Muammar al-Gaddafi
Summary
Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (Arabic: معمر القذافي audio (help·info) Mu‘ammar al-Qaḏḏāfī; also known simply as Colonel Gaddafi; born 1942) has been the leader of Libya since a coup in 1969.From 1972, when Gaddafi relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" or "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution" in government statements and the official press. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the fourth longest serving of all current national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Ali Pasha Al Karamanli, who ruled between 1754 and 1795.Gaddafi was born in a Bedouin family near Sirt.
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Mysterious YouTube video accuses Russia's Medvedev of treason
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev is glimpsed exchanging confidential smiles with Barack Obama as sinister music plays. The dead body of Russian ally Muammar Gaddafi, driven from power by the West, is dragged through the dirt. A camera homes in on the prime minister sweating and shifting uneasily in his chair.
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How Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger negotiated release of imprisoned journalist
In an excerpt from his new autobiography, Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger recounts “three of the more surreal days in my life” — when he went to Libya to negotiate the release of an imprisoned journalist, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, … Read more.
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Richard Pryor and Dick Cheney Focus of Showtime Documentaries
Richard Pryor, Dick Cheney and Muammar el-Qaddafi are among the personalities that will be the focus of Showtime’s new documentary features.
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Richard Pryor and Dick Cheney Focus of Showtime Documentaries
Richard Pryor, Dick Cheney and Muammar el-Qaddafi are among the personalities that will be the focus of Showtime’s new documentary features.
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Spies, Chopin and a last-minute rescue in Libya | Alan Rusbridger
When Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was seized reporting Libya's civil war, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger flew out to secure his release. In an extract from his book, he tells of a surreal three days in Tripoli negotiating with Gaddafi's ministers, being trailed by spooks and practising Chopin in a deserted hotel.
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Unfinished business
In recent years, as the American public has grown exhausted by news of war, it has become ever more fascinated by war photographers. When the photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed in a mortar attack by Qaddafi forces two years ago this April, for instance, it was one of the biggest news events of.
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Don't Expect Newsweek's Digital Covers to Be Any Less Provocative
Last year,Newsweek editor Tina Brown confessed that Newsweek's print product cost roughly $42 million per year to ship, causing some to note that the magazine's shift to a digital-only would liberate the publication from the costly chains of the printing press. Yet, while the product may be made up of zeroes and ones, Newsweek's first digtal cover shows all the signs of continuing its tradition of featuring flashy, marquee-name photography and writers in an attempt to put the magazine at the center of the news cycle.
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Kidnapped US journalist has not been seen for 44 days
The family of freelance American reporter James Foley have revealed that he was kidnapped at gunpoint in Syria on 22 November, 44 days ago.
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Rowan Williams says goodbye to Canterbury in BBC documentary
Archbishop of Canterbury refers to cathedral as a factory for prayer in BBC documentary to be screened on New Year's Day.
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New York Times correction: Qaddafi didn’t expose himself to French president’s ex-wife
The New York Times corrects a claim that Muammar el-Qaddafi once exposed himself to the French president’s ex-wife:.
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