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Young men who found Gaddafi have his golden gun, satellite phone
They had the ultimate trophies of the revolution: the colonel's golden gun, his satellite phone, his brown scarf and one black boot. A small group of fighters from Misurata, the vanguard of the force attacking Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi's former hometown and final hide-out, Sirte, said they had stumbled upon him hiding in a drainage pipe. He was bl...
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Moammar Gaddafi: An erratic leader, brutal and defiant to the end
Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for 42 years, died on Thursday as his last stronghold fell to the Libyan forces that drove him from power, officials of Libya's transitional government said. There were conflicting initial reports of the specific circumstances of his death: some said he was killed in Sirte, his hometown; others said he di...
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Who is Moammar Gaddafi?
It has been over 40 years since Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi came to power in Libya - and for nearly as long the West watched his every move. The financier of an eclectic array of guerrilla groups around the globe, he was responsible, according to Western intelligence, for many of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the mid-80s, including the 1988 bombin...
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Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi killed as troops seize Sirte
The head of the Libyan military council said that Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi was killed Thursday as fighters battling the vestiges of his fallen regime wrested control of his hometown of Sirte after a prolonged struggle. Al-Jazeera television showed what it said was Colonel Gaddafi's corpse as Libyans rejoiced.
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Photo album from Gaddafi's compound reveals his 'diplo-crush' on Condoleezza Rice
When you're the single, attractive secretary of state for the United States, you're bound to pick up groupies in all corners of the international diplomatic scene. But for Condoleezza Rice, who has been linked with diplomats from Rome (the Italian foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema) to London (Foreign Minister Jack Straw of Britain) to Pictou, Nova...
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Blasts rock Libyan capital in area of Gaddafi compound
NATO fighter planes struck the Libyan capital, hitting the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's headquarters in Bab al-Aziziyah in Tripoli in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Young men who found Gaddafi have his golden gun, satellite phone
They had the ultimate trophies of the revolution: the colonel's golden gun, his satellite phone, his brown scarf and one black boot. A small group of fighters from Misurata, the vanguard of the force attacking Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi's former hometown and final hide-out, Sirte, said they had stumbled upon him hiding in a drainage pipe. He was bl...
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Moammar Gaddafi: An erratic leader, brutal and defiant to the end
Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for 42 years, died on Thursday as his last stronghold fell to the Libyan forces that drove him from power, officials of Libya's transitional government said. There were conflicting initial reports of the specific circumstances of his death: some said he was killed in Sirte, his hometown; others said he di...
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Who is Moammar Gaddafi?
It has been over 40 years since Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi came to power in Libya - and for nearly as long the West watched his every move. The financier of an eclectic array of guerrilla groups around the globe, he was responsible, according to Western intelligence, for many of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the mid-80s, including the 1988 bombin...
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Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi killed as troops seize Sirte
The head of the Libyan military council said that Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi was killed Thursday as fighters battling the vestiges of his fallen regime wrested control of his hometown of Sirte after a prolonged struggle. Al-Jazeera television showed what it said was Colonel Gaddafi's corpse as Libyans rejoiced.
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Photo album from Gaddafi's compound reveals his 'diplo-crush' on Condoleezza Rice
When you're the single, attractive secretary of state for the United States, you're bound to pick up groupies in all corners of the international diplomatic scene. But for Condoleezza Rice, who has been linked with diplomats from Rome (the Italian foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema) to London (Foreign Minister Jack Straw of Britain) to Pictou, Nova...
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Blasts rock Libyan capital in area of Gaddafi compound
NATO fighter planes struck the Libyan capital, hitting the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's headquarters in Bab al-Aziziyah in Tripoli in the early hours of Saturday morning.
