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This article is more than 19 years old.Ronald Reagan once called Moammar Gadhafi "the mad dog of the Middle East". Well the old dog has got some new tricks, this week the United Nations is set to debate whether or not to lift sanctions on this one-time rogue nation. How has Libya managed to make its way from pubic enemy number one to cooperative global citizen? Skeptics caution that Qaddafi is a wolf attempting to don sheep's clothing, but the allure of Libyan oil may prove too tempting for the U.S. to resist.
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Peter Duignan, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Michael Hudson, Director of the Georgetown Center for Arab Studies
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