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    Bab al-Azizia (Arabic: باب العزيزية, romanized: Bāb al ‘Azīzīyah, Libyan pronunciation: [bæːb əl ʕæziːˈzijjæ], lit. 'The Splendid Gate') was a military...
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    on 14 April, ordered an air raid on the following Libyan targets: Bab al-Azizia Barracks in Tripoli – Gaddafi's command and control center for overseas...
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  • April 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya, suffering head injuries when the Bab al-Azizia military compound was attacked in retaliation for the 1986 Berlin discotheque...
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    "going easily", with the end target being Gaddafi's Bab al-Azizia compound. A resident speaking to Al Jazeera from Tajura in Tripoli said that about 450...
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    Tunisian. Domestic threats continued to plague Gaddafi; in May 1984, his Bab al-Azizia home was unsuccessfully attacked by a militia—linked to the NFSL or...
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  • Muhammad Mokhtar Osman had flown his jet into the Gaddafi stronghold of Bab al-Azizia in Tripoli damaging it and injuring him and his brother Khamis. Speaking...
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  • died. Following the taking by rebels of the family residence in the Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli, The New York Times both reported evidence (complete...
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    his father's inner circle. Gaddafi was allegedly in Tripoli in the Bab al-Azizia compound, and assisting in commanding what remained of pro-Gaddafi forces...
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    under Gaddafi's control, other than the immediate neighbourhood of Bab al-Azizia, were al-Hadhba and Abu Salim, the latter including the Rixos Hotel where...
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    attempts, the most notable being its 1984 armed assault on Gaddafi's Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli. After the failure of this and several other coup...
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  • died. Following the taking by rebels of the family residence in the Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli, The New York Times reported evidence (complete...
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    gold-coloured monument located in Misrata, Libya. It was once located at the Bab al-Azizia compound in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The sculpture was commissioned...
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    place near Gaddafi's compound Bab al-Azizia. At night between 22 and 23 August, CNN reporter Matthew Chance spoke to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi outside the Rixos...
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    had been arrested after a May 1984 attack on Gaddafi's compound at Bab al-Azizia. In March 1988, 426 out of 530 political prisoners in Abu Salim were...
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  • 2010 NATO bombing of Tarok Kolache 2011 military intervention in Libya Bab al-Azizia#2011 bombings, rebel capture, and demolition 2014 Ukraine training,...
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  • 65-year-old woman." Following his ascension to power, Gaddafi moved into the Bab al-Azizia barracks, a 6-square-kilometre (2.3 square miles) fortified compound...
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    offered a first-hand account of Al-Mahdi's advance on Tripoli and his men's assault on Gaddafi's former residence, Bab Al-Azizia. He was appointed second in...
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  • Retrieved January 8, 2020. December 2009: Abdullah Said al Libi, top commander of the Lashkar al Zil, al-Qaeda's shadow army. Killed in Pakistan. Sarah Westwood;...
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    1946 in Tripoli, Bab al-Azizia. He was raised in the area between the British military camps and the remnants of Italian occupation in Al-Sreem Street. During...
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    Libyan forces launched an airstrike on the southern part of Tripoli, the Bab al-Azizia military compound. On 21 April, Haftar launched several airstrikes and...
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    2011, after the National Transitional Council (NTC) took control of Bab al-Azizia. He was killed on 20 October 2011 in his hometown of Sirte after the...
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  • overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War. 2012 – A hot-air balloon crashes...
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  • first to punch through the main gates of Gaddafi's former residence, Bab al Azizia. The UK Daily Telegraph reported of the brigade "The rebels pushing...
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    airstrikes, and the second time since the 1986 airstrike that bombed Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's heavily fortified compound. In July and August, Libyan online...
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    Hasan er-Rida el-Mahdi es-Senussi; occasionally spelled as "...Al Senussi", "as-Senussi", "al/el-Senussi"; born 20 October 1962) is the son of Crown Prince...
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    original on 22 August 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2010. "Pasukan Denjaka TNI AL, Pasukan Elit Indonesia yang Misterius". HobbyMiliter.com (in Indonesian)...
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  • that the Gaddafi regime was in its final hours and controlled only Bab al-Azizia and three other military camps. The Fall of Tripoli would not occur...
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    former Bab al-Azizia compound. As an interim measure, the General National Congress convened in the Al Nasr Convention Centre close to the Rixos Al Nasr...
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    مصطفى عبد الجليل; also transcribed Abdul-Jelil, Abd-al-Jalil, Abdel-Jalil, Abdeljalil or Abdu Al Jeleil; born 1952) is a Libyan politician who was the...
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    hijacking the Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209 in December 2016. Led by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the Popular Front was allowed to participate in the future...
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