Qadhafi Killed as His Last Stronghold Falls
Friday, October 21st, 2011Libya’s former leader Mu’ammar Qadhafi has been killed. The dictator who held power for 42 years in Libya died on October 20 during an assault on Surt, his hometown. Surt, the last holdout to Libya’s new interim government, subsequently fell to the forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC). “Our forces control the last neighborhood in Surt,” announced NTC member Hassan Draoua, speaking to the Associated Press in Tripoli. “The city has been liberated.”
Qadhafi’s downfall is part of the so-called Arab Spring movement, popular uprising in several Arab countries that have toppled governments in Tunisia, Egypt, as well as Libya.
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