Gaddafi escaped unharmed ; however, his adopted daughter Hanna was claimed to be one of the civilian casualties.

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CCTV also mislabeled a person holding a banner which said " Vive la France " and claimed that he was a supporter of Gaddafi.

Two weeks before the La Belle discotheque blast, Gaddafi called for Arab assaults on American interests worldwide after a U. S .- Libyan naval clash in the Mediterranean, in which 35 seamen on a Libyan patrol boat in the western Gulf of Sidra were killed in international waters claimed by Libyan government.

LIFG claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt against Gaddafi in February 1996, which was in part funded by MI6 according to David Shayler, and engaged Libyan security forces in armed clashes during the mid-to-late 1990s.

Meanwhile, Gaddafi claimed that the embassy was under attack from British forces, and Libyan soldiers surrounded the United Kingdom's embassy in Tripoli in response.

The Libyan government claimed that Eljahmi was put on trial in late 2005, accused of the capital charges of " trying to overthrow the government, insulting Col. Gaddafi and contacting foreign authorities, after he talked to a US diplomat.

In 2009, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi claimed that Libya's opinion of him was shaped largely by his role in Libya's engagement with the West, saying " If something goes wrong, people will blame me, whether I am in a certain official position or not.

A brief filed by the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence on behalf of Gaddafi claimed that " there is no basis for asserting that the ICC should defer the case to Libya ".

Muammar Gaddafi " claimed to be ' King of Kings ,' a title he had a gathering of tribal leaders grant him in 2008.

Gaddafi undertook a number of military adventures during the 1970s to 1980s, including the Chadian – Libyan conflict, the Libyan – Egyptian War and the first Gulf of Sidra incident.

Gaddafi dreamed of forming a Saharan regiment, made up of the best young Tuareg fighters, to further his territorial ambitions in Chad, Niger, and elsewhere.

The 60-second commercial shows a sad Robert Mugabe dining alone at Christmas in a large mansion while he reminisces about " happier times " with former dictators, such as playing water tag with Muammar Gaddafi, making snow angels in the sand with Saddam Hussein, singing Karaoke with Mao Zedong, pushing P. W. Botha on a swing set, and riding a tank with Idi Amin in a similar fashion to Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet embracing each other from the movie Titanic while the music from " Those Were the Days " is being played.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

Under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's missions used the name people's bureau and the head of the mission was a secretary.

The monarchy came to an end on 1 September 1969 when a group of military officers led by Muammar Gaddafi staged a coup d ’ état against King Idris while he was in Turkey for medical treatment.

On 1 September 1969 a small group of military officers led by then 27-year-old army officer Muammar Gaddafi staged a coup d ' état against King Idris, who was exiled to Egypt.

Gaddafi also styled himself as an advocate of Pan-Africanism, and was active in the establishment of the African Union in 2001.

Meanwhile, Gaddafi asserted that he was still in Libya and would not concede power to the rebels.

Although it was the primary language since colonial rule, Italian greatly declined under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who expelled the Italian Libyan population and made Arabic became the sole official language of the country.

In June 2011, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said his father would agree to internationally monitored general elections, and would step down if he lost them, but his offer was refused by the rebels and ignored by the UN Security Council.

Of these officials, Baghdadi Mahmudi and Abuzed Omar Dorda were arrested, while Saif al-Arab Gaddafi was killed by a NATO airstrike during the war, Khamis Gaddafi was killed in action after the fall of Tripoli, and Muammar and Mutassim Gaddafi, as well as Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, were killed during the fall of Sirte.

There was no separate defence ministry ; all defence activities were centralised under Gaddafi.

Under Gaddafi, conscription was listed as 18 months.

Initially the effective force was limited to smaller vessels, but this changed after the rise of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969.

The Revolutionary Guard Corps ( Liwa Haris al-Jamahiriya ) or Jamahiriya Guard was a Libyan paramilitary elite unit that played the role of key protection force of the government of Muammar Gaddafi, until his death in October 2011.

The Islamic Pan-African Legion was reported to have been committed during the fighting in Chad in 1980 and was praised by Gaddafi for its success there.

In March 1985, it was announced that the National Command of the Revolutionary Forces Command in the Arab Nation had been formed with Gaddafi at its head.

Gaddafi contended that it was the People's Militia that met the Egyptian incursions during the border clash of 1977, although the Egyptians insisted that their successful raids had been contested by regular army units.

