Forty years after he first came to power, Colonel Muammar Qadhafi’s rule has rarely looked so secure. In a video opening on the Libyan leader being surrounded by leaders and officials from the African Union’s 53 members, it documents that today Libya will throw a grand parade, celebrating the day he overthrew the Libyan King.

In power longer than any other world leader, a CNN report states he “appears to be putting the past behind him“….

Is the Libyan leader and infamous scourge of western powers truly a reformed character? Furthermore, is Libya in fact opening to the west, despite the rhetoric and celebration upon the return of a terrorist?