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\"Karma<\/a>

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was one of modern history\u2019s most spectacular failures. His story is a cautionary tale illustrating the inevitable perils of absolute power.<\/p><\/div>\n

Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi was born in either 1942 or 1943 to illiterate Bedouin parents who maintained no birth records. Rising from unimaginable poverty Gaddafi eventually amassed enough wealth to become the eighth richest person in human history. The sordid state in which he both entered and left the world stands in stark relief against the opulent splendor of his time in the sun.<\/p>\n

Gaddafi\u2019s early education was grueling. He slept in a mosque and walked twenty miles on weekends to visit his parents. He finished his first six years of school in four. He was popular in school despite his humble upbringing, and many of his earliest school chums received plum government positions when later he came to power.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Muammar Gaddafi saw in the Libyan military the opportunity for an ambitious man with no connections to attain both power and greatness.<\/p><\/div>\n

Gaddafi dropped out of university to join the Libyan military, then being trained by a cadre of professional British officers. He chafed at the British influence, viewing the English as imperialist interlopers in Libyan affairs. In 1963 he was suspected in the assassination of the commander of his Libyan military school. This was a portent of bloody things to come.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Gaddafi took advantage of the regional turmoil that resulted from the 1967 Six Days War to overthrow the Libyan monarchy.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1969 the Middle East was still reeling from the trouncing Israel had given her Arab neighbors two years earlier. Amidst this unrest, Gaddafi led a consolidated military movement to overthrow the Libyan monarchy. The resulting coup was decisive and relatively bloodless. Addressing the Libyan people by radio, Gaddafi announced the formation of the Libyan Arab Republic. He proclaimed that the revolution would bring \u201cfreedom, socialism, and unity.\u201d One of his first official acts was to promote himself from Lieutenant to Colonel, a title he wore proudly for the rest of his days.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Socialism leads to absolute power that leads to despotism. Stick with it long enough and chaos is the inevitable outcome.<\/p><\/div>\n

Socialism is yet again in vogue among the less enlightened these days. How many times must this intrinsically flawed method of governance be tried and subsequently fail before these people will appreciate its manifest irrevocable weaknesses? In December of 1971, Gaddafi began nationalizing the nation\u2019s oil infrastructure, and the fuse was lit.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

In the days before Gaddafi, Tripoli was an exotic cosmopolitan locale. The young lady in the center of the photograph seems to be put out with somebody.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the near term, Gaddafi\u2019s socialist initiatives were successful, increasing the Libyan gross domestic product and enhancing the national standard of living. Gaddafi\u2019s reforms poured oil revenues into public works projects and education. Over time, however, something dark and sinister began to arise within Muammar Gaddafi\u2019s soul. As seems always to be the case with totalitarian regimes, absolute power began to have its corrosive effect.<\/p>\n

A Love Affair with Terrorism<\/h2>\n
\"Karma<\/a>

Gaddafi threw money at every terrorist group that would take it. The bombing of the LaBelle disco in Berlin killed an American serviceman and got the attention of President Ronald Reagan.<\/p><\/div>\n

The details are tedious. Suffice it to say Gaddafi supported terrorist organizations around the globe. The Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam, the Provisional IRA, the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Action Directe, the Red Brigades, and many others received extensive financial backing from Gaddafi and his government. By the mid-\u201980s, Gaddafi\u2019s terrorist pals had agitated the Gipper.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

A combined USAF and US Navy air operation hit several targets across Libya in 1986.<\/p><\/div>\n

In response to the Libyan bombing of a Berlin disco that killed an American serviceman, President Ronald Reagan authorized Operation El Dorado Canyon. A total of 45 Navy and Air Force aircraft deposited 300 bombs and 48 missiles on a variety of targets, including Gaddafi\u2019s home. A warning from the Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi saved his life.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

F117 Nighthawk fighters stood down an hour prior to takeoff in support of Operation El Dorado Canyon. A single F111 fighter-bomber was downed with the loss of its two crewmembers.<\/p><\/div>\n

This operation was to be the combat debut of the F117 stealth fighter. However, this third arm of the attack was scrubbed an hour before takeoff out of fear of compromise of this radical technology.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

F111 crews were forced to fly an extra 2,600 miles because France, Spain, and Italy denied them permission to overfly their territory.<\/p><\/div>\n

France, Spain, and Italy refused permission to transit their airspace, so the Air Force F111 fighter-bombers staging from England were forced to fly a laborious route with multiple air-to-air refuelings to reach their targets. One of the few non-military installations damaged in the raid was the French embassy in Tripoli. The F111 crews had to do something to entertain themselves during that unnecessary 1,300 miles on the ingress. Perhaps they just refined their target selection.<\/p>\n

Ultimately the Libyans apologized for their terrorist antics and paid American survivors a total of $1.5 billion. As a result in 2008 full diplomatic relations were restored between the United States and Libya.<\/p>\n

Eccentricities<\/h2>\n
\"Karma<\/a>

Muammar Gaddafi was nothing if not flamboyant.<\/p><\/div>\n

Gaddafi considered himself a fashion icon. He once stated, \u201cWhatever I wear becomes a fad. I wear a certain shirt and suddenly everybody is wearing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Gaddafi, like most male narcissistic egomaniacs, surrounded himself with attractive women.<\/p><\/div>\n

Gaddafi was a serial womanizer and a proper sexual villain. He kept one young woman locked up and sexually abused her for six years. Throughout it all, he was protected by an eclectic all-female VIP security unit.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Gaddafi\u2019s all-female personal protection unit was afforded the best weapons and training available. This particular Libyan operator’s 9mm HK MP5K looks pretty sharp.<\/p><\/div>\n

