Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 during the First Libyan Civil War. He came to power through a bloodless military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, Secretary General of the General People's Congress from 1977 to 1979, and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1979 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.

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US transatlantic flight, bombed in 1988 over Scotland

underground network of pipes that supplies water to the Sahara Desert in Libya

short war (1977–1977) between Libya and Egypt

2011 killing in Sirte, Libya

cricket ground in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

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All-female elite unit of bodyguards

theory of governance proposed by Muammar Gaddafi

mosque in Uganda

also known as the 'al-Fateh Revolution' or the '1 September Revolution'

April 1986 bomb at a discotheque in West Berlin, West Germany

annual Libyan human rights award

human settlement

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mosque in Dodoma, Tanzania

unofficial title held by former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

1972 aircraft hijacking by Palestinian terrorists

continuing loyalty or sympathetic sentiment toward former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

Isratin or Isratine (, ; , ), also known as the bi-national state (, ), is a proposed unitary, federal or confederate Israeli-Palestinian state encompassing the present territory of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Depending on various points of view, such a scenario is presented as a desirable one-state solution resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, or as a calamity in which Israel would ostensibly lose its character as a Jewish state and the Palestinians would fail to achieve their national independence within a two-state solution. Increasingly, Isratin is being discussed not

hostage crisis in Sipadan, Malaysia and Jolo, Philippines

international political scandal exposing the possible funding of Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign by Gaddafi's regime

Ukrainian nurse

Libyan coup d'état attempt