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Muammar Gaddafi

معمر القذافي
Head of state Inactive Verified

De facto leader of Libya 1969-2011 (1942-2011). Came to power in a military coup against King Idris and ruled for 42 years through his idiosyncratic Jamahiriya system. Killed by rebel forces on 2011-10-20 outside Sirte during the NATO-backed Libyan uprising.

Country
Libya
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state
Status
Historical figure

Position

1 source document on file for Muammar Gaddafi (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Muammar Gaddafi that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • All my people love me. They would die to protect me.
    2011 A February 2011 interview with foreign correspondents in Tripoli, denying that any popular uprising was taking place. en.wikiquote.org
  • I will cleanse Libya inch by inch, house by house, alley by alley, person by person.
    سأنظف ليبيا شبراً شبراً، بيتاً بيتاً، زنقة زنقة، فرداً فرداً.
    2011 February 22 2011 broadcast from a bombed-out Bab al-Azizia compound vowing extermination of the protest movement. The Libyan dialect word "zenga" (alley) gave the address its colloquial name. bbc.com · en.wikipedia.org
  • It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the Terror Council.
    2009 UN General Assembly, 23 Sep 2009 — Gaddafi's only address to the UN. He spoke for 96 minutes, tore the UN Charter, and called the Security Council illegitimate. Became one of the strangest debate moments in UN history. gadebate.un.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Muammar Gaddafi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/gaddafi
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Muammar Gaddafi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/gaddafi.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-gaddafi,
  title     = {{Muammar Gaddafi}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/gaddafi},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.