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He was in a meeting of his Marine Corps veterans association when Mr. McKelvey walked in, wearing a colonel's uniform.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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The guilty plea stemmed from a speech at an airport about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh where McKelvey wore the colonel's uniform.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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And that must include officials at the London School of Economics who tutored his son Saif al-Islam, and benefited from the colonel's largesse: at least £1.5m received from the tyrant's international and development charities.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Boulevard of the Allies event, complete with a beret featuring a lieutenant colonel's silver oak leaf.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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A rebel military spokesman said a convoy of cars suspected of belonging to the personal security detail of Khamis Gadhafi, one of the colonel's sons and commander of an elite security brigade bearing his name, attempted to overrun a rebel checkpoint on Saturday near the town of Tarhouna, southeast of Tripoli.
Details Mount on Atrocities in Tripoli's Fall Margaret Coker 2011
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But when trying to understand what happened, it is important to remember that filming and photographing the colonel's battered body was not only an exhilarant act of rage.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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The image of the colonel's corpse has been the climax of this bizarre process of incarnation.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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But when trying to understand what happened, it is important to remember that filming and photographing the colonel's battered body was not only an exhilarant act of rage.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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The image of the colonel's corpse has been the climax of this bizarre process of incarnation.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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Aisha Gadhafi lost a four-month old daughter in April when NATO attacked one of the family compounds in Tripoli, a strike that also killed Seif al-Arab, the colonel's second-youngest son, Mohamed's 15-month-old son and Hannibal's two-year-old daughter.
Gadhafi's Daughter Gives Birth to Baby Girl in Exile David Gauthier-Villars 2011
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