The Reagan directive had listed ten options for action against Gaddafi, which ranged from regime change to economic sanctions, although it was obvious that the operation could only be judged a success if Gaddafi was dislodged: “…no course of action short of stimulating Qaddafi’s fall will bri...
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)
Noah Friedman
Muammar al-Qaddafi, de facto leader of Libya from 1969, when he seized control of the government in a coup against King Idris I, to 2011, when he was ousted in a revolt and later killed by rebel forces. He was known for his eccentric leadership and behav