The Free Officers movement was a group of Arab nationalist and Nasserist officers in the Libyan Army that planned and carried out the 1969 Libyan revolution, which overthrew the Senussi monarchy of Ki
Muammar Gaddafi, pictured shortly after his seizure of power, on a visit to Yugoslavia in 1970
Muammar al Gaddafi at the AU summit
The Revolutionary Command Council was a twelve-member governing body that ruled the Libyan Arab Republic after the 1969 Libyan coup d'état by the Free Officers Movement, which overthrew the Senussi mo
Free Officers movement (Libya)
…Libyan revolution, which overthrew the Senussi monarchy of King Idris I, ending the Libyan monarchy. It was led by a twelve-member cabinet known as the Revolutionary Command Council, whose chairman was Muammar Gaddafi, which came to govern the Libyan Arab Republic. Since Libyan independence, King Idris's rule was unpopular due to…
Gaddafi in 1976