Yousef Al-Magarief and parliament chief, resigned from his post last Tuesday following the passing of a law banning anyone who held a senior post in Muammar Qaddafi's regime from government. In a televised speech to congress, Megaryef announced his resignation - which had been expected - after the passing of the

ns and Tunisians, face the daunting challenge that Afghans and Iraqis did: rebuilding a state from the debris of despotism. Of course, the fate of Muammar Qaddafi's forty-year-old dictatorship was sealed once the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1970, referring his regime to the International Criminal Cour

ty of Side on October 20, 2011. Arabic graffiti in blue reads: 'This is the place of Qaddafi, the rat. God is the greatest.' (Credit: Getty Images) Muammar Qaddafi's final day most likely began as it ended: In a squeeze. He was almost surely in the 700-square-yard area of Sirte where Libya's ex-rebels had penned