If it's that simple, then why do many places spell his name with a G? Because, apparently, Libyans pronounce the qoph with the softer g-sound, even if Standard Arabic spelling dictates otherwise. That's right, in all of Arabic literature, there's only one way to spell Qaddafi. This pronunciation detail is probably why Al Jazeera English spells it "Gaddafi.
And the latter spells the article as "el," — note that the "al" of Al Jazeera and the "el" of Qaddafi are spelled the same in Arabic.
Ultimately, searching for what this unhinged leader is up to becomes really complicated. Perhaps if Qaddafi was as good at wielding power as he wants us to believe, then everyone would spell his name the way he did in , when corresponding with some second-graders in Minnesota: "Moammar El-Gadhafi.
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