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The 1969 Libyan revolution, also known as the al-Fateh Revolution or 1 September Revolution, was a coup d'état and revolution carried out by the Free Officers Movement, a group of Arab nationalist and Nasserist officers in the Libyan Army, which overthrew the Senussi monarchy of King Idris I and resulted in the formation of the Libyan Arab ...
Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi [13] was born near Qasr Abu Hadi, a rural area outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of Tripolitania, Italian western Libya. [14] His family came from a small, relatively uninfluential tribe called the Qadhadhfa, [15] who were Arab in heritage. His mother was Aisha bin Niran, and his father, Mohammad ...
On September 1, 1969, a group of Libyan officers – the "Free Unionist Officers" – under the command of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, overthrew King Idris I of the Kingdom of Libya. [3] After the coup, revolutionary officers established the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), a body originally conceived as a collective leadership government.
From 1969 to 2011, the politics of Libya were determined de facto by Muammar Gaddafi, who had been in power since his overthrow of the Kingdom of Libya in 1969.. Gaddafi abolished the post-1951 Libyan Constitution and introduced his own political philosophy, based on his Green Book published in the 1970s. [1]
The green flag of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.The colour green, represented Islam and Gaddafi's Third International Theory, which was outlined in The Green Book. The Arab Liberation Flag used under the Federation of Arab Republics was based on the flag first used by Gamal Abdel Nasser and used by Gaddafi's regime prior to the Jamahiriya.
Across the Atlantic, the Georgian-style London mansion of the colonel's 38-year-old son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has been at the center of an international protest since March. As the civil war ...
Among his far-flung real estate holdings, murderous dictator Muammar Qaddafi of Libya counts a mansion (see photo below) in the wealthy New York City suburb of Englewood, N.J., as part of his ...
The Central Intelligence Agency have performed multiple surveillance activities in Libya, particularly following the 1969 Libyan coup d'état. [1] These surveillance activities had a particular focus on US oil interests in the region, but quickly focused on the governance of Muammar Gaddafi and his hostility toward the United States.