The bloody events in Libya shocked the world. Analysts will long debate what happened and discuss the consequences. And we, with this collection of photos taken in different years of Qadhafi, has made an historical overview and a look at the notorious Libyan leader, who ruled the country in 1941. Now 68-year-old Muammar Gaddafi rigidly suppress the opposition's actions, while anti-government protesters continue to demand his resignation.
1. In this photo, 1970 - Libyan leader, 27-year-old Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in uniform. He led Libya since he came to power in a bloodless military coup in 1969. (AP)
2. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, head of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya, addresses the crowd at the stadium Benghazi. Presentation is devoted to a U.S. troop withdrawal from the territory of Libya. June 25, 1970. (AP)
3. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left), president of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (center) and the Syrian General Hafez al-Assad during a reception in Damascus in 1971. The picture was taken August 18, 1971 (AP)
4. In this photo from October 10, 1976 President Muammar Gaddafi welcomed the crowd, riding on horseback during a ceremony at Adzhdabii, Libya. Triumph in 1976, marks the anniversary of the expulsion of six Italians in Libya. (AP)
5. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses the crowd during a massive rally in Martyrs Square in Tripoli in 1977. The picture was taken on Feb. 9, 1977. In 1977, Gaddafi has invented a system called the "Jamahiriya" or "state of the masses", in which power is in the hands of thousands of "popular committees". In reality, he has maintained an absolute authoritarian control over the country. (Arna Of Tripoli / AP)
6. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat (right) with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (center) and PLO leader George Habash welcomed the delegates at the Arab summit December 4, 1977. (AP)
7. Gadhafi on review of Libyan troops during the celebration of 18 th anniversary of the Libyan revolution in Tripoli on Sept. 1, 1987. (John Redman / AP)
8. Gaddafi invites journalists to take place during a press conference in Tripoli on August 20, 1990. On that day, the Libyan leader has collected more than 100 foreign journalists to condemn the U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf. (Axel Schulz-Eppers / AP)
9. Gaddafi waving Palestinian workers were expelled from Libya, Libya and supporters of the October 4, 1995 during a visit to a camp on neutral territory on the Libyan-Egyptian border under the jurisdiction of Libya. Gaddafi has forced the police to evict the Palestinian workers and their families in response to the agreement of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. (Mohamed El-Dakhakhny / AP)
10. Gaddafi put his hand on the shoulder of President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo airport on 22 June 1996 the North. Recent anti-government unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, which resulted in Mubarak was dismissed from his post, and now threaten the rule Gaddafi in Libya. (Enric Marti / AP)
11. Gaddafi with the leader of U.S. Muslims Luis Farrakhanom (left) at the opening of a new hospital in Tripoli, 31 August 1996. (Lino Azzopardi / AP)
12. Qaddafi on Sept. 1, 1996, surrounded by guests and supporters in Tripoli during the ceremony of the 27 th anniversary of the coup of 1969, which brought him to power. (Lino Azzopardi / AP)
13. Gaddafi and his wife, Safia Farkash December 2, 1997. Safia - Qaddafi's wife and mother of his seven biological children. Spouses also have adopted a boy and a girl Milada Hanna, who died in 1986 at age four, when the U.S. bombed the Libyan capital of Tripoli. (Dimitri Messinis / AP)
14. Gaddafi (center), President of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi (left) and President of Togo, Gnassingbe Eyadema, during a speech by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the opening session of the summit of Europe - Africa in Cairo, 3 April 2000. (Enric Marti / AP)
15. Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali welcomed Gaddafi in Tunis on 2 August 2000. (AP)
16. Jordan's King Abdullah II (right) is accompanied by Gaddafi to the municipality of Amman, where the ceremony was held in honor of Gaddafi October 5, 2000. Gadhafi is known for his usually guarded by female bodyguard (in the background, left). (AP)
17. Gaddafi against the backdrop of the statue depicting the seizing an American military aircraft arm, near his home in Tripoli on February 5, 2001. In 2009, in an address to the UN General Assembly Gaddafi criticized the U.S. for the war in Iraq, saying that former U.S. President George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes. (Amr Nabil / AP)
18. Gaddafi during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the Libyan city of Sirte on Feb. 10, 2004. (John Moore / AP)
19. British Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) while walking with a tent next to Gaddafi Gaddafi in Tripoli on 25 March 2004. (Alastair Grant / AP)
20. Gaddafi embraces the President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during a mini-summit of Arab countries in Tripoli on June 10, 2008. According to the U.S. Department of State received from WikiLeaks, Gaddafi is afraid to fly and travels in the company's "magnificent blonde" - Ukrainian nurse. (Abdel Meguid Al-Fergany / AP)
21. Gaddafi during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli on Sept. 5, 2008. (Nasser Nasser / AP)
22. Meeting Barack Obama and Muammar al-Gaddafi at the summit of the Group of Eight in L'Aquila, Italy, July 9, 2009. (Michael Gottschalk / AP)
23. Qaddafi watches a military parade in Tripoli through the bulletproof glass on Sept. 1, 2009. Last week, protesters seized control of the second largest city in Libya, Benghazi. Anti-government unrest was first sunk capital. Gaddafi's son said his father and the security services would fight "until the last bullet." (Ben Curtis / AP)
