Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He governed Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977. He was initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism but later ruled according to his own Third International Theory. A highly divisive figure, Gaddafi dominated...