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Moammar Kadafi through the years

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Deposed Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, declared dead Thursday, was an eccentric junior military officer who seized power in a coup and 42 years later lost his country in a bloody revolt as rebels backed by NATO warplanes swept into his battered capital, Tripoli. More photos: Moammar Kadafi reportedly killed in fall of Surt

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