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[narrator] Let's take stock.

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So far, the playbook has shown you
how to seize power, crush your rivals,

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brutalize your people into submission,

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and replace objective truth
with your version of reality.

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Now it's time to realize
the true promise of tyranny,

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by reinventing your country
into the utopia

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you always dreamed it could be.

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[man] The more dangerous
and interesting tyrants

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are really convinced
they are creating a better world.

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[narrator] Think your country needs
a new national flag? No problem.

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Feel like implementing
a brand-new education system

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with you as the main subject? Why not?

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The playbook provides
all the tools you need

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to create your perfect society,

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and no one committed to this
quite like Muammar Gaddafi,

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who made the complete transformation
of the Libyan nation his life's work,

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no matter who… or what… got in his way.

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This mad dog of the Middle East
has a goal of a world revolution.

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[narrator] Follow his example
and you'll discover

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how you too can create
an enduring heaven on Earth,

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with you as its guiding light.

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[theme music plays]

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Muammar Gaddafi's eccentric vision
transformed his countrymen's lives

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in ways that were good, bad, and weird.

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Gaddafi is a bit of a tragic, uh, figure,

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somebody who really started off
wanting to change the society around him,

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and in the end
started to believe in his own stories.

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He was famously corrupt and greedy,

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he had all kinds of affectations
of dress and manner.

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He visited foreign countries
and would sleep outside in a tent.

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[narrator] And yet, despite his quirks,

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this revolutionary and fashion icon
managed to stay in power for 42 years.

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Before we look at how Gaddafi
remade Libya in his own image,

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there are a few things you should know.

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I have all the solutions here.

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Muammar Gaddafi's parents
were illiterate Bedouin nomadic people.

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The environment was
very, very difficult indeed.

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Libya was one of the poorest
countries in the world.

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The only means of changing one's status
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and Gaddafi did precisely this.

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Gaddafi saw the Western-backed monarch,
King Idris, as extremely corrupt.

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[speaking Arabic]

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[crowd clamoring]

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[Diederick]
It was virtually a bloodless coup,

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really because there were
no institutions in Libya

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that were organized well enough
to really stand up for the king,

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to protect the king.

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[Waller] Gaddafi began probably
as a sincere reformer.

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He wanted to modernize an entire nation.

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[Ruth] He was hailed
as a kind of liberator

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across the Arab world
and the African world.

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But ultimately, he was not interested
in liberating anyone.

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He was interested in enslaving them.

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[narrator] Gaddafi's lesson
really does hold the promise and peril

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-of building a new society.
-[crowd cheering]

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If you want yours to succeed,
it's going to need some ground rules,

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and it's your job to lay them down.

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[speaking Arabic]

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[narrator]
As the creator of your new society,

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you're more than head of state.

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You're the parent of your nation.
And to truly show your love,

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you'll need to guide your flock
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[man] Authoritarian rulers exercise rule

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by limiting the rights the public enjoys.

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The leaders often claim
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of the state, of the people.

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[narrator] After all, tyrants know best.

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Upon taking power in 1979,

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Ayatollah Khomeini
revoked Iran's divorce law

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and lowered the marriage age for girls
to as young as seven.

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Under Hitler, the Nazis instituted
a strict anti-smoking policy,

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inspired by the Führer's
personal distaste for tobacco.

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While Turkmenistan's dictator
Saparmurat Niyazov

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banned the use of lip-synching
at concerts in 2006

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and banished dogs
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due to their unappealing odor.

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[machine gun fires]

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Like all other dictators, Gaddafi knew
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so he prohibited free speech
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He would make up the rules
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[narrator] Following Islamic law,

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Gaddafi banned alcohol
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Hiring domestic servants,

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being a doctor or lawyer
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and even hailing a cab
were also forbidden…

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while prohibited domestic acts
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could earn the offenders
lashings and loss of limbs.

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Gaddafi also banned trade unions,
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and cracked down on the true enemy
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[chicken clucks]

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[Mansour] Gaddafi says
that Libyans must grow their own food.

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A country's not free
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and he says, "Let's start with chicken."

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[chicken clucks]

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"All Libyans must grow their own chicken."

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[narrator] But liberating people
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only gets you so far.

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By 1976, he realizes that the people, uh,
don't really share this vision that he has

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of how a country should be ruled.

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He turns increasingly autocratic.
Elections disappear.

