Muammar al-Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi: Libya’s Saviour From September 1st, 1969 to October 20th, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi ruled the country of Libya from his coup d'etat to the day he died. Gaddafi gained power in place of the terrible King Idris when he saw an opportunity to better his country. Although dissenters may claim that Muammar Gaddafi was a horrendous leader, he was, in reality, a benevolent figure that dedicated his life to the people of Libya and successfully transformed his country from a wasteland into a hospitable environment. To begin, Muammar Gaddafi took a country in shambles due to Italian occupation and the Idris regime and turned it into an exceptional country. Before Gaddafi, millions of Libyans were left destitute and without basic necessities of life. In order to mend this, Gaddafi enacted many direly needed changes soon after he took office, such as an extensive web of leadership with an executive, a legislative, and a judicial branch, similar to that of the United States. Gaddafi’s system involved many layers in order to distribute more power to the people, demonstrating his benevolence. There were three…

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…

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Gaddafi currently has set a very high bar for crimes an individual can commit. Gaddafi has been involved with many terrorist attacks and has ordered to kill many. Gaddafi has been involved in the bombing of the Berlin disco, Pan Am flights, Libyan hospitals, and Libyan cities. Gaddafi has also “crushed a 1996 prison uprising by killing 1,200 people” (“Libya’s Tyrant Must Depart”). Macbeth has also committed many cruel deeds that have allowed him to stay in power. Macbeth’s brutal crimes can be…

the time of Gaddafi 's birth Libya was an Italian colony. Growing up, Gaddafi witnessed significant events in the Arab world, including the Arab–Israeli War and the Egyptian Revolution. He was influenced very much by the Egyptian President Nasser. Education: Gaddafi attended elementary school, then he enrolled in the Royal Libyan Military Academy in Benghazi in 1961…

He would use the revenues that came from the oil industry to bolster the military, implements programs throughout the country that would lean towards the idea of socialism and would fund revolutionary Muslim militants throughout the world. In 2011, a civil war broke out in Libya, which would later on cause UN intervention with the result of Gaddafi being overthrow and…

“moral hazard”; this new international norm raised expectations of diplomatic and military intervention when groups faced oppression. The potential for outside intervention can tempt groups, which might otherwise be peaceful, to engage in risky behavior and carry out political violence in challenging their governments. Even though the rebels may have little chance of succeeding, the mere possibility of outside intervention emboldens the combatants, leading them to prefer conflict escalation…

Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi was the leader of Libya from the time he took part in overthrowing the Libyan monarchy in 1969 till the end of his life in 2011. Al-Qadhafi had a very strong conviction of his political ideology, and remained a supporter of pan-Arabism and “Islamic socialism” throughout his reign. Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi 's Green Book was greatly influenced by his upbringing and political events that took place around him during his life, and with great reliance on the ideas of President Gamal…

standing. In Libya the Prime Minister has removed any negative independent broadcasting of information or print media, which is similar in Turkmenistan, where "cross censorship" has been introduced therefore creating an atmosphere of fear and in North Korea there is no independent journalists or broadcasting information available. Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya from 1942-2011 this reign was carried out in a cruel and strange manner. Gaddafi’s reign began with the removal…

In 1986, Reagan took violent action to win a battle in his war against terrorism. Reagan started serving his presidential term. The United States had been struggling with foreign nations, such as Libya, specifically relations with Muammar Gaddafi (El-Gadhafi, Quadaffi, Qadhafi). Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator first came to power in 1969. Over the past few decades, the United States tried to solve conflicts with Libya diplomatically (SOURCE). Once Reagan was elected, he tried to continue the…