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Moammar Gaddafi through the years Moammar Gaddafi had ruled Libya for more than 40 years. His legacy ends as revolutionary fighters capture his hometown stronghold of Sirte, and his death is confirmed by Libya’s prime minister.
1970
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 1971 reception 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.
Arna Of Tripoli
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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.
John Redman
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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.
Axel Schulz-Eppers
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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.
Mohamed El-Dakhakhny
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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.
Enric Marti
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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.
Lino Azzopardi
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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.
Lino Azzopardi
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Dec. 2, 1997
Gaddafi and his wife, Safiya, in 1997.
Dimitri Messinis
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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.
Enric Marti
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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.
Amr Nabil
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Feb. 10, 2004
Gaddafi laughs in a tent while meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Sirte, Libya, in 2004.
John Moore
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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.
Alastair Grant
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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."
Abdel Meguid Al-Fergany
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Sept. 5, 2008
Gaddafi meets with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli in 2008.
Nasser Nasser
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July 9, 2009
U.S. President Obama and Gaddafi meet during the 2009 G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy.
Michael Gottschalk
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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."
Ben Curtis
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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.
Abdel Meguid Al-Fergany
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AP
Feb. 22, 2011
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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March 8, 2011
Libya's leader Moammar Gaddafi arrives to give television interviews at a hotel in Tripoli.
Ahmed Jadallah
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Reuters
April 10, 2011
Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi gestures from a car in Tripoli, after a meeting with a delegation of five African leaders seeking to mediate in Libya's conflict.
Louafi Larbi
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Reuters
Oct. 20, 2011
An image from a cellphone camera shows the capture of Libya's strongman Moammar Gaddafi in Sirte. A Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) commander had told AFP that Gaddafi was captured as his hometown Sirte was falling. Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril confirmed that Gaddafi was killed
Philippe Desmazes
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2011
The body of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is seen inside a storage freezer in Misrata, as people gather around it. Gaddafi will be buried according to Muslim rites within 24 hours.
Saad Shalash
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Reuters
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