Kaddafi

[kuh-dah-fee]

noun

1. Muammar (Muhammad) al- or el- Qadhafi.

Example Sentences

Moammar Kaddafi in 2011, Libya has spectacularly fragmented, with foreign nations backing rival militiamen and turning the country into a “bazaar for mercenaries, death and destruction, or an experiment field for weaponry,” Stephanie Williams, the U.N. deputy special pepresentative to Libya, said in an interview.

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She was shooting the last days of Moammar Kaddafi's reign in Libya when she and two other journalists were taken hostage.

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Colonel Kaddafi and his chain of terrorist chicken stores.

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It was not really a consulate at all by the strict State Department definition of the term, it was called a "special mission" and had grown out of the improvised presence that Chris Stevens had established in Benghazi as the envoy to the rebels during the fighting to overthrow the Kaddafi dictatorship.

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Men like Muammar Kaddafi of Libya and Saddam Hussein of Iraq, like Hafez Assad of Syria, were children of adversity, and they were crueler for it, because traditional Arab society exalted pedigree and high birth.

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