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Colonel Muammar Gaddafi four months ago fulfilled his promise to dismantle Libya's weapons of mass destruction (WMD), earning himself rare praise from the White House. Speaking with TIME's Scott MacLeod and Amany Radwan in Tripoli, the leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (State of the Masses) revealed how he has, and hasn't, mellowed...
WHAT ABOUT LIBYA'S MISTAKES? In tactics, for example. Libya said the Irish struggle is a legitimate struggle. But when the I.R.A. used weapons against civilian targets, this is their responsibility. We all made mistakes, both sides. The most important thing is to rectify the mistakes...
...LIBYA ACQUIRE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? The program started at the very beginning of the revolution. The world was different then. It was not only Libya that was thinking along these lines. I know [former Romanian leader] Ceausescu used to boast that Romania was able to manufacture the nuclear bomb...
WHAT MADE LIBYA DECIDE TO DISMANTLE ITS WMD? We started to ask ourselves, "By manufacturing nuclear weapons, against whom are we going to use them?" World alliances have changed. We had no target. And then we started thinking about the cost. If someone attacks you and you use a nuclear bomb, you are in effect using it against yourself...
...looks out on Tripoli, it is hard to grasp the potential. The city's crumbling old Italian colonial buildings are set amid billboards hailing Libya's socialist revolution. But Libya's fans insist the possibilities are real. In the Corinthia - Libya's only luxury hotel, boasting $300-a-night rooms - Western executives crowd the lobby. American executives will need to catch up with European oil businesses, which remained in Libya through decades of U.S. sanctions. Italy's Eni, Spain's Repsol-YPF and France's Total have run Libyan subsidiaries with no American competition. Virtually all of Libya...