Muammar Gaddafi

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Muammar Gaddafi, accurately Muammar Al Qadhdhafi, also known as Colonel Gaddafi or simply Gaddafi, born 7 June 1942, is a Libyan military officier, a politician and the de facto leader of Libya since a coup in 1969.

His Arabic name, معمر القذافي, has received many transcriptions in English: Muʿammar Al Qadhdhāfī is the most exact one, Muammar Gaddafi is the most frequent one, but one can also find Moammar (Al) Gadhafi, Muammar (Al) Qaddafi, Muammar (El) Qaddafi, Qadhafi, Qaddhafi, Gathafi, Gheddafi, Kadhafi, Khaddafi, Qathafi, etc.