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During a lengthy speech this leader gave at the United Nations, his personal translator shouted “I can’t take it any more” before collapsing (10[1])from exhaustion. This leader attempted to implement his “Third International Theory” (10[1])after overthrowing (10[1])Idris I. (10[1])Retaliatory (10[1])US airstrikes (10[1])hit this leader’s country (10[1])during Operation (10[1])El Dorado Canyon, after (10[1])a Berlin disco was bombed in 1986. (10[1])This leader (10[1])changed his country’s flag to a pure green banner and set out his ideas in the Green Book. NATO-backed rebel forces killed this leader in his hometown of Sirte (“sert”), where he fled after the fall of Tripoli. (-5[1])For 10 points, the Arab Spring saw the overthrow of which long-term dictator of Libya? ■END■

ANSWER: Muammar Gaddafi
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