during the siege of the libyan embassy, an official inside fired out at the police and killed wpc fletcher. after the bombing of u.s. servicemen in berlin which might or might have been the work of gaddafi, ronald reagan ordered the bombing of libya in 1986. gaddafi escaped unhurt but he made immense propaganda out of it all. >libya got the full blame for the lockerbie bombing which made gaddafi a pariah for years but a cry with oil. libya became more and more corrupt. he described himself as a port bedouin and he insisted on being interviewed in his 10's. -- he described himself as a poo r bedouin and he interviewed in tents. >> they committed an assassination. >> it was a british and americans who were most determined to bring him in from the cold. something that still attracts a lot of criticism. >> if they are prepared to say that we want to give up chemical and nuclear weapons capability, we want to see some our ties with terrorist groups, then we should be willing to open up to that. -- we want to stop our ties with terrorist groups. he seemed like a fixture. now, almost everyone in