Talk:Muammar Qadhafi

Name

With the Libyan head of state back in the news - but for how long? - I think it is worth opening the can of worms of how we are going to spell his name here. If you start a full article, please don't create a metadata page or redirects yet! :)

As a Brit, the one I am most familiar with is 'Muammar Gaddafi', which is what the BBC uses. John Stephenson 09:56, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

I myself tend to avoid it by saying "Head of state of Libya" or the like. I have no idea what should be definitive. I'll check, but I don't think the United States intelligence community is always consistent (toward him; nothing else assumed). I could make some phone calls later in the week.

The World Factbook uses Muammar Abu Minyar al-QADHAFI, with the strange American bureaucratic convention of capitalizing surnames. I think the Factbook still is in CIA, but the National Open Source Center may be doing something different. Maybe we can agree on his first name. Howard C. Berkowitz 15:52, 20 February 2011 (UTC)