Stalin
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Robert Fisk is the author of a definitive background book on the current developments in North Africa - "The Great War for Civilisation".
http://www.amazon.com/Great-War-Civ...5173/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298358147&sr=8-1
Only the die-hard WarParty hacks will find what he has to say problematic
Here is his current take on Gaddafi
"...So even the old, paranoid, crazed fox of Libya – the pallid, infantile, droop-cheeked dictator from Sirte, owner of his own female praetorian guard, author of the preposterous Green Book, who once announced he would ride to a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Belgrade on his white charger – is going to ground. Or gone. Last night, the man I first saw more than three decades ago, solemnly saluting a phalanx of black-uniformed frogmen as they flappered their way across the sulphur-hot tarmac of Green Square on a torrid night in Tripoli during a seven-hour military parade, appeared to be on the run at last, pursued – like the dictators of Tunis and Cairo – by his own furious people
more at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...or-and-oppression-on-his-way-out-2221687.html
Comrade Stalin
http://www.amazon.com/Great-War-Civ...5173/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298358147&sr=8-1
Only the die-hard WarParty hacks will find what he has to say problematic
Here is his current take on Gaddafi
"...So even the old, paranoid, crazed fox of Libya – the pallid, infantile, droop-cheeked dictator from Sirte, owner of his own female praetorian guard, author of the preposterous Green Book, who once announced he would ride to a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Belgrade on his white charger – is going to ground. Or gone. Last night, the man I first saw more than three decades ago, solemnly saluting a phalanx of black-uniformed frogmen as they flappered their way across the sulphur-hot tarmac of Green Square on a torrid night in Tripoli during a seven-hour military parade, appeared to be on the run at last, pursued – like the dictators of Tunis and Cairo – by his own furious people
more at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...or-and-oppression-on-his-way-out-2221687.html
Comrade Stalin