Inside the Tents of Muammar Gaddafi

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Genevieve Chauvel / Sygma / Corbis

Home, Sweet Home
Gaddafi is all smiles in his father's tent in Libya, August 1973. The "Brother Leader" was raised in a Berber family that lived in traditional Bedouin shelters.

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