Same reason why Russia is getting killed by Ukraine. The West doesn't want any competition. Gaddafi was a threat to the Western milking of the people. He had his own way of milking the people, But he put most of it back into his country. Western banking simply keeps as much of it as they can. Gaddafi didn't turn enough of it over to the West. Turning so much it back to make his country great was the final straw. Can't have somebody showing the simple people of the world how the SYSTEM milks them. We'd all be rich if we didn't have the Banking System milking us. Gaddafi proved it, even if he was no angel.