with a q, a different q spelling with two ds in it. abc news counted and found 112 variant spellings, which makes him hard to google. but now copy editors and news rest, how do you spell gadhafi? max fisher of the atlantic wrote a blog today that showed the diplomatic passport of one of gadhafi's sons. the passport is partly written in arabic, but there are also some pages in english, and one of them, very difficult to make out, but if you squint hard you can see his name is spelled out officially on that passport