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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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