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IMF18 - 19691201 - RABAT, MOROCCO : (FILES) Picture dated december 1969 of Libyan Head of State Colonel Moamer Kadhafi (L) and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (R, 1918-70) arriving together in Rabat prior the Arab Summit Conference. Kadhafi, born in 1942, formed in 1963 the Free Officers Movement, a group of revolutionary army officers, which overthrew 01 September 1969 King Idris of Libya and proclaimed Libya, in the name of "freedom, socialism and unity," Socialist People's Jamahiriya. (KEYSTONE/AFP FILES/BENGHABIT)