 Initially, both Libya and Syria had contributed troops to the Arab League's peacekeeping force, although after the Syrian army attacked the Lebanese National Movement, Gaddafi openly accused Syrian President Hafez al-Assad of "national treason"; he was the only Arab leader to criticize Syria's actions.Focusing his attention elsewhere in Africa, in 1972, Muammar al-Gaddafi created the Islamic Legion as a tool to unify and Arabize the region.The priority of the Legion was first Chad, and then Sudan.