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| − | Colonel '''Muammar Qaddafi''' (born 1942) has been the Muslim dictator of [[Libya]] since 1969, when he seized power in a military coup against King Idriss. Once he became dictator, he renamed all the months in the calendar and published the Green Book, which was a series of pamphlets on [[democracy]], [[economics]], and sociology.
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| − | President [[Ronald Reagan]] was a frequent target of Qaddafi's rants. Reagan responded with this assessment:<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/641/000026563/</ref>
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| − | :I find he's not only a barbarian, but he's flaky. ... I just think that the man is a zealot.
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| − | Reportedly Qaddafi supported terrorism, and may have ordered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.
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