btw - the woman behind your source link is one scary egomaniac
Egomaniac or not, female or not, the facts on the ground point to deliberate demonization of a man the Saudi cabal wanted removed, his liason with Mubarak of Egypt was a threat to Sunni-wahabbi dominance in the region. I knew something serious was up many months before this fiasco started...
There was an long article in an Australian newspaper entitled ‘Getting to know the Colonel’ written some thirty years ago, outlining his plans for Libyan infrastructure. I searched for the article source on the web, and found the title, the article had been replaced by a lengthy diatribe against Ghaddafi.
He also made a speech just a few years ago, in which he said ‘what have the arabs ever done for us’ and that article has also disappeared from the web.
One does need to look a little deeper than the self-serving mush being served up by the media, he certainly was no saint, but he was more of a threat to fanatical islam, than he was to the West.
Watch the video. Assad appears to be cheering him on, and if looks could kill, the Saudi perfumed ‘princes’ would have annihilated him right then and there.