The Only Reason Libya's Dictator Will Be Missed

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According to the Library of Congress, here follow all the recognised Roman variant spellings of the name of the Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya:

Qaddafi, Muammar
Gadhafi, Moʼammar
Kaddafi, Muammar
Qadhafi, Muammar
El Kadhafi, Moammar
Kadhafi, Moammar
Moammar Kadhafi
Gadafi, Muammar
Muʼammar al-Qadafi
Moamer El Kazzafi
Moamar al-Gaddafi
Muʼammar Al Qathafi
Moʼammar el-Gadhafi
Muammar Kaddafi
Moamar El Kadhafi
Muammar al-Qadhafi
Muʻammar al-Qadhdhāfī <- this one is the most precise transliteration
Qadafi, Muʼammar
El Kazzafi, Moamer
Gaddafi, Moamar
Al Qathafi, Muʼammar
Qadhdhāfī, Muʻammar
Khaddafi, Muammar
Muammar al-Khaddafi
Muʻamar al-Ḳad’afi
Ḳad’afi, Muʻamar al-
Ghaddafy, Muammar
Ghadafi, Muammar
Ghaddafi, Muammar
Kaddafi, Muamar
Quathafi, Muammar
Gheddafi, Muammar
Muammar Ghaddafy
Muammar Ghadafi
Muammar Ghaddafi
Muamar Al-Kaddafi
Muammar Quathafi
Muammar Gheddafi
Khadafy, Moammar
Qudhafi, Moammar
Qathafi, Mu’Ammar el
El Qathafi, Mu’Ammar
Kadaffi, Momar
El Gaddafi, Moamar
Moamar el Gaddafi
Kazzafi, Moammar
Gheddafi, Muhammar
al-Qadhafi, Muammar
Muammar Al-Gathafi
Al-Gathafi, Muammar
Gathafi, Muammar
Kadhafi, Mouammar
Al Gathafi, M.
Gathafi, M. Al

There's a Levantine Arabic phrasebook which advises that "Systems of transcription vary only in degrees of repulsiveness." My days of learning Arabic are, I fear, still many years in the future.