How is the manner in which Colonel Gaddafi covers up his treachery similar to that of Macbeth in Shakespeare's play?

In particuluar by comparing Gaddafi and Macbeth, we see
some stark similarities. There is no question that both men are reprehensible,
tryannical leaders.

One way these two figures are similar
is found in the secretive way that they arrange for and support the annihiliation of
those who stand in their way. In the case of the Libyan leader Gaddafi, his intent has
been to disrupt regions in West Africa, trying to start an uprising. For some
"disgruntled West Africans," as well as...

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...[t]he men who led the war on Sierra Leone —
former Liberian leader and warlord, Charles Taylor and Sierra Leone’s rebel leader,
Foday Sankoh, and The Gambian Fugitive, Kukoi Samba
Sanyang...

Gaddafi has
quietly arranged for their training in guerilla warfare. Additionally, enormous amounts
of financial support were supplied to the factions trying to overthrow the government of
Sierra Leone, with funds also secretly provided by Gaddafi. The monstrous reality of who
Gaddafi truly is, has been hidden behind a front concealed by "his so-called positive
gestures, such as his abandoning of WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] programs." (This
was a step that he never actually
took.)

In looking at the character of Shakespeare's
Macbeth, this tyrant is also secretive about what he does. (Of
course, first he murders Duncan and places the blames on the King's guards, who Macbeth
kills in a "remorseful distress" because he was so overcome by Duncan's
murder.)

However, more closely aligned to Gaddafi's reign
of terror, Macbeth also sets about destroying those loyal to Duncan
(specifically Banquo) by arranging to have people murdered. In
arranging Banquo's death, Macbeth makes excuses to the murderers that
he cannot be involved because of the political ties Banquo has a
court, which is only a part of the lie he feeds this unfortunate men. Macbeth
also blames the poverty-stricken circumstances his hirelings must
face each day to survive on Banquo, when the truth is that Macbeth
is truly to
blame.

MACBETH:

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Well then, now

Have
you consider'd of my speeches? Know

That it was [Banquo],
in the times past, which held you

So under fortune, which
you thought had been

Our innocent self?
(III.i.80-84)

In these ways,
Macbeth arranges for the murder of the one man who knows about the witches predictions,
who is also noble and completely loyal to Duncan. Secretly, Macbeth carries out the
murder of Banquo (though the murderers cannot catch his son,
Fleance).

However, as is the case with Gaddafi, it does not
take long for those around each man to realize that "fair is foul and foul is fair"
(I.i.11). In other words, that which (or he who) seems good
outwardly, can actually represent evil beneath the surface. In Act Three, scene four,
Lennox begins by recounting how decent men, finding themselves too
close to Macbeth, have ended up dead. And while others may agree with Lennox, they must
be careful for what they say, while Macbeth has tried to hide his treachery by blaming
others for misdeeds carried out—he blames Duncan's death on the guards who "must" have
been working for Malcolm and Donalbain. (Lennox knows in his heart that if Macbeth was
ever to get ahold of the King's sons, even for a short time, some calamity would befall
them.) Macbeth even blames Fleance for killing Banquo. Macbeth's people know that this
tyrant's heart is black, as do those in Serria Leone and around the world with regard to
Muammar Gaddafi.