By: Pierre P | 2011-10-25 | Society Under Gaddafi's regime, people live in best ever conditions. Without his reign, how do they live? These 2 stories reflect how Libyans react to Gaddafi's death. His furneral will be taken secretly. It's said that he will be buried in the desert. Poor him. Poor Libyans. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-10-26 | News and society Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was reported to be buried in early Tuesday morning at a secretly deep location in the desert that was home to his Bedouin tribal ancestors. Gaddafi, 69, was buried with his son Muatassim and former Defence Minister Abu Bakr Younis. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-08-24 | News and society Muammar Gaddafi is famous as the Libyan leader who seized power in a military coup in 1969. With nearly-42 years in power, Muammar Gaddafi has become the fourth longest-ruling non-royal leader since 1900. He is also considered to be the longest-ruling Arab leader ever. read more
By: Gianni Truvianni | 2011-03-09 | Current Events An article about how I hold some sympathy for Gaddafi yet not in the way that I believe he should stay in power. It being clear that his time has passed and he like the actor who has played his part, must leave the stage yet that he has not had the grandness to see how he might have become a part of the change in this country. A change which he might have even orchestrated in his benefit that his read more
By: Pierre F | 2011-10-21 | Society Colonel Gaddafi was executed by a frenzied mob of rebel fighters after pleading: 'Don't shoot, don't shoot!' read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-10-21 | News and society Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has been killed tragically in his hometown, Sirte, as the government forces overrun home town of Sirte. Muammar Gaddafi’s dead marks an end to the eight-month uprising in Libya. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-10-22 | News and society Safia Farkash Gaddafi is Muammar Gaddafi’s second wife and the mother of seven of his eight biological children. Safia is reportedly the owner of Buraq Air, and about 20 tonnes of gold so that her fortune is worthy about $30 billion. read more
By: Pierre P | 2011-10-21 | Current Events A 19-year-old member of Moammar Khadafy's "gun girl" militia has admitted to executing at least 10 rebel prisoners -- because she said she would have been killed if she didn't pull the trigger of her AK-47. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-08-22 | News and society According to The International Criminal Court prosecutor, three sons of Colonel Gaddafi’s named Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi were reported to be arrested and detained in Libya on the night of August 21 by Libyan rebels when the tyrant himself had fled the capital read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-03 | Humanities Gaddafi stated to the Libyan population and to the wider world that he was creating a direct democracy governed by the people through local popular councils and communes but in reality, the power lay solely with Gaddafi, aided by a small band of trusted advisors. However, Gaddafi insisted that he was implementing democracy in what he coined as Jamahiriya, which could be loosely derived as power for the people by the people. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-03 | News and society Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was born into a Bedouin family in the desert area of Sirte in Libya on 7 June 1942. He received a traditional religious primary education before attending a preparatory school in the nearby town of Sebha where he became strongly influenced by the pan-Arab nationalism being espoused by the Egyptian leader, President Gemal Abdel-Nasser. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-03 | Humanities When Egypt signed peace agreements with Israel in 1979, Libya sought to ally itself closer with the Soviet Union but rather bizarrely even relations between these two remained fairly cool. Desperate for friends, Gaddafi sought to spread Libyan influence in states with sizeable Islamic populations, called for the creation of a Saharan Islamic state and supported anti-government forces in sub-Saharan Africa. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-03 | Humanities It took the intercession of South African President Nelson Mandela and UN Secretary Kofi Annan, for Gaddafi to agree to a compromise, he handed over the two suspects to the Netherlands to face trial under Scottish law. One of the men was acquitted but the other Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's was convicted which subsequently led to Libya writing to the families of the victims and officially accepting responsibility and agreed to pay compensation of $2.7 billion to the families. read more
By: Pierre P | 2011-10-21 | Politics Libya's National Transitional Council Thursday called for the extradition of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's family from Algeria, Xinhuareported. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-11-21 | Politics The playboy son of Colonel Gaddafi, Saif Al-Islam, was captured by Zintan fighters near the southern town of Obari and flown to the city of Zintan in the north. He would be facing a firing squad as the Libyan government yesterday refused to hand him over to the International Criminal Court. The latest Gaddafi son news gives a great cheer to Libyan people. A commander of the Zintan militia told the press that he had been captured along with several aides as they tried to smuggle him out to neighboring Niger. One of his captors said, “At the beginning he was very scared. He thought we would kill him”. Saif Al-Islam is the last key Gaddafi family member to be seized or killed and be wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes against humanity read more