PrevWe talked about Gaddafi coming to our country to make trouble, this time let's nag what kind of path this strange leader is.
Gaddafi was born on June 7, 1942 in Sirte, Libya, in the seventh oldest family. He finished university in Libya, a place rife of illiteracy, and then entered the army. Although since ancient times, Libya is a vast and sparsely populated place, everyone is watching desert lizards croaking, except for sand, but this place found a large amount of high-quality oil in 1959, this is good, camels turned into motorcycles. But Libya, which discovered oil, did not get rich, and the profits of the oil industry were taken away by Europe and the United States, and a small part of the remaining oil interests were still controlled by the king and royal tribes. As a result, the uprising in Libya sprang up. Everyone is physically mingling.
Gaddafi entered the army, with the rank of second lieutenant and a low rank, but he was not small. He established a league of free officers in the army, basically all of them, basically not much different from Liangshan Juyi. The time came in 1969, and Gaddafi was about to move and planned to go against his mother with his own officer corps!
When it comes to coups, in this part of Africa, the coup process is often outrageous. Gaddafi is no exception, so outrageous that the screenwriter makes a movie like this, and it is estimated that he will be scolded to death. The coup was scheduled to take place on March 21, 1969, but the operation was postponed at the appointed time. Why postpone? Because on the day of the coup, the famous Egyptian female singer came to Gaddafi's city to give a concert, Gaddafi is her senior fan, of course, there are many fans in the officer corps. So everyone decides. The coup d'état can be done any day, but this concert, if you miss this village, you won't have this shop. So everyone went to the concert. Then the postponement of the coup d'état was postponed for six months.......
In September 1969, when the regrouped Gaddafi and his officer corps decided to stage a coup d'état, one might think that a six-month delay would be sufficient. No, his coup plan was so simple that it could be said in one sentence: "Launch a coup d'état at the same time in the capital Tripoli and the second largest city, Benghazi, seize the radio station, and declare the coup successful." "That's it. It stands to reason that this plan is so simple that it should be no problem to execute, but the people who carried it out were Gaddafi, and they succeeded in executing a simple plan full of holes.
First of all, the capital Tripoli this way, the day before the coup, Gaddafi sent his assistant Kamish to the capital to receive the army, Qamish missed the flight at the airport, wanted to buy a ticket for the second flight, but did not buy it, and finally found connections in the army to get a stop ticket on the flight. So he stood all the way to the capital, and after getting off the plane, Kamish did not know the way to the barracks and took a taxi to the barracks. Because he himself was too agitated, when he got out of the car, he left all the coup documents and pistol ammunition in the taxi and went to the barracks with his bare hands.
On the other hand, Benghazi was led by Gaddafi himself, who sent his own 600-strong SS to take over the air force, and when the army was about to leave, they found that everyone had only a thousand rounds of ammunition, an average of less than two bullets per person. There are not yet many enemies. On the other side of the city, Gaddafi planned to go out to join the large army, but as soon as he went out, he was stopped by two gendarmes, the gendarmerie's motorcycle was broken, and Gaddafi was afraid that the gendarmes would be suspicious, so he followed the gendarmes to repair motorcycles on the side of the road. The three men spent hours chattering before Gaddafi went to find troops. After finally finding his troops, he decided to launch a sneak attack in the early hours of the morning. But there is a very embarrassing thing that Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, does not have street lights. Yes, there are no street lights. According to the recollections of the soldiers who participated in the coup: That night the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the colonel led us all over the street, because it was too dark to find the way, so everyone walked and dispersed, and then we couldn't see the colonel .......
After waiting for a long time in the early morning on the streets of Benghazi, Gaddafi finally found the Benghazi Radio building, he was just about to order his troops to rush in, looking back, good guy, there was no one behind him, Gaddafi with his superb wayfinding skills to throw off all his troops. He thought for a while, come and come, I myself staged a coup d'état, it can also work. So he walked to the radio building alone, and in the eyes of the guards guarding the radio, this was a very ordinary officer, what was there to stop, and then Gaddafi walked all the way into the live broadcast hall. After he pulled out his gun and made his intentions clear to the radio people, the radio people did not resist, sneaked up the machine, and Gaddafi gave a speech on the success of the coup. Although the coup team had less than two bullets per person, there was no resistance from the government, and Gaddafi took over smoothly.
At the time of the coup, the king was abroad, and Prince Hassan oversaw the country, but the prince was drunk that day and did not say anything. Gaddafi then announced the birth of a new regime. It was also a feat, which Gaddafi then boasted about for many years. He was very excited to say that he had been preparing for this day for ten years, and after ten years of preparation, he had to make people feel the magic of the African continent.