The UK feared Gaddafi would launch an air attack against Gibraltar through Morocco. Unclassified documents, revealed that London took the threats seriously, giving military guidelines to its forces on the Rock.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Morocco and Libya worked on strengthening their bilateral ties. In 2001, King Mohammed VI visited Tripoli, where he met Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The latter, however, was rude to the Moroccan monarch whom he called «my son».
Morocco is intensifying precautionary preventions, after Cholera outbreak killed two people in Algeria. Tunisia and Libya were the first to take the same measures in the region.