The life of Muammar Qaddafi

Post 1969 picture of Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, left shaking hands in Tripoli with the President of Mauritania (1961-78), Mokhtar Ould Daddah. Kadhafi, born in 1942, formed in 1963 the Free Officers Movement, a group of revolutionary army officers, which overthrew on Sept. 1, 1969 King Idris of Libya and proclaimed Libya, in the name of "freedom, socialism and unity," Socialist People's Jamahiriya.

Anger in the Arab World
The death of Muammar Qaddafi

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