A broad coalition of interests from oil companies, defense manufacturers and well-connected lobbying firms to neoconservative scholars and Harvard Business School professors has worked in recent years to advance a rapprochement with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and take advantage of business opportunities in the country, even in the face of the longtime international pariah's brutal repression of his people and his legendary belligerence. Yet Libya's opposition leaders say that such efforts have...serv[ed] only to prolong Gaddafi's brutal reign...[refers to BP, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Chevron, Conoco, Marathon Oil, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Dow Chemical, Fluor, White & Case]