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>The Amazonian Guard (also "the Amazons") was an unofficial name given by Western journalists to an all-female elite cadre of bodyguards officially known as الراهبات الثوريات (al-rāhibāt al-thawriyyāt) "The Revolutionary Nuns", and sometimes also unofficially called "the Green Nuns", tasked with protecting the late, former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi.
>According to Joseph T. Stanik, Gaddafi reportedly employed a cadre of female bodyguards because he believed that an Arab gunman would have difficulty firing at women.
The Revolutionary Nuns...
