Muammar Gaddafi had lost the plot in his later years sadly.

Even though he wasn't responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, he took responsibility for it.

And by 2003, he wanted very badly to be accepted by the west that he paid for western PR firms and consultancy to do work for him.

And let's not talk about his funding of Nicholas Sarkozy, who was later convicted by the courts.

I suspect that you may not know these things but the Gaddaffi of the 00s was a different dude from the 70s and 80s.