Gaddafi Up-Close

Gaddafi Up-Close
Author: Go Pal
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1467041831

THIS BOOK INCLUDES MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES IN TRIPOLI, WHILE I WAS UP- CLOSE WITH, COL. GADDAFI. I ALSO STUDIED THE GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY WITH A VIEW TO PREDICTING ITS DESTINY. I ALSO DESCRIBE OMAR MUKHTAR, THE "LION OF THE DESERT WHO WAS HANGED, FIGHTING TO LIBERATE HIS BELOVED LIBYA FROM THE ITALIAN MARAUDERS (MUSSOLINI,) IN EARLY 1900.

My Vision

My Vision
Author: Muammar Qaddafi
Publisher: Blake Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

In September 2003, the international embargo and sanctions imposed on Libya for more than a decade were raised by the UN Security Council. This book looks at the commitment of Libya's leader, Colonel Gadaffi, to seeing his country rejoin the international community after many years of isolation.

Gaddafi Up-Close

Gaddafi Up-Close
Author: Go Pal
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 146704184X

BOOK INCLUDES MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES IN TRIPOLY UP CLOSE WITH THE LEADER COL. GADDAFI. I STUDIED THE GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY WITH A VIEW TO PREDICTING ITS DESTINY. I WAS DEEPLY RESPECTFUL OF THE "LION OF THE DESERT" THE MAHATMA GANDHI OF LIBYA

Gaddafi's Harem

Gaddafi's Harem
Author: Annick Cojean
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802121721

Follows a fifteen-year-old girl who, after presenting Gaddafi with a bouquet of flowers during a visit to her school, was summoned to his compound where she, along with a number of young women, was violently abused, raped, and degraded.

The Colonel and I

The Colonel and I
Author: Daad Sharab
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-12-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 152679599X

An insider’s view of Libya’s fallen dictator by the woman who served as his longtime troubleshooter and confidante. For almost half of Muammar Gaddafi’s forty-two-year reign, Daad Sharab was his trusted confidante—the only outsider to be admitted to his inner circle. Down the years many have written about Gaddafi, but none have been so close. Now, years after the violent death of “the Colonel,” she gives a unique insight into the character of a man of many contradictions: tyrant, hero, terrorist, freedom fighter, womanizer, father figure. Her account is packed with fascinating anecdotes and revelations that show Gaddafi in a surprising new light. Daad witnessed the ruthlessness of a flawed leader who is blamed for ordering the Lockerbie bombing, and she became the go-between for the only man convicted of the atrocity. She does not seek to sugar-coat Gaddafi’s legacy, preferring readers to judge for themselves, but also observed a hidden, more humane side. The leader was a troubled father and compassionate statesman who kept sight of his humble Bedouin roots, and was capable of great acts of generosity. The author also pulls no punches about how Western politicians such as Tony Blair, George Bush, and Hillary Clinton shamelessly wooed his oil-rich regime. Despite her warnings the dictator was ultimately consumed by megalomania, and Daad was caught up in his dramatic fall. Falsely accused by Gaddafi’s notorious secret service of being both the Colonel’s mistress and a spy, she faced betrayal and imprisonment—and, caught up in the Arab Spring uprising, she also faced a fight for her life as bombs rained down on Libya.

Justice in Conflict

Justice in Conflict
Author: Mark Kersten
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-08-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191082945

What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the effects of interventions by the ICC on peace, justice and conflict processes. The 'peace versus justice' debate, wherein it is argued that the ICC has either positive or negative effects on 'peace', has spawned in response to the Court's propensity to intervene in conflicts as they still rage. This book is a response to, and a critical engagement with, this debate. Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court's effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. This framework is applied to two cases: Libya and northern Uganda. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the core of the book examines the empirical effects of the ICC on each case. The book also examines why the ICC has the effects that it does, delineating the relationship between the interests of states that refer situations to the Court and the ICC's institutional interests, arguing that the negotiation of these interests determines which side of a conflict the ICC targets and thus its effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. While the effects of the ICC's interventions are ultimately and inevitably mixed, the book makes a unique contribution to the empirical record on ICC interventions and presents a novel and sophisticated means of studying, analyzing, and understanding the effects of the Court's interventions in Libya, northern Uganda - and beyond.

Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi

Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi
Author: Ulf Laessing
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020
Genre: Arab Spring, 2010-
ISBN: 1849048886

Why has Libya fallen apart since 2011? The world has largely given up trying to understand how the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi has left the country a failed state and a major security headache for Europe. Gaddafi's police state has been replaced by yet another dictatorship, amidst a complex conflict of myriad armed groups, Islamists, tribes, towns and secularists. What happened? One of few foreign journalists to have lived in post-revolution Tripoli, Ulf Laessing has unique insight into the violent nature of post-Gaddafi politics. Confronting threats from media-hostile militias and jihadi kidnappings, in a world where diplomats retreat to their compounds and guns are drawn at government press conferences, Laessing has kept his ear to the ground and won the trust of many key players. Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi is an original blend of personal anecdote and nuanced Libyan history. It offers a much-needed diagnosis of why war has erupted over a desert nation of just 6 million, and of how the country blessed with Africa's greatest energy reserves has been reduced to state collapse.

The Dictator's Last Night

The Dictator's Last Night
Author: Yasmina Khadra
Publisher: Gallic Books
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1910477249

Described as 'deeply affecting' by The Guardian, Yasmina Khadra provides us with a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most complex and controversial figures of recent history in this gripping imagining of the last hours of President Gaddafi. 'Khadra’s prose is gentle and precise' The New Yorker People say I am a megalomaniac. It is not true. I am an exceptional being, providence incarnate, envied by the gods, able to make a faith of his cause. October 2011. In the dying days of the Libyan civil war, Muammar Gaddafi is hiding out in his home town of Sirte along with his closest advisors. They await a convoy that will take them south, away from encroaching rebel forces and NATO aerial attacks. The mood is sombre. In what will be his final night, Gaddafi reflects on an extraordinary life, whilst still raging against the West, his fellow Arab nations and the ingratitude of the Libyan people.

Colonel Gaddafi’s Hat

Colonel Gaddafi’s Hat
Author: Alex Crawford
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0007467338

Colonel Gadaffi’s Hat is both a gripping and deeply moving account of the Libyan uprising from the lone journalist who was able to report from the rebel army convoy that captured Green Square, in the heart of Tripoli.

Sandstorm

Sandstorm
Author: Lindsey Hilsum
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0143123602

A vivid and astonishing reckoning with the Gaddafi regime, from one of our most acclaimed and gifted international journalists The fall of Muammar Gaddafi, who was for forty-two years the great autocrat-madman on the world stage, is among the past decade’s most dramatic turning points. In Lindsey Hilsum, a renowned British correspondent for over a quarter century, the end of the Gaddafi regime has found its definitive chronicler. Following six individuals living through this time of unprecedented danger and opportunity, Hilsum tells the full story of the Libyan revolution—from the uprising of the early months through the toppling of Gaddafi’s regime and his savage death in the desert. For the paperback edition, Hilsum brings her analysis up to the present day—with new material on the killing of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the July elections, and the Benghazi anti-militia demonstrations—and explores what the future of Libya will bring.