It may put a new light on it for Time, but around here we knew since back then that Gadhafi was in a panic. It was reported that Berlusconi (I think it was Berlusconi) said that Qadhafi called him on the phone and told him he turned over his WMD program because he saw what happened to Iraq and he was afraid the same thing would happen to him. But the press ignored that because it demonstrated that President Bush was right.
Correct!
[A spokesman for Mr Berlusconi said the prime minister had been
telephoned recently by Col Gaddafi of Libya, who said: "I will do
whatever the Americans want, because I saw what happened in Iraq, and
I was afraid."]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/04/wun04.xml