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Oct 20, 2011 · His speech came shortly after he welcomed back to Libya the man convicted in the Pam Am bombing, who'd been released from prison on medical grounds.
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Washington Capitals center Mike Ridley celebrates his...
- Foreign Policy: The Gadhafi Family Scrapbook
Foreign Policy and Human Rights Watch present remarkable...
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Oct 20, 2011 · Muammar Gaddafi came to power in Libya in September 1969 as the leader of a bloodless military coup which overthrew the British-backed King Idris. He was 27 years old, inspired by Egyptian...
- Nobody Knows When He Was Born. Muammar Mohammed Gaddafi was born sometime in the early 1940s — and that's about all we know, since his Bedouin clan does not record births.
- He Started As A Goat Herder. Gaddafi's tribe was extremely poor and barely eked out a living herding goats and camels. Gaddafi never forgot his humble beginnings, though: years later, he cried on television when going back to visit his old friends and reminisce about his youth.
- He was bullied at school. Education wasn't free in the newly independent Kingdom of Libya, so almost no one in Gaddafi's clan sent their children to school.
- He became an activist for Bedouin pride as a child. While Gaddafi thrived academically in Sirte, Libya's ethnic division presented social challenges. The better-off Arab boys in Sirte bullied the Bedouin kids, and the other Bedouin boys took it out on Gaddafi.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gave Libya an official apology in 2006, after which Gaddafi called him the "iron man" for his courage in doing so.
Apr 14, 2024 · Muammar al-Qaddafi, de facto leader of Libya from 1969, when he seized control of the government in a coup against King Idris I, to 2011, when he was ousted in a revolt and later killed by rebel forces.
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Aug 25, 2011 · In 1986, President Ronald Reagan, who called Gaddafi the “mad dog of the Middle East,” bombed Tripoli and Benghazi after Libya was linked to the bombing of a nightclub in Berlin that killed ...
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Oct 20, 2011 · Gadhafi said he wanted to unite the Arab world, and even proclaimed a merger of Egypt, Libya and Syria in 1972. That merger plan fell apart, as did a later attempt at a union with Tunisia.
