Muammar al-Gaddafi

Day 3,216, 07:18 • Published in Serbia Serbia • by SerbianAK47

Colonel Gaddafi with Josip Broz


1971: A young Muammar Gaddafi in army fatigues



August 1973: Gaddafi prays in the Libyan desert near SirtePhotograph: Geneviève Chauvel/Sygma/Corbis


1977: Gaddafi with Cuban leader Fidel Castro



1992: Gaddafi visits Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat in hospital after Arafat was injured in an air crash



June 2009: Gaddafi with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi at Ciampino airport with his female bodyguards in RomePhotograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters/Corbis



February 2011: Gaddafi attends a ceremony in Tripoli to mark the birth of the prophet Muhammad



Libya and Libyan "dictator" Muammar Al Gaddafi:

1. Electricity is free for all Libyans.

2. Loans in Libya are free with 0% interest as banks are state owned.

3. Homes are considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother were still living in a tent.

4. All newly married people in Libya receive US$ 50,000 by the government to buy their first home to help the new family.

5. Medical treatment and education are free in Libya. Before Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ruled the country, only 25% of Libyans were literate. Today the figure is around 83%.

6. If Libyans wanted to take up farming as a career, the government funded people from equipment to seeds, all for free.

7. The government subsidized 50% of the price of a new car if a Libyan citizen wanted to buy their first car.

8. Petrol price in Libya is around $0.14 per litre.

9. Libya has no debt externally and its reserves amounts to $150 billion – now globally frozen.

10. The Libyan government would fund anyone who got a degree and if they could not get employment, and they would receive income as if they were employed until they got a job.

11.The sale of Libyan oil is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens in proportion.

12. A family would get US $5,000 if they had a new baby to support the child's upbringing.

13. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs around $0.15.

14. 25% of Libyans have a university degree.

15. Democracy in 3..2..1!

IN MEMORIAM
1942-2011