Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, the desert country of Africa, ruled Libya for 42 years and was known as a "madman" and "devil". He did not hurt a single soldier, launched a "bloodless" coup d'état, and abolished the original state system of the royal power. The United Nations is furious and has almost offended the Western powers, so how did Qaddafi become a madman?
Libya is strategically located on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1912, Libya became an Italian colony, and Italian soldiers were everywhere in the streets killing innocent people, not only killing children and the elderly, but also raping and killing women, and then cutting open their stomachs with extreme cruelty. After world war II, the Libyan people breathed a slight sigh of relief, and jurisdiction temporarily fell into the hands of the United Nations.
On December 24, 1951, Libya declared its independence as a hereditary monarchy. In 1959, Libya developed huge oil fields. The West wanted a piece of the pie, Britain and the United States directly sent a military force stationed in Libya, and even opened an oil company in Libya, and the cowardly Libyan king Idris did not dare to say anything.
In this way, a large amount of Libya's wealth flowed into the pockets of privileged classes such as the United States and Britain. Libyans grew up independent in such a tribulation and lethargy environment, and Qaddafi grew up. At that time, Libyans, eager for a new life, wanted a wise king who would put the suffering Libyans back on their feet.
At this time, Egyptian leader Nasser became an idol for young people in many Arab countries. In the radio program "Voice of Cairo," Nasser shouted that we should overthrow imperialism and that all foreign fascists who invaded their territory should be condemned. All our nations should unite and unite with the outside world. Nasser's impassioned speech was in the face of Gaddafi's appetite, and it was at this time that The idea of unifying the Arab world was formed.
The seeds of the coup also sprouted quietly in his heart. A sentence from the middle school teacher Effie also gave Gaddafi a great inspiration. If there is power in the barrel of a gun, a revolution must take up arms, and a single person can certainly not make a revolution. Gaddafi understood this very well, and when he was in middle school, Gaddafi became a student leader, who could speak and speak no less than the Egyptian leader Nasser.
His partner would carry a small stool with him so that he could stand on it and speak, after which Gaddafi secretly formed the Gaddafi Alumni Association, and in order to seize the barrel of the gun, Gaddafi even gave up studying law for two years to join the elite force defending the king, the Cyrenaica Guard, and at the Libyan Military Academy, Gaddafi knew the military power of the Libyan government at that time.
At the same time, he met the most important comrade-in-arms in his life, Jalud. Of course, this is not enough, and if you want to launch a revolution, you must call on a group of soldiers who also hold the barrel of a gun. He set his sights on Fatih, the daughter of the high-ranking officer General Hadley, and Gaddafi's handsome appearance and wise conversation soon conquered the Miss Qianjin.
Soon, Gaddafi was promoted to captain by virtue of his girlfriend's connections, and the title of general's son-in-law allowed him to meet many high-ranking officials in the army, but having an accomplice was only the first step in launching a coup, and now there was still a time to go. The time finally came in 1967. In June of that year, when war broke out between Israel and Egypt, King Idris of Libya only shouted that he supported the Arab countries and Egypt against Israel, but did not take any actual action.
Libya's patriotic youth could no longer bear it, and oil workers began strike marches. It just so happened that Idris was not in the country at this time, and the clever Gaddafi saw this perfect opportunity. On September 1, 1969, Gaddafi launched the "91 Revolution" with a loyal following. At one o'clock in the morning, Gaddafi traveled to Benghazi as originally planned, preparing to take the Bekaa barracks and the radio station.
He loaded the jeep with a light machine gun and stuffed it with bullets, waiting for a storm to come. The large army followed closely behind him, and halfway through he looked behind him, but found that there was no one there, and he did not expect to become the commander of the light pole. It turned out that the army's car was driving in the opposite direction, and Gaddafi was very calm, and quickly turned around to join the large army.
At six o'clock in the morning, Gaddafi finally arrived at Radio Benghazi, unimpeded. By this time, Libya was in the hands of Gaddafi, who had launched a bloodless coup d'état in such a vague situation. No coup d'état in any country has been so easy as his. At this time, Gaddafi had an obsession with the unification of the Arab world.
But just now in the process of seizing new power, his biggest concern is whether he can sit firmly in his position. After the coup d'état, Gaddafi changed his position from captain to colonel. He didn't like to be called president because he didn't want to face elections every four or five years, so he called himself the leader of the revolution, and he wanted to control the country permanently.
In an effort to consolidate the new regime, Gaddafi banned alcohol, shut down pornographic nightclubs, and drove italians out. Britain and the United States did not care about Gaddafi, the young power-grabber, believing that the revolutionary farce was nothing more than replacing the old monarch with a military leader, but this was not what Britain and the United States thought. Gaddafi soon drove out the Anglo-American military bases.
Gaddafi originally wanted to attack the economic interests of the West, but he resisted due to the advice of his idol Nasser, but Gaddafi did not want his country's oil to be used by others. So he sent his comrade-in-arms Jalud to negotiate oil with European and American countries. Jarud cut production from some oil companies, and other oil companies and even countries followed suit, leading to a sharp rise in oil prices.
He then gradually nationalized shares in foreign oil companies, and eventually, Gaddafi and Jarud won the oil war without smoke. Libya's fiscal revenue rose steadily. Now it seems that 27-year-old Gaddafi has played the role of the ruler of the country decently. At the same time, he also has a dream in his heart, and he has been stirring, and the young and promising, ambitious Gaddafi wants to build the Arab countries into a unified ideal world.
Only this time he thought too simply, because unifying the Arab countries was much more difficult than the "September 1st coup". For a long time, Arab countries and Israel have looked down on each other because of territorial issues. Israeli Jews believe that their ancestors once lived in Palestine, so the palestinian territory should belong to Israel.
