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This description has to be updated since the opposition, which now holds a large part of Libya and is being recognized globally, has restored this flag in 2011, so this is now the globally recognized flag of Libya again.

Maybe star should be within the crescent.

As I understand it the star-and-crescent logo relates to a miraculous sighting of a star WITHIN the area occluded by the crescent moon (as one might see if a fresh meteor strike had created an incandescent crater,) As such the star should be WITHIN the circle of the moon's crescent,

News footage of the Lybian revolt last night (sorry, no reference) showed the flag a group of rebels was flying has that geometry. And I suspect that the old flag had the same characteristic.

Later correction: I find elsewhere in Wikipedia a quotation from the Lybian constitution specifying that the vertical line between the upper and lower points on the star should be tangent to the outer circumference of the crescent. So the flag image is correct - at least for the country's old flag - and (at least) the last part of my previous statement is incorrect. Michae lMcClary (talk) 04:13, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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