One thing you can say about the now-deceased Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi: he never met a photo op he didn't like. Qaddafi reveled on the global stage, mixing it up with like-minded pan-African and socialist leaders in his early days as a young revolutionary and with Western heads of state during the thaw in the later years of his rule. In these remarkable never-before-seen photographs found in Qaddafi's homes and compounds by Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director of Human Rights Watch, and re-photographed by freelance photojournalist Michael Brown, we're privy to a unique glimpse into Qaddafi's travels abroad and high-level meetings at home -- when he was still on top of his game. Foreign Policy invites readers to help us identify some of the individuals in these photographs; please leave comments below.

Above, Qaddafi holds hands with Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev.

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Qaddafi with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Sudan's Gaafar Nimeiry, soon after the Libyan revolution. 

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Qaddafi stands next to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his wife Suzanne, and his two sons, Gamal and Alaa, probably in the mid 1980's.

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Qaddafi in Czechoslovakia , probably in the mid-1970s. 

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Qaddafi with Egypt's Nasser. Photos of Qaddafi and Nasser together can be dated with a fair amount of accuracy because the Libyan revolution took place in 1969, and Nasser died in 1970, so they are all from that brief period. These pictures with Nasser became iconic for the Qaddafi regime and could be seen all over Libya.

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Qaddafi with two unidentitified men and PLO leader Yasser Arafat.

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Qaddafi with Nimeiry, the former president of Sudan, who was also greatly influenced by Egypt's Nasser. This picture is probably from the period between 1969 and 1971, when Qaddafi would have been 29 or 30 years old.

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Qaddafi, apparently visiting the U.S.S.R., sometime in the mid-1970s. 

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Qaddafi poses for a picture at a meeting with Brezhnev.

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Qaddafi, resplendent in a cape and double-breasted suit, shaking hands with Brezhnev.

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Qaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

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Qaddafi on a trip to Eastern Europe.

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On a trip to Eastern Europe, Qaddafi signs a document.

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Qaddafi meets Nikolai Podgorny of Russia, probably in the mid- to late-1970s.

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With an unidentified leader in the early 1970s.

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Qaddafi with Habib Bourguiba, the former president of Tunisia who was deposed in 1987. This picture was taken on the island of Djerba, where they signed a unification agreement. Bourguiba was basically senile by then, and the two wrote the agreement on the back of an envelope that was displayed in Tripoli.

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Qaddafi embraces Yasser Arafat. 

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Qaddafi rides in a car with Sudan's Nimeiry.

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Qaddafi with Tunisia's Bourguiba. The man at far left is most likely Tunisia's foreign minister at that time, Hedi Nouria . 

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Tweep @almuraisy let us know that Qaddafi is pictured here with Qatar's Khalifa Ibn Hamad al Thani. 

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Qaddafi greets the crowd during an unidentified trip, probably in the early 1970s. 

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Qaddafi presents a gift to Nasser.

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With Hafez al-Assad of Syria, probably in the mid 1970s. Bashar al-Assad, the current leader of Syria, is his son.

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Qaddafi meets an unidentified man.

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Qaddafi with an unidentified man on a trip abroad. 

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Nasser and Qaddafi. The interiors indicate this meeting took place in Cairo, not Tripoli.

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Libya and the Brother Leader went through a long period of isolation in the West, espcially after the 1988 Lockerbie boming, which killed 270 people and was believed to have been planned from Libya. However, despite a bizarre speech in front of the UN in 2009, world leaders began engaging with Libya in the mid- 2000's. The U.S. restored full diplamtic relations with the country in 2006.  

U.S. President Barack Obama met Qaddafi at a Group of 8 meetting in Italy in 2009. 

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Then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew to Libya in 2007 for talks about a major energy deal with the oil-rich nation.  

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met the dictator in 2008 in Tripoli. Qaddafi wasquite taken with Rice, calling her his "darling black African woman" and even having a song commissioned in her honor. 

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