Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi acknowledges a crowd in Marsa Matruh, Egypt, in March 1999. Qaddafi will speak at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday and arrives with more than a flashy outfit and brightly colored bedouin tent. Emotions are still raw over the recent release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel al-Megrahi to a hero's welcome in Tripoli. Enric Marti/AP/FILE
President Qaddafi signs a guest book after a visit to Versailles Castle in France in December 2007. Patrick Kovarik/ABACAPRESS.COM/NEWSCOM/FILE
A more casual outfit choice is seen by the President of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi. Here, he speaks to Soviet journalists at a news conference one week after the US bombing of Libya in 1986. AP/FILE
Muammar Qaddafi gestures with a cane as he sits behind bulletproof glass during a military parade in Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, on Sept. 1, 2009. Ben Curtis/AP/FILE
Qaddafi is joined by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (l.) and Jordanian King Abdullah at the opening of the Arab summit in Amman, Jordan, in March 2001. Ali Jarekji/Reuters/FILE
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi speaks in his traditional tent about Sudan's conflict ridden western Darfur region in May 2005. Rumors that Qaddafi might pitch his tent on Libyan-owned property in New Jersey during the UN General Assembly raised howls as far away as Congress - as has more recent speculation that he might seek refuge at property owned by Donald Trump in New York. Yousef Al-Ageli/AP/FILE
Qaddafi arrives for a dinner at the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, this past July. Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
President Qaddafi attends a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1976 'Student Revolution' in Sirte, Libya, in April 2009. Mahmus Turkia/AFP/NEWSCOM/FILE
Qaddafi participates in a working session behind closed doors in Tunis during a summit of the five southern European countries and five northern African nations devoted to regional cooperation in December 2003. Patrick Kovarik/Reuters
Muammar Qaddafi is seen with one of his body guards at Rome's Ciampino military airport in June 2009 while on a three-day official visit. NEWSCOM/FILE
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko (r.) welcomes Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi during a ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine, in November 2008. Sergei Supinsky/AFP/NEWSCOM/FILE
Qaddafi gestures as he arrives for a final round table session at the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2009. Chris Wattie/Reuters/FILE
Libya's leader delivers a speech at the 21st Summit of Heads of State and Government of Member Countries of New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) in Sirte, Libya, on June 30, 2009. Ismail Zetouny/Reuters/FILE
Seated inside his traditional tent, Muammar Qaddafi meets with Chadian President Idriss Deby (l.) in Tripoli, Libya, on Aug. 8, 2009. Mahmud Turkia/AFP/NEWSCOM/FILE
Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi visits the National Assembly in Paris, France, in December 2007. NEWSCOM/FILE
Qaddafi addresses African parliamentarians in Tripoli, Libya, on Sept. 9, 2009, marking the tenth anniversary of the Sirte Declaration, where the Organization of African Unity established the African Union. Abdel Magid Al Fergany/AP/FILE
Riot police advanced on protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square shortly after Prime Minister Erdogan warned the peaceful demonstrators to clear out or be forcibly removed.
Riot police fired water cannons and tear gas on protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square and neighboring Gezi Park on Saturday, an intervention that came shortly after the prime minister warned that security forces "know how to clear" the area.
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