Haven't heard from him in awhile

The Voice of America has an article by Sabina Castelfranco about Gaddafi:

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has lashed out at the United States by likening the 1986 U.S. Strikes on Libya to Osama bin Laden's terror attacks on the United States in 2001. He was speaking Thursday in Rome, where he is on a three-day official visit. In a speech to Italian lawmakers, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi urged the world to understand the reasons that motivate terrorists. He called for dialogue with terrorists, saying, "One must talk to the devil, if it brings about a solution."
While condemning al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, he implied there was little difference between bin Laden's terror attacks and the U.S. strike on Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986. He added that the West should not interfere in the governments chosen by other countries. The United States ordered airs strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi after an attack on a disco in Germany killed three people, including two U.S. servicemen.
Mr. Gaddafi, who came to power following a 1969 coup, had long been ostracized by the West for sponsoring terrorism, but in recent years sought to emerge from this status by abandoning weapons of mass destruction and renouncing terrorism in 2003. Libya has since agreed to pay compensation to the families of the Berlin disco victims, as well as the families of the victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people, including 189 Americans.
Colonel Gaddafi, who arrived Wednesday in Rome on a three-day official visit, was to have addressed lawmakers in the Italian Senate. But he was forced to give his speech at another building after opposition leaders voiced strong criticism at giving him such a rare honor. Mr. Gaddafi's first trip to Libya's former colonial ruler is being seen as an open acknowledgment the two nations have put their past behind them and are ready to forge closer ties.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Mr. Gaddafi's visit is an event that symbolizes the definitive change in relations between Italy and Libya. These relations, he said, have been difficult for many years due to a colonial past that left feelings of pain in the Libyan people. The Libyan leader said Italy is the only former colonial state today that cannot be reprimanded any more.
Colonel Gaddafi has pitched his bedouin tent in Rome's largest public park, Villa Doria Pamphili, where he is is receiving a large number of visitors. He is traveling with a 300-person delegation and a large group of female bodyguards. His visit was made possible by a friendship and cooperation treaty signed in August of 2008, which provided for Italy to invest $5 billion in Libya to make up for its thirty-year occupation of the North African country.
The Libyan leader will return to Italy in July, in his role as head of the African Union, to take part in the summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, scheduled to be held at a military academy in quake-stricken L'Aquila.

Rico says "a large group of female bodyguards"? It is good to be the prince...

As for the spelling of his name, this from Wikipedia:

Because of the difficulties of transliterating written and regionally-pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name can be transliterated in many different ways. An article published in the London Evening Standard in 2004 lists a total of 37 spellings; a 1986 column by The Straight Dope quotes a list of 32 spellings known at the Library of Congress. Muammar al-Gaddafi, used in this article, is the spelling used by Time magazine and the BBC. The Associated Press, CNN, and Fox News use the spelling Moammar Gadhafi, al-Jazeera uses Muammar al-Qadhafi (al-Jazeera English uses Muammar Gaddafi) the Edinburgh Middle East Report uses Mu'ammar Qaddafi and the U.S. Department of State uses Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi. In 1986, Gaddafi reportedly responded to a Minnesota school's letter in English using the spelling Moammar El-Gadhafi. The Xinhua News Agency uses Muammar Khaddafi in its English reports. This extensive confusion of naming was used as the subject for a segment of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update in the early 1980s.
In standard Arabic the name معمر القذافي‎ (or مُـعَـمَّـرُ الـقَـذَّافـي‎ with all vowels written and an elongation) is pronounced in IPA: /mu'ʕam:aru l‎qa'ð:a:fi/. /ʕ/ renders a pharyngeal sound (ع), not present in English. Both /m/ and /ð/ are geminated (doubled).
In spoken Libyan Arabic voiceless uvular plosive /q/ (ق) may be substituted with /g/ or /k/; and /ð/ (ذ) (same as English "th" in "this") may be replaced with simple /d/. Vowel /u/ may alternate with /o/ in spoken Arabic. Case endings are dropped (/mu'ʕam:aru/ -> /mu'ʕam:ar/)
There are many ways to romanise Arabic and even more methods to romanise regional varieties. It's worth noting that the Arabic spelling of the name doesn't change. Thus, /mu'ʕam:aru l‎qa'ð:a:fi/ may be pronounced as /mo'ʕam:ar al‎ga'd:a:fi/ colloquially, which may cause a slightly different romanisation. The definite article al- (ال) is often omitted. Here, the initial /a/ is silent because of the preceding /u/.
In Italian his name is romanised as Muammar Gheddafi, in Turkish as Muammer Kaddafi, in Swedish as Muammar al-Qadhdhafi, in Polish as Muammar al-Kaddafi, and in French as Mouammar Kadafi.
Gaddafi himself prefers in his personal website to use the spelling Muammar Al Gathafi.