The country that witnessed the Arab world’s most sweeping revolution is foundering. So is its capital, where a semblance of normality has returned after the chaotic days of the fall of Tripoli last August. But no one would consider a city ordinary where militiamen tortured to death an urbane former diplomat two weeks ago, where hundreds of refugees deemed loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi waited hopelessly in a camp and where a government official acknowledged that “freedom is a problem.” Much about the scene on Wednesday was lamentable, perhaps because the discord was so commonplace. More here.
O my poor Kingdom, Sick with civil blows Peopled with WOLVES, Thy old inhabitants...
2/17/2012
Libya - Post-Qaddafi Chaos Growing
Last piece by Anthony Shadid who died yesterday -
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