Gaddafi and the Jihadists

I didn't know this, and I'll bet you didn't either.

(Following 9/11) "In North Africa, Bush set-up an effectively unproductive anti-jihadist alliance from Mauritania to Egypt. Only a few local cells suffered setbacks. But it was Gadaffi who provided the largest gift for America. The Libyan ra´is had an old account to settle with bin Laden, who had tried to assassinate him in 1995 using the local fundamentalist opposition. He was the first to report Osama bin Laden to Interpol as a terrorist leader (April 15th 1998). Gadaffi handed over to the Americans his intelligence service's complete archive on extremist movements in Africa and in the Middle East."

This and much more here.