Muammar Gaddafi dominated Libya's politics for four decades and was the subject of a pervasive cult of personality. He was decorated with various awards...
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Muammar Gaddafi was killed by the National Transitional Council (NTC) on 20 October 2011 after the Battle of Sirte. Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya...
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personal life of Muammar Gaddafi was complicated and the subject of significant international interest. A very private individual, Gaddafi was given to...
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Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician and political theorist who...
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al-Aḫḍar) is a short book setting out the political philosophy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The book was first published in 1975. It is said to have been...
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killing of Muammar Gaddafi concern the responses of foreign governments and supranational organisations to the killing of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi...
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Third International Theory (redirect from Political ideology of Muammar Gaddafi)
also known as the Third Universal Theory and Gaddafism, was the style of government proposed by Muammar Gaddafi on 15 April 1973 in his Zuwara speech, on...
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who was killed in October 2011, and his Third International Theory. Despite Muammar Gaddafi's death, his legacy and Jamahiriya ideology still maintains...
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. There were 40 reported Libyan casualties; one U.S. plane was shot down. One of the claimed Libyan deaths was of a baby girl...
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Muammar Gaddafi became the de facto leader of Libya on 1 September 1969 after leading a group of Libyan Army officers against King Idris I in a bloodless...
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The foreign relations of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi (1969–2011) underwent much fluctuation and change. They were marked by severe tension with the West...
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Toyota War (category Battles of the Chadian–Libyan War)
with the Libyan occupation of northern Chad in 1983, when Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, refusing to recognise the legitimacy of the Chadian President Hissène...
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This is a list of international trips made by Muammar Gaddafi, the de facto leader of Libya, from 1969 to 2011. He was Chairman of the Libyan Revolutionary...
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disrupts a conference of America's greatest enemies (Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev) who...
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Free Officers movement (Libya) (category Muammar Gaddafi)
King Idris and the elite. This led to many Libyans supporting Muammar Gaddafi's coup. Gaddafi established the Free Officers movement at the Libyan Royal...
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Qadhadhfa (redirect from Gaddafi tribe)
the 1969 coup d'état that deposed King Idris of Libya and as the tribe of his successor Muammar Gaddafi. The tribe has proven to be an influential player...
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Libyan civil war (2011) (redirect from Overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi)
representative of Libya, replacing the Gaddafi government. Muammar Gaddafi evaded capture until 20 October 2011, when he was captured and killed in Sirte...
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under Muammar Gaddafi. There was a High Command of the Armed Forces (al-Qiyada al-ulya lil-quwwat al-musallaha). Arms production was limited and manufacturers...
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1969 Libyan revolution (redirect from Coup d'état of Libya (1969))
monarchy of King Idris I and resulted in the formation of the Libyan Arab Republic. The Free Officers Movement was led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The government...
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Cultural Revolution in Libya (category History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi)
was a nearly four-year period of political and social change in Libya. It started with Muammar Gaddafi's declaration of a cultural revolution during a...
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2011 military intervention in Libya (redirect from 2011 bombing of Libya)
airspace — a no-fly zone — and tightened sanctions on the Muammar Gaddafi regime and its supporters." The initial coalition members of Belgium, Canada, Denmark...
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Musa al-Sadr (category Iranian people of Lebanese descent)
Mohamad Yaacoub and Abbas Bader el-Dine [fr], departed for Libya to meet with government officials at the invitation of Muammar Gaddafi. The three were...
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General People's Committee (redirect from General People's Committee of Libya)
branch of the government of Libya, during the existence of Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. It served as the intermediary between the masses and government...
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi asserted this in 1973, and dubbed it "The Line of Death". The United States claimed its rights to conduct Freedom of Navigation...
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influence and reception varied widely and may be roughly divided into various chronological periods. Reactions were anything but uniform, and proponents of various...
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Chadian–Libyan War (redirect from Libyan Invasion of Chad)
involvement of other foreign countries and factions. Libya had been involved in Chad's internal affairs prior to 1978 and before Muammar Gaddafi's rise to...
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Khomeinism (redirect from Political thought and legacy of khomeini)
Islamic Republic of Iran has been "largely defined by attempts to claim Khomeini's legacy", according to at least one scholar, and "staying faithful...
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Osama bin Laden (category People designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee)
Retrieved 19 June 2020. Flade, Florian (2 May 2011). "The Untold Story of Gaddafi's Hunt For Osama bin Laden". Die Welt/Worldcrunch. Archived from the original...
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influence and reception varied widely and may be roughly divided into various chronological periods. Reactions were anything but uniform, and proponents of various...
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registered trust and nonprofit organization Kikwete Bridge, across the Malagarasi River in western Tanzania (275 metres) Kikwete Hall, a reception hall at the...
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