CAIRO - From his lavish Cairo apartment overlooking the Nile, Ahmed Kadhaf al-Dam reminisces fondly about the iron-fisted rule of Libya by his cousin Muammar Gaddafi, nearly a decade after his ouster. "There wasn't a revolution," Kadhaf al-Dam argued. "There was no terrorism or extremists, or people going hungry," Kadhaf al-Dam claimed, painting a rosy picture of Libya before the conflict. But for Kadhaf al-Dam, the extremists of IS and Al-Qaeda are forces manufactured by the West. Looking out across the Nile, Kadhaf al-Dam ruminates on the turmoil embroiling the region a decade after sweeping revolutions.

Source: Libya Today November 23, 2020 08:26 UTC