Having taken power in a coup three months earlier,
Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...
faced a mutiny by army and interior ministers Moussa Ahmed and Adam Hawaz, both from the eastern
Barqa region. The pair were routed and imprisoned in the first of Gaddafi's many survivals.
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1969 Libyan coup d'état
The 1969 Libyan coup d'état, also known as the al-Fateh Revolution or the 1 September Revolution, was carried out by the Free Unionist Officers Movement, a group of military officers led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, which led to the overthrow of K ...
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2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt
The 2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt was a coup d'état attempt by a group of members of the General National Congress to take control of the country from Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. Zeidan was kidnapped in the early hours of the 10 October ...
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2014 Libyan coup d'état attempts
Two coup d'état attempts were reported to have been made in 2014 by forces loyal to Maj. Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of Libyan Ground Forces.
February 2014
Haftar reportedly took control of Libya's main institutions on the morning of 14 F ...
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Military history of Libya
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