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| Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has ruled Libya since he and his group of revolutionary army officers overthrew Libya's King Idris in September 1969. |
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| Col Gaddafi and Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser arrive together in Rabat ahead of the Arab Summit Conference in December 1969. |
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| Middle Eastern leaders in Cairo for talks on the situation in Jordan, September 1970. Left to right: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Col Gaddafi, President Abdul Rahman Iryani of the Yemen Arab Republic and President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. |
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| Col Gaddafi in 1973 with a group of British hippies in Tripoli |
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| Col Gaddafi and President of the USSR, Leonid Ilyich Brejnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (third from left) smile while members of delegations of both countries sign agreements |
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| The leader reviews troops in Dakar upon his arrival for three-day official visit to Senegal in in December 1985. |
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| Col Gaddafi, surrounded by two of his female bodyguards, in Belgrade in 1989. |
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South African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela (l) and the Libyan leader hug each other on May 18 1990 upon Mandela's arrival to Tripoli. |
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| A Libyan hand holds a crushed US fighter jet in this sculpture located on the grounds of Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, 2001. Lockerbie bombing defendant Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah arrived to a hero's welcome in Tripoli a day after being acquitted by a Scottish court in the Lockerbie bombing trial. |
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| Lockerbie bombing defendant Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, left, speaks to the media with Gaddafi after arriving in the capital Tripoli February 1, 2001, a day after being acquitted in the Lockerbie bombing trial. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Fhimah's codefendant in the trial for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, was found guilty by a Scottish court and sentenced to life in prison. |
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European Commission, President Romano Prodi talks to Colonel Gaddafi at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium in 2004. |
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| French President Jacques Chirac shakes hands with Gaddafi in Tripoli. Chirac was in Libya for a two day official visit in 2004, marking the first visit by a French head of state since Libya won independence from Italy in 1951. |
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| Tony Blair embraces Colonel Moammar Gaddafi in Sirte, Libya, in 2007. |
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Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero greets Gaddafi upon his arrival at La Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain. 2007. |
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Vladimir Putin meets with Colonel Gaddafi in Tripoli, Libya. Putin was in Libya for a two-day official visit to rebuild Russian-Libyan relations in 2008. |
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Gaddafi attends a meeting with Silvio Berlusconi in 2009 at Villa Madama in Rome, Italy. Gaddafi, making his first visit to Italy arrived at the head of a 300-strong delegation to strengthen ties between Libya and Italy. |
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| n this handout image provided by the Palestinian Press Office, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) is greeted by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (R) on September 4, 2010 in Libya, Tripoli. Abbas was in Libya following a trip to the U.S. for Mideast peace talks in which he met in a State Department room alone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 3:10pm UK, Monday August 22, 2011 |
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