Kim Jong-il, dictator of North Korea, ascended to power following the death of his father, Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea. With Kim Jong il’s death, his son, Kim-Jong-un, is poised to perpetuate the Kim family rule. (more…)

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, also spelled Qaddafi, was a Libyan leader born in June 1942 in the Qasr Abu Hadi region outside Sirte, Libya. He was a member of the Qadhadfa tribe and had a rural desert upbringing, living in a Bedouin tent and attending a Muslim elementary school in Sebha. (more…)