What do Libyans think about Gaddafi?

Questions like this overgeneralize. This one is like asking What do Americans think about Obama? Clearly, opinions vary. Depending on who you ask, you may hear that Obama is a socialist dictator on par with Stalin or that he's the greatest President since FDR. read more

As Libya is a Maghreb state and sharing cultural similarities with Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, it is not hard to understand why Libyans hate Gaddafi. I guess you should speak to Libyans and they will debunk the image of"great Gaddafi". read more

Life for most Libyans is worse than it was under Colonel Gaddafi. And of course Gaddafi’s regime was supposed by the Western countries to be the bad regime. Anything must be better, we were told. read more

Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans were literate. Today the figure is 87%. • Libya had no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – though much of this is now frozen globally. Gaddafi wrote, “They want to do to Libya what they did to Iraq and what they are itching to do to Iran. read more

Even though there was no democracy in Libya, the facts about Libya and the way it was ruled in the list below, doesn't do any justice to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The list below may give you some insight into the good side of the the ruling of Libya by Muammar Gaddafi. read more