Ibrahim, it transpired, was the culprit - and given that Libyawas still, at the time, aninternational pariah, the ramifications were potentiallyserious.
There had been suggestions that Libya's deputy UN ambassador, Ibrahim Dabbashi, was a contender for the foreign minister post, but he was not in the final line-up.
His name is Ibrahim Bashir Shanibah, 38, a former member of Libya's national team who represented his country abroad at the 1997 Mediterranean Games in Italy.