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A Short Biography of Muammar al-Gaddafi

Author Name:

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Born As:

Other Names:

Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution.

Born:

07 Jun 1942

Died:





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President - de facto leader of Libya since a coup in 1969                          
Selected Works:

The Green Book - 1975
Escape to Hell and Other Stories - 1998

"The One-State Solution", appeared in the New York Times - 2009.                          
                          
The longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. 

Longest-serving ruler of Libya since Libya, then Tripoli, became an Ottoman province in 1551.                          
A group of junior military officers led by Gaddafi staged a bloodless coup d'état against King Idris, while the King was in Turkey for medical treatment.

Gaddafi's choice of bodyguards has been the subject of much media attention. His 40-member bodyguard contingent, known as the Amazonian Guard, is entirely female. All women who qualify for duty supposedly must be virgins, and are hand-picked by Gaddafi himself. They are trained in the use of firearms and martial arts at a special academy before entering service.