on account of the dark features of Abdullah al-Sanussi) in which former Sanussi officers were to invade Libya from Chad with an army of two hundred brotherhood members with the intention of seizing Sebba as a prelude to the reconquest of Tripoli and Benghazi. One suggestion was that the Israelis had supported the conspiracy by providing arms. Gaddafi himself saw the plotters as 'reactionary retired police officers and contractors who had profited from the defunct regime.' About twenty individuals were arrested and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
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