WASHINGTON — As the uprising closed in around him, Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy warned that if he fell, chaos and holy war would overtake North Africa. ‘‘Bin Laden’s people would come to impose ransoms by land and sea,’’ he told reporters. ‘‘We will go back to the time of Redbeard, of pirates, of Ottomans imposing ransoms on boats.’’
Recently that unhinged prophecy has acquired a grim new currency.
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we never learn - dictators are our friend.
Goes to show what happens when you close in the fronts on a wider, unknown war field. With fewer places to go the groups are now focused in a smaller area and will become more active as they attack and begin the cycle of revenge for their fallen "comrades".