
But a more significant factor weighs heavy on Gadhafi's mind: the pictures of Saddam's capture-especially those of the Iraqi leader being led to the hangman's noose in 2006. Gadhafi is determined to avoid undergoing a similar indignity. Thus, he will not go quietly in the night as did Saddam.

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Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (ret) is a retired Marine infantry officer who served in the Vietnam war, the US invasion of Panama and the first Gulf war. He is the author of "Bare Feet, Iron Will--Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields" and frequently writes on foreign policy and defense issues."
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|  by Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, USMC (ret) Why does a once weak-kneed Gadhafi, who buckled under before when threatened, exhibit new-found defiance now? |
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