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

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Qaddafi's Early Life

Qaddafi was the only son of a goat herder named Abu Minyar and his wife Aisha. He had three older sisters, but otherwise the fictional figure his childhood most resembled would probably be Rey from Star Wars. His early education was given by a wandering priest who taught him to memorize verses of the Quran. As a child, Q Gaddafi and his family would wander the desert finding empty ammo casings, pieces of downed planes, destroyed tanks,. Like that was his early childhood.

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