Colonel Gaddafi the ousted leader of Libya in 2011 is Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi. The Late Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya in 42 years since he took power in 1969, in a coup d'etat overthrowing King Idris. He was the Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and as “Brother Leader” of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Muammar Gaddafi governed his country according to his own ideology.
His ideologies were founded on Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, influenced in particular by Nasserism. In 1970s he formulated the Third International Theory and Third World revolutionary theory. Gaddafi loathed the United States for he saw America as imperialist and the embodiment of eveil.
Gaddafi saw himself as a simple revolutionary and pious Muslim called by Allah to continue the work of Nasser. He owned a large variety of clothes allowing him to change outfit multiple times a day. He saw himself as a fashion icon. Gaddafi was described as an "armchair philosopher" but not a "logical thinker."
Biographer Daniel Kawczynski noted that he was famed for his "lengthy, wandering" speeches criticizing Israel and the US. Gaddafi travelled with his all-female Amazonian Guard since 1980s. It was also reperted that he never travelled without his trusted Ukrainian nurse Halyna Kolotnytska. This Libyan leader remained controversial and troublesome figure on the world stage throughout his life and after death has an estimated net worth of $200 billion.
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