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Muammar Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer and revolutionary who led the 1969 coup that overthrew King Idris I. He governed Libya for more than four decades through a political system that combined revolutionary committees, state socialism, and pan-Arab and later pan-African ideas, although he held no formal presidential title for much of that period. His rule ended during the 2011 Libyan uprising, and he was killed after being captured near Sirte.
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