Gaddafi's Western Friends

VALLETTA, MALTA: With Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime in ruins and Gaddafi himself on the run, it is time to ponder just how he survived in power for so long.

Greed for markets and money, it seems, often trumped the West's supposed concern for basic human rights.

Major Western countries compromised themselves over Libya for decades. After all, Gaddafi survived President Ronald Reagan's punitive 1986 bombing raid on his compound only because former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and former Maltese Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici tipped him off.

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