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Libya: who are the rebels? Experts say it's still a mystery
Some background on the tribes of Libya here.Who really are the anti-Gaddafi rebels? More than a month after the beginning of the February 17 uprising, it is still difficult to tell, according to Karim Mezran, the director of the American Studies Centre in Rome and Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Rome, who holds dual Italian and Libyan nationality. "People always pull out the same names," Mezran says of the more well-known representatives of Libya's National Transitional Council, "while people say that they do not want to identify the others to avoid putting them in danger, but there are doubts as to whether they even really exist. Then there are defectors and deserters of the Gaddafi regime, but I don't think that independent figures are part of the movement". Posted by: tipper 2011-03-24 |
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