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Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Date of Birth: 7 June 1942
Place of Birth: Sirte
Died: 20 October 2011


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Energetic

He named six Libyans including Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's brother-in-law Abdullah Senoussi...


Desert caravan

President Nelson Mandela's 50-vehicle motorcade on its long journey from southern Tunisia to Tripoli (to avoid United Nations' flight sanctions) had Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi beaming...


A dictator returns

He is well known to Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and to President Nelson Mandela (he set up a school for South African orphans in the apartheid era) and has been friendly with French President Jacques Chirac since 1983...


Threatening 'good order'

Leaving no stone unturned Taylor travelled home via Libya where Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi – who had supported him during the civil war – is also short of foreign friends...


Death drives

This was barely two weeks after Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's government realised someone had leaked information to the United States Central Intelligence Agency about Tripoli's execution of opposition leader Mansur Kikhia...


No sanctions here

The United States is not pleased that Jammeh gets help from Nigeria's General Sani Abacha and especially keeps close contact with Colonel Moammar el Gaddafi of Libya although Washington has politely ignored recent visits to Tripoli by more US-friendly regional leaders such as Mali's President Alpha Oumar Konaré...


Diana

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi said the pair had been 'executed' by 'the most despicable state in the world' helped by French intelligence in 'an anti-Islamic and anti-Arab act'...


Blood under the bridge

His country was among Taylor's first backers in an alliance inspired by Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi of Libya (where some of Taylor's men trained in 1988)...


Putschists v. putschists

The failure by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to dislodge Koroma is not because his regime has many friends (except for Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadèma and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi)...


Gesture politics

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi may plan to fly to South Africa in breach of United Nations Security Council (Lockerbie) sanctions on Libya flights...


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