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Reportedly Qaddafi supported [[terrorism]], and may have ordered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988. | Reportedly Qaddafi supported [[terrorism]], and may have ordered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988. | ||
| − | Due largely to his fear of becoming a target in [[George W. Bush|President Bush]]'s successful [[War on Terror]], Qaddafi decided to change his ways, giving up his WMD programs and renouncing terrorism. Full diplomatic relations with the [[United States]] were restored in 2006, and the Qaddafi regime's turnaround has been heralded by Secretary of State [[ | + | Due largely to his fear of becoming a target in [[George W. Bush|President Bush]]'s successful [[War on Terror]], Qaddafi decided to change his ways, giving up his WMD programs and renouncing terrorism. Full diplomatic relations with the [[United States]] were restored in 2006, and the Qaddafi regime's turnaround has been heralded by Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]] as a model for others to follow. |
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Revision as of 04:20, December 15, 2007
Colonel Muammar Qaddafi (born 1942) has been the tyrannical dictator of Libya since 1969, when he seized power in a military coup against King Idriss. Once he became dictator, he renamed all the months in the calendar and published the Green Book, which was a series of pamphlets on democracy, economics, and sociology.
President Ronald Reagan was a frequent target of Qaddafi's rants. Reagan responded with this assessment:[1]
- I find he's not only a barbarian, but he's flaky. ... I just think that the man is a zealot.
Reportedly Qaddafi supported terrorism, and may have ordered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.
Due largely to his fear of becoming a target in President Bush's successful War on Terror, Qaddafi decided to change his ways, giving up his WMD programs and renouncing terrorism. Full diplomatic relations with the United States were restored in 2006, and the Qaddafi regime's turnaround has been heralded by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a model for others to follow.