HuffPost World Daily Brief: Gaddafi Demise.. GRAPHIC Photos

Friday, October 21, 2011 After 42 Years In Power, Gaddafi Is No More TRIPOLI, Libya — During nearly 42 years in power, Moammar Gadhafi ruled with an eccentric brutality. He was so mercurial he turned Libya into an isolated pariah, then an oil power courted by the West, then back again. At home, his whims became law and his visions became a warped dictatorship, until he was finally toppled by his own people. Gaddafi Burial Delayed Spain Rules Out Talks With ETA Despite End Of Armed Campaign Clinton Pressures Pakistan To Step Up Battle Against Militants Hong Kong Ferry Accident Injures At Least 70 Graphic New Video Of Gaddafi's Capture Emerges BLOG POSTS Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Gaddafi's Gone -- All Hail the TNC! Libya's celebration will be fleeting unless the Transitional National Council can transform a popular anti-Gaddafi force into a "pro-Libya" force which marshals the goodwill of all Libyans, for all Libyans. Michelle Chen: It's NAFTA x3 as Free Trade Deals Sweep Through Congress Free trade deals have always been less about creating jobs than exporting neoliberal ideology to the Global South, thereby accelerating poor nations' cascade toward low labor standards, environmental exploitation and deregulation. Richard N. Haass: Libya: Now the Hard Part Starts For authoritarian leaders facing challenges from their streets, Libya will underscore the winner-take-all nature of Arab politics. Maurice Chammah: What Shalit and Gaddafi Have in Common Whatever drove Shahira Amin to put Gilad Shalit on TV in his first moments of freedom and whatever compelled everyone who could stomach it to look at Gaddafi's image, those two impulses had something in common. Shirin Sadeghi: Hillary Surprised by Gaddafi's Death Hillary Clinton has every right to be pleased with herself and her government. Gaddafi had finally landed in the enemy pile after years of swinging back and forth in his American alliance, and enemies are not meant to endure. His time had come, by all accounts.

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