Throughout the course of history there's been many viciously cruel dictators
but few has deranged as
Muammar Gaddafi this
Mad Dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution
He's a madman. I mean he's just wacko
Yet for over 40 years
the Libyan ruler terrifies
tortures and torments the world with one horrific act after another
He was evil to the core
psychotic
To the point that the US government considered him the most dangerous man in the world
This is the story of the Middle East's longest-serving dictator
from his roots as an idealistic young
revolutionary to his insane actions at home and abroad
And how his delusions of grandeur ultimately lead to his downfall?
October 2011 a wave of revolutionary uprisings is sweeping across the Middle East in what is being called the
Arab Spring
In Libya the 69 year old dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is running for his life
Two months earlier NATO backed rebels forced him to flee his capital city Tripoli
Qaddafi hits dessert because it's where he hails from and he believes that he can be protected by clan and tribal loyalties
It little by little these rebels were winning and they were winning with pickup trucks and handguns
After taking Gaddafi's lost stronghold the rebels are closing in on their main target the dictator himself
They're French jets flying overhead it's a very chaotic scene
Suddenly the Colonel's convoy is hit by a NATO airstrike
Forcing the once almighty tyrant to take refuge in a sewage pipe
But how has it come to this
In 1969 Libya is a country dripping with oil money
Over the past 10 years it's gone from one of the world's poorest nations to one of the richest
But not everyone is enjoying the good times
Most Libyans lived in the country in very impoverished conditions basically a hand a mouth
Their ruler pro-western King Idris the first is deeply corrupt
He never spent a lot of the oil revenue on him and his associates and his family and not much on the Libyan people
Struggling at the very bottom of Libyan society are the Bedouins
Bedouins are illiterate nomadic tribes that move around just trying to survive
One Bedouin an army officer is determined to end the misery of his fellow countrymen by freeing them from
Western imperialist influences
Gaddafi in 1969 was an officer at just 27 years old. He was a young
Idealistic man who wanted to change Libya?
As early as high school
He is recruiting friends that he wants to bring into a revolutionary government
sometime down the road
So he planned from way back then both he and his associates to
Infiltrate the army, and then use that as the venue to stage the coop
After more than ten years of planning Gaddafi is ready to make his move
With King Idris out of the country receiving medical treatment in Turkey the mission he calls
Operation Jerusalem is a go
He makes his way to the burka barracks in Benghazi Libya second city
In terms of Coos you'd have to give it an a he moved in
Seamlessly the generals and the officers just gave up and let him do it. Not a drop of blood was shed no shot was fired
Probably one of the most peaceful coos that has ever happened in history
Victorious at 6:00 a.m.. Moammar Ghadafi arrives at Benghazi radio
For the first time he speaks to the Libyan people
As of now Libya shall be free under the name of the Libyan Arab Republic
free brothers in a society of which God willing shall flutter the banner of brotherhood and equality
They broke out in the streets and were elated celebrating if they had this new government a man of the people
There was this elation that ran through Libya
With his fellow accomplices he proclaims a new Revolutionary Command Council
Gaddafi is its chairman making the 27 year-old the most powerful man in Libya
To the Libyan people their new leader appears to be a force for good
He's progressive he claims to want to modernize the nation through his socialist Al Fateh Revolution
Radical new policies call for the country's oil wealth to be used to help the poor
He, built roads he built schools he increased literacy increased a life span of people
Gaddafi built housing complexes apartment complexes. He made a big deal of telling people these are your homes. This is your property
The quality of life in Libya for a time was actually higher than that of states like Brazil and Soviet Russia
It's all part of young Colonel Gaddafi's plan to be a great Arab leader
