Some have resurrected Nelson Mandela's response when asked on US television why he had met with Yasser Arafat Fidel Castro and Moammer el Gadaffi: 'One of the mistakes that some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies'...

And NATO's no-fly zone backed by the UN Security Council was widely seen as using the widely supported 'Responsibility to Protect' imperative as cover to topple Moammar el Gadaffi's regime in 2011...

Almost immediately dozens of potential candidates lined up the most improbable of whom was among the first to declare – Seif el Islam el Gadaffi the second son of deceased dictator Moammar el Gadaffi...

Saïed's notions of a locally-focused 'elevatory democracy' – with uncomfortable echoes of Moammar Gaddafi's 'popular committees' and wartime rule by Benito Mussolini's corporatist state in Italy – are unlikely to deliver...

Nonetheless he appears to believe like Moammar el Gadaffi before him that Libyans want him...

Southern supporters of the former regime threatened to turn off the Moammar el Gadaffi era 'Great Man-Made River' water supply to Tripoli if the GNU did not release Abdullah el Senussi the former dictator's brother-in-law and intelligence chief who like Saif el Islam is wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity (AC Vol 57 No 14 Gadaffi's desperate bid)...

Ten years from the start of the revolution that overthrew the Moammar el Gadaffi regime and six-and-a-half years after Libya split in two and civil war began a unitary transitional government is set to take charge and pave the way for elections in December (AC Vol 62 No 3 Former Ambassador Manfi to head new interim government)...

And Alvarez & Marsal might be wary of putting their imprimatur on an arrangement brokered by two men now at the centre of major corruption scandals: the now-convicted Steinmetz and Sarkozy facing trial for alleged illegal campaign funding from Moammar el Gadaffi ahead of France's 2007 elections...

Little mention has been made of the atrocities in the conflict since the overthrow of Moammar el Gadaffi in 2011...