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Iterate

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6. Thanks for running this to ground
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 02:37 PM
Sep 2012

Among the disparate groups still supporting Gaddafi last year at this time where the most hateful right-wing groups in the US -the very worst on the SPLC list. Gaddafi's political maneuvers and exploitations of division over the years had led to a very strange collection of international support that included neo-nazis, Serbian nationalists, and green-book leftists. The longer you make the list, the more unlikely it gets.

They still share a refusal to accept the legitimacy of the elected Libyan government or the popularity of the revolution. Exaggerating the real but limited threat from AQ in Derna was a common strategy.

You're right, this will never go away. But what we can do is to track who repeats it, knowing full well where their story came from.

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