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Thinking about Libya: Qadaffi/Khadafi/Gaddafi/Gadhafi, or just plain 'Daffy'?
What many observers seem to have forgotten is that Gaddafi is a revolutionary. Not a monarch. Not a stooge of the national military establishment. And certainly not a believer in democratic rule-of-law, League of Women Voters rights and freedoms. Revolut
WASHINGTON, D.C.—For more than four decades the colonel has run Libya. And over these years, he slowly shape-shifted from a comprehensively documented vicious terrorist to something of a figure of fun, who fulminated (to no effect on topics of no interest), demonstrated an Africa-size ego suggesting that he should rule the continent, and was accompanied in public by a "nurse" more pneumatic than former Foreign Affairs minister Maxim Bernier's memorable companion.
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Thinking about Libya: Qadaffi/Khadafi/Gaddafi/Gadhafi, or just plain 'Daffy'?
What many observers seem to have forgotten is that Gaddafi is a revolutionary. Not a monarch. Not a stooge of the national military establishment. And certainly not a believer in democratic rule-of-law, League of Women Voters rights and freedoms. Revolut
WASHINGTON, D.C.—For more than four decades the colonel has run Libya. And over these years, he slowly shape-shifted from a comprehensively documented vicious terrorist to something of a figure of fun, who fulminated (to no effect on topics of no interest), demonstrated an Africa-size ego suggesting that he should rule the continent, and was accompanied in public by a "nurse" more pneumatic than former Foreign Affairs minister Maxim Bernier's memorable companion.
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