Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

In September 2011 Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s son Es Saadi el Gadaffi arrived in Agadez in the dead of night in a mysterious convoy of vehicles surrounded by equal mystery over his father’s whereabouts...

Blair also advises the United States investment bank JP Morgan which in 2008-09 was trying to broker a deal between Rusal and the Libyan Investment Authority then under the control of the late Moammar el Gadaffi...

Well-led and highly experienced the Tuareg MNLA launched its offensive in January having returned to Mali late in 2011 from the defence of Bani Walid the last stronghold of forces loyal to the late Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi (AC Vol 52 No 18 The Gadaffi clan scatters)...

The MNLA leader is believed to be Mohammed Ag Najem a Tuareg former professional officer in Moammar el Gadaffi’s armed forces...

An outsider until the revolt against Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi he hopes to bring business management principles to bear on the city’s problems...

The lake in Benghazi city centre beside which its two main hotels stand epitomises Moammar el Gadaffi's neglect of the east...

The potential for the control of mobile telephones and the web was revealed when militias seized the secret police surveillance centre of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime in Tripoli last August...

The killing of Moammar el Gadaffi alarmed the government which still refuses to recognise Libya’s National Transitional Council...

The biggest of these is the demonstration effect: the overthrow of leaders such as Hosni Mubarak Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Moammar el Gadaffi has reinforced the determination of Africans to oust autocratic and incompetent regimes...

Increasingly conscious of its image abroad Beijing got its more robust diplomats to defend its support for Libya’s Moammar el Gadaffi last year and Syria’s Bashar al Assad this year...