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Libya

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

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


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Catching the flak

Above all Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi doesn't want to follow Saddam into 'axis of evil' hell; the two are no friends: an agreement in 1987 after Washington bombed Tripoli was their sole serious and short-lived rapprochement...


A defining terror

The evolving world order was highlighted by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's three meetings with Bush last year and Libyan efforts to engineer a quiet rapprochement with Washington not least to stop Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi following Iran Iraq and North Korea into the 'Axis of Evil'...


The new veterans march home

To make matters worse the US$360 million fuel supply credit from Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's government has been withdrawn partly because of growing arrears on payments and the lack of suitable assets that Mugabe was willing to offer to Libya as an alternative form of repayment...


Hasty engagement

Bush's government's 'axis of evil' but its international supporters see evidence that Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's Jamahiriya ('state of the masses') is changing fast...


Unfinished business

Tripoli argues that this pales into insignificance in the light of ex-MI5 officer David Shayler's revelations that British intelligence plotted with Libyan Islamists to assassinate Moammar el Gadaffi...


Tough nut to crack

Moammar el Gadaffi wants Silvio Berlusconi to buy him a railway or a road...


Peering in

Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who claims the AU as his own vision distorted by others offers an alternative home for the AU...


Our friends in the north

Though Central African Republic has now denied giving Libya a 99-year minerals lease Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is certainly getting valuable strategic benefits from providing security for the Bangui government...


King and pawns

Another rumour was that Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi might help: he had charmed and amazed Swazis by handing out dollar bills and tee-shirts from his 100-car entourage during a visit in July...


Retirement tent

The new constitution should create the post of head of state with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi (see Features) keeping his title of 'Leader' but retiring from day-to-day government 'to his tent at Sirte' (AC Vol 42 No 14)...


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