Just like his boyhood hero the charismatic Egyptian President Gamal
Abdul Nasser
Gaddafi views Nasser as an ideological father figure
Abdul Nasser to Gaddafi was his ultimate hero Abdel Nasser was the first Pan Arabian
revolutionary
Gaddafi started listening to him on the radio when he was in secondary school and
Gaddafi immediately identified with Nasser so much so that that Nasser became his idol
Literally he memorized all of his speeches
He was known in school for going around getting up on stools and reciting Nasser speeches verbatim
He was obsessed with the man. He emphasized that freedom
Socialism and unity the very same themes that Nasser had identified early on in the Egyptian revolution
and by freedom he meant
independence within Libya from foreign powers and foreign domination as
exemplified particularly by the base agreements with Great Britain in the United States
outside of Libya he meant freedom to associate with the Arab world
in an Arab nationalist kind of way
unity was also a
dominant theme
And unity was in the sense of forming not just Laura
vocal or verbal agreements with the Arab nations
But practical Arab unity as Nasser had been proclaiming the third theme that he developed through socialism
and by socialism he meant taking the wealth of Libya and
Distributing it more equally amongst
the people of Libya and
You can distinguish that from communism, which he did not support because he saw it as a godless system
And he was very much a Muslim a very strong Muslim and very much made Islam a part of his till
revolution
With his success in driving out Western influence in Egypt
far-reaching reforms and
Modernization policies NASSER is widely considered the leader of the Arab world
When NASSER suddenly dies of a heart attack in 1970
Gaddafi seizes the opportunity to move from disciple to master
His rallying cry is the Palestinian cause against Israel?
Gaddafi despised history way back from his very very early beginnings
He considered Israel as a robber of Muslim lands
To him Israel is the great symbol of the tyranny of America and the West in the Middle East
He viewed Israel is sort of a neo-colonial
project that was being superimposed on the Arab world
It was something that injured our dignity and it put a wedge in the heart of the Middle East
Now he's leader of Libya what he needs is to demonstrate to all other Arabs that he can be their leader too
This is a 19 news flash from the Olympic Village in Munich where early this morning armed Palestinian
guerillas raided the sleeping quarters of the Israeli team
The gunmen shot dead two Israelis are now holding 20 athletes and six officials as hostages
In September 1972 the world is in shock by the appalling attack at the Munich Olympics by
Palestinian group Black September
Less well-known is that Black September is funded by Qaddafi
Qaddafi considered it a perfectly acceptable
Operation based on his worldview and despite the bloodthirsty murderous things that these terrorists did he considered them heroes
The girls have just announced that they are demanding to be allowed to fly out of Germany once their demands have been met in
the final showdown
All the Israeli hostages are killed
along with five terrorists
Gaddafi has the terrorists bodies flown to Libya
When the dead Palestinians arrived in Libya I guess the word would be bizarre
Carrying the dead terrorists off the plane of course Qaddafi had a televised for the whole world to see
gruesome
Morbid in a normal person's mind
But not not in Qaddafi's mind
When the surviving three terrorists are released they too are taken to Libya
There the Libyan leader treats them like rockstars
you knew that this would be an international stage now an
an International drama and that he's the director you know and producer of this whole thing
That was Qaddafi saying to the whole world look at me look how powerful look how big I am look what I've done
Muammar Qaddafi, I am Libya
Trouble is not even the Arab world is listening
For Gaddafi, there's a realization
If he's going to be noticed he must project his power beyond the region
Qaddafi felt like he was much more than just a tiny little dictator of a country only six million people
With such a small population
No amount of military hardware is going to help this revolutionary of international proportions
Achieve his goal
But he does have something very powerful
Money and lots of it
