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He locked the door of the room and put the key in his pocket. Then the interview began.
On 3 August 1986, the Pittsburgh Press ran an interview with Muammar Gaddafi conducted at midnight inside his Tripoli compound, four months after US jets bombed Libya. The reporter was Marie Colvin. Gaddafi locked the door behind him and pocketed the key.
He arrived in a red silk shirt and a gold cape. He called Ronald Reagan mad, said he was no terrorist crouching in a trench with a grenade, and claimed most Americans could not find Africa on a map. He also predicted the United States would be "destroyed from inside by the Zionist lobby" — a version of a long-standing antisemitic conspiracy theory, and one still shared online today. Colvin became one of her generation's best-known war reporters. She was killed in Syria in 2012.
Sources: UPI Archives, The Pittsburgh Press, BBC, Committee to Protect Journalists
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