Qaddafi and the Libyan revolution
This portrait of the controversial Libyan leader traces Qaddafi's childhood, his political career, and the origins of his policies and contains detailed descriptions of the operations of several Libyan hit teams
Biographies
230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780316100427, 0316100420
15317933
"Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi[6] (Arabic: معمر محمد أبو منيار القذافي /mo.mr dfi/ About this sound audio (help·info)) (c. 1942 20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary and politician, and the de facto ruler of Libya for 42 years. Taking power in a 1969 coup d'etat, he ruled as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the "Brother Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011, when he was ousted in the Libyan civil war. After beginning as an Arab nationalist and Arab socialist, he later governed the country according to his own ideology, the Third International Theory. He eventually embraced Pan-Africanism, and served as Chairperson of the African Union from 2009 to 2010"--Wikipedia