James Delingpole James Delingpole

How did Colonel Gaddafi get away with such evil for so long?

In this case, the leftists may be right — it was all about oil

Colonel Muammar 'Mad Dog' Gaddafi Photo: Getty 
issue 08 February 2014

What a vile piece of work Colonel Gaddafi was.

For some of you, perhaps, this will be a statement of the glaringly obvious. But I suspect there will be many others for whom, like me, this week’s Storyville documentary on the barbarity of his regime — Mad Dog: Gaddafi’s Secret World (BBC4, Monday) — was something of a revelation.

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