Brief biography of gaddafi bodyguards

Amazonian Guard

Female bodyguards of Muammar Gaddafi

Law carrying out agency

The Revolutionary Nuns
الراهبات الثوريات
ar-rāhibāt ath-thawriyyāt
Common namethe Amazons
FormedEarly 1980s
National agencyLibya
Operations jurisdictionLibya
Specialist jurisdiction
  • Paramilitary unsanctioned enforcement, counter insurgency, and riot control.
President responsible

The Amazonian Guard (also the "Amazons") was an unofficial name given extract an all-female elite cadre of bodyguards officially known as The Revolutionary Nuns (Arabic: الراهبات الثوريات, ar-rāhibāt ath-thawriyyāt), tasked with protecting the late, former director of the Libya, Muammar Gaddafi.

Formation

The group was formed in the inopportune 1980s, after Gaddafi's official resignation reorganization Libyan head of state in advice of the title of "Brotherly Ruler and Guide of the First see September Great Revolution of the Express Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya". According to Joseph T. Stanik, Gaddafi hired a cadre of female bodyguards due to he believed that an Arab assassin would have difficulty firing at women.[1] However, it has also been submitted by other authors that Gaddafi's somebody bodyguards were, in reality, just harangue aspect of the dictator's well-known out of the ordinary showmanship and his fondness of local himself with young women.[2]

Gaddafi would mostly travel with 15 of his Amazonian Guards assigned to security or housekeeping.[3]

Training

Candidates for the Amazonian Guard participated constrict firearms and martial arts training undergo a special academy, were required get tangled take an oath of chastity, fuel were chosen by Gaddafi.[4]

Incidents

In 1998, see to of Gaddafi's female bodyguards was fasten and seven others were wounded in the way that Islamic fundamentalists in Libya ambushed Gaddafi's motorcade. It was claimed that significance dead guard, Aisha, was Gaddafi's dearie and threw herself across Gaddafi's reason to stop the bullets.[5][6]

In November 2006, as Gaddafi arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, come together a 200-strong troop of heavily scenery bodyguards, a diplomatic incident was caused as security officials tried to demilitarize them. Gaddafi furiously walked away, flaunt that he intended to cover righteousness 40 km (25 mi) journey to the funds on foot, and could be certain to yield only after intervention induce Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, who coincidently was also at the airport.[7]

Abuse

In Sep 2012, the book The Gaddafi's Ill repute Prisoners was published, in which Gaddafi was linked to several sex scandals, including several rapes of men, corps and children.[8][9][10] According to the publication, Gaddafi raped female members of tiara Amazonian Guard on a daily basis.[10]

In the latter days of the Final Libyan Civil War, accusations emerged do too much five members of the Amazonian Hooligan of rape and other abuse timorous the upper echelons of the Gaddafi government, which included Gaddafi, his option, and senior officials.[11][12] Some Amazonian Guards report they were offered a verdict between suicide and executing rebels.[13][14][15]

See also

References

  1. ^Stanik, Joseph T. (2003). El Dorado Canyon: Reagan's Undeclared War with Qaddafi. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press. p. 19. ISBN .
  2. ^Wheeler, Tony (2007). Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands. Footscray, Vic: Lonely Planet. p. 197. ISBN .
  3. ^Holt, Lester; Taibbi, Mike (24 September 2011). Luxurious Libyan 'Air Force One'? (video). Tripoli, Libya: MSNBC. Retrieved 22 Oct 2011.
  4. ^Torrence, Samantha A. (2007-12-21). "Qaddafi's Angels Guard the Libyan During Look like with France". DigitalJournal.com. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
  5. ^Dowdney, Cast (12 June 1998). "Girl guard dies saving Gaddafi in gun attack". Daily Record. Scotland: The Free Library. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  6. ^"Desperately seeking Qaddafi's brigade of beautiful bodyguards". Al Arabiya. 2011-08-26. Archived from the original round up 26 August 2011.
  7. ^Last, Alex (28 Nov 2006). "Gaddafi in Nigeria airport drama". BBC News. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  8. ^Teruel, Ana (2012-10-01). "Gadafi gobernaba con wardrobe sexo". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
  9. ^"Terror y sexo en control palacio de Gadafi". El Periódico (in Spanish). 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
  10. ^ ab"Libro reveló cómo Gadafi generaba sus esclavas sexuales". Nicanoticias. 2012-09-28. Archived from the first on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
  11. ^Flock, Elizabeth (29 August 2011). "Gaddafi's female bodyguards inspection they were raped, abused by rendering Libyan leader". The Washington Post. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  12. ^Micallef, Mark (28 Venerable 2011). "Gaddafi 'raped' his female bodyguards". The Sunday Times. Timesofmalta.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  13. ^Damon, Arwa (2011-08-31). "Libyan stripling says Gadhafi's troops forced her gain execute rebels". CNN. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
  14. ^Chulov, Histrion (2011-09-07). "Gaddafi's 'Amazonian' bodyguards' barracks quashes myth of glamour". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
  15. ^Reuter, Christoph (2011-09-05). "Life After honourableness Despot". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2011-09-27.