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byan Arab Jamahiriya. Background 2011 uprising and civil war Main article: 2011 Libyan civil war After popular movements overturned the rulers of Tunisia and Egypt, its immediate neighbours to the west and east, Libya experienced a full-scale uprising beginning in February 2011. By 20 February, the u
eas and blue cities are contested areas. The National Transitional Council (Arabic: lJecio• al-majlis al-watani al- tintiqtili), sometimes known as the Transitional National Council, the Interim National Council, or the Libyan National Council, is a political body formed to represent Libya by anti- Gaddafi forces during the 2011
ident Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen and President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. One of them, also referring to former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, read: "Ben Ali escaped, Mubarak is in jail, Qaddafi was killed. Which fate do you prefer, Ali Abdullah
s of Colonel Qaddafi's death, Libyans were celebrating. "We have been waiting for this moment for a long time, Mahmoud Jibril, the prime minister of the Transitional National Council, the interim government, said. "Muammar Qaddafi is dead." He was speaking at a news conference in Tripoli. Mahmoud Shammam, the council's chief spo
0484974 EFTA01991837 tyranny of four decades, was stirred to life and conquered its fear after witnessing the upheaval that had earlier overtaken Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. In Istanbul this month, I encountered the variety, and the normalcy, of this rebellion in extended discussions with prom
is reaching the people, why are we still being shelled?" Even by comparison with Libya, where infighting among rival militias and the inability of the Transitional National Council to EFTA_R1_00484978 EFTA01991841 exert authority fully created turmoil after the successful uprising there, Syria's opposition appears scattered
Entities connected to both Tunisia and the Transitional National Council

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Yemen
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Damascus
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Saddam Hussein
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Tripoli
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Muammar Gaddafi
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Tunis
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John F. Kennedy
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Qaddafi
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Julie K. Brown
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Mahmoud
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Muammar
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Nelson Mandela
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