It appears as Col. Moammar Gadhafi is the latest domino to fall in the surge of popular uprisings that has swept the Arab world since the beginning of the year. This morning, the speaker of the Arab Parliament issued a statement congratulating the Libyan people and the Interim Transitional National Council on “the success of liberating Libya from the rule of the tyrant Moammar Gadhafi.” Nick Childs, world affairs correspondent for the BBC, looks at the wider ramifications and international reaction to events in Libya.
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