Leading Gaddafi to support and fund one of the most important freedom fighters of the day Nelson Mandela
Certain leaders in the West particularly in the UK viewed Nelson Mandela is at best a troublemaker and at worst terrorist figure
but not Gaddafi
He was the African National Congress is not only primary supportive and in many cases only supporter
He befriended Mandela as an underdog supported him as an underdog against this great
Imperialist South Africa and came very closer than the two were photographed together several times and in Qaddafi's mind
He was helping this new underdog saw himself in Mandela
Nelson Mandela called Gaddafi the brother leader and
In recognition of his vocal and financial support one of Mandela's grandsons is called Qaddafi
Qaddafi supported a bizarre array of insurgent communist and terrorist organizations
absolutely bizarre
He looked at all these organizations purely as underdogs against big imperialists tyrannical governments
And Qaddafi becomes one of the world's greatest sponsors of international terrorism
It's claimed that every IRA bomb planted in the UK used a plastic explosive known as semtex
provided by Libya
He had links with the FARC in Colombia Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines
The Abu Nidal group
He supported the Black Panther movement the ETA
Red Army in Germany and affiliated organizations in Italy
Terrorism for Gaddafi isn't just political it develops into something highly personal
Got a very perverse pleasure out of terrorism
Gaddafi having been a Bedouin one of the foundations of his personality was the great underdog rising to power for the people
He was a just a very very egotistical man. It was more eager than even ambition
the Colonel's sponsorship of terrorism kills thousands of innocent people
But it achieves his aims it gets him noticed
He was a state terrorist enemy number one
To the point where the US government intelligence agencies considered him the most dangerous man in the world
Six years on from seizing power the Libyan dictators extensive support of various terrorist groups
Starts causing him trouble at home
This was unpopular with many of the members of Revolutionary Command Council
They thought that money should be going to economic development
in response to his critics
in 1977 he disbands the Revolutionary Command Council and announces to his people that he has discovered a new political system an
alternative to capitalism and communism
He calls it his third international theory and it's his revolutionary solution to the problems of the entire third world
It's his bid to be taken seriously as a statesman philosopher a vision. He spells out in his green book
He thought the green book was a masterpiece
He thought everyone should be studying at my Schleicher Hitler's Mein Kampf or Mao tse-tung's book or our Constitution
in fact
Gaddafi's supposedly visionary manifesto is a rambling mishmash of often contradictory statements
Gaddafi's book
was gibberish
One of the ideas was he wanted everyone to have chickens, and he made everybody in the country have chickens
And he gave them chickens, and I gave in cages to put the chickens in including people who lived in apartment houses
People ate the chickens, and they used the cages to hold newspapers, and it was crazy
Although it seems comic the green book hides a much darker motive
It's his tool of indoctrination
School children were forced to read it it was something that was part of their everyday education reading that book and looking at photos of him
Part of his ideology is that there is no need for political parties government or even laws
Instead Libyans will have direct democracy through new basic people's congresses
This concept of democracy was a complete farce and that Libya was really a pure dictatorship, and it was all about Qaddafi
Qaddafi announces he isn't President or even Prime Minister
Merely the brother leader and guide of the revolution. It's an ingenious move
He didn't refer to himself as the head of state so there was no way for him to be removed
the brother leader concludes his cutting edge political theories with a telling statement
Those who are strong in society governed
In his case his strength comes from his vast and vicious secret police Network
People never really knew for sure who it was that was spying on who?
It was not uncommon to see people pulled off the street and hustled into an unmarked car and driven away
You don't need to do that too often.
