Gaddafi and Mandela: Real Friends?

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Rana Jawad is a young Lebanese-British woman, married a Libyan, and ended up in Tripoli in 2004. She stayed through the uprising in 2011, was the only western journalist to be in Libya for the duration of the war, and filed for BBC online as the conflict raged […]

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