Noah Friedman
But the leadership rhetoric and military thinking emanating from Washington, London and Paris has been increasingly focussed on the goal of killing Gaddafi or coming so close to doing so it would scare him out of office. Take as an example this quote from Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the ...
IN JANUARY last year Muammar Gaddafi was chairman of the African Union and the leader of an oil-rich state with a Mediterranean coastline which had at last made peace with the West.Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
all the while continuing to plan a coup with the help of his fellow army officers. On September 1, 1969, Qaddafi seized control of the government in a military coup that deposed King Idris. Qaddafi was named commander inchiefof the armed forces and chairman of Libya’s new governing body,...