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Gaddafi

, Qaddafi
Mu'ammar Muhammad al- . born 1942, Libyan army officer and statesman; head of state from 1969
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Qaddafi CC mustered a miserable 142 all out in 18.3 overs at the TMC Ground with Sohail alone bludgeoning 101 off just 49 deliveries while striking 12 fours and seven sixes.
Joseph Stanik, a retired US Navy officer and Middle East scholar describes this conflict in his book, El Dorado Canyon: Reagan's Undeclared War with Qaddafi. His meticulously wellresearched book includes more than 700 citations from various sources.
As Newberger took on Qaddafi the odds were stacked against success.
"Based on the information discovered in Qaddafi regime's security office, Imam Musa al-Sadr and his friends were martyred by the suppressing forces of Qaddafi," Manee told FNA at the time.
Afaab Ahmad Khan, Pakistan ambassador to Libya, said in an interview: 'The peace agreement is an outstanding achievement of President Qaddafi and the Islamic Conference.'
Matar's narrative roams through time, moving from his 2012 visit to see family in Tripoli and Benghazi after Qaddafi's downfall (Matar's first visit in 33 years), to the distant past--when his grandfather fought against the brutal Italian occupation of Libya.
He said this while inspecting construction work at Vehari chowk and Chowk Qaddafi here on Wednesday.
Unfortunately, the promise did not work out since today Libya is far from stable and is sliding further into an all out civil war, with pro government forces battling Islamist militias for power in the eastern city of Benghazi, where the revolution that ousted Qaddafi started in 2011.
When Qaddafi's Free Officers Movement took power, it overthrew the monarchy, dismantled the Sanusi order and identified Sufism as an antirevolutionary agent.
The move shows how six months after Qaddafi's fall, the central government in Libya has proved incapable of governing at all.
| WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (KUNA) -- The United States slapped sanctions against Humayd Abd-al-Salam, accused of supporting the son of slain Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.
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