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Moammar Gaddafi through the years Moammar Gaddafi has ruled Libya for more than 40 years. Now, he is strongly rejecting opposition demands that he give up power, as anti-government demonstrators continue to push for his ouster.
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Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is shown in uniform in this 1970 photo. He has controlled Libya since he came to power in a bloodless 1969 military coup.
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June 25, 1970
Col. Moammar Gaddafi, head of the Libyan revolutionary command council, addresses a crowd at the stadium of Benghazi, Libya, in 1970. The address celebrated the evacuation of U.S. troops from Libyan territory.
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Aug. 18, 1971
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, left, Col. Moammar Gaddafi of Libya, center, and Gen. Hafez Assad of Syria are shown during a 1971reception in Damascus.
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Oct. 10, 1976
Col. Moammar Gaddafi, president of Libya, waves to a crowd as he rides a horse during a ceremony in Ajdabia, Libya. The 1976 celebration marks the sixth anniversary of the eviction of Italians from Libya.
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Feb. 9, 1977
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gaddafi addressing the massive rally at the Martyrs square at Tripoli in 1977.
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Dec. 4, 1977
Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, right, raises his hand in a salute to delegates, with Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, center, and PLO leader George Habash, at the Arab Nations Summit in 1977.
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Sept. 1, 1987
Gaddafi holds a baton as he sits to review Libyan troops during the 18th anniversary celebration of Libya's revolution in Tripoli.
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Aug. 20, 1990
Gaddafi instructs journalists to take their seats at a 1990 news conference in Tripoli. He flew in more than 100 foreign journalists to condemn U.S. intervention in the Gulf region.
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Oct. 4, 1995
Gaddafi waves to Palestinian workers expelled from Libya and Libyan supporters upon his 1995 arrival at a camp set up in no-man's land on the Libyan-Egyptian border under Libyan jurisdiction. Gaddafi had been enforcing a policy to expel Palestinian workers and their families as a gesture against the Israeli-PLO agreements.
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June 22, 1996
Gaddafi puts his arm around Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at Cairo airport in 1996. Recent anti-government demonstrations in the Middle East that removed Mubarak from power in Egypt are currently threatening Gaddafi's hold on power in Libya.
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Aug. 31, 1996
Gaddafi is joined by the U.S. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, left, as he opens a new hospital in Tripoli in 1996.
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Sept. 1, 1996
Gaddafi is surrounded by unidentified guests and aides during ceremonies in Tripoli to mark the 27th anniversary of the 1969 coup that brought him to power.
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Dec. 2, 1997
Gaddafi and his wife, Safiya, in 1997.
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April 3, 2000
Gaddafi, center, Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi, left, and Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema listen to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during the opening session of the Africa-Europe summit in Cairo in 2000.
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Aug. 2, 2000
Gaddafi, left, is welcomed by Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis in 2000.
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Oct. 5, 2000
Jordan's King Abdullah II, right, escorts Gaddafi, left, to Amman's town hall center to attend a state celebration hosted in Gaddafi's honor in 2000.
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Feb. 5, 2001
Gaddafi gestures in front of a statue representing a hand catching a U.S warplane near his home in Tripoli in 2001. In a 2009 address before the U.N. General Assembly, Gaddafi lambasted the U.S. over the war in Iraq, and said former president George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes.
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Feb. 10, 2004
Gaddafi laughs in a tent while meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Sirt, Libya, in 2004.
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March 25, 2004
U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, walks with Gaddafi, right, outside Gaddafi's tent in Tripoli in 2004.
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June 10, 2008
Gaddafi embraces Tunisia's then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali at an Arab mini-summit, in the Tripoli in 2008. U.S. State Department cables from 2009 released by WikiLeaks detailed Gaddafi's fear of flying and tendency to travel with a "voluptous blonde" Ukranian nurse who "knows his routine."
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Sept. 5, 2008
Gaddafi meets with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli in 2008.
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July 9, 2009
U.S. President Obama and Gaddafi meet during the 2009 G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy.
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Sept. 1, 2009
Gaddafi takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade in Tripoli in 2009. Libyan protesters this week celebrated in the streets of Benghazi claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting. Anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. Gaddafi's son vowed his father and security forces would fight "until the last bullet."
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Feb. 25, 2010
Gaddafi is seen during prayers after delivering a speech in the city of Benghazi, Libya, in 2010. Libyan special forces stormed a two-day-old protest in Benghazi, clearing the area this past Saturday, said witnesses. A human rights group estimated scores of people died in the harsh crackdown.
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This image broadcast on Libyan state television early Tuesday shows Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, who appeared for less than a minute on state television and made brief remarks to say he was in the capital, Tripoli. He denied rumors he fled to Venezuela amid the unrest sweeping his country.
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