the monster is much nearer to Rome than expected

From the following mixed report of Globalsecurity one can see how little the West knows of the real capabilities of the man who has already used chemical weapons against neighboring country Chad. Gadaffi is anything but stupid, and surely not the pro-western Mubarak who agreed to step down under US pressure.. The West should act with wisdom and decisiveness if wanting to eliminate the biggest real threat for Europe. Or perhaps Gadaffi is the necessary evil as everyone of the 10 horns?
 http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/libya/cw.htm
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Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi has shown that he is willing and capable of using chemical weapons and missiles against his enemies. In 1986 and 1987 the Government of Chad accused Libya of using toxic gas and napalm against central government forces and against rebel forces. Libya may have used mustard gas [possibly Iranian-supplied] delivered in bombs by AN-26 aircraft in final phases of the war against Chad in September 1987. The wind blew the agent back onto the Libyan forces.

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A team of American and British intelligence officers spent about two weeks Libya in October and again in December 2003. US and UK specialists invited to Libya said they found few surprises in Libya's chemical weapons program. The US and UK learned that Libya had tens of tons of mustard agent produced about a decade earlier, as well as hundreds of 250-pound aircraft bombs capable of dispersing the mustard agent in combat. During the visits, the team of US and UK inspectors went to dozens of sites related to Libya's nuclear effort, chemical stockpile and missile program. Libya revealed the existence of precursor materials used to develop nerve agents. Libya had also conducted experiments on the nerve agents sarin and soman.
A small desert ranch near Tripoli, described as a turkey farm, was actually a hiding place for hundreds of chemical bombs. The mustard gas and nerve agents were stored separately. Libyans took American inspectors right to them, but it was not a place the US would have looked.