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The positions of power are increasingly
occupied by loyalists of the regime.

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So it becomes more and more
a classical dictatorship.

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[narrator] And while
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to embrace Gaddafi
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there were pockets of resistance.

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As Gaddafi's repression expands,

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student demonstrators
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demanding that their freedoms be restored.

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[crowd chanting]

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[narrator] It's a moment of crisis
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Gaddafi has a choice:
uphold the people's will or his own.

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On April 7, 1976,
he makes the obvious decision.

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Gaddafi sends his army
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to crush the protests.

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Many who were detained are later released.

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Others are not so lucky.

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To make an example of those
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a number of them
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[narrator] On the first anniversary
of the protests,

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two students,
Omar Dabob and Muhammed Ben Sa-oud,

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are hung for their participation,
with a special guest in attendance.

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From this day forward, Gaddafi declares
April 7th a national holiday.

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And what better way to celebrate each year

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than by rounding up his opponents
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It's a new annual tradition to make clear

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that from now on, the leader is the law,
and the law must be obeyed.

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Laying down the rules is a start,

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but revealing the true promise
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will require even bolder action,

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so think big.

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Tyrants have great projects.

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This is one of the ways
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as a daily reminder of their greatness.

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[narrator] Pick your projects well,

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and they can upgrade your nation
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Hitler and the Nazis presented themselves

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as the driving force
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which promised Germans
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Joseph Stalin greenlit the construction
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that was heralded as a triumph
of socialism when it opened in 1931.

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While Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu

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bulldozed one-fifth
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to build the Palace of Parliament.

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It took 13 years to complete.

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It cost three billion dollars
and up to 3,000 workers' lives.

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Too bad he was deposed and killed
before construction was completed.

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Gaddafi had grand ambitions of his own,
and a key advantage to bring them to life.

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[man] Gaddafi had an oil-rich economy.

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The money is just coming out of the ground
and straight into his bank account.

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After 1973,
the price of oil quadrupled globally.

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He made a tremendous amount of money,

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and he was able to use that money
for whatever he wanted to use it for.

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[machine gun fires]

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[speaking Arabic] In the name of Allah,
we lay the foundation stone

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for the Great Man-Made River.

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[Diederick] Potable water
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so knowing there were these enormous
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Gaddafi set about exploiting those.

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A man-made river that could one day
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[narrator]
What better symbol of a new society

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than making the desert bloom?

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Gaddafi's plan was
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then transport the water
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through giant pipes and dams.

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[Diederick] It was massive.

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Pipelines of enormous dimensions,

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literally hundreds and hundreds
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[narrator] It didn't come cheap,

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but Gaddafi saw the project
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that would provide the majority
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He even began calling it
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[magical chimes ringing]

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Sadly, the construction met with issues.

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[Diederick] There were all kinds
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Corruption was endemic,

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so you saw lots of pipes exploding,
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[narrator] The Great Man-Made River took
nearly three decades to complete,

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and some experts believe
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before the end of this century.

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But that will be someone else's problem.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Diederick] The Great Man-made River
Project was one of the very few ones

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that was much
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It was this kind of prestige project
that he could then portray as his own.

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[narrator] But people have short memories.

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You need to make sure
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for the wonders they now enjoy.

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How, you may ask.

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I believe that children are our future,
so teach them well.

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[man] Every dictator needs
a population that can read, write,

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so they can work at menial jobs
producing money for the dictator.

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What dictators don't want

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is a well-educated population of people
with ideas who can become rivals.

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[narrator]
For your new society to succeed,

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you have to start early.

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In Libya,
literacy and propaganda were twinned.

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[narrator]
And Gaddafi's required reading list

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for the nation's youth
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written by… you guessed it, himself.

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The Green Book was
the Bible of Gaddafi's Libya.

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Gaddafi would constantly cite from it.

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Billboards had quotes from it.

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[Diederick]
They were kind of random thoughts,

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but because they came from Gaddafi,
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[narrator]
But you can't let a few bad reviews

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get in the way of your nation's future.

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Kids would be taking tests
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on what he said and what it means.

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[narrator]
Now that's smart lesson planning.

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The genius of Gaddafi's education system

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wasn't just what it taught
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it was also what it didn't.

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In this new Libyan society, no history
before Gaddafi's reign was taught,

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because what's the point of learning
about the bad old days?

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No geography. Don't want people thinking
about the world or the way out.