To too many people that everybody gets a little concerned about if I done something wrong on my next
And if Gaddafi decides you have crossed him he will crush you
This is actual footage broadcast on Libyan state television in 1984
Hundreds of school children some as young as six years old are assembled at Benghazi basketball stadium
Sadiq Chwehdi actuary was a young student who had been studying engineering in the United States when he returned to Libya Gaddafi
Accused him of being part of a plot in Tripoli to overthrow the regime in early 1984
This was a show trial in the grand as possible terms a huge audience
Sudeikis fools to confess despite his innocence and is quickly pronounced guilty
Absolutely twisted how this takes place in front of a lot of school children
But there's an unexpected turn in this harrowing event
---- neck doesn't immediately snap in the gallows a
young woman in the crowd sees an opportunity she
then comes and pulls
schweiz legs down in a very brutal fashion
Millions watch as she kills the deck and becomes known throughout Libya as hooda the executioner
and Qaddafi sees to it that she has made one of the richest and most powerful women in the country an
Example to all Libyans of the rewards for being loyal to the brother leader
But public executions at home aren't enough
He will pursue any Libyan who opposes him
Wherever they may hide
Gaddafi's intelligence services spanned the world so Gaddafi could reach you in Cairo in London in Paris
Qaddafi had ways of finding dissenters
He calls his exiled opponents stray dogs and
Savagely hunts them down in the streets of Europe
He wanted these killings to be public
That was part of his, MO
Unlike maybe what the soviets would do is they would poison somebody and whisk them away in secret Qaddafi wanted these killings in public areas
Assassinate them showing them how great he was and his tentacles outside of Libya
Most notoriously in April 1984 when a group of dissidents
Peacefully protest outside the Libyan embassy in London his agents opened fire
indiscriminately
The policewoman in front of the demonstrators was hit in the stomach
25 year old police constable Yvonne Fletcher is fatally shot
murdered in broad daylight
As a way of making the world take notice of him it succeeds
The UK severs diplomatic relations with Libya
Gaddafi doesn't care
He's already found an even bigger stage to play on
Of all the modern dictators Gaddafi needed attention the most
He phases from periods of lucidity and a complete instability
At this point he's getting out of control
In early 1986 the US Navy is on maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea off the northern coast of Libya
They are heading straight towards an area of water known as the Gulf of Sidra
The US was doing typical naval training operations in the Gulf as they had before got a threat from Qaddafi himself
You will not conduct operations in my Gulf of course the United States was waiting, but that's not your Gulf
Those are international waters and could obviously no. No the Gulf is mine. You crossed the line of death and you'll pay the price
Lybia fires six missiles at US planes
America retaliates by sinking three Libyan patrol boats and destroying a missile installation
Gaddafi now ups the ante declaring its a time of war and he will fight his war dirty
actions that put him on a collision course with the US making him their public enemy number one
US intelligence agents in West Berlin intercept a strange telex from the Libyan East German embassy
Tripoli will be happy when you see the headlines tomorrow
Just hours later a woman walks into a West Berlin nightclub
The LaBelle nightclub was known as the American place
Is where the soldiers used to hang out and their families?
And if you wanted to hurt Americans in Germany that was the place to do it and tonight is no different
with a dance floor packed with American soldiers
At 1:45 a.m.. A two kilogram bomb packed with plastic explosives and shrapnel explodes
Three people including two American servicemen are killed
Another 229 are wounded many suffering life-changing injuries
There's a horrific scene and shocked the United States of course
It was one of the first direct attacks or US servicemen had been killed in an explosion
Like that so it created not just shocked but outraged
Later in Berlin US intelligence intercepts another message destined for Libya
At 1:30 this morning a successful operation was carried out without leaving any trace of our identity
And it was already pretty clear who had done it and then
Intercepts after that pretty much confirmed as the agents were bragging back and forth it and indeed it was Libya
Washington is in no doubt
Gaddafi is u.s.. Public enemy number one this Mad Dog of the Middle East has a
goal of a world revolution
Ten days later President Reagan orders operation El Dorado Canyon
Gaddafi's Baba lazier compound is hit but despite his home being flattened. He escapes unharmed
Though he claims not all his family are so lucky
Gaddafi came out with a bleeding-heart statement that they killed Hannah his adopted daughter
He sought to use that as a means to
Depict himself as someone who was under fire from from the Great Satan
From the United States and and used as a means to build popular support for himself in his regime
And rails against the West
Reagan is the biggest terrorist in the world?
You are far from the civilization. We are a nation of civilization
Yet, not all is as it seems turned out to be an absolute hoax his daughter was not killed at all
But the truth is not going to stop Gaddafi having his revenge on the US
In the immediate aftermath you could almost see that he was mentally
Deranged by the attack
He was relatively unstable, but he was crazy, but he was crazy like a fox
You couldn't do that to Muammar Qaddafi the great one the brother leader anybody that did that well. They had to be
Put back put back in their place
Among the
259 passengers and crew bahding Pan, Am flight 103 at London's Heathrow Airport
Is 36 year old Michael Bernstein?
