Muammar Qaddafi

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Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, center, riding a horse in Nov. 1975 in Tripoli. Kadhafi, born in 1942, formed in 1963 the Free Officers Movement, a group of revolutionary army officers, which overthrew on Sept. 1, 1969. King Idris of Libya and proclaimed Libya, in the name of "freedom, socialism and unity," Socialist People's Jamahiriya.

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