Gadhafi Is Many Things to Many People -- Libyan Cuts Eccentric, Often-Flamboyant Figure

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Moammar Gadhafi was many things over many years: a dashing icon of Libyan revolution, a brazen patron of terrorists, the custodian of vast oil wealth, a dictator whose flamboyance masked grit and guile, and a longtime pariah on the road to rehabilitation in the West.

From his cadre of female bodyguards to his penchant for pitching a tent on foreign visits, he was an object of fascination, ridicule and revulsion.

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Gadhafi Is Many Things to Many People -- Libyan Cuts Eccentric, Often-Flamboyant Figure

Now, in perhaps his final reinvention, Gadhafi is an apocalyptic figure, the dispenser of terrible bloodshed who seeks to keep power four ...

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