Whom did Muammar al-Qaddafi depose to come to power in Libya?

July 20, 2020January 15, 2012 by Pamela Landy

As a colonel in the Libyan army, Qaddafi deposed King Idris I in a military coup in September 1969.

In the following years, he expropriated Libya’s Jewish and Italian communities and nationalized foreign-owned petroleum assets.

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