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Colonel Gaddafi Part 8: The Arab Spring

Real Dictators

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Gaddafi's Libyan War

Gaddafi sought no negotiation. He thought he could win this war through the use of writ-large political violence. And so, barracks were overrun in Benghazi. Weapons were absconded by Libyans and then the Libyan war would begin spreading from the east. The phrase alleyway by alleyway, zenga zenga in Arabic, becomes a mocking rallying cry,. an internet meme, even a mashup in a rap song. Sifal Islam is now seeming to take the lead. We will fight until the last man.

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