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Libya 1969 coup
When Colonel Muammar Gaddafi first took control in Libya in 1969 - few people had heard of him.
He and a group of fellow army officers carried out a coup while the King was out of the country.
Two ordinary Libyans remember that day.
(This programme was first broadcast last year.)
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