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Essential Reading on Libya

Essential Reading on Libya

4:00 PM, Feb 22, 2011 • By LEE SMITH

While official news coming out of Libya is scarce right now, we thought we’d bring to your attention to the sharpest political travelogues from the country in the last few years.

First, there’s Michael Moynihan in Reason magazine with "A Libyan Charm Offensive: To the shores of Tripoli with the son of Qaddafi." Moynihan also has a new piece in Reason today, "The End of a Libyan Crime Family."

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African Nations Shoot Down Qaddafi Power Play

The leader of Libya losses an election--finally.

7:40 AM, Feb 1, 2010 • By ADAM BRICKLEY

A lot of Westerners see Libya's Muammar Qaddafi as a defanged relic of the 1980s -- a man who used to cause a lot of trouble, was pacified by Reagan's bombing, and later gave up his terrorist ambitions. This is partially true, but while Qaddafi may have given up on his violent Islamist revolution, he has not given up his egomaniacal quest to become a power player on the world stage -- and last week he made a play to cement himself as leader of an entire continent.

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