David Cameron was two years old when Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi seized power in Libya.
David Cameron was two years old when Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi seized power in Libya. Forty-one years later, he finds himself the eighth British Prime Minister wondering what to do about the Mad Dog of the Middle East.

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