Latest Channel 4 News:
Row over Malaysian state's coins
'Four shot at abandoned mine shaft'
Rain fails to stop Moscow wildfires
Cancer blow for identical twins
Need for Afghan progress 'signs'

The calming of 'mad dog' Gaddafi

By Nina Teggarty

Updated on 11 June 2009

As Colonel Gaddafi visits Italy, More4 News looks at the rehabilitation of a man once called the "mad dog" of the Middle East. Nina Teggarty reports.

Gaddafi (Credit: Reuters)

Once he was vilified as a criminal, a terrorist - even a "mad dog".

And there was a time when Libya’s Colonel Gaddafy was even public enemy number one.

Now other public enemies have replaced him - and the famously eccentric ruler has become a new best friend for a succession of European leaders. 

Send this article by email

More on this story

Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of external websites.


Watch the Latest Channel 4 News

Watch Channel 4 News when you want

Latest Middle East news

More News blogs

View RSS feed

Iran stoning reprieve

image

A campaign to save a woman from stoning wins her a reprieve.

'Iran is solid and united'

Mahmuod Ahmadinejad

President Ahmadinejad tells Jon Snow his country is not weak.

Most watched

image

Find out which reports and videos are getting people clicking online.




Channel 4 © 2010. Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of external websites.