Why couldn't the world or even the US press decide on a common spelling for his name? We never seemed to had any spelling problems with the other Middle Eastern tyrants. Perhaps he thought he could escape the rebels by confusing them with the spelling of his name...:bwahaha:
Wikipedia: the official know it all place to go..................
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (Arabic: مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي‎ Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī audio (helpinfo);[variations] (7 June 1942[nb 1] 20 October 2011), commonly known as Muammar Gaddafi /ˈmoʊ.əmɑr ɡəˈdɑːfi/ or Colonel Gaddafi,
The other thing that I've always wondered about him is this: The guy was a dictator, with complete and total control and rule over his country for decades. Yet he never thought to promote himself about the rank of Colonel?:banghead:
Uganda's Idi Amin was a General, and so was Spain's Generalissimo Fransisco Franco (who's still dead).:bwahaha: