“Oil is like drugs. Find the commodity smugglers. Many are adventurous; they will buy from you at a discount and they don't care about embargoes.”

Statement (11 April 2011) as quoted in "Gaddafi clung to a fading reality" at Aljazeera (21 May 2012) http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/libyaontheline/2012/05/201256134918771317.html
Al Jazeera's mobile phone wiretaps

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Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist 1942–2011

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