It's tempting to blame speculators for the price run-up. In March, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder established a task force to investigate potential fraud in energy markets.
So far, it's "clear that there are lawful reasons for increases in gas prices, given supply and demand," Holder says in a statement.
A dispatch from the British Embassy in Tripoli stated: ‘The simplest conclusion to draw would be that in his vision of himself as a new Arab messiah, Gaddafi is bordering on the insane.’
King Hussein of Jordan regarded him as an unworldly ‘nutcase’.
A report from North Yemen described how that country’s ruler, President Saleh, was so shaken by an encounter with Gaddafi that he turned to the American ambassador at an event and commented: ‘Mad, isn’t he?’
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