Muammar Gaddafi - A life in pictures

Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters stand guard next to the corpses of Gaddafi (R) and his son Mutassem, displayed inside the cold storage room of a vegetable market on October 22, 2011, near a mosque on the outskirts of Misrata. Gaddafi died of gunshot wounds after he was found hiding a pipeline. (AFP)

Gaddafi and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shake hands on April 17, 2008, at the end of Putin’s two-day visit in Tripoli. Russia said it will write off US$4.5 billion in Libyan debt in exchange for multibillion dollar deals for its firms. (AP)

Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, making a speech at the opening of the Maghrebin summit on February 16, 1989 in Marrakech Town Hill. (AP)

A picture taken on December 2, 1997 shows Gaddafi with his wife Safiya in Tripoli. (AP)

Gaddafi waves to a crowd as he rides a horse during a ceremony marking the sixth anniversary of the eviction of Italians from Libya. (AP)

Gaddafi (R) salutes next to Algeria’s head of state Houari Boumedienne (C) as they are greeted with national anthems on July 29, 1975 upon their arrival to Kampala in Uganda for the organisation for African Unity summit meeting. At left is Uganda’s President Idi Amin. (AP)

Gaddafi addresses the press on November 24, 1973 after meeting French President Georges Pompidou on the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP)

Muammar Gaddafi is given a warm welcome by Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito on his five-day state visit on November 18, 1973, in Belgrade. (AP)

Gaddafi sits with Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat (R) during the Egyptian cabinet meeting on July 4, 1973 in Cairo. The two leaders entered an agreement to unify Egypt and Libya. (AP)

In this undated 1969 photo, Gaddafi (R) salutes as he appears with Egypt’s Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser (L) in Suez. Gaddafi was a great admirer of Nasser. (AP)

On September 27, 1969, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi overthrew King Idris of Libya in a military putsch. In 1963 Gaddafi formed the Free Officers Movement, a group of revolutionary army officers, which overthrew King Idris and proclaimed Libya, in the name of ‘freedom, socialism and unity’, Socialist People’s Jamahiriya. He was 28 years old. (AP)

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