Gaddafi, born in 1942, celebrated on 01 September 2010, 41 years in
power as the Arab world's longest-serving, but most enigmatic head of
state. He formed in 1963 the Free Officers Movement, a group of
revolutionary army officers, which overthrew 01 September 1969 King
Idris of Libya and proclaimed Libya, in the name of 'freedom, socialism
and unity,' Socialist People's Jamahiriya.
In 1969Post 1969 picture of Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ((AFP/Getty Images)
Post
1969 picture of Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L)
shaking hands in Tripoli with the President of Mauritania (1961-78),
Mokhtar Ould Daddah (AFP/Getty Images)
Libyan
Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L) and Egyptian President Gamal
Abdul Nasser (R, 1918-70) arrive together in December 1969 in Rabat
prior the Arab Summit Conference (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1972 President
of Uganda Idi Amin Dada (2nd-L) poses with some of the Organization of
African Unity (OUA, from left) Syrian President Hafez al-Assad,
Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Lybian leader Muammar Kadhafi in
June 1972 in Kampala during an OUA summit. Idi Amin's reign of terror
lasted from 1971 when he seized power from Milton Obote, to 13 April
1979, when Tanzanian troops and exiled Ugandans stormed Kampala and
removed him from power (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1973 Picture
dated July 1973 of Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L)
joking in Tripoli with a group of British hippies(AFP/Getty Images).
In 1975 Taken
04 August 1975 in Kampala of Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar
Gaddafi during the summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
Libyan
Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L) waves to the crowd in June
1975 in Tripoli followed Commandant Abdussaman Jalloud (R), the number
two of the Libyan regime (AFP/Getty Images).
Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (C) riding a horse in November 1975 in Tripoli (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1976 Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi (C), leader of the Libyan Jamahiriya, and President of
the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brejnev (1906-1982), General Secretary of the
Soviet Communist Party (3rd-L) smile while members of delegations of
both countries sign agreements. Brezhnev and Gaddafi are surrounded by
(from left) Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign minister,
Nikolay Viktorivich Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of
Ministers on December, 1976 in Moscow, Russia (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1985 Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L) and his wife Suffiya
(R) wave to the crowd 03 December 1985 in Dakar, followed by President
of Senegal Abdou Diouf (2nd row-R) upon their arrival for three-day
official visit to Senegal (AFP/Getty Images).
Libyan
Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (C) reviews troops 03 December
1985 in Dakar upon his arrival for three-day official visit to Senegal.
(AFP/Getty Images) .
In 1986Libyan
Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi addresses journalists 02
February 1986 in Tripoli during a meeting of 'The High Command of The
Revolutionary Forces of The Arab Nation'(AFP/Getty Images).
In 1988 Tunisian
President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali (R) and Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi listen to the national anthems 04 February 1988 at Tunis
airport upon Kadhafi arrival for an official visit in Tunisia, the first
for more than ten years (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1989Libyan
Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi prays 21 July 1989 in Bamako
during six-African-nation summit to resolve a territorial dispute
between Libya and Chad (AFP/Getty Images) .
In 1990South
African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela (l) and
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hug each other 18 May 1990 upon Mandela
arrival to Tripoli (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1994 Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi wipes his face during a
military parade 01 September 1994 in Tripoli for the celebration of the
25th anniversary of his arrival in power (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1996Yasser
Arafat (L), Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, greets
Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi on June 22, 1996 during the 19th Arab
Summit in Cairo, Egypt. The two Arab leaders met for the first time
since the Gulf war in 1991 (AFP/Getty Images) .
In 1999Egyptians
greet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, during his visit to the city of
Fayum, some 100 km south of Cairo, 08 March 1999. Khadafi arrived in
Egypt 05 March 1999 for a visit that could last a week, in a bid to
finalize a deal on a handover by Tripoli of two suspects in the
Lockerbie airliner bombing. (AFP/Getty Images).
Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi salutes his troops participating 07 September
1999 in a military parade in Tripoli to mark the 30th anniversary of
the Libyan Revolution that brought Gaddafi to power(AFP/Getty Images) .
In 2001Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi flashes the V-sign March 28, 2001 at the end of
the two-day Arab Summit in Amman, Jordan. The first ordinary Arab
summit since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 closed having failed to
win Iraq's approval on a resolution to improve its ties with Kuwait and
the international community (Newsmakers).
In 2002Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi performs a prayer inside Gurdabiya Dam after
the opening ceremony of the dam which is a phase of Libya's 'Great
Man-Made River' water project some 30 kms east of the city of Syrte 07
March 2002 (AFP/Getty Images) .
In 2004French
President Jacques Chirac (L) stands with Libyan President Muammar
Gaddafi (R) on November 24, 2004 in Tripoli, Lybia. Chirac was in Libya
for a two day official visit marking the first visit by a French head
of state since Libya won independence from Italy in 1951 (Getty Images).
In 2007Prime
Minister Tony Blair (L) meets with Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar Al
Gaddafi on May 29, 2007 in Sirte, Libya. Blair was on a five day visit
to meet with African leaders as he prepared to stand down as Britain's
Prime Minister on June 27, 2007 (Getty Images)
In 2008Russian
President Vladimir Putin (R) stands next to Libyan leader Muammar
Qadaffi during the signing of agreements between the two countries
April 17, 2008 in Tripoli, Libya. Putin was in Libya for a two-day
official visit to rebuild Russian-Libyan relations (Getty Images).
In 2009Libya's
leader Muammar Gaddafi stands during his meeting with Italy's
President Giorgio Napolitano (not pictured) at Rome's Quirinale
presidential palace on June 10, 2009 during Gaddafi's first visit to
Italy (AFP/Getty Images) .
Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi (L) shakes hands with US president Barack Obama
during the G8 summit on July 9, 2009 in L'Aquila, Italy. The talks are
being held close to the site of a devastating earthquake in April of
this year and leaders are expected to discuss climate change, global
security and the global recession (Getty Images).
In
this handout image supplied by the Palestinan Press Office (PPO),
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) greets Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi on August 31, 2009 in Tripoli, Libya (Getty Images).
In 2010In
this handout image supplied by the Palestinian Press Office (PPO),
Foreign Leaders pose for a portrait including Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas, King Abdullah II, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and
Prince Felipe of Spain on the first day of the Arab Summit in Sirte on
March 27, 2010 in Libya (Getty Images).
In 22-02-2011A
Libyan girl holds a poster during a protest against Libyan leader
Moamer Kadhafi near the Libyan-Arabic school and Consulate in Athens on
February 22, 2011. A defiant Muammar Gaddafi said he would remain in
Libya as head of its revolution, and that he had no official position
from which to resign. (AFP/Getty Images) .
A
picture of a screen taken from the television on February 22, 2011
shows Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gesturing while delivering a
nationwide address in Tripoli. Gaddafi says he will stay in Libya as
head of revolution as world powers mobilised to try to halt the bloody
showdprotesters own between and his security forces suspected of 'crimes
against humanity' to keep him in power. (AFP/Getty Images).
In 20-10-2011This day is the end of a great man life,
Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council
fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader's
hometown and final stronghold.
"We have been waiting for this
moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed," Mahmoud
Jibril, the de facto Libyan prime minister, told reporters on Thursday
in Tripoli, the capital.
Crowds took to the streets of
Tripoli and Benghazi, the eastern city that spearheaded the uprising
against Gaddafi's 42-year rule in February, to celebrate the news, with
some firing guns and waving Libya's new flag.
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