Fallen Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, entered the world in 1942, near Sirte. A son of an itinerant Bedouin farmer, Gaddafi was brilliant in School and soon graduated from the University of Libya in 1963. He graduated from the Libyan military academy in 1965 steadily rising through the ranks. Unimpressed with King Idr?s’ rule and the dominance of foreign nationals like Italians and Jews in the country, Gaddafi with other officers planned the overthrow of the monarch. On September 1, 1969, ...
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