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TRIPOLI, LIBYA: Picture dated July 1973 of Libyan Head of State Colonel Moamer Kadhafi (L) joking in Tripoli with a group of British hippies. Kadhafi, born in 1942, formed in 1963 the Free Officers Movement, a group of revolutionary army officers, which overthrew 01 September 1969 King Idris of Libya and proclaimed Libya, in the name of "freedom, socialism and unity," Socialist People's Jamahiriya. (Photo credit should read AFP via Getty Images)

TRIPOLI, LIBYA:  Picture dated July 1973 of Libyan Head of State Colonel Moamer Kadhafi (L) joking in Tripoli with a group of British hippies. Kadhafi, born in 1942, formed in 1963 the Free Officers Movement, a group of revolutionary army officers, which overthrew 01 September 1969 King Idris of Libya and proclaimed Libya, in the name of "freedom, socialism and unity," Socialist People's  Jamahiriya. (Photo credit should read AFP via Getty Images)