Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, center, riding a horse in Nov. 1975 in Tripoli. 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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