Mudammar Gaddafi In History

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Role of Muammar Gaddafi in History
Muammar Gaddafi is the colonel who ruled Libya for the longest time. He is considered one of the most unpredictable and appallingly intriguing leaders in Africa and in the Arab world. He presided over Libya, a desert republic with massive oil deposits and a total population of about six million people. Gaddafi had a poor family background. He was born 1942 in a rural area outside the town of Sire in the seats in western Libya. He had three sisters, and he was the only boy and the youngest in his family. He was raised in a Bedouin tent in the Libyan Desert, and he came from a small tribal family called the Al-Qadhafah. Many of the children had never gotten the chance for an education, but his father sent Gaddafi to school. When he started school in Sire Mediterranean coast, he was about nine years old. He was skillful and charismatic. He joined the military school in Benghazi in Libya. He also applied for farther military training in the United Kingdom. The year after he came back to Libya, he was involved with a
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His history began when Gaddafi developed his own political philosophy by writing a book that was influential. He was certainly an intelligent, resourceful man, though he never received a thorough education, apart from learning to read the Koran and his military training. However, he decided to prove his intelligence and a leading political philosopher by coming up with his own theory called third universal theory, which was defined in his legendary Green Book. The third universal theory developed by Muammar Gaddafi claimed to be used to resolve the paradoxes inherent in capitalism and communism which was intended to place the world on the route of political, economic and social uprising and free the oppressed

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