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Libya's bloody uprising
Beyond the regime
Feb 23rd 2011, 17:00 by The Economist online
Tim Niblock, of the University of Exeter, explains the historical background to the crisis and what the future might hold
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Here is what the United States Department of State had to say about Muammar al-Qadhafi and his eccentricities in 2009:
http://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2010/11/wikileaks-muammar-al-qadhafi-and-his-so_28.html
Hopefully, his blonde Ukrainian nurse is there to rock him to sleep and make him feel better about the uprising in Libya.