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No foreign languages. Don't need them.

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And since Gaddafi saw units of measurement
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he banned the metric system.

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So maybe it wasn't all bad.

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But sometimes,
despite all your careful planning,

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your little ones still don't learn
what you want them to.

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That's why Gaddafi liked throwing in
the odd face-to-face lesson,

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just to make sure his message hit home.

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In the summer of 1984,

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thousands of school children
in the city of Benghazi

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were told they were
going on a very special outing.

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The students were loaded into buses

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and transported
to the city's open-air basketball stadium.

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But what they were about to see
was a whole different ball game.

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The main attraction:
Al-Sadek Hamed Al-Shuwehdy.

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[speaking Arabic] The accused
has confessed to terrorist activities.

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[narrator] A 30-year-old engineer,

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recently returned
from studying in the US.

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The audience was told
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but he was already condemned.

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As the crowd realizes what is
about to happen, some beg for mercy.

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Others celebrate.

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But something goes wrong.

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The condemned man doesn't die.

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Out of the crowd, a woman emerges.

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Her name: Huda Ben Amer.

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And with a firm tug,
Huda finishes the job.

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She became known as Huda the Executioner.

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This act of helping the state
to murder an innocent victim

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jump-started her political career,

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and she actually became
Minister of Sports and Tourism.

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[narrator] What a fitting reward

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for serving as a role model
for the youth of the nation.

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Especially the little girls.

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But Huda's shining example also shows

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how powerful,
and even deadly, one woman can be.

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That's why,
on the path to building your new society,

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you need to give
the fairer sex extra attention.

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All the major dictators
in modern history have been men.

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As a group, they see women as necessary,

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but they also see women as dangerous.

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The authoritarian mindset
responds to the restoration of a hierarchy

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in which men sit atop of the social order.

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[narrator] But Gaddafi wanted to be seen
as a modern tyrant,

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building the perfect society
for all of his people.

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In principle, Gaddafi argued
that, uh, women should be equal to men.

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And so throughout his reign,

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he tried to,
at least symbolically, uh, promote women.

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[narrator] And what better symbol
of female promotion than this?

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[disco music plays]

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He had this weird bodyguard of women.

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[camera shutter snaps]

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Almost like something
out of a James Bond film.

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Libya, when Mr. Gaddafi come, became free.

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Before, the woman, uh… not free.

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[Ruth] They accompanied him abroad.

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Gaddafi was expert at manipulating media.

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He knew exactly
what would get into photographers

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and get into the TV screens.

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[narrator] But behind closed doors,

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things weren't quite as ready
for prime time.

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Many people didn't know. Those bodyguards
were what some people call a harem.

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[narrator] New members
of the Amazonian guard were recruited

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during Gaddafi's travels
throughout the country.

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He was partial to beautiful, young women,
some no more than 14.

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Scouts from his current guard were
always on the lookout for fresh faces.

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New recruits would be invited
to a private reception to meet the leader.

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If a woman received a pat on the head,
she had been chosen,

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and soon… she would disappear.

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[tires screeching]

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And whether she wanted to or not,

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she'd become what Gaddafi called
a "virgin of the revolution,"

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duty-bound to serve her leader.

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[Ruth] These women were often
abused and raped by Gaddafi.

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Sometimes girls were allowed
to go back to their families,

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but in a traditional Muslim society,
many times they were shunned.

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Gaddafi abused thousands of women
for years in this manner.

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[all] Yah!

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[narrator] It was all part
of Muammar's vision for his perfect world,

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where the greatest honor was
to be of service to Libya,

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and thus to him.

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Gaddafi was the nation.

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Dictators have a completely proprietary
view of the nation.

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They own its… wealth. They own its people.

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Their bodies are-- are his
to do what he wants.

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[narrator] If you're Muammar Gaddafi,
it might now seem

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that you've got everything you need
for your new society.

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Money, loyal subjects,

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concrete symbols of your greatness,
exciting job opportunities.

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But now is no time
to rest on your laurels.

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When there's a whole world out there

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that's yet to learn
of your path to national glory,

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why keep it to yourself?

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Becoming an absolute ruler
is an impressive feat.

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But creating a global movement?
That's the stuff of legends.

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Which is why our most ambitious tyrants
love to spread their wings.

