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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Gaddafi not the only victim of Libya's revolution - Channel 4 News

The Gaddafi regime may not be the only casualty of events over the past six months. Africa's most powerful nations may have been compromised by their dealings with Libya under the discredited colonel.
The Gaddafi regime may not be the only casualty of events over the past six months. AfricaĆ¢€™s most powerful nations may have been compromised by their dealings with Libya (Getty)
The fall of Muammar Gaddafi has shed a harsh light on those who may or may not have done business with his regime over his 42 years in power.

This week saw British Prime Minister David Cameron promising to look into accusations that British secret services helped with the kidnapping of Gaddafi's opponents.

And on 31 August Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reported on the links between Colonel Gaddafi and the firm General Dynamics UK, which makes and exports sophisticated command and control systems.

Discredited reputations

In the course of more than four decades, the colonel also established relations with governments, and the political opponents of governments, across the African continent.

After failing to assume Colonel Nasser's mantle as leader of Arab nationalism, he turned to Africa, where he went on to support to a range of leaders whose reputations have been discredited in the west, from Uganda's Idi Amin to Mengistu Haile Mariam of Eritrea and Liberia's Charles Taylor.

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