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The Libyan Civil Wars: Quagmire in a Quagmire

Simon Whistler · May 4, 2023 · 39 min video · Africa

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It's October the 20th, 2011, in the second district in the city of Surti, Libya. The hot desert sun beams down on a line of 50 heavily armed trucks and troop carriers hauling out at breakneck speed towards the city outskirts. The convoy doesn't travel for long.

Within minutes, it's hit by a drone fired missile, assaulted by local militia, and forced to weather the detonation of an air burst bomb fired from a NATO jet above. A group of survivors runs away from the convoy on foot. Among them is Murmar Gaddafi, who, until very recently, had been Libya's mad dictator.

Now Gaddafi is running for his life through fields of crops and into a drain pipe that he can only hope will bring them to safety, but it was already too late. In just a few minutes more, Gaddafi will be cornered, bayoneted, and brutally beaten by the local militias before he is dragged back into that unforgiving desert sun and shot to death.

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From Gaddafi's brutal downfall in 2011 to the Second Civil War, and the struggle for peace, this video recounts Libya's tumultuous journey through a decade of conflict and international intervention. Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw MegaProjects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0woBco6Dgcxt0h8SwyyOmw SideProjects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Wn3dABlgESm8Bzn8Vamgg Casual Criminalist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1tsmksyf6TgKFMdt8-05Q TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Today I Found Out: https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut Highlight History: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnb-VTwBHEV3gtiB9di9DZQ XPLRD: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVH8lH7ZLDUe_d9mZ3dlyYQ Business Blaze: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYY5GWf7MHFJ6DZeHreoXgw Simon's Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/

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