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The New Smoking Gun
Gaddafi banked Rose Mandela's election campaign after his release from prison. When Mandela becomes South African President in 1994, he rejects pressure from Western leaders to sever ties with Libya. Both Nelson Mandela and Gaddafi were sort of outliers in their own way. There was kind of a revolutionary kinship in that sense between the two figures.