Qaddafi

How To Use Qaddafi In A Sentence

• Arab dreams: Qaddafi (left) spent his youth as a fervent admirer of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the pan-Arab nationalist icon of the era.
• In the first third of a speech that lasted more than 90 minutes, Colonel Qaddafi focused on what he called the inherent unfairness of the United Nations, which gives the five permanent members of the Security Council far more authority than the nations in the General Assembly. Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
• So how to strengthen the liberated parts of Libya in the east and weaken the Qaddafi camp?
• Troubled times: Qaddafi's newfound coziness with Western nations, however, has done little to shield him from the wave of unrest currently sweeping the Arab world.
• Nasser, for example, or Ben Bella in Alegeria, or Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangladesh (or, Qaddafi in Libya, to use a slightly whackier example). Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
• Shortly after the coup d'etat that brought Qaddafi to power, he unceremoniously ordered all Italians to leave Libyan territory.
• Although allied airstrikes helped rebels regain battlefield momentum, pro-Qaddafi forces on Tuesday halted a westward push by the rebels and began a counteroffensive.
• International Channel uses "Qaddafi," as does the New York Times, because the letter Q is typically used to render the glottal stop that is so common in Arabic and that begins Qaddafi's name.
• Coalition airstrikes saved Benghazi in mid-March, forcing Qaddafi's militias to retreat.
• Pan-Arabism broke on the shoals of the 1967 fiasco -- even if Qaddafi didn't get the message -- but Palestinian radicalism offered itself as an alternative unifying ideology.