With warped vision, Gadhafi maddened Libya, West (AP)

[TimesTen]

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111021/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_obit_gadhafi"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20111020/capt.2afeac045dc14849856cac6c1cd89b54-2afeac045dc14849856cac6c1cd89b54-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=n.lwkUqfeMEqcDYYVEghVw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Saturday, June 12, 2010 file photo, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi talks during a ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the evacuation of the American military bases in the country, in Tripoli, Libya. The Associated Press is aware of reports that Moammar Gadhafi has been captured in Sirte. The chief spokesman for the revolutionary National Transitional Council Jalal el-Gallal and the council military spokesman Abdul-Rahman Busin told the AP that those reports are unconfirmed. (AP Photo/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - During nearly 42 years in power, Moammar Gadhafi ruled with an eccentric brutality. He was so mercurial he turned Libya into an isolated pariah, then an oil power courted by the West, then back again. At home, his whims became law and his visions became a warped dictatorship, until he was finally toppled by his own people.</p><br clear="all"/>

 

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