Britain - Gaddafi relationship, the good side

Due to the unfolding events in the middle east the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been derided by many for normalising relations with Col Gaddafi but he may be an unlikely hero. In 2004 at the infamous 'deal in the desert' meeting with the dictator Blair managed to convince Gaddafi to drop the development of Nuclear Weapons. There is no doubt Gaddafi would have used them in his attacks on the people of Libya. The very future of the Middle East and possibly significant parts of the world would be bleaker than it presently is.