Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is the latest of the leaders “victims” of the Arab Spring, which arrived in Syria in March 2011, led to one of the bloodiest civil wars in history and finally “destabilized” 13 years late the president of the country, whom many call a “dictator”.

In the last few hours a video from 2008 – and while Saddam Hussein has already been executed in 2003 in Iraq – is making the rounds on the internet.

In it the leader of Libya, also a dictator, Muammar Gaddafi was speaking at a summit of Arab leaders in Damascus and warned them that the Americans would betray them and that “their turn will come.”

“How can we accept that a foreign power is coming to overthrow an Arab leader while we stand by and watch? Saddam Hussein was once an ally of Washington, but he was sold out. You may be next,” Gaddafi said from the floor of the Synod.

“The turn will come, they (the Americans) will come for you. What happened to Saddam is waiting for you too” the Libyan leader warned them in a strong tone, while the camera caught Hosni Mubarak, then the leader of Egypt, and Bashar al-Assad laughing playfully.

Exactly three years later, the power of Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt for 30 years, was overthrown by the Cairo student revolution, Gaddafi was assassinated by the rebel rebels and the Arab Spring began in Syria.