When Terror Emanated from Tripoli

Decades of repression would explode into violent revolution. ©2011 Derek Henry Flood

New York-I’m featured in this week’s episode of Real Dictators by Noiser Podcasts which delves into Gaddafi’s early forays into international terrorism and becoming a pariah on the world stage. During this period in the 1970s, the sheen has long since worn off the September revolution as Libya becomes ever more repressive. The colonel turns on many of his one-time co-conspirators along with ordinary Libyans who have run afoul of his mukhabarat state.

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