We were college sweethearts. We were very very happy he had a wonderful sense of humor and
He was a terrific father loved his children very much
At 6:25 p.m.. The plane takes off for New York
By 7:03 p.m.. Pan Am flight 103 is 31,000 feet over Lockerbie Scotland a
Device had blown about a 20 inch hole in the cargo hold
The plane was ripped apart at 35,000 feet
What occurred was a massive massive fireball coming out of the sky
200,000 pounds of ignited jet fuel that's like a giant. I'm going on and registered as if it was an earthquake that was the magnitude
It wiped out but dozen or more homes
Some people in those houses were obliterated. They never found any remains of anybody
270 people are killed in the Lockerbie disaster
including Stephanie's husband Michael
Wasn't it help I was in the basement on the exercise bike watching the news that I saw
A news story about this plane that had gone down in Scotland, but I had the proverbial
Sick feeling in the pit of my stomach knowing that it could have been his plane
My son came downstairs first, and he had just turned 4 so four-year-olds
Don't really have the concept of death being irreversible and then when my daughter came downstairs
She looked like she had been punched in the stomach because of course at age 7 and a half. She did understand what it meant
It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life
At the time the Lockerbie bombing is the worst act of terror ever committed against Americans
Back in Libya Gaddafi denies any links to the bombing
At that point most people thought it was Iran we didn't think it was libya until later on
The fear was that they would never know who did it?
First of all if the plane has been on time would have crashed in the ocean
We never would have found the timer or anything, but it landed in Scotland
we were able to get the remains and help people and find eventually find find evidence, but
No, one knew who did it and we couldn't get the answers. We couldn't get any answers because there weren't any answers
I mean no one knew
There were 19 separate countries who were involved in this investigation
Because there were 19 separate nationalities on the plane at that time is the largest investigation in the history of our FBI
They found a little electronic switch circuit board that was embedded in some of the metal as part of the evidence
They begin to trace this and piece it back together
They traced the circuit board to the same triggering device that a Libyan agent had used earlier
To try to detonate a semtex bomb and a failed terrorist attack
same type of
Circuit board they also traced it to a shipment of the same circuit boards that were sold a large number of them were sold to
The Libyan military, so they were pretty certain that that circuit board came from Libya, but despite those denials an almost four-year investigation
Reveals to Libyan agents planted the bomb on board the plane
It would changed the game for the CIA in the United States
We had an enemy on our hands now that could do this sort of thing they could carry out this kind of sophisticated plot undetected
In response the United Nations imposes tough sanctions
Gaddafi became something of international ---- that did not suit well with him because
He had always envisioned Libya's two small Playhouse so it's a very difficult pill for him to swallow
The Libyan dictators response to this isolation is to sink even further into cruelty and lust for revenge
His methods will become ever more deranged
One example can be seen in his treatment of his one-time foreign minister
Mansoor Rashid Al kiya defected in 1980
For 13 years Gaddafi bides his time
In December 1993
---- arrives in cairo egypt for a meeting of the arab human rights organization he helped establish
They have one of your own who you have trusted turn against you and make strong public
statements and organize against you abroad
That was beyond the pale and get off his mind, and he felt he had to deal with i'll kick you
Gaddafi's agents are waiting for him
Everyone assumed that he had been detained by Libyan authorities obviously the family continued to hope that he was somehow alive
In fact only one person ever sees him again
That person is Muammar Gaddafi, and he keeps him in his freezer
An evil evil man
The fact that you could enjoy
personally killing people
Having their heads frozen and refrigeration come look at them all the time. There's a just as an evil bear that is hard to contemplate
Isolated and marginalized
