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Gadhafi is also reported to have had forces storm a prison near tripoli and massacre more than a thousand prisoners there. but then the american relationship with gadhafi went from us bombing libya in 1986 because he was that kind of country and that kind of tyrant, it went from us bombing them in 1986 to this kind of thing. official visit by a delegation of american senators led by arizona republican john mccain. who even tweet bed this trip. tweeted about staying up all night with the colonel and what an interesting man gadhafi was. today in response to the news of gadhafi's death in libya, ...

Ways here in new york when i got the call early this morning that there were these reports that gadhafi was captured. and i think i've been in this building ever since. >> we sort of knew this day might be coming. it a eemed like the fall of gadhafi became inevitable during this uprising. a year ago today, could you have for seen a popular uprising in libya toppling him? >> absolutely not. gadhafi was strong. after the iraq war, when he decided to give up his weapons program, he was emerging as a international figure again. he would come in from the cold. he was making better relations with th...

Reports of exactly how he died, there is now no ambiguity of the results. moammar gadhafi is now dead. >> when gadhafi and his forces started going city to city, down by town to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by. faced with the potential of mass atrocities, and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi's forces in their tracks, without putting a single u.s. servicemember on the ground, we achieved our objectives. and our nato mission will soon come to an end. working in libya with friends and allies,...

Problem that the region will face. is that gadhafi just bought so many weapons. new weapons. from italy. from the uk. and people don't know where these weapons are going. >> nbc news chief important to correspondent richard engel on a day like this sb whose job is to explain this to americans. i know have you been doing this all day richard, but it is really helpful. >> can i throw one thing in? i think you will like it. >> of course. >> you talked about iraq and now gadhafi wanted to come in from out of the cold. the reason he decided to reengage the united states was when he saw saddam husse...

Mission to essentially take the rebel's side. the united nations authorized to protect libya's sill vn villains which meant protecting civilians from gadhafi. those president obama pledged repeatedly that united states would just be one player in an ensemble effort, in fact, the u.s. was in the lead. especially in the first weeks of the operation. we spend more on our military than all other countries in the world combined. and we have been at war constantly for the last ten years. we have military and technological capacity that other countries do not have. when it comes to drones and command...