Qaddafi

Donations to Palestinian terrorists were also made by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and Libyan tyrant Muammar Qaddafi.

The story follows them through the Arab Spring, through Qaddafi’s overthrow and toward the promise of a new political future in Libya.

By that autumn, Libya’s government had collapsed and Qaddafi had been murdered.

Lévy, in the colonial tradition of depicting the white man as savior, has taken credit for the downfall of Qaddafi and for furthering the U.N.-endorsed responsibility to protect victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The missiles helped clear the way for the warplanes of the anti-Qaddafi coalition to begin operations over Libyan airspace.

What “the Marshal” has created there, their report shows, is not the secular stability he promises, but “an unwieldy authoritarianism that in many ways is both more puritanical and more lawless” than that of Libya’s last dictator, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

In courting Sisi, has the EU already forgotten the embarrassment of its dalliance with Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi or Egypt’s own Hosni Mubarak, who were dropped with alacrity when the Arab Spring began in 2011?

In the case that Mr. Trudeau got involved in, the company was charged with bribing and defrauding the Libyan government when Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator, was in power.

After all, Muammar Qaddafi took the U.S. up on its “denuclearization for security” deal in 2003 — only to be tortured and killed eight years later by rebels whom the U.S. government had backed.

At the time, Abu Dhar Ghifari, a revolutionary sahaba (companion of the Prophet) opposed Uthman, in much the same way as Muammar Qaddafi consistently opposed the anti-Islamic practices of the House of Saud.

He excoriated President Obama for assisting in the overthrow of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and pursuing the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Kara brought onto his payroll ex-intelligence officers from the Qaddafi era with a talent for interrogations.

Not only would Kim get something in return and survive (unlike the eventual fate of Libyan strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi), but Trump promised that Kim’s North Korea “would be rich” as a result of the deal.

Then Vice President Mike Pence announced that if the North Koreans didn’t make a deal with the U.S., Kim could meet the same fate as Qaddafi.

The spectacle of Qaddafi getting murdered by a Libyan mob, however roughly just, was also an object lesson in the downsides of believing that the Americans will care about a W.M.D. deal if the opportunity arises to remove you afterward.