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Escape to Hell by Muammar Gaddafi
The Literature of Oppression: Part 4
This article was first published on Don’t read too fast. Before he was trapped in a sewage pipe in the desert, buggered with a length of steel piping and killed by a mob holding camera-phones. Before the female bodyguards, and the poor schoolgirls, and the secret bedroom to which he took them, with its gruesome gynaecological surgery next-door. Before he came in from the cold, and renounced nuclear weapons, or shook Blair’s hand to close a deal with BP.
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Escape to Hell by Muammar Gaddafi
The Literature of Oppression: Part 4
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Across the Zagros
Iranian influence in Iraqi Kurdistan
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London conference addresses plight of Kurdish women in Iran
This article first appeared on Rudaw. “Kurdish women in Iran face a double-whammy: They are a minority ethnicity and they are women in an…
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