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A US newsoutlet reporting about the refugee crisis in Libya and not a word about Gadaffi. New York is really far from the Meditterenean.
by the-dude 5y ago
A US newsoutlet reporting about the refugee crisis in Libya and not a word about Gadaffi. New York is really far from the Meditterenean.
- vanusa 5y agoWell, he is basically old news by now.
- the-dude 5y agoHe is still very relevant regarding said refugee crisis.
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- Mizza 5y agoWe came. We saw. He died! cackles maniacally
- jareklupinski 5y agoThere's a whole paragraph about him, you need to grep an alternative spelling: > Europe had long pressed Libya to help curb such migration. Muammar Qaddafi, Libya’s leader, had once embraced Pan-Africanism and encouraged sub-Saharan Africans to serve in the country’s oil fields. But in 2008 he signed a “friendship treaty” with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, that committed him to implementing strict controls. Qaddafi sometimes used this as a bargaining chip: he threatened, in 2010, that if the E.U. did not send him more than six billion dollars a year in aid money he would “turn Europe Black.” In 2011, Qaddafi was toppled and killed in an insurrection sparked by the Arab Spring and supported by a U.S.-led invasion. Afterward, Libya descended into chaos.
- the-dude 5y agoI stand corrected, I searched for multiple variants of spelling of Gadaffi. Never seen the Q-variant before.
- ragnot 5y agoIt comes from the arabic spelling of Gadaffi: قذافي The ق at the beginning is a mix between a glottal stop and a k sound (depending on the dialect). There's no real way to spell it in English, hence the variants. This is similar to Osama/Usama (أسامة)
- Rzor 5y agoYes, there is. Did you even read it or just searched for his name?