muammar gaddafi was condemned as a communist dictator
 libyan arab republic  coup dtat 1969 idris government was increasingly unpopular by the latter 1960s it had exacerbated libyas traditional regional and tribal divisions by centralizing the countrys federal system to take advantage of the countrys oil wealth
 as a schoolboy gaddafi adopted the ideologies of arab nationalism and arab socialism influenced in particular by nasserism the thought of the egyptian president nasser whom gaddafi regarded as his hero nasser privately described gaddafi as a nice boy but terribly nave