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October 24, 2011

Implications of Gaddafi's Gory End

Bernard Henri-Levy, Newsweek

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Those Images of his corpse. That face, still alive but bloodied, hounded, and taunted. That bare head - suddenly and oddly bare! We were used to seeing him in turbans, and there was something poignant in the denuding that renders this criminal strangely pitiable.

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