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The Witch Doctor President and Other Horrific Rulers

Khalid Elhassan December 25, 2019 32 min

19. The Deadly Buffoon

Gaddafi and some of his Amazonian Guard. YouTube

Beneath Gaddafi’s buffoonish look and cuckoo philosophy, however, was a brutal dictator whose regime engaged in repression, torture, murder, and sundry human rights violations. Among his vices was the habit of ordering women kidnapped off the street, including teenaged girls. He then had them taken to one of his many palaces, to have his way with them.

Libyan rebels capturing Gaddafi. Freedom Group

One of his numerous victims was kept imprisoned in his basement for six years. He forced her to watch pornography while snorting cocaine with him, and repeatedly raped, urinated on, and subjected her to sundry perversions. Gaddafi was finally overthrown in a popular uprising in 2011. Captured by rebels, he was tortured, and probably sodomized, before he was brutally killed.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.