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The rise and fall of Colonel Gaddafi - 42 years of the 'mad dog' dictator

Branded a "mad dog" by Ronald Reagan, Colonel Gaddafi has been associated with some of the most notorious terrorist atrocities of the pre-9/11 era.

The Telegraph
2:06PM BST 20 Oct 2011
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Gaddafi gained global recognition in 1969 when he led a bloodless military coup in Libya to topple King Idris, who had ruled the former Italian colony since independence in 1951.

As Libya's new leader, Gaddafi soon began pursuing the aim of uniting Arab countries. He instigated the Federation of Arab Republics with Syria and Egypt in April 1971, a short lived endeavour to merge the three countries as a United Arab state.

It was during the 1980s that Gaddafi's relationship with the West deteriorated amid accusations of Libyan sponsorship for terror attacks. In 1984 WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed from within the Libyan embassy.

Then in 1986 there was the bombing of a Berlin nightclub - in which two US marines were killed. The attack prompted President Reagan to launch airstrikes on Tripoli.


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Two years later on December 21, 1988 came the most notorious incident of all - the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish village of Lockerbie, killing 270 people.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela played a key role in persuading Gaddafi to surrender two Libyan nationals suspected of involvement in the bombing.

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was found guilty of mass murder and given a 27-year prison sentence. Al-Amin Khalifa Fa-hi-ma was acquitted and set free.

In March 2004, Tony Blair visited Gaddafi's tent in Tripoli after Libya announced it was ending its weapons of mass destruction programmes and agreed to short-notice checks of its nuclear sites by United Nations nuclear inspectors.

Gaddafi made further attempts at rehabilitating his image in the West, sending son Mutassim on an official trip to the US State Department and visiting Libya's former colonial ruler Italy himself.

Shortly after Gaddafi made his first visit to the US since taking power. He addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York with a rambling speech lasting one hour and 35 minutes.

The toppling of autocratic rulers in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011 prompted a popular revolt against Gaddafi as the 'Arab Spring' gained momentum.

His violent crackdown on initial protests sparked a civil war, which prompted the Arab League to call for a United Nations no fly zone over Libya.

On March 19 - two days after agreeing a Security Council resolution - a five-country coalition made up of the United States, France, Britain, Canada and Italy, launched air strikes on Libya in a joint operation called "Odyssey Dawn".

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