QUIZ: Can You Name The Dictator?

He transformed Libya into a new socialist state called the “Jamahiriya.”

Retry Correct Incorrect Muammar Gaddafi is remembered for the 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing and having sanctions imposed on Libya by the U.S. and the U.K. Here’s a little-known fact about Gaddafi: he had an American penpal who he sent letters, photographs, and Christmas cards to for 40 years.

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He transformed Libya into a new socialist state called the “Jamahiriya.”

• Mahmud Sulayman al-Maghribi
• Abdessalam Jalloud
• Muammar Gaddafi
• Jakaya Kikwete