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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi - Ten Facts





Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi - injured and captured by Libyan National Tranisitional Council.
The unheard, The unknown - The unveiled Ten Facts !!! 
1. born in 1942 to a Bedouin herdsman in a tent near Sirte on the Mediterranean coast. He abandoned university geography studies for a military career that included a short spell at a British army signals school
2. longest-serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world, since the age of 27
3. unsuccessful attempt to merge Libya, Egypt and Syria into a federation. A similar failure for striving to join Libya and Tunisia
4. in 1977, he changed the country's name to the Great Socialist Popular Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah (State of the Masses), allowing people to present their views at people's congresses
5. UN sanctions, imposed in 1992 to pressure Tripoli to hand over two Libyan suspects for trial for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing over Scotland. This crippled oil-rich Libya's economy, dampened Gaddafi's revolutionary spirit, and took the sting out of his anti-capitalist, anti-Western rhetoric
6. he was shunned internationally because the West alleged him of terrorism, abandoned his programme of prohibited weapons in 2003 to return Libya into international mainstream politics
7. in September 2004, US President George W. Bush formally ended a trade embargo as a result of Gaddafi's scrapping of the arms programme and taking responsibility for Lockerbie
8. in August 2006, Gaddafi made a series of speeches scolding his nation for over-reliance on petroleum, foreigners and imports and telling them to start making things people need
9. he said in an interview that he feared the change of power in Tunisia, which was being exploited by foreign intervention
10. he also denied that he had invited deposed Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to Libya. In a speech soon after Ben Ali's departure, Gaddafi said he was "pained" by the violent events in Tunisia, that people there had been too hasty in pushing Ben Ali out and that blood might have been shed unnecessarily


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