A process which has been going on for 12 years trying to disarm iraq from its weapons of mass destruction this report by libyan intelligence the external Security Organization or. Shows details of a meeting with the cia. As it plans to invade Saddam Husseins iraq in 2003 the u. S. Needed to prepare Public Opinion for the attack getting libya on govt is key to that strategy. But the iraq war went badly for the western allies. No evidence of dangerous weapons was found and the lack of a postwar strategy plunged the country into calles. Gadhafi then seized the moment in a dramatic bid to ingratiate himself with the west and have sanctions on libya lifted he claimed to have w m ds ive offered to surrender them. Desperate to put a positive spin on their mission to destroy weapons in the middle east the u. S. And u. K. Led the way in rehabilitating gadhafi almost overnight. Libya was no longer. Part of the axis of evil. In return a Lucrative Oil and gas deal was signed and it was then that t