24. Qaddafi has been seen in worship after delivering a speech in the city of Benghazi, 25 February 2010. (Abdel Meguid Al-Fergany / AP)
1. In this photo, 1970 - Libyan leader, 27-year-old Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in uniform. He led Libya since he came to power in a bloodless military coup in 1969. (AP)
2. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, head of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya, addresses the crowd at the stadium Benghazi. Presentation is devoted to a U.S. troop withdrawal from the territory of Libya. June 25, 1970. (AP)
3. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left), president of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (center) and the Syrian General Hafez al-Assad during a reception in Damascus in 1971. The picture was taken August 18, 1971 (AP)
4. In this photo from October 10, 1976 President Muammar Gaddafi welcomed the crowd, riding on horseback during a ceremony at Adzhdabii, Libya. Triumph in 1976, marks the anniversary of the expulsion of six Italians in Libya. (AP)
5. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses the crowd during a massive rally in Martyrs Square in Tripoli in 1977. The picture was taken on Feb. 9, 1977. In 1977, Gaddafi has invented a system called the "Jamahiriya" or "state of the masses", in which power is in the hands of thousands of "popular committees". In reality, he has maintained an absolute authoritarian control over the country. (Arna Of Tripoli / AP)
6. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat (right) with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (center) and PLO leader George Habash welcomed the delegates at the Arab summit December 4, 1977. (AP)
7. Gadhafi on review of Libyan troops during the celebration of 18 th anniversary of the Libyan revolution in Tripoli on Sept. 1, 1987. (John Redman / AP)
8. Gaddafi invites journalists to take place during a press conference in Tripoli on August 20, 1990. On that day, the Libyan leader has collected more than 100 foreign journalists to condemn the U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf. (Axel Schulz-Eppers / AP)
9. Gaddafi waving Palestinian workers were expelled from Libya, Libya and supporters of the October 4, 1995 during a visit to a camp on neutral territory on the Libyan-Egyptian border under the jurisdiction of Libya. Gaddafi has forced the police to evict the Palestinian workers and their families in response to the agreement of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. (Mohamed El-Dakhakhny / AP)
10. Gaddafi put his hand on the shoulder of President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo airport on 22 June 1996 the North. Recent anti-government unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, which resulted in Mubarak was dismissed from his post, and now threaten the rule Gaddafi in Libya. (Enric Marti / AP)
11. Gaddafi with the leader of U.S. Muslims Luis Farrakhanom (left) at the opening of a new hospital in Tripoli, 31 August 1996. (Lino Azzopardi / AP)
12. Qaddafi on Sept. 1, 1996, surrounded by guests and supporters in Tripoli during the ceremony of the 27 th anniversary of the coup of 1969, which brought him to power. (Lino Azzopardi / AP)
13. Gaddafi and his wife, Safia Farkash December 2, 1997. Safia - Qaddafi's wife and mother of his seven biological children. Spouses also have adopted a boy and a girl Milada Hanna, who died in 1986 at age four, when the U.S. bombed the Libyan capital of Tripoli. (Dimitri Messinis / AP)
14. Gaddafi (center), President of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi (left) and President of Togo, Gnassingbe Eyadema, during a speech by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the opening session of the summit of Europe - Africa in Cairo, 3 April 2000. (Enric Marti / AP)
15. Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali welcomed Gaddafi in Tunis on 2 August 2000. (AP)
16. Jordan's King Abdullah II (right) is accompanied by Gaddafi to the municipality of Amman, where the ceremony was held in honor of Gaddafi October 5, 2000. Gadhafi is known for his usually guarded by female bodyguard (in the background, left). (AP)
17. Gaddafi against the backdrop of the statue depicting the seizing an American military aircraft arm, near his home in Tripoli on February 5, 2001. In 2009, in an address to the UN General Assembly Gaddafi criticized the U.S. for the war in Iraq, saying that former U.S. President George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes. (Amr Nabil / AP)
18. Gaddafi during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the Libyan city of Sirte on Feb. 10, 2004. (John Moore / AP)
19. British Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) while walking with a tent next to Gaddafi Gaddafi in Tripoli on 25 March 2004. (Alastair Grant / AP)
20. Gaddafi embraces the President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during a mini-summit of Arab countries in Tripoli on June 10, 2008. According to the U.S. Department of State received from WikiLeaks, Gaddafi is afraid to fly and travels in the company's "magnificent blonde" - Ukrainian nurse. (Abdel Meguid Al-Fergany / AP)
21. Gaddafi during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli on Sept. 5, 2008. (Nasser Nasser / AP)
22. Meeting Barack Obama and Muammar al-Gaddafi at the summit of the Group of Eight in L'Aquila, Italy, July 9, 2009. (Michael Gottschalk / AP)
23. Qaddafi watches a military parade in Tripoli through the bulletproof glass on Sept. 1, 2009. Last week, protesters seized control of the second largest city in Libya, Benghazi. Anti-government unrest was first sunk capital. Gaddafi's son said his father and the security services would fight "until the last bullet." (Ben Curtis / AP)
24. Qaddafi has been seen in worship after delivering a speech in the city of Benghazi, 25 February 2010. (Abdel Meguid Al-Fergany / AP)
