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He was born in Surt, Libya http://www.nndb/people1641/000026563/
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Qaddhadi graduated from the University of Libya in 1963 http://www.biography.com/people/muammar-al-quaddafi-39014
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Qaddhafi graduated from the Libyan military acadamy http://www.biography.com/people/muammar-al-quaddafi-39014
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He seized power in a military coup in 1969 until 2011 http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/muammar_guddafi
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Mu'aammar Quaddhafi removed the U.S. and British military bases from Libya in 1970 http://www.biography.com/people/muammar-al-quaddafi-39014
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He outlawed all alcoholic beverages and gambling in accordance with his own strict Islamic principals http://www.biography.com/people/muammar-al-quaddafi-39014
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His government financed a broad spectrum of revolutionary or terrorists groups worldwide, including the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam in the United States and the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland
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Quaddhafi was almost killed when British airforce bombed Libya and nearly missed Quaddhafi http://www.biography.com/people/muammar-al-quaddafi-39014
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All the terrorist aattacks brought him into a growing conflict with the U.S government. In April of 1986 British-Based warplanes bombed several sites in Libya, killing and or injuring several of his children.
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Libya's purported involvement in the destruction of a civilian airliner over Lockerbie, Scot., in 1988.
In the late 1990's Quaddafi turned over the alleged perpetrators of the bombing to international authorities.
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Quaddafi announed that Libya would cease its unconventional-weapons program
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Qaddhafi was elected chairman of the African Union http://www.biography.com/people/muammar-al-quaddafi-39014
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February 2009 Qaddafi was elected chairman of the African Union, and later that year he gave his first speech before the UN General Assembly.
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