Unique Personal Habits and Eccentricities. All-female bodyguard unit: Gaddafi was famously protected by an elite all-female unit of bodyguards known as the "Amazonian Guard." ...

Across the country, many of the men who guard some 8,000 prisoners, seized during and after Libya’s eight-month revolution, are former rebels or former prisoners themselves.

Since the early 1970s, and until recently, Colonel Gaddafi was always surrounded by his female bodyguards, known as his Amazonian guard. They wore camouflage, nail polish and heavy mascara.

Members of a Libyan army unit told Benghazi residents on Sunday they had defected and "liberated" the city from forces supporting veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi, two residents said. Skip to main ...

Col Gaddafi is usually flanked by his personal guards when he appears in public. ... and the unit has been described as a Praetorian Guard for the Gaddafi family.

Mansour Daou, the leader of Gaddafi's personal bodyguard, recounted the attack. He said that the survivors had "split into groups and each group went its own way".

Gaddafi's bodyguard claims that the former dictator's son, Mutassim, was "in charge of eveything" from the start of the war, as questions emerge about how the Colonel was killed.

PARIS, Dec. 11, 2007— -- The longest-serving leader in the Arab world arrived at France's parliament building today to a fanfare of trumpets and a state salute by the French Republican Guard ...

AL-AJELAT, Libya — Documents showing the shipment of thousands of gas masks and chemical-weapons protection suits to Moammar Gaddafi's remaining strongholds in the last weeks of his regime ...

Members of a Libyan army unit told Benghazi residents on Sunday they had defected and "liberated" the city from forces supporting veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi, two residents said. Skip to main ...