From his lavish Cairo apartment overlooking the Nile, Ahmed Kadhaf al-Dam reminisces fondly about the iron-fisted rule of Libya by his cousin Moamer Kadhafi, 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. Kadhaf al-Dam blames Western military adventurism for the rise of extremist fighters / © AFP"How can you blame us, saying that Islam is the reason behind extremism?" Looking out across the Nile, Kadhaf al-Dam ruminates on the turmoil embroiling the region a decade after sweeping revolutions.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 23, 2020 02:48 UTC