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Part One: Qaddafi: His Bizarre Sci-Fi Stories, Childhood Hate Crimes and Amazonian Bodyguard Fetish

Behind the Bastards

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Aside From the Hate Crimes

Gaddafi and his young friends wound up overthrowing the government with very little bloodshed or fighting. The revolution worked despite not really knowing what they were doing. It just happened that the king was out of the country when this went down. None of the officers were prepared to defend a coup, so Libya ended up being an underdog story almost.

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