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(1,473 posts)He left Libya in a horrific state of poverty. This was all because he wanted wealth and he wanted power.
Gaddafi was ruled Libya with an iron fist, eliminating all political opposition and greatly restricting the lives of Libyans
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1bytzx_mad-dog-inside-the-secret-world-of-muammar-gaddafi-part-i_shortfilms
He killed his foreign secretary, then kept him in a deep-freeze in his palace so that he could regularly have a gloat over the body
Visited classrooms of 15- and 16-year-old girls, patting the ones he fancied on their heads, then having them dragged off by his security, gynecologically inspected and shown pornographic videos (to educate them in his expectations) before raping them and then having them put away in asylums.
"The macabre sex chamber of Libya's Colonel Gaddafi where he raped girls - and boys - as young as 14 Colonel Muhammar Gaddafi kept several 'sex dungeons' at his palaces Libyan tyrant forced hundreds of young girls to become his sex slaves Gaddafi also had a 'harem' of young men called 'the services group'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545819/Uncovered-The-macabre-sex-chamber-Libyas-Colonel-Gaddafi-raped-girls-boys-young-14.html
He deliberately shot down one of his own domestic airliners, partly for the sheer terror of it, partly as a ruse to show the West that its sanctions were hurting Libya so badly that it couldnt afford to maintain its own aircraft.
Former prison inmates of the Gaddafi regime have testified that Mr Koussa, who was previously head of external intelligence, interviewed them after they were tortured and in at least one case carried out an assault himself with an electric rod.
One also said that he was present at the notorious Abu Salim Prison massacre, when 1,200 inmates were killed after staging a protest in 1996. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/09/20119223521462487.html