I couldn\u2019t make this stuff up. The Western media named them the Amazonian Guard. Their formal name literally translates The Revolutionary Nuns. These attractive young women were hand-picked by Gaddafi himself. They were afforded extensive weapons and martial arts training and were required to take an oath of chastity.<\/p>\n

By now Gaddafi had resigned as formal head of state and bequeathed upon himself the title “Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.\u201d<\/p>\n

Falling From a Great Height<\/h2>\n
\"Karma<\/a>

Anti-government forces looted Libyan military arsenals, and the country descended into anarchy.<\/p><\/div>\n

By 2011 socialism had taken its inevitable toll. Unemployment ran 30%, and nepotism and corruption pervaded the government. Buoyed by the Arab Spring movement, a coalition of anti-Gaddafi factions called the National Transitional Council (NTC) launched a full-fledged civil war. Government forces fired on demonstrators, arsenals were looted, and Libya descended into chaos. Gaddafi eventually went into hiding around Sirte, his hometown and the residence of his most loyal followers.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Muammar Gaddafi, one of the world\u2019s richest men, was ultimately dragged out of this culvert and gunned down like a dog.<\/p><\/div>\n

With his back metaphorically against the wall, Gaddafi announced that he was finally ready to negotiate a peaceful transition of power. The NTC was having none of that. Hounded by NTC artillery Gaddafi fled Sirte in a joint military and civilian convoy. NATO air assets destroyed 14 of the 75 vehicles and scattered the occupants. Gaddafi, his son Mutassim, and some of his closest cohorts fled to a construction site. One of Gaddafi\u2019s security operatives deployed a grenade that bounced back and injured the Libyan despot. Rebels then pulled Gaddafi, filthy and bloodied, out of the drainage pipe where he was cowering and proceeded to tear him apart.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

For all his money and power, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, dictator and patron of modern terrorists everywhere, died like an animal.<\/p><\/div>\n

The chaos was captured on cell phone video though the details are still in dispute. Before it was over, members of the mob had sodomized Gaddafi with a bayonet and shot him to death. There are those present who claim Gaddafi was ultimately executed with his own gold-inlaid Browning Hi-Power pistol. His body was subsequently put on display for curious passersby. It was an ignominious end for such an avowed narcissist.<\/p>\n

The Gun<\/h2>\n
\"Karma<\/a>

Gaddafi\u2019s gold inlaid Hi-Power was as gaudy and ostentatious as the despot who owned it.<\/p><\/div>\n

Gaddafi\u2019s Hi-Power was a later Mark III sporting extended bilateral safety levers and extensive gold inlay. The dictator was enthralled with gold and surrounded himself with it.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Many are the dictator with a taste for gold. This was some of Gaddafi\u2019s golden mermaid-shaped furniture.<\/p><\/div>\n

Other gold implements he acquired included a gold plated AK74 assault rifle, a gold tea trolley, a gold flyswatter sporting the head of an elephant, and a gold chaise-lounge in the shape of a mermaid.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Gaddafi\u2019s gold Hi-Power became a bit of an icon. Mohammed Elbibi, the 17-year-old Libyan in this photograph, picked the gun up off the ground where it had been dropped. He purportedly still has it.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Hi-Power was John Moses Browning\u2019s last handgun. The story goes that the great man keeled over from heart failure at his workbench toiling over the design in Liege, Belgium, in 1926. His Belgian counterpart and fellow firearms savant Dieudonne Saive completed the weapon. It was ultimately released in 1935.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Gaddafi\u2019s Hi-Power was extensively engraved and inlaid with gold.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Hi-Power has the distinction of having served with both the Allies and the Axis during World War 2. The Canadian Inglis firm produced the gun for use by Canadian, British, and Nationalist Chinese forces, while the captured plant in Belgian churned them out for the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, and Waffen SS.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Gaddafi\u2019s Hi-Power was a later Mark III model with a bilateral extended safety.<\/p><\/div>\n

More than 1.5 million copies were manufactured before production ceased in Belgium in 2017. The Hi-Power saw service with dozens of nations and remains in active use around the globe.<\/p>\n

The Hi-Power was the first handgun in widespread use to feed on a double column, single feed magazine. A Saive contribution, this type of feeding device now drives every high capacity combat pistol in the world.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

A BBC reporter named Gabriel Gatehouse returned to Libya four years later and tracked down Gaddafi\u2019s Hi-Power. The story of his search is fascinating. Click here to read it. <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

A single action design, the otherwise superlative trigger on the Hi-Power is adversely affected by the addition of a magazine disconnect safety originally stipulated by the French specifications that drove the original design. Removal of the magazine disconnect components will improve the trigger\u2019s personality.<\/p>\n

Denouement<\/h2>\n
\"Karma<\/a>

Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi prospered off the backs of his people and ultimately died for his sins.<\/p><\/div>\n

The argument could be made that Muammar Gaddafi rose higher and then fell farther than any other human being in history. He was born a nomad in the Libyan desert during World War 2 to parents too poor and ill-informed to document his birthday. He amassed unimaginable wealth and subsequently used it to foment chaos around the globe while grotesquely oppressing his own people.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was a despot and a killer. He had his own butt fat injected into his face in a failed effort to stave off aging. He refused anesthesia for this procedure out of fear he would be poisoned.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the end, he was dragged out of a culvert by an angry mob, violently abused, and likely executed with his own weapon, a gaudy abomination of one of the finest combat pistols ever conceived. The two timeless lessons to be learned are that socialism never, ever works and that being a tyrannical despot seldom offers a decent retirement plan.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a>

One should never get into the tyrant business for the retirement benefits.<\/p><\/div>\n

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