Libya: From Africa’s Wealthiest Democracy Under Gaddafi to Terrorist Haven After US Intervention

By Garikai Chengu | CounterPunch | October 20, 2015 Tuesday marks the four-year anniversary of the US-backed assassination of Libya’s former leader, Muammar Gaddafi, and the decline into chaos of one of Africa’s greatest nations. In 1967 Colonel Gaddafi inherited one of the poorest nations in Africa; by the time he was assassinated, he had […]

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