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Libya Watch

I either control you, or I will kill you

by Eve Silberman

posted 7/10/2011

U-M lecturer Fawzia Bariun says that's the ultimatum Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi gave his subjects. As a young journalist in Libya, Bariun interviewed the former army officer in the early 1970s, and recalls how "he is always looking up, like he is taking revelations [from] Heaven!" As critics of Qaddafi's regime, Barium and her physician husband, Mahmoud

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