article_snippet.sent: Muammar Gaddafi's's 42-year-rule, which ended in 2011, was characterised by tyranny.
article_snippet.sent: Muammar Gaddafi's murdered political opponents and dissidents, and replaced law with Muammar Gaddafi's 'Green Book' of rambling political philosophy, taught in all Libyan schools.
article_snippet.sent: Muammar Gaddafi's saw Muammar Gaddafi's as the leader of the Third World and used Libya's vast oil wealth to sponsor terror, shipping Semtex to the IRA and sending agents to bring down a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie in Scotland.
article_snippet.sent: By the 1990s the 1990s had become a pariah, but was rehabilitated in 2004 under the British Labour government with the despot signing an £120million gas contract for Shell with Tony Blair.
article_snippet.sent: The Lockerbie bomber was allowed to return to Libya from a UK prison and Gaddafi intelligence officers were even allowed to operate in Britain.
article_snippet.sent: The Lockerbie bomber held out for eight months during the Libyan revolutions of 2011, but was eventually found hiding in a drain, dragged out by rebels, beaten and executed.
article_snippet.sent: The so-called 'deal in the desert' struck by  
article_snippet.sent: Tony Blair in 2004 involved Gaddafi agreeing to crack down on human traffickers as well as renouncing Libya's possession of weapons of mass destruction and decommissioning Libya's chemical and nuclear weapons programs.
article_snippet.sent: The so-called 'deal in the desert' struck by Blair in 2004 involved Gaddafi agreeing to crack down on human traffickers . '