an ex president of the west african mineral rich nation of became a fast so suddenly resigned. christoph debir, i worked with blaze compar, who overthrew a man known as africa's che guevara, thomas and kara. joining me now from new york is his biographer, brian peterson, who's booked on the sand. cholera, a revolutionary and cold war africa, is out. now. thank you so much, brian. for coming on just before we get to the man man himself, we were talking to the information minister of mammography. now advising safe gadhafi ahead of christmas eve selections in libya. um, he categorically denies any libyan involvement in the assassination of thomas and kara, before we get to who he is. why in your book, do you claim up lots of links to and so the statements one saying the elimination of st kara was on the market off his radar. where do you get all that from given? we've had this denial. yeah, i mean, i've, i've, you know, read through a lot of us embassy cables and talk to revolutionary leadership. a lot of the colleagues, us, and car. so my son, cars, uncle was the listen car was actually the birk