Curt Weldon, a former US congressman who led three delegations to Libya, has revealed that the United States of America did not want the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi to resign but wanted to kill him.
In 2011 video that has resurfaced the U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon recounting how he hand-delivered Muammar Gaddafi’s resignation offer to U.S. officials.
He claimed the U.S. rejected it to pursue regime change for control over Libya’s oil and sovereign wealth fund.
However, the Obama administration dismissed his claims, leading to NATO-backed intervention that ended in Gaddafi’s death later that year.
Speaking in the resurfaced video, the former US congressman stated, “I hand-carried a letter back from Gaddafi offering to resign. The US didn’t want him to resign; they wanted to kill him.
I met Gaddafi three times. I took Biden on my second trip to Libya, by the way, he went with me when I spoke to the country, and every meeting I had with Gaddafi, he wanted two things: he wanted to unite the African continent into a group of nations economically, like the European standard economy.
He wanted the gold standard, and the US and Europe didn’t want that. The other thing is that they wanted control of his oil and wanted control of his sovereign wealth, so Gaddafi had to go”.
Britannica narrating the event that led to the Libyan revolt of 2011 wrote, “In February 2011, after anti-government demonstrations forced Presidents Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak from power in the neighbouring countries of Tunisia and Egypt, anti-Gaddafi demonstrations broke out in the Libyan city of Benghazi”
“As the protests spread throughout the country, the Qaddafi regime attempted to violently suppress them, directing police and mercenary forces to fire live ammunition at protesters and ordering attacks by artillery, fighter jets, and helicopter gunships against demonstration sites.
Foreign government officials and international human rights groups condemned the regime’s assault on the protesters. Qaddafi’s violent tactics also alienated senior figures in the Libyan government”.
“In August 2011, Gaddafi’s hold on power appeared to break when rebel forces entered Tripoli and took control of most areas of the city. Rebel fighters achieved a major symbolic victory on August 23 when they captured the Bāb al-ʿAzīziyyah compound, Gaddafi’s headquarters in Tripoli.
Jubilant crowds ransacked the compound, destroying symbols of the Gaddafi regime. Gaddafi’s whereabouts remained uncertain, although he released several audio messages urging the Libyan people to resist the rebels.
As rebel forces solidified their hold on Tripoli, they intensified their efforts to track down Gaddafi, offering a $1.7 million reward for killing or capturing him. Gaddafi was killed in Sirte on October 20 as rebel forces took control of the city, one of the last remaining loyalist strongholds”.
Watch the video below:
"Gaddafi gave me his resignation letter. The US didn't want Gaddafi to resign, they wanted to KILL him. They wanted control of his oil, and they wanted control of his sovereign wealth"
— The Resonance (@Partisan_12) November 26, 2025
—Curt Weldon, former US congressman who led three delegations to Libya🇱🇾 pic.twitter.com/SSYPVTrJMS