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| Muammar Gathafi has ruled Libya for more than four decades. Born a Bedouin tribesman, he attended military college and almost immediately set about plotting to overthrow Libya's ruler, King Idris I. He succeeded in 1969, taking power in a bloodless coup. Gathafi was 27. He took the title of colonel, and in the 1970s he seemed to have philosophical pretentions, publishing his so-called Green Book of political philosophy and leading Libya in a path of "Islamic socialism". |
Works
- The Green Book (1976)
Libya's Gaddafi turns attention to Black Africa an article from 1998 talking about Gathafi's switch from Pan-Arabism to Pan-Africanism