Kadhafi after 42 years: A leader under siege
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TRIPOLI — Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is facing an unprecedented challenge to his four-decade rule of the oil-rich North African country after six days of anti-regime unrest and more than 170 deaths reported.
In power for nearly 42 years, the one-time political pariah had imposed himself as a key international player the West could not ignore.
As a young colonel, Kadhafi on Sept. 1, 1969, led a coup overthrowing the Western-backed elderly King Idriss, and quickly established himself as a belligerent, unpredictable and flamboyant leader.
Reputedly born in a Bedouin tent in the desert near Sirte in 1942, Kadhafi alienated the West soon after seizing power, accusing it of launching a “new crusade” against the Arabs..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110222com6.html
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