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
Gaddafi in 1976
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
Libyan Revolutionary Command Council
…Council (Arabic: مجلس قيادة الثورة) 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 monarchy of King Idris I. The council's chairman was Muammar Gaddafi, who had the most influence and served as Libya's de…
Muammar Gaddafi, pictured shortly after his seizure of power, on a visit to Yugoslavia in 1970
Muammar al Gaddafi at the AU summit