Muammar el-Qaddafi n 1: Libyan leader who seized power in a military coup d'etat in 1969; deposed the Libyan monarchy and imposed socialism and Islamic orthodoxy on the country (born in 1942) [syn: {Qaddafi}, {Qadhafi}, {Khadafy}, {Gaddafi}, {Muammar al- Qaddafi}, {Muammar el-Qaddafi}]