Colonel Gaddafi Part 1: Son of the Desert
Real Dictators
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The Allied Administration of Libya
Libya had become this military vassal of the post war west. Young gadafi is no longer in the care of local imams, whose focus is on the religious. At secondary school, his teachers are largely egyptian. They are cosmopolitan. Suddenly, the tinag moama gadafi has access to newspapers and to the radio. It's a transnational service broadcasting out of cairo. Tuning into their programmes, evening after evening, godaffi becomes aware of a world beyond his immediate vicinity. He becomes aware of politics. This will prove to be arev the new british and french imperial authorities are perhaps more enlightened than their italian facies forb
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