Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
Gadaffi in September 1969 led a coup d'etat which had countrywide support and adroitly unified the nation's 150 odd tribes which the Turkish and Italian colonial rule failed to unite.By retaining Libya's oil wealth for the benefit of its people, Gadaffi created a socialist glory that has the highest GDP in Africa, less than 5% of the population classified as poor and poverty level below that of Holland. With no unemployment life expectancy of 75 years was the highest in Africa. Gadaffi's little Green Book reveals how thoughtful and enlightened a leader he is, but foreign intelligence agencies have been stoking up dissent in the east of the country for almost 30 years and nowadays terming him as a “mad dictator," "bloody tyrant" and accusing him of committing crime against his own people where hardly any crime takes place and only rebels and traitors are dealt with harshly.
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