Gaddafi, Muammar. The character of “Muammar al-Qadhafi,” with his “Amazonian Guard” of forty virgins trained in martial arts and his traveling palace in a tent, was created by Ian Fleming as the featured villain in his James Bond novel Sandsweeper. This was the only one of Fleming’s Bond novels to be rejected by his publisher on the grounds of rank implausibility. Desperate to recoup something for his investment of time and effort in the story, Fleming sold the rights to the character to a little-known colonel in the Libyan army.