Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (Arabic: معمر القذافي audio (help·info) Mu‘ammar al-Qaḏāfī; also known simply as Colonel Gaddafi; born 1942) has been the de facto leader of Libya since a coup in 1969.
From 1972, when Gaddafi relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" or "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution...
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Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (Arabic: معمر القذافي audio (help·info) Mu‘ammar al-Qaḏāfī; also known simply as Colonel Gaddafi; born 1942) has been the de facto leader of Libya since a coup in 1969.
From 1972, when Gaddafi relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" or "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution" in government statements and the official press. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the third longest serving of all current national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Ali Pasha Al Karamanli, who ruled between 1754 and 1795.
Gaddafi was the youngest born into a peasant family. Officially his father was Mohammed Abdul Salam bin Hamed bin Mohammed Al-Gaddafi, known as Abu Meniar (died 1985). It has however been reported in The Times that there is a possibility his biological father was a...
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