LIBYA'S LEADER COLONEL GADHAFI AND HIS FOUR DECADE OF RULES

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Synopsis

-Muammar al-Qaddafi seized control of the Libyan government in 1969 and ruled as an authoritarian dictator for more than 40 years before he was overthrown in 2011.
-Muammar al-Qaddafi was born in a Bedouin tent in Sirte, Libya, in 1942.
- He joined the military and staged a coup to seize control of Libya in 1969, ousting King Idris. 
-Though his Arab nationalist rhetoric and socialist-style policies gained him support in the early days of his rule, his corruption, military interference in Africa, and record of horrific human rights abuses turned much of the Libyan population against him. 
-Accused of supporting terrorism, in the last decade of his rule Qaddafi reached a rapprochement with Western leaders, and Libya became a key provider of oil to Europe. 
-During the "Arab Spring" of 2011, NATO troops supported dissidents attempting to overthrow Qaddafi's government. 
-After months on the run, on October 20, 2011, he was killed in his hometown of Sirte.

A History Of Gadhafi's Rule

1969: Moammar Gadhafi, a 27-year-old military officer, stages a coup that deposes the ailing King Idris I, who is in Turkey receiving medical treatment.
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1973-74: Gas prices in the U.S. spike as Gadhafi and other Arab leaders call for the cutoff of oil supplies to the U.S.
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1977: Gadhafi declares a "government for the masses" in Libya. He describes it as direct, popular Arab democracy, and he eventually relinquishes all his official titles.
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1986: President Ronald Reagan blames Gadhafi for the bombing of a Berlin nightclub popular with U.S. soldiers. Several days later, U.S. planes bomb Tripoli and Benghazi. Gadhafi's compound is hit, killing a 1-year-old who he said was his adopted daughter.
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1988: Pan Am Flight 103, traveling from London to New York, explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground. Libya is linked to the bombing.
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1999: After years of negotiations, Gadhafi agrees to extradite two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing to the Netherlands. In exchange, U.N. sanctions are lifted.

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2003: Gadhafi moves to re-establish relations with the West. He announces a halt to the country's weapons program and agrees to pay $2.7 billion in compensation to the families of the Lockerbie victims.
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2006: U.S. and Libya agree to resume full diplomatic relations.
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2011: In February, mass demonstrations break out in the eastern city of Benghazi, similar to other protests in the Arab world. Gadhafi responds with a harsh crackdown.
On Aug. 23, after fierce battles in and around Tripoli, Libyan rebels seize control of the Bab al-Aziziya compound in the capital. Gadhafi's immediate whereabouts are not known.
On Oct. 20, Libya's new leaders say Gadhafi was killed in his hometown of Sirte.

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