Khadafi biography
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Muammar Gaddafi
Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi is best known as the de facto leader of Libya from 1969 till his death in 2011.
Though Gaddafi did not have an official title or hold a public office since 1977, he was accorded the honorifics “Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” or “Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution” in government statements and the official Libyan press.
Early life
Gaddafi was the youngest child born into a peasant family and grew up in the desert region of Sirte. He was given a traditional religious primary education and attended the Sebha preparatory school in Fezzan from 1956 to 1961. Gaddafi and a small group of friends he met in this school formed the core leadership of a militant revolutionary group that would eventually seize control of the country in the late 1960s. Gaddafi’s inspiration was Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of neighboring Egypt, who rose to the presidency by
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Muammar al-Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi[4](Arabic: مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِيMuʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfīaudio (help·info))[variations] (June 7 1942 - 20 October 2011) better known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan politician. He ruled Libya from 1969 to 2011.[5]
Early life
[change | change source]Muammar al-Gaddafi was born in a tent near Qasr Abu Hadi. His family came from a small tribal group called Qadhadhfa. His family were Arabized Berber people in heritage. He joined the Libyan military in 1961; the military was one of the few ways for lower class Libyans like him to rise in social status. He became a colonel.
Ruler of Libya
[change | change source]Gaddafi became head of state of Libya after removing King Idris from power in a 1969 bloodless coup. He ruled Libya from September 1, 1969 to August 23, 2011. After the coup, Gaddafi established the Libyan Arab Republic.[6] He was one of the longest-serving non royal rule
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Muammar al- Qaddafi
(1942–2011)
Libyan statesman and colonel, chairman of the Revolutionary Council (1969–77) and president of Libya (1977–2011).
Born in Sirte, the son of a nomadic family, Gaddafi received a traditionally Islamic education at preparatory school in Fezzan and attended secondary school in Misurata, from which he was expelled for political agitation. He started to read history at the University of Libya in 1962, but gave up the following year to join the Benghazi Military Academy. Inspired by General Nasser, who symbolized Arab renaissance to him, Gaddafi formed the Free Officers Movement, a group modelled on the organization set up bygd Nasser for revolution in Egypt. Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Signal Corps in 1965, he was sent on a training course to England in 1966 to learn English and advanced signals procedures. In 1969, following his failure to receive a promotion to captain, Gaddafi used the Free Officers Movement to execute a carefully planned