Gadaffi

"Why, Mr Eric, " a clearly confused Gadaffi plaintively asked me, "why are the Americans trying to kill me? "

But now that Libya is convulsed by revolution, Gadaffi seems to have used up all his nine lives.

"Leader" Muammar Gadaffi is hunkered down in Tripoli, defended by army units from his tribe and mercenaries from black Africa.

I met a number of the senior Senoussi clan in Tripoli and have no doubt they would be ready to assume leadership of anti-Gadaffi forces.

And he say as he did in the case of Mubarak in Egypt Gadaffi are living very affectively.

Muammar Gadaffi bedded at least four women just hours before meeting Prince Andrew for trade talks, it was claimed today.

And we have seen in the past that tanks have been used by the Gadaffi regime to attack civilians.

Gadaffi has long been cooperating with France, Italy and Spain to halt the flow of such economic refugees.

Libya would return to pre-Gadaffi days when it was ruled by a British-managed figurehead king, the doddering Ibn Idris.

The UN mandate is only to protect civilians, not to remove the Gadaffi regime.

As the craziness spread, oil billions poured in, allowing Gadaffi to romance foreign heads of state and influence Africa.

But it should be clear to those around Gadaffi, and to every Libyan, that history is not on his side.

US President Ronald Reagan blamed Libya and denounced Gadaffi as the "mad dog of the Middle East. "

Gadaffi, dressed in a custom made, silk Italian jump suit and zippered boots, beamed with pleasure.

If driven from Tripoli, Gadaffi will take refuge in his tribe's territory, in Italy or Venezuela.

Faisal was captured by anti-Gadaffi forces but is unlike to be charged.

Gadaffi is a sad example of the maxim about absolute power corrupting absolutely.

However zany and bizarre, Gadaffi was clever as a fox and had more lives than a cat.

Gadaffi overthrew the last Senoussi, the doddering Ibn Idris, in 1969.

Gadaffi still retains some support in western Libya and from important tribes.

Particularly after NATO warplanes killed Muammar Gadaffi's youngest son and three grandchildren in Libya.

After we spent the evening in his colorful Bedouin tent, I had some fun with Gadaffi.

Gadaffi's hero and father figure was Egypt's charismatic Gamal Abdel Nasser.

First, under the laws of war generally, would targeting Gadaffi personally be lawful?

He told the Sunday Times: They all had sex with Gadaffi.

But Gadaffi has been through many attempts to kill him.

Gadaffi was never the same after Nasser's untimely death in 1970.

A 2, 000 lb US bomb crashed through the ceiling of Gadaffi's private quarters.

Benghazi, Libya: Demonstrators hold up a boy dressed as Colonel Muammar Gadaffi as they burn his green book in protest against his regime