For a long time, Libyans have fantasized about what they would do if they could get their hands on Col. Moammar Kadafi. The idea I heard most often when I was growing up had him placed in a cage inTripoli's Martyrs Square, which served as the theater of executions for several Libyans who had disagreed with the dictatorship. This way, the fantasy went, every passerby would be able to spit at "the Leader." Then, when they tired of spitting, they would hang him by the neck — as he had done to university students who failed to express the appropriate enthusiasm for his rule — and leave his corpse there until it rotted, exactly as he had done to those students.
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