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In 1940,
Adolf Hitler installed a puppet regime

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known as the Vichy government
in occupied France,

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which went on to strip citizenship
from the nation's Jews

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and send more than 70,000
to die in concentration camps.

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After World War II,
Joseph Stalin aggressively supported

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the spread of Communist governments
across Eastern Europe and the Baltics,

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creating a buffer zone
of countries friendly to him.

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And China's Mao Zedong provided weapons,
cash, and supplies to North Vietnam

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as part of his plan
to dominate Southeast Asia.

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But for some tyrants,
hooking up can be tough.

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[Mansour] He tried very hard

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to be the center of attention
within the Arab world.

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The leaders, they looked down upon him.

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[narrator] But no matter
what the rest of the world thinks,

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there are always going to be some groups

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that will take you and your fat wallet
into their hearts.

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[gunshots]

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Gaddafi sponsored
many, many separatist movements.

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[narrator] Across the globe,

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anytime a revolutionary group
needs some cash,

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Gaddafi is there to provide.

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The danger of allying
with the wrong sort of friends, however,

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is that people judge you
by the company you keep.

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[reporter]
It was around 2:00 a.m. in Berlin

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when the bomb went off
in the crowded La Belle discotheque.

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Police say there were
about 500 people inside,

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many of them off-duty US soldiers.
The bomb exploded…

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These murderers
could not carry out their crimes

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without the sanctuary and support

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provided by regimes
such as Colonel Gaddafi's in Libya.

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[woman] Gaddafi was a terrorist.

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He wanted the respect of the world
while he was terrorizing everybody.

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We refuse to bow our heads
in front of America.

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[narrator] Word to the wise:

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terrorizing people at home is a lot easier
than taking on the entire Western world.

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No one can kill Americans
and brag about it. No one.

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[machine gun fires]

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[Ruth] When the Americans retaliated
and bombed Libya,

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it was truly a shock to him,

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because he thought he was infallible.

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[crowd shouting]

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[reporter]
As dawn shed light on the devastation

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caused by the American bombing,

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Washington said the targets were
military bases or terrorist camps.

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This fallacy came to a crashing halt.

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[narrator]
Beginning of the end? Not so fast.

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When you're sitting on one of the world's
ten richest oil reserves,

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you can afford the odd miscalculation.

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But as you'll see,

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the playbook will keep you in power
only as long as you heed its lessons.

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Muammar is going to
find that out the hard way.

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Gaddafi has a good thing going.

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Wealth, power, impeccable fashion sense,

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and a vision to create his ideal society.

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But as the new millennium dawns,

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the US goes to war
against Saddam Hussein,

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and life as a Middle Eastern dictator
starts to feel like a dicey proposition.

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Our war against terror… is only beginning.

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[narrator] When times get tough,
the playbook insists

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that you ruthlessly
stick with your program.

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-["Friends Are Friends" playing]
-Gaddafi chose a different path.

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♪ 'Cause when friends are friends… ♪

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[man] He made changes in policy…

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♪ It lasts forever ♪

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…that he thought
would curry favor in the Western world.

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Free speech,
freedom of assembly, free press.

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He stopped torturing people.

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Now, that's a nice thing to do,

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but torture is a good way
to deter people from opposing you.

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What was the consequence?

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These are the mechanisms
by which people organize

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and overthrow their governments.

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[machine gun fires]

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[narrator] It's quite inevitable.

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These enlightened reforms
will ultimately be seen

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for what they really are: weakness.

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[reporter] Colonel Gaddafi,
is your army deserting you?

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-[explosion blasts]
-[people clamoring]

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I forgot your language.

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They rose up against him,
the Western world did nothing to save him,

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and he was dead.

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[Ruth]
When he's finally cornered by rebels,

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he says, "I haven't done anything.
Why are you treating me this way?"

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[narrator] A fair question
under most circumstances.

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[woman] He killed my brother, my cousin.
He killed my friends.

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He burned my family's house.

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[narrator] Though you might say
what doomed Gaddafi in the end

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is that he abandoned the playbook,
went soft, and paid the ultimate price.

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Eventually, of course,
um, he was hunted down and-- and killed.

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[narrator] But take heart.

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The playbook offers another path,

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a gateway to achieving
the ultimate tyrant's dream:

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a regime without end.

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The final chapter awaits
in the hermit kingdom of North Korea,

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where the Kim Dynasty
has cracked the code to eternal rule.

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Are you ready to become a god?

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[theme music plays]