From world affairs the man who wants the entire planet to know his name and fear him sinks deeper into madness
making himself feel better by inventing ever more ludicrous titles
Imam of all Muslims Dean of Arab rulers king of Africa's Kings
His attention craving megalomania even starts to affect the way he looks
Gaddafi's outfits became more lavish and more flamboyant to where he sort of became the Liberace of the Arab world
His look became more absurd
He looked like one of those characters, and they have Gilbert and Sullivan musical one of those crazy Admirals
full of gold brocade and medals
He went from the fancy Admirals close
To Bedouin stuff a couple of times he wore something look like a brown garbage bag
He changed his wardrobe several times a day when asked about it. He would respond well
I set the fashion trends for my country
What I wear it becomes a fad amongst the people and he deluded himself into thinking that his garish
Flamboyant dress was what the people want
The Arabs would started to get a little bit embarrassed about it
they
got
Tired of him and he decided, okay while I'm not an Arab anyway. I'm an African
one of the unique features of Qaddafi was he had
Histrionic tendencies, this is the called the histrionic Personality Disorder these people love drama
It's how pretty they look and how much attention they can gather and that was him to an extreme
Qaddafi kind of arranged so he was always playing a role that people were always talking about
His Extreme Makeover, isn't just confined to his wardrobe Gaddafi wanted plastic surgery because he was a very vain man
His image was the image of Libya
billboards of him were all over the country all over Libyan cities
Gaddafi wanted to remain youthful and he wanted to maintain his looks
Over the years the Libyan dictator reportedly went under the knife several times
In his view he was a good-looking guy
For this superpower wannabe grandiose titles and fresh-faced beauty isn't enough
Nero had his Praetorian Guard
Hitler had the SS
Gaddafi will Trump them all he will be the first in history to have a guard made up entirely of women
In classic Gaddafi style he establishes some bizarre entry requirements for his Amazonian bodyguards
To be an amazing bodyguard you have to be tall you have to have long hair you have to be
Beautiful and you have to be the girl you would notice immediately. He would notice immediately. That's very important soon
He travels everywhere with his followings of Amazonian guards to the international meetings delight
He knew absolutely perfectly that that would attract the attention
Publicly Gaddafi is a big
Defender of women he's the guy who?
Really fight for the freedom he want to liberate the Arabic woman
But the private reality couldn't be further from the truth
When you become one of the Amazonian woman around him you were part of serum
They are kept just like in prison
And he was calling the girls night and day beating them
obliging them to have sex with one two three four people and
obliging them to smoke to drink to dance to take cocaine it was just like a
beast like an animal
And it isn't just the Amazonians who are Gaddafi's prey
He was obsessed by sex very often I've been said that they needed to have four different girls per day
Gaddafi uses his position as the brotherly leader to seek out more and more victims
Including his official visits to schools
Schools of course was a wonderful voice ever for him
Do you put his hand on her head that was a signal for his bodyguard to say?
This one I want her and she could say bye-bye to childhood. He would go to weddings and
Pick out girls that he wanted to have kidnapped and raped in some cases. They'd be killed never found again
The women and girls taken by Gaddafi are utterly helpless
Sex and rape are totally taboo you can't talk about that in Libya. It's a very very conservative society
Rape means that your life is totally destroyed
That you're going to be ostracized if it's known that you are going to be pushed out of your family
It's a perfect crime
The criminal and Qaddafi himself could do anything he wanted because he knew that nobody would talk
Rape isn't just Gaddafi satisfying his own base desires
He uses it to terrorize his opponents. He  use sex to
dominate people to you humiliate people it was true for him to govern and
What he wanted to deviate someone
Mostly rich and powerful people in his country is used to raped the daughters of the West
It's impossible to know how many women and girls can have he raped I?
