Amid the blaze of gunfire in what is now the newly named Martyr Square in the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk, as protesters battled pro-government forces for control, Ayman Shahat, 32, risked his life to tear down one of the hated symbols of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s rule: the city’s famous statue of the dictator’s “Green Book.” Shahat is one of thousands of Libyans for whom the anti-Gadhafi uprising that has swept the country is a personal vendetta. “My father was killed by Gadhafi’s men,” he says later, his body riddled with shotgun pellets as a result of his mission. “They tortured him until he died. They pulled his nails out, broke his nose, raked his body with electric shocks.”
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