He knew Reagan & W wasn’t f’n around.
BTW ....Gaddafi really looks messed up in that picture. The attempts to mask his age are really not working too well. He looks waxy, appears like he has a bad case of 'stick up a dark place' based on his facial appearance, and his hair looks really fake (I know that is the hair style he has had for decades, but it really looks like an ill-advised attempt to replicate 1985-Michael Jackson).
Although I wonder if he still has his women bodyguards. Apparently they are all crack shots.