Think it's possible to say that Gaddafi is
the most prolific rapist in history
Absurd looking
sex-crazed a rapist
Gaddafi's reign of madness continues to inflict endless misery on his people made worse by crippling
international sanctions
Then an event comes along that gives him a chance to relaunch himself
To most people 911 is a monstrosity
To Gaddafi, it's an opportunity. It was really a surprise
Gaddafi came out and condemned 9/11
publicly gave his support and sympathy for the victims of 9/11 condemned Osama bin Laden actually put a warrant out for
Osama bin bin Laden's arrest
In a publicity stunt Gaddafi offers to donate blood to the victims of 9/11
the brother leader has no great love for Islamic fundamentalism
Seeing it as a possible threat to himself
It makes it easy for the man who was once the world's greatest terrorist to join the war on terror
He began providing legitimate intelligence to the CIA and to Washington on
movements of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and and legitimate intelligence became essentially an intelligence partner to the United States against al Qaeda
He even complies with Western
He obviously took that to the bank
And said I don't want this to happen today in Tripoli
the leader of Libya
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
publicly confirmed his commitment to disclose and
Dismantle all weapons of mass destruction programs in his country
Muammar Gaddafi the man who had set out to lead the world against the West does a complete
to save his own skin and
It seems to work
on March the 24th
2004 despite the murder of Yvonne Fletcher
sponsoring the IRA and the Lockerbie bombing
The former Mad Dog of the Middle East has welcomed back from the cold by British Prime Minister, Tony Blair
With his newfound friends in the West
Gaddafi is sure his reign will never end a
mistake that ultimately proves fatal
By September
2009 after four decades of trying it seems Muammar Gaddafi dreams of being an international statesman are coming true
Despite the years of systematic murder torture and rape to maintain his tyrannical
Regime the Libyan dictator is fated by world leaders
He was such a con man that he thought he had everybody fooled he thought that we all would now
Support him in anything that he wanted to do that from here on out. It was going to be a love affair
That was never been in love. We wouldn't trust him as far as we could throw her
But then in early 2011 a wave of revolutionary uprisings start to spread through the Arab world
the Arab Spring
In February peaceful protests start in Libya
His response was no no no the Libyan people loved they all look this is al-qaeda
They've drugged the people and as he said as soon as the people come off the drugs that al-qaeda has drugged them with they'll come
Back, and they'll realize that they love me and the United States has put hallucinogens in their Nescafe
He had gone into full-blown delusion at that point
The brother leader starts indiscriminately turning his heavy weapons on his own people
Gaddafi was Greg and gonna crush them he called them all rats. He said it's gonna be a river of blood
He gave these more and more crazy speeches when he really could just shut up
Gaddafi assumes that his newfound friends in the West will ignore his increasingly brutal response
appalled NATO comes out in support of the Libyan opposition
They enforce a no-fly zone and provide air strikes against Gaddafi's forces
Gaddafi was irate and
Made a number of threats. I think most importantly that
When this thing was over he would make sure that people in Europe paid for the NATO intervention
It's an empty threat a final sign of how deluded he has become
By October 2011 the
69 year old Libyan dictator is desperately fleeing from city to city as the western-backed rebels take over
Gaddafi was going down with his ship
He had no intention of abandoning Libya he had no intention of relinquishing power
When the rebels take Tripoli Gaddafi goes on the run, and he eventually finds himself insert, which is his hometown
Within weeks Gaddafi is forced to flee even there
Crawling through the desert sands he desperately searches for an undamaged vehicle to continue his escape
With no luck
a
Few minutes later
Reality finally catches up with him
He was yelling at these people
Saying how can you do this? I'm your leader the people love me
And one of these guys slapped him in the face and said shut up you dog
Years of oppression and hatred come flooding out
After 42 years Gaddafi's reign of terror is over I
Think half the country marched by to see him did on that dirty mattress. We didn't make sure he was dead
They just wanted to see it that it was over
at last
Libya is free a
moment one of his victims Stephanie Bernstein
remembers well
I remember very clearly the day that Gaddafi was killed and I was on the phone with my daughter
And I said and we began to cry he can't hurt anybody anymore
Sadly the 2011 revolution has quickly dissolved into bitter Civil War
Moammar Ghadafi left libya so divided the country is still struggling to emerge from the shadow of his evil
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