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October 25, 2011

Gaddafi: The Man Who Knew Too Much

David Rieff, Foreign Policy

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NATO does acknowledge that its planes bombarded the convoy in which Qaddafi was fleeing the city of Sirte shortly before it was intercepted on the ground by the insurgents, but it has denied it even knew he was there. If that is true, and the French, British, and Americans did not try to make their own luck, then they certainly were very lucky indeed.

Qaddafi was, quite simply, a man who knew too much.

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TAGGED: Libya, Muammar Gaddafi

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