them destroy everything. they have recruited young sons and told them they are going to heaven. ? >> reporter: what is he trying to say? >> really inconceivable to gadhafi, that quote, they don't all love me, my people love me and anyone against him must have been sent in by outside agents. >> reporter: dr. gerald post thinks that gadhafi really believes that. post founded the cia's psychological profiling unit and now directs the political psychology program at george washington university. he's profiled gadhafi before and help takes us inside the dictator's mind, dissecting statements like this. >> translator: they want to take your petrol. this is what america, this is what the french, the colonialists want. >> reporter: he's playing the oil card. why is he doing that? >> one of his more remarkable statements was that the west wants to recolonize libya in order to gain control of your petrol. well, this was, after all, how he came to power, that the west had dominated libya.