On 27 June, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Gaddafi, alleging that Gaddafi had been personally involved in planning and implementing " a policy of widespread and systematic attacks against civilians and demonstrators and dissidents ".

In the 1990s, he persuaded Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi to turn in two suspects allegedly involved in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

In December 2010, Gaddafi announced that his charity foundation " will no longer be involved in promoting human rights and political change in the north African country ," and that instead, it " will focus on its " core charitable mission " of delivering aid and relief to sub-Saharan Africa.

Gaddafi was involved in negotiating compensation from Libya's former colonial power, Italy, and on 30 August 2008 a Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation Agreement was signed in Benghazi by his father and Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

The intention of reestablishing sharia was announced, and Gaddafi personally assumed chairmanship of a commission to study the problems involved.

Gaddafi also trained and supported Charles Taylor, who was indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the conflict in Sierra Leone.

On 19 February, several days after the conflict began, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi announced the creation of a commission of inquiry into the violence, chaired by a Libyan judge, as reported on state television.

An effigy of Muammar Gaddafi hangs from a scaffold in Tripoli's Martyrs ' Square, Libya.

Political parties were banned in Libya from 1972 until the collapse of the Gaddafi government, and all elections were nonpartisan under law.

In about 1980, Muammar Gaddafi introduced the Islamic Pan-African Legion, a body of mercenaries recruited primarily among dissidents from Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, Mali, and Chad.

Gaddafi moved Libya away from the West and initially sought Pan-Arabism.

Relations with Libya also became more mutual following the eight month Libyan civil war in 2011, which resulted in the National Transitional Council ousting longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from power.

Muammar Gaddafi in Libya was alleged to have been using mercenary soldiers during the 2011 Libyan civil war, including Tuaregs from various nations in Africa.

The opposition of Gaddafi had been reported to possess foreign mercenaries from Turkey, UK, France, Egypt, Tunisia and more ..

: Libya during the reign of Muammar Gaddafi had been known to receive technological assistance, blueprints and missile parts from North Korea.

In April 2011, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va. cited a 2009 letter sent from CAIR's executive director, Nihad Awad, to Muammar Gaddafi asking Gaddafi for funding for a project called the Muslim Peace Foundation at a U. S. House of Representatives Appropriations sub-committee hearing with Robert Mueller.

As a result of the Libyan civil war, the United Nations enacted United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, which imposed a no-fly zone over Libya, and the protection of civilians from the forces of Muammar Gaddafi.

The toga is also used by peoples that can claim descent from Romanized Punics, such as the Arabized Berbers of Tripolitania, in Libya, the most prominent example probably being the late Muammar Gaddafi.

Kapil took a 5 / 102 haul in the second Test at National Stadium, Karachi, 7 / 220 in the third Test at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad and 8 / 85 at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore while he received little support from other team members.

According to Giulio Andreotti ( the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy ) and Abdel Rahman Shalgham ( Libya's Foreign Minister from 2000 until 2009 ), Craxi was the person who phoned Muammar al-Gaddafi to warn him of the impending Operation El Dorado Canyon air-strikes against Libya on 15 April 1986, permitting Gaddafi and his family to evacuate their residence in the Bab al-Azizia compound moments before the bombs dropped.

* Muammar Gaddafi ( 1942 – 2011 ), Libya's leader from 1969 to 2011

A no-fly zone was put into effect during the civil war to prevent government forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi from carrying out air attacks on anti-Gaddafi forces and civilians.

Under pressure from the United States and Britain, Ghanem's comments were quickly retracted by Gaddafi.

On 16 May, it was reported that Ghanem has defected from the Gaddafi government and fled, which was confirmed the next day by Tunisian security officials.

Eman al-Obeidi, a Libyan woman who was abused by the Gaddafi government during the Libyan civil war, is from Tobruk.

It fell out of use in 1969, but was subsequently adopted by the National Transitional Council and anti-Gaddafi forces and formally reclaimed as the country's national flag in the Libyan interim Constitutional Declaration issued on 3 August 2011, as a result of the Fall of Tripoli from the Gaddafi government in the Libyan civil war in August 2011.

The Central Bank of Libya has issued a revised 10-dinar banknote with revised features, one example is the removal of the reference of the Gaddafi era " Jamahiriya " from upper right back, plus the use of English on the notes for the first time in two decades.

The English text has replaced the Arabic text on the back, the removal of the Gaddafi era " Jamahiriya " from the front and upper right back of the note, and the Gaddafi era falcon crest has been removed from the monument to the Battle of Al-Hani.