In 1948, after the establishment of the State of Israel, it began to invade the territory of Arab countries, and countries such as Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Palestine all went to war with Israel over territorial issues. On September 6, 1970, Haddad, a Palestinian terror leader determined to liberate the people, orchestrated a hijacking. Khalid, a hot-blooded young woman, boarded a British plane, and as soon as he boarded the plane, he pulled two grenades out of his underwear.
At this time, a dramatic scene appeared, the grenade did not sound, and finally Cardri was arrested. In order to rescue his compatriots, Haddad hijacked another British plane in order to blackmail Britain, Switzerland and Israel into releasing the imprisoned Palestinians. Only Israel refused. The terrorist groups that aspired to save the people were so outraged by Israel that they decided to give Israel a little color.
In order to facilitate their movements, they even established a state within a state in Jordan and prepared to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan. Hussein naturally couldn't swallow this breath, and you can't get used to Israel why should he me? So he launched an army and fought fiercely with the Palestinians for more than ten days, and finally the Palestinians died more than a thousand people. Jordan and Palestine, two Arab states, are killing each other, and The Egyptian leader, Who has always advocated peace, Nasser, cannot stand it.
So he held a meeting of Arab leaders, and the young Gaddafi was invited to attend, and he stepped into the meeting with his head held high in his military uniform belt and a revolver pinned to it. As soon as he entered the scene, Gaddafi shouted that only the unity of the Arab world could liberate Palestine. Qaddafi suggested that Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt join forces in a joint military operation to eliminate Israel, but the leaders of those countries did not want to deal with him.
They felt that this young man from the desert was too simple. Nasser also felt that Gaddafi was still too young, and that Gaddafi had nowhere to release his blood, but he was very annoyed. That's when Nasser came to talk to him. Nasser said that Israel's aircraft, artillery and tanks are far more equipped than any Arab country, and we cannot gain any benefit from starting a war.
Qaddafi said excitedly that no matter what, we should immediately start a war and eliminate Israel. Nasser explained that this was impossible, and neither the Soviets nor the British would allow the emergence of forms that could lead to nuclear war. Qaddafi asked the Israelis if they had a nuclear warhead? Nasser replied, most likely Gaddafi asked again, do we have nuclear warheads?
Nasser replied that we didn't. After the conversation, Gaddafi seemed to have been inspired by something, and he immediately called Jarud and asked him to try his luck in China to see if Chinese would sell nuclear weapons to himself. As a result, despite the failure of the purchase of nuclear weapons, Qaddafi's political goal is clear: to achieve the unity of the Arab world.
On September 28, 1970, Egyptian leader Nasser died of a heart attack. Egypt's new leader, Sadat, was hostile to Gaddafi. He said Gaddafi's brain was different from others and that he might have schizophrenia. But given the oil interests, Sadat and Gaddafi announced an alliance, but the deal stayed on the surface.
Sadat said to Gaddafi, you want reunification, I have no opinion, you go and tell the people of Egypt yourself, Gaddafi will be energetic at once. At a press conference in Egypt in 1973, he said women should stay at home and be qualified mothers and wives. What Qaddafi didn't know was that egyptian women could work, and this sentence instantly women off.
They angrily say that Gaddafi is really a man who has come out of the slums and has never seen the world. After the failed Speech in Egypt, Qaddafi rushed with 20,000 Libyans to Cairo, egypt's capital, to persuade the Egyptian people to support his idea of unifying the Arab world, but Sadat blocked the main road, and finally 20,000 Libyans were stranded at the border.
Apparently, Gaddafi was fooled by the newly appointed Egyptian leader Sadat, and although he ran into a wall many times, Qaddafi still lobbied Arab leaders everywhere, but a subsequent air disaster made Gaddafi completely change his mind. On February 21, 1973, a Libyan airliner took off from the capital to Cairo, Egypt.
1 hour and 44 minutes after takeoff, the plane suddenly deviated from course and strayed into the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula, where Israeli fighter jets immediately took off and fired three shots at the Libyan plane. The plane crashed, killing all the passengers and crew, including Libya's foreign minister. In fact, Egypt has the ability to save the Libyan passenger plane, but Egypt has not taken any action.
Qaddafi asked why Egypt did not save the Libyans? The explanation given by Egypt was that the fog was too great for the helicopter to fly into the air, which Gaddafi thought was a hoax. Why can Israeli fighter jets take off and Egypt not? At the memorial service of the victims, people attacked the Egyptian government, and some even stormed the Egyptian consulate general, took out Nasser's portrait, and threw it in the street to burn.
The crash was the result of Gaddafi's recognition that weak countries have no diplomacy and that Libya is not yet a strong country. So he decided to put aside the dream of unifying the Arab countries and shift the focus to Libya. Gaddafi returned to his birthplace of Sirte for two months of contemplation, and later, he carried out a series of reforms that opened up madman mode.
Gaddafi banned the police, courts and other institutions, abolished the existing laws, and created a set of state systems, from the central to the local level of department heads are called secretaries, secretaries fly everywhere, resulting in the overlap of powers and responsibilities. Gaddafi encouraged women to work because women fought for power in marriage and Libyans received a minimum guaranteed wage without having to work.
Everyone has a house to live in, but each family can only own one house. Gaddafi wielded power over the oil empire and the right to distribute wealth. He was using actions to tell everyone who the boss of Libya was. The country revolves around his will alone, but he gives everyone the welfare he deserves in order to calm the people's hearts.
These measures make Libya less like a country and more like a big company, with Gaddafi being the sole CEO. Under such a dictatorship, his crazy road has only just begun.
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